This story is original to my knowledge, but was inspired by the
introduction to the video game, Persona 2: Innocent sin, which I saw
last night. If you wanna see this kick ass intro then go to
www.loonie.net/~mjohnson/www/Persona_2_Opening.mov
And if you wanna know about the series Persona 2 is a part of then go to

www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/5928/MegaTEN/Pmain.htm
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        And so begins the fic, When the rose shatters..........


    I watched the glass flower fall from the table. The glass rose hit
the floor and made no noticeable sound. Even if it did, it wouldn�t have
stirred me. I sat in the brown chair, looking out at the sea. The sun
was setting, casting an eerie light on my house. It was no concern of
mine, all I wanted was to see him again. I remember how I lost him, how
he died on me.
    He was lost on the wedding night, lost to envy. A woman, a woman
dressed in all black came that day. No one could see her face, only the
grin she had on it. I could tell she would
cause trouble but I shook off the feeling that day, and I did regret
it..........
    It was supposed to be the happiest day of my life, a day of
rejoicing. The day when I would marry Alex and he would confess his
undying love for me. But it didn�t go that way, it
went the wrong way.
    I remember walking down the isle I saw people smiling at me.
Friends, family, people I know, they all came. But then she came, a
friend of my husband. She caused all of this and I would end it, soon.
    As I reached the altar, I barely listened to the words of the
reverend. He said word after word but it was all drowned away in the
look of that woman. Her gaze from the very back of the room. Her brown
eyes and the black hair made her look very dark. Wearing a flowing black
dress she was an image of evil. But I never gave her a second thought
until the reverend said these words to me.
    �If anyone has a reason that these two should not be wed, speak now
or forever hold your peace.�
    Then the woman in black stood up. Her dress was rather beautiful and
seemed to be tailored to perfection. She wore a pentagram necklace and a
broach with a glass rose attached to it, much like the one in my room.
�I have a reason. He�s mine and you�ll never get him.�
    Alex turned around swiftly. His black tuxedo, brown eyes and short
brown haircut made him look very dignified. I loved him so much because
he was a kind, caring person. He looked so handsome and everyone agreed,
but now he�s gone.
    Alex frowned at the woman. �Andrea. What are you talking about?�
    Andrea raised her hand into the air and red light swirled around it.
Then my dream became a nightmare. Dozens of people began to cough up
blood, spewing every ounce they had in their body onto the floor. Soon
everyone was dead and the floor was a bloodbath. Even the poor reverend
was dead.
    Then the large wood cross at the front of the room exploded and
shards of wood fell onto the floor like rain. Then all the crosses
through the building exploded. Alex tried to shelter me from the rain of
wood, but I was more focused on Andrea. �What the hell are you doing you
bitch? You killed everyone except us!�
    Andrea let out an old laugh while she waved her hands back and
forth. Then the stain-glass widows shattered and a rain of glass came
down this time. �I left you alive Maria so you can die slowly. You took
Alex away from me, but now he�s mine. Alex, you will marry me!�
    Alex moved in front of me as to shield me from Andrea. �You were
always like this Andrea. Whatever you couldn�t get you took. But you
won�t kill my wife. I�ll do anything to protect her.�
    Andrea smiled as she put a finger under her chin. �Anything? Then
will you marry me? Or shall I just kill Maria and break you?�
    Alex nodded. �Fine. I�ll go with you as long as you don�t hurt
Maria�
    I grabbed his arm and shook it violently, crying. My whole mind was
on the one thought. The thought of keeping my love. I wouldn�t let him
go. �Don�t do it Alex. �
    Andrea frowned and pointed her finger towards me. �Silence insolent
wench!�
    I felt pain run through me like I�ve never felt before. But it
didn�t hurt as much on the outside as it did on the inside. I felt my
heart being torn apart slowly, piece by piece.
    Alex looked at me with a sorrowful look then turned his attention to
Andrea. �Let her go or I won�t go with you!�
    Andrea smiled sadistically at that. �As you say dearest.� Then the
pain within me stopped and I gasped for air.
