I'm am sooooo very sorry this is a year late! I had other stories and things to attend to. Learning Japanese isn't easy as well, so here it is the next part!

Part 2: SEES the Truth

Third Day of Summer Break

7:30 AM

Outside of Inaba

Outside of the town of Inaba, everyone stands on a field of grass waiting for Touya to arrive.

"This is the meeting time, correct?" said Naoto.

"Yeah, where is Touya?" said Chie.

"Don't worry he'll come" said Yukiko.

After waiting a few more minutes, they heard a voice yelling from below the hill. Touya and Anami were both running up the hill with their luggage on hand.

"Sorry we're late, Anami took awhile to wake up this morning" said Touya. "I'm so sorry, I just couldn't go asleep last night from the excitement" said Anami.

Everyone saw the huge smile on Anami's face and felt happy for her. Yukiko patted her head and smiled at her. Yukiko then looked at Touya and saw his staff on his back. "Is it okay to have that out in the open?" said Yukiko. "Don't worry about it, everybody in Iwatodai knows that I carry this around anyway" said Touya with a smile on his face.

Everybody felt a little worried about what people thought of Touya.

"So where's our ride?" said Yosuke.

Touya looked at his watch and a happy expression came over his face. Suddenly the noises of helicopter blades were heard in the distance. Everyone looked into the sky and saw three huge helicopters heading in their direction. The helicopters landed on the hills of grass. After landing someone stepped out of a helicopter. It was a woman with red hair slightly older than everyone.

"Mitsuru-Senpai! I didn't know you were coming!" said Touya. "I thought I would be best for me to appear here now instead of later" said Mitsuru.

"Um, Touya-san who is this?" said Rise. "Oh sorry, this is Kirijo Mitsuru, head of the Kirijo Company and former leader of SEES" said Touya. "It's a pleasure to meet you all" said Mitsuru.

"It's a pleasure to meet someone of your caliber" said Naoto. "Why thank you" said Mitsuru. "Also no introductions are needed, Touya told me everything about you guys" said Mitsuru.

"Oh, that's good to know" said Chie looking relieved. "Touya, there are others here with me as well" said Mitsuru. "Really?" said Touya.

Touya's eyes filled with excitement. Out of the same helicopter two people walked out. The first one was a blonde woman who had an old Gekkoukan High School winter uniform and the other was a brown haired woman wearing a pink jacket.

"Aigis! Yukari!" said Touya. "It is nice to see you again Touya" said Aigis. "Yeah, you've grown since we've last seen you" said Yukari. "Really? Well it doesn't matter" said Touya.

"What's with this moment here? It's like he's a little brother excited to see his family again" said Yosuke.

"Hey! We can't blame him, they're the closest to family he's got left in the world" said Yukiko. "Really? How do you know?" said Rise.

"He… uh… told me" said Yukiko. Yukiko looked like she couldn't say anymore.

"Ouch, I really need to watch my step next time" said a voice coming from behind Aigis and Yukari.

Aigis moved to the side and everyone saw a woman with green hair wearing casual clothing.

"Fuuka-Nee-chan!" said Touya jumping into the woman's arms.

"Waah, Touya! Don't jump on me so suddenly" said Fuuka.

Anami ran and jumped into Fuuka's arms as well. "Anami, you're here too?" said Fuuka. "Yeah, I get to see everyone at Iwatodai again" said Anami. "What's with them all of a sudden?" said Kanji.

"Ah, when we discovered Touya and Anami, it was Fuuka who took care of them most of the time" said Mitsuru.

"Ah, he's just very happy to see someone that's like a big sister to him" said Chie.

"I would be bear-y happy to see people who were like family to me as well" said Teddie. Touya stopped and stood up.

"Sorry about that everyone, shall we get going?" said Touya. "Yeah, I can't wait to see Iwatodai again" said Yosuke.

"Okay the far most helicopter is for the guys and the one in the middle is for the girls" said Mitsuru.

The guys walked towards their helicopter and the girls walked to theirs. Yukiko, Anami and Touya stayed.

"Wait, you're not getting on the helicopter with the other guys?" said Yukiko. "No, I'll be with Mitsuru and everyone else to explain the situation more thoroughly" said Touya.

"No fair" said Anami. "Watch her for me okay, Yukiko?" said Touya. "Sure" said Yukiko.

Everyone got into their helicopters and then the helicopters left the town. After a few hours passed by the helicopters landed behind a newly made, large scale building.

Iwotadai - Tatsumi Port Island

Dormitories

10:00 AM

Upon leaving the helicopter, Touya looked around the area.

"Where are we? This area looks familiar" said Touya.

"This is where the dorm used to be" said Yukari. "What! Really?" said Touya.

"Yeah, in the end we tore it down to make a new residential area for university students in the area" said Mitsuru.

"So what's with the helicopter landing area?" said Yosuke.

