Persona - Resonance of the Soul

by ChromeRegios


Chapter 8 - In The Eyes Of The Chosen One

I’ll be with you... Forever and ever...
I will never leave your side...
I’ll Stay by your side... No matter what!

Octavia slowly wakes up... Only to find Herself Chained to a wall
“H-hey! Let me out!!! LET ME GO!!!” she shouts asking for her to leave.. She cries out to the prison she is in only to bounce back by her own echoing voice
She looks around the prison... It was spacious and had some sort of devices near the steel bars in front of her. She examines her chains and finds it very rusty... she gives it a tug, the chain moves a bit... She pulls it with all her strength but she can only move a portion of it
Just then she saw a silhouette of a pony coming towards her...
Octavia pretends she is still sleeping..

“Well? Any progress?” A voice called out

“Not a thing... Are you sure she’s the chosen one?” Another voice called out

“Yes! I am sure.. when I saw her persona came out... as a Mousai!” said the other voice

“If this is true... We can use her to summon the great persona Apollo!” Proclaims the other voice

“Then We should wake her up now!” said the voice... Octavia became nervous... if she is woken up now, she might go into some sort of trouble or might even force something for her to do

“NO!!! you shall not wake her up forcefully!” Said the voice... This gave Octavia relief

“Guess they didn't hear my shouts earlier” She whispered to her self as the shadow of the pony backs away from the cage...

“We shall wait for her to awake at her own accord! For the ritual to be more effective, she must be in a calm state! Or the Ritual will be in no use and her being destroyed!!” Said the other voice

“Ritual?? DESTROYED?!” She thoughts...

“Come... we have much to prepare in Apollos arrival” Octavia hears both of them leave the prison...

“There is no way I'm going to be sacrificed!” Octavia Forced her self and used all of her strength to pull out of the chains...
It took every ounce of her energy to break free of the wall.. although the chains are still in her hooves, but she didn't mind... Her right hoof was badly bruised and her left was cut a bit because of the rubble fell on her upon breaking off the wall.. All that is left of her problem if the huge rows of steel bars blocking her way out... she tried jiggling and found out that it too was rusted! she tried kicking it with her hind hoof causing the bars to clang loudly. She quickly held the bars tight preventing it to spread the sound further...
She then examines the lock which is quite old... she then tried unlocking it with a small metal wire she found near the cell... she jiggled the lock over and over... It took her huge amount of Patience and diligence until finally it unlocks! She was free

“I’m never going to do that again!” Octavia thoughts as she sneaked out of the prison cell

As she ventures to the black hall way, she soon arrives to a vast Hall where 5 different routes going to alternate places...

“Uh... Wh-which way?!” She says to her self as she picks a route then quickly changing it to the other...


She quickly got an idea.. She puts a mark of one corridor where she went out then she went to another corridor... she picked the far right path.
As she entered the chosen path she quickly smells something vile and horrid!
“Whats that smell? It smells like rotten meat!!” She covers her nose and kept moving forward
She soon found a door leading to another room... As she opens it, she founds corpses of dead animals torn apart and in the verge of rotting. Octavia got sick just by looking at it.. she quickly runs to the starting point of the hall and took deep breaths

“That was gross!!” She took deep breaths then she marks the other corridor and went to another. This one was quite damp and wet...
she nearly slips as she crept to the slippery corridor. When she reached the door way, she notices a blue light on the other side of the door...

As she leaned closer she realizes it was water!! she backs away and went back...
She crossed out one more and went to the other...

This time... The Corridor seems to be dry, and there was no smell. Octavia felt a little comfort, But when she opened the door she found was a pit deeper than Canterlot cliffs! Octavia wobbles and spins around nearly falling down the huge hole! Her heart pumps so fast that she felt like its going to explode! she stumbles out of the corridor and went to the other... this was the fourth and last, she went through to end of the corridor, she find a door and opens it.. It was the Grand Hall of the place... it was huge with stone columns, in the middle of the room was an altar with several things circled around it... on the other side of the hall is a wide variety of weapons from spears to swords...
She ventures to the middle where the altar was set...
All of a sudden something hit her from behind nearly knocking her off balance...

She turns around and saw the same monster who took her away! She tries to summon her persona but still couldn't. The monster then hits her again this time it hits her... Hard! she was rebounded to the wall and still concious..

“Do not harm her!! Is You kill her the ritual is a failure!!”
the voice shouts booming across the entire hall...
“As you wish” The pony in the dress says as she orders her persona to pick Octavia up and bring her to the altar...

All she remembers is the pony in the dress straps her into the altar before passing out once again...