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Chapter 9 ~ Shadow Chie

Hey guys! Here comes more Persona 4 (V) Female Protagonist and I'm proud of this chapter. I hope you guys love it as much as I do! Now, enjoy!

I informed Satonaka about our weapon issue as she lead us to the shopping district, saying she knew where to get weapons. Yosuke and I were concerned about the fact that she knew where to get weapons but that concern fell when she lead us to a metal works place. Now we were shocked. "This is the place!" Yosuke and I looked at each other, knowing we both thought the same, 'What the fuck?'. "W-What is this place!?" Um, I don't think that's the question you should be asking Yosuke. "A metalworks... I guess? They sell all sorts of metal crap... like katanas and stuff." I knew she was going to say that... "Um, I don't think that was what Yosuke meant, Satonaka... I think he meant, how do you know this place?" he nodded at my statement as she sighs. "Some kids at school was talking about it, okay? Plus I've been here for my life, of course I would know if there's a place like this!" Wow, she sounded condescending...

"What? And you looked this place up? Ah, I get it... one too many kung-fu movies and then-" "Shut it! C'mon, Narukami. Let's pick out our stuff!" She takes hold of my wrist quite forcefully after cutting off him, but I didn't react. She must still be reeling from earlier. "Look, Chie... I know how you feel, but-" Again, she cuts him off. "You don't!" Satonaka then begins to lightly sob, "You don't... know shit! You don't know shit about how I feel! Yukiko might die for fuck's sake! I'm going... and you can't stop me!" Satonaka... "Yosuke, just go look for your stuff. I'll pay for it, I got my credit card so get whatever you want. Your limit is 5,000 yen each." I told as the two separated in the store. Maybe I should ask the owner what he recommends? "Excuse me, sir? Any recommendations?" I ask, "For you? Hmm, how about the retractable katanas?" Retractable katanas? "Are they easy to learn?" "If you know the basics, yeah."

I mean, I'm good with nunchucks and I do know the basics of a katana... "Do you have any nunchucks?" he shook his head at me as I asked him where the cheapest retractable katana he had. He lead me to them and pointed to one labelled, 'Imitation Retractable Katana - ¥4,800'. I mean, better than nothing. I took hold of it opened it. Sure enough, it's a katana. And easy enough to carry around without anyone noticing. "Thank you, sir! Any armor recommendations?" my question made him smile, "Yes, ma'am. Anyone calling me sir, I will help in a heartbeat!" He then lead me to the armor as I looked at the cheapest unisex ones. 'Chainmail (Unisex) - ¥3,000' the label read. "Hey Yosuke, Satonaka! You guys okay with chainmail?" I called out, getting okay signs from them. "Got mine, Yui!" "Same here!" The called out as I took all my items to the counter followed by theirs. "That will be... 9,000... 13,800... 17,800... 21,800 yen." Meh, not as much as I expected. I swiped my card as he proceeds to bag them. "If it's okay, can you separate them into three bags? One armor and one weapon in each please?" With my pleading, he does so as I hand over the bags to the others.

"Just pretend that we finished shopping so we don't get pulled up by the cops, okay guys?" With their nods, we begin walking to the bus stop to go to Junes. Lucky, no cops stopped us. I took Satonaka's hand and walked into the TV, following Yosuke. Teddie was there as Satonaka basically ordered him to take us to Amagi. "Satonaka! Be nicer. I know that Amagi is in trouble but that doesn't give you the right to act like you're the boss." I explain as she scoffs and turn around. "*sigh* Teddie, can you lead us to where Amagi is, please? Can you smell her?" I bent down to his level and rubbed his head as his eyes turn into stars, "I can smell someone's here, Mistress! Hold on... sniff sniff, sniff sniff, sniff sniff... that way!" After hearing this, Satonaka rushed ahead as Yosuke, Teddie and I followed her. Not to long, we start to see a castle. It looks like the castle from the Midnight Channel. "So this is where Yukiko~San is?" I guess so Yosuke... "Yukiko... I'm coming!" At high speed, Satonaka rushed into the castle! "What the hell, that idiot... she doesn't have any glasses nor a Persona, she's screwed!" "Well, c'mon! We need to keep Satonaka safe, Yosuke!" I ran in after her followed by Teddie and Yosuke, though Teddie fell a little behind because of his short legs. "Satonaka, wait up!" I couldn't hear anyone's footsteps except for Satonaka's in front of me.

