Hello, people. It's Anomynous Nin. Here with a new fanfic. A Persona fanfic. Well, I'm just... well, I'm 14 years old and I played Persona 4. However, I was a little afraid of playing the game a lot, with that being rated M. But along the way, it's not so bad. After all, this is also the popular series in Japan and North America.

Anyways, this story is called Persona: Entwined Times. It's a Persona 3/4 X-over fanfic. I always like X-over stuff. So with all my graditude, I'm making this fanfic.

The story takes place in the end of Persona 3 and 4. After the Protagonists, Minato Arisato and Souji Seta, brung an end to the destruction of the world, they left their friends because of fate. But that's the way it is... However, a new phenomenal takes place between those two times. Wanna find out how? You'll see...

On with the fanfic!

"Speaking"

'Thought'

Flashback

"Persona Speaking"

Skill

Disclaimer: I do not own Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series.

Prologue:

End of Destruction... And Beginning of Time

Minato Arisato's Point of view

My name... is Minato Arisato... I am an orphan who's parents died. When I was young, my parents died in an unknown reason. An accident of some sort. When I was a teenager, I was transfered to Gekkoukan High School. Upon arriving to Port Island, something was strange at the moment where the clock hit Midnight. My MP3 player suddenly stopped working. And all the machines and lights were all turned off. Ignoring it, I continue to go straight to the dorm, where I was supposed to live here. When I traveled to there, I noticed some weird coffins all over the place. I wondered why there are coffins... When I reached the dorm, I met a strange boy.

His name is Pharos. He made me sign a contract that I don't know of. When he disappeared, he mentions something about... The Beginning of the End...

Aside from what all happened, I'll start off by introducing my friends...

I have 9 friends in total. One of them is a girl named Yukari Takeba. She's a nice girl, really. She oftens to be shy around me for some she's a strong girl, I'll give you that. Her father died in an accident, which is later revealed to be an explosion created by the Shadows, which went out of control. Despite that, I knew that her father loves her very much. It's not his fault for all of what is happening, since Shuji Ikutsuki altered what he said. Yukari's mother, after the death of her husband, went around to hit on some random guys. And her and Yukari became distant... To tell you guys the truth... Yukari and I are both alike.

Another is a guy called Junpei Iori. He's a cool guy, actually. But when I looked at him in some conditions, he looked like if he's jealous of me or something. I learned that Junpei wanted to be a hero. And because of his jealous of me, he oftens to prove himself to everyone that he's better than me. But even so, he's still a good friend to me. And will still be.

Mitsuru Kirijo. She's a smart girl. And she's the daughter of Takeharu Kirijo, head of the Kirijo group. She's the student council of the High School. She's pretty popular and she's the leader of S.E.E.S.. She can summon her Persona at a young age and she's been training to protect her father. However, her father is worried about her. And during one of the Dark Hour nights, when Shuji betrayed us and the death of Takeharu, she lost the will to fight. But later on, she seemed to have regain her will. She's a respective member of the group indeed.

Akihiko Sanada. He's a strong guy. And the captain of the boxing team. He had a sister once. And her sister died in a fire. So, he wished to be stronger and stronger. That's why he joined the boxing team. And also, he began to not fear death, when his friends sacrificed his life to save a member of our group. He's a strong guy indeed.

Aigis. She's an android, if you guys didn't notice. I'm... pretty attractive to her, to be honest. She wanted to learn what it feels like, living along the humans. She is a bodyguard for me, if I can say that. But later on, I learned that Aigis is the one who sealed an unstoppable Shadow named Death into me, when I was a young boy. That was why I keep meeting Pharos in my room. Pharos is Death. And Ryoji Mochizuki, another transfer student, is the incarnation of Death. She was planning to protect me and supress Death from coming out. Along the way, she became more and more of a human than an android. She's the most kind and rspected friend that I ever met...

Ken Amada. He's the youngest member of the group. He's actually a mature kid. We didn't know why he joined S.E.E.S.. But according to Akihiko, he joined the group to kill Akihiko's friend, who accidently killed Ken's mother. The hatred didn't last long, when Akihiko's friend sacrificed his life to protect Ken from a shot of a gun. Ken earned his respect for him increased, as he promised to fight for the future, for his mother.

Koromaru. He's a dog, actually. A pretty fun dog. He's a Persona user just like us. I often to take him on a walk around town. Not much is about him, but he's intelligent. And he's pretty loyal to Akihiko's friend.