"As head of the Kirijo Company I need to travel around sometimes, so I travel through helicopter" said Mitsuru.

"That makes sense" said Rise. "Well for now all of you will be staying here for now, your rooms will be in the leftmost building" said Fuuka. "All right then, we all have classes this afternoon so we'll be gone for the rest of the day" said Yukari.

Mitsuru, Yukari, Aigis and Fuuka headed towards the dormitory. Aigis stopped in place and turned around.

"Don't do anything to hurt yourselves" said Aigis.

After saying that Aigis turned back around and headed towards the dorms.

Touya started to speak towards the group.

"Everyone should start unpacking their things before today's dark hour begins" said Touya.

The group of Inaba looked at Touya with confusion.

"Why before the dark hour?" said Teddie. "Strega Nexus is planning something, so before they can do anything, we have to train tonight to make you guys stronger" said Touya.

"What do you mean "train"! We're already strong enough!" said Kanji.

"I've been in Inaba a little longer than you think, I've seen all of you fight and it's not all that great!" said Touya.

"That's bullshit! We all have perfect control over our personas in battle!" said Yosuke.

"It's not good enough, when the girl's persona attacked you all, none of you had any means to fight back against it!" said Touya.

Everyone stood in silence after Touya's last statement. They had to admit they've only used their personas a couple of time compared to the SEES group.

Rise walked next to the Souji and looked into his eyes.

"What do you think we should do?" said Rise.

Souji looked towards Touya, who looked scared and worried if they didn't accept the training.

"Alright, we'll start the training tonight" said Souji. Touya's expression looked relieved.

"I agree we still know nothing of our Persona's true power, so I would be great if you could enlighten us" said Naoto.

"Right then, training begins at midnight" said Touya. Touya started to walk towards the dormitory. Anami walked up in front of the group.

"Thank you, everyone" said Anami. "Don't worry about it, he was more worried about us than anything else" said Chie.

"Alright then, let's head into the dorms" said Yosuke.

Everyone else agreed and walked towards the dormitory. On the leftmost building, the guys stayed in the second floor and girls on the third. While the guys were unpacking, Touya was on the phone downstairs. After a few minutes, Touya walked upstairs with a happy expression on his face. Everyone was waiting on the second floor for him.

"Is everybody done unpacking now?" said Touya. "Yeah, we're all done" said Souji. "We still have time, how 'bout we all head over to Paulownia Mall?" said Touya.

"Really!" said Yosuke. "Why not?" said Touya.

Everyone got excited to look around Iwatodai again.

Paulownia Mall

11: 00 AM

"Wow, a lot of people are here" said Chie. "Some people hang out here a lot but there are more people here than usual" said Anami. "Must be some event going around somewhere" said Touya.

They looked around and saw a giant crowd hanging around a platform.

"It seems to be over there" said Rise. They all walked in front of the platform to see what was going on. There were no posters or anything on the platform to indicate any special event.

"What's going on around here?" said Souji. "Didn't you hear? Shirai Mao is going to speak here" said a boy. "Who?" said Yukiko.

"You guys obviously aren't from around here; he's the leader of the group Strega Nexus. The group who shall bring salvation with Nyx guiding them" said the boy. Everyone became shocked and alert from hearing this comment.

Suddenly noise from the platform was heard. They turned seeing the man they had met during the dark hour on the platform.

"It's him!" said Touya. "Greetings to all who have come here today to hear the revival of Nyx! Finally, Strega Nexus shall bring forth the almighty god Nyx!" said Mao through a microphone.

The crowd cheered with excitement towards Mao.

"Damn, do all these people want to die so much!" said Kanji. Touya balled up his fists; Yukiko looked at him and started to worry.

"We almost have everything we need to free Nyx of her seal but we need one more thing!" said Mao. Everyone looked at Mao with confusion.

"We still need the "Sleeping Child's" power to destroy the seal" said Mao. "Sleeping Child?" said Naoto. "We know who the sleeping child is and it is a matter of time until we captured her" said Mao. "It's a girl then?" said Teddie.

Touya's anger had reached its peak and jumped onto the platform. "Who do you think you ar-?" said Mao then paused when realizing it was Touya.

Touya grabbed the microphone from Mao's hand.

"Everyone Nyx will not bring you salvation only death!" said Touya. The crowd looked confused but anger.

"How would you know?" yelled a person. "Death shall bring us salvation from life" yelled another person. "No it won't!" said Touya. "Like you've died before" said another person.

Touya stood quiet for a few seconds then said "but I have died before". Then everyone in the crowd became quiet.

"I was a lucky person to escape death. When I was dead, I just stood there in a cold, dark space. I kept wondering to myself "this is death? I can't do anything here but feel sorry for myself" said Touya. "If you feel horrible about yourself in life it'll only get worse in death!" said Touya.

