"Elizabeth!" Minato tried to power his way out of the hug, but he was no match for the Avatar of Power.
"Oh, Minato-sama." Elizabeth sang, rocking him back and forth.
"Alright, I missed you too. Can you let go? I'm beginning to feel out of breath." Minato breathed out, while blushing furiously.
Elizabeth giggled and broke away. Minato coughed and then glanced at her. She was as beautiful as ever.
"Apologies, it's just that I haven't seen you in years." Elizabeth smiled, playing with Minato's bangs.
"Yeah." Minato breathed out with a smile, "I missed you too. Sorry for not showing up lately. I was just busy with school and stuff."
"I won't forgive you until you take me out on a date." Elizabeth pouted, "And consider all the hugs and discounts from the compendium, gone."
"Hey, what's the rush, I'll take you out on a date." Minato smiled. Elizabeth upon hearing the words, began bouncing in joy, "It's kinda hard to believe that she can kick my ass with her eyes closed."
Minato turned around to face the strange old man, "Good to see you, Igor. It's been a while, eh?"
Igor bowed, "It had. But it's a pleasure to see you again." He grinned at Minato. That used to creep him out a bit, but Igor was his mentor, he always helped Minato without taking anything in return.
"So, what's up?" Minato asked, sitting on the vacant chair. Igor clicked his fingers, instantly, a familiar contract materialized on the table.
"Do you remember this?" Igor asked.
"Hell yeah I do. Responsibility for my actions, right?" Igor nodded again.
"Your true journey is about to start." Igor said with a huge grin, "Times will not be easy on you." Minato rose a brow.
"You ain't gonna tell me what that is, right?" Minato asked.
"Precisely." Igor said with the same grin. Minato sighed, if there was one thing that annoyed him, it was the cryptic comments.
"I'll deal with it." Minato sighed, getting up, "Thanks for the heads up though."
"Elizabeth, please show him the current weapons that he has buried into his sub consciousness." Elizabeth nodded at Igor's words.
"Follow me~" She sang, walking ahead, opening the door to the right. Minato followed her.
"Hhhmm, this does seem right." Minato mused, staring at the enormous amount of weapons that were in the room, "I swore that I had Attis's knife as well. I guess that I'll have to buy him later."
Minato walked over and picked up a sword, the holy sword, Dues. Minato swung it around, producing an air current so strong, that several of the weapons were thrown away from the sheer force.
"Well, this does seem right." Minato sighed.
"Have you been practicing?" Elizabeth asked. Minato smiled sheepishly, staring at the ground.
"Not really, I haven't held a sword in months." Minato rubbed the back of his head.
Elizabeth grinned, "Very well. Let us train." Minato blinked.
"Are you serious?" He received a nod in response. Minato took a deep breath, while he was strong, Elizabeth could shatter him to bones with a single punch, "No, and I mean no god damn fairies! Got that!?" Elizabeth nodded.
Elizabeth kept grinning, something that unnerved Minato.
Minato gulped. He tightly gripped his sword, taking his stance, "1… 2… 3!" Minato shouted, charging towards Elizabeth for his little practice session.
The Avatar of power didn't even blink at the massive air current produced by Minato's sword. Minato charged a Sukukaja into his body and jumped up, aiming to dig the sword right into Elizabeth.
Elizabeth blocked the sword with her bare hands, she causally flicked it, reducing it to dust. Minato gritted his teeth, summoning another sword into his hand. He swiped it upwards, trying to hit her from below. Elizabeth caught the sword in her hand. She smiled at Minato, before swinging the sword around, along with Minato.
She let go and Minato's head was going to meet head first with the wall. Minato aimed his legs towards the wall and rebounded from the throw.
"Damn it." Minato summoned another sword, dual wielding the two, he aimed it slash right at her sides. Elizabeth easily caught the two sword in her hands, before breaking them into dust. Minato barely blocked a punch by crossing his two arms, even though it was blocked, he felt his bone crack a bit.
Before a counterattack could be launched, Elizabeth's other fist was rammed right into Minato stomach. The strike alone made him fly back and smash into the wall. He was sure that some internal organs were broken.
