Chapter 12

Minato was seating in the Hanoo living room as he looked over a few documents with Satomi, the documents were mainly about trade and new businesses looking to set up shop in the village.

Satomi sighed as she sank into the coach "look at us, the main base of operation for the Enlighten is my families summer home" she puts her hands over her face "no one will take us seriously like this!"

Minato shakes his head as he looks over a document "it's not about what we have, but rather the message. Besides it isn't a bad place to do some paper work"

Satomi quickly answered back "you may be comfortable like this, but it's so embarrassing for me. Using your summer home as the base of your organisation, what we need is a Basilicom" Satomi quickly perked up "that's it! We'll make our own Basilicom! That way people can gather to worship you and the goddesses Minato!"

Minato was about to shoot down that idea, until a thought accorded. He was having trouble gather the faith energy over long distances and having a place for people gather and release that energy could help him "let's put that under potential future projects for now Satomi, I doubt we could make one now anyway"

Satomi nodded "alright, we still have a lot to talk about before we start building a Basilicom, location, design, decoction, furniture and whether or not to have free Wi-Fi"

Minato nodded "not to mention resources and builders" suddenly Minato's phone began to ring, he looked at the caller ID to see it was Vert. Minato quickly answered it "Hello"

Vert's voice could be heard on the other end "hello Minato, its Vert. I'm calling to apologise for Chika's behaviour the other day. Please understand she tends to be….. Overprotective"

"More like passive aggressive" thought Minato "it's alright don't worry about it. I'm sure she didn't mean any ill will"

"In any case, I would like to give a copy of Four Goddesses Online Tales of the Untold from the launch yesterday as my way as saying thank you for keeping 5pb safe from the reporters and as a peace offering for Chika's behaviour" Vert offered with a slight delight in her voice.

Minato tried to refuse "you don't have to do that, really it's alright"

However, Vert wouldn't take no for an answer "nonsense, I insist. The store owner gave me three copies of the game and I've already gave one to 5pb, I would feel awful if you didn't get one consider the events of the day"

Finally Minato gave in "alright, if you insist. I'll come over now to pick to up"

Vert refused however "no need, I'll simply give it to you at the meeting today"

That caught Minato off guard "meeting? What meeting?"

"Huh? The meeting later today. Histoire brought it up as a way to show you how Gamindustri is run, seeing as your enlighten group has started to develop a strong presence in all the nations, chances are in the future you'll have an opinion on anything that involves the four nations. I thought you knew already we sent you an E-mail yesterday" answered Vert.

Minato thought for a moment "what email address did you send it to?"

"We used the E-mail on the Enlightens website"

Minato nodded "alright, I'll look through the E-mail, see you at meeting, bye" Minato hung up the phone, he looked at Satomi he was on her laptop with a serious look.

Finally, she smiled and showed Minato the laptop screen "here's the E-mail they sent, sorry forgot to check the website's inbox"

Minato waved it off "no harm done, don't worry about it" Minato then started reading the E-mail, basically it says he would be allowed to attend the meetings between, give his thoughts on topics of discussion and in the event of a tie he would be the deciding vote.

This confused Minato slightly, from what he heard the Basilicom were split into two parts the sanctuary and parliament. The sanctuary cared for the goddesses, while parliament took care of political matters. Parliament was fully made up of the citizens of each nation, it was rare for the goddesses to get involved.

Minato shrugged his shoulders, they were most likely meeting for a unified stand point on matters or using it as an excused to hang out.

Minato checked to where and when the meeting was taking place, the meeting would be in a few hours in Planeptune's Basilicom.

Satomi leaned closer to get a look at the laptops screen "so, when are we leaving?"

Minato glanced at Satomi with a raised eyebrow "what do you mean 'we'?"

Satomi looked at Minato with a slight pout "I'm coming with you to the meeting. Observing a meeting between the goddesses is on my bucket list, not to mention I'm the founder of the Enlighten" after she said that she thought "besides it may give me an idea for my goddess's fanfictions"

Minato nodded "alright, but in the event they say no I'll just say you're the Enlighten's Oracle"

Satomi give Minato a smug grin "I thought I already was" she then noticed how close her face was with Minato and quickly moved away with a slight blush.

Minato ignored it and asked "so, what to do till the meeting? We got a few hours until it starts and we would make it to Planeptune in less than an hour, not to mention we're pretty much done with this paperwork"

Minato thought for a moment, until Satomi spoke up "well, we could always plan a game? I got a wide variety of games here so we could try playing at least one of them"

Minato nodded his head "alright, I didn't play video games a lot so why not"

Satomi looked at Minato with a surprise expression "wait, what do you mean you didn't play video games a lot?"

