RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and Persona is owned by Atlus. Here's yet another chapter. Like I said I'm not good with battles but Nightly7 said it was good enough so that's why I'm releasing it somewhat early. My upload speed is probably going to slow down after college starts but we'll see if I could still do my previous one chapter every 2 weeks. If I'm lucky I'll maintain a once a week upload, but I don't think I can maintain the current 3-4 day rate sorry.


"Are we ok just sitting here?" Jaune asked hesitantly. "I get that I'm not that experienced with this kind of stuff but are you guys sure that just sitting here after that Grimm attack from hell happened? There could be more somewhere close by."

"Jaune, you brought up a good point and all but I think we got them all." Ruby replied collapsing on a flat rock to rest on. "Ugh, I'm so tired."

"Team leaders are not supposed to show weakness for morale, dolt." Weiss shook her head. Though she was breathing hard herself, she tried to hide it but not very successfully.

"Says the not team leader." The red hooded reaper rolled her eyes playfully.

Her teammate sighed. "I'm not going to take such an obvious bait."

"Bait?" Ruby questioned innocently. "What are you talking about?"

Weiss didn't know whether she was genuinely oblivious or trying desperately to get another rise out of her. It was somewhat embarrassing considering she'll represent the Schnee Dust company in a matter of time. Even now, it wasn't the best image for the heiress to have childish arguments with a girl 2 years her junior. The company's image would plummet down in a single night.

"You insult me or say something offensive and that starts an argument," Weiss narrowed her eyes on her teammate. "We had over 4 arguments today, and not surprisingly, after all that happened. I'm too tired to keep up with you Ruby."

"We should rest up for a few minutes, and I don't think we should change locations so Professor Goodwitch and the rest won't have to search for us."

"Where are they anyways?" Jaune asked after taking a sip of water from his water bottle.

"I know right, we just fought a horde of Grimm and that was supposed to be handled by the chaperone instead of us." Weiss huffed.

"Oh, Weiss," Ruby casually waved it off. "We were totes super amazing and acting like real Huntresses for a moment."

"I'll have to agree with Weiss on this matter Ruby," Pyrrha smiled apologetically at the girl. "This could have been the end of us."

Ruby deflated a bit and reluctantly agreed, while Weiss beamed at the support and puffed her chest out.

"Minato sure saved us though," Ruby mumbled in slight defense. "I dunno what he did but he made the Grimm less y'know threatening."

"As expected from a member of a branch family of the Schnee." The heiress stated in a knowing tone. "Such a diverse amount of abilities makes me somewhat envious if I'm to be completely honest."

Her red hooded teammate blinked in surprised. "Y'know Weiss? It's rare to hear you speak your thoughts in the open. What did Minato call you? A Tsun…dere, Yes a Tsundere."

"You don't even know what that means!" Weiss retorted and scoffed a bit.

"Do you?"

Weiss didn't flatter her with a response.

"Say," Jaune hesitantly got their attention. "You think all that crazy stuff Minato just did? You think we could pull stuff like that too?" The blonde could imagine such powers could make up for his lack of skill and talent. That got the other 3 Huntsman in trainings' attention.

"I don't know," Pyrrha admitted. "We also have no idea how that power functions, he seems to have multiple ways of summoning those things, considering his first match against Nora… he didn't even use that model gun of his."

"If he doesn't need to shoot himself in the head, why bother?" Ruby asked genuinely curious.

"Disregarding how morbid that would sound out of context," Weiss said. "Perhaps, it's a trigger of some sort."

"OF COURSE, it's a trigger, it's a gun shaped thing after all." Ruby said it a tone as if Weiss was slow in the uptake.

"I mean… perhaps it focuses his abilities, it's a well-known fact the human mind has powers." Weiss replied. "Maybe it's like a key that triggers something in his mind and unlocks it… no it would be more accurate to call it a jump starter."

"The mind has powers?"

"The will and drive a person comes from their personality no? When people are desperate, the limiter are removed temporarily giving them strength they normally wouldn't have. I would assume a gun barrel being placed on one's temple would trigger something similar."

"We're just assuming at this rate," Pyrrha cracked her neck and stretched. "We'll never truly know until we hear it from Minato's mouth."

Ruby slammed her fist into her palm. "It's simple, we simply ask him then!" She nodded to herself as if complimenting herself for her own genius.

