AUTHOR'S NOTE:
There will be some slight changes here and there that will differ from the actual Persona 4 game, and anime.

#2: I Am Thou, Thou Art I

Persona series (c) ATLUS
Digimon Adventure (c) Toei Animation

4/14 Thursday
Early Morning

Tai and Kari were once again walking under rain, with umbrellas over them. They were headed towards school, albeit a bit shaky from last night. Tai kept making sure he had his arm intact. Both of them are also pretty paranoid about going anywhere near TVs, considering that Tai was almost pulled into one. What was doing that anyway? All these questions start going through their minds, as they walk towards school.

They got to the entrance of the school, to see their friends over there. They all greeted each other, and Sora noticed Tai and Kari were a bit drowsy.

"What happened to you guys?" She asked. "It looked like you didn't sleep last night at all."

"Ugh, you won't believe what happened last night." Tai groaned.

"Did you watch the Midnight Channel?" T.K. said. Tai nodded.

"For some reason, I saw this girl on the screen." Sora said. "Is, she supposed to be my soulmate?"

"She looked like she was in some sort of pain on there." Izzy said.

"Wait, Izzy, did you see her too?"

"Well, she was wearing a high school uniform, and her hair was long…"

"Hey, wait, wasn't she that witness from the news channel from last night?" Tai spoke up.

"You saw the same girl too Tai?" Sora said.

"I think we all saw her." Matt said.

"Yeah, me too." Joe said.

"And me too." Mimi said.

"That's pretty strange." Izzy said. "How can we all have the same soulmate?"

"Well, we should talk about this later." Tai said. "We're gonna be late for class."

They all nodded, and headed into the school.

Morning

This day almost felt the same as yesterday. They were actually working on some worksheets in class; however, the 5th-grade class was still bored out of their minds in class. It's school, what do you expect? Elementary School kids usually can't handle boring teachers. The teacher had called on Tai a few times to answer questions, and 7 times out of 10 he'd get them right. Tai can be a hot head sometimes, but he is the leader of the Digidestined…Still doesn't disregard the fact that he's a hothead.

After School

Some kids in the class were talking about the Midnight Channel broadcast last night. From the looks, they've all seen the same girl from last night. They were talking about how they saw the same girl and were wondering about what it meant. Tai was talking to Sora and Matt about what happened last night.

"So, you saw the same girl too." Sora said.

"Yeah, but, what did you say? Something about getting sucked into the TV?" Matt said, chuckling a bit.

"Hey, it was true!" Tai exclaimed. "Kari grabbed onto me, but she banged her head doing it. Ask her, she knows."

"Right, well, maybe you two had a nasty nightmare last night." Sora said. "I mean, getting sucked into a TV? That seems a little, surreal."

"Next thing you'll tell me is that the tables will come to life, and start eating you from underneath your bed." Matt said.

"Hey, don't forget, we went into the Digital World." Tai defended. "We're used to stuff like this."

"But that's a whole different story."

"Okay, can we not talk about the digital world here in public?" Sora said. "We don't want to cause something here."

"Look, the point is, my hand got pulled into the TV, but the TV was too small for me to get my whole body through." Tai said.

"Uh-huh…" Sora said. She then changed the subject. "Oh, speaking of which! I think there's a big sale on TVs at Junes right now. I heard that they got some of those big flatscreen TVs. I wanted to go see it right now."

"Well, we'd better go before their happy hour starts." Matt said. "Hey, who knows? Maybe we can push Tai into one of their big flatscreens." Matt said, chuckling.

"Ha ha, yeah, why don't I do the same to you…?" Tai groaned.

Later, the three were standing in front of the Junes department store, with Kari accompanying them. T.K. said he went home. He must have caught a cold from being in this rain. This place sure was bigger than the corner markets in Odaiba. They got groceries, electronics, toys, and all sorts of things. It's sort of like your average Target store.

"Sheesh, this looks bigger than the corner markets in our city." Tai said.

"Where do you suppose the electronic department is?" Sora said.

"I guess if we see big flat screens, we know we're in the right place."

"Hey, it's you guys again." A voice said behind them. They turned around, and once again, they encountered the same teen from yesterday, Yu Narukami. Alongside him was Chie, and another teenager.

"Wow, we seem to be meeting each other a lot lately, huh?" Kari said. Yu nods.

"You know these guys?" The teenager asked Yu.