Minato raised an eyebrow, wondering why Satomi would ask that "well, I only planned games with some of my friends when we went to the arcade and I planned an old MMORPG in my spare time before I went to bed, but I would only play it once every week or two"

Satomi leaned closer to Minato with a concern look "how long did you play those games on average?"

Minato backed away slightly "well, in the arcade I would spend somewhere between one to three hours, while I would only spend about two hours on the MMO, unless it involved a long quest then it would be three to four hours"

Satomi shook her head "oh goddess no! Minato people need at least five hours of gaming a day! We need to set up a gaming plan for you immediately!" shouted a panicking Satomi as she gripped Minato's shoulders.

As Minato tried to pry Satomi's hands off his shoulders, he said "Satomi, I think you're confusing that with 'people need five portions of fruit and vegetables a day'. Who play games five hours each day?!"

This went on for half an hour, afterwards Minato and Satomi played a few games to see which Minato was best at.

After two hours both Minato and Satomi arrived at the Basilicom, as soon as they enter one of the Basilicom staff approaches the two "ah! Sir Minato! We've be expecting you, the goddesses and their Oracles are having their meeting in the same room one from before. If I may ask, do you remember where it is?"

Minato nodded "yes I do, thank you"

Both Minato and Satomi began to walk to the meeting room until a guard stopped Satomi "I'm sorry, miss. Only the Goddesses, their Oracles and the Enlighten's Saviour are allowed in the meeting"

Satomi took a step back with a shocked expression "What!?"

Minato addressed the guard "Satomi here IS the Oracle of the Enlighten, or at least she shares the same position in the Enlighten as the Oracles with the goddesses. Meaning she's coming with me to the meeting" Minato turned to Satomi "come on"

Satomi walks past the guard with her head held high as she followed Minato, before they entered the room Satomi turned around and stuck her tongue out at the guard before turning back.

As they entered the meeting room they saw Neptune, Histoire, Noire, Kei, Blanc, Mina, Vert and Chika around a table.

Minato bowed slightly "sorry if we're late. We ran into an unexpected problem, however it has already been taken care of" he took his seat and gestured to Satomi "the individual beside me is Satomi Hanoo, in case any of you may not know, she is the founder of the Enlighten and acting Oracle of the Enlighten"

Satomi bowed deeply "it's an honour to be in your presence, Goddesses and Oracles of Gamindustri"

Everyone stared at the two for a moment, before Neptune "um, no need to be so stiff you two. It isn't the first time when met"

Minato nodded "yeah well. We just wanted to see how you'd all react. Besides, since this is the first official meeting between the four nations and the Enlighten. May as well start it formally"

Kei nodded "I see your point, it's also a relief knowing you are able to act according to the situation"

"Lady, if you only knew half of it" thought Minato at the statement made by the straight to the point Oracle of Lastation.

Satomi looked around excited "so? What are we discussing first?"

Chika looked at Satomi with an annoyed expression "we are still waiting for the other dimension to join, however, remember. You, and that man are not taking a major part in this meetings. In the end your whole group is little more than a fad that will pass with time" she throw her hair back "remember your place little girl"

Satomi looked scared and was visible shivering "I'm sorry!" Satomi then performed a perfect ninety degree bow, however she hit her head on the table with a good deal of force. She stood up straight and was wobbling quite badly, just before she fell over Minato got of his seat to catch her. Minato channelled a Diarama spell to heal her of any injury, after a second she was healed however the force of the blow knocked her out. Minato sighed as he looked at the worried looks of everyone in the room "she's fine, just knocked out" everyone released a sigh a relief. Vert made sure to give her Oracle, Chika, a disappointing. You could tell Chika regretted what she did even before Vert shot her a disappointing look.

Minato picked up Satomi bridal style and turned to the others "is there a coach or a bed I can set her on until she wakes up?"

"Yes, there is just down the hall. I'll show you the way" Vert got up from her seat and led Minato to a door a little ways away from the meeting room "here's the room you can let her rest in" Vert turned to Minato "I'm very sorry about Chika actions, please understand she's not like this normally"

Minato nodded "alright. I'll trust you on this Vert" Vert nodded and began to walk away. On a whim Minato decided to ask "what? You're going to leave an unconscious and helpless girl alone with a guy?"

Vert turned slightly confused before she giggled softly "don't worry I trust, I've played enough Visual Novels that I could get an idea of your character"

Minato raised an eyebrow "which is?"

Vert turned to him before pointing a finger at him "for one, you don't make the first move in a relationship"

Minato eyes widen slightly at what she just said. It was partially true in all his romantic relationships it was the girls that always confessed first, after which he would hug them and say "I vow from this day forth, there will always be a special place in my heart reserved solely for you" in the end it was the girls that turned their relationship from friends to lovers.

