A/N: Hello everybody. This is my first fanfiction ever so please stay with me. This is a direct sequel to Persona 4 with Minato Arisato as the main character and will follow my idea of canon in the series. Characters, elements, ideas and concepts from P3P, P4 the animation and P4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena may and/or may not be used in this story. Otherwise, original characters, concepts and storylines will be introduced as the story goes on. The story is rated T and will most likely be bumped to M at some point of the story, but will see.
Disclaimer: Obviously I do not own any rights to the Persona Series other than my original characters and concepts. The Persona Series rightful belongs to Atlus. No copyright infringement was intended. But if I did own it, Minato and Shinjiro would not have died!
Chapter I: An Old End, A New Beginning
March 20,2012 - Mon - Daytime
Yomotsu Hirasaka - Main Chamber
In the final floor of Yomotsu Hirasaka, Souji Seta stood before the monstrous Izanami-no-Okami taking hit after hit of her attacks. She was baffled on how he was able to keep standing. Then Souji reached for his glasses and then tossed them to the side.
Light began to surround Souji as he lifted his arm, reached out for his persona card and grabbed it causing it to shattered. "Izanagi-no-Okami!" Souji shouted as his newly transformed persona appeared behind him. He's persona spun his sword charging up for and attack and Souji threw his arm forward. "Myriad Truths!"
A great light struck the rotting goddess and light engulfed the entire room. As the light faded, Souji saw that all of he's friends were around him as they all bared witness to a defeated Izanami who could barely move.
"This can't be... how could I be defeated?" Izanami questioned the group. "How am I the one to disappear? Instead of the endless struggle, wouldn't it be easier to wrap oneself in lies and live in blissful ignorance?"
"Isn't that true peace for humans?" Izanami desperately asked.
"How many times do we have to tell you? The hell with that shit!" Kanji shouted
"Stop assuming you know us!" Chie added
Izanami chuckled "Very well, Then try and live your way" she said. "Power enough to erase my existence... you have already exceeded what I thought humanity to be capable of. You have lifted the fog in this world, as well as the fog in your own. And whether that will lead to happiness or not... rests upon your shoulders."
"Children of man... Well done!" As she congratulated the team she began to fade away and then disappeared.
"Alright! We did it!" Kanji said as he pumped his arm.
"Thank goodness!" Rise said in relief
"It's really over now." Yukiko said in relief as well
"Yep! This time it's all over!" Chie stated happily
"It seems this is more like a beginning for us, though." Naoto commented
"Well now, we've got no regrets for tomorrow." Yosuke said
The Seekers of Truth gathered around each other finally able to accept what tomorrow will bring.
March 20, 2012 - Mon - Daytime
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As the group celebrated and acknowledged that their search for the truth was finally over, the image of them pans out from a lake in the middle of what seemed to be a forest thought it was hard to make out due to the area being shrouded in an intense, blinding light. Despite the bright atmosphere, there were seven silhouettes sitting down in front of the lake viewing the event that just occurred.
"That was rather disappointing." One of the figures said with a somewhat elderly voice.
"Man, if I actually paid to see that, I'd want a refund." Another figures said with a much younger tone.
"Indeed." A different figure said, this time the voice was notablely female. "I had fully hoped the Izanami would be powerful enough to annihilate those pitiful fools."
"Well it would have made things a lot easier." Said a completely differant and larger figure with a male voice. "Isn't that right Hope?"
The large figure turn to another smaller figure to which he asked the question to and was awaiting a response, however the figure did not answer nor speak.
"Whatever!" An even smaller figure said with a young childlike voice. "I could kill Seta blindfolded and the rest would drop like flies, I could go down there and do it if ya'll wanna see."
A different figure then chuckled at the smaller one's claim. "So eager to prove yourself, do you feel the need to impress us little one?" the chuckling figure said.
Those words angered the small figure who at that point pulled out what sounded and appeared to be a gun. "Why would I want to impress you fatass! I'd rather make you beg for mercy!"
Then a new figure entered the circle "Enough." said the new figure with a calm woman's voice. "There shall be no violence within our sanctuary."
The small figure lowered his weapon and huffed. "You're not worth my time anyway! Speaking of time, I'm sick of just sitting around doing nothing! When do we get to do some shit?"
"I agree." The former female figure said. "All this talking is pissing me off."