The crowd stood quiet for a few seconds then started to mumble among themselves. In the crowd, the group heard comments like "He may be right about this", "I don't really want to die yet, and I still haven't done anything worth dying for".

Mao started to clap his hands at Touya. "A very good speech but if death is so scary and if you're still brave, then why don't you try and kill yourself again?" said Mao.

The crowd stood silent again but agreed with Mao, Touya should show how scary death is. "Very well then" said Touya.

Touya reached into his pocket and pulled out his evoker.

"(Wait, that's his evoker!)" said Souji.

Touya placed the barrel of the gun towards his head; the crowd stared at him with anticipation. Touya pulled the trigger and the sound of glass breaking was heard. Everyone saw a giant angel behind Touya. It was Helel but the crowd could not see the extra arms or bird mask. After a few seconds Helel disappeared. The crowd started to speak amongst themselves again.

"An angel was shown behind him, maybe we can trust him" said a person.

"That guy was allowed to live his life again" said another person. "Does everyone see now, death is something that shouldn't be feared or give into. Find the light within your hearts to help save your minds from death and Nyx!" said Touya.

The crowd agreed with Touya and yelled in excitement. Mao walked away from the platform saying "good job but Nyx will still be freed". The crowd dispersed away from the platform leaving Touya and the group alone in the area.

"That was a good speech, Touya-san" said Yukiko. "Thanks" said Touya jumping off of the platform. "But when have you died in life?" said Naoto.

"About five years ago, I protected Anami from a bear in the woods; my magic was still weak at the time. I was knocked into a coma for two years. Anami came to see me every day after school with my parents. One day my vital signs died and I was registered as dead." said Touya. "How did you stay alive?" said Teddie. "Anami's persona awakened and tried to restore my life. Lucifer brought me back to life by invoking my persona" said Touya.

"The day our personas awakened was really a happy one" said Anami.

"Wait, personas are unable to revive people from the dead without killing the user" said Rise. Touya's eyes changed from green to blue.

"I didn't revive him, I showed him the way out of death instead" said Lucifer. After saying that one sentence Lucifer switched back with Touya.

"I see…., that's how you saw through that persona's mimic ability" said Naoto.

"The coma wasn't all that bad I was able to meet Minato-san" said Touya. Everyone looked at him with confusion again.

"Who's Minato?" said Chie.

"The only member in SEES with the wild card ability and the one who risked his life to seal away Nyx" said Touya. Everyone stood alert and shocked upon hearing the statement.

"During the coma, I was asked to use my magic to make the seal on the door to stronger" said Touya.

"Then after you woke up you were put in the experiment to fuse two personas" said Naoto. Touya nodded his head and looked towards the roof. Touya walked off the stage and headed towards the exit.

"Wait! Where are you going Touya!" said Chie.

"I heading back to the dorms; I'm not in the mood to hang out anymore" said Touya. Yukiko grabbed Touya's arm, in reaction Touya turned towards Yukiko.

"Even if you're not in the mood, we're all still going to have fun" said Yukiko. "Yeah, Yukiko is right. We all came here to have fun and that's what we're going to do" said Chie. Anami walked towards Touya and held his arm with Yukiko.

"Come on Touya-nii, there's no point in being here without you" said Anami. Touya looked at Anami and Yukiko tugging at his arm, then started to smile.

"I guess I lose against you guys" said Touya. Everyone grew happy and excited from hearing Touya's surrender. After playing around the whole day, the whole group went back to the dorms and awaited the dark hour.

Dormitories - Training Room

Dark Hour

12:00

The dark hour had commenced and everyone, except for Anami, was gathered in a room covered in metal. "Why is this room covered like this?" said Yosuke.

"This room was designed to be able to withstand attacks from personas" said Touya. Everyone looked at Touya, who was wearing a long black cloak and had a SEES armband attached.

"What's with the getup?" said Kanji. "I'll be training you all as a member of SEES" said Touya. "Alright then….." said Souji.

"Before we start I need to split all of you into four different groups" said Touya. Everyone became confused. "Split us up? Why?" said Chie.

"Each of your personas are skilled in different aspects and element. Each of you must train in the style of your persona" said Touya.

"Right…, so what're the groups?" said Kanji.

"Group 1: Chie and Takashi. Group 2: Yukiko and Teddie. Group 3: Kanji, Yosuke and Naoto. Group 4: Rise" said Touya.

"Eh~! I'm all alone?" said Rise.

"Sorry Rise, but you're not a battle oriented person" said Touya. The groups were split into the four groups and were each given their weapons.

"I'm in charge of Group 2 only: This group will be focusing on their magical power" said Touya.

"I get to learn from Touya-san? (I'm so lucky!)" said Yukiko.

"Wait! What about the rest of us?" said Chie. "Your teachers are on their way" said Touya. The door opened and Fuuka with two other men, all wearing SEES armbands, walked into the room.