Vert turned around and walked back to the others. Minato opened the door and examined the room, the room itself was pretty spacious. It had two desks, two chairs, a table in the middle with two more chairs on opposite sides, a coach with a few stuffed animals to one side and a buck bed at the other end of the room.

Minato thought "wait? This wouldn't be-"

Before he could finish that thought, Messiah spoke up "I believe this is the girls, Neptune and Nepgear, bedroom"

Odin asked "why would she send Master Minato here?"

Orpheus Telos answered "perhaps this was the place she thought was for Satomi to rest, anyway we should put her on the coach before anyone walks in and gets the wrong idea"

Minato nodded and placed Satomi carefully on the coach, suddenly Minato thought "maybe I should leave one of my Persona's here to watch over her, just in case"

Messiah, Odin and Orpheus Telos were discussing who should keep an eye on here, before Minato decided on the perfect Persona for the job.

Minato closed his eyes and held out his hand "Pixie"

Blue energy gather in his hand, when it faded, Minato's Persona Pixie was laying on his palm sleeping.

Stirred awake, Pixie got up and stretched her arms and wings. She looked at Minato as she rubbed her eye "morning Master"

Minato smiled "it's the afternoon Pixie"

Pixie looked around before throwing Minato a suspicious glance "why are we in, what looks like, a young girls room?"

Minato shrugged his shoulders "looked through my memories, it'll be quicker" Pixie closed her eyes before nodding "anyway, I need you to watch over Satomi here. If anything happens that could be too much for you healing magic call me, oh and if she wakes up lead her to me and the others, alright"

Pixie nodded and saluted Minato before she flew over the coach to watch over Satomi, just as Minato was about to leave the room he called to Pixie "don't doddle on her face or any other kind of prank on her" Pixie pouted as she looked at Minato "you can do it later today I promise" he smirked as he left the room.

Minato walked back into the meeting room with his hands in his pockets, as soon as he entered he was meet with the worried looks of everyone in the room "she's find, just knocked out. I have one of my Personas to watch over her just in case anything happens"

Chika cleared her throat "Arisato, I would like to-"

Minato quickly cut her off "if you're trying to apologise then stop, I'm not the one you should say sorry to" Chika flinched "also, if any of you have complaints please direct them to me" Minato closed his eyes "Satomi looks up to you all, goddess and oracle, so that mild verbal beat down scared her. Wouldn't you if someone you admired shot you down?"

The screen came to life to show the Ultra-dimension goddess, Plutia, Peashy, Noire, Blanc, Vert and Histoire around a table. Ultra-Histoire spoke up "greetings everyone, we finally managed to get a webcam into a larger room"

Ultra-Noire looked at everyone across the table from her "remind me again, why we waited so long to get this thing installed"

Plutia answered "well, the people that said they'd install it said they have it in within two weeks"

Ultra-Noire argued back "it was over a mouth!"

Ultra-Vert cleared her throat "may we please return to current matters"

Everyone nodded as the meeting started.

Neptune suddenly perked up "wait a minute" she looks at Minato "where did you put her anyway? Minty"

Before Minato could open his mouth, Vert answered "oh, I just led him to your room and told him to put her in there"

Neptune looked shocked "wait! What!?"

Thirty minutes later with Satomi….

Satomi slowly opened hers eyes to look at an unfamiliar ceiling, she sat up rubbing her forehead as she looked around "where am I?"

"You're in that girl's, Neptune, bedroom" said a small voice above Satomi's head.

Satomi yelp as she fell off the coach as she looked around "who said that!?"

The voice spoke up again "up here" Satomi looked up to see a small fairy creature look down at her, the way the fairy was position was resembled of someone laying on their stomach with their open palms under their chin "so? How are you felling?"

Satomi so slightly confused about what was going on, but answered the question "I'm fine, but, what happened?"

Pixie flew around Satomi's head before stopping in front of her "well, you did a perfect ninety degree bow and hit your head off the conference table, hard"

Satomi could feel her face heat up with embarrassment thinking about what she did, hoping to change the subject she asked Pixie "who are you, anyway?" she asked she points at the small winged being in front of her.

Pixie develops a confident smirk before answering "I'm Pixie, Master Minato asked me to watch over you until you woke up"

Satomi suddenly stood up "wait? You know Min- Milord?" she stopped herself from addressing Minato by his first name in case 'Pixie' was lying about why she was there.

Pixie pouted a little "of course, I am one of his Personas, you know the ones he summons"

Satomi nodded "I see, my apologises Pixie. Do you know where Minato is?" she asked hoping Pixie could help her.

Pixie nodded "of course, but are you ready to be walking around right now?" she asked with a hint of concern.

