A/N: Okay heres my first persona fanfic. I decided to write this as i was playing the lst persona game on the psp and since there really not many fics on this game(don't know why, i thought this one was pretty epic). The story is based on my playthrough with a mix with stuff from the manga and my own thoughts(mainly i'm going to try to include all the characters. i didn't like how if you choose one character the others can't join...). So i hope you enjoy it and keep reading till the end. Oh, i'll try to update this fic every Monday.

Disclaimer: I don't own the persona series, i only own my OC. ^-^

Chapter One

High School, Class 2-4

Once, I dreamt I was a butterfly.

I forgot myself and knew only my

Happiness as a butterfly. Soon,

I awoke and I was myself again.

Did I dream that I was a butterfly?

Or do I now dream that I am a man?

Yet there is a distinction between

Myself and the butterfly. This is

The transformation of the physical

-Zhuang Zi

The Chinese literature teacher was walking back and forth in front of the classroom, quoting a poem about a man dreaming he was a butterfly. I wasn't really paying much attention to him because I was trying to get my friend, Naoya Kimura, to wake up before the teacher caught him sleeping in his class. Nishida-sensei hates it when you're not giving him your full attention or when you correct him even if he is totally wrong. But sadly my efforts are in vain. It seems like nothing will wake him up.

"Why not try bonking him on the head? That will surely wake him up" a hat-wearing student suggested to me. His name is Masao Inaba (but his friends call him Mark, though sometimes people call him a monkey which only pisses him off) and he is the spoiled son of the Inaba Dry Cleaning's Owners. He's an earnest and excitable person. His grey hair is covered by a large yellow beanie with his favorite button on it that says "Do it" and has a strange little character hanging from his left ear.

"Like that will work. His head has the hardness of a bowling ball. He won't feel a thing if I did that" I stated.

"You know I can hear you two." a muffled voice comes from the 'I thought to be sleeping boy'. He got up from where he was laying his head on the desk to sitting up straight in his seat, glaring at me. Naoya Kimura's glares can be quite scary, especially so since his red eyes seem to deepen the effect of it. His black hair and a small black hoop piercing on his left ear also adds to the effects, but they usually don't affect me much because I'm used to it by now.

"Hey, don't glare at us! We thought you were asleep this whole time. So we were discussing on how to wake you up." I whispered, looking at him straight in the eyes. A soft sigh escaped the red-eyed teen as he momentarily stopped glaring at us.

"If you actually bothered to look closer, you would have noticed that I was simply resting my head on my arms and not actually sleeping away this boring class." He explained to us as if we were simpletons.

Knowing that this was a losing battle, I decided to give my attention back to the front of the classroom and try to catch up to where we are. It was then at that moment that a student with a blue scarf with a black #1 on the front of it, got up from his seat and started to correct our teacher on something he was apparently teaching wrong. He is known as Kei Nanjo, the heir to the Nanjo Group and he is an utter pragmatist and skeptic. He has black hair that is slicked back with the exception of a couple of hairs at the front and wears black rimmed glasses that he often pushes back.

Naoya let out a sigh and soon after I let out one of my own, both of us knowing that Nishida-sensei won't appreciate this very much. Sure enough, sensei started to say that this is a literature class and not a philosophy class.

"I will not allow anyone in my class to correct me while I'm teaching." he said while giving Nanjo a pointed look in his direction. "As punishment, I want all of you to do a report for me and I want them done in two days time." And with that he left the classroom right as the school bell rang, muttering something along the line of "I hate that class".

Class 2-4: Afterschool

Since the cultural festival was coming up soon, our class began creating and putting up the decorations for our 'Maid Café' that our class will be doing. Though mostly everyone skipped out on it and only eight students stay behind to set everything up.

While everyone was working on whatever task they were doing, Mark started to complain at Nanjo.

"It's cause you did something pointless that the Chinese lit guy gave us a report to do and stuff" he said while shaking a can of spray paint in an angry manner. "It pisses me off"

"Humph" Nanjo began "All I did was speak the truth. The one at fault isn't me, but Nishida's thoughts and personality. With that level of…Oh sorry, Monkeys wouldn't understand." He said in an offhanded tone. Mark just exploded at the remark. But before anything could happen, a girl with short bluish-black hair intervened.

"Hey stop it, you two. Both of you are being annoying. Let's hurry up and get the work done! I have my part-time job this evening." She is Yukino Mayuzumi, a former Yankee. But she is trusted by everyone and she's like an older sister to all the students in our school. Yukino wears a yellow clip in her hair on the left side and her skirt is all the way down to her ankles.

Both Nanjo and Mark mumbled a fine and went back to work. I was helping Naoya with putting up the paper flowers when I noticed a girl with blonde pig-tails that were held together with green ribbons, walk over to Mark. Her name is Yuka Ayase and she is a troublemaking member of the suntanned, bleach-blonde "Kogal" set. She wears a dark blue cardigan over her uniform with light blue socks.

"Hey Inaba, your signboard is really good." She said in awe.

"Heh…I've thought about doing this kinda stuff for a living. Well, no one knows what's going to happen in the future. So I'll see where this goes for now…" he said just as a red-haired goggled student put his arm around Mark's shoulders.

"For that kind of thing, leave that up to Brown!" he exclaimed. His real name is Hidehiko Uesugi but everyone usually calls him Brown. He craves attention and doesn't take things very seriously. He wears a purple shirt with some sort of character on it and red boots to match.