"Leave me alone! You don't know me and now you're telling me I can't save my best friend!? Oh, I get it. You want to make others feel indebted to you and make them hate me! You already did that to Yosuke!? All city bitches are the same, you're not taking Yukiko away from me!?" That outburst made me so shocked that I stayed in place. I'm what? This is ridiculous... she made this face that said, 'What did I just say?' as she rushed up ahead. "Yui... why'd... you... stop..." Yosuke came to my side, hyperventilating. "Satonaka thinks I'm trying to steal Amagi from her to make her hate Satonaka... like I did to you... did you say anything to Satonaka that might give a reason on why she would say all that?" I tilt my head as he shrugs. With me sighing, the two of us continued running forward as shadows come towards us.

"You ready?" "Always... PERSONA!" I yell out as Izanagi goes out and attacks the further away shadows with his weapon as I go out and attack the closer ones with my new katana. "Amazing, Mistress~!" Teddie cheered me on which gave me a small smile on my face. "Alright, Persona!" Yosuke broke his card with his two natas in his hands as Jiraiya proceeds to attack further enemies with wind attacks with him swinging willy nilly with his natas. "You still got a lot of work, Yosuke... be more like Mistress!" "Man all I get is crap from you!?" I laugh at the two of them before calling them that we've got an opening. Legs begin going numb as we continue our chase for Satonaka.

Chie's POV

Stairs and a door... seems like a promising place. Pushing open the doors, my brain gets full of confusion. I'm... I'm in Yukiko's room... but everything was black and white.

"I look good in red..."

Huh? Yukiko?

"I hate my name 'Yukiko'. 'Snow Child'. Snow is worthless, snow is never here for long... but it's perfect for me. Other than inheriting the inn, I'm worthless..."

She... she thinks... she's worthless...? Why?

"But still... Chie said, 'Yukiko, red looks good on you'... which is why I made my room red..."

As she said that, some features of her room turned red. A mini wind up Santa Claus begins walking towards me.

"Chie is happy... she's strong. She has everything that I lack. Chie is the only one who gave my life meaning... compared to Chie I'm... Chie will always protect me. I may be worthless... but Chie's nice. She'll look after me..."

Yukiko...

"'cHiE iS sO kInD' huh?"

"What the..." The scene reverts back into the castle but with one thing added.

"HUH!? Who the hell are you!?"

"Chie Satonaka, of course."

"What? Cut the crap! I'm Chie Satonaka!?"

"And I'm Chie Satonaka too."

You've got to be kidding me...

"Yukiko... did you hear that!? She actually thinks that I'm protecting her. She also thinks that she is absolutely worthless, you've gotta love that!"

"What are you even talking about...?"

"Yukiko's hot, sweet and her skin is like totally flawless. The guys can't get enough of her, they love her! But when I heard that Yukiko is actually jealous of me, HAH! Man, did I get a charge out of that. You see the truth is if I wasn't around, Yukiko couldn't do anything. She's nothing without me. Because I'm the one... who's really the top dog around her!?"

"Shut up! That's not how I feel!"

"Chie!" Huh? It's Yosuke and Narukami.

"No stop, stay away from me! It's lies! It's all lies!" I begin covering my ears with my hands.

"Oh! Narukami, Yosuke! You're here!

"Huh, Satonaka...?"

"Narukami... she's just trying to take everything I have away from me! She started with Yosuke, and next is Yukiko. She's just a fake bitch from the city!"

"Stop it! Narukami... don't listen to her, she's lying!"

"Satonaka..."

Those shadows came from the ground and walls which made Narukami and Yosuke go back to back with their Personas.

"Shit, they're everywhere!?"

My weight began to collapse as I was on my hands and knees, trying to hold back my tears. "No... you're wrong..."

"Are you really gonna continue to ignore me? Pretend that I don't exist?!

"Shut up! You're not real! You're not real!?"

"Satonaka, you gotta be strong!"

"She's a liar! That isn't me!?"

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!?"

3rd Person POV

Red mist swirled around Shadow Chie as she laughed. After a few seconds, it faded away to show she transformed into a yellow clad dominatrix with long hair that has spikes on the tips of them as she was sitting on a tower of students.

"I am a shadow... the true self."

