A/N: Yeah this one took way longer than it should have, sorry. But it's time for the finale of the Persona story. Enjoy.

Alice and Asuna stood together in the large room that Alice and her friends had split up from earlier. Not long after Asuna's Persona had awoken, the two were teleported there. One by more, more of the group began to arrive as well. It seemed to have been a similar experience for each of them. The only ones missing now were Ren, Kirito, Helios, and Leafa.

"So, who do you think got the misfortune of having Helios be the one to help them?" Sinon asked.

"Well it's either Kirito or Leafa. Either way, one of them is probably going to be in a bad mood when they get back here." Asuna said.

The next thing they knew, another door appeared. Coming through it this time were Ren and Kirito. It was clear their experience had been as tiring as the rest of them.

"Seems we're one of the last to arrive." Ren said.

"Only Helios and Leafa are left." Dagger told them. "Should be any second now."

And just like that, the last door appeared. Everyone was expecting to see Leafa and Helios walk through together. But to their surprise, the body of Helios was tossed through the door, soon followed by Leafa walking through normally.

"If you ever make a comment like that again, you're in for an even bigger world of hurt, you jerk." Leafa commented.

"Ugh… Freaking hell. Was that sucker punch really necessary?" Helios groaned.

Alice rolled her eyes. "What did you do this time, Helios?"

"Hey it's Leafa's fault! You should have seen it. Her world was-"

"Shut your mouth if you don't want to die!" Leafa said with a glare. "You are to never speak of what happened in that place to anyone! Got it?!"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever."

"Well, in any case, everyone's finally here." Kirito said. "So what's next?"

As if to answer his question, a bright light surrounded everyone in the group. With a blinding flash, each of them were teleported away.

When Ren's vision cleared up, he found himself somewhere completely new. It seemed to be some sort of maze, with certain areas elevated around them. As he checked his surroundings, he noticed the rest of his friends teleport around him. Or at least most of them. The ones of them that had chosen the Person 4 route were nowhere to be found.

"So what the heck is this about?" Dagger asked. "Where exactly are we?"

"Well, Uncle Kaito mentioned something about us testing the PvP thing after we all got our Personas, right?" Alice mentioned.

Mai realized where her sister was going with this. "So that means…"

"It's us against the others." Ren finished. An excited grin came to his face. "This should be fun."

"That's good and all, but where do we start looking?" Himiko asked. "Should we split up?"

Ren shook his head. "No, if we do that and one of us runs into them, they'll pick us off one by one. I have a different idea in mind."

Helios narrowed his eyes as he looked at his friend. "Are you thinking of…"

"Yep." Ren nodded. "We're going to pull that off."

"Hehe, now I'm getting excited." Helios grinned. "Let's find those suckers."

The rest of Wyvern's Inferno looked at Ren and Helios oddly, wondering what they had in mind. They could only assume it had something to do with the Persona game, considering they were the only 2 that had played it.

"Let's do this." Ren said. "Phantom Thieves, move out."

"Why are we calling ourselves that?" Mai asked.

"Shut up, squirt. It's cool." Helios told her.

Elsewhere in the maze-like area, Kirito and the others were collecting their bearings. They had been a bit confused at first, but after receiving a message from Alicia's uncle, they understood what they had to do. It was a team fight, them against Wyvern's Inferno.

"So where should we start?" Asuna asked. "Ren and everyone could be anywhere in this place."

"Hmm…" Kirito thought to himself as he tried to come up with a strategy. He looked at the elevated areas. "Sinon, you think you could get up there and act as a lookout? See if you can spot them."

"Leave it to me." Sinon said. "Anyone got a way to get me up there?"

"Heh, this'll be perfect for me." Liz said with a grin. She held out her hand and a tarot card appeared. "Persona!" Hovering over Liz was a humanoid figure with one leg, wielding a hammer in one hand. "Ippon-Datara, lend us a hand."

Sinon instantly read the blacksmith's mind and jumped back with a backflip. Liz's Persona grabbed the girl and threw her up to the elevated area. Sinon landed on it with the same precision as if she was still a Cait Sith.

"How's it look up there?" Suguha asked.

"Let me get a look." Sinon said. She looked around. There were a few places even higher up than where she was but for the most part, it seemed to be the same maze until it hit the walls of the room they were in. "I don't see them. I'll move around to get a better-" Sinon was cut off as she turned and widened her eyes. "Guys they're-"

The rest of the statement died on Sinon's tongue as she was suddenly hit and knocked off the spot she was standing on. She fell and hit the ground hard next to the rest of her team.

"Sinon!" Asuna gasped.

"Damn…" Sinon grunted. "They came out of nowhere."

Kirito quickly stood on edge. "Be on guard everyone. They could come at us from any direction."

"You've got that right." a voice said.

"But which direction will it be?" another spoke.

"Better be careful. No way to tell where we are." a third one chuckled.