Shinjiro Aragaki. A friend of Akihiko and an ex-member of the group, until he rejoined later on, after learning that Ken joined the group. He secretly took drugs for some reason. We learned that it's to control his Persona. During his meeting with Ken, Shinjiro protected Ken and sacrificed his life from a bullet shot. With his last words, Shinjiro told Ken to fight on and fight for the future. The gave Ken's respect and Akihiko's resolve. The drugs he took was slowly killing him.

And finally, Fuuka Yamagishi. He was shy, the first time. But later on, she became quite confident in herself. She was bullied once before by Natsuki and a couple of girls. She was locked in the school gymnasium by Natsuki and later on, we learned that she disappeared in the Dark Hour. Ten hours in the Dark Hour and we found her alive. Also, when Natsuki wandered in the Tartarus, Fuuka protected her by analyzing the Shadows' weak spot for us. And later, after the Dark Hour, Fuuka and Natsuki became friends. She's pretty smart on detecting the enemy's weakness.

Skipping to the Final Battle on the Tartarus, we fought Ryoji's true form. Nyx Avatar. He possessed all of the 12 Arcanas, even the Arcana, Death. We tried to defeat him, but even upon defeating it, he used one last move. The moon transformed into a demonic one that will descend upon the Earth. We cannot stand up against it, since the gravity is too strong. But then, I was sent into the Velvet Room, where Igor and Elizabeth are. Igor showed me all of the faint voices of all my friends who I shared the Social Links with. With that, I was able to make Igor create an Ultimate card, that will defeat the undefeatable. Back in the real world, I went off to the demonic moon to face Nyx one last time. With the courage of my friends, Yukari, Junpei, Mitsuru, Akihiko, Aigis, Ken, Koromaru, Fuuka and even Shinjiro, I was able to seal Death away with the ultimate skill. The Great Seal.

With Nyx sealed forever, the Dark Hour will vanish. And everyone will return to their normal life. But... I knew that I will die... My soul became a seal from the coming of Nyx and the Fall... And I had only one month to live before dying...

My friends did not remember what happened in the beginning of the Dark Hour's manifestation. Only Aigis and I remembered. At the day of Senior Graduation, Aigis and I decided to hang out on the rooftop...

It was my last moment with her... She slowly became human, just like I wanted her to be... She reminded me that I am not alone. Neither is she... We all have friends to care about... And before I die... I heard my friends one last time... before I left this world forever...

I am Minato Arisato... And I became a seal... to prevent Nyx from coming, along with the Fall...

Souji Seta's Point of view

My name... is Souji Seta. I am a young man who lives in the big city. However, since my parents are too busy with work and stuff, I had to be transfer to a small town of Inaba. At the Yasoinaba Train Station, I meet up with my uncle, Ryotaro Dojima. And my young cousin, Nanako Dojima. They pick me up to their house until they stopped at the gas station, so that Nanako goes to the bathroom. After both Nanako and my uncle left, I meet a gas attendant. We talked a bit and we shook hands. When she left, I feel... kinda sick... I didn't know why... After that, me, uncle and Nanako went to the Dojima Residence.

I like to skip the whole story about what happened. Right now, I'm gonna tell all about my precious friends... My friends who cannot be replaced in any matter...

One of my friends is a boy named Yosuke Hanamura. He's a fun guy. We both came from the big city. And he's the son of the manager of a famous mall called Junes. I really had a great time with him. When I first met him, he had a crush for Saki Konishi. I can understand his feelings. However... During our time in the TV world, for the second time, we learned that Saki secretly hated Yosuke. Hearing the whole truth from her, Yosuke was devastated. Upon this, his Shadow appeared. When I defeated his Shadow, Yosuke began to be true to himself. And with that, he obtained his Persona. Yosuke is a great friend to me.

Another is a girl named Chie Satonaka. She's a kung-fu loving girl. She can do a lot of Kung-fu moves, from Bruce Lee movies, Jet Li Movies and Jackie Chan movies. She's pretty tough. In our time in the TV world, Chie's Shadow appeared. We learned that Chie was jealous of Yukiko, because she had some natural girst and talents. Yosuke and I defeated her Shadow. And Chie began to be true to herself, earning her Persona. When I look at both Yosuke and Chie, they both seemed like a very good couple to me.