Satomi smirked "ready to go, I can't stand any longer here anyway" suddenly a thought occurred to Satomi "wait, how long was I out?"

Pixie thought for a moment before answering "roughly thirty minutes"

Satomi started to panic "uh oh, I gotta hurry" Satomi ran out the room and made a sharp turn.

Pixie rushed out and yelling "you're going the wrong way!" Satomi ran back, when she got to Pixie she rubbed her head and smiled sheepishly, Pixie sighed "this way, hurry up" the persona said as she flew in the opposite direction Satomi was running a moment ago.

After a minute running, Satomi arrived at the door to the meeting room. She let out a sigh and entered the room, the second she did she noticed everyone in the room turned to look at her.

Minato smiled, relieved to see Satomi was awake "glad to see you're awake"

Satomi put her hands on her hips "what? Not gonna ask if I'm alright?"

Minato shook his head "I don't have to, Pixie kept me informed on your condition" the other occupation of the room gave Minato a confused look, until they saw Pixie move from behind Satomi over to Minato, they're confused looks turned to shock as Pixie sat down on Minato's shoulder. Minato nodded at Pixie "thanks for watching over her, Pixie"

Pixie smiled back "no biggie, Master" Pixie turned to look at everyone else, besides Minato and Satomi starring at her "what? Is there something on my face?"

Minato looked at everyone "please stop staring at Pixie and let's return to the meeting" after this Pixie returned to Minato's soul by disappearing in an aura of blue energy.

Satomi stood beside Minato "so…. What did I miss?"

Minato shrugged his shoulders "well, first the Enlighten are accepted by the goddesses as a shared branch of their Basilicoms, for now until the Enlighten can act independently. In times of conflict the Enlighten are to remain neutral and not aid any side, in return no offensive strikes will be made against the Enlighten. Any further details are up for debate"

Satomi nods her head "right, right anything else?" she asks excited.

Minato shook his head "no, after I got back we ended up in an argument"

Neptune quickly spoke up "that's because you snuck in my and Nepgear's bedroom!"

Satomi looked at Minato eye widen in absolute shock "Minato! Why!? I believed in you and you-"

Minato quickly tried to defuse the situation, again "I didn't do anything! And besides Vert led me there to let you rest!"

Vert quickly defended her actions "well, where would you have put her? We couldn't leave her unsupervised after that injury"

Satomi looked shell-shocked "I slept in the goddess and candidate's bedroom!"

Kei cleared her throat "may we please not return to this argument"

Mina nodded "yes, now that Satomi is alright, shouldn't continue with the next topic of discussion" she asked hoping to avoid the argument from restarting.

Noire replies "agreed, so, what is the next topic anyway?"

Blanc answered "it's in regard to an individual planning to marry their childhood friend as well as their childhood friend's counterpart in the other dimension"

Ultra-Blanc continued "we have to make a decision whether or not this means their marrying multiple people or the same person"

Minato sighed "well, this one is obvious"

Ultra-Noire raised an eyebrow "really? Then what is your opinion?" she asked attempting to get an idea of Minato's character.

Satomi nodded "I know what you mean Milord, I too, agree with your thoughts on this matter" she said with a knowing smile.

Histoire looked at Satomi "really? How could you know his thoughts on this matter when he hasn't told us yet?"

Satomi puffed out her chest "as Minato's second in command and Oracle of the Enlighten, it is only natural that I understand how he thinks"

Minato glanced at Satomi "that's a pretty big claim, that you know how I think"

Satomi then declared "to prove it, Minato and I will answer at the same time to prove we're in sync"

Minato smiled "alright, why not. One. Two. Three"

"They should be considered multiple people"

"They should be considered the same person"

Minato and Satomi answer at the same time, after they did Minato sighed "looks like we're not in sync as you thought"

Satomi slumps her shoulders depress "guess not, but, in a way they are the same person their just another dimension version of them"

Minato shakes his head "they're not Satomi, though they may share the same looks and mannerisms they have lived different lives from each other. They are their own individual person not a copy of someone else. Though, that is my view on it. I won't forcefully change your view on it and I ask you not to forcefully change mine" little did Minato know. Both Histoires, Noires, Blancs and Verts smiled at his comment on the matter.

Afterwards the goddesses and Oracles voted on the matter, with "They should be considered multiple people" winning the vote.

After the vote very one decided to have a break, while everyone else had snacks and drinks inside, Minato was on the balcony outside looking over Planeptune.

In this moment Minato thought about the different Basilicoms. Planeptune's Basilicom was a massive skyscraper tower, Lastation's looked like a high tech office building, Lowee's looked like a European castle (possible French of German) while Leanbox looked like California's version of the White House.