The first man with silver hair and boxing gloves went in front of group 1. The other male, with a baseball cap on his head and a long katana, went in front of group 3. Fuuka walked next to Rise with her evoker in her hand.

"I'm Sanada Akihiko; I'm in charge of teaching group 1 by improving their physical abilities of them and their personas. Nice to meet you all" said the silver haired male.

"I'm Iori Junpei; I will be helping group 3 by teaching them how to combine their persona's physical and magical abilities. Damn Touya, you sure have a lot of cute girls on your team" said Junpei.

"Junpei-Senpai, please refrain from gazing too much" said Touya.

"Rise, I'll be teaching you to use your scanning abilities better" said Fuuka smiling at Rise.

"Ah, thank you very much, Fuuka-san" said Rise. "Alright I wish you all luck" said Touya.

"Touya, you sound like you're about to leave" said Yosuke.

"Well…, I kind of am. I will be switching with Lucifer since he has better control over magic than I do" said Touya rubbing the back of his head. Touya's eyes changed from green to blue.

"Alright let's get started!" said Lucifer. Teddie got a little scared from seeing Lucifer in Touya's body.

"Don't get scared Teddie! Now I need you to hit me with the strongest spell you got!" said Lucifer.

"What! Why!" said Teddie. "This will give me a measurement of your power. Yukiko, you do the same after Teddie" said Lucifer. Teddie and Yukiko looked at each other then pulled out their persona cards.

"Come on out Kamui!" said Teddie. "Amaterasu!" said Yukiko. Teddie's persona was a metallic bear with exaggerated claws.

Yukiko's persona was a human body with wings and a sword with its scabbard.

"Right then…., Bufudyne!" said Teddie. A giant block of ice started to form around Lucifer. Lucifer calmly pulled out his staff and lifted it up into the air.

"Bufu" said Lucifer.

A small block of fell on top of the Bufudyne and shattered it.

"Ahhh, my Bufudyne…."said Teddie.

"Agidyne" said Yukiko.

Lucifer burst into flame but didn't move an inch. The flames died out and Lucifer's body was undamaged.

"My attack had no effect either" said Yukiko. "I'm going to train you guys so that your attacks will be enough to hurt me, if you want to be able to hold your own in battle" said Lucifer.

Yukiko and Teddie stood and listened to Lucifer hoping to grow stronger.

In group 1, Akihiko's persona, Ceaser, was holding back the attacks of Souji's and Chie's personas, Izanagi and Suzuka Gongen.

"Your personas reflect your own inner strength! At this level, you won't be able to defeat anything" said Akihiko. "I thought we could handle this" said Chie.

In group 3, Junpei had everyone's persona out and meditating.

"Focus, on the energy you have or something that makes you want to become stronger" said Junpei.

In group 4, Rise and Fuuka had their personas out scanning everyone's persona.

"You're doing well, relax and sense everyone's emotions and feelings" said Fuuka.

Training Room

Dark Hour

12:00 - 30 minutes later

"Who knew just meditating with our personas can be so tiring" said Yosuke. "Magic training with Lucifer is just too grim" said Teddie.

"Physical workouts with Akihiko are just too exhausting" said Chie. "I guess you guys were rough with them" said Touya. "Of course, there's no time for anyone to be weak" said Akihiko.

"They'll all learn soon enough this training will help them out" said Junpei.

"Well, everybody might as well get some rest now. For one more day you're all going to have the same training as today, then we'll try to get you all of your personas to work together" said Touya.

"Before you leave, I want to hear the full story from you Touya" said Akihiko. "Why me?" said Touya.

"When Mitsuru explained it, she seemed to be hiding something" said Akihiko.

"My guess is she left out the part of Minato-Senpai possibly dying?" said Touya for reassurance. Everyone on the ground became alert from the question and stood up to listen.

"So that's what she left out…" said Junpei. "Touya-san, what do you mean Minato-Senpai possibly dying?" said Yukiko.

"If Strega Nexus is actually planning to use Izanami's power, it's very likely that Minato can die" said Touya. "What do you mean?" said Yosuke.

"Izanami's power is solely based on the true emotions of humans, using it to release the seal can kill Minato-Senpai only if people still want Nyx to kill them, Minato will die along with them" said Touya. "I see, so if people do not wish for Nyx, Minato-san can still live, correct?" said Naoto.

"Yeah, thanks to the magic I used to enforce the seal" said Touya. "Then we'll make sure Minato-Sensei won't die!" said Teddie.

Everyone then looked at Teddie. "Teddie, what are you talking about?" said Souji.

"If he's only dying because people want Nyx, then there's only one thing we can do to keep him alive. During the day, we show people the joy of living and how horrible death is" said Teddie. "Amazing, this dumb bear actually said something smart" said Yosuke.

"Hey! I'm a bear-y smart bear!" said Teddie. "You sure are Teddie" said Rise patting Teddie's head.