Yukiko Amagi. She's a calm, popular girl in school. She's the manager of the Amagi inn, just to increase the sucess of the inn. However, she became stress out because of it. She's oblivious of love and other things related to that. In our time in the TV world, her Shadow appeared. We learned that... Well, not really learned... that Yukiko hated to inherite the inn for her family. And that Chie was her Prince Charming... What the...? Doesn't she know that Chie is a... Anyways, because of that, Yukiko declined her true self and her Shadow attacked. We defeated it and Yukiko began to be true in herself, earning her Persona. She's... well... one of the girls who I cheerished a lot.

Kanji Tatsumi. A tough guy. He's a delinquent. But even so, he's a good guy. The weird question was... Is he gay? We find that out when we went to the TV world. His Shadow was... a little... gay and girly. He said that girls will always lie to boys and hurt their hearts. And men are much better than them. But the truth is, Kanji was afraid of being rejected by everyone. He was afraid that everyone will think of him as a nobody. And with that, he confessed the truth and earned his Persona. But seriously... Is he gay?

Rise Kujikawa. A cheerful girl who I really liked much, just like Yukiko. She was once a pop star, earning the popularity from everyone. She thought that it will make friends from everyone she likes. But... The truth is, they only want Risette, Rise's stage self. She quitted and settle down in Inaba, to live with her grandmother. When we were in the TV world, her Shadow was... Um... Well, a stripper. She told us that she wanted to show everyone her true self, her true naked self. And because that Rise doesn't want to be that kind of Risette, she neglected her true emotion. We defeated her Shadow and Rise began to trust herself, earning her Persona.

Teddie. He's a Shadow who lived in the TV world. He's a bear of some sort. When we met him the first couple of times, he seemed kind of lonely, like he had no one to be friends with. When we defeated Rise's Shadow, and that Rise earned her Persona, unexpectedly, Teddie has his own Shadow, even when he's a Shadow himself. It represented that Teddie was always lonely, without anyone. And because of that, his lonelyness took over him. When he defeated his Shadow, Teddie earned his very own Persona. And also, Teddie was capable to enter in our world. And his real world self is a blond, bishounen guy with the hots for girls. Well, ever since we were trying to rescue Yukiko, Teddie learned that "scoring a hot stud" meant getting a hot girl. He's a fun guy, to be honest.

And last, but not least, Naoto Shirogane. She is a detective and a famous one, in fact. We thought that she's a boy, but in our time in the TV world, we learned that she's really a girl. Despite her famous detective skill, the people from the police and investigation site thought of her as nothing, but a nuissance to them. When we were in the TV world, we learned that Naoto wanted to be a boy, to earn the respect of the people from the site. And her wish was to be the greatest detective of the whole world. She's pretty smart at solving things that we couldn't. And we saw a little bit of relationship between Kanji and Naoto. Kanji and Naoto... A good couple, I may say.

We investigate the strange murder that happened in Inaba. Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi were both murdered by something. We learned that they were murdered in the TV world. That's how the investigation team was formed, to find the murderer who planned all of this. The first one we suspected to be the muderer was Mitsuo Kubo, a student who was expelled for some reason. But everyone suspected that he was just a copycat killer. The second one was Taro Namatame, the one who was behind the kidnapping of Yukiko and the rest. But we suspected that Namatame is innocent, as he was trying to save them. Someone must have manipulated Namatame to put them into the TV.

Finally, we found the true killer... Tohru Adachi. He was the partner of Dojima and seemed to be a newbie of the police team. However, he was secretly the true killer who put Mayumi and Saki into the TV. He tried to rape them for love, but because they didn't want him to do anything to them for dark purpose, he threw them into the TV. He also manipulated Namatame into believing that putting the people into the TV will save them. He knew that it was us who tried to rescue the people. And eevry once in a while, he said outloud that the police will take care of it or something like that.

When we tried to stop him in the TV world, he was soon been possessed by the creature who was behind the mysterious fog. Ameno-sagiri. We defeated Ameno-sagiri and he then stopped the mysterious fog that has been endangering the people who are inside the TV world.

We thought that everything is all over... That everything will be back to normal...

However... It's not yet over.

I found out who the REAL mastermind behind everything was. It was the Gas Attendant who I first met when I came to Inaba. She gave me the power to enter the TV into the TV world. And in reality... She was the Goddess known as Izanami. So, before I go back to where I was, I regrouped my friends adn we went into the TV world to defeat Izanami.

But Izanami was too strong for us. And she used the Thousand Curse skill on me. Everyone sacrificed themselves to save me. But even so, it got me as well...