    Then I saw Alex vanish into a beam of black light, but Andrea was
still here. �Good, now he�s mine. But now you die.�
    Andrea waved her hand again and I was thrown across the room.
Feeling a greater pain then before as I slammed into the wall, leaving a
large indentation. I spat some blood on the floor as I fell from the
wall.
    Andrea then began to thrown me from one part of the room to another.
I felt every ounce of strength being taken from my body. Every time I
hit the floor after being thrown I collected more blood on my white
dress. My long blond hair was stained red and my blue eyes were becoming
shallow, devoid of life.
    I heard a cream from Andrea as I turned around to see Andrea being
confronted by a man, dressed in all black, looking like a ninja. Nothing
could be seen due to the black he wore covering every par of his body
say his eyes.
    Andrea pulled a small knife from her hand and watched the blood
trickle from the wound. �Damn it! Who the hell are you?�
    The man in black looked at Maria and shook his head. �I�m the one
who you left behind. Come back right now and I�ll help you.�
    Andrea shook her head as she threw the knife aside. �So it�s you,
old fool. How long have you been chasing me?�
    �Three months, since you left. Why did you leave?�
    �I left because I�m no longer her, she�s gone, dead. Killed by me.�
    I watched s they bickered back and forth. I couldn�t move, couldn�t
say anything. All I could do was stay here and wait until something
happened. I wished I could do something but I couldn�t, I was useless.
    Then the two vanished in smoke and so did my dreams.......
    I have spent the last year of my life looking for Alex, hoping I
would find him. But he couldn�t be found.
    �So you�re here. You know he�s going to come back now, with Andrea.�

    I turned around to see the man in the black suit. �What do you want
with me?�
    �I need your help. You want Alex and I want Andrea. If we can defeat
her then we can both have what we want.�
    I wondered what the hell he was talking about. �What the hell are
you talking about?�
    �Look. They will be coming soon, to finish off the last thing which
is holding back Andrea from controlling Alex. You. His love for you is
stopping her from holding him.�
    �Why do you want Andrea?�
    The man sighed and put his hand on the wall, leaning against it. I
could tell he was broke on the inside.
    �She was my wife, until the change.�
    �What change?�
    �One night she talked to me about her old boyfriend, Alex. She said
she loved him a lot, but he dumped her for a bimbo named Maria. No
offense.�
    I frowned at the thought but I still let him go on. �None taken.
Continue.� I lied.
    �All right. After she finished complaining about her past, she went
into her room and looked into her mirror. Then it shattered, shards of
glass flew all across the room. But she was okay. But behind the mirror
was a small rose broach taped onto the wall. My wife took the broach and
put it on. Ever since she hasn�t been the same.�
    "If you told me this before that wedding day I would have never
believed you. But now everything in my life is wrong and I feel like I�m
going mad.� I sighed. It was wrong to throw my problems onto other
people. �Sorry. I didn�t mean to say anything to you that would bother
you. You have your own problems and I have mine.�
    �No problem. I understand how you feel. Don�t worry about it.�
    I smiled a little at that comment, it made me feel better. �Thanks.
I, I, I needed that. I�m really starting to fall apart.� I pulled out a
handkerchief and wiped the tears away. This was no time for crying. I
had to be strong if I was to fight Andrea. �So do you know what the rose
broach did?�
    �I think it�s like a demon and is possessing her. But the demons
feelings were mixed with Andrea�s feelings. The feelings of Andrea were
then twisted and warped into a perverted sense of love and jealousy.�
    �But what�s with all the weird powers?�
    �I don�t know. My best guess is that hatred and jealousy are a very
powerful weapon if wielded.�
    �This sounds like a story doesn�t it?�
    �It does, doesn�t. But we don�t know if the good guys will win.�
    �Time�s up.� I heard a very familiar voice say that, Andrea.
