Persona:Distortion
Disclaimer: I don't own Persona 3.
Sorry for the hiatus. My computer broke down and it was annoying that the repairman took months to fix it...
Chapter 4: The Girl By The Swing
Rika don't know where she is. Her body feels light and her head was spinning like a top. Around her was absolute darkness. No light whatsoever. Rika stared into the dark abyss.
'Am I dead?' she asked herself. She observed her surrounding. 'So this is death. The one that is invietable.' Rika closed her eyes. " Somehow I feel very relief. Like a burden has been lifted from me."
"I messed up big time." She recalled the events happened tonight. The bloodied wall, disappearing doors, creepy shadow-like creature, Henry and Miya shoot themselves in the head to summon a mysterious entity and Kyuubi.
Rika's eyes shot open. What are exactly those things? Are they ghost? Devils? Demons? Why did the wall oozed blood? Why Henry and Miya act like normal with the creature? Where do Henry got the sword and the gun?
Rika sighed. 'I guess those questions will still be remained unanswered since I'm dead.' Rika suddenly remembered someone attacking the monster before she lost unconcious and died.
"I guess the guy arrived too late to save me but I hope he saved Henry and Miya." She again closed her eyes. Rika let out a frustrated cry and clutched her head. 'Why I'm thinking so negatively.' 'Am I really dead?'
Tears welled up in her eyes. 'It can't be. I still have unfinished business.' She remembered Kyuubi. 'That fox, is that my inner strenght?' Tears slid down her cheeks. Rika gritted her teeth. 'It was pathetic. You just found your inner strenght and you die afterwards.'
"It was a damn waste!" Rika cried to the darkness. As soon as she said that a tiny ball of light appears. Rika wiped her tears away. "What is that?" The ball of light expands in a very fast rate. Darkness dissolves in the light. Soon light engulf Rika.
A tingling sensation swept Rika and her body went numb. The intensity of the light forced Rika to close her eyes. She felt like she was sucked into the bright light.
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Rika could feel her body again. Rika open her eyes to see an orange sky. She was laying down on a bed of sand. Rika stood up and brush away the sand from her clothes. "Where am I"
She was in a playground. Swings,slides,little tunnels and monkey bars. Things that you always find in a children playground was present. The playground was tinted by orange light so it was be sunset. Big,tall big buildings from the city ahead glistened with dim orange light.
The place seems very familiar. Rika walked towards the swings. She sat on a swing and swing slowly. She felt a fabric touching her left cheek. Rika turn around to see a pink ribbon. Rika's eyes widened. "This place-"
"So you remembered after all." Rika startled. Beside her was a blonde girl around her age. "So you like it? I modified it specially for you." Rika started at her. "Who are you? Where am I" Rika said sounds a little bit threatning.
The girl chuckled. "Sorry where is my manners. I'm Alice, your uhm... concious." Rika glared at her. "Concious?So I'm not dead?" Alice smiled. " Of course you're not dead and yes concious. You are inside your own head. Seems weird right?" Rika sighed in relief."Inside my head?" Rika dumbfound. "Are you playing tricks with me?"
"No I'm serious. This is your mind. This scenery here." Alice outstretched her arms. "Is what your mind really looks scene that changed your life. The place where you wish to go back to."
Rika looked away from her. "I...I don't want to return here." Alice looked her in the eyes. "But that is not what your heart told your mind."
"St..Stop disturbing me." Rika felt really weak againts Alice. No one ever crippled her like this with a few sentences. It is like Alice sepped an evil aura.'Alice is not so scary but why I am feeling very afraid?'
Alice looked Rika straight in the eyes. "What's the matter? Are you tired?" asked Alice like a curious little girl. Her face like really close to Rika. Alice's emerald eye's met Rika's sapphire's. They interlocked each other's eyes for a few moments. Sudden tension began to rise between them.
Rika couldn't stand it anymore. She pushed Alice away and ran towards the sunset. Alice was startled at first but she just smiled and watch the orange-haired girl ran towards the orange beauty.
Rika turned the head and watch slowly as Alice's figure became smaller and finally just a shadow. 'The girl, I really couldn't trust her.'
Suddenly, the space around Rika collapsed. Her surrounding dissolved and materialised back. "Welcome back." a familiar feminine voice spoke. Rika's eyes widened. It was Alice. She was back at the playground.
"What the..?" Alice pouted. "Why the rush? You don't want to play with me?" Rika glared at Alice. 'This girl. Is evil.' She in stuck with a childish blonde girl that can crippled you with mere words. Crap. Rika looked at Alice with fear and slight anger. 'Why the hell she is in my head? Oh fine she's my so called concious.' Rika shivered at the word concious.
Alice's facial expression changed into a serious. 'Will you stop staring at me and let me explain everything.' The tone that kills. Rika's spine shivers. "Y..Y...Yes" She sutters.
Alice sat on the swing. She pat the swing next to her. " Come and sit. Don't worry it will be fine." Rika hesitantly joined her at the swing.
"Congratulations on onlocking your Persona." Rika dumbfounded. "My what?" "Your persona. The one you summoned tonight." Rika paused for a while. "Oh you meant Kyuubi."
Alice smiled. "Yes Kyuubi. She is your Persona." Rika was still confused. "What is exactly a Persona?" "Persona is the technically your 'inner you'.The manifestation of your desire that fuels your ambition,dreams and such. Everyone has one. Is just wheather they could contact it and ultimately summons it."
Rika took a while to sink in the infomation. "So what you trying to say is that Kyuubi is my inner self?" "That's right." "Why I couldn't unlocked my persona earlier?" "Because you are lost." Rika frowned. "Lost?" Alice smiled. "Yes lost. Almost all of the earth's population is lost." "Why did you say that?" "They haven't found the reason. The reason they all lived. The reason they are using to fuel your desire."
"And I found the reason tonight? So that is why I unlocked my Persona?" Alice nooded. "Your reason is to not run away again so you will not lose another friend right?" said Alice somberly. Rika gave a slight nooded.
"So that is why my mindspace is like this? The place that give me a reason." "Yes, and when you unlocked your persona, you automatically be in contact with your concious which is me."
Rika sat silenced. That memory. She wish it will just faded away.
The ground shook slightly. The ground below them creaks. Rika panicked. "What is happening." "Ah, you're waking up. Reality is coming to get you." Cracks appeared on the ground. The building behind them collapse one by one. The slide,monkey bars all crumbles. "See you soon."Alice smiled.
The last thing Rika saw was a dim orange light.
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So how was it? I had some trouble on Rika and Alice's interaction. I hoped that went smoothly :)
Alice was introduced finally. She will have a significant role in the plot. Note: She got double personality, Mature and Childish Alice. And she got a twin!
The next chapter will be long I promise!