"Hopefully this will be enough, we've definitely trained a lot to rescue her." Dojima said. "Yukiko should be behind the next door."
"Yeah, we'll save her too." Nanako said. "Then we can catch the bad guy."
"I hope so, but if three people have already been thrown into the TV we need to be careful." Dojima said selecting the option to go through the door.
"There she is, Yukiko!" Chie said quickly.
"Chie?" Yukiko asked quietly. "Wait what's going on?"
"Oh my, three princes to choose from. I can hardly contain myself." Shadow Yukiko said excitedly. "Now then, which one of you will rescue me from this place?"
"Rescue, what are you talking about? Who are you?" Yukiko asked. "Why do you look like me?"
"You know exactly who I am, and what I'm talking about. I'm sick of being tied down to that pathetic inn." Shadow Yukiko said angrily.
"No, that's not true…" Yukiko started to say.
"No, don't say it." Chie said desperately.
"You're not me." Yukiko said angrily.
Suddenly Shadow Yukiko began to laugh as a red cloud appeared around her.
"This is incredible, it just keeps coming more and more. If this keeps up, I'll, I'll…" Shadow Yukiko said before the cloud flew out of the room and knocked Yukiko out cold.
"Yukiko!" Chie yelled nervously.
"She'll be alright, we need to take down her shadow first." Yosuke said as Shadow Yukiko emerged from the smoke as a caged phoenix with Yukiko's head.
"A phoenix trapped in a cage, given what she was saying it definitely fits." Dojima said as the battle started.
"I am a shadow, the true self." Shadow Yukiko said. "What, you're no princes die you worthless commoners."
"Don't worry Yukiko, we'll deal with this this and get you out safely." Chie said quickly.
"Oh really, then I'll be sure to give you plenty to deal with." Shadow Yukiko said coldly.
"Alright, let's see if we can take her down." Dojima said calmly.
"Yeah, we have to save Yukiko." Nanako said.
"Yosuke's shadow was weak to electricity, and Chie's shadow was weak to wind." Dojima said calmly. "Which means Yukiko's shadow should be weak to ice."
"But dad, we don't have any ice attacks." Nanako said.
"I know, but we can try something else." Dojima said selecting Rakunda. "If we lower her defenses Chie can hit her with the ice attack."
"Good idea dad." Nanako said happily. "I'm glad we're spending time together."
"Yeah, so am I Nanako." Dojima said. "Now then, let's try Yosuke's Sonic Punch."
"Let's do this Jiraiya." Yosuke said before his persona appeared and struck Shadow Yukiko.
"Alright, now Chie can use her ice spell." Dojima said calmly.
"Persona." Chie said as Tomoe appeared and cast Bufu.
"I was afraid of that, the bosses aren't going to be weak to our attacks anymore." Dojima said just before Shadow Yukiko cast an Agi spell towards Chie knocking her off her feet.
"Oh no, she's in trouble." Nanako said. "What are we going to do dad?"
"Well the first thing to do is make sure we get Chie's health back so she doesn't die." Dojima said before Shadow Yukiko flew over to Chie and hit her a second time. "Dizzy, that's going to be a problem."
The moment Dojima said that the doorbell rang.
"A visitor?" Nanako asked.
"Who would be stopping by at this hour?" Dojima asked while answering the door. "Oh, Adachi what are you doing here?"
"Well, you've been kind of off at the office so I wanted to stop by and make sure you were alright." Adachi said. "Am I interrupting something?"
"No, I was just spending some time with Nanako." Dojima said.
"Oh, well I'll let you get back to Nanako-chan." Adachi said.
"Alright, get some rest. Tomorrow we'll see if there are any leads on the thieves." Dojima said calmly.
"Right Dojima-san." Adachi said walking away from the Dojima's house.
"Ok, where were we?" Dojima asked. "Oh right, let's see how Zio works."
"Izanagi." Junes Dojima said as his persona appeared and cast the lighting spell.
"What are you trying to make me mad?" Shadow Yukiko asked angrily.
"Ok, now let's heal up Chie." Dojima said selecting Yosuke's Dia spell.
"Come my prince." Shadow Yukiko said as a spotlight appeared and a second shadow appeared next to her.
"That's the last thing we needed, still maybe that shadow is weak to something." Dojima said.
"Maybe it's weak to ice dad." Nanako suggested.
"It's worth a try." Dojima said. "Though first things first we should make sure her defense doesn't go back to normal."
"Ok." Nanako said while Dojima selected Rakunda again. "She's really strong."
"Yeah, she is." Dojima said. "I have a strong feeling things are only going to get tougher from here."
"Do you think Teddie will be able to get a persona and help fight dad?" Nanako asked. "He's really cool so I think he should get one."
"We can look into something like that later, right now we should focus on defeating this shadow and rescuing Yukiko." Dojima said having Yosuke use Sonic Punch a second time. "Not bad, a critical hit."
"That's lucky, so should we attack the prince now?" Nanako asked.
"No, we should wait for Chie's turn. We want to do as much damage to the boss as we can." Dojima said before having Yosuke attack Shadow Yukiko normally. "Ok now let's try Mabufu since it hits them both."
"Ok." Nanako said.
"Protect me Tomoe." Chie said as her persona appeared and hit both Shadow Yukiko and the prince shadow with ice.
"You were right, he was weak to ice." Dojima said calmly.
"Alright, let's take them down." Yosuke said as an option for an all-out attack appeared on screen.
"You heard him Nanako." Dojima said with a smile.
"Yeah." Nanako said.
So far so good, if things keep up at this rate we'll be able to rescue Yukiko, Dojima thought. Still, I have a feeling this game has a lot more to tell us and we've only just scratched the surface of what's going to happen.
(The battle with Shadow Yukiko is underway, and Nanako and Dojima are slowly taking her down. Next chapter the battle will end. As always any reviews or critique is appreciated.)