Petsona: A furry compendium of your inner self
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:54 pm
So there are two awesome things, Housepets and the Persona series. Now I know that there's already a Persona/Housepets fanfic out there on the internet yet it uses for its basis the most depressing of the installments. I don't think that matches the tone of Housepets at all. Now here's a little fic that uses the most cheerful installment in that series for its inspiration. Housepets belongs to Rick, Persona systems belong to Altus
Welcome to and enjoy Petsona
Life is a dream, or so we think, but the truth is stranger than the lies we surround ourselves. Yet for these pets the barrier between their lies and life shall blur and truths shall fall back into dreams. Now behold the journey of self discovery and what lies within the inner self…
“Ugh my head, what just happened?” A Welsh Corgi named King, once named Joel said. He originally was a human but because of a series of bad life choices and interference with a jerk griffon, he was now a dog. Still it was particularly telling that he wasn’t too fazed by this unknown situation he was in. King stood up and noticed that he couldn’t see too far. The reason was the thick fog that surrounded the area. King tested the surface of the floor with his hind paw. It felt smooth; whatever the ground was made of King didn’t recognize what was the material.
King decided to scout out the location. If this was another one of those Cosmic Nerds’ games, he was going to be extremely annoyed. The chess piece Corgi walked and walked and walked. Yet with the fog he couldn’t see if he was making any progress. Eventually his small stubby legs were tired to the bone. King couldn’t walk anymore. “Come on isn’t there anybody there?” King shouted as he knelt over on the ground slamming his clenched paw on the floor.
“Hello, who’s there?” somebody responded to King. The corgi pricked his ears up and ran towards the sound. “Yeah I’m here, who are you? Where are you?” King shouted out to the mystery person. “Over here!” The fellow wanderer in the fog replied. King ran towards the sound and stopped when he saw who was lost in the fog with him.
It was another corgi and it was a corgi that King knew. “Lime?”
“King? Is that you?” The other corgi lived in the neighboring community to Babylon Gardens.
“Yes, do you have any idea where we are?” King asked.
“No, I have not been able to get a clear view of the place because of this fog.” Lime waved his paw at the atmospheric phenomenon that surrounded them.
“Do you remember how you got here?” King made a gesture of indifference, he wasn’t sure if he’d get an answer that would help but it didn’t hurt to ask.
Lime looked thoughtful and said “The last thing that I remember was that I was watching a late night movie with Biscuit, Cookie, and Monty…”
King blinked and the memory struck him of channel surfing just before he woke up here. “Yeah I was watching T.V before finding myself here as well.” Lime scratched his snout and looked rather nervous before asking what they were going to do now. “I don’t know but we should try to find out where we are.” Lime nodded his agreement and the two began to walk with King taking the lead. The fog that surrounded them was extremely thick enough that either dog could only see a few inches so Lime was uncomfortably close so he wouldn’t lose sight of King.
They continued like this until Lime’s ears flicked as he caught a sound. “King do you hear that?” King looked back at the other corgi and listened then he heard it as well, the sound of cars and a bustling city. The rank smell of alleyways and dank water filtered through the air. The fog began to let up and before the corgi pair was a busy city at night with the flimsy orange street lights all aglow. “How did we get to a city?” Lime said and looked around with growing dread at what he saw. The streets were abandoned, which wasn’t extremely possible as there were always at least the night life but there were still cars passing by and Lime noticed that there was no one driving the cars. “King, I don’t think we’re in…” Then the corgi noticed that King was shivering in the alleyway, clutching his paws over his ears and head with eyes screwed shut tighter than a ketchup bottle. Lime went down and began to shake King “King are you alright? Come on, something’s weird there’s nobody in the streets and cars are driving themselves!”
King looked back at Lime and he seemed to be panicking and trying to hold back tears. “Wha…What?” King said and stood up slowly to look for himself. This place brought back ill memories but when he saw for himself that the area wasn’t the traumatic place in his past then King could worry about something else. Like the odd fact of empty city streets and cars with no visible drivers. “What in the world is going on here?” King said.
Then things began shifting, pools of shadow began to approach the pair. Whatever those things were, King had a bad feeling about them. He grabbed Lime’s paw and began to run. Those shadows gave chase to the corgis and those shadows moved with surprising speed. King and Lime ducked into another alleyway, King looked around wildly for something to use to defend them both. He spotted to his delight a shovel and grabbed it and told Lime to get behind him. King was before he turned into a dog, a human but not a very good one at making decisions. Whatever situation they were in, King still had that sense of responsibility for animals; it was because of that constant reminder of those dark days.