"Yeah, they're transfer students from a city, just like Narukami." Chie said. The four Digidestined introduced themselves to the teen.

"Yeah, I know how it feels to be the new kid around here." The teen said. "Don't worry, you'll get used to it here. Oh, sorry. I didn't introduce myself. I'm Yosuke Hanamura. I'm a second year in High School."

"Nice to meet you." Kari said.

"So, we were here because I wanted to see that big sale here today." Sora said. "Do you know where it is?"

"Of course." Yosuke said. "My family owns Junes. Or rather this Junes store."

"Really? Wow, that's neat." Kari said.

"Yeah. Anyways, let me show you to the electronics section."

Yosuke leads them all to the big flatscreens in the electronics department of the store. As mentioned, these TVs were big. They were bigger than the teenagers. You could fit a whole body in one of them if needed…A whole body…

"Wow, this is huge!" Chie exclaimed. "…And holy crap is it expensive! Who buys something like this?"

"I dunno…Rich folks?" Yosuke said. "Honestly, not many people shop for TVs here. That's why we don't have that many clerks around here."

"Wow, guess business really booms here." Tai said.

Chie and Yosuke then looked at each other, and they walked to the TV screen. They both placed their hands on the TV screen and…nothing. Nothing was happening. They weren't getting sucked in or anything, which baffled Tai, and Yu from the looks.

"Nope, can't get in." Chie said. "Haha, that proves it. It was all a dream."

"Besides, even if you could get in, you'd end up on the other side." Yosuke said. "This isn't that wide."

"Hey, wait, you guys had the same TV problem?" Sora said.

"Huh? Wait, don't tell me you got your hand stuck in a TV."

"No, Tai did. It's probably a dream though." Sora then walked up to the same TV and put her hand on it, but still, she couldn't get her hand inside the TV. "Nope. No luck."

"Well, the most important thing is, we can't get our hands in the TV." Yosuke said. "Bah! What am I saying? So, Chie, is there any other TV in the market you're interested in?" Yosuke said, changing the subject, trying to forget what they were trying to find out earlier.

"Oh, right." Chie said. "Well, my family said they'd buy it if it was cheap."

"Well, *Ahem* might I interest you to this TV, over there?" Yosuke said, changing his voice to sound like a helping employee, as he and the others went off to the other TVs down the wall, leaving Tai, Kari, and Yu.

"Did you two get your hand sucked into a TV last night?" Yu asked them.

"Yeah." Tai said. "Why? Did you?" Yu nods. "Weird."

"Are you crazy!?" Chie exclaimed from another TV down the wall of TVs. "That's not cheap! There are too many zeroes!"

"I guess I should have asked what you meant by cheap…" Yosuke said, sweatdropping.

As they were talking, Kari walks up to the big TV from earlier and puts her hand on it. So far, nothing. She feels like she might have dreamt it last night, until, a ripple effect came out of the screen, and her hand flowed through the screen, like water, surprising Tai.

"Whoa! It worked!" Tai exclaimed.

"Well, then might I interest you to-" Yosuke was talking to the others, before seeing the young girl's arm is inside the TV screen.

"Huh?" Chie said. "What's wrong?"

"Dude. Little girl. Arm inside the screen!" Yosuke yelled, pointing to Kari, panicking. The others turned towards Yu, Tai, and Kari, and sure enough, they were shocked as well.

"What the…!?" Matt started.

"H-Her, arm, is inside the TV screen!" Chie yelled. The others ran up to them. "Uh, is this a new function?"

"Hell no!" Yosuke exclaimed.

"Whoa…" Sora said, observing it up close. "So you guys weren't kidding."

"Wow. I guess I better watch myself around tables then..." Matt said

"Is this, some sort of secret magic trick that only you guys know!?" Chie exclaimed, wanting to know more.

All of them were staring at the three, astonished. They thought this was a magic trick at first, though. Kari then was curious about what was inside. She didn't ask Tai about it much, because she hit her head last night, and didn't feel like asking Tai about it. She became curious, and then stuck half of her body through the screen, wanting to see the inside of it.

"Hey! Don't do that!" Yosuke exclaimed. "You're breaking it!"

"Oh my God!" Chie exclaimed.

"Do you see anything in there?" Yu asked, seemingly not surprised. He did claim to be another victim of the man-eating TVs though.