The real Chie turned around with wide eyes as she screamed at the top of her lungs. "CHIE!?" Yosuke calls out with Jiraiya casts Bash to the minor shadows to get through. Shadow Chie tries to attack the real Chie but missed with Yosuke pushing her out of the way.

"DON'T GET IN MY WAY!?" She tried attacking them but Yui sent Izanagi to guard them.

"So, you're going to annoy me too, huh? Well then, I better teach you a lesson!" An attack went for Izanagi but was stopped but Jiraiya blocked it. However, he was sent back as well as Yosuke but Jiraiya was caught.

"YOSUKE!" The two girls shouted with the silver haired girl rushing up to the boy.

"Grrr..."

"You're still here? I'd wish you just die already! I promise to treat Yukiko very well... as my personal punching bag that is!?"

"Let her... be...!"

"I'm the one who can't do anything! I'm the one who's pathetic! But Yukiko truly needs me, that's the only reason why I keep her around. That's why she's my friend. I can't lose her."

"That's not... what I think..."

"Chie, be smart. Don't let her trick you!"

"Shut it!" Shadow Chie used her hair again to grasp onto Yosuke's neck

"Yosuke!" The two girls call again as he gets held up high.

"I'm not trying to trick her. These are just my true feelings, like it or NOT!?"

The scene changes to where it was only black and Chie standing. Outlines of Chie's appear with her voice coming from each of them.

Chie's POV

"Yukiko is so pretty... the boys go crazy over her..."

This... is how I feel...?

Yes. These are the voices you have deep inside... the ones you keep bottled up...

"Without me around, she can't do anything... if it weren't for me, she'd be nothing..."

No... no... NO!

My face begins to fade into the darkness, like all the other faces.

Is this... this how I... really feel...? No...

"So what if it is true? Who cares!?"

Yosuke?

"You two are still friends, right? Nothing can break the bond you two share!"

Narukami...?

My mind flashes to a rainy Samegawa...

A small girl in a pink dress with long braids is sitting on a step at Samegawa. It was pouring and her hair began sticking to her face. In her hands was a tiny puppy, she desperately tried to keep it from getting wet. I walk up to her but was stopped by a familiar voice. "What's up?" That's... me! That's me when I was in elementary... "Aww, he's cute! Is that guy yours?" I can't believe it, it's the day we became friends... "I found him... but my parents said he can't stay, he has to go. And now... he's gonna be all alone again..." Small Yukiko began to tear up, embracing the puppy closer to her face. "Hey, look here!" Tiny me asked with small Yukiko following suit. I put on the most stupidest face ever which made small Yukiko laugh. "My name's Chie, what's yours?" "Hi there! I'm Yukiko!" We were so innocent back then, I remember it all. "Okay, we're friends now!" Tiny me's hand started petting the puppy, "Same goes for you, big guy!". The two of them smiled, shared a laugh and began walking in the direction of the inn.

Yukiko...

"Look they may be right. But you and me... we will always be friends. Always."

"You're apart of me, that's true." The darkness begins to fade, "You're a voice that rings in my head, constantly, as I pretend to ignore it. You're the pathetic part of me, but that's still apart of me!"

"That's... it..." Yosuke mutters out but she begins to put more pressure around his neck. "Shut up! Shut up! Are you seriously just going to accept me, just like that!?" an attack comes to me but was stopped by Narukami's Persona. It came with consequences, however. She was sent back into a heap. "Narukami! Yosuke! Stop it please!" I screamed, but it just made her more angry so she pushed Yosuke to the wall. "Yosuke!"

Yui's POV

"Yosuke!" Huh? No! "Yosuke...!" My hand extended out but was stopped by a voice.

"You have established a new bond and obtained a new Arcana..." Margaret... "You wield the ability to hold multiple Persona. It is the Wild Card... oh Chosen One..."

"'Chosen One' Huh?"

Concentrating as hard as I can on the 'bond' she mentioned, I stuck my arm out to Izanagi. "Change!" Izanagi disappears and is replaced by a card of the Magician Arcana. "Pyro Jack!" The card gets crushed as a pumpkin with a cloak and a hat holding a lantern appears. "What!? She gets to use two Personas!? No fair!?" That kinda makes me not want to help him but I'm way too nice for it. I jump onto Pyro Jack as fire comes from his lantern, burning Shadow Satonaka's hair from Yosuke's neck. He drops to the ground, "Yosuke!" "On it!" Jiraiya breaks free and attacks a wind attack, at the same time as Pyro Jack's fire attack. Shadow Satonaka gets burned from the fire while getting more flames blown onto her, having heavy damage being done. With Shadow Satonaka's screams, she transforms back to normal. Satonaka walks up to her, "It's true... you're me...!" Shadow Chie smiles and with a bright light, changes into a Persona.