Minato thought back to Satomi's idea to build a Basilicom for the Enlighten "what would ours look like?" he mused as he thought about the different things he would have in his Basilicom.

Satomi came over to Minato "Milord, are you alright?"

Minato nodded "yeah, I'm fine. Just wanted some fresh air-"suddenly he eyes went wide as a chill went up his spine. He know this feeling all too well. It was a Shadow, but not a normal shadow, he still remembers its presence. After all it was there, on that night during a full moon, when he awaken to his Persona power. The Full Moon Shadow, Magician.

Satomi saw Minato's expression asked him nervously "Milord-"

Minato cut her off "it's a shadow, a big one, and it's near here with a number of others with it. I'll scout ahead, you tell the goddesses to get ready" after he said this Minato jumped onto the ledge of the balcony.

Satomi tried to stop "Minato! Wait!"

Everyone looked and saw Minato standing on the edge of the balcony as he leaned forward and fell of the ledge hurling towards the ground.

It took a second for everyone to process what had just happened before their eyes went wide as saucer plates and yell in a united "WHAT!?"

Everyone rushed over to the balcony, Mina was panicking "why did he jump!?"

Blanc asked "what the hell is he thinking!?"

Minato, as he was falling, summoned a Persona "Phoenix!" blue energy gather behind Minato and emerged a giant red feather bird. Minato moved in the air to grab a hold of Phoenix. When he grabbed on he could a force keeping him tethered to Phoenix so he wouldn't fall off. When they were half way towards the ground, Phoenix moved out of its nose dive as he began to fly in the direction Minato sensed the shadows. Minato then increased Phoenix's speed with Sukukaja skill to get there faster.

Everyone stared wide eyed as they saw Minato fly off, until Noire turned to ask Satomi "well, did you know where he's headed to in such a hurry?"

Satomi jumped slightly before answering "well, he said he sensed a big shadow nearby and went to scout ahead"

Everyone asked in unison "WHAT!?"

Back with Minato he began to close in on the shadows he sensed, after a minute of flying he could see a large mass of Shadows in front of some kind of portal.

As they pass over the Shadows, Minato thought "what is that? Is that portal to the other dimension!?" Phoenix rose into the sky before it started to nose dive into the small army of Shadows with flames enveloping it body. Before Phoenix hit the ground Minato returned Phoenix into his soul, however the flames that enveloped its body continued to the Shadows with no loss of power.

Most of the Shadows are destroyed after the flames impacted the ground with the same force of a large truck, still in the flames Minato attacked the remaining Shadows in the middle of the confusion.

After the flames died down and the weaker shadows destroyed, he turned to look at the Magician Shadow he sensed.

The Magician Shadow was different from last time, instead of being made mostly out of arms that were holding swords and a mask, it had a more human appearance. It had a long cloak that covered its body and most of its head, two arms and had two swords at its waist. The only thing it has in common with the Magician Shadow in Minato's world was its mask and swords.

The Magician wasted no time and jumped into the portal that was in front of it, Minato was about to jump in after it when Histoire contacted him.

"Minato!? Where are you? Have you encounter any Shadows?" Histoire's worried voice rings out in his head.

Minato quickly answered her "yes. I'm in the Virtua Forest right now, I took out most of the shadows but the Magician got away"

"Magician?"

"If Shadows had rankings then the Magician would be considered a Major, or a General. They gather weaker Shadows towards them, which only makes them more dangerous" Minato explains to Histoire just how dangerous the Full moon Shadows could be.

Though, it was the middle of the day and it wouldn't even be a full moon tonight. Could he even call them full moon shadows? The Magician had the same presence, but that was about it.

Histoire seemed to panic slightly at the idea of a Shadow capably of gathering an army "Where is it now?"

Minato looks at the portal the Magician jumped through "it just jump through some kind of portal, though I doubt it created it"

That seemed to surprised Histoire "What!? Then… it must be headed for the other dimension!"

Minato clicked his tongue "Damn it. Histoire, I'm going after it. Tell the others to stay in this dimension, some of this type of Shadows sometimes came in pairs, and tell the other dimension what happened" with those words Minato ran and jumped into the portal.

As he entered the portal it was of every imaginable colour flashed before his eyes, afterwards all colour seemed to have vanished in the blink of an eye, before the colours flashed once more.

When Minato landed on the other side of the portal he felt slightly wobbly, after he regain his balance and stood up straight he took a look at his surroundings. The forest on this side looked identical, he closed his eyes to try and sense the Magician. Luckily for him it seemed to have stopped not far from where he was.

Wasting no time, Minato runs in the direction he saw the Magician. After a minute of running he sees it near a tree, as soon as he began to get near it, the Magician quickly turns around to look at Minato.

