Welcome back one and all. Now that the Team has encountered Shadow Yon, it's time to get to the battle.

Strap yourselves in and prepare for the ride.


"Yon-kun!"

The team had finally arrived to the final floor of the palace. When they arrived, they saw that Yon was before his Shadow. Shadow Yon's sickly grin made him look almost psychotic and one that shouldn't be agitated.

"Well well well, looks like we have some spectators." Shadow Yon said. "Are you all here to see the next round?" The sound of a large crowd cheering amplified throughout the palace. It was strange as there were no other people in here except for Yon, his Shadow, and the Team.

"The Shadows are getting restless." Teddie said, slightly tense from the presence he could feel. "We need to hurry."

"Yon-kun, hang in there." Yukiko said. "We're here to help."

"Ha! Help? Why would you guys want to help me?" Shadow Yon scoffed. "Why would anyone even care about me?"

"Because we're your friends!" Rise shouted. "We all care about you because we're your friends!"

Yon's eyes widened upon hearing what Rise said. Friends... He slowly looked back to them, eyes still wide with surprise. "Friends? You guys...you really...?"

"Don't listen to them!" Shadow Yon was now getting angry. In his anger, he stabbed the floor with the straight sword, cracking through the wood and splitting it. "Do you really believe a word they say? Why would anyone want to be friends with you? You couldn't make any friends back in Korea because of what you are, why would Japan be any different! Why would anywhere else be different!"

"Is... is this really how Yon-kun feels?" Chie asked.

"He's had no friends?" Yukiko asked. "All because of being different?"

"No matter where I've been, people have always judged me because of my blood." Shadow Yon ranted. He seemed to have ignored the fact that the Investigation Team was present. He had instead focused his attention to Yon, who was still kneeling on the floor. "Just because I wasn't a full Japanese or Korean, they all saw me differently. The look on their faces, I could tell that no matter how nice people tried to be, they always saw me as something strange. For the love of god, even school treats me like crap. All because of my blood! No matter where I go, no matter who I meet, they all see me as an abomination of humanity, A FREAK! AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I BEGAN TO HATE THEM ALL. I EVEN DESPISE MY OWN MOTHER FOR MAKING ME THIS WAY!"

"No, that's not true." Yon said. He tried to get up, but the weakness in him stopped him from moving. "Mom's always been there, she's the only one who cares for me."

"Why do you lie?" Shadow Yon asked. "Why did mom have to marry a Korean? Why did she have to be Japanese? Why couldn't I just be a whole? Why am I like this? Why don't people accept me?"

"People do accept me." Yon said, he looked towards his Shadow self, glaring at him. He then pointed to the team. "They accept me!"

"Oh, come on. Look at their faces now!" Shadow Yon pointed to the team. "Even now, while they claim to be friends, they look at us like we're freaks!"

"That's not true!" Chie said. "We don't see him like that at all."

"Oh shut up!" Shadow Yon yelled. "You guys think you're any better than me? You guys don't care." He then looked down at Yon. "I can never change who I am. I'll always be a freak of nature. Because I'm a crossblood, I'm neither Korean nor Japanese, I'm just two halves of nothing!"

"No, you don't know anything about me!" Yon shouted.

"Oh, but I do." Shadow Yon smirked. "I know everything, especially the things we wish to forget. Like our sister."

"Shut up." Yon said.

"You remember what happened, don't you?" Shadow Yon asked. "What do you say to that? 'Oh, it was just one fight. Siblings fight all the time.' But this one was different, wasn't it?"

"I said shut up." Yon forced himself to his feet, bracing his hand on his knee for support as he made his way up.

"This one fight ended badly. I could never take back what I said to her. After all, I…"

"I said, shut up!"

"I killed her. You killed her; you killed your own sister."

"What?" Everyone was shocked by the accusation Shadow Yon had made to his human counterpart.

"YOU LIE! How can you say shit like that?"