"It's just a big empty space." Kari said.

"Wh-What do you mean big?" Yosuke said.

"What do you mean empty space!?" Chie exclaimed.

"So, there's something inside the TV, besides circuit boards and wires?" Matt said.

"You think we uncovered the greatest secret about TVs?" Sora said.

"Holy crap...I think this is all too much for my bladder to take!" Yosuke exclaimed, holding his groin, and running in place.

"What the- Are you serious!?" Chie exclaimed, disgusted.

"I've been holding it all day! I haven't had the chance to go! Aaarrgh, can't...hold it...anymore!"

Yosuke then rushes out of there to go to the bathroom.

"How is all of this happening anyway?" Matt said.

"And how come it's only you guys that can do this?" Sora said.

"We don't know." Tai said. "This only just happened last night when we were watching the Midnight Channel…Could the Midnight Channel have something to do with this?" Yosuke then comes rushing back, quickly, looking nervous, as if he's seen a ghost.

"Shit! Customers!" Yosuke cursed, coming back. "They're coming!"

"Wha!? But we got a little girl half stuck on the TV here!" Chie exclaimed. "What are we gonna do!?"

Yosuke and Chie both then pace around there in a panic, frantically trying to find out what to do about this.

"Uh, why don't I crawl out of-" Kari started, starting to come out of the screen, before Yosuke and Chie trips, and falls on them all. In the process, this also makes them crash into the TV, and everyone fell into the screen, screaming.

As they were falling, there were squares of white and black coming towards them, making it look like they were transporting. Everyone doesn't know what's going on here. The Digidestined has some experience with portal traveling, but this wasn't like transporting to the Digital World. This was something new to them. The feeling was strange too. It was as if the air was growing thicker.

Before they knew it, all of them fell right onto solid ground, and they tumbled to their sides when they landed. Miraculously, they weren't too injured from the looks of it.

"Oww…I think I broke my butt…" Kari groaned.

"Ow, I think I did too…" Yosuke groaned while rubbing his hindquarters. "Right on my wallet…I think mine must be cracked to hell…"

"I'm so surprised." Yu said.

"Thanks for that, guys…" Tai groaned at Yosuke and Chie. "Really appreciate falling a hundred feet into something."

"Man, where the heck are we?" Sora said, looking around them. A yellow glow is lighting up the place. The ground has some sort of pattern on it that they can't distinguish. What's more notable is the thick fog that's filling the place.

"Is everyone okay?" Yu said, making sure everyone's okay.

"Well, I guess we are, even though we fell like 100 feet and only broke a few butts." Tai said.

"To tell you the truth, we're kinda used to that, right?" Matt said.

"What is this place?" Chie said, looking around them. "Someplace inside Junes?"

"Hell no, it isn't." Yosuke said. "I mean, we just fell through a TV. But man. What is this? Some sort of studio?" Upon closer inspection, through the fog, they see some lighting equipment hovering above them, and some awning. It looks like what Yosuke was describing it; it was a studio.

"It kinda does looks like studio…" Kari said. "I'd see better if it wasn't for this fog."

"What's with this fog anyway?" Matt said.

"Is there any place like this in Inaba?" Kari asked Chie.

"No, I don't think so." Chie said. "I don't remember any place that allows you to fall through TVs, and land in some studio filled with fog."

"Then, is this place like some sort of Digi-world?"

"I don't think so..." Tai said. "I certainly don't remember this being in the Digital World..." When the two of them mentioned Digital World, the teens were a bit confused about what they were saying.

"Digital World? What's that?" Chie said.

"Ah, never mind that. Should we look around?"

"No. I just want to go home righ-" Chie then turned around to try and go back home, but she didn't see any sort of entrance or exit. Nothing was there that resembled any sort of entrance or exit. "Wait…Where did we come from? Ah, there's no exit!"

"W-What!? How can that be?" Yosuke said.

"I don't know!"

"A-Are we trapped in here?" Kari said.

"O-Okay guys. Stay calm." Yosuke said, sensing Kari's wavering voice.

"I am calm." Yu said, calmly.

"I SAID STAY CALM!" Yosuke yelled at Yu. "Alright? Okay, so, we need to explore more of this place. There has to be an exit. We got in, so there has to be a way out. Let's cross our fingers and look around."

Everyone reluctantly nods. They don't know about this place, yet, they're exploring it. Regardless, they went over one of the three bridges in the area and went on.