"What makes you think he'll answer you?"

"Huh?"

"He wasn't exactly transparent during the initiation, so why would he tell you now," Weiss said looking at her Dust shooting rapier Myrtenaster. "To be completely honest, I believe I'm fortunate enough for Minato telling me what little about his powers that he did and I think he only told me them because I was being somewhat of a nuisance."

"Well, you can be really stubborn when you want to be Weiss."

"And you and your brute of a sister aren't?"

"Ok, Yang thinks with her fists sometimes, it's no big deal."

"Tell that to the guy who got a little too touchy."

"Alright Weiss, you got me there."

"Naturally."

"Time to break some legs!" Nora screamed as she cannon-balled herself to the battlefield where Pyrrha, Jaune, Weiss, Ruby and Minato fought. What she didn't expect was an empty forest with 4 teens sitting on the ground and with visible sweat soaking into their clothes. "Uhhh, where's the giant Ursa Team CDRL was talking about."

"Don't tell me you guys kicked its ass already," Yang chuckled before stopping due to this strange awkwardness and annoyance in the air. "Guys?"

"Where were you!"

"Nora isn't very good with directions." Ren said sheathing his gun-blade hybrid.

"We got lost 5 times." Blake explained as she and Professor Goodwitch walked forward. The blonde professor examined the tired students and the heavily damaged area. "What happened here? The damage is too much for a lone Grimm, however old and large it may be."

"There was a literal legion of them, Professor Goodwitch."

"T-that can't be possible," Glynda gasped slightly and having a hard time believing what she was told. "Grimm only get this active if a village's worth of dark emotions is present and the Forever Fall is devoid of human population for the most part."

"I know it's hard to believe but we five experienced it firsthand." Pyrrha replied.

"Five?"

"Yes?"

"There's only 4 of you." Glynda stated with her glasses catching the sunlight causing it to glare white, hiding her green eyes.

"T-that can't be right," Pyrrha stuttered. "Who's missing… Minato!"

"He was here just a while ago!" Weiss stammered. "We saw him surround the Grimm and take care of the remaining ones."

"D-do you think the Grimm got him?" Yang asked growing worried for him. They weren't the closest of friends but they hang out and work out together from time to time. In fact, he was more or less Team RWBY's friend as all 4 of them have more or less bonded from being in such close proximity with one another. Though she'll have to limit his interaction with her little Ruby because when Minato wants to, he can turn charm up to 11 real quick.

"I don't think so…" Ruby pressed her index fingers together. "I think he got the most kill counts out of all of us."

"Ah, so he was being a badass huh?" Yang teased her little sister a bit glad that she was talking to her again. The only time Ruby really got upset was when the chicken soup incident gets brought up. It was almost like she got some 6th sense when that gets brought to the equation. "What kinds of moves did be bust out?" The blonde golden dragon was pretty proud of the blue haired Fool for beating down Nora with his fists alone. He had come a long way since he got smashed in the face by the hyperactive hammer wielding girl of Team JNPR.

"His Summoning Semblance and his special thing he did in the initiation." Ruby replied excitedly. "It was awesome! It was like he had multiple allies helping him at once."

"Indeed, Summoning is more valuable than paltry speed." Weiss boasted much to the irritation and dismay of Ruby.

"He probably got too carried away and started to look for the places the Grimm dispersed to," Ruby assured Professor Goodwitch and deliberately chose to not rise to Weiss' either obvious taunt or her own reassurance of her prided family Semblance… such shameless flattery of one's self.

"…Yes, given the average strength of the Grimm here and the ones in the border of the kingdom in general, it would be very unlikely Mr. Arisato to be defeated but being caution-less is a poor way to end one's life prematurely." Glynda stated. "Against a group a Grimm, fighting alone isn't something a Huntsman in training should do given how unpredictable they are and how conditions could change."

True Huntsman would fight alone against a horde of Grimm and more often than not come out on top with barely a scratch but that's after they gained years of training and experience. Their Auras are usually denser too as their control with Aura gets better as time goes on. That and they managed to complete a style of fighting that heavily revolves around their Semblance giving them a truly unique one of a kind fighting style and techniques.

"it doesn't look like there's any connection here." Pyrrha said checking her Scroll. "We'll have to check physically, on foot."