Minato took out his two handed sword, Claymore, ready to fight the Magician at a moment's notice the second it attacks. What he wasn't expecting was for the Magician to grow two arms out of its back, focused a lot of fire in them and then took to the air flying, as it tried to get away from Minato.

Key word being tried.

"What the? Get back here!"

With the Ultra-Dimension Goddesses

Plutia in her Iris Heart form, Noire in her Black Heart form, Blanc in her White Heart form, Vert in her Green Heart form and Peashy in her Yellow Heart form flew over the Virtua Forest as they searched for the Shadow that entered their dimension.

The goddesses stop in mid-air as they look around the forest for any sights of strange creatures. Ultra Black Heart spoke up "where is that Shadow thing!? If we don't destroy it quickly, who knows what'll happen to our world!"

Ultra Green Heart nodded "agreed, we must stop these Shadows before they can corrupt our world"

Ultra White Heart replied with a frustrated tone in her voice "well, if you have time for talking then you have time to look for these thing!"

Iris Heart nodded "Blanc is quite correct girls, besides I have to give this Shadow a special treat after what their kind did to one of my toy- friends" she said with a sadistic chuckle that caused everyone, except Yellow Heart, to shudder.

Yellow Heart looked around the forest floor trying to spot the Shadow "were is that thing so I can beat it up after what it did to Neptuna"

Ultra Black Heart gave Yellow Heart a deadpanned look "that was a different Shadow, anyway there has to be a clue about where it is" just after she said that, a shadowy figure launched out of the forest and into the sky with two streams of fire behind it. Just then a large amount of lightning hit the figure leaving it in the air for a moment before a giant golden fist descended from a cloud to punch the figure back down to the ground, leaving a crater where it landed. Everyone stared at the sight dumbfounded, before Yellow Heart moved towards where it all happen with everyone else close behind.

Back with Minato.

Minato was disappointed with the Magician Shadow in front of him, as it slowly tried to pull itself back together at the bottom of the crater he created with God Hand after he stunned it with a Zionga.

Minato shook his head "seriously, this Magician isn't even close to the one I've faced" the original Magician, or any full moon Shadow, never ran from a fight. Even against Thanatos the Magician he faced still fought back to the bitter end.

As he stared at the Shadow preparing to use an almighty attack to finish it off, he heard something above him "what the-?"

Surprised Minato looked up and saw someone with yellow who was wearing an outfit resembling the one the Goddesses wear in their Hard Drive Divinity, or HDD as they like to call it. Soon enough others like her showed up, three of them being Noire, Blanc and Vert in their HDD Forms though they wore different coloured…. Outfits then the ones he knew.

Minato spoke "hello, I assume you're the goddesses of this dimension" Minato bowed slightly as he kept his eyes on the Magician Shadow "nice to finally meet you all in person. My name is Minato Arisato" he then gestured to the Shadow in the crater "and this is the Shadow that tried to lead a small army of other Shadows into your dimension"

Everyone looked at the Magician Shadow, and Minato could see the disappointment in their eyes. He couldn't really blame them, Shadows don't look like much, but that's just an example on how looks can be deceiving.

Iris Heart moved closer to Minato "hmm, I assume you did this to that… thing" she said as she looked at Minato from head to toe before looking at the Magician in the crater after he stopped moving.

Minato nodded. Yellow Heart moved closer to get a better look, then the Magician attacked Yellow Heart with an arm that shot out of its back forcing Yellow Heart to retreat.

The Goddesses moved back as Minato held Claymore in his hands ready to finish off the Shadow.

The Magician jumped out of the crater fully recovered, it unsheathed the swords at it waist revealing one was bathed in flame and the ice.

They all stood there at a stalemate, waiting for the other side to make a move, all was silent except for the gentle breeze of wind and the rustling of leaves.

The silence came to an end when something came out of the bushes. Everyone turned to see a small group of four Dogoos come out the bushes, Minato only glanced at them before focusing on the Shadow in front of him as it looked at the creatures.

An arm shout out of the Magician's back and shot the Dogoos with lumps of its own body. The lumps of the Magician's body was absorbed by the Dogoos and they began to change, they grew twice as large, their cute(?) dog like faces changed to those of feral beasts with large teeth ready to rip anything apart, their eyes turned into a mixture of red and gold. During the whole transformation, everyone heard the pained flled pleas of the Dogoo for help.

The Shadow infected Dogoo attacked Minato and the Goddesses who were taken aback at what had happened.

