Persona 4: Golden Music

Chapter 6

Foggy Dreams

(Upstairs, Spare room)

“Welp, tomorrow’s our first day at school….think we’ll be able to not draw attention to ourselves?” Vinyl asked as she jumps onto the couch.

“That might be hard given how we’re two ponies in an unknown land, full of weird creatures, that are highly more advanced than us Equestrians.” Octavia stated as she prepares the futon to sleep in.

“You do make a valid point. But hey, you never know what will happen. We could be treated just like anypony back home….then again we are going into high school and kids are kinda brats depending….I’m not helping much am I?”

“No….no you are not.” Octavia said as Vinyl scratched the back of her own head awkwardly.

“Right, sorry. But hey look on the bright side. At least we’ll be able to get some info about how to get home once we get to the school library if we get the chance.”

“You mean me? Because if I’m not mistaken, you’re not good when it comes to libraries.”

“What? Since when?” The DJ asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Celestia’s school for the gifted, fifth grade, you were trying to get a book about music for your as I quote.” Octavia cleared her throat as she tries to imitate Vinyl’s voice. “Wubs of destruction.”

“Hey, it’s not my fault they kept the damn thing on the top shelf. I mean why do they always keep the good books on the highest part of the book shelves?”

“They do it because the books must be kept in alphabetical order.”

“Well that’s dumb.”

“Said the mare who tries to wash the dishes with her wubs.” Octavia said as Vinyl threw a pillow at the earth pony.

“Would’ve worked if I had the right base system setup….and some waterproof wires and stuff.” She said before looking over at Octavia who was deadpanning at her. “Shut up. It still would’ve worked.”

“Let’s just get ready for tomorrow.” Octavia said with a sigh as she began to get into her bed.

“Whatever.” The DJ said as her horn glowed, causing the light switch in the room to flick down and turn the lights off. With a sigh and a bit of re-adjusting herself on the couch, Vinyl slowly began to drift into slumber.

(Dream World)

Upon entering into slumberland, Vinyl’s eyes shot open as she quickly stood up a bit from the floor she was on with a gasp. Eyes wide from her sudden demeanor, she quickly shot up to her feet as she looked around the area she was in. From what she could tell, Vinyl could see nothing but the heavy fog covering her field of vision, and the red and black colored floor.

“What or where the buck am I?” Vinyl asked as she started to walk forwards while waving her hands in front of herself. “Octavia! Police dude! Nanako! Are you guys here!?” She asked, but didn’t hear anything. “Seriously, if this is some kind of prank Tavi, then I’m going to-” Just as she was about to finish her threat, the DJ pony’s ear twitched as she heard a voice speak out to her in the fog.

“Do you seek the truth...?”

“Huh? Who’s there?” Vinyl asked as she stopped and looked around to see where the voice was coming from. “Police dude. Is that you?”

“If it’s the truth you desire, come and find me…” The voice said as Vinyl’s ears bagan to point forward through the fog. With a snort, Vinyl began to walk forward into the direction of where the voice was coming from.

“Look here pal. I don’t know who you are, but if you think you can just fillynap somepony like that. Then you got another thing coming when I get my hands on-” Once again, before she could finish her threat yet again. She was cut off by walking face first into what appears to be a doorway. Reeling back in pain from the sudden doorway appearing out of nowhere, she let out a muffle curse word before looking up at the strange black & red colored square door.

“Bucking no good fog. Why the hell am I here in this place anyway?”

“If it’s the truth you desire, come and find me…” Vinyl heard the voice coming from the other side of the door she was in front of. Placing her hand to her chin, she began to weigh her options at the moment.

“Something tells me that this is a trap that whoever it was that stuck me here is right behind this door.” She thought as she tried to use her horn to teleport herself out, but to no avail. “And I can’t use my magic to teleport myself out if here. So I guess I’ll have to face whoever it is that’s behind this door.” With her horn glowing in case someone tries to attack, Vinyl pushed onto the odd looking door as it quickly opens up. Flinching back a bit from it opening so quickly, Vinyl quickly built up the courage to move forward as she processed into the unknown room. Just as she enters, she soon sees a faint but noticeable figure shape in the fog as she glares at it.

“So...You are the one pursuing me…” The figure said with a chuckle in its voice. “Try all you like, but you’ll never catch me…”

“Wanna bet!?” Vinyl quickly lunged at the figure in an attempt to try and tackle it to the ground. Only for the figure to disappear as she tumbles to the ground. “What the? Where did you go!?” She asked as she looked around to see the figure right behind her. Vinyl gritted her teeth as she quickly pulled herself up and fired a magical beam at it as she heard the figure grunted from being hit.

“Hmmm...It seems you can see a little, despite the fog.”

“There’s plenty more where that came from jerkface!” Vinyl yelled as she fired another beam at the figure again, only this time it quickly ducked out of the way of her attack.

