As the beast, that was formerly the gray Minato, lunged Minato tried to reach his evoker, but remembered he didn't have it anymore. Instead Minato jumped out of the way, as he got an even better look at the monster in front of him (and yes the younger Minato is still in back of the real Minato). The beast had a very peculiar look, the upper right quarter of its face was the gray Minato's face, and the other 3 quarters seemed to be parts of the arcana masks the shadows always wore. These masks include the magician mask, Hermit mask, and the justice mask. The body itself looked like a big long skinny structure that had three arms and two long skinny legs. In the middle of the chest was the Lovers arcana mask and in each of the three hands were several weapons, including a crossbow, a katana and a knife.
"It seems you do not wish to join my ideals and become one with me…very well then. I was created to either have you join with me or kill you and it seems killing you is the only logical answer now." The beast then lunged once more at Minato, Minato dodged it once more but the beast was relentless and continued his attack again and again until he finally slashed Minato in the shoulder.
"Shit" he thought sprawling backwards as he held his wound "He's never going to stop until I'm dead. To make matters worse I have no weapon and I can't summon my persona. What do I do?" Minato tried to keep dodging the monster the more but the wound he received earlier began to make him slower, this became an opportunity for the beast as he slashed Minato in several more spots.
"Stop it, stop fighting!" the young Minato's voice cried out
"You, you're nothing but a reflection of the past, his sorrows. You deserve to die now!" the beast charges right at the young Minato ready to stab him with the knife, but Minato jumped in the path of the knife at the last second and was able to protect the younger version of himself by having the knife stab him instead.
"Weak as always, you're protecting a boy who's just a figment of your imagination. Why protect such a weak creature?" the beast said stepping back and few steps. Minato simply stood up and pulled the knife out of his back and said
"Because that's who I am!" he tried to step forward but fell to his knees quickly after, the young Minato ran to his side pulling him up to his feet.
"He'll kill you, you know that don't you? So why do you keep trying to fight back?"
"Because I have a reason I'm back and until I find that reason I won't die. So I refuse to lose here." The young Minato smiled and put his small hand on the real Minato's shoulder.
"Then in that case, I'll lend you my strength…..the strength you used 3 years ago." The small boy began to glow and as he did all of Minato's injuries were healed, afterwards the young Minato disappeared and the real Minato got back on his feet.
"You were wrong you know….that younger me wasn't just a reflection, he was a lot more than that and now I'll show you what I'm made of! PERSONA!" Minato's hand began to glow and as it did a familiar voice rang in his head.
"Thou art I and I am thou"
"Thanatos!" Minato yelled out and that familiar Persona from 3 years before appeared by him.
"Impossible, your Persona was locked away! I made sure of that!" the beast yelled out.
"Well you're wrong. You're finished, because you're not me!" and with that Thanatos unsheathed his sword and slashed the beast in half, it soon faded away as did Minato vision of his surroundings. He than soon awoke to see it was morning time and that he was still under the bridge he fell asleep under. "A dream?" he said to himself "It felt so real though. Then again I summoned my persona without my evoker, so I guess it can't be real can it?" Minato stood up and suddenly he heard a ringing voice in his head. It was saying one word and one word only.
"Kobe…Kobe…..Kobe"
"Kobe?" Minato said to himself, he looked in his hand to see that there was a knife he was holding. The same knife he had in his dream. "It was real. Alright looks like I have a lead to go on to then." Minato got his things together and headed back to Kyoto station, he knew where to go now, it seemed like this hint in his head meant something. Minato got the station and purchased for a ride to the city of Kobe.
