Chapter 11: Face it Yosuke

"I am a Shadow… The true self… I'll crush everything that bores me… Starting with you!" Shadow Yosuke pointed to all of us then charged toward Yosuke.

"Watch out!" I pushed him out of the way to take the hit but then the fake one jumped into the air and did a different attack using wind. I didn't get badly damaged by it but Seta seemed to be weak to it since he fell to the ground. "Crap! Yosuke stay here while I go help him kill that thing!"

He grabbed my arm; fear obviously took over his face. "P- Please don't get hurt. I can't handle losing another friend."

"Don't worry I can take this thing on." I left him with Teddie then took out my evoker. "Alright Hina, looks like we're going to have to do this again." I "shot" my head and she appeared in front of me and hit the giant shadow.

"You have one too!" Seta asked while dodging an attack.

"There's a lot you don't know about me. Use zio on him it's his weakness!" I did a backwards flip to dodge the huge hand that was trying to slap me.

Seta did as he was told then we attacked it together. It was almost dead until it came back up. "Pain in the ass!" Shadow Yosuke used a wind attack on us but thankfully Seta was able to block it before it got the chance to do some serious damage.

"Take him down!" I told him.

"Right!" Seta used zio then we both did a final hit on it. It fell down on the ground.

"Damn you both to hell!" It yelled before disintegrating.

After I put my rapier away I ran to Yosuke and helped him up. "Hey are you alright?"

"Y-Yeah… what… happened…?" We all looked at the Shadow that now looked like Yosuke again but he was just standing there, silent. "You… You're… not me…"

"That thing came from you, Yosuke… You have to admit it… or it'll go berserk again." Teddie said.

I put my hand on his shoulder. "You're still yourself." I told him.

"Myself…" He said it like he wanted to believe it but for some reason couldn't. "Dammit… It hurts to face yourself…" Yosuke walked over to the Shadow that looked like him. "I knew it wasn't lying… but I was so ashamed that I didn't want to admit it… You're me… and I'm you. When you get down to it, all of this is me."

Shadow Yosuke smiled then nodded at him. We watched as it changed into a persona named Jiraiya, then into a card. He took the card then looked down at it. "This is my Persona…" He walked over to us and fell to his knees.

"Yosuke!" I went over to him and helped him up.

"When we heard Senpai's voice… I wonder if that was something Senpai had been keeping deep down inside… Haha… 'He was a real pain in the ass,' huh? What a way to find out… Geez, this is so embarrassing…" He looked up at Seta and I. "If you two weren't here, I don't know what would have happened… Thanks you guys."

"No problem." Seta said.

"Well if you're in pain I want to be the one to cause it." I told him.

He stuck his tongue out at me but smiled at the fact that I was trying to make him happy. Then he asked Teddie if Saki had been attacked by her other self here. He told Yosuke that she might have and explained how Shadows were born from humans and about the fog.

"So is that why people die when it gets foggy in our world?" Seta asked.

"That's what I'm getting from this." I told him. "But right now we should head back to our world. Yosuke looks pretty worn out."

Once we got to where we had fallen in from, Yosuke asked Teddie, "Hey, Teddie. You said that this place is reality for people who enter, right? So that shopping district, and the weird room we saw before… did they exist because the ones who died entered this world, and it became their reality? I guess what I'm trying to ask is… did those places form because of the people who entered this world?"

"I don't know. It's never happened before… But that's probably where they were when the Shadows attacked them."

"It was the same for them?" Seta asked.

"The fog does lift here sometimes. The Shadows get really violent then." Teddie explained. "I always get so scared. I have to hide when it happens… I sensed people here twice before. But both of them disappeared after the fog lifted…"

He then told us about how they didn't get attacked until the fog lifted here. We decided to save the people that get thrown in before it lifts.

"Will you guys… come back here…?" Teddie asked.

"Of course." I told him with a smile.

"R-Really…?"

"Well, you're the one who said you weren't letting us out unless we do." Yosuke said.

"Oh! Th-That's right! Ok, I'll let you out. But there's one thing. I'll be waiting for you guys here. You need to come in from the same place every time so we can meet up."

"Alright we will! Can you show us the way out now?" I asked.

"Roger that! One exit coming right up!" Teddie stomped on the ground a few times then a stack of TVs appeared.

"Ok so first we should make sure no employees are-"

Yosuke actually had a good idea (from what he had said so far) but the big bear had already pushed us through, making us all fall in and end up in Junes again.

*So many things were going on o.o Oh and I actually never played Devil Survivor so I can't answer anything about that... And no Sarah can't change Hina to a different persona. BUT! I wanted to do something later on with it but I'm not completely sure. Maybe you guys can help? I'll put what it is next time (maybe).

*R & R yo! (I is gangster at the moment lol)*