Hello people, I'm gonna try something slightly different.
For this story, it'll be a crossover fic between the Persona series and TWEWY. Taking place a few weeks after the end of the true ending in Persona 4.

IMPORTANT NOTE: IT WON'T BE CANON WITH THE UPCOMING PERSONA 4 ARENA GAME COMING OUT IN AUGUST 7.

Until then, enjoy the chapter.

Reviews, please and thank you.

Persona: Of Reapers and Shadows

Chapter 1: What the hell is going on?

"...ngh, my head,"

"...ow, what the..."

Two people awoke from their unconscious state, in the middle of a gigantic crossroad.

The first person was a light brown haired girl. She wore a pink sweater shirt with a red bow, black skirt reaching just at her thighs, black stockings with white lines on the side and brown leather shoes. From the looks of her attire, it would be safe to assume that she is a student. The most noticable features are: the signature choker with a heart on it that she wears on her neck, and a red armband with the abbreviation, S.E.E.S.
Her name is Yukari Takeba.

The second figure was a male with a shaved head and a goatee. Also a student, he wears a black student uniform, outfitted with black button shirt and pants. Underneath the uniform is a purple collar shirt. His signature piece of clothing is the cap that he wears and he too, wears a S.E.E.S. armband.
His name is Junpei Iori.

Both of them got up in a sitting position.

"...Yuka-tan?" Junpei called out.

"...Is that, Junpei?" Yukari answered back.

Both of them got up and walked towards each other.

"Ow, my head hurts. I wonder if anyone got the license plate of that truck." Junpei joked.

"Ngh, I don't think anybody hit us on our heads." said Yukari.

"...Where are we anyway?"

Yukari pondered on Junpei's words, so she looked around.

"Beats me... It looks familiar though."

They both looked around. They could see and hear masses of people talking and conversing with each other. However, what had caught their attention was six other figures lying spread-eagled or otherwise around the area they were standing.

There was a red-haired lady, about the age of a senior, who wore a white blouse with a red bow-tie similar to Yukari's. She had a short black skirt, and knee-high boots with high heels. Again, she also has a S.E.E.S. armband on her left arm.
Her name is Mitsuru Kirijo

The next person was a silver-haired male, about the same age as Mitsuru. He wore a red vest over a white dress shirt with a tie. He also wore leather gloves. His pants and shoes are the same as Junpei's, if not slightly larger. Also, he has the armband.
His name is Akihiko Sanada

There was also a teal-green haired girl, about the same age as Yukari, but slightly younger as well. She wore a black school uniform, which consists of a black long sleeved shirt, short black skirt, thigh-high white socks, and black leather shoes. Underneath the uniform shirt was a turquoise turtleneck shirt. She wears the red armband on her left arm.
Her name is Fuuka Yamagishi.

Beside her was a blonde girl with some weird headphone. In actuality, she is a humanoid. Her body design is made up of a white body base, and some gold armor. She bears the S.E.E.S. armband on her left arm as well.
Her name is Aigis.

There was also a young elementary school boy with light brown hair. His uniform sweater is a smaller version of Junpei's, but he wears an orange hoodie underneath it. He wears a black pair of shorts, pair of white socks, and white shoes. The red armband is on his left arm, too.
His name is Ken Amada.

Finally, there was a white Shiba-Inu dog. He wears a strange collar design with wings on its back, and he wears a miniature white T-shirt. The S.E.E.S. armband is on his left arm.
He is named Koromaru.

Yukari gasped at the sight of familiar friends, and Junpei was equally as shocked.

"What are they...what is going on here?" Junpei asked out of complete shock.

Without another word, Yukari ran over to Mitsuru to help her out. "Mitsuru-senpai!" she yelled out.

"Ungh...Yukari?" Mitsuru spoke out.

"Take it easy there Mitsuru-senpai, you're just getting up." Yukari aided the senior up to her feet.

"Heh, I'm not your senior anymore, Yukari, don't you remember that?" Mitsuru joked, as she was a university student at this point.

"It's a habit." smiled Yukari. "Are you able to stand on your own?"

"I think I'm able to, thank you for your help Yukari."

"Akihiko-senpai!" Junpei ran over to the white-haired senior.

"...Junpei?" Still struggling, Akihiko mumbled.