As they walk, they see that they're entering a new area now. There's a wooden railing to their left and a wall to their right. It looks like they're walking on some sort of balcony. Up ahead was some sort of door, with a weird, trippy pattern moving in it of red and black. All the while though, they're walking in a fog that's extremely dense.

"What is this place?" Chie said. "It feels different from where we were before…"

"It just keeps going on and on." Yosuke said.

"It looks like some sort of building, but I can barely see." Yu said.

"Yeah…Damn this fog is so thick…"

"How much farther?" Kari moaned. "My feet hurt."

"Oh, crap. I forgot we got kids with us."

"What? Were we invisible to you guys?" Tai said, crossing his arms.

"No, nothing like that, Tai." Yosuke then turned to Yu. "We gotta keep them safe from anything freaky here."

"Yeah." Yu said. "Let's keep moving on for the time."

"Are you sure we aren't wandering farther and farther away?" Chie said.

"We just got to trust our instincts."

They then moved on to investigate more of the place.

They moved on into some room. They were able to see the room clearly through the fog, from one wall to the next.

"Hey, the fog seems lighter here." Yosuke said. Tai then gets out his phone, and checks to see if he can call somebody. He wasn't getting any bars.

"Agh. No service. Of course..." He groaned. He then puts it away. Chie then catches up with them, as they were walking too fast into here.

"Will you guys slow down?" Chie groaned as she walks up to them. They turned to face her but paid attention to the walls behind her. "I seriously thought I was going to lose you guys. Do you have any ide…Hey, what are you looking at?"

"Uh…behind you…" Sora said, awkwardly. Chie turned around and sees the walls, and was freaked out too.

"Wha!? What is this?"

The wall behind her is covered in posters, with the face cut out, and was covered in red splatters. They don't even know if the splatters are paint, or worse, blood. From the looks of the place, it seems to be someone's bedroom. The bed behind them and the closet proves this more.

"Whoa…This is freaky…" Tai said, uneasy, as they were looking at the place.

"Somebody must have really hated this person…" Matt said, looking at the cut out posters.

"Dude…" Yosuke said, looking at an arrangement of a chair and rope. "This chair…and rope…This combination is never good…"

"It's tied in a noose with a scarf on it." Yu described the rope. That would mean somebody could be planning an attempted suicide. When Yu described the noose having a scarf on it, Kari touched her own scarf and shuttered.

"Whose room is this?" Kari asked as they looked around.

"I don't know, but I get the feeling we shouldn't be in here right now…"

"Y-You mean like something could pop up any minute…?" Kari said, shakily.

Just as she asked that Yosuke screamed, startling them all. They thought they were being attacked.

"WHAT!? WHAT!?" Chie yelled, on the edge.

"Ngh! I can't hold it anymore!" Yosuke yelled, jumping up and down while holding his groin. He then went to the corner of the room, and started undoing his zipper.

"Sheesh, that was it!?" Chie exclaimed.

"Wait, you can't go in here!" Kari panicked. "It's someone's room! Tai, Yu, can't you stop him?"

"Huh? Why would I do that?" Yu said.

"Huh?" Kari said, having beady eyes.

"Turn around!" Yosuke yelled. "I can't go while you guys are…Gah, I can't do this. Don't blame me if I wet myself." He then toughens up and turns around.

"Let's just get out of here!" Chie yelled. "I'm sick of this place!. And I'm not feeling so good."

Now that they mention it, everyone starts feeling like they're getting sick too. Their bodies were starting to feel like they're made of lead, and they were getting a bit queasy. They decide to go back to where they first landed. As they were walking out though, Yosuke stayed behind for a bit to look at the posters. He feels like he's seen them somewhere. Kari then walks up to him.

"Yosuke? Is something wrong?" Kari asked him.

"Just this odd feeling that I've seen this somewhere…"

"Where?...In your pants?"

"N-No! A-And stop reminding me! Ugh, I'll think about it later. Right now, we should get out of here."

Before they were able to go back through the door, the others ran towards them.

"Something's coming!" Yu exclaimed.

"What!?" Kari exclaimed.

"Quick, we need to hide!" Chie exclaimed. They then hear the sounds of footsteps getting closer. "Ah! Too late!"