"What the hell!" Mark practically yelled. Brown soon came closer to Mark and whispered something to him.

"Persona?" Mark questioned.

"What's that?" I heard Naoya ask from beside me.

"It's a game that tells your future!" he beamed to all of us.

"Dude, if that really worked and I could see my future, I'd be on easy street….You sure you ain't got a brain fart, Hidehiko?"Mark said looking unconvinced.

"Hehehe….turns out there's more to it than an easy joke!" he exclaimed. "Maybe not seeing the future exactly but weird stuff does happen! So, I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is if you are, Mark."

"Alright….You're on!" Mark then smirked "I'll bet you an all-you-can-eat dinner at the Peace Diner on Joy Street."

"Woooo! I'm with Hidehiko!" Ayase suddenly shouted.

"I'll throw my lot in with Brown, too." A ponytailed student added. Her name is Eriko Kirishima (but most people call her Elly) and she is a ladylike student who recently returned from abroad. She is beautiful and elegant who also likes anything to do with the abnormal. Eriko has long reddish-brown hair and wears a yellow scarf around her neck.

"Are you guys serious?" Mark said with disbelief in his voice. "Yo Kei, Yukino! Who're you guys gonna side with?" he questioned.

"Hmp…As if I care one whit…its sounds absolute bunk to me" Nanjo nonchalantly says. Mark then turns his head towards Yukino to hear her opinion.

"What he said….This is all you" she said also not taking part in this bet. Inaba sweat dropped after hearing her response.

"Ugh! You guys are so cold, y'know?" he sighed. He then turned to where Naoya and I were standing and asked who we are with. I thought about it for a while. I was kind of curious to see what would happen if this game truly did work but then again I shouldn't really take Brown seriously. I don't really want to look like an idiot when this proves to be all bogus, so I chose to side with Mark.

"Yes, finally someone on my side! What about you Naoya?" he asked.

"Bets on one side are boring, so Mark" he said in a calm voice.

"Aww! Just wait, you'll be sorry!" Ayase mocked us.

"Alright, so let me explain the rules." Brown started "First, a person stands in each corner of the room. After reciting the incantation, walk over to the next person and touch them. When all four people have finished walking, Persona-sama is supposed to descend. It's the same for cupid-sama and stuff."

"Kay! Let's do this!"Ayase cheered.

Since there were one too many people to play the game: Naoya, Nanjo, Yukino, and I stood in the middle of the room while Brown, Mark, Ayase, and Elly went into the four corners of the classroom. From where I was standing, Mark didn't look too overjoyed to be the one actively doing this.

"Alright I'm going to start….Persona! Persona! Please come here!" Ayase recited. She then began to move towards Brown and touched his shoulder.

"My turn! Persona! Persona! Come here!" he yelled. He moved towards Mark and did the same thing as Ayase.

"Man, why I gotta do this…?"He sighed.

"Hurry it up! All-you-can-eat! All-you-can-eat!" he said with glee.

"Okay, okay…jeez" he said with no enthusiasm "Persona, Persona. C'mere…I guess." Mark began walking towards where Elly was standing in her corner.

"Well then…Persona! Persona! Please come to us…" she said. Elly walked over to where Ayase stood at the beginning of the whole thing. Since it was finished, we all waited for something to happen. We kept waiting for a few mintutes and nothing what so ever happened. I was feeling a little bit disappointed that nothing happened. I looked over at Brown and he had the look of confusion written upon his face.

"Something was supposed to happen…"he said going into a thinking pose. As soon as he said that, Ayase walked right over to him and started complaining; while Mark and Elly retreated from their place in the corners of the room and came to join the group in the middle of the classroom.

"Hidehiko! You jerk! Now I look like a total idiot!"

"See? A fat load of nothin'. Looks like I win, Hidehiko." Mark gloated.

Yukino sighed "Happy now? Hurry up and go get the teacher since we won't be getting anymore work done for the day."

"W-wait! Hold up! One more time, please? Mark screwed the whole thing up!" he yelled.

"What!"

"C'mon, you gotta take it seriously when you do it."

"Oh, you little…! What a sore loser. A deals a deal, Hidehiko."

Suddenly, Naoya started to look a little pale and cover his ears even though there was no noise in the room. I was going to ask if something was wrong until he turned around to face a little girl holding a teddy bear that wasn't there moments ago. Her back was faced towards and it seemed she had brown hair with a pink ribbon tied at the top of her hair. Apparently, Naoya and I weren't the only ones to notice her as Nanjo began to mutter things in disbelief. Which in turned made everyone else turn around and finally take notice of the little girl.

"S-see just like I said" Brown said in a slightly terrified voice.

"My last time was a rapping sound, but this time I'm surprised."Elly gleefully said. I just looked at her like she was crazy but then again she does like this kind of stuff.

Soon enough, the young girl took notice of us and turned around to face us. That's when everything began to get weird. When she cried out help me, the ceiling had started to be pulsing with electricity, sparking here and there until a big surge of bright light flashed. When it ended, Yukino was unconscious on the floor. Nanjo started to walk towards her, when a bolt of electricity hit Mark then Nanjo with Naoya following soon after. The four of us left started to panic wondering if anyone else will be hit. When no one else seemed to be in any danger, Elly ran out of the room, probably to get the nurse or a teacher, when a bolt came towards me and hit me straight in the back. After all that, I slowly fell unconscious…seeing nothing but darkness.

So i hope you liked it! Please read and review! But please no flames.^-^