"Hold up, I gotcha." Junpei grabbed Akihiko's arm and pulled it over his back. With all his effort, Junpei brought him up to standing position.

"GOD, HOW MUCH DO YOU WEIGH?" Junpei cried out, as it was a challenge itself to lift up his fellow student and friend.

"I'm not THAT heavy! You just need to train more."

"Whatever. Can you stand?"

"Yeah, I think I'm good to go." Akihiko said, getting his arm off Junpei's back. "Ken! Koromaru!"

With Junpei, Akihiko struggled to get over to where the child and puppy lay.

"ungh, Sanada-san?" Ken said as he was trying to get up himself, but to no avail. "Hmmnn," Koromaru whimpered as just woke up as well. With his strength partially returned, Akihiko helped the boy up in a sitting position, while Junpei tried to get Koromaru up on his feet. Turns out he didn't really need any help.

"Heh, strong as ever, huh Koro-chan?" Junpei could only revel at the strength the Shiba-Inu had.

"Aigis! Fuuka!" Yukari and Mitsuru went to where the two lay

"Yukari-san?" They both called out as they started to regain consciousness

"Hold it, we got you both." Yukari helped up Aigis, and Mitsuru helped up Fuuka.

After everyone was all conscious and accounted for, there was a small moment of silence. Until Junpei spoke out.

"Soooo...Anybody got any sort of idea where the hell we are?" he said. Fuuka replied, "I'm not quite sure myself. All of these locales seems so unfamiliar to me."

"Let me ask someone," said Ken.

"Excuse me, sir, can you please hel-," Ken tried to ask a nearby man, but when he reached out to grab his hand, Ken's own hand just phased through the man.

"What the...did you all just see what I just see? Ken's freaking hand just passed through someone!" Junpei was starting to get freaked out. "You don't think we're...ghosts aren't we?"

"Cut the crap, Stupei, if we were dead, we would've obviously known about it and end up somewhere else, not a city." Yukari said, with a bit of fear in her voice. "Mitsuru-senpai, is this another one of the Kirijo Group's 'experiments?'"

"Now that I think about it, no. Nothing on record tells about something like this. This is clearly something that's out of my knowledge."

"Aigis, do you know where we are?" The pink-clad student asked the android

"Negative, my information servers are cut off as of this moment. I am afraid that I am of no help."

"Well, we're just gonna have to go around the place until we've figured out where exactly where we are." Akihiko said. All eight of them nodded in agreement.

"I probably should've mentioned this earlier, but why are we dressed in our Gekkoukan uniforms?" asked Yukari.

"We're stuck in the middle of who-knows-where, and you can complain about are clothes? Geez Yuka-tan, I knew you were an apparel nut, but this is just...wow," Junpei replied in disbelief.

"Well, pardon me for making some sort of statement. I just find it weird, that's all...Huh?" Yukari felt something on her left arm. She grabbed her armband. On the underside, she saw a pin with a weird skull-like design. Everyone else grabbed their armbands to take a look (Koro-chan flipped his until the side with the pin on it was facing him). "That's rather odd, since when were these pins attached to our armbands?" Mitsuru questioned.

Fuuka brought up her right hand to attempt to touched it, and Mitsuru saw her at the corner of her eye, "Yamagishi, don't! We don't know if-" But she was too late. As soon as Fuuka touched it, she got an abrupt headache. "Gah!"

"FUUKA!" Everyone shouted (Koromaru barked).

Everything around Fuuka started to turn blue. She then started to hear voices in her head. "Huh? Voices?" The voices around her dimmed down, and she started hearing things from specific amounts of people. She heard things like: preparations for a party, what to shop, gossip, etc. She touched the pin again, and everyone started talking again.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you all." Fuuka apologized.

"That's not really something to apologize for Fuuka-tan, but what just happened?" Junpei askd her.

"I think I read peoples minds."

"Wait, we can read minds? AWESOME, LET ME TRY!" Junpei proceeded to touch his pin. He heard peoples thoughts, but for some reason he wasn't able to read the minds of the S.E.E.S. members.

"Awwwww," Junpei touched his pin again, "seems like I can't read you guys' thoughts."

"Hmmm, interesting. The most probable conclusion would be that these pins protect us from people who want to abuse the power." Mitsuru concluded.

"Good try Junpei." Akihiko patted him on the back.