I thought that I was going to die... I thought that I will lose against a powerful Goddess... But... The Social Links that I made with all of my friends... guided me... And thus, with the help of my friends and family, my Persona, Izanagi, transformed into Izanagi-no-Okami, a Persona that can match against Izanami-no-Okami.

To end it, I used Myriad Truth against Izanami. And she is defeated. And thus, to bring an end to the Midnight Channel, she leaves mankind into the hands of life, before disappearing from the world...

March 21th... The day where I leave my friends and family behind... It is my last day in Inaba and I had to say my goodbyes to everyone... And when I got on the train and that the train started moving, my friends went after it, sayng their final goodbyes to me... And when I sat down to my seat... I pulled out a picture and smiled...

It was a picture of the investigation team...

Third person Point of view

In the train, where Souji is leaving in, Souji gently looked at the picture of the investigation team. He slowly smiled upon looking at it. Seeing it, he remembered all the times he shared with his friends. All the time he was with them. All the time he spent with them a whole year. But today, it is the time to leave them and go back to the urban city he once lived.

"... It sure is gonna be lonely without them... I had a lot of fun with them in Inaba..." he said. "Yosuke... Chie... Yukiko... Kanji... Rise... Teddie... and Naoto... I'll miss them so much..." Then, he felt a small twinkle of tear on one of his eyes. He wiped it off of it and blinked his eyes a few times. "... Today will be a lonely day without them... I'm going back to the big city... It's how it should have been..." He slowly closed his eyes.

However, upon closing them, a bright light shined all over the train, lighten all of the windows. Souji opened his eyes up and shileds them with his arm, slowly standing up.

"W... What the hell?! What the hell is going on?!" said one of the passengers.

"What is this light?! It's blinding me!" said another one.

"I can't see!! What the hell is this?!" said another.

'What is going on...?' thought Souji.

Somewhere in the control room, the employees and the driver were blinded by the light.

"Urgh...! What the hell?! I can't see a thing!" yelled the driver.

"We have to stop. The light is just too bright for us to keep on going!" said one of the male employees. "You there!" He pointed at one of the female employees. "Announce the passengers to stay calm and stay in their seats!"

"Yes!" she said. She picked up an intercom phone and turned it up.

Back in the passengers' trailer, a beeping sound was heard from the intercom. Everyone else listened to it very carefully. "Attention all passengers. We are experienced difficulties by the bright light that surrounds the train. Please stay calm and remain seated until the train is fully stop in its track. Thank you." The announcement ended. Listened to what she said, everyone sat down in caution.

Souji, who also sat down, was wondering how the bright light surrounded the train for some reason. Where did that light come from? And why does it surround the train?

Back in the control room, after the female employee made her announcement, the male employee nodded to the driver to stop. "Alright, hang on tight!" said the driver, as he pulled the brake stick to stop the train. The wheels made a screeching sound upon braking. After a couple of seconds, the train suddenly went off-balance. "What the hell?!"

"What is going on?!" yelled the male employee.

"I don't know! The train went off-balance! I don't know how! The rails are completely fine!"

"Well, we better hang on to something! Because the train is gonna fall!" Everyone hold on into something to be ready for the fall.

The train fell to the left side and everything slide on the ground. The passengers on the right side of the seats all fell down to the left side. As the train continues to slide, it crashed onto a large tree, sending a large vibration around the train. The vibration brutally shook everyone and a couple of bags fell off on people. Luckily, no serious injury was made.

Souji rubbed his head a little, because of the violent shaking from the train. "Urgh... What the...?" he said. "What just happen...? What the heck is going on...?" Souji began to wonder. Why was their a bright light? Why was the cause of it made the train to fall down when it is trying to brake? What could have happen?

But before he began to thought of it all up, he suddenly lost consciousness, as he slowly fell unconscious...

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Souji slowly regained some consciousness. He opened his eyes. "Ngh... What...?" Upon opening them, he only saw a blue carpet. "Blue... carpet...?" he wondered. However, he slowly remembered that blue carpet. He sat up from the ground and looked around him. It looked like he is in a blue room somewhere. The room is quite familiar. When he continued to look around, he saw two people standing behind a round, blue carpeted table. "Wait... those guys... are they...?"

Souji remembered those two. They are the two people who guided him in his investigation. One of them is a short, strange man with a bald head, with a couple of white hair below. He also had a long nose. He wore a tuxedo, to be precised. The other one is a female with blond hair and dark yellow eyes. She wore a blue dress that looked like a general material one.

