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"Travis?" A voice ran through Travis's ears as his vision starts to return. "Travis!?" A voice sounded louder, coming from Tsu.

"Huh?"Travis gets out looking at Tsu and Morgana looking at him with concern. "What... happened?" he ask trying to focus his sight and mind. "What's with you? You were standing there with a blank expression for some time. What happened?" Morgana ask him.

Travis places his hand on his head as he shakes it. "Sorry, I was... lost in thought." he said to them in hopes of dropping it. Tsu places his hand on Travis's shoulder, "You alright? you need a moment to breathe?" Travis shakes his head. "No I'm okay. Thanks though. Come on, we need to find Claire." With that the three started moving through the floor.

Meanwhile

In a deep room, a girl in a school uniform was hanging on a large red cross with her arms and legs bounded to it. Claire grumbles a bit as she regains consciousness.

"Uhh Huh?" she mumbles out as she looks to see a room she's not familiar with. As her mind comes to, she found herself bounded. She immediately started struggling against the bindings. "What the hell? What's going on?" The bindings refuse to give on her as she looks around frantically.

"Travis? Tsu? Where are you?" Claire calls for her friends, but doesn't find them. As she contemplates what to do, she starts to hear voices.

'Who is that new girl?' A female voice sounded the room. Claire looked around for the source of the voice.

'Oh that's the new transfer student from Tokyo.' another female student answer, sounding annoyed. "Hey Claire, Tokyo too crowded for you?!"

Claire groans out as she remembers her junior high days. 'Claire! Go back from wince you came! No one wants you here!' A female voice yells out. Claire struggles from her bindings hard to get away from the voices. "Leave me alone! I past this now, I'm a stronger person."

Back with Travis's group

Travis and the others have arrived at the final room Morgana said it was. The moment they entered they started hearing voices mocking and bullying about Claire's past. (Travis's state: 61/ 96 hp. 44/64 mp) (Tsu's state: 78/ 104 hp. 39/ 53mp)

"My god, that's so cruel." Tsu said feeling down. "I suppose all that can make someone distrustful about new people." he added.

Travis looks at the door upset as well. He looks at Morgana, "How it looks inside?" She turns to him. "I can sense a human in there, most likely it's your friend Claire. There is also another presence in there though." she warns them. Travis looks at Tsu, "Are you ready?" Tsu moves to the side of the door. "Ready." With that, Travis started to move the door slightly to see inside.

As same as the room Tsu was, the room was wide and deep, but there was a large cross in the center with claire hanging on it. "There she is." Travis stated as the three ran towards her. "Claire!" Tsu calls out.

Claire stops struggling as she looks at the three. "Travis! Tsu! Glad to see that you're okay. Who's the cat?" "I'm not a cat. My name is Morgana." She said to her. Claire looks confused at the words but decided not to pursue it right now, then she noted their outfits "What's with the new clothes?"

"We'll tell you later. Let get you off that." The three move towards her.

'Aw isn't that nice. Such nice friends you have, wish I had that before.' A sinister version of Claire's voice sounded the room. "What the?" the real Claire ask as the three looked around. 'Oh no! Not again!' Travis thought as the voice keeps speaking.

'All those people back at junior high was so mean to me. I didn't do anything to them, and yet the picked on me just because I was from somewhere else. I wanted someone to like be and be friends.' The voice had a sad tone to it, but then it went sinister as it adds. 'At least that's what I thought at first.'

Claire looks around, "Thought?" 'Then I started thinking that things like friendship and trust was all bullshit! If you want to survive and make it through life, you must be tough and cold to people around you. Don't let anyone think you weak! That's the way to be strong.' Claire shakes his head. "That's not true!"

'The years help harden me through this. I'm a person who can endure being alone, although saying that I'm just fooling myself...' it saddens afterwards. "Huh?" Claire ask confused. 'Despite hardening myself, distancing myself to strangers, I'm still the same girl who can't stand being alone in the world. It's so scary when one's alone.' Claire starts to get angry at the voice. "I'm not scared at being alone!"

Travis looks at Tsu, "We need to get Claire and get out of here!" Tsu nods and the three went for the cross. "Whoever's playing games, leave me Alone!" Claire yells out. "Claire, just come down." Travis said calmly. "No, this isn't me!" Tsu shivers a bit from the memory. "You moron, don't say something like that!"

'Yeah that's right. The whole coldheartedness and loner personality is all a ruse, deep down I can't bare being alone for such a long time. But people won't give me a chance to know the true me. It's okay though. I understand you, I'm you after all.'