It was then that those shadows found both of them and those pools of darkness slid upwards into the air and turned into giant spheres with grotesque mouths and huge tongues. King stood aback for a second and began wailing away at those monsters. “Get away!” He managed to get in a few good hits on those giant mouths. Yet there were too many of them and the corgi was so small. He then got bashed around by the shadow spheres and eventually got knocked down onto the ground.
“King!” Lime shouted and ran to block King from being further attacked by the shadows. He had grabbed the first thing he saw and started to swing it at the monsters. However it was a lanyard that had a bunch of keys on a keychain and at first glance didn’t seem to be an effective weapon. Yet for some reason when the bunch of keys hit the creatures, it did seem to have an effect. However Lime was still one dog against a number of monsters and was soon beaten down in to the ground. Lime Sweet was afraid because he didn’t know what exactly was happening and the monster mouths kept coming closer and closer to him and King.
Then Lime’s head started hurting and inside his mind he heard a toneless voice I am thou, thou art I, we shall walk this path together and seek the truth…King watched Lime stand up with a strange and blank look on his face. “Lime?” King said, not understanding what was happening to the other corgi. Lime was then surrounded by a heatless erupting blue flame aura and the corgi held out his paw in front of him, palm up. Downward from nowhere appeared a card, spinning on its corner and bearing on the back a picture of a mask split half with white and dark blue. On the front was a picture of a person skipping and slinging a bag on a stick over the shoulder with a dog nipping at the heels. Lime said just one word slowly, as if tasting each syllable. “Petsona” and Lime crushed the card in his paw with it surprisingly shattering like movie glass. The very air shook with force and appearing above over Lime’s head was a hooded figure, wearing a tattered robe that seemed not to be colored but so stained with gray that it appeared to be related to black. A pair of baleful red glows was hidden under the hood of this figure that had appeared and out of the sleeves were what appeared to be charred appendages that could have been either hands or claws. It was a fearsome thing and then the shadows flew to assault it. “Tartarus, Mudo” Lime spoke softly. The being that Lime had summoned quickly raised its claws and thrust its outstretched palm outward towards a monster. Some force came out of the palm and a dark circular diagram with burning purple flames arranged hexagonally with some oriental symbol in the middle of it appeared, revolving in front of a creature. Then that giant mouthed beast exploded into its component shadows as a dark curse wiped it from existence. More mouths came out to fight and Tartarus bashed each one, collapsing the flesh of these monsters in causing them all to erupt into nothingness. Then all the monsters were gone and Lime slumped to his knees and let out words of amazement “What just happened?”
Welcome to and enjoy Petsona
Life is a dream, or so we think, but the truth is stranger than the lies we surround ourselves. Yet for these pets the barrier between their lies and life shall blur and truths shall fall back into dreams. Now behold the journey of self discovery and what lies within the inner self…
“Ugh my head, what just happened?” A Welsh Corgi named King, once named Joel said. He originally was a human but because of a series of bad life choices and interference with a jerk griffon, he was now a dog. Still it was particularly telling that he wasn’t too fazed by this unknown situation he was in. King stood up and noticed that he couldn’t see too far. The reason was the thick fog that surrounded the area. King tested the surface of the floor with his hind paw. It felt smooth; whatever the ground was made of King didn’t recognize what was the material.
King decided to scout out the location. If this was another one of those Cosmic Nerds’ games, he was going to be extremely annoyed. The chess piece Corgi walked and walked and walked. Yet with the fog he couldn’t see if he was making any progress. Eventually his small stubby legs were tired to the bone. King couldn’t walk anymore. “Come on isn’t there anybody there?” King shouted as he knelt over on the ground slamming his clenched paw on the floor.
“Hello, who’s there?” somebody responded to King. The corgi pricked his ears up and ran towards the sound. “Yeah I’m here, who are you? Where are you?” King shouted out to the mystery person. “Over here!” The fellow wanderer in the fog replied. King ran towards the sound and stopped when he saw who was lost in the fog with him.
It was another corgi and it was a corgi that King knew. “Lime?”
“King? Is that you?” The other corgi lived in the neighboring community to Babylon Gardens.
“Yes, do you have any idea where we are?” King asked.
“No, I have not been able to get a clear view of the place because of this fog.” Lime waved his paw at the atmospheric phenomenon that surrounded them.
“Do you remember how you got here?” King made a gesture of indifference, he wasn’t sure if he’d get an answer that would help but it didn’t hurt to ask.