"looks like I'll have to speak with Mr. Arisato about reckless behavior after we find him." Glynda stated in a professional tone taking out her Riding crop.

"Ouch, sucks to be that guy." Yang muttered.


"What a brilliant show, Death of the Mortal world. You are truly the unlimited possibility I need for my most personal wish to come to fruition."

Minato instantly turned around where the voice was coming from and tightened the Evoker to the point his handed turn skeletal white from the pressure. The usual comfortable grip of the pistol shaped object dug into his skin causing imprint on it. "Why Are You Here Nox," He stared at her directly into her eyes. "How did you know I came here."

She relaxed further into her rather thick tree branch while crossing her legs. "I'm always watching you, my little investment." The fragment of the star eater seemed more interested in getting rid of the creases on her skirt than having a real serious conversation with him. "In fact, I even watch you when you're sleeping. Watching your chest rise and fall as you inhale and exhale is rather calming for me."

Minato felt like his personal space was being violated, he didn't even know if she was being serious or not. After getting that strange to real to be just a dream vision, looking at the Grimm gives him a sharp sickening feeling and phantom pain. Now looking at Nox, gave him a strange feeling of rage and fear and he didn't even know why. He had problems with her before, but they were problems that he understood seeing his soul remembers his act of getting ripped out to form the Great Seal against Nyx and Nox was a fragment of Nyx that somehow gotten to Remnant. He probably knew the reason why but that didn't make him feel better. Most likely after getting the Universe Arcana formed, Minato chose to attack Nyx even though he knew she couldn't be defeated. However, those carved pieces off Nyx's main body just like her collision with Earth… his world, and when he created that platform for SEES to stand on… he cut open space which led one fragment, Nox to travel to this universe and eventually Remnant.

"I and my sisters have always observed you." Nox stated smugly playing with her beautiful black silky hair… it was inhumanly beautiful. "Mother might be neutral towards you mortals however we are not."

He sheathed his Dao sword, it was insufficient towards her. "…Sisters?"

"You're not going to use the swords made from the chains of Death I so graciously delivered to you?" Nox questioned but eventually shrugged. "Yes, sisters… as you probably know or at the very least guessed, we were born from the clash between Mother and your Universe Arcana. However, when you selfishly used the Universe Arcana a second time to talk to your 'precious' teammates… you cut a hole to other worlds and the fragments of Nyx that were carved off by you became the system of Death for new blossoming Universes… except me." A moment of weakness and doubt appeared over her face for a moment but it quickly got replaced by the same smug look she always got. But for a moment she looked tired, on the verge of collapsing.

Minato bit his lip as the horrible truth came to light.

"Yes, you single handedly helped the progress of the other Universes propagating life there with an already established system of Death of our home world. You could be considered a Messiah and the god of those worlds, that alone is worthy of praise however… that doesn't change the slights against me and Mother."

Minato reached into his Internal pocket and pulled out the Opposing Star, the nihil fusion of Lucifer's Blade and Satan which had evolved due to the legends of Remnant. "And what slight are you referring to?" His sword that shifted into many colors with its crystalline blade erupted suddenly with multi-colored purple flames with hints of magenta, pink, blues, and reds.

"All you need to know that you belong to me," She looked directly inside his soul through his eyes. "Everything you are and everything you become is mine as well."

Without any warning, Nox launched herself at him with a speed that almost caught him off guard. Minato Arisato instinctively brought up his sword to defend and came into contact with another sword. The sword that was almost identical to the sword the Harbinger used at the peak of Tartarus but scaled to size for the black-haired wielder. "Ugh!" Minato grunted. Visible shockwaves were formed from the mere contact with each other.

The impact was insane, the pressure, the strength, the sheer dominance of her strike surpassed the physical world. There was a wild desperation that could be felt with his sword biting into hers, his arms could feel the minute shaking and vibrating of Nox as it screamed at him to break off the exchange. It was brutal to endure but something in his soul yelled at him to not back down, to not let her win the first exchange. Almost like a fundamental aspect of him refused to bow down to anything in existence, Nox was nothing more than a fragment of Nyx and he fought and stalemated the real being, there was absolutely nothing to fear from her.