“I see...Indeed...This is very interesting information I’m getting from you.” It said as Vinyl lunges herself at the figure and punched it in the face, causing it to stagger backwards a bit. “But you will not catch me so easily. If what you seek is “truth,” then your search will be even harder…”

“What the buck are you talking about?” The mare asked as her horn began to glow even brighter. “When i get my hands on you, you’re so gonna be in a world of hurt followed by some questioning.” All that came from the figure was a small chuckle in the fog. Just as she was about to fire a magical beam at the figure, the fog around her began to become thicker and heavier. “What the? Hey! Where did you go coward!?”

“Everyone sees what they want to...And the fog only deepens..”

“Show yourself coward!” Vinyl yelled as she began to fire in different direction to try to hit the figure within the thick fog.

“Will we meet again? At a place other than here?” The figure said as its voice began to drift away further into the fog. “Hmhm...I look forward to it..”

“Hey, wait a minute. Get back here!” Vinyl yelled as she began to run after the figure in the direction that she thinks he was fading away to. Just as she took a few running steps forwards, she felt her body begin to feel heavy. Like someone put her in a suit of armor as her movements were now slow and sluggish. “Dammit, why do I feel so….h-heavy?” She asked as she felt her eyes beginning to feel heavy as well. With a staggered breath of air, the DJ pony soon fell onto the ground as her vision began to become dark and blurry. “N-No….come...back.” With her final words her vision went dark as she faded away into unconsciousness.

(Dojima residents)

The sun rose upon the town of Inaba as a slither of sunlight began to make its way into the room that Vinyl and Octavia are in as Octavia groaned and covered her face from feeling the sunlight hit her face. Just as she did that, there was a knock at the door as a familiar voice began to speak up from behind the door.

“Breakfast is ready.” Nanako said as Octavia heard the little girl walk off downstairs. With a sigh, the earth pony slowly pulled herself up from underneath the covers as she gave off a loud yawn.

“Well at least this was better than the previous night.” The mare said as she rubbed her eyes. “Vinyl it’s time to wake up...Vinyl?” Octavia looked over at the sleeping DJ who was pretty much facing face first onto the floor and her flank sticking up in the air. The earth pony quickly deadpanned before picking up her pillow, and tossing it at Vinyl. “Wake up you idiot!”

“IT WASN’T ME! IT WAS NEON LIGHT!!!” Vinyl said as she quickly woke up after being hit by said pillow from Octavia.

“Glad to see you’re awake Vinyl. I’m a bit surprised you haven’t gotten any back problems from sleeping like that.”

“You should know by now that I’ve slept in different positions when I’m drunk or party to much.” Vinyl said as she lets out a loud yawn. “Oh man. That was a weird bucked up dream.”

“What dream?”

“Dude it was the weirdest dream I have ever had. I found myself in some strange place full of fog. I couldn’t see anything around me other then the floor underneath me. While I was wondering through the fog, I heard a strange mysterious voice calling out to me. Telling me to find the truth to something.” Vinyl said as she scratched her head and looked over at Octavia. “Have any idea on what that dream means?”

“Well….I’m no dream expert, but it might be something that involves you hiding something from somepony and the guilt is causing you to dream of something like this…..Did you do something bad that might be causing it?”

“No!....No….um….unless you count me switching your shampoo with hair color that one time?”

“That was you who did that!? I thought the company store that I got it from ripped me off and sold me that as a means to steal bits from ponies!”

“Yeah….sorry about that Tavi.” The DJ said with a sheepish smile on her face. Octavia simple groaned in annoyance before pulling herself up from the bed she was in and started to get herself dress.

“Whatever. It happened two years ago, so there’s no point in me holding a grudge against you on that. Anyway, get yourself up and ready. Nanako knocked on our door and said that breakfast is ready.”

“Ah, sweet!” Vinyl said as she quickly jolted out of bed. ”Hope the kid’s dad made something good~.”

“You are not going downstairs looking like that are you?”

“What’s wrong with the way I look?” Vinyl asked as Octavia deadpanned.

“You are not going downstairs wearing nothing but your shirt and panties Vinyl. Have some class or at least the desentsy to put on something that isn’t so revealing!” The classical pony said as she squeezed the bridge of her nose.

“Fine mom! I’ll put on some bucking clothes. Man! You’re so uptight sometimes you know that?” Vinyl said as she began to search for her pants.

“We are in the house of a stallion who took us into his home when we didn’t have a means to get home or find a place to sleep. So I will be uptight as long as you keep acting like you do at home in Ponyville.”

“And you’re wondering why you’re single.” The DJ said as she pulled herself up from searching for her pants on the floor, only to be met with Octavia throwing the DJ’s pants at her head.

“Just get your clothes on while I go to the bathroom and freshen myself up.” Octavia said as she pulled herself up and headed to the bathroom.

“That mare really needs to lighten up a bit.”