"I bet you wanted to get into Takeba-san's head." Ken jeered. Koromaru chuckled.

"Oh Ken, you know me all too well."

"Remind me to give you some payback later, Junpei." Yukari threatened, with a tick mark appearing on her head.

BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI-BI...

"Huh? Whose cell is-," all of the sudden, everyone (minus Koromaru) had a cell phone ringtone ring from their pockets. Junpei was the first one to take his out.

"Wait, this isn't my phone..." The phone of question was a Red Sony Xperia Play 2 phone. As the screen appeared, there was an icon said, "Reach 109, you have 60 minutes. Fail, and face erasure. -The Reapers." Junpei read out.

Yukari pulled out her phone, a pink skinned Sony Ericsson W62S. Mitsuru's was a black Sony Ericsson Bravia S004. Akihiko's was a white Sony Ericsson Bravia U1, Fuuka had a teal W62S, Aigis had a yellow S004, and Ken had a yellow Sony Xperia X8. Koromaru had an Xperia X10 attached to the front left of his collar.

All of which had the same message.

"Face erasure...what does that mean?" Ken asked. "AH!"

The group felt a hot stinging sensation on their right hands. Akihiko looked at his right hand. There was a countdown timer.

59:57

59:56

59:55

and still ticking.

"The clock's ticking, and if what the message state is true, then we have no time to waste!" Mitsuru stated.

"One problem Mitsuru, we don't know what this 109 is though." Akihiko mentioned to her.

"109? That sounds extremely familiar." Yukari pondered.

"INCOMING! Enemy presence detected!" Aigis alerted the group.

From out of nowhere, 5 weirdly designed symbols flown out of nowhere. Next thing they know, there were frog creatures came out of these symbols.

"There are five enemies!" Fuuka yelled to the group.

"What kind of monstrosities are these?" Mitsuru said in shock.

"Well whatever these are, they're gonna go down!" Junpei charged at one of the frogs, shouting a battle cry as he does so.

"JUNPEI!" Akihiko called out, "HOLD UP, STOP!"

"HAAAAARRRRGH!" Junpei reared up his fist as he runs, preparing for a sprinting punch. "I GOTCHA!" But as he punched, his fist phased through the frog. In a split second, the frog jumped up, and kicked both its feet on Junpei's chest. Junpei flew back a good few yards across the street.

"IORI!"
"JUNPEI!"
"JUNPEI-KUN!"
"IORI-SAN!"
"RUFF!"

"STUPEI, YOU IDIOT. HAVEN'T YOU LEARNED ANYTHING?" Yukari shouted as she ran over to where he ended up.

Junpei coughed in pain. "Ow. Heh, just like old times huh?"

"You stupid idiot! What were you trying to do, throw your life away? You know we can't summon our Personas anymore!"

"It's alright, I can still stand!" Junpei got up to his feet.

Blow after blow, the "frogs" attacked relentlessly. All the group could do was dodge their attacks.

"Damn it all! We're powerless against these guys. All we can do is dodge. If only I still had my Persona..." Akihiko said under his breath.

One of the frogs was about to get the jump on Amada, "KEN, LOOK OUT!" The senior managed to get the elementary school child out of dodge. "You better watch your back out there, Shinji would never forgive me if anything happened to you." Akihiko told the junior, "Sorry Sanada-san, I'll be more careful."

Aigis, Fuuka, and Mitsuru had no such luck as well. "Grrr, if Junpei-san wasn't able to land a dead-on hit to one of these things, then my weapons won't have that much effect either. This is useless." Aigis muttered in frustration.

"Grrr...RUFF,"

"Huh? What are you saying Koro-chan?" Aigis asked the Shiba-Inu.

"RUFF RUFF!" Koromaru replied back.

"He said follow me!" Aigis called to the group.

"It's our only option. Everyone, follow Koromaru!" Mitsuru ordered.

"Roger!" Fuuka said.

Everyone ran in the direction where Koromaru was headed. Away from the hot zone.

Meanwhile, in a nearby building...

Two figures hide in the shadows.

"Hmmm, we got ourselves some fresh meat. What do you say we play with these ones?" A female voice spoke.

PIPIPIPIPI...

"Hold up a sec," Then came a male's voice, he answered his cell phone, "Yeah boss? Mm-hm? I see, got it." He closed his cell. "It seems this new group is a special case. Our orders are to restrain ourselves from erasing these guys. They have a higher purpose later on."

