"Naoto-kun!" Naoto could hear Rise's cry from beyond the smoke from the explosion as she quickly leapt to her feet. The blast had sent both she and Minato flying as it happened to be aimed directly at their feet!

"Come! Sikuna-Hikona!" Summoning her Persona she sprinted forwards to protect the still stunned Minato lying on the ground not to far away from her. Her eyes narrowed in concentration as two golden tanks emerged from the smoke, training their guns on the two of them. "Ziodyne!"

In an instant the hit shadow turret disintegrated into thin air with a poof of black smoke. The others rushed towards them in an instant as Naoto's Shield of Justice deflected another powerful gunshot from the remaining turret!

"Tomoe!" The Chariot Tarot card appeared in front of Chie but... "Wha-Huh?!" What? Why didn't her Persona Tomoe materialize behind her? Why hadn't her Persona been summoned? This didn't make sense!

"Go! Jiraiya!" Yosuke's as well? What is going on? "What the?! It worked fine a minute ago!" Suddenly Minato stood next to Naoto and lifted a gun to the side of his head.

"What are you doing?"She cried I disbelief at her cousin as he pulled the trigger. Suddenly a blue light seem to smash from the opposite side of his head as he spoke the word 'Persona'. It flickered for a moment before disappearing again.

"Orpheus! Agidyne!" The second turret mimicked the first as a powerful fire spell easily destroyed it.

"I didn't know you were a Persona-user... Do you...?" A thought suddenly crossed her mind as she remembered what had happened not too long ago.

"Hmm? Do I what?" He returned her curious expression with one of his own.

"Do the names Mitsuru Kirijo, Akihiko Sanada and Aigis sound familiar to you?" His eyes widened as she spoke before replying in anticipation.

"Yes! Of course they do. They were my friends at Gekkoukan High. Do you know them?" Naoto smiled at him.

"Yes. We know them and some others too. Junpei Iori, Yukari Takeba, Ken Amada, Koromaru and Fuuka Yamagishi. We have all worked together with Persona's before. They... Said that someone special to them had... Well..." She hesitated, unsure about how to tell him that they think he's dead.

"Ah... Yes I know all about that. But tell me. How are they?" His worried look brought the young detectives smile back as she replied;

"Oh. Yes. They are all doing well from what we saw of them! You have some strong friends! Also Aigis now has an older sister, Labrys."

"That's good to hear."

"Hey, did you forget about us again?" The two of them turn to Yosuke with slightly guilty expressions. "Come on guys! There're more important things right now then what happened with Labrys and Sho!" His agitated voice seemed to grab the rest of the team's attention, who had been trying to summon their Personas again.

"Uh... Yes. Your right Yosuke-senpai. My apologies." Naoto's face was once again hidden by the rim of her cap as she blushed with embarrassment.

"How come you guys can summon yours when we can't?!"

"I'm not sure Chie-senpai. Perhaps we should head back for now to discuss this further." Her tone was serious again as she spoke to Chie.

"Good idea. Lets all try summoning our Personas one last time, so we know who can and can't." Souji's suggestion earned itself a nod of agreement from the members of the Investigation Team. "Okay. On three, then. One... Two...Three!"

"Persona!" Everyone cried as their Arcana floated before them all. However the blue flames that surrounded them vanished as they smashed the cards. All except two...

"Wow Nao-chan! You and Minato-kun are so lucky!" Teddie cried in awe at the two blue haired cousins as their Personas idly hovered behind them.

"What? How come?" Chie had a look of utter jealousy on her face as she stared at them.

"Damn it! Come on, Take-Mikazuchi!" Kanji once again attempted to summon his Persona and once again failed.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it. Anyway lets go. Lead the way you two." Souji gestured for them to take the lead and smiled as they exchanged unsure looks with each other. "Well we can't use Persona's so we'll be more reliant on you until we can. So... Why doesn't Minato-kun guard us from behind and Naoto can lead since she knows the way." Damn...

"Er... Are you sure about this senpai? Why can't you lead? You're still more experienced in this world then we are and it's n-not like your completely defenceless..." He smirked at Naoto's uneasy response, before nodding in the same calm way that he spoke.

"Okay, but you should at least be at the front with me." She nodded at the suggestion gratefully.

"That's reasonable..." With one last glance at Minato she moved to join their leader.

"Wait!" She spun around to look back at her cousin who looked genuinely embarrassed. "I... I can't see anything anymore..."

"Ah... Teddie do you have another pair of glasses handy?"

"Of course I do Nao-chan! I always carry a spare in case the old ones bear-ake!" Teddie bounded forwards on her request and handed him some midnight blue glasses with the same multi-coloured stripe on there sides. His eyes widened again as he put them on before taking them of again with a look of wonder on his face. He repeated the gesture a few times before turning to the bear.

"Thank you. How did you do this?"

"The same way I made the others!"

"You won't find out anymore with him..." Rise spoke up before he tried to find out again.

"Right. Lets go!"

"Okay... So there was a murder case here in Inaba where some of you live and you all discovered the TV world like that? Wow... So you all became friends by facing the shadows of your inner self and gained your Persona's. The Midnight Channel told you who was next and a guy named Adachi was the killer..." Minato looked down in thought as they sat at their usual meeting place at the Junes food court. "Izanami wanted to grant man kinds wish for death... Just like Erobus..." Naoto stared at him curiously.

"Erobus?" She urged him to continue before he began his explanation of what happened to him and his friends.

...

"The Dark Hour? We experienced it the second time we met Labrys-san. I do believe its over now." He nodded in agreement to her as he finished his explanation. "Labrys-san also defeated Hi-no-Kagutsuchi at Tatarus' summit. But when you said your soul was the seal to the gates of Nyx which ended in your own death then... How is it possible that your here?" She hated to be the one to ask that question but someone had to...

"Ah... Well I do believe someone has taken my place."

Authors Note!

Okay! Soo... Yes I did take away Souji's Wild Card ability but I can always give it back to him later if you guys want me to. It wouldn't be too difficult... Anyway if your wondering, Minato hasn't changed age or appearance since he became the seal. How on Earth could he age anyway? Both his soul and body seal the gates! It doesn't make sense! If you guys feel like doing me a favour please give me an idea as to who will get their Persona back first. Thanks! :D See if you can guess who took his place! Lol :D Yeah I ended the chapter here because I think the next chapter is mainly going to be explaining and introducing Naoto to the Wild Card abilities. I have the idea to make Souji be able to still see the Velvet room but not actually be able to enter it. Good? Bad? I don't know...

Anyway! Please! Read & Review! I feel so honoured when people do that! :D

PS.

I don't write romance! I PROMISE! Any romance I write will be badly written so yeah! :D Naoto and Minato keep having their own conversations because they always seem to forget the others are even there so yep! My AWESOME logic!