Minato raised Claymore to block an attack when it shot towards him. It bounced of the blade before its mouth opened up and stretched to bite Minato, who blocked it with Claymore again. Yellow Heart attacked one of the infected Dogoo with her claws, however it dodged some of them and as soon as she finished her attack the infected Dogoo opened it extendable jaw to bite her. Iris Heart used her whip (sword) to attack the infected, they endure it and tried to get in closer result in iris Heart kicking them away before they shrugged it off before they started attacking again. Black Heart slashed the infected, she managed to chop of a portion of it. The portion that was cut off disappeared into the air and the infected kept on attacking. White Heart swing her hammer to crush them, they were flatten like pieces of paper but reflated themselves and kept attacking. Green Heart used her spear to sweep and pierce the infected dogoo, however when she pierced one through the middle it started to slowly slide down the shaft of the spear to hurt her, however she threw it away with a powerful swing.

They kept fighting the Shadow infected dogoo until they started to look weak and pieces of their bodies were disappearing into the air. The Magician moved closer only to have the infected dogoo to start to attack it, this caught the Magician off guard as they started to bite the Magician trying to devour it completely. This gave Minato and the Goddesses time to breath, but also greatly confused them.

As the Magician struggled to get the infected dogoo off itself, Iris Heart looks at Minato "well, care to explain what's happening? You're supposed to be an expert with this Shadow things"

Minato answers "I know a good deal about them, however this is the first time I've seen this" Minato looked at the Magician and noticed it was badly hurt from the infected dogoo.

The Magician grabbed one of the infected dogoo and threw at the bottom of a nearby three were it exploded and before disappearing, however the explosion caused something to fly through the air and hit Minato on his forehead.

Minato sent Claymore back into his soul and caught the thing in his right hand as he rubbed his forehead with his left "what the…?" what hit him was a diamond shaped crystal with a power symbol in the centre.

Suddenly, faster than Minato could react, a slumbering power within the crystal awakened. He heard the voices of the others, telling him to throw the crystal away, but it was already too late.

Minato felt as the crystal merged with his skin and sunk deeper into his body. The crystal and its power was forcing its way into Minato's very being, he felt it searched through his memoires through his soul, through his ever existence as if judging whether or not he was worthy of its power.

Suddenly, the world around him vanished and found himself in an empty space. He looked around but found nothing. Suddenly the crystal he held came into existence in front of him, however its power was far more tamed then before. The crystal shatter and the power symbol with in it clouted in front of Minato. Alongside the power symbol, a tarot card flouted down in front of him. He looked at it for a moment and knew what arcana it represented "The World…."

The power symbol moved to Minato's forehead as the world arcana moved to his chest, and in that instant Minato felt a new power awakened inside himself.

With the others

Everyone stood there as they look at the column of light that emerged when Minato touched the crystal.

The power behind the pillar managed to somehow destroy the infected dogoo like they were being crushed by gravity.

As soon as the brightness of the pillar of light lessened everyone looked to see what happened to Minato, but all they could see was a humanoid silhouette with a power symbol on their forehead and a duel coloured face on their chest.


Omake one push too many

Satomi shook her head "no! I'm not mixing those two up! People need- WHOA!"

During all the pushing both Satomi and Minato fell of the coach and landed on the floor, with Minato landing on the ground and hitting his head and Satomi landing on top of him.

Minato rubbed the back of his head to ease the pain "are you alright, Satomi?"

Satomi nodded "yeah, thanks" she said as she knelt up.

Suddenly the voices of Minato's persona shouted "MASTER! GET OUT OF THIS POSITION!" Minato was slightly confused at what then meant, until he notice Satomi was on top of him. If someone came in now, they would mistake this as a 'Lover's Moment'

Unfortunately, he didn't get time to react as Ichirou walked in. He gasps "Minato! Satomi! What are you two doing?!"

Minato pushed Satomi off and faced Ichirou "Mr Hanoo, I can explain-"

Ichirou points upstairs "if you want to do R- rated stuff then go to your room and do it, or at least give me and Yuko and chance to you two some privacy" he turns away while shaking his head "kids these days, always jumping the gun"

Minato stared at Ichirou completely dumbfounded, before he turns to look at Satomi. Satomi's entire body was bright red and a massive amount of steam was coming out of her head.

In the end, Minato's only thought was "what the Tartarus just happen?"


Omake Examination

Iris Heart flouted down next to Minato, completely ignoring the Shadow in the crater "hmm"

Minato took a step back "may I help you?"

Iris Heart nodded "you look like you could take a good deal of punishment. Yes, you will do quite well"

"Well for what?" as he asked that, Iris Heart's sword extended into a whip and wrapped around Minato and held him upside-down.

Iris Heart smirked as she answered "for my new toy"

Black Heart shouted "Plutia! Now's not the time!" everyone stared at the sight of Minato being held captive by Iris Heart. While watching this, the Magician Shadow just couldn't figure out how to react.