"Let's go ahead and go through with Teddie's plan tomorrow" said Touya. "We'll help too" said Akihiko. Everyone nodded in agreement to the plan. Three days passed by while everyone trained and tried to get everyone to live again during the day. On the fourth day, the training was finished and the dark hour was half over. Today Mitsuru, Yukari and Aigis were observing the training.

"This is great everyone! I think we're finally ready" said Touya. Everyone yelled in excitement. "It's all thanks to your preparation, Touya-san" said Yukiko. "I didn't do much. I just-" said Touya.

Suddenly a surge a pain went through his head. Touya grabbed his head and dropped to his knees. "Auuggh!" said Touya. "Touya-san!" said Yukiko. Everyone ran next to him to help him out.

"Touya! What's wrong?" said Akihiko. "They're trying to break the seal now" said Touya struggling. Everyone was shocked from hearing the statement. Touya's pain disappeared and stood up normally.

"They did it, the seal was broken" said Touya. "No way" said Chie. "Wait, what about Minato-Sensei?" said Teddie.

"Follow me! We'll check on him now!" said Mitsuru. Everyone followed Mitsuru out the door and down into the basement.

"Why the hell is his body down here?" said Kanji running down. "After the doctors told us his body was dead, we decided to keep it until the day he awakens. Down here is the Abyss of Time, it's the only place we could preserve his body" said Mitsuru.

After passing through one door, everyone saw a male body floating in the air. "Senpai…." said Touya. "No! He's dead!" said Aigis.

Souji and Touya saw something behind the body; it was a bright, orange light. Without their own self-control, they both slowly raised their arms toward the light. Suddenly the light shined and entered Minato's body. Minato's eyes started to slowly open and his body floated down.

"Minato!" said Yukari running first to him. Everyone else ran towards Minato. Yukari embraced Minato's body into her arms. "Yukari?" said Minato. "Minato-san, are you okay?" said Mitsuru. "I am a bit sleepy" said Minato scratching his head.

"He's still the same person as always" said Junpei. Souji and Touya were still looking above them. "What's wrong with you two?" said Akihiko.

"There's a persona card up there" said Souji. Everyone else looked above but saw nothing in the air, except for Minato.

"Whose card is that?" said Minato. "Minato-Senpai…, I think it's yours" said Touya.

Minato raised his arm into the air and the persona card flew onto his hand. After touching the card, it became visible to everybody else. "Whoa, where'd that come from?" said Kanji.

"A persona card?" said Minato. "Why did only Minato-san get one?" said Aigis. A figure appeared on the card, it was the figure of Orpheus Telos. "It's Orpheus and he's back with me" said Minato.

Aigis started to look like she was confused. "Does that mean that I have Athena back?" said Aigis. "Try and see Aigis" said Yukari.

Aigis looked at Minato who still look like he was in a weak condition but smiled at Aigis to reassure her. Aigis started to focus her energy within and felt a surge of power. But no persona or signs of it emerged from Aigis. "It didn't appear" said Aigis.

"No way, I thought it would appear" said Yukari. "What happened to Aigis-san's persona?" said Rise.

"After the incident with the Abyss of Time, Aigis lost all her persona abilities. No one knew why and we couldn't find any answers" said Mitsuru. "Aigis, you'll get your persona back soon" said Minato. "How do you know?" said Aigis.

"Trust me. I'm still a little tired, so I'm going to rest for now" said Minato closing his eyes.

Everyone had felt content with having Minato back with them and safe. Touya was struggling with a thought in his mind. "Touya-san, what's wrong?" said Yukiko.

"Mao said something about needing the "Sleeping Child" for the revival of Nyx" said Touya. "You think they may have found that person?" said Chie. "I don't know… . . . it's too soon to tell" said Touya. Touya felt something and started to run up the stairs.

"Touya! Where are you going!" said Souji. "Someone broke the barrier I put over Anami" said Touya running.

Hearing the statement, everyone became alert and ran after Touya. After reaching the third floor, the group finally caught up with Touya who stood immobilized in front of Anami's door. Everyone saw the empty room with the window opened. Touya dropped to his knees and placed his hands over Anami.

"She's gone I couldn't protect her again!" said Touya. Rise noticed a piece of paper on the wall and retrieved it.

"It's a letter from Strega Nexus" said Rise. Touya's head looked back up to see the letter in Rise's hand.

"To members of SEES, we have finally gotten our hands on the "Sleeping Child" and the revival of Nyx is now inevitable. Even with your efforts to decrease our group's morale we already have everything we need. Now all you can do is watch behind the wall and see humanity finally end!" said Rise reading the letter.

"Anami was the "Sleeping Child"!" said Yosuke. "I see that would make sense" said Naoto. "What do you mean Naoto-kun?" said Yukiko. "Anami's persona is now within Touya as the second personality, leaving Anami's body as a potential possessor of another persona" said Naoto.