"N-no. No! NO!" Claire repeats in panic. "Claire! No!" Tsu cries out. "You're not me!"

The voice started chuckling softly as the two started feeling a foreboding force around them. "Ah!" Claire yells out in pain. Travis and Tsu look back to see her writhing in pain and agony. When Claire opens her eyes, they were yellow instead of blue. "What's going on?! I feel terrible.." Red mist flow around her and move to in front of the three.

The mist forms into a large butterfly with cold blue eyes. It started to take flight in front of them. "I am a shadow, of your true self." Travis and Tsu stand in front of Claire. "Aw what is this, getting in my way? Then prepare to forfeit your lives!" it cries out to them.

Claire stares at the creature in terror. "Why don't you cut it out! Leave her alone." Tsu cries out to it. Claire looks down at them. "What are you doing? You're going to fight it?!" Travis looks at her. "Claire, just believe in us." he turns to the shadow with a cocky smile. "We'll take care of this." "You sound confident, doubt that'll help!"

"You two be careful, this one's just like before." Morgana warns the two. Travis and Tsu nods their heads. Travis reaches for his mask. "Persona!" he rips it off, summoning Arsene. "Wh-what?"Claire calls out surprised as Travis cast Rakukaja to boost Tsu's defense (Travis's MP: 32/64) "Thanks!" he said grabbing his hammer, "Time to knock down the butterfly!" "Tsu wait!" but he goes after the shadow and swung at it, just for it to move out of range and he fell from the over swing.

"What the hell?" Tsu yells out. "Melee attacks won't work on enemies who float or fly until they're knocked down! You need to use the Persona's attacks or your range weapons." Morgana tells him. "Oh now she tells me." Tsu grumbles. The shadow giggles as it launches a stream of fire at the group. (21 dmg +8 for Tsu)(Travis: 40/ 96 hp)(Tsu: 49/ 104 hp)

The two wince from the heat, but still kept on fighting. Travis summons Arsene and it strikes the shadow with lightning. (23 dmg.) Tsu got up on his feet, "You're going to pay for this!" he taunted him as he cries out, "Ambrosia!" he calls out as he summons his persona, Ambrosia. Said persona, swung his hammers toward the shadow, getting a good hit on it. (Critical! 32 dmg. 44/104 hp.)

The shadow came crashing on the ground. The two rush it with their weapons trained "Alright! Here's our chance. Show we?" Tsu turns to Travis. He smirks and nods his head, which to two leapt to the sky and started striking at the shadow in lightning fast movements. (83 dmg.) The shadow got back into the air. In a fit of rage, flow down and use its wings to strike Travis, knocking him down. (Critical! 29 dmg! Travis's HP: 11/ 96 hp) "Oh No! Travis!" Morgana cries out seeing him down.

Travis struggles to get back on his feet, but when he does, his legs were trembling, his stance slant, his weapon near the ground. "Be very careful. You look like you're on your last leg." Morgana warns him. Travis knows this, so he reaches into his bag taking out a small bottle of medicine and use it on him. (+50 hp. 61/96 hp.) "You okay?" Tsu ask. Travis nods his head. With that, Tsu summons his persona and use bufu to attack the shadow in front of him. Knocking it down for weakness. (20 dmg.)

"You hit it's weakness!" Morgana chimed as they launched another All Out Attack. (80 Dmg.) "I'll won't be kept down!" the Shadow cries out as it got back up. The shadow moves towards Tsu and strikes him with it's wings. (20 dmg. Tsu: 32/104 hp) Seeing that Tsu's in bad shape, Travis went into his bag and took out another bottle of medicine. "Here, use this." He gives it to Tsu to heal his injuries. (+50 hp. 82/104)

"All right, let's keep this up." Travis said to him. Tsu nods and turns his weapon into a SMG and takes fire at the shadow. (17 Dmg.) The shadow cries out and launch a stream of fire at the group again. Travis was able to dodge it, but Tsu wasn't lucky. (26 dmg. Tsu:56/104 hp.)

"This is getting tough!" Tsu pointed out. Travis starts to get worried, how to beat this creature and it's fire attacks. Then he recalls his encounter with Pyro Jack. Getting a idea, he creates a mask in his hand and places it on his own. He then starts peeling the mask off. "Pyro Jack!" then the new persona appears. "Wh-What? He can change his persona?!" Morgana ask in surprise. "No fair!" Tsu commented, surprise and upset. Pyro Jack chuckles as his lanturn glows, and orange aura flows from the shadow to it. (Attack lowered.)

