DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN PERSONA 3 OR ANYTHING RELATED TO THE PERSONA SERIES~~!
Setting: A slight AU that Minako and Minato are twins.
Here is the second and final half of this story. I know this is really short and might be a little odd in terms of format, but I hope you all enjoyed reading! Thank you!
Note: All errors I have failed to correct I am so sorry for!
Section notes!
Minako's section-"Words"
Minato's and non-twin section-"Words"
It would be a long dream, she reasoned to herself as she slowly felt herself drifting further and further into the darkness. Her body falling plummeting into the deep abyss after she had finally closed her eyes after seeing all her friends on the school rooftop. It had been an emotional reunion as they gathered around her and Aigis, unaware of what was going to happen as soon as she fell asleep on the android's lap.
She was sure everyone would be so angry at her, but then realize what she was doing later. This was what she chose to do...For them to live.
The fall was like diving into the ocean, her arms and legs at her sides as she relaxed her body as gravity did its work to let her fall.
Her eyes looked outward into nothingness as she kept on falling. There was no panic in her body as she fell further and further down.
Though she wondered how everyone was...Shinjiro had finally woken up from his coma and dragged himself to the school. While Ken, despite being at the elementary school, had taken Koromaru along with him to the high school to unite with them. Everyone was there...And she could still remember all their promises to her when she woke up from her nap. How many more memories they would make and the future being theirs without the Dark Hour.
Minako smiled to herself and felt her body grow heavier.
She felt so tired. It was as if she had stayed up the entire year, not once having napped or slept. She had been so prepared to run head on to whatever had been placed before her when this time came. For now...Perhaps...
Her eyelids slowly began to close shut as she finally allowed herself rest and think about the others. Would they cry? Perhaps...But they would know why she was doing this. Minako could only let herself drift off into some form of sleep as she fell.
Awaiting for her body to reach the ground of this darkness.
When he woke up, he was no longer on the rooftop or on Aigis' lap or around the other members of S.E.E.S. anymore. He was alone.
Minato smiled sadly as he remembered all the things his friends said as they surrounded him on the rooftop as they began to make promises and plans on what to do now that they had remembered everything and could live normal lives. Even he could feel Shinjiro's presence despite the older teenager having died during their journey to end the Dark Hour.
It had been truly the best memory for him to have before leaving them.
The girls would most likely curse his name for a long time and the boys would not speak of him, but in time they would learn why he left. Even if he hadn't shown it, the relationships he developed with them had shown him so much...
His fingers twitched a bit on the ground and he willed himself to push his body up from the ground. His head felt heavy and though he had prepared himself for this he felt his chest tighten as he struggled to stand. Wobbling on his two legs he began to slowly follow the path before him through the darkness engulfing him. It was strange...Before he had always welcomed sleep whenever he saw the darkness, but now he could not stop.
"...I wonder where this leads?"
His voice echoed through the space and he was tempted to put his headphones in place...Only to forget about the idea.
He had kept those on in life and for once he would instead listen to the sounds of his footsteps echoing out through the darkness. With his hands in his pockets, Minato kept on walking forward all the while keeping his eyes wide open.
When she had finally reached the ground, her descent was not her body crashing onto the solid surface.
Instead her body floated downward as if she was nothing, but a feather. Minako collapsed onto her knees after she struggled to right herself onto the ground and looked around in the darkness. The feeling of heaviness growing as she struggled to keep herself awake as she pushed herself up and looked forward. A sudden chill ran up her spine as she stared at the light that slowly grew and grew as she stood in front of it.
This familiar feeling of heaviness and the pressure was something she had faced before on the top floor of Tartarus. This was what she needed to keep sealed, in order to protect everyone she loved.
"Nyx..."
The voice that echoed behind her made her turn and her eyes grew wide as she stared at him.
"Minato..."
Though he had grown older, she could still recognize her twin brother. He had gotten much taller than her and his blue hair had grown out much more in the front with his bangs covering those blue eyes of his. Those very eyes stared up at her and for a moment Minako could not help, but giggle at how awake he looked. She slowly extended a hand out towards him and smiled, "I knew I would see you again."
Her younger half stared at her and finally a smile came to his face as he held her hand in his. Though silent as he stood by her to face Nyx with her, Minako could hear him whisper one last thing to her.
"I knew I would see you again too..."
The path had stopped and he found himself standing in front of a bright sphere of light, the overwhelming feeling of so many emotions made him shudder yet he knew that this was his stop.
He raised his head up from the path towards the light, despite the brightness there was an odd sense of cold in the air and he whispered the name of the entity he fought on the top floor of Tartarus.
"Nyx..."
There was a gasp and he looked over to see someone else standing before the light. Though she had grown older he could still recognize her as she whispered his name.
Minako, his older twin sister.
Those red eyes had widen at his arrival and though there had been signs of shadows under her eyes, there was that lively spark in them he had come to love and know her for. Her auburn hair was still in its high ponytail, surely having been bouncing everywhere with every step she took, and though he had never paid much attention to her hair pins he smirked at the irony behind the meaning of the number it formed.
His arcana, the Fool, had bore the number zero. He had come to realize that the number formed in her hair represented twenty-two, another number associated with the Fool.
They, twins, represented the Fool in some other time and place.
In some twisted and messed up way, towards the end they had finally been reunited.
The realization had only seemed to finally draw him closer to his sister and he grasped at the hand offered to him in his as he smiled back at her silently. Minako's hand only gripped his firmly as they turned to face the very entity they had fought against and would soon be suppressing back in order to protect the worlds they had both learned to love.
While he had wanted to talk to her, hear of her experiences and thoughts about how she had lived her life up until this point. Minato could only keep a smile on his face as they kept their hands together.
They would have plenty of time to.
Yu Narukami watched in fascination as a red and blue butterfly flying around the station after he had just stepped out off the train.
He had finally arrived to Yasoinaba Station only to be ambushed by red and blue as soon as he got off.
While it was spring, butterflies were not a very common sight for him when he was home in the city.
He watched in interest as the butterflies continued to flutter around the empty train station and would jump back as one of them kept him in place as if preventing him from taking a step further. The blue butterfly seemed to be much slower than the red butterfly and Yu thought the butterfly was dying as it suddenly seemed to flutter too low to the station's platform before fluttering back up into the air. It lazily flew in circles by Yu before fluttering off in another direction and back to him.
Yu was tempted to try and touch the blue butterfly when it came to land close by at his shoe, only to jump back as it suddenly flew into his face and fluttered away as if angry. Though it seemed its temper was short lived lived and it started to fly low to the ground close to him again.
The red butterfly zipped in diagonal lines all around the empty space, as if searching for something and changing its mind to fly towards him or the blue butterfly. When close to the other butterfly, the red one's wings fluttered faster as if copying a hummingbird's wings and circled it as if playing with the other butterfly. Towards Yu the red butterfly would land on his shoulder and head suddenly, startling him before it flew in a circle in front of him before going in a new direction and repeat the process.
Yu was taken aback from this butterfly's bizarre behavior and would duck down as it tried to fly right into his face when he tried to take a step forward. He could only stand and watch the butterflies in silence, unable to move as he watched them. Finally after standing in silence did he speak up.
"...Who are you?"
His words seemed to have done something as both butterflies suddenly stopped in front of him. For a moment he thought they were staring at him before blinking in surprise to see them fly past him and fly up towards the blue sky. Yu watched the two until they seemed to have disappeared up into the sun, together.