"So Naoto-chan, do you live in Inaba?" Kanji asked Naoto curiously as they followed Minato and Souji through the deformed streets of what seemed to be a mixture of Sapporo and Inaba.

"No. I live in Sapporo city. Do you live in Inaba?" To be honest she'd never heard of Inaba before so she was just pretending she knew where it was.

"Yeah. I live above a… Test? Tex…" He fumbled for the right word. "Textiles! I live above a textiles shop!"

"Huh? Above? Does that mean you live in the sky?" She questioned curiously.

"Nah. It's the same buildin'." He stated simply.

"Oh. Okay. Does your family own that shop?" Her interest had plummeted slightly at the fact that he didn't live in the clouds but she was still as curious as ever.

"Yeah. Ma's been teachin' me how to make animals with wool an' stuff."

"Really? Cool!" She then grinned as she showed the boy a silver watch that had been concealed beneath her jacket sleeve. "See this? I modified it so it can do all sorts of stuff!" The proud look on her face matched the curious stare of the other child as she started pressing buttons on the side of it. A purple beam of light shone from the front of it showing the usually invisible footprints of the people in front of them.

"Woah! That's awesome!" He exclaimed excitedly.

~X~

"Well those two seem to be getting on well." Souji commented as he glanced back at the young Naoto and Kanji.

"Yes. Yes they are." Minato replied bluntly.

"Hey, you okay?" He nodded calmly. "Let me guess, you're worried about Naoto right? The original one?"

"Yes. Aren't you?"

"Yeah, but we've got to focus. As I'm sure Naoto would say 'if you focus on worried thoughts then you'll be left wide open.' Or something like that."

"I suppose your right." He paused as he noticed something ahead of them. "Hey… What's that?" Whatever it was, it was definitely intimidating. The height added with the hellish crimson colours definitely meant it wasn't going to be a good thing.

"I have no idea…"

"Woah! That thing's huge!" Minato nodded at Chie's observation. They were now standing in front of a huge crimson doorway that most likely lead to the Shadow of this dungeon. The entire structure was a combination of hell and nature and the deformed Okina city scene had ended a few feet behind them.

"What's on the other side?" Naoto questioned curiously as she wandered up to it.

"Naoto! Don't –" Before Souji could even begin to stop her she politely knocked on the door.

"Come in!" The stupid fake Teddie's voice sounded from the door.

"Hmm? Don't what? Come on! Let's go!" The blue haired child called excitedly as she struggled to reach the handle as it was much higher up on the door than usual.

"Uh. Here." The blue haired teen spoke up as he and Souji took on of the two ringed handles each, before they both opened the doors in unison.

"Minnie?!"

"Naoto!" Naoto stared past the screen that showed the conflict between her team and shadows to see that very same team enter the room. She glanced at her Shadow who was just grinning at the sight of them. That very same grin made its way on to her, own face a few moments after.

"What? Minato-kuns here?" Rise piped up in the strange pod beside her. Kanji followed soon after.

"Yeah! The whole team is!" Her shadow called to them childishly.

"Hey there! Took you long enough!" The fake's voice echoed throughout the room as the shadow made its appearance. A huge black gloopy puddle appeared in the centre of the room before the shadow rose out of it. It looked much like Teddie's previous Shadow except it had features of everyone in the team and it actually had a body this time. It glared at them all through a huge pair of grey glasses and auburn haired pigtails took the place of his usual blue ears. An oversized version of Naoto's cap sat atop its head and another version of Kanji's bullet necklace hung round its neck. Its fur was now in the same style of Yukiko's sweater, which harboured all three of Chie's badges and finally it wore a Junes apron that was similar to Yosuke's. Its bear claws were about ten times larger and sharper than before and its hat almost touched the ceiling!

"Take 'em down Senpai!" Kanji called to them from inside his pod.

"Yeah Senpai!" Naoto's Shadow called out excitedly making a few of them glance at the two of them inside the blue pod.