"How can I not?" Shadow Yon asked. He suddenly appeared to me very calm. "How can I avoid the truth? How can you avoid the truth? After all, I am you."

The Team then realized what was going to happen. It was like this with everyone else when it first happened, and Yon would be no exception. "Wait, don't say it Yon-kun!" Rise shouted.

"NO! YOU'RE NOT ME!"

Shadow Yon then began to laugh softly, which slowly escalated into an all-out hysterical cackle. "Oh, that feels good. That's right; let me feast on that despair. It makes me wanna KILL!" Shadow Yon was suddenly engulfed in a dark flame. As the flames flicked around him, his body began to change; his body was now protected by Samurai armor and a distinct line appeared in the direct middle of his body, going vertically downward. On the left half, his armor was red and on his right half, it was blue. His size increased, growing almost five times in size. A samurai kabuto(helmet) formed over his head, covering his face. "I am a Shadow, the true self. Now, I shall eliminate those who dare to oppose me!" With a motion of his hand, Shadow Yon summoned chains from the wall behind him. The chains shot out and grabbed Yon, binding him. With another motion of his hands, the chains pulled Yon to the wall.

"YON-KUN!" Yukiko shouted in horror as she saw Yon slam into the wall.

When Yon slammed to the wall, his aviator goggles came loose and fell to the floor, the lenses cracking on impact.

"This is it guys!" Yosuke said.

The team ran around the Shadow, surrounding him as they all drew out their weapons. "Don't get too close." Rise said.

"Go get him, Rokuten Maoh!" From Kanji's Persona card, the giant flame detailed hulk appeared with its giant blade. Ordering his Persona, Maoh slashed at Shadow Yon, but left no damage. "What?"

"Oh boy, that's one tough armor." Rise panicked.

"Izanagi-no-Okami!" Souji summoned his Persona. Izanagi-no-Okami struck Yon with the polearm on his chest, but the damage did very little to his armor.

"Is that the best you've got?" Shadow Yon laughed. He chopped at Izanagi-no-Okami with his large katana. The force was enough to get the Persona on all four. Shadow Yon then kicked Izanagi-no-Okami. "At least give me a challenge!"

"Rise, give us something!" Naoto shouted. "Anything!"

Rise scanned what she could, mainly judging by what she witnessed. "Physical attacks won't work on him. That armor is too thick." She tried to study Shadow Yon's data, but was coming up short. "I can't get anything else from him. Try using an element!"

"I got this." Yosuke said, spinning his kunai around his fingers. "Susano-O! Get him with a Garudyne!" Slashing at his card, Susano-O appeared with the giant razor ring spinning. A large gust of wind then shot out from Susano-O's hands and slammed at Shadow Yon. The Shadow reared back from the assault, but still maintained its composure. "That got him!"

"It wasn't enough. Hit him harder!" Teddie shouted.

Souji dodged an attack from Shadow Yon. "Dammit! Why won't you stay still?" Shadow Yon shouted in anger. "Take this!" Shadow Yon jumped up and dove at Naoto. Before he could get close enough to Naoto, Rokuten Maoh jumped in the way and Shadow Yon slashed at the powerhouse Persona's arm. Maoh then slammed a powerful hammerfist punch at Yon, knocking him down. "How do you like them apples?"

Shadow Yon quickly got back on his feet. "Is that it?" He threw a punch at Kanji, who managed to narrowly dodge it. While he managed to avoid the deadly strike of Shadow Yon's fist, the tumble he took to dodge it was a rather painful one. "Stay still and take it like a man!"

"Hang in there, Kanji! PERSONA!" Chie kicked at her Persona card with a reverse hook and her Persona appear, standing valiantly in her metallic armor with the twin bladed weapon. "Go get him, Suzuka Gongen!" Her Persona did as instructed and darted up towards Shadow Yon. Before Gongen could attempt a strike, Shadow Yon struck the Persona with a kick to the head.