"Patience."
A new voice was heard from a high distance and apparently where the great light was coming from. "Patience, my brothers and sisters. The time draws near for us and all of the pieces are nearly in place."
And with a deep breath he continued. "Soon we will save the innocent, and venture to the new world!"
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The Great Seal
The ground was covered in golden mist as the Great Seal stood between humanity and the all-powerful Nyx. The eyes of the giant door moved back and forth while in the center was the seal lock in the form of the boy would gave his soul to create and hold it together. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a massive dark monster with two heads known as Erebus appeared in front of the seal and reaches out and grabbed the stone lock. No matter how hard the beast tried to pull the lock off with all of its strength it wouldn't budge.
Erebus roared in frustration until it realized it was being surrounded by glowing card. As the beast tried to figure out where the cards were coming from, a shout was heard from behind it.
"Seal Substitution!"
As those words were said, the cards glow became brighter and ingulfed the monster and the stone lock in light. The young woman who cast the spell stood in anticipation hoping that her plan had worked. She was breathing heavily as she was obviously exhausted and her blue dress was torn in severel places and had red stains from the blood dripping from her head and mouth. After a few seconds the monster emerged from the light and charged at the woman.
She quickly reacted by drawing a card from a book she was holding. "Masakado, Megidolaon!" She shouted as the card shattered and her persona emerged in front of her in the form of a man with face paint with flowing dark blue hair with a sword in his hand. Masakado unsheathed his sword and a ball of light shot from the sword towards the charging beast's head. On impact it exploded and Erebus' head along with half of its body distegrated leave the remaining half to roar in pain.
Rather than trying to attack again, Erebus dived back into the mist to recover. Masakado disappeared and the woman sighed in relief. She then walked over to a coffin wrapped in chains to lay her book down and examine a deck of cards.
"It nearly worked, I just need more time." she said quietly to herself. "Or at least it is the one plan that has shown the most progress so far."
She continued to examine her cards and arranged them from the Fool Arcana to the World Arcana. "I just have to keep trying again, and again. I refuse to quit now." She told herself while rubbing the blood and sweat of her face.
Suddenly the ground shook as a newly recovered Erebus emerged from the mist an charged directly towards the woman. The woman was unable to react in time and she, the coffin, her book and the cards were sent flying several feet from the force of Erebus' Vicious Strike and head first into the ground. The attack left the young woman breathless as she tried with all of her might to get back up as her cards flowed around her.
As she started to catch her breath, she examined the situation. The cards landed around her so she knew where they were. The coffin was undamaged due to the enchanted chain and was not far from her as was her book. She staggered to her feet, swaying a little and saw the one head of Erebus growl at her and the other glaring at the seal.
"It's recovering much faster than usual." She stated as she started to cough up blood. She held her gloved hand over her mouth to keep it from spilling over and then looked at her now bloody gloved hand. "If only... if only I could obtain the Universe Arcana. I've tried even with his bonds, but I can't." She said to herself.
Erebus then ignored the young woman and went towards the seal. The woman kneeled down to collect the cards around her and staggered to the coffin to lean on it. She picked up her book and held it to her chest.
"Focus Elizabeth, you just need to be patient." she told herself. "This will work, I know it will."
When Elizabeth took a deep breath, she felt a very strong presence directly above her. Erebus felt it as well as both it and her looked up and saw something odd. An enormous white double door appeared covering the sky, although it was difficult to tell it was a door until it open and bright light shined from the inside. As the door fully opened, a gigantic white arm emerged from the door and pressed down on the door panel.
Another arm that was just as huge emerged and pressed on the other door panel. Elizabeth and Erebus stood in anticipation of what the mysterious being was, though still remained cautious. The two arms pushed on the panels to pull out its enormous head and torso out of the doorway. The white colossus was very muscular as were the arms that came before it, it had no mouth but it had a large set of curved tusks and it's eyes were closed.
The colossus looked around curiously until Erebus caught it's attention by roaring at it and seemed to be charging up for an attack. In response, the colossus began to grow a zigzag like mouth on its face which was previously mouth less. Now with its newly made mouth, a powerful monstrous roar was let out by the colossus that the impact was so great that Erebus shattered in to dust.
Thought Elizabeth was quite far away from it, the sound wave of the roar reached her and knocked her back a little. "Such power!" she said. "It destroyed Erebus without even touching it!"
