"Welcome to the velvet room." that greeting, I know that greeting.
I open my eyes and no surprise I find myself in the velvet room, in front of Igor and Luna, its been a while.
"You have come very far my friend." Igor says.
"Yes but your greatest battle may be upon you." a card appears in front of me, its a new card one I haven't seen yet.
"We made a mistake once, and we gave this corrupted version of the wild card to another persona user, now they are a shadow of their former self." Igor explains.
"And we need you to end his reign, please it is our request." Luna begs, who is this other wild card user?
Like always once our conversation ends, I fall back to sleep only to wake up the next day.
~ The next day ~
I go to class as normal, but now my head is filled with what Igor said in my dream, and because of that I can't even listen to the teacher properly.
"Hey what's up?" I turn my head and see Maizono looking at me worried.
"Oh, its nothing just didn't get enough sleep is all." I try to play it off, until I figure out what to do about Igor's instruction its best to keep it to myself.
Another class passes by while I'm thinking, I could tell my friends must be staring at me but I'm to pre-occupied to even relieve their worries.
~ After school ~
School went by in a flash, mostly because my thoughts were elsewhere, I head for my room so I can take a break.
Beep! Beep!
I hear the tracker make a sound and I pull Mono out of my pocket, I rush to my room and settled the keychain down on my desk. With a puff of smoke Mono appears and checks his tracker.
"Its a new reading and its strong as well." he shows me the tracker and on it is a large red dot in the middle of the city.
"Well this can't be good." I pick my phone up and text the others, maybe this can answer my problems.
I run out of my room and head outside where the others are waiting for me.
"Let's go." they all nod and we head out to the city to find the source of the strong reading.
~ At the source ~
We made to the source, but its not what we thought it would be. The source is a construction site, we are all wondering why a prison would be in a place like this, but with the places we've been through its really not much of a surprise.
We take our watches and press the button and the world turns into the Void. The place didn't change at all, though now it does look more creepier.
"Alright let's go in." we enter the place cautious since anything can actually appear in an empty place like this.
We keep walking and looking for a clue as to what was making the signal, we keep looking around then something gets my attention.
"Guys." I point at a wall where there's graffiti on it, it was a message and it says.
Head for the top of the world to see everything.
"What does that mean?" Leon asks scratching his head in confusion.
"I think it means go to the top of the building." Kirigiri answers, we all then head for the top to meet our messenger.
On the top of the site, we see a guy with long black hair wearing a suit, wait I've met this guy before.
"Its you." I say, the guy then turns around.
"You know him?" Junko asks, I just nod at her.
"You've gotten stronger boy." The man says his gaze showing no emotion whatsoever.
"The signal is coming from him." Mono tells us, we all look at Mono surprised and confused he doesn't look like a shadow.
"Are you sure?" I ask still unsure, Mono shows me his tracker and he wasn't lying the signal is coming from him.
I then remember what Igor said, the person who they gave the other wild card became a shadow of their former self, so that means its him.
"So you're the one Igor was talking about." I look over at the guy again.
"Boy, Igor was blind to not see my potential." he says to me.
"Igor said he gave you a corrupted wild card, and now you're nothing but a shadow." I voice out to him. He doesn't answer back, he just sighs.
"We are off track anyways, I only called you here for one thing..." red flames begin to spiral him as a red four star appears on his hand.
"To destroy you boy!" his persona appears, it was the same one as before the one looked a lot like Hades.
"Meet my persona Zeus!" he announced.
"Zeus, the greek god Zeus?" we all stare at Zeus, as it summons a golden halberd.
"Hades' polar opposite, it seems like fate brought these two to fight." I hear Kirigiri voice out.
"Well if fate wants me to fight him, then I'll do it."
"Persona!"
Hades appears, as soon as Zeus sees Hades it lets out a large howl that's deafening.
"Zeus get them." Zeus charges at us a high speed, bringing its halberd back to slash at us.
"Hades." Hades summons its scythe and blocks the attack and pushes Zeus back, then Hades goes and lunges at Zeus making the persona move back even further.
"Don't underestimate us." swinging its scythe Hades tries to get a direct hit on Zeus, but all of the attacks gets blocked. I activate Hades' magic which my persona utilises as a close combat attack rather than its usual range one.
"Impressive." the man then goes ahead activates Zeus' magic, and just like its god counterpart this Zeus' weapon begins to get engulfed in lightning. With one strike a large blast of lightning flies at Hades who just manages to dodge it.
"You won't get away." another blast gets fired this time actually landing a hit on Hades.
"Augh!" I writhe in pain, that one really did a number on us.
I look up the clashing personas, then look at the man red flames begin to spiral him again I know what he's doing, I shoot my head upwards only to see Zeus disappear.
"Come, Achilles." this time a Greco roman persona wielding a spear and shield appeared, the persona uses its shield and bashes Hades, which makes sends him crashing to a wall.
"Change, Thanatos." Thanatos appears and binds Achilles in its chains, he tosses Achilles to the ground then pulls him, where Thanatos lands a kick on him.
Now both are clashing head to head neither letting up. The pain surges at me as each hit is transmitted, I look over to the other guy and see he's starting to feel it as well.
Both personas hit each other at the same time with tremendous force causing both of us to fall to our knees.
