//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 - Danger Zone // Story: Persona - Resonance of the Soul // by ChromeRegios //------------------------------// The following morning, Octavia Spends sometime practicing with her Base in the lobby alone... “Why can i do it?” She thinks “Why am I the only one who cant summon it? But a while back, I summoned it quickly. Golden and Berry summoned theirs so fast, so why cant I?” She thought... While going to the chorus her string snapped... This made her even more angry than usual... she placed her base to her case and went upstairs to rest. Her friends was a bit worried about her, since last night she didn't ate anything at all nor got any drink. “I Think she really is upset!” Berry said to DJ “Why don't you talk to her DJ? After all she’s your best friend am I right?” Golden added “I Don't know guys, She wont even talk to me Last night remember?” DJ Answered back “Just go already! your making it harder than it is” Golden snapped back “But I~” “No Buts DJ!” Berry cuts him off “You are gonna talk to her and thats that!” Berry gave her a push, encouraging her to talk to Octavia. “Alright! Alright!” She Finally went for it “But if she still don't want to talk, its all hooves on deck!” She said to the two ponies “What did she mean Golden?” Berry asked “I think she mean, All of us should go with her” She thoughts “Well just in case, I'm going to get Lyra and Bon Bon” Berry stood up and went to look for The two other ponies... Golden just shook her head and continued eating her breakfast “Octavia? You here?” DJ knocked the door of Octavia’s room “Go Away!” Octavia Shouts inside “Octavia, i dont know why you cant summon your persona last night... But... Please Your my Best friend! Can we talk about it?” DJ said trying to persuade her friend to talk “There is no need to talk about something what i accidentally did” Octavia replies “Come on Octavia this is getting ridiculous, Lets have a drink instead. I’ll buy” DJ offers “Thanks, but i think i could manage” She answers back “Fine, suit your self” DJ gives up, and went down the lobby. “Oh hey DJ! How did it go?” Golden asked. “Nah! The girl’s sulking back there...” DJ said while taking Golden’s drink from the table “Did~~ you talk to her?” She asked as she reads a magazine “She wont even let me in! How can i talk to her properly?” Dj snapped back “That pony has some MAJOR issues” Golden said to DJ while Flipping a pages of the magazine DJ notices that Berry wasn't in the floor “By the way, Wheres Berry punch?” she asked “Oh, she went looking for Bon-Bon and Lyra” Golden said “Huh? What for?” She asked “You’ll see” Golden closes the magazine and stood up “I'm going to the rest room for a while” “Okay, I’ll Stay here for a while then” DJ says to Golden as she went to do her business Meanwhile Octavia still Upset about last night sits alone in their room, looking at the stars, wondering what would it be like... to be in the heavens above... “I think i’d be better off if I never Known about this...” Octavia Still Not forgetting what happened, as she moved to the balcony to look at the horizon something Crashed at her window. “There you are you little whelp!” A pony with dark mane and in red dress came crashing to her room, and she was standing on a giant pony with a drill as a horn, The same one that attacked her last night! “I cant let you foil my plan!, Just because of a Witness and a persona holder!” she orders her persona to grab her, Octavia put up a fight, she kicked and dodges every attack that the monster gave to her.. she kicks the side of the monster, but it hardly did anything at all, she then charged at the monster to knock it off the balcony, but it was no use. Octavia lets out a scream before the Monster Knocked her unconscious. Just then Berry came back with Bon Bon and Lyra When they heard Octavia Scream.. The Three of them went up to their room, only to see the giant Pony was about to leave.. Berry Summons Torra to chase after the Pony, but it jumped before she could even attack “OCTAVIA!!!” They shouted her name as the monster drops below the building before disappearing into the darkness.. DJ and Golden went up next only to find the room destroyed “What happened Lyra!?” DJ looks at lyra that was already crying “A pony with a persona took Octavia Away!” lyra said still sobbing “They what?!” DJ Looks down trying to search where they went.. But they were long gone “WE NEED TO FIND HER!!” DJ Shouted at them “I'm going to get that son of a pony!” “Now just calm down DJ, We don't know where that pony took her yet” “Calm