Kirito's group quickly stood back to back in a circle, not knowing where to be on guard from. The voices were all coming from different directions.

The next voice was one they all recognized as Helios's. "Hey Kirito, you know what's the best thing about surprise attacks?"

"That you're supposed to be quiet for them to work effectively?" Kirito countered sarcastically.

"Close but no." Helios said. "The best thing is… You never see it coming~!"

Just like that, Wyvern's Inferno each emerged from different directions with their Personas. Kirito and the others instinctively summoned their own Personas as well.

"Alright everyone, get 'em!" Ren said.

"We won't lose that easily!" Kirito said. "Go Yoshitsune!"

The Persona of the Black Swordsman lunged forward with its two blades. Ren's Person Fenrir however saw this coming and dodged the incoming slash. It bit down on the Persona's neck and threw it down onto the ground.

"Magarudyne!" Ren shouted.

At his command, the wolf howled, letting loose a powerful blast of wind, hitting Kirito's entire ground.

"Swift Strike!" Helios called out, which made his Persona unleash a furious assault that knocked everyone down.

"Damnit…" Asuna grunted as she tried to get back up.

"They're all down! Time for an All Out Attack!" Ren yelled out.

"Aw, come on! I wanted to be the one to say it!" Helios complained.

"Just shut up and do it, Helios!"

Kirito and the others quickly tried to get to their feet, but before they even knew it, Wyvern's Inferno came dashing at them from every direction, hitting them with a relentless barrage of hits and slashes. When it was finally over, all of their HP had hit zero and they shattered. Wyvern's Inferno stood together in triumphant victory.

"And that is how you win a fight Persona-style." Ren said with a grin.

"Aw yeah! We kicked butt!" Mai grinned.

A 'Congratulations' sign appeared in front of them all, making everyone high five each other. A few seconds later, they were all teleported out of the arena. They soon found themselves standing in the middle of a city. There was no one in it though, the city was completely barren. They soon caught sight of Kirito and the others and made their way over to them.

Kirito groaned as he rubbed his head. "Geez guys, you really were relentless there, weren't you?"

"Well, we did have a couple of Persona experts with us." Alice grinned.

"Once we knew how to win, it was rather easy." Dagger giggled.

Sinon let out a sigh. "Well I suppose we lost due to a lack of experience. Can't argue with that."

"So what now?" Suguha asked. "Your uncle didn't talk about us doing anything after the PvP fight, did he Alice?"

"I don't think so." Alice said as she thought to herself. "Maybe this is for something else?"

"Actually, it's for us." a new voice said.

All heads turned to where the voice had come from. All eyes widened at who it was, while Asuna and Alice ran over to the two new arrivals.

"Yui!"

"Luna!"

The two AI girls jumped at their mothers and hugged them. The others however stared perplexingly at this.

"Um, mind filling us in here?" Himiko asked. "How did Yui and Luna end up in here?"

Alice turned to the others and explained. "Luna said she wanted to join us in testing the game. So I asked my uncle and he said he had a way for her to join us. I asked for Yui too, since I figured she'd want to join us too."

"You look so cute in that, Yui!" Asuna said as she looked at her daughter's attire.

Yui giggled at her mother's praise. "You think so?"

"What's with those outfits though?" Suguha asked. She looked at the clothes Yui and Luna were wearing. The two girls were both dressed completely in blue from head to toe.

"Mama's uncle explained it to us." Luna told them. "Apparently we're attendants for something called the Velvet Room."

"Velvet Room?" Kirito questioned. "What's that?"

"It's this small room in another dimension." Yui explained. "There's also this really weird man with a long nose."

Suguha narrowed her eyes. "How long are we talking here?"

"If it's who I think it is, VERY long." Ren said.

"Oh and there's more!" Yui added. "We get to fight everyone as special bosses!"

Everyone's eyes widened at this. "Wait, we have to fight you two?!" Asuna gasped.

"Mhm." Luna nodded. "Don't worry though. Mama's uncle promised the pain absorber would be at max so no one would get hurt."

"So… does this mean you two have Personas too?" Liz asked.

Both girls nodded their heads. "We've got lots and lots of Personas to use." Yui explained.

"Um… guys can we talk for a minute?" Helios suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Kirito turned to the teen. "What is it Helios?"

"In private." he said. He looked over at Yui and Luna. "You two can go back to the Velvet Room. We'll catch up with you in a sec."

"Ok." Luna said. "See you soon Uncle Helios."

Helios waited for the two girls to leave and walk through the door to the Velvet Room before huddling everyone together. "Ok guys, we need to get the hell out of here!"

"What? Why?" Alice asked with a frown. "Those two went to so much effort to be here and see us. It'd be rude to just ditch them like that."

Helios feverishly shook his head at her statement. "Those girls are going to DESTROY us! Ren, back me up here!"

