Disclaimer: I dont own Persona, that's Atlus'... I own Nickie and Bastet, though...
'Ugh..' I wake up from thousand-years-sleep alike. 'Where am I?' I look around, and all I see is darkness. I try to remember what happened. Unfortunately, all I remember is my mother's beating, after my step-father raped me. I am shivering at that thought. 'Please…' I am pleading to darkness, 'Don't make me remember that.' I put my head on my knees. Unconsciously, tears fall down from my eyes. And I cry. Cry for my life, cry for my abusive mother and step-father, cry for everything that made me like this. A worthless child. 'Mom's right,' I thought, letting more tears to fall, 'I shouldn't be born…'
Suddenly, I hear some kind of wailing. I snap my head. 'What is that?' I wipe my eyes with my hand, and walk to the source of the wailing. "Who's there?" I shout with low voice. But the wailing can still be heard. I collect all my courage left, and keep walking forward. Then, I see her (or it?).
A girl, that looks like me, naked and chained to the wall. She wears blind-fold. Her arms spread as the chain bind them. And so her neck. She stands on her knees, which are bound by the chain too. Blood is dripping from some wounds at her body. She makes a sound that resemble a wailing. I gasp. 'Oh my God, what's going on?' Then, suddenly, she talks. Her voice sounds like a whisper.
"Why?" she whispers, "Why did they do this to me? Why my world must be like this? Why? I always try to be the best. But, why even my family doesn't want it? Why they keep hitting me? And him! Why is he doing this to me?"
I gasp. It's just looking to a mirror. The girl (or now I should call 'me') rises to her feet. Her blind-folded eyes look straight to me. "Then why should I live? I don't have friends, my family doesn't love me, I am being treated like a whore in my own house… Tell me, why should I live, 'me'?" She snaps, "I keep my mask on, so no one would know that I am this weak. Is that right, 'me'?"
At this, my tears fall again. The 'me' keeps talking, "Every night, I just can cry silently. Waiting for mom to come with her beer and beat me. Or waiting for him and his friends to rape me again, and again, and again… Tell me, 'me', when can I stop crying?"
I just can fall to my knees. Tears keep falling. And then, I whisper, "That's true. I am weak. Every day, I wear a mask as cold person. While inside, I am crying. Why should this happen to me?" I try to stand again even though my knees feeling weak. The 'me' is looking at me. "No friends, no love… Look how pathetic I am. No doubt no one wants me," I look at her and say, "You know, you are really me. We both suffer, so why we can't stand together?" I give my hand to her.
The 'me' nods, and suddenly, she is surrounded by blue glow. Then, she disappears. But, on the spot where she was, standing a woman wears a black armor and a helmet that reminds me of cats. She brings two swords. When I look again, her neck, hands and legs also bounded by chains. But the chains look broken. Yeah, nothing binds her again. The woman disappears again, and suddenly, a card, with the picture of man hanged downward, is forming in my hand. Then, I hear something speaks in my head.
"Thou art I…
I am thou…
Thou hast accepted thyself…
Thou shalt be blessed with Persona Bastet, the Lady Knight of Sun…"
After the voice disappears, I am feeling dizzy. And I pass out again.