"He just won't give in." Kanji shouted.

"Oh, I'm just getting warmed up." Shadow Yon cackled. "And I'm feeling pretty chill, too." Shadow Yon then raised his hands into the air. In his left hand, a small ember formed, which quickly grew to a large flame. His right hand began to release a bright blue light and began to emit a chilling smoke. "Try this on for size!" Shadow Yon threw the flame and ice at the Team, the ice soaring towards Yukiko and the fire blazing at Kanji.

Teddie ran to Yukiko and jumped in front of her. "Yukiko-san!" Teddie then summoned Kamui to shield the two from the ice blast. The element hit Kamui, but did nothing to harm the Persona.

The fire came charging at Kanji, who managed to jumped out of the way, but not completely. Some of the fire managed to catch on his shirt, singeing it. As Kanji fell on the ground, he noticed the fire from both the heat and the light it gave off. "Damn!" Kanji patted his shirt, putting the fire out. "This was my favorite shirt, you asshole!" Kanji got back on his feet. "Zap his ass!" He summoned Rokuten Maoh, who unleashed a giant bolt of lightning upon Shadow Yon.

However, Shadow Yon was prepared. "Ziodyne!" Shadow Yon covered himself with lightning, which deflected Kanji's own attack. "No matter what you throw, I'll always counter it."

"Garudyne!" Yosuke summoned Susano-O, who blasted Shadow Yon with a gust of wind.

The wind cut at Shadow Yon's left arm, cracking through the armor. Shadow Yon dropped to one knee and grabbed onto the damaged arm. "Damn it!"

"Hey, that worked." Rise said.

"He used lightning to stop Kanji, but Yosuke got him with wind." Teddie said.

"That must be the trick." Yukiko said. "When he uses one element, he's weak against another." Yukiko ran to Chie's side. "Let's attack him together."

"Got it." Chie nodded. "Go, Suzuka Gongen! Bufudyne!"

"Amaterasu, Agidyne!"

The two Personae unleashed their respective elemental attacks. Shadow Yon threw up his hands, creating ice and fire elements in each hand to counter it. "You think that's gonna stop me!" He threw his hands forward to counter the two opposing attacks. However, the fire element of his attack was soon overpowered by Chie's ice attack and his ice counter was overpowered by Yukiko's fire-based attack. Shadow Yon took a powerful blast of elemental damage and fell back from the hit.

"You guys need to do more than that." Rise said.

"We'll need to go all out." Souji said. "We all need to use an element at the same time."

"Sounds like a plan, Sensei." Teddie said. "Let's do it!"

Following Souji's plan, the Team initiated their attack. First, they forced Shadow Yon into the center of the throne room; they backed away from him in which Shadow Yon answered by moving towards them. They then moved to spread out, surrounding Shadow Yon.

"Now what do you plan on doing?" Shadow Yon's voice boomed through the palace. Shadow Yon brought his hands up; his left began to crackle with sparks of electricity while his right hand created a small cyclone.

"Yosuke, Kanji, now!" Souji ordered.

"Persona!" Yosuke and Kanji followed Souji's orders and attacked. Susano-O released a raging blast of wind towards Shadow Yon's left hand and Rokuten Maoh stabbed the sky, shooting a bolt of lighting to Shadow Yon's right hand. The elemental attack of each against their opposite element was enough to inflict pain to Yon's two hands, and even break through the armoring that protected him.

"Finish him off!" Rise shouted.

"Let's do this!" Souji commanded to his teammates. "Persona! Ziodyne!"

"Now, Suzuka Gongen!" Chie struck her Persona card with a spinning heel kick.

"Kamui!" Teddie slashed at his Persona card.

"Bufudyne!" The two ice wielding Persona users shouted.

"Hear me, Amaterasu!" Yukiko struck her card with her open fan. "Agidyne!"