The Messiah committed himself into the attack, feeling invigorated by his strengthened will and pumped even more power into his blade causing his sword to rage wildly with its flame growing more and more dense. Nox locked eyes with him and narrowed her seafoam greenish-blue eyes into near slits as she did the same thing with her sword infusing as much energy as possible into hers causing it to glow a blackish red, the same shade when Nyx launched that death attack that was beyond compare. Even Elizabeth's Pixie Megidolaon was nothing in place of this attack, despite the phantom pain causing havoc in his psyche, Minato poured even more energy into his blade countering the spell. The arms of Minato almost buckled but the Savior refused to back down.

The purple otherworldly flames of destruction met the most potent wave of death causing mixed fire like energy and lightning to be generated by mere contact. The corrosive power started to heat up and melt the ground as darkness and light ravaged through it. The whole area was shaking due to the pressure but neither being looked like they wanted to pull back. Minato's eyes glowed a pale blue while Nox's glowed a green shade, they locked eyes once again in a stare down more intense than the sword clash ever will be.

Their weapons bit into each other and made an ungodly shriek like sound as they grinded their blades together. Nox's power seem to wane the longer the confrontation went on, Minato realizing this gave one more final push of energy. The inhuman magic eventually couldn't be contained any longer and blasted the two away from each other. The fragment of Nyx was sent flying snapping multiple trees from the detonation of the spell while Minato simply plunged his sword into the earth with the tip and slowed his recoil.

Minato winced as the spell burned through his Aura bypassing it entirely and burned his skin slightly. Just simply moving caused his nerves to send electrical shock like pain through his system, and his lungs felt like someone simply pierced it with a pipe glowing from fire and heat. The regeneration from the Spring of Life via Trismegistus was helping soothe the pain but it wasn't fast enough. He had almost forgotten that Almighty spells pierced through Aura, it's been months since he fought the true Reaper.

The goddess got up with a storm brewing in her eyes, it glowed more radiantly and promised retribution. "You, mere mortal, how dare you," Nox snarled in rage. "How dare you Harm Me!" Minato knew something was wrong, she was nowhere near her powerful when they first met… did she rapidly deteriorate in just a few months?

She charged at him with her strength multiplying in her enraged state but Minato held his ground and got charged at her instead of merely getting into a defensive stance. With a fierce battle cry, Minato poured his Stat Allocation into his Strength and Speed equally dividing the total amount for usually one stat. As soon as his feet touched the ground, his physical capability propelled him causing to travel the distance in a few leaps in the fraction of the time.

The two clashed blades again causing for shockwaves shredding the nearby trees to splinters and logs. Each exchange was almost equal until Nox dodged a rather powerful thrust by the Messiah and jabbed her blade at Minato's neck. It was a sudden burst of speed and power that Minato wasn't expecting.

Now!

The Minato instinctively poured all of his stat points into speed and rebuffed himself with a Sukukaja. The Fool sidesteps the thrust but was unable to dodge completely as the 4-foot sword slashed the side of his neck spilling his blood to the already red earth. The sharp pain didn't delay Minato in the slightest as he grabbed her sword arm and pulled her off balance.

In one swift motion, he laid her across the ground and packed as much energy into his leg and stomped down on her stomach. That move was strong enough to knock all the air out of her lungs as she coughed up a mixture of divine ichor and saliva. The strike was powerful enough to easily crack the ground and make a crater where she laid.

He powered charged the next stomp and caused her body to bounce up and down a few inches into the air. The blacked haired fragment instinctively coated her body with red and black almighty energy which condensed and exploded on Minato's dominant leg causing a grunt of pain from the male, but despite how powerful the attack was it didn't stop Minato from using another full-force power charged stomp on her again causing some ichor to drip from the edge of her mouth. Her attack was powerful yes, but it lacked substance, it lacked the dominance she had in the beginning of the fight.

The goddess unintentionally left her sword in place of placing her hands on her stomach to soothe the built-up pain and curled into a ball. Her entire frame quivered and shook, an indicator of fear. Visions of that dream he had in Doctor Oobleck's class filled his mind contorting his face in a maddening murderous expression, he pressed on her ribcage with force building up until he heard a satisfying snap indicating her bones breaking.