Everybody looked behind them, and instead of a monstrous monster that they were expecting, they saw what appears to be, a child-sized bear of some sort. It was a blue-colored bear, with a red outfit on, with red buttons in the middle. He was staring at them as if he was curious about them. Unfortunately for him, the Digidestined kids knew better than to trust something that's cuddly and fluffy from their experience in the Digital World, so…

"Pile onto him! Now!" Tai yelled.

The 4 Digidestined kids all sprinted forward and tackled the creature to the ground, who was screaming from the looks. The teens were giving them awkward looks as they walked up to them.

"Whoa, what is this thing?" Chie said.

"It's not any Digimon I've ever seen." Tai said, sitting up. The teens were confused when he said that.

"Digimon?" Yu asked.

"Ack! Get off of me!" The creature yelled. "I'm no Digimon or whatever!"

"*Gasp* It talks!" Chie exclaimed.

"Of course I can talk! I am a bear!" The four kids that are on top of the creature looked at each other awkwardly. Obviously, this bear creature didn't seem to be a threat to them, so they got off of him, and he stood up. Now that they take a look at him, he seems like a stuffed toy Kari would hug in her sleep. This bear was a little bigger than Kari though. However, there was a zipper in the middle of the bear, so that would suggest that this was a costume, and there's a person inside of the suit.

"Who are you?" Yosuke said.

"That's what I want to know. Who are you guys?" The bear said.

"You want a fight, bear!?" Chie exclaimed.

"Hey, don't yell at me like that!" The bear exclaimed, cowering in fear.

"We should calm down." Yu said. "Alright, let's start at the beginning. Who are you exactly?"

"I'm someone who lives here in this world."

"You live here?" Sora said.

"In this fog?" Matt said.

"Yeah." The bear said.

"What is this place, anyway?"

"I don't know myself. It doesn't have a name."

"You live in someplace where it doesn't have a name?" Tai asked.

"Yeah. Now if I were you, I'd get out of here. Someone's been throwing people in here. It gets to become a headache."

"Wait, throwing people in? What are you talking about?"

"I don't know who's doing it! I just want whoever's doing it to stop doing things like that!" The bear exclaimed.

"Hey! What gives you the right to yell at us like that!?" Chie exclaimed, scaring the bear again.

"Okay, okay, hold on." Kari said. She then faced the bear. "So, are you saying there are other people trapped in here like us?"

"Well there used to be someone here, but I wouldn't hear them anymore a while after the fog lifts."

"The fog lifts?"

"Yeah, what's up with this anyway?" Tai said.

"It's something that sticks around this world." The bear said.

"Something that…" Tai then shakes his head. "Ahh, what am I doing? Look, we need to find a way out of here! Can you lead us to the exit?"

"Rgh, that's what I was gonna do earlier! I'll let you out!"

"You will?" Kari asked.

The bear then looked like he was about to do something, however, stopped, and he had a scared face on.

"Ahh! They're coming!" He exclaimed.

"Huh? What's coming?" Kari asked, confused.

"Th-The shadows! They're coming!"

"What shadows?"

"Is he afraid of his own shadow?" Matt asked, sweatdropping.

"Gah! There's no time! You guys need to run!" The bear exclaimed.

"Run from what? What are you talking about?" Tai said.

"Look, take these, and run!" The bear then got out a few pairs of glasses and handed them to the group. One was orange, the second was pink, and the third was grey and rectangular. All of them had SMPTE color bars on the side of the frames before the hinges. There wasn't enough to hand out, however.

"Why do we need these?" Tai asked.

"And why didn't you give us enough of them?" Sora said.

"Just put them on!" The bear yelled.

Everyone looked at each other awkwardly. Tai took the orange pair, and Yu took the grey pair. They put them on, and they were amazed.

"Whoa!" Tai exclaimed.

"What? What is it?" Kari asked.

"The fog. It's gone." Through his and Yu's vision, the fog was gone. They were able to see down the corridor; they could see clearly now. The difference is night and day basically.

"Really?" Yosuke asked.

"Yeah. I can't see the fog anymore." Yu said.

"Hey, lemme see." Kari asked, grabbing the last pink pair. She puts it on and was amazed at the sight herself. "Whoaaa! This is cool!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's cool for you humans. Now get going!" The bear yelled. He then sniffed again, and once again got a scared face. "Too late. They're here!"