"That seems possible. Anami can be used as a body for Nyx and the "Sleeping Child" title must be related to Anami's ability to still use a persona" said Mitsuru.

"I see" said Touya speaking out loud. Everyone turned towards Touya.

"Not only did I not protect Anami but I'm also the reason of why she was kidnapped. If she still had Lucifer now, she would still be here" said Touya.

"That's not true Touya-san! It's not your fault, the experiment was the entire cause of it" said Yukiko.

"But I agreed to it knowing Anami could get hurt, it's still all my fault" said Touya. "Touya….." said Souji. Touya stood up and wind covered his entire body. After the wind disappeared, Touya was gone.

"Where'd he go?" said Yosuke. "Fuuka, Rise! Find out Touya's and Anami's location!" said Mitsuru.

Both of them nodded their heads and immediately summoned their personas. After they finished searching both of them seemed to be surprised. "Is there something wrong?" asked Chie.

"No, we're unable to find Anami" said Fuuka. "But Touya's presence is all over the city" said Rise. Everyone became alarmed and realized that something like that would happen.

"He's probably dispersing his magic all over the city" said Aigis. "So how are we supposed to find him?" said Yukari. "That idiot, he's the only one that can possibly find Anami" said Junpei. Yukiko looked distressed and Souji saw that look, then thought of an idea.

"Let's look for him anyway!" said Souji. From hearing that outrageous statement everyone jumped. "I know it sounds crazy but we can find him if we spread out" said Souji.

"He's right, we won't get anything done if we don't go search for the bastard!" said Kanji. Everyone agreed and nodded their head. After deciding areas to search, everyone dispersed from the area except Souji and Yukiko.

"Yukiko, you know where he is don't you?" said Souji. "Huh! No way, there's no way I know where he is" said Yukiko. Souji saw Yukiko's distressed expression.

"It's alright Yukiko, go ahead and see him" said Souji. Yukiko looked surprised and happy. She nodded her head and ran through the hallway. Souji held up a persona card in his hand.

"Should I take this as a sign of a new arcana" said Souji.

Within the card each persona arcana social link was shining brightly except for the priestess arcana which had a different color around it. Also within the card there was a new slot.

Tatsumi Port Island

Dark Hour

12:00 - 40 Minutes later

Near the Iwatodai station, Touya was at the dock. Yukiko came running and panting.

"T-touya-san…" said Yukiko. "Yukiko-san, I felt you come" said Touya. "I knew you would come here, this is the best place to see the sun rise" said Yukiko.

"Yeah…but too bad the dark hour is still in effect. I can't even see it" said Touya. Yukiko walked over to Touya and sat next to him. "When will you come back?" said Yukiko. "Not until I can find Anami but right now I can't even sense her" said Touya.

"You know I can help you? I'll always be here for you, no matter what" said Yukiko.

Touya had a sudden flash of memory to when Yukiko said that to him in Inaba.

"Thanks Yukiko but I can't. I endangered Anami's life just so I could live on, I can't face anyone else knowing that" said Touya.

"But didn't Anami want you to live?" said Yukiko. Touya turned and faced Yukiko out of confusion.

"When you were in the hospital, Anami used her persona to help you continue your life and isn't that the want to live on?" said Yukiko.

"But she's not here anymore and Anami was the only important person that wanted me to live on" said Touya looking away. "You know, I feel really hurt hearing that" said Yukiko. Touya turned back towards to Yukiko.

"I want you to live….. More than anyone else, I want you to live" said Yukiko. "Is that… really true?" said Touya.

"Of course it is, it's because I l-l-l-lo…." said Yukiko turning red. "A reason, no, a person to live for" said Touya. "Touya-san?" said Yukiko.

Touya stood up and held his staff towards the horizon. "All right then! I will live not just for the sake of Anami but for you as well Yukiko" said Touya.

Yukiko turned red but continued to stare at Touya's youthful smile. Touya noticed something and turned around.

"Live for me as well, Touya" said Souji's voice. Souji stood there behind them.

"Souji-san when did you get here?" said Yukiko. "But not just me, Touya…but for everyone else as well" said Souji. Touya smiled again and nodded his head.

"Right then, for everyone's sake I will continue living!" said Touya. Suddenly the noise of glass breaking was heard between the three of them and each of their persona cards appeared in front of them.

"What's happening!" said Yukiko. Touya and Yukiko's card had a line linking them together. A voice started to speak to them.

"The silent voice within one's heart has spoken the most profound wisdom to one yearning for life" said the voice.

At that moment Yukiko's persona, Amaterasu started to change. Amaterasu's body changed to a golden color and covered it with a golden light. Its sword changed into two fans in each hand. "I am the Persona who has shown life into the soul, I am Amaterasu Kazen" said Amaterasu.

