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PERSONA 4 ASTRAL SKIES
2nd Night: I Will Overcome My Fear…
Date: 4th April 2013
Weather: Rainy with a chance of foggy
Time: 08.47 P.M
Location: The TV World
It's been 15 minutes since Shinn entered the mirror in the TV. He has been wandering without direction and is looking for the exit despite the fog is very thick. When he got tired, he looked for a bench to sit on and he finally found one next to the city's map. Shinn sighed and walked to the bench when he saw a figure. "The hell?" he muttered under his breath
Shinn's POV
I saw a person standing near a street light across the street , it looks like he is waiting for someone. I tried to wave at him and hopes that he saw me but maybe because of the fog, he doesn't seems to see me. Fucking fog. Then, I tried to call him and finally he looked this way. I walk closer and finally got the figure of that person still blurry,though. "Hey, I'm Shinn Masakado I… um…. Got lost. Do you know where's the exit?" I asked the person. I'm keeping my distance around 5 metres or so because I played Silent Hill Origins and the settings is about the same as this town . He looked my way and this time, he said something "Shinn Masakado, I've been waiting for you…" Huh? What did he say? "What? Wh-who are you? " "What do you mean by 'Who'? Don't you recognize this FACE?!" He come forward, grinned maniacly and reveals his two glowing yellow eyes. Yes, I know who's that person. HE'S ME! He got my face, my hair and my everything.
" Tell me the truth, who are you?!"
"Can't you see? I am you." He stared at me with his two yellow orbs.
"Don't fuck with me! Just tell me who are you! Shapeshifter? Mascot? Cosplayer?"
"Why do you keep denying? I AM YOU! I've been living under your shadow, trying to be free. And when I met the real "me", this is what I get? Denial?"
"What the fuck do you mean by that?"
"Heh, I know everything about you. Starting with who do you hate, love, and all sorts of stuff. Well yeah, you hate most of the people you met. That Pisses me off! You're just a human who lied to your own self. You tried to get the top rank just to be accepted but it does nothing! You always act so cool but actually, You're just afraid,right?"
"Quit beating around the bush! What do you mean by that?!"
"Just like I said, I know everything. I also knew about an incident 10 years ago, you know."
Ten years ago? How can he know about 'that'? I couldn't help myself and ended up punching the shadow. "You don't know anything about me! To simply put it, YOU'RE NOT ME YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I shouted at the shadow. And funny, he's laughing "HA HA HA HA. What a funny person you are! You deny yourself, your fear and even your feelings. FUCK ALL THAT SHITS!" Then, the shadow started emitting black aura and creatures with zebra-like stripes appeared from the aura. Surprised, I take 3 steps back and start to run. "You can't run from me. I'm your shadow afterall ha..ha..ha.." "Shut the fuck up!" I shouted and picking up a pace.
While I was running, I stepped on my shoelace "oh, Fuck You Shoe!" I fell and tried to get up when I saw that the creatures that has been aftering me appeared before my eyes. They stretched their huge tongue and growled hungrily "this is just a dream. Just a DREAAAM!" I closed my eyes an heard a familiar voice, "IZANAGI!"
Yu stands before me and has a tarot card covered by blue colored mist in his palm. "Yu? How could you get in here?" I asked him. He turned his head to face me and answered "I saw you on the TV. So I come to rescue you." He smirked. The beast came forward to attack us when a blade stabbed it from behind. "whoa ! What the hell is that huge thing?" I am surprised when I saw a humanoid figure standing before me wielding a giant blade, It has an armored head and a black jacket. "It's okay. He's Izanagi, my Persona." Yu offered me a hand which I take it and stood up. "Persona? What's that? How are you able to use that?" I asked confused. I may be a super smart ass but when an illogical information was shoved inside my head directly, my head will be all fucked up. "long story. I'll tell you later just stay behind me." Yu shortened the distance between us and used his "Persona" or whatever it is called, to fight against the monsters. "what the hell are those things?" "They're shadows. The shadows got agitated and vicious whenever the fog lifts." Well, Yu got some points there 'cuz the fog started to clear and I can see a little clear now. I felt like a huge dick for calling my shadow son of a bitch because if what he said is true, I'm just cursing myself.
"Zio!" Yu exclaimed and his Persona raised its hand then, lightning struck one of the striped shadow. "tch, this just won't do any good." His Persona raised its blade and slashes through shadows which resulting them to disappear into the thin air. I felt a presence behind me and found out that it's my shadow. "Why did you do this to me? No matter how much you deny it, I'm still you. So, give one reason why did you keep denying." "Because you pisses me off." The 'me' version shadow dashed forward and strangled me. "oops. My tongue slipped" Then the shadow infiltrated my soul and took my consciousness away.
I woke up in an empty space. There's nothing in there. I saw myself in front of me. "10 years ago, your house burst into flame and got your mother killed. What's the reason she protects you?"
Yeah, that's right. 10 years ago, my house is on fire. My mom protected me and died. Then, my aunt and uncle took me in. It struck my mind like a heavy raging storm. I made a lot of troubles for her but she keeps saying that it's okay and she loves me. Why did she want to die for me?
"Because she loves me?"
"No. She despises you. She's just doing it for your father. You're nothing but a nuisance for her."
"That's not true!"
"Your mom often complaints about you to your father and his answer will always be the same 'be patient in loving him' so simply put, She loves your father more than you."
Yes. I remember dad saying that to mom. He's right. He knew everything. And I realized something.
"I finally know the answer. You're right. I'm afraid. Afraid of losing someone important to me. But if killing me would make you free, then do it. I'm just another ordinary sinful human .There's no need for 2 sinful Shinns in this world."
"You human scum are just all talk! Prove it!"