"Awww, that's not much fun. What's the point of being Reapers if we can't enforce erasure on people?"

"Don't worry about it, there'll always be another batch... You wanna play a game?"

The female sighed, "What game is it this time?"

"Which two do you think will make the first pact? Plus, place a bet, it's not fun without any bets."

"Hmmm, 1000 yen to that baseball capped guy and the hunky white-haired dude."

"alright, 1000 yen to that pink-shirted brunette and that red-haired beauty."

Their eyes followed the group as they went in the direction of the subway station.

"gasp, gasp, gasp."

Everyone felt tired out as they managed to get away from the "Frogs from Hell" as Junpei would dub it.

"OOHHH MY GAWD!" Junpei cried out in relief as he fell down on the floor.

"He saved our lives yet again. Koro-chan! Where are you?" Fuuka called.

The group looked around, and they saw the puppy kneeling down in front of a bronze statue of a dog. They walked over to where Koromaru was kneeling.

"The Statue of Hachiko," it read on the plaque.

"Hachiko?" Yukari pondered, "but then that must mean..."

"We must be in Shibuya." Mitsuru finished for her. "This is an unexpected turn of events."

"So Koromaru led us to the statue of another puppy with the same experience as him. Koro-chan probably wanted to see this with his own eyes." Junpei said. Koromaru whimpered.

"She was brave, and had an unyielding loyalty to her master. Just like you. She's with her master now, and you have a family in us. We're grateful for your help Koro-chan." Fuuka said to the dog. The Shiba-Inu went and licked Fuuka's face. Everyone else smiled at the scene.

After the moment of silence, it was now the time to deal with business.

"Now the question still stands; why the hell are we in Shibuya?" Akihiko brings up.

"Considering all of us are brought together again, the most logical choice would have to be that this has to be related to...Minato," Mitsuru minorly hesitated on that last word. It's been two years, and they've already dealt with the death of their battle leader, Minato Arisato. Still, it was a little hurtful to be reminded of the past.

Yukari broke the silence, "It's stupid of us to keep thinking about him like this. We've already moved on, haven't we already accepted that fact?"

"Yeah, he wouldn't want us to be beat up about something in the past." Junpei agreed.

"But if it's related to Minato-kun, then wouldn't that mean Nyx has a part in this as well?" Fuuka added.

"Even so, that won't be enough to stop us." Akihiko said with determination.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Heh, I wonder if Aragaki-san and Arisato-san could see us now." Ken asked. "Bark!" Koromaru barked. "Koro says, "I think they'd be proud of us. They sacrificed their lives for the benefit of ours. If it hadn't been for them, we wouldn't have stopped Nyx in the first place. We're proud of them, and they're proud of us." Aigis translated.

"Minato, Shinjiro-senpai, watch over us, one last time." Yukari prayed. Everyone bowed down their heads in respect.

Fuuka raised up her right hand. "Everyone!"

35:51

35:50

"We've used up enough time, we must head to the 109. The most probable conclusion would have to be the 109 building. It's just west from the Scramble Crossing, which we were just in. Follow me." Mitsuru commanded.

As everyone walked away from the statue, Yukari and Aigis stayed behind. "Take care of us Minato-san. You too, Aragaki-senpai." They both said. Then they went on to catch up with the rest of the S.E.E.S. group.

The new adventure awaits...

Elsewhere, in an alleyway filled with graffiti...

A white haired boy, just about 16, with a white short-sleeved button shirt. grey jeans, and white shoes, was standing over another figure, who was lying in a face-down position.

This other figure had orange, spiky hair, and wore blue headphones. He had an mp3 player around his neck. He wore a sleeveless, dark blue with an indigo stripe sweater with a funnel collar, white shorts with a loose-fitting belt, and shoes which matched the design of his sweater.

"Wake up, Neku. It's time to heed your calling once again." The white haired boy told the other boy named Neku.

"...nngh...Joshua?"

A/N: Here lies the end of the chapter. A little note, I wanted to get this chapter in a week ago, but I let other stuff cloud my priorities. Being as such, I'll be on a little trip to Vancouver. So the next chapter won't be up in a few weeks. TERRIBLY SORRY. But in any case...

Reviews please.