Minato now knew for a fact that she was not used to fighting, she was simply naturally gifted beyond human capability but Minato Arisato was a being that broke past the barriers of Humanity and became a semi-divine being with the last vestiges of Humanity clinging on his soul like a stain.

He grabbed her by the hair ignoring the squeal of pain and pressed the edge of his sword to her throat. "And you just thought you were a match for me." Minato whispered, his mouth less than an inch of her ear. Nox shivered when she felt his warm breath on her skin. "This power goes beyond the capability of any one-person Nox, this is the strength born from the bonds I have forged and the reason of living I given to myself." She tried to power out of his hold but she couldn't as she shook limply in his grasp. "I have more will than you could ever comprehend… you're all alone."

She glared at him with the corner of her eyes but underneath there was this fear in it. A part of him felt satisfied breaking that woman's constant assurance of her own powers but at the same time he didn't like hurting living things. Grimm and Shadows aren't exactly living beings, not to his opinion… they were more functioning than living. In fact, when looking at her in this angle… she seemed almost human.

"Y-you, I'm a fragment of the Star Eater! The greatest existence that surpasses the gods and demons created by the perception of Humanity!" She struggled to free herself only Minato to switch his sword to an icepick reverse grip on his sword and stabbed her through her leg.

Shrk!

A sudden feeling of anger coursed through him and he didn't even know why… or rather was it something he can't control? Was this his counterpart's emotion resurging in his psyche? They were technically one body and soul now, could he have end up inheriting his regrets and rage, and the dream was simply it being remerging after 2 years.

Nox took everything away from his other self but this wasn't just his life anymore… this was Minato Arisato's life as well. He might not hold any positive emotions towards her, but he didn't want to cruelly punish her like this. He had to regain control of himself, he can't allow his counterpart to influence his emotions like this… he was a better than that, trying to simply get revenge is such a petty emotion but at the same time… he can't ignore his counterpart's feeling either.

Glowing ichor that was black and a bit of radiant blue shining like stars started to flow freely through the wound. "You killed my other seIf and I now know what that dream I had was." Minato pressed down digging the sword deeper into her leg cracking and snapping her bones slightly. Nox screamed but Minato let go of his grip on her silky black hair and clamped down her on her mouth muffling her. "Despite my pain, I never once held any contempt against Nyx… but you? You became much more alive than your mother ever could be, but you revel in your dominance over Man. I loathe you Nox. Not just because of what you done but the fact that in your awakening as a person, you now embody what I abhor about humanity, their darkness."

"…"

"But despite all that, I won't kill you." Minato pulled his sword out and gently laid her down in an almost loving fashion and switched to Messiah. He was about to use a minor healing spell but as he placed the palm of his hand over her stomach, it flickered like a glitch and his hand went through it. Minato immediately pulled his hand back as Nox panicked when seeing.

She was breathing heavily until it solidified into the physical plane. Despite being absolutely bewildered, Minato placed his hand on her stomach again but the black-haired woman grabbed it weakly with her left arm. It had no strength, it was almost as if she has been deteriorating since he first met her months back. Assuming that she and the other fragments in other worlds could be believed, they have been monitoring him since his fate of becoming the Great Seal all those millennia ago.

"…I don't need your pity you sinner," She spat trying put on a bold front. But they both knew she won't last any longer.

"…Unlike your sisters, you failed to become the system of death for the universe," Minato looked at her eyes directly. "Am I right?"

"…" She didn't say anything but she didn't need to say anything, her eyes said it all. When he saw fear, it wasn't because of him… it was of something else.

"The system of death is necessary for a new universe to function," Minato said undeterred, he was used to her insanity and she was so easy to read in her panic and fear induced state. "But a universe that had fully formed has no place for a being like you."

"And what of it?" She growled at him trying to get up but his stomps on her gut had left her paralyzed.

"What the universe has no use for, they get rid of like a cancer with surgical precision… there was a reason why I never went back to our world besides the friends I made in that most meaningful year no longer being among the living." His time there was over, how ironic… to be rejected by the same world he spent eternity saving. Or rather he was hated by the world for saving Humanity, the world found that the species overstepped their bounds and when given the opportunity to leave the collective unconscious with Elizabeth… his soul was automatically rejected as a malignant entity like a cancer that was unwilling to die. There was no future for him as his soul was barred from reincarnation as well.