Only Yu, Tai, and Kari can see what he was talking about through this thick fog. They start looking around them but found nothing. They thought that the bear was actually talking about their actual shadows. They did some looking around in the corridors, and still, nothing.

"Nothing's here." Yu said.

"Are you sure you weren't imagining it?" Tai said.

"Maybe he's less of a bear, and more like a groundhog." Matt said.

Just as he said that the window in the room behind them shattered. They could hear it, even when the door was closed.

"W…What was that?" Sora said, scared a little bit.

Tai and Yu carefully were creeping up to the door. The wood beneath them was creaking as they crept. They didn't know what was behind the door, but they were on guard. Tai then thinks that the same pile on tactic won't work this time. Regardless, they were ready for anything behind the door, as they opened it.

However, it turns out they were not ready. They weren't ready at all. A giant creature bursts through the door, and revealed itself to everyone, scaring them all. It was basically a giant hovering mouth, with its tongue stuck out all the time

"AHH! What is that!?" Kari yelled.

"Everyone! Run!" Yu yelled. They obeyed, and everybody ran as fast as they could, through the corridors. They ran to the outside, where Yu, Tai, and Kari were able to see more clearly out here. It basically looks like Inaba, but the sky has this weird black and red stripe pattern. Also, the buildings look more ragged, as if it's been abandoned. The buildings also looked dark, as a fiery explosion happened around there.

The three looked back and sees that a bunch of the same monsters was chasing after them.

"W-What in the world are these guys!?" Tai yelled as they ran. "They're not letting up!"

"Watch out!" Yu exclaimed, as they all narrowly avoided an attack from one of them, however, Yu, Yosuke, and Chie were split from everybody. One of the shadow monsters were cutting them off from everybody.

"Oh crap, oh crap!" Yosuke exclaimed.

"Guys, just run! Get out of here!" Yu yelled at the kids.

"What!? But what about you guys!?" Tai exclaimed.

"There's no time! Just go!"

"But…" Kari said before more of the shadow monsters were riling up to get them.

"Just run! Save your beary hides!" The bear exclaimed as he runs away as fast as he can. He took off from zero to a hundred in no time flat, and he was out of there. The kids then followed, though of course not as fast as the bear.

They ran as far as their small legs could to avoid being eaten by these shadow monsters. As they do, Kari starts worrying about the teenagers.

"Do you think they're okay?" Kari said.

"I don't know." Tai said. "I hope they are. Rgh! I wish we had our Digimon here! We would be beating these guys to the ground!"

"What did that bear call these things anyway?" Matt said. "Shadows?"

"Yeah, they're definitely not the type of shadows I was thinking of! At least I know they don't try to eat us!"

"Do you think they're some kind of Digimon?" Sora said.

"If they are, they're really freaky looking!"

Suddenly, the shadow monsters all got in front of them and stopped them right there.

"Aw, come on! We're just trying to get home! Is that too much to ask!? Rgh, come on, let's go!" Tai was about to take off again, however, he realizes that he couldn't move his legs. They were frozen in place. "W-What the…!?"

"My legs are stuck!" Kari exclaimed.

"I-I can't move!" Sora exclaimed.

"Me neither!" Matt yelled.

As they struggle to move their legs, the shadow creatures inch closer and closer to them. Kari expected them to lunge at them, and take a huge bite out of them. She could envision the monsters biting into her arms, her legs, and her neck, ripping them off. And that was about to become a reality.

(Darn it…If only Agumon or Greymon was here…He would…) Tai thought in his head, in anger, and before his untimely demise.

The shadow monsters lunged themselves forward towards the group, and they all cowered in fear, ready for death to come. However, some sort of presence came to the Kamiya siblings.

I am thou…

The same voices from last night had come back to them, and their eyes shot open. At the same time, the shadows stopped, dead in their tracks. Everyone sees that they're still alive and that something was provoking the creatures to stop.

Thou, art I…

"H-Huh? Hey, they stopped." Sora said. Just then, from the air, cards start falling. Two cards floated down to Tai and Kari respectively. They were glowing with a mysterious blue glow imbued with power.

"Hey, what's that?" Matt said.

Upon closer inspection, these cards have some sort of picture on them. Tai has the picture of a disfigured woman on it, seemingly taming what seems to be a beast of some kind, with the roman numerals XI (11) on the bottom, while Kari's has a picture of a balance, with one half of the card in red, and the other in white, with the roman numerals VIII (8) on the bottom. Both of these cards have the twos' respective crest symbols on it – For Tai, it was the symbol of Courage, and Kari the symbol of Light.