down?! How can you say to me to calm down?! WHILE MY BEST FRIEND HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED!!” DJ again shouts at them “Hey!! dont shout at us like your our boss DJ!” Golden protested “Your right... your right... Sorry about that” DJ felt bad about what she just did “So HOW are we going to rescue her?!” Bon Bon Asked Just then a Bright Blue door Appeared out of nowhere in the room “Its the velvet room!!” Lyra said wiping off her tears.. The door opens slowly, a voice inside tells them to go in.. All of them went inside, as the last pony went inside, the door closes “Welcome to the Velvet room” Igor said while standing in front of the ponies “As you all might know, Your friend Octavia was taken away, by Black Heart” Igor said to them “We already know that! All we want to know is how to rescue her!!” DJ said as the other ponies agreed with her.. “As you wish.. But you cant enter Black Hearts lair Without the Keys my little ponies” Igor said grinning a little, “And how exactly can we find these Keys?I” Golden asked Igor gave them another card, “This is a map of the entire City... The one’s in red mark are guardians... They Hold the key to Black Hearts lair!” Igor gave them the card “But be warned my little ponies... They are a force to be reckoned with, Do not underestimate them. No matter what size they are!” Igor said “We’ll keep that in mind” “And one more thing” Igor adds “You find find your friend before Next week in spring” “Right Before winter wrap up?! That's not possible!!!” Berry complains “You Have nothing to worry... As long as you have the map, There is time to save her before spring” He said “What if we don't save her? What will happen then?” Bon Bon asked “Its better you don't want to know” Igor said “Come on just tell us!!” Golden insisted “You have to tell us so we know what were up against!!” Lyra added Igor thinks for a while... “If you should fail to save your friend, Then she will be devoured by Black Heart’s Persona and will only leave her empty soulless shell of a body with no life at all!!” All of them were shocked of what Igor Just said... “Then we have no time to lose!” DJ said “We have to go!!” Suggested Bon Bon “Very well, my little ponies” Igor Opened The door “You should start at this location first, Since you are close to it already” As they all went out the door closed and vanishes. They looked around and they’re back from where they Started from... The Appartment “Why are we back here again?! I thougt were going to find the Key Keeper!!” DJ said Lyra looks at the map and saw the red mark is blinking... and its close by! “Guys, Over here” Lyra walks at the back of the building so did the others, They followed Lyra to a small garden just behind the Compound... “The mark is getting closer.. Its just behind this henge!” Lyra said, As they all turned at the henge they met a gardener tending the place “Uh excuse me sir?” Bon Bon Said The Gardener looked at them “Could you tell us, if you happen to see any key’s here by any chance?” Bon Bon Asked “Nice weather we got tonight huh?” He said “What was that sir?” Bon Bon Went closer to hear what the pony was saying. “It a shame you couldn't see the sun ever... AGAIN!!” The gardener Summons a Plant like Persona.. “He’s a Persona User too!!” DJ Shouted “He’s Mine!! PERSONA!!” Bon Bon sends out Axel “Get him Axel!!!” Axel obeys Bon Bon and attacks the gardener.. But was blocked by his persona The gardener lets out a battle cry and went charging at Bon Bon. She barely Dodges the attack, as the persona went to attack again, Axel Went in from of Him and Attacked it, Again it has no effect! “Why wont this guy go down?!” Bon Bon Shouted in frustration, Lyra observing the battle notices something in the Gardeners neck.. “ITS THE KEY!!” Lyra Shouts “The Key is in his neck!!” Bon Bon See’s The opportunity, she charges to the gardener and went head on! As The Gardener’s persona was about to attack Bon Bon Gives way to Axel, Who was hiding in Bon Bons Shadow and attacked the gardener Cutting his head off. The gardener Fell down and so as his persona... The gardener suddenly turned to plants right before their eyes.. “You did it Bon Bon!! You were Amazing!!” Golden Ran up to her as she congratulates Her Friend “It was nothing really... If it weren't for lyra, i couldn't never have seen a weak point” Lyra went to pick up the key.. Which is in a shape of a wheel.. “I think this belongs to you Bon Bon” Lyra gives the key to her, Bon Bon Only gave a smile and hugs Lyra... Soon after they went back into the Appartment to plant their next attack...