"Let's stop." I tell him, but he doesn't respond. Another surge of pain courses through my body as I scream in pain.
"Naegi!" I hear the others, I signal them that I'm fine then stand back up on my feet.
"Let's end this we don't have to bare this any longer." the guy looks at me, then stands up as well.
"No I will not stop, not until I am the only wild card user." he changes back to Zeus who immediately overpowers a weakened Thanatos.
"Ahh!" I fall to my knees again, but I power through the pain and summon Jack the Ripper.
Jack the Ripper sends some scalpels flying but Zeus manages to block all of them before slicing him in half, which in return causes a massive amount of pain to my body.
"Ouroboros." this time Ouroboros comes out and it looks like it will work, Zeus can hit it since the snake is too fast, Ouroboros then coils it self on Zeus crushing the other persona.
"Not gonna work." Zeus' magic get activated, and a lightning bolt crashes on both personas. It didn't faze Zeus but Ouroboros was fried.
I'm down to Hades. I summon my last Persona this time I might have more of a chance.
"Trying the same thing again, you're pathetic." he orders Zeus to attack Hades, which the two end up in locked combat again.
Swings, hits, parries, dodges - these two are at the same level, anyone can lose.
"Naegi." I turn around and see the others walking up to me, their faces showing determination and worry.
"Let us help you, we can beat this guy together." Maizono voices.
"Yeah man, you've helped us now its our turn to help you." Leon says determined to help.
"He's correct we'll carry your burden together." Kirigiri follows.
"Yeah after all we're..." Junko begins.
"The jailbreakers." Mono finishes.
I look at all them and realise that I'm not alone, I've got my friends. I smile and laugh at myself for being foolish as to not ask for their support.
"All right everyone let's end this." they summon their personas, but rather than go and help Hades they begin to glow.
"Huh?" the personas then raise their hands and points at Hades. Then begins to glow as well, what's going on?
"We're providing power? How is that possible?" I can hear Chihiro flick through pages in Vor's book.
"It seems the personas' will wants them to just be there as support by providing power to Hades!" we all look at the personas in awe, it was their own will that was doing this, amazing.
The personas finally exhaust their power, Hades who's now full of power is still glowing blue.
"Go on Naegi." I turn over to see everyone smiling at me.
"End it." I smile and nod my head, I turn to Hades and activate his magic. For a split second the four star had changed into an eight star symbol rather than the four star one.
Hades' scythe get enveloped in the black aura and a lot of it, then it shapes into a scythe blade and hardens, Hades then proceeds to charge at Zeus.
Zeus magic get's activated, by using the lighting he tries to block, but Hades just cut through it and landed a full strike on Zeus cutting him in half.
I look at the guy who is now has wide eyes, he must really be surprised of the lost.
"I think we can stop now right?" I ask him, he glances over to me then his feet. My eyes widen at the fact he's starting to fade.
"I suppose you want me to tell you why I did this." he says he then looks at me.
"It was only to take your wild card." he began as all of us listened.
"When you were given your wild card years ago, I've been wanting to have it for myself. Even if I was the first wild card user you were given the complete version since I wasn't good enough - my wild card can only hold two Personas - I did meet you once and I wanted to take it from you. I tired but your persona that was still inside you protected you, I figured that only the void is where I can overpower you so I waited here in the void..."
So that's why Igor said he became a shadow of his former self.
"I waited for years and eventually I got bored of fighting the shadows, so when you first stepped into the void I thought it was my chance, but instead I triggered your awakening. Of course our first encounter did end up unfinished since you were still weak, I figured that it was too boring to end you that way so I waited and looked over every win you had with the Wardens and when I thought it was time I called you."
All of us listen to his story intently, for a guy who just said he wanted me dead he seems open, though he is dying.
"So what now, are you just gonna fade?" he gave a small smile, first one I've seen.
"I'm afraid so, I lost so my wild card is revoked and since I'm also a shadow I'm bound by the rules of nature I suppose." by now his lower half is gone.
"Well you may have tried to kill me, but I feel like we could've been friends." I smiled at him.
"Maybe, try not to get yourself killed here." with that he's finally gone, I watch the final pieces of him fade into the sky as I look up to Hades and smile.
Its over.
~ Back at Hopes Peak ~
The next morning came quickly, its probably because by the time we got back we were battered, well I was.
"Morning~" I yawn as I head to my seat, once I made it there I slump over my desk and place my head in my arms.
"Tired?" I nod my head, I lift it up and look at the others who are all donning a smile.
"What's up?" I ask them, Leon then puts me in a headlock.
"Our boss beat the final boss!" I chuckle at him while he ruffles my hair.
"You did great!" Chihiro says and the other nods in agreement.
"I couldn't have done it without you guys." I smile at them, despite my fatigue.
Beep! Beep!
Mono appears from a puff smoke panicking.
"Boss we got a reading!" he shows us his tracker, yep its a reading must be a new prison then.
"Shall we guys?" they smile at me and nod.
I don't think that we're done, heck it might just be the beginning.
It was so much fun, my first crossover, it was so much fun writing this chapter *sobs* I hope you guys had fun as well, because I did and I know that there are plot holes or things that aren't explained, but I can leave that to you guys to fill in (or complain) since its better of with your imagination. But I wanted to thank all of you for joining me in this story and I will see you guys :)
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