Her body flickered again. She closed her eyes in resignation. There was no afterlife for someone like her, a system rather than a person will disappear to the void of creation unlike the humans or even the ASWs had an afterlife to go to due to the potential of awakening a Persona. She has nothing… absolutely nothing, she'll become nothing. She was afraid, she knew what awaited her once she fades… nothing. She hated humans because she was envious of them and their cycle of eternity.

She kept flickering and flickering as it became more erratic and her body skipping the solidification entirely. This was the end for her until she saw a glowing blue light, it was beautiful and reminded her of her mother the real Nyx. She hesitantly opened her eyes and saw Minato holding something… a Plume of Dusk.

The jagged feathery stone called out to her, the black-haired fragment reached out for it but the Fool pulled it out of reach. "I figure this would help you with your circumstance am I right? Considering you and this rock are but the same type of existence." He remembered after the initiation that she compared herself to a Plume of Dusk so he figured this resource would have an effect. Considering the rock revived him once before and Copper once before, it can't really harm Nox. It'll probably similar to a blood transfusion to compare it to a human practice.

The Plume was simply just a fingertip away, Nox dragged her body upwards desperately trying to reach it but Minato just pulled it out of the way. Her eyes grew almost manic and truly showed her desperation.

"Give It to me," She pulled herself closer. "Please, please give it over."

"Oh? The self-proclaimed goddess is begging me? The same person you threatened and harassed over half a year?" Minato knew he was being cruel but he had to break even his own moral code for a deal in his favor and Remnants favor.

"…"

"I'll give it to you, on one condition."

"…What is it?"

"Remove the Dark Hour and ensure the Fall doesn't occur in this world. The people here, whatever grudge you have against me… let's keep it private and leave these people out of it."

"…I can't." She barely got out.

"You can't?" Minato narrowed his silver eyes towards her.

"The Shadows are already summoned here and I can't control them as I am now."

"Fine, I like to believe I'm a reasonable person. Leave the people of this world alone and halt the Shadows crossing over this world. You can do that right?"

"…Yes." She barely got out.

Minato looked her in the eyes and nodded. He got a deal more or less and he could tell she was truthful at the very least. He pressed the stone into her heart and pumped some of his energy into the stone as well fixing the damage her soul had taken over time. He probably should have let her simply fade away from existence as his counterpart was screaming to his ear with visions haunting him, but he had a feeling she wasn't irredeemable. Nox had a 'spark' of humanity just like Aigis who inherited a portion of his powers and the rest of the Anti-Shadow weapons.

Nox sighed in relief taking in the stone's power and his reinvigorating her. The damage she had taken over being in Remnant for millennia's slowly being reversed and being sealed close by the vessel of the harbinger, like a glass being melted down and remolded.

She stared at him with an incomprehensible expression, they were so mixed that he couldn't even tell whether she hated him more or not. She had most likely always had mixed emotions towards him, it was because of him that she was even ever 'born' to begin with and it was him that gave her the fear of living. To her living is just as scary as fading away… everything was so simple when she was but a part of Nyx and not her own being. "…I see," She mumbled quietly to herself.

"Hm?" Minato made a questioning sound. He sat down on a nearby rock, he didn't even bother raising up a guard seeing how the hostility levels weren't as high as they were but they were definitely still here but it wasn't anything major.

"I would assume by your increased aggression and visions that your counterpart of this world is on the precipice of awakening." She looked at him with genuine curiosity. "Your ways of life while similar, still contradict just like any other human despite being mirrors of each other."

"…" This time, it was Minato who stayed quiet. It wasn't that surprising considering he was now a being with a merged soul. True the Remnant Minato was on the verge of dying with his soul fractured but he lives on in him. He was surprised it took this long for him to awaken or show any signs of influence. Rather every time he spoke more than usual can be chalked up to the counterpart's influence.

"I don't regret what happened, he died a pathetic death just like the rest of the vermin of this pathetic world."

Minato glared at her. "He died a noble death, protecting what he wanted to protect and he succeeded,"

He placed the Opposing Star back into his dimensional pocket. "Why are you so hating of humans Nox, Nyx was a neutral entity but even when she wanted to reclaim the psyche of hers within the humans of our world and the animals, she only did so when Erebus called out to her. She was very kind to allow Humanity to live for this long even if she would forever be fragmented and made lesser as long as we humans live."