"It's attack is lowered! It won't do much damage!" Morgana voiced out. "Here we go!" Tsu stated as he summons his persona to strike it with its physical attack. (23 dmg. 51/104 hp.) The shadow's wings slow a bit, meaning it's nearly down. Though it resorts to launch another stream of fire, it hits Travis, but since Pyro Jack's his current persona, the attack wasn't as effective. Tsu dodged it's attack. (14 dmg. 47/96 hp.)

Travis switch his persona back to Arsene and calls it for a physical attack which landed a critical hit on it. (Critical! 28 dmg.) "All right! Let's go to town on it!" "Let's finish it!" Travis said as they launch a all out attack. As they finish, the shadow started flapping frantically for the moment, but then it collapsed onto the ground.

The two take a breath as they felt a surge of energy after the tough battle. (Level Up!) Morgana moves to them. "How you two holding up?" They turn to her, "We're okay." Tsu commented. "Come on, let's get her down." The two move to the cross and started undoing the binds on her arms and legs.

The two catch her before she fell. "Are you okay Claire?" She quickly got up on her feet and out of their arms, blushing a little bit from being so close. "I-I'm alright." she said. Her sight catches something in front of her and they turn to see Claire's shadow in front of her. "Well, what are you standing around for?" she ask it, spouting venom. Tsu looks at her. "Claire, I understand how hard it is, but no matter what you say, that person is a part of you. "

Claire starts to tremble, "But... But I..." she has trouble speaking her words. "Claire.. Everyone has a side they don't want to admit." Travis said trying to help her. "Everyone?" she ask him. Travis nods. "He's right. I had a part of me like that too." Tsu added. Claire mad a small smile as she moves to her shadow self.

"I understand now. You are me. No matter how much one change themselves on the outside, one's still the same person on the inside." Claire said to her shadow. Shadow Claire smiles and nods before started glowing again. At the end of the glow, everyone was able to see again.

When Claire turns to them, they can see she's wearing a butterfly mask. "Claire, that mask!" Travis pointed out. "Yeah, you were able to summon those creatures when you take them off. Does that mean..." she starts to take off her mask. When she does, she was bathe in a bright light as her persona appears. It had very pale skin, blue eyes, black hair, & it wears black & red long cloak, black gloves, red boots & also wears black butterfly mask. Underneath the cloak, it's wearing black catsuit & it uses a glaive as its main weapon.

Not only that, but her outfit change as well. She was wearing a black Japanese leather vest with a red shirt underneath, grey tight pants with a red sash around it, and black kung fu shoes. She had shoulder and arm guards and wearing blue gloves.

With that, the persona made her speech and introduced herself as Psiren. "This is... my persona?" Travis smiles at the scene, "Yes it is." The three smile at each other, but then he heard Morgana speaking. "Hey look at this." The three turn to see Morgana next to a chest. "This one's bigger than the others."

"Cool! Come on let's open it!" Tsu said excitedly as he runs to it. "Hey wait!" Travis and Claire goes towards it. The three are in front of the chest as they stare at it. "What do you think could be inside?" Claire ask. "One way to find out." Travis moves towards it, the others staying close. "Be ready for anything!" he warns them as he begins opening it.

Luckily it wasn't anything dangerous, but it does contains some money inside. "Wow! It's some money!" Tsu said happily. "How did this get here." They heard groaning as they turn to see Claire kneeling on the ground. "Claire are you okay?" "Y-yeah, just a bit tired." she answers. "To be honest I do too." Tsu said. Travis can feel himself tired as well. "Let's get out of here." he told them. With that, the three headed back to the entrance.

Character combat stats

Travis Wickerson: -. Amari:-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-Clarissa-Claire Constantine

Level: 4-5 -.-.-.-.-.-.-. 4-5.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 5

HP: 96+10(106) -.-.-.-. HP: 104+10(114)-.-.- HP: 96

MP: 64+6(70) -.-.-.-.-.- MP: 53+ 8(61)-.-.-.-.-.-MP: 85

Atk: 11+2(13) -.-.-.-.-.-Atk: 14+ 2(16)-.-.-.-.-.-Atk: 12

Def: 14+2(16)-.-.-.-.-. : 12+2(14)-.-.-.-.-.-Def: 11

Mag: 12+1(13) -.-.-.-.- Mag: 8+2(10)-.-.-.-.-.-. Mag: 16

Spd: 12+2(14) -.-.-.-. : 10+1(11)-.-.-.-.-. : 16

Luk: 9+ 2(11)-.-.-.-.-. : 8+2 (10)-.-.-.-.-.-. Luk: 12