"Shut up!" The Shadow suddenly spun round to face them slicing the pods as it did so sending the three of them tumbling to the ground! Naoto's Shadow instantly clung to her fearfully as she prepared herself for the landing. However she landed roughly on her belly as her Shadow had refused to cooperate with her. The other two were the same. Scrambling to her feet just in time to avoid a strike from Teddie's other self before she aimed her gun at the enemy. She nudged her other self as if to say 'come on!' and nodded as it did the same.

"Look out!" Minato called as the enemy's paw slammed down where Kanji had stood just seconds before! In an instant Souji and Minato launched into a tag team attack, striking the Shadow square in the face! The two Naoto's instantly launched their own dual attack with the Shadow's laser guns and the original's regular pistol! It roared in annoyance before clapping its hands together. In mere moments all but the three that had been seperated from the group had been teleported to the other side of the room. Great… An invisible wall like before had completely isolated them from the rest of the group.

"I choose you six! Now fight!" It called out arrogantly. However it got its wish as the idol, the detective and the bleached haired teen along with their Shadows instantly threw their best attacks at it. "Ugh! How can you still fight? I seperated a part of your mind from your head and made it real!" It cried despairingly.

"What?" Rise questioned in confusion. The others just glanced at each other.

"Oh I know!" The fake grinned excitedly before it clapped its hands together again. In mere moments her head suddenly flooded with the memories of a child with her cousin. As if a key had unlocked the door to hidden memories the time she spent as a child in the TV world with her cousin and his friends flashed before her eyes. Everything from being called cute by Rise, her explanation about Neo Featherman characters and Loveline to meeting the child version of Rise and Kanji. Her head stung with the new memories making her clutch her head in pain and grit her teeth to prevent her from screaming. The others seemed to be in the same state as well. This is bad!

"Oh I know!" Minato watched as the shadow clapped its hands together in excitement before his gaze shifted to the kids that still stood with them. They panicked as they suddenly began to melt like shadows! It then dawned on him what was happening.

"Woah! What's happening to them?!" Exclaimed Chie in confusion.

"Look!" Minato pointed to the original three and their shadows. They were all clinging to their heads in pain. "I think the Shadow's sending them back!" He explained badly. The others seem to understand though. "Hang in there guys…"

"Ugh…" Naoto groaned as the pain in her head ceased and was replaced with slight light-headedness. "Rise-san? Kanji-kun?" She glanced up to see them in the same state as her. For some reason their Shadows seemed unaffected by the sudden release of memories but instead they were trying to help their originals stand back up again as all three of them had fallen to their knees. "Are you all okay?" She called as she stood stable once more. The others all nodded as they managed to stand shortly after. In an instant she re-aimed her gun at the enemy.

"Nao-chan? Can you deny my existence for me please?" She stared at her shadow as if it had gone mad before she realised what it was on about.

"Right. You're not me!" She staged a raging voice before grinning as her Shadow took on the form it had before.

"Thanks Nao-chan!" She nodded at it as for some reason the exhaustion she had felt in the past never came.

"Naoto-kun! What are you doing?!" Rise cried to her.

"Trust me Rise-san! I suggest you do the same." She responded calmly. As her shadow took to the skies. All that needed to be said was those three words for the shadow to take its powerful form so it didn't take too much effort did it?

"What?! Are you insane?!" Kanji yelled at her as Teddie's shadow attacked her Shadow.

"Nope!" The other Naoto called down to him strangely joyful about all this.

"Deny me Rise-chan! I wanna help to!" Rise stared at her Shadow in the same way Naoto had with hers.

"Help?" She paused before she realised what was going on. "Of course! You not me!" She snarled to the bikini clad version of herself. The idol's other self transformed into the form it had during the murder case investigation before it attacked the shadow with a powerful blast from the pole it dangled from. Kanji just stared at them in disbelieve while his rather… inappropriate Shadow nagged him to deny it.