"Amazing my persona… has changed" said Yukiko.

Touya looked into his card and saw Helel started to change as well. The chains changed into a golden veil of cloth and covered its entire body. The bird mask only covered the eyes of his face.

"I am no longer of the arcana of Star but am the arcana of Creation, I am now Seraphim Helel" said Helel. "My Persona changed as well! Hey, Lucifer anything change for you?" said Touya. Lucifer's voice started to abrupt out of Touya's staff.

"Why the hell would anything change for me! I'm not the one flirting with the girl!" said Lucifer. Yukiko and Touya stared to blush simultaneously. As Souji laughed a light shot into his card from both of Yukiko's and Touya's card.

The priestess arcana within Souji's card started to shine normally again and the Creation arcana appeared next to death.

"I see so this is reason behind that" said Souji. Izanagi changed from black to white and became Izanagi no Okami. "Izanagi no Okami! He's back!" said Souji.

"Back? When did he appear?" said Touya. "During our fight with Izanami, right after I sealed him, but something's wrong" said Souji.

Souji looked closely at Izanagi no Okami and saw that his blade was missing.

"His sword! It's gone!" said Souji. "Why would it be gone?" said Yukiko.

As they started to think, the door to the velvet room appeared next to them. "Whoa! What's this door!" said Yukiko. "The Velvet room… Igor is calling for us" said Touya. Souji nodded his head and held out the key.

The door shined brightly and the light coming from the door enveloped them inside. As they open their eyes they found themselves within a blue room full of doors all over and a table sitting in the middle of the room.

"The Velvet room has changed" said Touya looking around. Touya then felt something tugging at his sleeve. Touya turned to see Yukiko, with tiny tears emerging from her eyes, tugging his sleeve.

"Yukiko! What're you doing here?" said Touya. "I don't know, that door just appeared and when Souji-san took out the key I found myself here along with you two" said Yukiko.

"You were allowed in here?" said Souji. "Igor! What's the meaning of this!" said Touya.

Igor appeared at the table and started to chuckle to himself. "I would like it if you wouldn't yell in this room" said Igor. "Why did you let Yukiko in here?" said Touya. "Why wouldn't I? This girl is the one to help create the Arcana of Creation" said Igor.

"That's…" said Touya. "Never mind that, Igor, why did you call us here?" said Souji.

"As expected of the wild card holder, Mao has already transferred Nyx into that little girl's body" said Igor.

Touya's rage was almost directed at Igor but Yukiko, holding onto his arm, held him back. "Why are you telling us this?" said Souji.

"Just some advice before you face the challenges ahead, Touya, you've only unlocked one of the mindsets needed to face Nyx and Souji, what you seek dwells within three other personas. The will to face them shall be your choice" said Igor.

Souji had balled up his hands into a fist and lifted into the air. "I'm not going to stop now when I've come so far" said Souji.

Behind him, only Touya could see the trembling of Souji's hand. But he did not know the reason why. Was it fear, excitement, or even anger? None could tell because at that moment his expression did not show.

"Very well…" said Igor. The doorway appeared behind them and showed an exit back to the dormitory.

"I shall watch the path of the true holders of truth and see what they have decided" said Igor. Each of them walked out without looking back to Igor or questioning his final words.

Dormitories

Dark Hour

12:00 - 50 minutes later

Back within the dormitory, everyone gathered back into the living room of the dormitory, after they were done scolding Touya.

"Touya-san, did you plan anything to rescue Anami?" said Naoto.

"No, I can't do this by myself. So I decided to trust everyone for help this time" said Touya.

Touya placed his staff into the center of the circle and it stood there. "Here's not only my proof of trust but also the trust of Lucifer and Anami" said Touya.

A smile spread across his face and for a quick second his eye color changed to blue and then flashed back to green. Everyone was shocked a bit; confused if it was really Lucifer smiling at them along with Touya. Each of them nodded their heads.

"Okay! Let's do this together!" said the Inaba group. "By the way Touya-senpai, are you and Yukiko-senpai a couple now?" said Rise.

Rise had pointed out that they were holding each other's hand since they had arrived. Both Touya and Yukiko were both oblivious to the fact until this moment. Yukiko quickly released her hand from Touya's grip and started to flail her arms around. Words came from her mouth by they were either in audible or gibberish. Touya grabbed hold of Yukiko's hand and stopped her from flailing.

"Yes, we are. I love her and she responded to my feelings, nothing wrong with it right?" said Touya. A huge exclamation was heard mainly from the boys of the group. Junpei placed his hand on Touya's shoulder.

"Not bad Touya!" exclaimed Junpei. Souji was clapping his hands along with Rise. "Congratulations" said Souji. "Yukiko, when did you!" said Chie.

"That's sad Satonaka, aren't you supposed to be her best friend?" said Yosuke. "She kept it a secret from me!" said Chie. "I'm so sorry Chie. I didn't want to tell you just yet" said Yukiko.