"Come, Yamato Takeru!" Naoto shot at her card. "Megidolaon!"

Each Persona unleashed their most powerful attack upon Shadow Yon. With Shadow Yon damaged by the Yosuke and Kanji's previous duo attack, he was left vulnerable to this onslaught of elements. As he desperately attempted to defend himself with an element, it was easily countered by whatever element it was weak against. The full blast tore Shadow Yon's armor into pieces, leaving nothing but scraps of metal. The scraps then faded into nothingness, leaving behind only Shadow Yon, back to his normal size and in Yon's mimicking attire.

The chains that bound Yon to the wall then came loose, dropping Yon to the ground rather painfully.

"Yon-kun!" Rise ran over to his side to check on him. "Are you alright?" He was still breathing, which relieved Rise. That was all she needed to know. "Can you get up?"

Yon strained a bit. "I think so." He forced himself onto his feet. Well, more like struggled.

"We did it." Yosuke panted. "We got him."

"About damn time..." Kanji slumped over, leaning on his weapon for support.

Before the team could celebrate their victory, they suddenly heard Shadow Yon chuckling. When they turned their attention to him, Shadow Yon got back on his feet, getting up as if he wasn't injured to being with. "Hahaha, you really think you can stop me? I'm still feeding on my other self's despair. As long as he refuses to accept me as a part of him, I can't be gone!"

"Then why don't I get rid of you?"

"Huh?" Souji looked back and saw Yon limping his way to his Shadow. Still injured from before the battle, Rise helped him walk by letting him lean on her as a crutch. "Take it easy, you shouldn't strain yourself."

"Stop, don't bother." Yon raised a hand towards Souji as he told him to stop. "You guys did enough for me. You don't need to keep getting yourselves hurt at my expense." Yon then grabbed onto Rise's hands, getting himself off from her as a support. "Thanks, I'll take it from here." He continued to limp towards his Shadow as the others watched him slowly get closer. "You really have a way with words, you know that?" Shadow Yon was silent, not answering. "I guess what you said...it was true. I always felt that I had no friends because no one accepted me for being different. I felt like a freak, but I wanted to try and hide that, maybe if I ignored it long enough, I might forget that I'm different."

"Yon-kun..." Realizing that Yon was finally beginning to accept his darker side, Rise couldn't help but feel pity for the pain Yon had to endure.

"I guess deep down, I really did hate my parents for making me this way." Yon said, looking down to the ground in shame. "You read me like a book. I guess there's no use denying it anymore. You really are me." Yon's Shadow then nodded. Having now accepted and faced his other self, Shadow Yon acknowledged Yon as the superior one. Shadow Yon then disappeared from a pool of light that surrounded him, leaving behind only a card that was floating in the air. "Huh?" Yon reached out and took the card. "What is this?"

"It's your Persona." Souji answered. "You have the power now."

Yon turned towards them. What seemed like a smile curling at the ends of Yon's lips as cut short when dropped to his knees and then fell face first to the ground.

"Hey!" Yosuke ran over to Yon, kneeling down beside him and gently turning him over.

"Is he alright?" Rise asked.

Yosuke looked at him carefully, and noticed that his chest was still moving with each breath. "He's fine, he just passed out."

"Let's get him outta here." Kanji said. He went to Yon's other side and with Yosuke, the two lifted Yon, putting his arms around their shoulders. "Teddie, work your magic."

"Roger that." Teddie released his spell, sending the team out of the dungeon and back to the stage area.

Quickly, they went through the TV, leaving the world and going back to the lounge room in Junes. Kanji and Yosuke gently put Yon on the large sofa, resting his head on the soft arm rest at the end. He was alive to say the least, but he looked in pain.

"So, what do we do with him now?" Yosuke asked. "We can't leave him here."

"I'll talk to my uncle." Souji said. "We can work something out."

"We'll need to do it fast, he needs to go to a hospital fast." Chie said, looking at Yon with concern.


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