Lime looked thoughtful and said “The last thing that I remember was that I was watching a late night movie with Biscuit, Cookie, and Monty…”
King blinked and the memory struck him of channel surfing just before he woke up here. “Yeah I was watching T.V before finding myself here as well.” Lime scratched his snout and looked rather nervous before asking what they were going to do now. “I don’t know but we should try to find out where we are.” Lime nodded his agreement and the two began to walk with King taking the lead. The fog that surrounded them was extremely thick enough that either dog could only see a few inches so Lime was uncomfortably close so he wouldn’t lose sight of King.
They continued like this until Lime’s ears flicked as he caught a sound. “King do you hear that?” King looked back at the other corgi and listened then he heard it as well, the sound of cars and a bustling city. The rank smell of alleyways and dank water filtered through the air. The fog began to let up and before the corgi pair was a busy city at night with the flimsy orange street lights all aglow. “How did we get to a city?” Lime said and looked around with growing dread at what he saw. The streets were abandoned, which wasn’t extremely possible as there were always at least the night life but there were still cars passing by and Lime noticed that there was no one driving the cars. “King, I don’t think we’re in…” Then the corgi noticed that King was shivering in the alleyway, clutching his paws over his ears and head with eyes screwed shut tighter than a ketchup bottle. Lime went down and began to shake King “King are you alright? Come on, something’s weird there’s nobody in the streets and cars are driving themselves!”
King looked back at Lime and he seemed to be panicking and trying to hold back tears. “Wha…What?” King said and stood up slowly to look for himself. This place brought back ill memories but when he saw for himself that the area wasn’t the traumatic place in his past then King could worry about something else. Like the odd fact of empty city streets and cars with no visible drivers. “What in the world is going on here?” King said.
Then things began shifting, pools of shadow began to approach the pair. Whatever those things were, King had a bad feeling about them. He grabbed Lime’s paw and began to run. Those shadows gave chase to the corgis and those shadows moved with surprising speed. King and Lime ducked into another alleyway, King looked around wildly for something to use to defend them both. He spotted to his delight a shovel and grabbed it and told Lime to get behind him. King was before he turned into a dog, a human but not a very good one at making decisions. Whatever situation they were in, King still had that sense of responsibility for animals; it was because of that constant reminder of those dark days.
It was then that those shadows found both of them and those pools of darkness slid upwards into the air and turned into giant spheres with grotesque mouths and huge tongues. King stood aback for a second and began wailing away at those monsters. “Get away!” He managed to get in a few good hits on those giant mouths. Yet there were too many of them and the corgi was so small. He then got bashed around by the shadow spheres and eventually got knocked down onto the ground.
“King!” Lime shouted and ran to block King from being further attacked by the shadows. He had grabbed the first thing he saw and started to swing it at the monsters. However it was a lanyard that had a bunch of keys on a keychain and at first glance didn’t seem to be an effective weapon. Yet for some reason when the bunch of keys hit the creatures, it did seem to have an effect. However Lime was still one dog against a number of monsters and was soon beaten down in to the ground. Lime Sweet was afraid because he didn’t know what exactly was happening and the monster mouths kept coming closer and closer to him and King.
Then Lime’s head started hurting and inside his mind he heard a toneless voice I am thou, thou art I, we shall walk this path together and seek the truth…King watched Lime stand up with a strange and blank look on his face. “Lime?” King said, not understanding what was happening to the other corgi. Lime was then surrounded by a heatless erupting blue flame aura and the corgi held out his paw in front of him, palm up. Downward from nowhere appeared a card, spinning on its corner and bearing on the back a picture of a mask split half with white and dark blue. On the front was a picture of a person skipping and slinging a bag on a stick over the shoulder with a dog nipping at the heels. Lime said just one word slowly, as if tasting each syllable. “Petsona” and Lime crushed the card in his paw with it surprisingly shattering like movie glass. The very air shook with force and appearing above over Lime’s head was a hooded figure, wearing a tattered robe that seemed not to be colored but so stained with gray that it appeared to be related to black. A pair of baleful red glows was hidden under the hood of this figure that had appeared and out of the sleeves were what appeared to be charred appendages that could have been either hands or claws. It was a fearsome thing and then the shadows flew to assault it. “Tartarus, Mudo” Lime spoke softly. The being that Lime had summoned quickly raised its claws and thrust its outstretched palm outward towards a monster. Some force came out of the palm and a dark circular diagram with burning purple flames arranged hexagonally with some oriental symbol in the middle of it appeared, revolving in front of a creature. Then that giant mouthed beast exploded into its component shadows as a dark curse wiped it from existence. More mouths came out to fight and Tartarus bashed each one, collapsing the flesh of these monsters in causing them all to erupt into nothingness. Then all the monsters were gone and Lime slumped to his knees and let out words of amazement “What just happened?”