Thou hast opened thine eyes…The time is Now!

A blue glow then appears under the two, and they were embedded with some sort of strong power. It was piling up within them and was screaming to be released. This power feels, familiar. As if this power has been with them the whole time. The two of them then have some sort of word pop into their minds. They have never heard of it before, nor do they know what it means, however, they know it now, and they felt like shouting it.

"Per...so...na!" The two droned, seemingly as if they were synchronized, as they clench their hands onto their cards, making the sound of shattered glass. The cards dissolved into them, and some strange power was forming.

*REACH OUT TO THE TRUTH*

Violent blue flames then start rising up from both of their bodies, and it looked like adult-sized humanoid creatures were emerging from their bodies. The other two kids have no idea what was going on, as the shadow creatures looked intimidated by the appearance of these monsters.

"W-What's going on?" Sora said, surprised.

These giant humanoid creatures seem to resemble the two in a way.

Tai's have spiky hair, a cape, and a full suit of armor, along with its left hand being an entire sword. The suit of armor was orange-colored in some places, such as the torso and the legs. The torso piece most notably has a head of a dinosaur in the middle of it. A familiar beast to Tai…The torso piece also has the symbol of the Crest of Courage.

Kari's creature has brown hair tied in a ponytail that falls to its legs, along with a sleeveless dress colored yellow, white, magenta, pink and red. It had a big bow on the creature's back that has a spike on both ends of the weapon that made it both a melee weapon and a ranged weapon. There were also pink and red scarves loosely tied to the creature's body as well as big white angel wings on the back of the creature. On the front of the creature's dress, is the symbol of the crest of Light.

The two kids look at these humanoid creatures in astonishment, but then smiled, trusting these creatures. They also feel a familiar presence within these things, as if they're old friends. What's more, is that the two somehow knew the types of creatures these things were. They called them, Personas…

A couple of the shadow creatures then lunged themselves forward, and tried attacking the Persona creatures, however, they were commanded to counter. Tai's Persona monster struck one of the monsters using its claws, while another was impaled by Kari's Persona monster's weapon. After this, the monsters dissolved into a dark red liquid that resembled blood. After the Persona monsters attacked, the two controllers were starting to get fatigued. It seemed the more these things attacked, the more tired the two were getting.

It was as if these creatures were connected to the kids in some sort of way. This was further proved when the shadow creatures bit onto Tai's Persona, and he felt the pain of the monsters' teeth sinking into his Persona. They were biting right onto its arm, and Tai flung his arm out, yelling, "Get off me!" The Persona flung the shadows off of it, following Tai's movement.

Some of the attacking monsters were toppled down onto the ground, giving the Personas a chance to attack. They killed some of the monsters, in which they dissolved into red liquid. One monster tried sneak attacking Tai's Persona, however, he sensed it coming, and countered by impaling it with his claw. From the looks, dark blood poured from the wound on the shadow. The Persona then flung the shadow towards some of the other attacking monsters and toppled them down to the ground.

"MOMOTARO!" Tai somehow knew the Persona's name, and he commanded it to strike the monsters when they were down. The Persona, named Momotaro, brought his hand forward, and fire struck one of the monsters.

A few more remained, however, but Kari then stepped up to finish them.

"TENNYO!" She called out to her Persona, and the Persona brought her hand forward. Lightning then rained down onto one of the monsters, and the two kids continued to command their Personas to shoot out the fire and lightning elements until no shadows remained.

The Personas had finished off all the monsters, and they weren't in any danger anymore. However, the two kids were exhausted from their Personas fighting, as they were panting. The others were still in shock and confused about what just happened.

"That was…Amazing." Matt said.

"You guys had monsters come out of you, and it just…" Sora said.

"What was that you said before? Did you say it was a per…"

"Persona." Tai said looking at his hands. "This power…"

"…It's something that I just have…" Kari said. They both looked at the others and then smiled, indicating that everything was all right. So first was the mysterious death of Mayumi Yamano, then this whole entire world inside of a television, and then suddenly Tai and Kari got new Persona powers. Things shouldn't become weirder for this group, but it will, and with this newfound power that the two will have, the Digidestined seem to be on their way on another adventure.

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