"Just deny me Kanji-chan!" It yelled at him.

"No freakin' way!"

"Calm down and do it Kanji-kun!" Naoto ordered him.

"Fine! You're not me! Happy?"

"Very." It spoke as it morphed into its first form.

"Let's do this guys!" Naoto's Shadow called encouragingly to the other Shadows.

"Yeah!" The other two cheered before the three of them attack all at once! Each of them starting off with a powerful Bufudyne spell before a huge fire spell attack from the detective robot, a strong Garu spell from the idol pole dancer and a fierce Zio spell from the third shadow. It was then that Naoto took a shot at its eye where she hoped its weak spot was and Kanji slammed his folding chair into the back of its knee sending it onto one knee. It lashed out at them with powerful ice attacks before it swiped at all of them with its claws!

"Nao-chan!" The detective robot soared over to where she'd been flung before helping her to her feet. "Hey, I have an idea!" It childish voice earned a curious nod from Naoto. "We're technically the same person right? So why don't we split our power and tag team this guy?"

"Huh? Can you do that?" She stared blankly at it.

"Or course!"

"Okay then. I don't see why not. Keep it distracted!" She ordered the others before her shadow offered her hands to her. Taking them in her own the two faced each other as blue flames – similar to when they summon Persona's – enveloped them.

"What the hell are you doin'?" Kanji called to them in a panicked way.

"Kanji-chan! Why don't we do that?" His Shadow called to him.

"Er, I'd rather not!"

"What about us Rise-chan?" Rise's Shadow spoke up.

"Uh… O-okay? I can't do anything so why not right?" The two Rise's did the same as the two Naoto's as the flames dispersed around the detectives. The others all stared at them as now the original Naoto had the same aeroplane wings as her double as well as the jet boosters in her shoes and the laser blasters her Shadow used as a weapon. Now she couldn't decide if this was amazing, awesome, mind-blowing or stupid…

"Let's go Nao-chan!" Her Shadow cooed excitedly.

"Let's." In an instant the two took to the skies with one slightly slower than the other before they both ricocheted laser bullets on the shadow as it swiped at them again. Naoto couldn't help but grin slightly at the prospect of actually flying on her own and that grin only widened in amusement when she got a glimpse of Rise. Now the idol had the same pole dancing pole as her double but it was shorter and stubbier so she could use it as a weapon and her pigtails were now satellite dishes like the Shadows. She didn't look too pleased with it…

"Come on Rise-chan! Hit it already!" Kanji's Shadow ordered her. In mere seconds she'd fired a huge beam of light out of the bottom of the pole that struck the Shadow in the back of the knee.

The two Kanji's attacked the Shadow once more from the ground whilst the two detectives continuously shot at its face as they flew at the same height as its shoulders. The circled it as it attempted to strike them only to fail miserably as they evaded its clumsy claws with ease! Kanji and Rise continued to hack at its legs as it was distracted by the two flying detectives. They moved in perfect time with each other, attacking in perfect sync completely out matching the Shadow before…

"Enough!" It cried before some unknown force slammed into each and every one of them sending them hurtling into nearby walls! The two Naoto's had then fallen to the floor before they scrambled back into the air again. The others had raced back into the fight not long after however the Shadow's claws slammed into the ground right over Kanji completely knocking him and his Shadow out!

"It's speed has increased!" Both Rise's called out in unison.

"Damn it!" Naoto sped round the huge bear's claws only narrowly evading each one!

"Naoto-kun! Its weakness is… Darkness!"

"Perfect!" The two detectives soared out of reach of the bear before they both combined a Megidoloan spell. The moment the spell settled the Shadow pounced towards them like a puma managing to wound both of them as they struggled to avoid it! The idol instantly fired a strong fire spell at it as it spun to catch the flying blue haired teens.