"I'm hurt." Minato whimpered as he slowly stood up, clutching his ribcage.
"Your still just a kid." Elizabeth smiled, petting him on the head. Minato felt annoyed.
"Hmph. Well wait for that day, when you and I are equals." Elizabeth nodded enthusiastically.
"I can hardly wait~" She cheered, "But, it's really good to see you again." She held out her arm and healed all of Minato's injuries, "Promise that you will visit more?"
"I promise." Minato smiled as his body began to fade, "I'll see you later." He gave her a two finger salute before disappearing into thin air.
…..
The next day went on normally. Minato saved Junpei from a lash out by Toriumi. He also met a ditzy chairman who had a unique sense of humor. But, something about the guy unnerved Minato. He couldn't put his finger on it.
On the full moon, Minato returned early, "Heh, every full moon, my life gets ever more fucked up." He didn't even bother changing into his PJ's. He laid down on his bed and tried to get the night over with. That didn't happen, the same horrible nightmare occurred again.
Screaming. Blood. Helplessness. Death and Blackout.
"AHHH." Minato jolted up straight on his bed, sweating buckets. He wiped the sweat off his brows and buried his face into his palms, "Another one." He breathed out, getting onto his feet, Minato tried to control the building rage that he had within. It was the Dark Hour, he couldn't allow his rage to build in.
Slowly walking towards the sink, Minato lowered his head under the faucet and allowed the cold water to dampen his hair. Anything would help right now. But, jus then, he noticed another camera on the side. Already pissed and broken, Minato decided to pay them a surprise visit.
"Where is he?" Ikutsuki panicked. Minato was proving to be very interesting. And now, his subject had disappeared from his room.
Mitsuru rose a brow, seeing the odd shift of the attitude, "I suppose he went for the restroom."
"I bet that he already has a persona." Junpei mused, "Seems like the poor guy had a nightmare."
"Yeah." Yukari agreed, "Where is he?"
"Right over here." A severely pissed voice rang out. The group of teenagers and Ikutsuki turned around to see Minato, clad in his uniform, standing there, with a severely pissed off look on his face.
"Arisato-kun." Yukari shrieked.
"Alright, you better have a damn good reason to spy on me." Minato snarled. Kicking the couch over.
"Arisato, please try to unders-" Mitsuru was cut of by Minato.
"You attack me first and now you're treating me like some sort of a fucking project!" Ikutsuki winced, "I swear, I'll sue you all." Just as he was about to yell some more, the gigantic computer beeped.
Mitsuru hurriedly pressed some buttons. The feed opened up and from the other side, a panicked Akihiko struggled to speak, obviously out of breath, "No time for chit chat, a whole army of shadows is behind me. I'll be there soon." With anything else, the feed closed up. Now, panic ensured.
"Crap." Junpei cursed, grabbing his sword and a strange gun.
"Takeba, Iori, take Arisato somewhere safe." Minato couldn't even utter a word as he felt himself being dragged away by Junpei and Yukari.
They frantically ran around the dorm, from one room to another, from ground floor to finally, the rooftop. Minato looked towards the moon, it was almost like the moon was mocking him.
"Phew. Talk about a chase." Junpei breathed out, "I hope senpai will be safe."
"Arisato-kun." Yukari tried to calm herself, "The only reason we were trying to-"A horrible screech echoed in the dead night. The two teenagers gasped at a jet black hand that grabbed a hold of the roof. Next second, dozen more appeared. Minato's heart exploded into hate. That was a shadow, no doubt.
"It found us." Junpei yelled, drawing out the silver gun. The shadow was nothing more than a mass of arms, one of them holding up the magician mask while multiple of them held swords, each of them taller than Minato himself.
"What will we do?" Yukari cried. Minato just glared at the shadow. Junpei shakily, clutched the evoker to his temple. Minato rose a brow. What the hell was he doing!?
"HERMES!" Junpei yelled as he pulled the trigger. Blue mist and glass shards exploded from the other side of Junpei's temple. Minato muttered a slight, "Ah." So this is the way that they summoned.