My shadow threw a dagger to me and I pick it up. "hey, shadow. Before I do it, lemme tell you something. When you get free, live as freely as you can just like me. You're me afterall." I gave him a smile and I saw tears flowing down from my shadow's face. "Thank you."he muttered and I launch my strike to my own chest then, everything goes black.
"Shinn! Shinn! Hey, pull yourself together!" I saw Yu holding my back. "I'm not dead? What happened?" I muttered to myself and sawthe dagger my shadow threw at me in my hand. "I don't know. You started coughing black smoke and fell unconscious." Yeah, that's right. That he mentioned it, I remembered something.
FLASHBACK
I was about to stab my chest when someone stopped me by grabbing my hand. "shadow.." I muttered at the sight of my own shadow stopped me from doing so. "You're such an Idiot afterall, Real me. Just as stupid as I am." My shadow spoke and release his grip on my arm but still standing before me. I tried to speak but he cut my sentence , then, a glow of red sorrounds his body and he turns into a humanoid figure. It's 6 metres tall, wearing a red trench coat with black lines on its long sleeves, and a torch like head with fire burning on top of it. It really surprises me that it looks incredibly alike to Yu's Persona, Izanagi except that mine is wielding katana instead of spear. Then, it spoke.
"THOU ART I, AND I AM THOU. I AM THE ONE WHO EMERGES FROM THE POWER OF THY HEART. I AM KAGUTSUCHI, SON OF IZANAMI, AND THE OFFSPRING OF THE SEARING FLAMES SHALL BE OF ASSISTANCE TO SEEK THE REAL TRUTH."
Soon as he finished talking, he turns into a Tarot card with red mist around it. The card fell to my hand, it reads 'THE FOOL'. Suddenly, I heard a voice, "Do you seek the truth? If you do, don't be afraid of your power. Stab all of your fears with the dagger of truth…." As soon as the voice ended, everything just goes blank and suck all of my consciousness….
FLASHBACK END
I realized that there are still 3 more of the ball-shaped shadows and Yu's Persona is shielding both of us. "I'm fine, Yu." Yu released my back and I walked forward with the dagger in my hand. I raised my hand which has the dagger in it, "dude, what the hell are you trying to do?!" Yu ran towards me as fast as he can. Just before he's able to reach me, I called out my trump card, "PERSONA!" With that, I stabbed my heart just like the voice told me. Then, Kagutsuchi appears behind me grabbing his great katana. Yu's eyes is full of shock after witnessing the scene infront of him and remained speechless until I spoke, "Surprise? This is my persona, Kagutsuchi." " when did you-. Wait, it means that you overcome it." I chuckled a little and smiled a toothy grin. "anyway, rather than talking about this, let's take care of these son of bitches then, go back and have our drinks." Yu seems somewhat relieved and replied by nodding his head. So, we are charged into the ferocious battle.
" Izanagi, Zio!" "Kagutsuchi, Agi!" we casted our spells and have the two shadow beaten which means only one remains. Yu pointed his finger at the last shadow and said, "the last one is yours. To celebrate." I give him a thumb and commanded Kagutsuchi to slash the shadow into two.
Now that the battle is done, we somehow got back to the entrance through the mirror I got in earlier. "phew, that was really something. Never thought that you'll obtain a persona" Yu joked and scoffed at me which I react by puffing some hot airs from my cheeks. "well, you owe me an explanation after we got back." "the pleasure is all mine" Yu bow down, and I got through a widescreen TV.
DATE: 4th April 2013
WEATHER: foggy
TIME: 10.15 P.M
LOCATION : room 202
When we got back, Yu explained many things about the TV world and what surprises me is, he saved Yasoinaba from the serial murders that has connections with the TV world. I know that Midnight Channel, the urban legend at YasoInaba is true and is the path to the other world and also, the victims from the story Yu told me, died in that place. The conclusion is, whenever a person acknowledged his/her shadow, the shadow will become a persona. What confuses me is that even though our arcana, the persona type, is the same but mine's emit red fog instead of blue like Yu's. I decided to leave it for tomorrow and go to sleep.
DATE: 5th April 2013
WEATHER: Sunny
TIME: 06.32 A.M
LOCATION: room 202
I got dressed and just got back from the shower room. When I open the door I saw Yu packing his bag. He greeted me and I am surprised that he got back before me even though I went to the shower room ahead of him.
"Yo, morning Shinn." He greeted me with a smile and stood up.
"Yeah, I don't get much sleep last night because the bed is just too soft" Yu raised one of his eyebrows and laughed. Anyway, it wasn't a joke because back at my uncle's house, my bed is as hard as stone.
"Anyway, let's go to class. Lecture starts at 08.00."
"Yeah."
We walk through the hallways and went to the classroom. It is pretty big. It has a black board, 32 tables and full A.C. I'd better take my sweater next time. I took a seat next to Yu and I overheard some girls' gossip,
"Hey, I can't believe it. They said that 'it' was found near the campus!"
"Really? Come on, let's check it out!"
When I heard it, I felt uneasiness and asked Yu, "Did you hear that?" "Yes I do. Come on we gotta hurry to. Maybe, it has connections between the return of the midnight channel." "I agree." With that, we rushed out of the class and heading towards the campus.
We're at the university's dorm campus now. A horrifying scene that just beyond imagination is right infront of my eyes. I am shocked so as Yu. A body was found dead this morning and the condition is being 'nailed' to the wall mimicking the pose of Jesus on the cross and got the whole body tarnished by crimson blood.
"Holy shit, Yu. This is even worse than what you think it is."
"Yes."
To be continued…
Next issue: I Will Make My First Impression In the First Year…..
This is the 2nd chapter! I'll make the 3rd chapter soon but I have to delay it because I'll have my school exam next week so I can't touch the computer or my mom's gonna kill me. Review please….