Being put on the spot like this, the leader found himself caught on two sides. Logically, he knew that Helios was right and that the girls would be like Velvet Room attendants of past. Being stupidly powerful that required an airtight strategy to beat them. And that they shouldn't go into this fight very much unprepared. But with Alice giving him a glaring look told him that if he decided to side with his friend, there would be no appeasing his girlfriend for possibly weeks to come.

"I mean… there's no guarantee that the girls will be super powerful. This is a beta of the game after all. And they're so excited too." Ren let out a weird yelp of surprise when Helios rushed forward and grabbed him by the shoulders.

"Dude. Those idiots minus Dagger want to go in there. They raised their death flags and opened their caskets. Let us be the ones to lower them into the earth and stay out of this."

"I don't see the harm in this either." Dagger voiced from the side. She didn't see her husband-to-be silently shed tears as he shook his head.

Asuna let out an exasperated groan from Helios's antics. Knowing him, he was possibly just screwing with them to play a prank of sorts. "Look, you can stay out here with your paranoid delusions but I'm going to see my daughter. Come on, everyone. Let's go."

Helios watched as one by one his friends went inside the Velvet Room and to their own doom. He grabbed Ren in one last attempt to protect his friend from the incoming pain but Alice shoved him away and he was left powerless to stop the coming event.

As the group came inside the Velvet Room, they saw Yui and Luna standing together in the center of the room. They each had a book in their hands.

"You girls ready?" Kirito asked. "Should we go at you two at a time to make things fair?"

"Nope, we can take you all on Papa." Yui said.

"Yeah, don't worry about us. Our stats are super high." Luna added.

'We are so dead.' Ren thought silently as he and the others got ready to fight.

"Persona!"

Outside of the Velvet Room, Helios stood alone. Even with the door closed, he knew what was probably going on in there. His predictions were proven true a few minutes later when the door opened and everyone walked, or rather limped, out of the room. They all collapsed together on the ground.

"What the hell… Are they supposed to be the final boss or something?" Leafa asked weakly.

"I don't think even Heathcliff could have beaten those two." Kirito groaned.

"The Velvet Room bosses are notorious in the world of Persona." Ren explained, just as beaten up as the rest. "They're extra bosses made for a challenge. And they've never been easy to beat in any of the games."

As everyone slowly recovered from the harsh beating Yui and Luna had given them, they all noticed Helios looking down at them with a shit eating grin on his face. "Wow, you guys got destroyed. If only someone had known this would happen and warned you all. Oh wait, THAT WAS ME!"

"Just shut it Helios." Alice moaned. "At least Yui and Luna had fun I think."

Helios sighed and turned his back to the group. "Well I guess that's everything. You guys showed you can't do anything without me so I'm satisfied. Let's go home."

Suddenly, Helios felt two people grab him from behind. He slowly turned his head to find Alice and Asuna staring at him with evil smirks on their faces.

"Not yet. There's still one more thing to do." Asuna said.

"Yui and Luna were so disappointed that you didn't join in on the fun." Alice added. "And you know how much we love to please our kids."

Helios quickly tried to flee but the hold Alice and Asuna had on him was too strong. The two girls dragged him over to the door to the Velvet Room. "No! Get off of me you psychos! Someone help me!"

Helios's pleas were unanswered however as Alice opened the door to the Velvet Room and she and Asuna threw him inside.

"Yui! Luna! Good news! Your Uncle Helios wants to take you on all by himself!" Alice yelled into the room.

"If you beat him really quickly, I'll make something special for you back in ALO!" Asuna chimed in.

"Don't you dare you little-" Helios was cut off as the door to the Velvet Room slammed shut in his face.

Mai let out a small chuckle. "What do you know? Suddenly, I feel a little better."

It wasn't even a minute before the door opened. Like the others before, Helios weakly walked a few steps outside before collapsing onto the ground.

"I hate you…" he moaned. "I hate all of you…"

The group shared a small chuckle at the expense of their friend joining in their utter defeat. It wasn't long before they were all logged out and returned to the real world.

"I gotta say, all in all, that was a lot of fun." Asuna said as the friends all rode on the train together heading home.

"Yeah. Now that I've got a feel for it, I wouldn't mind trying the game once it comes out." Rika agreed.

"Just no Velvet Room bosses." Emi said, a comment which got a collective chuckle from the group.

In one of the seats, Dan and Alicia sat together. Alicia rested her head on her boyfriend's shoulder. "I'm glad Luna and Yui had fun, but did they have to use that much power on us?"

"I could have told you." Dan reminded her. "But as long as those two were happy, I suppose it works out in the end."

"Yeah. Though I'm suddenly afraid of anyone who faces off against Luna when she's older." Alicia said.

Dan let out a small chuckle as he and everyone else relaxed for the journey home.

A/N: I'm sure all of you that have played Persona know just how scary the Velvet Room bosses are (I know I do). Anyway, next story may take a bit to get out since I want to get my other stories in order and probably finish up PWO. But when the next story for this comes out, I'm sure it'll be one you'll all enjoy.

Next time: The Great Galaxy Relay