"Ah! Welcome back, my friend! We have been expecting you!" said the short man, whose name is Igor.

"Welcome back, Souji." said the blond woman, who is Margaret.

"Igor... And Margaret..." said Souji.

"We meet again, I see. It's been a while since we seen each other. It is so nice to see you once again." said Igor. "Or should I said... It is nice to see you TWO once again."

"Two...?" questioned Souji. When he said that, he felt a presence next to him. He turned his head around and... to his surprise... saw another person next to him. He gasped.

The person also gasped. This person has a short, blue hair and grey eyes. He seemed to wore a school uniform. "Who... are you...?" asked the person.

"Now, now, I believe it is best for me to introduce you two to each other. This young man right here is Souji Seta." said Igor, as he pointed to Souji to introduce him. "And now, this person, Souji, is Minato Arisato. He was the first guest we had in years." he said, pointing Minato.

"Um..." said the person named Minato. "Hi... My name is Minato Arisato. You are Souji Seta... right?"

"... Yes. It is... nice to meet you, Minato Arisato." Souji said, as he reach his hand out in front of Minato. Minato gladly took it and shook hands with Souji.

"Well, now that the introduction is done and over with, I have sent the two of you here for a simple reason." said Igor.

"Simple reason...?" wondered Souji.

"Wait... There's something wrong... I was supposed to be dead and be a seal to hold Nyx from destroying the world. Why am I revived?" asked Minato.

"Dead...? Revived...?"

"Well, this is a question that we cannot answer. Only you will find out why you are very much alive." said Igor.

"Wait... Where's Elizabeth? She's with you, right?" asked Minato.

"Unfortunately, Elizabeth left her post as my assistant. She left to find a way to get you off of the seal without letting Nyx out of there. Let me introduce you to my new assistant. Margaret. She is the older sister of Elizabeth." Igor introduced.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Minato Arisato. Elizabeth told me a lot about you and your quest." said Margaret.

"Igor, there is something you want to tell us, right? What is it?" asked Souji.

"Well... Yes, there is something that I want to share with you. But strangely, I do not know what it is, exactly. Let me explain it by cards..." Igor holded out his hand and suddenly, a deck of cards appeared on his hand. The cards all split up into eight of them. "Let us see... You two are one of the three guests who we met after three years... both of you have extraordinary powers. And the two of you brung an end to those who created destruction in your world. However, right after that, a new quest was made." Igor flipped one of the cards up and it shows a simple clock. But, that clock had four arrows. "Ah... A clock of four arrows... That signifies that two times are merged together..."

"Two times... merged together?" said Minato.

"According to the clock of four arrows, it is known that the time that you two are in will be merge together as a single time. The year 2010 and 2012 will be merge into a non-existing year. However, during this time..." Igor flipped yet another card. And it showed many objects around. There are two people below and above the objects. But, it seemed to be upside down. "Ah... The friendship memory. This signifies that your friends will achieve memories from you. However, it is upside down. Meaning that it is a reverse effect."

"Reverse effect...?" said Souji.

"According to this, the memories your friends shared with you... will have a different effect. Surely that you have made Social Links from them by creating a good friendship. But what is, however, the reverse effect?" Igor said. "Now, for the final card... The two times will merge together and the memories you shared with your friends will soon be reversed... However, what is the danger that awaits?" He flipped another card. And it showed a rabbit and a couple of flowers around it. But like the last card, it is upside down. "The life of creatures... Very interesting. However, it too is upside down. Meaning that the life will come to a reverse effect."

"What does it all mean?" asked Minato.

"Does that mean something wrong will happen?" asked Souji.

"I cannot say for sure. But I know this. You two will live on life one more time. However, you have only a year to solve this mystery. If you cannot solve it... Itwill be the end... of everything."

"What...?" said both Souji and Minato.

"I would like to have you stay, but sadly, it is time to go. You two will have to live together in a new world. An unknown world that you do not know. Until we meet again... Souji Seta and Mianto Arisato..." Igor waved goodbye to Souji and Minato, before they slowly lost consciousness.

What does it all mean exactly? Two times merge together... Reverse effect on sharing memories with your friends... And the reverse effect of life on the world...? Coule it be... another mystery?

End prologue

Done, everyone. Wow, it took me exactly four hours on doing this whole chapter. Well, fear not. The next chapter will come very soon. Just you wait.

Until then... See ya. And review, please.