The strength of heart required to face oneself has been made manifest... Chie has faced her other self... she has obtained the facade used to overcome life's hardships, the Persona Tomoe!

Junes Food Court

Yosuke had to go back to work which lead Satonaka and I, sitting at a table, eating takoyaki. "I just can't believe it... if Yukiko stays there when it rains, it's possible that she's gonna die...!"

"Wait, what!?" Teddie hid behind me with both Yosuke's and Satonaka's yelling. "Hey! Stop yelling at him you two! Teddie, can you repeat what you said please?" I petted his head and he purrs against it. "Anything for you, Mistress... it's like I said, whenever the fog is clear here, the shadows get violent and kill any humans here. The fog clears when it's foggy in your world!"

"Satonaka, it's fine! Look! Remember how only fog comes after a few days of rain? Well, it says that it won't be raining for a while so have some hope!" I show her my phone with a smile but she just sighs. "Why are you so nice to me? I was rude to you, called you a city bitch and accused you of stealing my friends away... you must hate me." Satonaka... "... I'd like to talk to you about my life before I got here. I never had close friends... yeah I had friends but only for their own benefit. They used me to buy stuff for them and if I talked back to them... they'd call me worthless... I didn't have my parents since they would work all the time and I would go home to be greeted by the maids teaching me how to be a good heir. Now, there were some genuine friends I would make but we never stayed in contact All I ever want is to have some genuine friends that I can keep in contact with. And I want them to be you, Yosuke and Amagi sine you guys seem cool and nice. But if you don't want be to... I'll leave you guys alone..."

I finish my tray of takoyaki and about to leave until my wrist gets grabbed. "Please don't, Narukami! I want to be friends with you too, please don't leave..." I couldn't help but smile, "Okay! I must ask though, what gave you the impression that I would take away your friends?" I sat down as she sighs and told me everything. Apparently she was jealous at how close Yosuke and I got in such a short amount of time and wished to have that with the both of us. She thought Yosuke would leave her for me which I called nonsense to it. "Satonaka, I would never want to take anyone from you. Cross my heart," Literally and figuratively. "Heh! You're actually really cool! And as an appreciation of my thanks to you, here! A shot of my dog, Muku!" On her phone is a picture that has her smiling while holding a large dog. "He's a serious porker and stinks like nobody's business! But if it weren't for him... Yukiko and I wouldn't be as close as we are."

Thou art I... And I am thou...

Thou hast acquired a new bond...

It brings thee closer to the truth...

Thou shalt be blessed with Personas of the Chariot Arcana...

"Oh! Here, we'll need each other's numbers so that can make it easier to meet up!" Oh yeah, true. Forgot I didn't have her number. "Okay... done! Um... how do you spell your last name?" She asks while rubbing the back of her neck, "Just kid-" "Y-U-I!" I cut her off and spelt my first name, making her shocked. "W-What?" Her confused face made me giggle. "That's what I want you to call me. And if it's okay with you, I want to call you Chie..." A tear fell from her eye as she nods with a smile.

'Chie'

'Yui'

Yosuke walks up to us and collapses on a chair. "On a break?" I ask with a giggle as he nods. "We have to save Yukiko, no matter what. You guys better not leave with out me, you got it?" Chie threatens as Yosuke sat up. "I agree, no one goes alone. We don't know what's waiting for us over there". "Hey Yui, mind being our leader for this mission? You awakened to your Persona first and had the power to go inside the TV before us. It just makes sense." His words made me go silent and think. "Yeah, you seem the best to be leader Yui. It's more believable than having someone like Yosuke as a leader." The tomboy snarks as he just glared at her. "Okay, let's save Yukiko," I put my hand out in found, signalling the others to do the same. They do, "-together." 

"Yeah!"

Thou art I... And I am thou... 
Thou hast acquired a new bond...

It brings thee closer to the truth...

Thou shalt be blessed with Personas of the Fool Arcana...

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