Omake: Story Reversed continued

Minato walked into the control room at the Iwatodai Dormitory. Which acted as the base of operations of SEES, The Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad, who specialize in hunting Shadows. As he entered the room he saw his upperclassmen (Sempai), Mitsuru Kirijo, looking over some files.

As soon as he closed the door, Mitsuru looks at him "oh, Minato. Thank you for coming on such short notice"

Minato nodded "no problem. Anyway, what's wrong?"

She gestured him to come closer "take a look at this's files" she said as she looked at the open files on the table.

Minato looked at the files and his eyes widen slightly, they were files on that group of cosplayers he escorted out of Tartarus the other night. He remembered those girls couldn't quite remember what happened to them or where they lived so they handed them over to the police to help them.

Minato turned to Mitsuru with a raised eyebrow "what's wrong with them?"

Mitsuru's expression turned grim "we believe the incident involving the Shadows may have had a greater effect on them then we expected"

Minato's expression went from its usual poker face to a serious expression "do you mean Apathy Syndrome?"

Mitsuru shakes her head "no, it something else. It seems there memories have been altered"

Minato was shocked, but kept his expression the same "altered! In what way?"

Mitsuru handed Minato a number of papers, each one with a photo of one of the girls "see for yourself"

Minato looked through the files of the statements they gave to the police. Apparently they come from a place called 'Gamindustri' with four of them, Neptune, Noire, Blanc and Vert lead the four nations of the Gamindustri. The one called Plutia leads her own nation in a different dimension then the others, while Rei Rights led a nation before it was destroyed. The girls IF, Compa, NISA, Gust, 5pb, Red, Falcom, Cave, MAGES, Broccoli, MarvolesAQL, Cyberconnect2 and Tekken are considered great heroes of Gamindustri, thought Minato couldn't help but notice their names sounded like video game developers. The girls Neptune, Nepgear, Noire, Uni, Blanc, Rom, Ram, Vert, Plutia, Peashy and Rei were al Goddesses, or so they say.

Minato looked at Mitsuru "has anything like ever happened before?" Minato was hoping if there was some way to help this girls so they wouldn't be another victim of Apathy Syndrome.

Mitsuru looked down "yes, but nowhere near as serious as this. We're searching for any possible relatives as well as any missing persons report to help us, but so far nothing"

Minato asked "so what was your reason for calling me here? I have a feeling its more than just informing be of their situation"

Mitsuru nodded with her eyes closed "straight to the point. Yes there is another I called you here" she opens her eyes and stares into Minatos own "they remember you"

Minato raised an eyebrow "but, normal people usually lose their memories of anything relating to the Dark Hour, unless-"

Before Minato could continue, Mitsuru cut him off "no, we've already tested them and none of them have 'the potential'. There's a chance the reason they remember you is because The Shadows Alter their memories for some reason"

Minato nodded "so are you asking me to keep my distance from them?"

Minato shakes her head "on the contrary, I need you to keep an eye on them. They've been growing more restless to the point we can barely keep them from running loose on the streets, so I need you to go there and explain to them the situation"

Minato replied "their people Mitsuru, chances are they don't like being locked up and being wathed where ever they go"

Mitsuru nodded "I agree, but they trapped in some delusional mind-set that could get them into trouble or worse" Mitsuru looked down for a moment before looking at Minato again "besides, from what I can gather. You have the most diverts social skills in SEES, so your are best bet"

Minato nodded his head before he let out a small chuckle confusing Mitsuru "sorry, sorry. But, considering how I was when I first came here I would've been the last person you would pick"

Mitsuru smirked and replied "yes, I remember. I wouldn't lie, at first we thought you yourself were another victim of Apathy Syndrome"

Minato asks "so, where should I go anyway?"

Mitsuru quickly answered "there staying at a hotel owned by the Kirijo Group, here's the address. Please be there tomorrow morning since there's no school" Minato took the sheet of paper and pocketed it.

The next morning Minato would go to a five star hotel to visit the girls trapped in dream land, he was told by staff they were gathered into one room for him to speak to them. As she stepped into the room, he knew it was going to be a long day.


Author section

Hey everyone! Angel here.

Sadly there will not be a Please Teach Me section this time. Instead I'm going to explain the concept on how persona users could be accepted as CPU's

Pretty simple really, they either must be a wild card or have reached a phase two persona or evolved persona, if there not a wild card.

If you have any questions you want to be in the next (possibly) segment of Please teach me then send them in, but only one per franchise

also, a thank you to Naruto, the character, the series and it creator Masashi Kishimoto

though, a number of people say they don't like it because how the story turned out. no can deny the fact the Naruto series has become a world wide hit and has made it easier for more anime and manga to be made.

so thank you Masashi Kishimoto and Naruto for changing our world a little.

for better, or for worse...

That's it! Well see ya.