"It's fine Yukiko, I'm happy for you. You finally found someone" said Chie. "Thank you Chie" said Yukiko. "But Teddie over there…" said Chie.

Pointing at the Teddie, everyone saw he was having a mental breakdown. "Yukiko-chan, does this mean no more stud hunting with me?" said Teddie.

"Teddie, don't say that in front of Touya-san!" said Yukiko. "Stud hunting? What's that?" said Touya. "Eh, he's your boyfriend and doesn't know about that?" said Kanji.

"Shall we inform him?" said Naoto.

"Don't you dare!" said Yukiko.

"Eh? Now I'm curious…" said Touya.

The whole Inaba group was laughing and ignoring how loud they were being. From behind the members of SEES were smiling, seeing the radiance of not only their old comrade but the whole group.

"The dark hour is going to end soon, so everyone head back to your rooms" said Mitsuru. Everyone nodded and started walking until the clock on the TV had disappeared. And replacing it on the screen was Mao. All of them stood alert, from seeing the face of the enemy so soon.

"Greetings to all of you" said Mao.

"Strega Nexus, what do you need from us now that you have kidnapped one of our members?" said Mitsuru.

"I don't really need anything. But I thought I would show you SEES members something…" said Mao.

The camera started to adjust its view and zoomed out of the picture. The image that showed upon the screen widened the eyes of all SEES members. A cold feeling enveloped the room and the Inaba group was curious to know what they were looking at.

"It can't be…" said Fuuka.

"…Tartarus" said Minato. A giant tower far hanging above Mao's head was seen.

The tower looked as if it stretched into the heavens and even past it. With its green, malicious aura, all members of the group were scared.

"By the way fake magician, your sister is safe with us…" said Mao.

His grip tightned around Yukiko's hand and only a small pain surged.

"Touya-san….. (He's holding back)" said Yukiko. "What is your objective by appearing before us?" said Aigis. "Nothing at all… we can't be stopped so I decided to make you all writhe with anxiety" said Mao.

Mao's harsh words pierced through everyone's mind and anger started to fester in each of them.

"Then let's bet on it!" said Souji. The alarming exclamation had everyone alert.

"A bet? Interesting, what do you have in mind?" said Mao.

"A game of tag, of sorts. If we can catch you before you reach Nyx, you'll release Anami without fighting back" said Souji.

"And if you can't?" said Mao. "I'll give you my remaining power of Izanami" said Souji.

Mao's eye widened for a quick second and then he started to chuckle very loudly to himself. "Very well! Let's play this little game of yours! The Dark Hour is going to end in a few minutes, so let's proceed with it tomorrow" said Mao.

Before he could receive any response, Mao had slammed his hand against the camera and the screen reverted back to the image of a clock. Everyone then turned to the courageous leader, who had just make a remarkably idiotic gamble.

"Souji, what're you thinking betting your power like that!" said Yousuke and Touya. Souji scratched his head for a little. "I just got caught up in the moment…" said Souji. Everyone exclaimed with a loud yell.

"But I don't regret doing it" said Souji. They each stopped and listened to him. "For a moment, I felt like I did the same thing Touya did" said Souji. "Huh, what did I do?" said Touya. "I took the risk even in the dark times, just like you did in front of that crowd earlier this week" said Souji.

Images of the rampaging crowd appeared in each of their minds. "Even though they were against you with their full power, you stood their trying to help them. Truth be told, when I learned about the dark hour, I was scared" said Souji. He looked around at each of his friends.

"Scared that something would try to harm us, scared that I didn't know a thing that was happening. Until you came, fighting even though you were fighting blind and with everything against you" said Souji.

"Souji-san, that was just me fighting as an older brother…" said Touya.

"But you could still fight, that helped me fight as well. So, I thank you Touya-san" said Souji. Touya was speechless and Yukiko smiled. "Sensei's words are bear-y powerful, no matter whom they're against!" said Teddie.

"Souji-senpai, that was amazing" said Rise clinging to his arm.

"So, is this gamble proceeding?" said Naoto. Everyone turned towards Touya. Touya was facing the ground, his arms were trembling. Small tears had hit the floor. He grabbed his staff and struck the bottom of it against the ground. Holding his head up high he muttered "Let's do this!".

Everyone exclaimed in excitement. "Touya… he's grown…" said Minato. "How do you know that Sleeping Beauty?" said Junpei playfully hitting Minato.

"Minato-san was able to talk to Touya because of Touya's magical link to the wild card ability" said Fuuka. "So much happening in one day… I'm really tired…" said Yukari.

"Are you okay?" said Minato. "Don't worry about me, worry more about yourself!" said Yukari. Minato drew back in fear. Touya looked around and saw every person's face was smiling. "I won't let this ever disappear…" mumbled Touya.