"I'll humor you just this once Messiah… no Minato Arisato," Nox rested on a tree as she combed through her hair fixing the wild look gotten from fighting him. "You humans Minato, are undeserving of mother's psyche. Using powers that don't belong to you… whether they be Persona or Shadow, they are born of Nyx in the end. Not Nyarlathotep, not Philemon. They might have gained control of it due to humanity creating the collective unconscious but even they are nothing compared to mother's full might. You of all mortals should know this."

"I do." Minato reluctantly agreed. "But that doesn't answer my question fully."

"What more do you want?"

"Remnant's humans are born without the psyche of Nyx, so why target them as well."

"Ah, they are mired with contradiction… killing them would honestly be a mercy." She stated. "To become a singularity and become Nyx's power is a blessing for any lower being. You stated that you loathed me for exhibiting their darkness but you still turned your gaze from the obvious truth, Humanities' darkness is born from their hearts yet you do nothing… is it because you know in your heart that humans won't change?"

Minato found it strange that he literally had to manhandle her before they could have a serious civil conversation. "I feel that we could change but how long it takes, I have no idea."

"Is that how you rationalize the time you spent in the seal despite your reason of living's passing? If I didn't know any better I'd think you intentionally deluded yourself so you could endure eternity alone, you naïve fool."

Minato grunted. "What about you?"

"Pardon?"

"You and the other fragments must have spent just as much time watching me as the seal and you went the extra mile of killing my counterpart and drawing Elizabeth here with my soul in the compendium."

"I had hoped to absorb you or transformed you into my personal Avatar to initiate the Fall here," She sighed. "I have no purpose in this world, they have their system for regulating this universe. I didn't want to disappear nor fade away"

When he was about to respond he heard footsteps drawing closer. "I guess our one-time decent conversation is over, get going… I don't really want to explain why you're here."

"You do realize that the next time we meet, we'll continue our battle, right?" Nox glared at him. "I will not stop, I will return Nyx to her true glory… even you have never seen a completely healed Star Eater. As long of the Humans of our world exists, Nyx will forever be incomplete."

"Just leave the people of this world out of it, your issue is with me not them."

"Not necessarily true, your counterpart even if for a brief moment exerted his influence over you and harmed my physical form. I will stain my hands with his blood and your blood."

"And you would paint Humanity of this world in one broad stroke? His sins are to be shared with the rest?"

"You would do well in exerting your dominance again over that counterpart Minato Arisato. As my thanks for the Plume… I'll kill Humanity after I deal with you." She then vanished in black mist.

*Crack*

I am Thou, Thou art I

Thou shalt be blessed when Thou choosest to create Personas of the Judgement Arcana

The Death Goddess Social Link has Reached Stage 4

Your power to create Personas of the Judgement Arcana has grown


Guys it has been revealed, Minato is being influenced by his Remnant counterpart for awhile now and while they have pretty similar morals they are no means the exact same person. I'm looking at you Zamasu from Dragon Ball Super. Nox is gonna be different now too, but she got her ass whooped. I was hyping her up to be a threat but damn she took it hard. I also gave her a somewhat serious scene at the end just because she deserved a non crazy moment. Her goal has been revealed but obviously she needed more power to make it come to fruition.

Not saying she's weak but there was no conceivable way for her to fight Minato and win. She's been weakening since her coming to Remnant, and that's how she became insane... absorbing the Plume of Dusk would make her more stable and closer to her original Personality but the damage has been done, she's not Nyx or the other fragments who are the definition of Neutrality. To put it in perspective... she's been degrading for thousands of years and add alongside the fear of dying (Well Oblivion) her state of mind will naturally deteriorate. Obviously she's not human but i tried to give her a human characteristic I've revealed in the chapter after the reaper. I think chapter 20 but don't quote me on that.

Needless to say, we haven't seen the last of Nox. And the RWBY cast will know some stuff in a chapter or 2. Not gonna make Minato spill with his own mouth... I think that's poor writing and OOC. Damn finally the end of the Forever Fall arc... took 3 chapters where as in other fics takes only one but I think the content was too much to squeeze into two or one. I was gonna have a Shadow attacking Team RWBY and Team JNPR but scrapped it the more I wrote it. Too convenient IMO.