Try to get some help somehow

(chapter originally by Faith on writing.com)

Sarah put the phone away. Glancing up and down the street, the girl currently dressed as Naoto Shirogane casually moved down the street, then ducked into a back alley when she was certain no one was watching her.

In the shadows of side street, hidden from prying eyes, the girl sneaked over to a pile of debris. Sifting through the pile she found her prize, a little something she had hidden away here in case of an emergency. To the casual observer, she was holding a pistol. Inspect it a little close and one might conclude it was actually a plastic toy gun. Neither was correct. The item she held was called an Evoker. It was a bit of technology purpose made to summon a persona under conditions that would normally make such a feat difficult or impossible. Even with an Evoker, calling one up in the real world was difficult. Fortunately, Sarah was an old hat at this sort of thing. And her 'partner' was rather good at conning his way into place he shouldn't be able to reach.

"Come forth, Inaba-no-Shirousagi!" She said softly, putting the gun to her head and pulling the trigger. She heard a sound like breaking glass and felt a jolt of pain on the side of her head where the pistol had made contact. Bluish sparks erupted around her, swirling around her and coalescing into the form of...a white rabbit. A rabbit the size of a Buick, who stared at her with blood red eyes that lacked pupils.

"Its been awhile." The creature intoned. "To what do I owe the pleasure, Sarah-chan."

"Keep your voice down!" Sarah hissed, looking around her. "We have a problem."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. I kinda got swept into the middle of some kind of shit-storm. Somebody's killing people in your old hopping grounds. Seems like Personas are involved. Now they're trying to get me to do their fucking dirty work." Sarah explained.

"Heh. Sounds like one of Izanami's little games. I'm not interested." The rabbit said.

"Well, get interested! I'm being threatened here! If I go down, nothing good happens to you, right?" Sarah snapped.

"Don't confuse me with one of you mortal's petty inner selves. I did not emerge from your mind, I crossed the Sea of the **** (at no small cost to myself!) and chose your mind to occupy. If you fall I simply return to the ****." The rabbit said.

"Don't act like you did me any favors, you bastard! You've made my life an upsidedown hell and you know it!" Sarah snapped.

"I have graciously allowed you to live rather than exercise my right and ability to execute you for opening the door to your mind and letting in a being of my stature. I have even graced you with power to aid in your proclivities. I should be praised." The rabbit said.

"Fuck you. Just cause you don't **** my ass the way those things tried to with Strega doesn't mean I owe you jack shit. I was good enough without your little disguise trick. And we both know you wouldn't stay in my head if you had anywhere else to go! Or has the Dragon Clan forgotten about you yet?" Sarah mocked.

"....No. I lied and used them for my own gain. They have not forgotten, and they certainly have not forgiven, despite my suffering." The rabbit remarked darkly.

Sarah snorted. "So both our asses are on the line right now. So...gimme something I can use, dammit!" Sarah demanded.

"Like what? You know very well I will not fight your battles. My talents are not in that area, and I would find the practice distasteful regardless."

"I dunno! Gimme an edge! These are your old stomping ground, right 'White Rabbit of Inaba'?" Sarah mocked.

"The name is 'Naked Rabbit of Inaba'. The rabbit said.

"Who cares? It can mean either thing." Sarah shrugged.

"OF COURSE IT MATTERS!" The rabbit snapped. "Do you think I would have begged the gods for assistance if my white fur was intact? NO! The dragons burned my fur away, leaving me singed and as bald as you worthless human beings! I had to beggar myself before the other entities of the ****. Most of them were spiteful, wretched things whose 'remedies' caused me further humiliation and suffering!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard all this before, ya know! Face it, big guy, you kinda deserved what you got. You were the one that fibbed in the first place...and then you were dumb enough to let your little lie slip. Of course it was gonna get back to the Dragons, and of course they were gonna be pissed. The rest was just shitty luck. That's life. Get over it." Sarah shrugged.

"......Oh yes. I lied. And I suffered for it. Meanwhile, humanity lies to each other and themselves every day! These lands have always been close to realms within the Sea of Souls. But now the place where this reality touches the **** is filled with an awful fog created by humanity's endless lies! They fear the truth, and their fear has been made manifest just beyond the curtains of reality. Izanami has been driven mad, her love of humanity and her desire to fulfill their wishes has sundered her to the very core! Humanity deserves to suffer so much more for their lies than I did. And you, my little robber girl, you will deliver that suffering...and you will know it." The rabbit declared.

Sarah cringed. "Err...yeah. Yeah, I got it. I've got some clothes right here, in fact, stripped right off a real cutie! So, uh, are we gonna..."

The rabbit opened its mouth. Sarah tossed in the clothes of her lost identity, Izumi Caito. The rabbit made a dramatic show of chomping on the clothes like they were a cabbage.

"More." It said.

"B-but..." Sarah whispered. "I...uh...I don't have any more."

"All that you wear." The beast said without pity.

"Oh COME ON. I need your help, here! Not more problems on top of everything else!" Sarah snapped.

"You are a liar, Sarah O'Connelly. You have done so all your life, from the highlands of your home across three continents to this island chain. It was a lie that brought you into the dooms day cult of Nyx, and it was a lie that allowed me entrance into your mind. I provide you a modicum of peace because you revel in spreading the humiliations I endured to the rest of humanity. But as much as it pleases me to see you deliver those humiliations to others, I love to see them **** upon you still more. This is the price of my help, and the consequence of your lies. NOW STRIP!"

Sarah blushed beneath her makeup. In a few moments she had tossed away Naoto's hat, shirt, pants, and underwear into the beast's hungry gullet.

"Very good. We both know how you revel in stealing another's identity. Now the people of Inaba will get to see your real face and body. Enjoy being plain old Sarah for a time, a powerless, sniveling, ordinary little girl. The memory of your nudity will fade from everyone's minds with time, of course, as it always does. But for now, enjoy the humiliations you have given to so many. We can speak of your reward when I deem your suffering has been sufficient. Good bye, little girl."

The rabbit vanished, leaving Sarah standing in the middle of a small town completely naked.

"I really hate that damn bunny." She said to know one in particular.