They circled it like vultures before they shot their lasers – that were now filled with dark magic – at the beast as Rise used more fire spells on it from the ground. She cast a Masukukaja spell on the team before continuing her rapid attacks. In mere moments Naoto had evaded the stupid fake bear with ease before she began her ricochet of dark bullets upon the shadow! This was too easy! Why though…?

"Woah!" She yelped suddenly as a bolt of lightning struck her out of nowhere before the Shadow's claw swiped at her successfully managing to clutch her in its grasp!

"Nao-chan!" Her other self instantly rocketed towards her only to be caught in the act in the exact same way as her.

"Woo hoo! I have two Nao-chan's now!" It cheered excitedly as it started spinning on one foot.

"Argh!" Rise dived out of the way just in time to avoid it's foot as it spun as both detectives lost all sense of direction. "Naoto-kun!" She'd only just managed to keep her cap as she clung to it but that was only a small consolation… After what seemed like an eternity the huge beast flung them both straight into a wall! That… Didn't stop the room from spinning… The two of them flopped onto the floor as all their balance had left and they awaited their dizziness to leave.

"Naoto-kun!" The idol called to them in annoyance.

"Why is the room still spinning?" Her Shadow growled childishly.

"Good question…" She responded calmly.

"Aww, is Nao-chan dizzy?" Teddie's other self cooed in amusement. The moment she located her gun she took a pot shot at the Shadow, hoping beyond hope that it hit its stupid, smug face. Sadly, it only struck its oversized cap. "Can you not see straight anymore? What a shame!" And with that it launched a wind attack directly at them sending them spinning in whirlwind before they dropped to floor again like flies!

"Naoto-kun!"

"We're fine…" She didn't sound very convincing… Rise flinched as the Shadow seemed to be preparing for another attack on the pair before her Shadow knocked its paw away from them. In an instant the two idols launched into a flurry of fire attacks before they combined their most powerful attack onto the Shadow, finally destroying it for good. That was strange… It could have lasted much longer if it had switched its target onto Rise instead of the dizzy detectives…

The Shadow exploded as it was impacted for the final time before all four of the Shadows became Persona's once more.

"My Bear-sona!" Teddie cheered as he raced over to retrieve his Persona again.

"Naoto!" Naoto blinked as Minato raced over to her. The room had stopped spinning mere moments before so it didn't take much to stand up again. Every asset she had gained from her Shadow had vanished as it had morphed back into Sikuna-Hikona. "Are you okay?"

"Yes. I'm fine. However I'm more concerned about Kanji-kun." She spoke as she gestured towards the still unconscious teen on the ground. Why hadn't he lasted as long? Hm…

"It's okay Nao-chan! I'll heal him for you!" The stupid bear cheered excitedly before casting Samarecarm on him.

"Hey, did we win?" He asked as he came to.

"Yeah! We dealt with it. No thanks to you Kanji-kun!" Rise teased as she approached the two team leaders.

"Thank you Rise-san." The young detective smiled at the now confused idol.

"Huh? What for?"

"The room might have been spinning for me but I did notice that you had finished it off as well as prevent it from attacking me again. So thank you for that." She stated simply.

"Oh. No problem." Her response was a little awkward but that didn't really matter. "Should we go?" She turned to her cousin.

"Yes."

Authors Note!

Guys! It's over! This dungeon has ended! Finally! I honestly have no problems with it but after my hiatus this was just that much more difficult to wright… Also! I'm rather slow on uploads because I've been really stressed lately and with the family issues that have recently popped up then it has been increasingly difficult to go back to this. However! When I do have time my Facebook account distracts me… lol that is unintentional I swear! Anyway! To keep my mind on this I'm looking for a Beta Reader. Any volunteers? =3 Anyway I'm also thinking about becoming one however I literally have no idea how it works so I'll just learn as I go along. Oh and about this chapter? Yeah I'm not very good with group battle scenes. They play out better in my head then in words… :D Anyway, Please Read & Review because no matter what happens I always love hearing from you guys! Thanks for reading this fic up till this point! :D :D :D :D

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