The colossus' mouth began to disappear and now set its sights on the Great Seal. It balled its left hand into a fist then pulled its arm back preparing to punch. As it did, it's fist and forearm started to change from white to black. After seeing what it did to Erebus, Elizabeth didn't want to wait to see what was going to happen next.
She drew a card from her book and it shatted. "Persona!" She shouted as Masakado reappeared awaiting Elizabeth's orders. "Destroy its arm!" Elizabeth ordered. With that Masakado flew towards the left side of the colossus and set aim for the arm. Masakado unsheathed his sword and a ball of light shot from the sword just like before soaring straight towards the forearm. It hit and the explosion covered half of the arm, but as the light lifted it appeared to have no effect.
"I-Impossible not even a bruise." Elizabeth said to herself. Before she could react any further the colossus' fist charged straight towards the center of the seal. Elizabeth ran towards the seal until she built up momentum to levitate off the ground and fly. She flew with all her might, but ultimately the colossus was much faster and it punched directly at the seal lock and the impact created a giant hole in the seal.
Elizabeth stopped as she witness in horror of what just happened. The colossus pulled his fist out the newly made hole and pieces of the seal began to spew out and its arm started to become white again. Elizabeth watch as the debris fell and noticed piece of the seal lock, most notably the head.
"Minato!" She shouted as she flew toward the wreckage and ignoring the colossus. She managed to catch the head but there were too many pieces around to catch. Fortunately, Masakado was still around and started to collect what fragments he could.
With the seal lock gone, the golden gate began to crumble and a dark aura rose from the other side. The colossus' eye opened slightly and then a dark ball of energy shot directly at its face causing a massive explosion. Elizabeth turned away and Masakado shielded her as they both tried to move out of the way.
After a minute the explosion had lifted and Elizabeth was once again shocked that the colossus seemed unharmed. "Inconceivable." She said to herself. Still unfazed, the colossus' chest began to open wide and tentacles started to pour out and went straight towards the darkness. The tentacles then started to pull back as it dragged the very soul of Nyx with it and she was close enough for the colossus to grab with both hands.
The colossus shoved Nyx into its chest, but before she was completely inside something came out of her. A ball of darkness fell into the gold mist and disappeared. With that Nyx was sealed inside the colossus as it's chest closed up.
Elizabeth was at awe with what she had witnessed. Suddenly a white aura began to leak out of the stone head she was carrying as well as the fragments Masakado was holding. The aura gathered in front of her and began to take form of a soul.
"Minato." Elizabeth said as she reached out to it. A shadow was casted over her and she looked up to see it was the gigantic hand of the colossus reaching out towards her and Minato's soul . In responds she stood in front of the soul and shielded him with Masakado beside her.
"You shall not have him!" Elizabeth shouted as the hand came closer and closer. She did not know what to doing as she knew none of her spells will affect it and all she could do was close her eyes and clench her teeth.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a swarm of blue butterflies of light surrounded Elizabeth, Masakado and Minato's soul and stopped the colossus' hand from moving any further. Then a blue silhouette of a man appeared in front of Elizabeth. "You are..." She started to say.
The silhouetted man then snapped his fingers and the butterflies shined brightly and then teleported away from the colossus leaving it all alone.
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The Velvet Room
Within the Velvet Room which has now become just an empty blue room with just a long chair and table, Igor and his assistant Margaret had their eye closed sitting quietly. Igor's eyes then busted open and he stood up. "Master, is everything alright?" Margaret asked as the sudden movement of her master surprised her.
"I can't believe it." Igor said. Margaret herself stood up wondering what was going on in her master's mind. Suddenly, an entrance appeared in front of the two residents and servel butterflies flew out of it.
Igor walked closer to the new entrance and smiled. "You've returned, Master!" He said with delight.
A/N: First chapter completed. Please review and let me know what you guys think. Your reviews, follows and favs will encourage me to post out chapters faster and improve my writing skills. To be honest, this was supposed to be finished and posted last December but things got busy and I was sidetracked. So when better than to post this on the Promised Day. Pray that the moon doesn't crash down upon us tonight. The ending is still uncertain, that is if I can make it that far. But I will do my damndest to complete this story. Chapter 2 is on the way so please stay tuned!