    I frowned at her. �So you�ve come back.�
    Andrea bowed at the words. She wore the same clothes as she did at
the wedding. The all black suit with the pendant and broach. �Well I�m
here to help my pet.� She snapped her fingers and Alex appeared, wearing
the same tuxedo as before. But now he wore a collar and their was a
leash connecting the collar to Andrea�s hand. �He�s like a wounded dog.
You caused this you know, with your love for him.�
    The man in black, in one quick motion threw a barrage of knives at
Andrea. As they headed towards their target, they exploded in mid-air,
leaving nothing behind.
    Andrea smiled at this, she was very amused. �Such petty weapons you
use.� With that a
beam of massive black energy flew from her hand and hit the man in
black. Causing him to fly all the way across the room. Breaking through
one wall and landing in the next room. �Now you die Phillip!�
    Then she wielded the darkness and black fire swirled around her.
Then it formed a ball of swirling fire which was then thrown at Phillip.
Phillip screamed in agony as the dark fire hit, burning him completely.
I watched as he was full of pain and suffering, a terrible death. No one
deserved that kind of punishment, no one. Then his screaming stopped
along with his life. Maybe he would now find peace.
    I then looked at Alex. He had a shallow look in his eyes as though
his spirit was broken. But he was still alive, he was holding onto some
sort of lifeline. He was holding onto me, the one thing keeping him from
cracking. If I was to die then I would lose him to Andrea, he would lose
himself to Andrea and I couldn�t let that happen.
    I then faced Andrea who was smiling. Her eyes filled with longing to
see me dead. The only reason she let me live so long was so she could
see me suffer. �I will see you dead!�
    Andrea let out a small laugh. �How will you do that? You�re pathetic
at least. You stand no chance at all.�
    I let out my own smile. �We�ll see about that.� I then pulled a gun
from under a pillow and pointed it at the broach. Firing three times I
watched as it soared towards its target, and then exploded in mid-air
like the knives.
    �You�re just as pathetic as Phillip. Now I will see you DIE!� Then I
felt pain like before. A unrelenting pain which burned every part of me.
It was so much like the pain at the wedding, but yet so different. It
was like burning alive, while at the wedding it was like being stabbed
with knives. I tried to hold it in, not give Andrea the pleasure of
hearing it, but I couldn�t. I screamed in pain and agony. I screamed in
hope that maybe that would give me a quick death. But it didn�t, it just
made her make the pain worse.
    As Alex watched his love being torn apart physically and mentally he
felt something within him snap. He had trouble thinking before, since it
brought back painful memories of when he was with Maria. He then lunged
at Andrea with all his strength, pulling the rose broach off and
throwing it to the ground.
    It shattered into a million pieces, as did what was left of Andrea�s
soul. Andrea then had to face a terribly slow death. Slowly her skin
began to rot away. Then it dissolved into nothingness letting all the
blood and organs spill out onto the floor. then the blood vanished, soon
followed by the skeleton. Nothing was left except a scream of agony
which would be in my mind forever.
    I ran over and gave him a hug. He was dazed for a few seconds but
soon hugged me back. It had been a while, a little while. It could have
been longer, and I might not have got him back. But now he was back, and
that was all that mattered.
    I looked into his eyes which were no longer shallow, they were deep.
As though he was now happy after a long time. I smiled and kissed him
for a second then backed away. �Would you like a glass of water?�
    Alex nodded so I walked over to the refrigerator. As I walked there,
I heard a cracking sound. When I looked down, I saw the glass flower,
broken in two at the stem. There were glass shards in a small pile
in-between the two pieces. I thought I should clean it up, but it seemed
more appropriate to leave it as it is, for now. I had more important
things on my mind, like a wedding.
                                The End.............
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    Weird, don't you think so. It bears a resmeblence to my last fic,
The seven sins and virtues. This is just a short little thing I wrote up
because I was bored.
    If you actually go to the site I posted before the fic began you can
actually see the moment which inspired the fic, it goes along with the
name. Hope you go to both sites. It would be nice to have another
Megaten fan.