A birdlike persona appeared behind Junpei, clad in armor with a metal body. Hermes upon command, darted towards the shadow, aiming to Cleave it. The shadow caught Hermes from a foot away, he swung the persona around, before slamming it right onto his user. Junpei screamed out in pain as the metal body of Hermes collided with his own flesh.
Yukari wanted to cry out, but, the shadow didn't waste a second. It charged up a gigantic fireball. Already feeling scared, Yukari dropped her gun onto the ground.
"MOVE!" Minato bolted towards her, grabbing her by the wrist and throwing her to the side, saving her from being scorched alive.
The shadow diverted his attention towards Minato. The blue haired teenager glared ferociously at the shadow, "You won't be killing anyone tonight!" The shadow screeched. The monster charged at Minato, who stood still, ready to impale him with the multiple swords.
"Hmph." Minato summoned two swords into his hands, shocking the hell out of Junpei and Yukari. Minato met the charge head on.
Furious sparks were given off as Minato's dual blades collided with the shadow. But, with every hit, the shadow's sword began to crumble into dust. Minato easily deflected and parried each blow, shattering every sword at lightning speed. Minato gripped his blade and began to slash each and every limb of the shadow apart. Junpei and Yukari watched on in shock. Minato felt like a veteran by the way he moved.
"You really think you could stand a chance?" Minato yelled, cleaving more of its arms, "You bastards are even worth my time." Minato power charged his leg and kicked the shadow right on the mask, throwing it backwards. Minato gave out a bestial cry of anger.
"COME FORTH!" Blue mist surrounded the bluenette whose cold silver eyes turned into pitch black. A shiver crawled up the other teen's spine. The whole dorm began quaking, as if terrified by Minato's power.
"Thanatos!" Just as he yelled out the words, a gigantic monster manifested behind Minato, clad in black robes and a bird like mask, it gave out a horrific roar, making the advancing shadow stock in his track.
Thanatos charged at the weaponless shadow, unsheathing a massive sword, Thanatos slammed it right onto the shadow, cleaving it in half. Minato watched on in delight as the persona began to tear the shadow apart, limb from limb, doing an ever better job than Minato.
Giving out another roar, Thanatos disappeared and Minato's eyes turned back to silver. The broken remains of the shadow slowly dissolved into black and red mist. Minato turned around at the two teens, who were shaking. Minato smirked at them, he walked over to the edge of the roof, surveying the scene above.
"Crap." Minato muttered, there was really an army of shadows. Ranging from Beats to Mushas.
Minato sighed in annoyance, he gave a two finger salute to Yukari and Junpei before jumping down from the roof.
"WAIT!" Junpei was too late, Minato was already gone.
Mitsuru dropped to her knees, the injuries taking its toll on her. Akihiko was on the ground while Koromaru was knocked out.
A Musha was about to drive a sword right into her throat, but, just then. Mitsuru saw a bluish blur appear in front of her, sending the shadow flying away.
Mitsuru opened her eyes wide and looked at her savior, "Minato?" She asked, so shocked that she didn't even bother using his last name.
Minato smirked at her, he quickly turned his head towards the multiple shadows and glared at them. The shadows targeted Minato who shook his head. Summoning a sword, Minato readied himself and ran towards them.
"You Mother Canuckers!" Minato let out a horrific roar, akin to Thanatos, "I'll show you what I went through!"
"Is that right?" Minato merely glanced at the sky, a figure dressed in white was floating in the air, a huge grin on his face. Things just took a downhill.
UH-OH, who the hell was the thing in the end? Next chapter,will be gory, there is a reason why suddenly so many shadows appeared. This is another new twist =D 10 points for the one who can point out the single awesome reference from here.
Orpheus : Hahaha, thanks man, I hope you get this story completely.
Awesome : I take it that your the same guy as Continued? Anyway, yes Minato's guilt will have a huge part to play here. Who knows? He suicides?
Loopsey : He'll warm up, he's kinda wary since all of them attacked him. Thanks for the review.
Yoshi : Yep, your gonna love it even more! =D
Hoshi : Welp, he isn't the one from BL, now is he? =D
You'll see. Thanks !