Remember how I love writing a dark-fiction?—maybe this is too much but I love it, I love to mix fandom, even it is weird. Maybe I should include Persona characters data more after this chapter…well, there'll be no S-Link part until chapter 10 or more—sorry, I'm not really sure.

Okay, so this is the chapter that contained little Yui vs Nodoka…wow, this'll be fun at least for me…okay, please slap me, anyone.

Well, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter as I do!

Status: Beta-ed by ChiptuneImpulse.

Disclaimer - I don't even own any of K-ON amazing character, and I don't own any of Persona series characters and other resources, I only own the story idea ^^

K-ONSONA!

2011 © Kuroi-Oneesan

Perspective 08

The Fall

CLANK!

The tips of their swords, their Persona traded blows, dodging each of every attack that came their way. Smooth but precise, they were fighting efficiently between physical and elemental skills. No one bothered to back down or surrender, everything answered from their attacks.

But, it had been bothering the brunette—her close, long-lost childhood friend was fighting her now?

How come? When did she know about Personas? For how long? Why she joined Nyx Cult?

Was it Yui's fault—being the closest person beside Nodoka—yet she know nothing about her.

Nodoka's eyes looked lifeless every time she summoned Thanatos, she looked possessed but aware—even STRONGER than Azusa's shadow and more FURIOUS than Mugi's shadow.

"Nodoka-chan…" Yui thoughtfully drawn herself to summon Hitokoto-nushi and cast more wind skills as Nodoka retaliated with physical skill namely Brave Blade; by swinging her rapier.

"You're strong…Yui, I'm really surprised." Nodoka smiled—a warm but bitter one. "I never thought an airhead like you can master the Persona power."

"Thanks for the praise," Yui grinned with a small chuckle. "It's all because Nana-chan and Ricchan!"

Nodoka took her evoker again, "But that won't change my decision; I'll make you stop, once and for all."

"Am I doing this for the right reason?"

Meanwhile; Station Outskirt, Remnant Time.

"Hum? What's up? Why are you guys staring like I'm dead?" Jun waved her hand again.

In swift seconds, Ritsu's kunai tip was already in Jun's lower neck, pointed it harshly.

"You're a shadow, huh!" Ritsu glared. "There's no way normal human will show up in Remnant Time!"

"H-hey, Ritsu! Cut it out!" Mio shrieked. "Don't jump to a stupid conclusion!"

"Prepare your evokers! She might be a shadow!" Ritsu backed to threaten Jun more. "Who are you? Are you a Shadow or real Jun Suzuki!"

"W-Whoa, whoa~ relax, Ritsu-senpai!" Jun grinned; she put two of her finger into a peace sign, "I'm not that filthy black thing, I swear!"

"Filthy…wait, Jun-chan, you know about Shadows?" Mugi asked.
"I'm a Persona-user, just like you guys!" Jun answered matter-of-factly, "I know about Shadow and Persona,"

"Then prove it," Ritsu handed Jun her, her evoker, still threatening the curly-pigtailed girl with her kunai.

Jun took the evoker and put it into her temple, "Come, Moros!" she shouted and shot the evoker.

A pendulum-shaped bipedal robot-like Persona with one arm and glowing inscriptions hovering above his head showed itself.

The three of them gaped in awe for a few seconds.

"W-W-W-What…?" Ritsu stuttered. "So you're that Moros user!"

"Hmm? Yes, what's wrong, senpai?" Jun looked puzzled.

"Are you…A Nyx Cult member?" Mio continued to ask.

"Err, yes, I am…" Jun scratched her head. "But I don't remember why and when I become one, I only remember Moros coming to me weeks ago and I began to remember stuff."

Mio tilted her head, "What stuff…?"

"Maybe I must be the one who explained it."

A man materialized beside Jun, unlike Thanatos and Hypnos did, this man was quite different.

After being a child like Thanatos and Hypnos did, suddenly he shaped as a quite tall man with blue hair, glasses and green-colored bomb expert jacket; he held a heavy-looking silver suitcase and on the other hand he held a grenade.

"Moros!" Jun shouted.

"Call me Shirato Jin, Master Suzuki," he tilted his glasses. "It seems that I regained my true form."

"True…form?" Ritsu repeated.

"Yeah, I have my own consciousness, that's why I can talk to you like this. But my form will stay incomplete if my master didn't accept me or forgot about me." he began his sarcastic explanation.

"That's why they called Nyx Cult Members an artificial Persona-user, their Persona won't obey their wish but they can control it…like Master Suzuki did."

"That's complicated, Jin." Jun objected. "Can you explain everything from the beginning?"
"Fine, I think I must explain the circumstances to my master as well," he tilted his glasses again. "How about we move to a more suitable place? It's not nice to talk while you're standing like this."

"Nodoka-chan…I asked you why you want to stop me earlier…" Yui stopped her movement as Thanatos stepped near to attack her with Brave Blade. "Why did you join Nyx Cult and never told me?"

The attack hit her directly; the brunette was knocked down with a loud thud to the cement. The brown-haired girl gasped and she quickly ran toward the place where the brunette fell. Nodoka's expression was…angered but sympathetic at the same time.

"…The answer is obvious, right?" Nodoka sighed as she checked up on Yui. "I don't want you to get hurt."

Yui fell silent; her best friend's words touched her. "N-Nodoka-chan…"

"I'm afraid that I couldn't protect you," the bespectacled girl said softly. "So I don't want you to get hurt…ever again."

"Ever again…?" Something clicked the brunette's mind. "What has happened?"

Nodoka's eyes widened, some words might be slipped from her lips earlier. "That's…" she gulped. "…You didn't have to know,"

"Nodoka-chan, please…!" Yui clutched Nodoka's hand. "We're friends, right? There's nothing for you to hide from me!"

"But there's something that you don't need to know…" Nodoka closed her eyes, she shot her evoker.

"…I'm sorry, Yui…I just want to protect you…"

Thanatos appeared, it roared Death.

Suddenly chants of darkness swell upon them, sinking Yui inside of it without mercy. Nodoka frowned as she felt Yui's arm release from her shirt and she saw the brunette's teary eyes and despaired expression disappeared into the darkness.

"Huff…This is for good huh…Thanatos?" Nodoka fell into her feet, controlling her breath, she looked exhausted.

"Yeah, but you must endure it if you lock her inside that place," said Thanatos. "The place that only those from Nyx Cult know…The Great Seal, the place where I reside…"

"But I don't want to accept you as my Persona," Nodoka shook her head.

"If you accept me as your Persona, the power of Death will swallow you," Thanatos looked to the other way. "You're just an ordinary human who happened to wield the power of incomplete Death."

"You don't have to tell me," Nodoka stood up; she tilted her glasses.

"What's this Great Seal? And—"

"I'll tell you, but will you believe it?" Thanatos walked near her, disturbed the girl's last word. "Will you believe that the world was and will be destroyed by darkness of human emotions?"

"…I don't know, but after I wield the power of Death, I think I can believe that." Nodoka narrowed her eyes. "Tell me, then. Who are you and what your purpose is? Why you attack Yui at the first time we met?"

"My name is Pharos as a kid, but I'm Mochizuki Ryoji as a normal man," he smiled. "I am the harbinger of The Fall, the one which has been sealed back in 2010 by a human girl. The seal is known as The Great Seal and she's been guarding the place ever since,"

Nodoka twitched her eyes, "Then…why you attack Yui? You seemed like a tame Persona, unlike Hypnos or Moros…"

"That's because…" Thanatos bit his lip."…I don't want her to ended up like Nagisa Kaori did,"

Meanwhile, Haruka Municipal Hospital

"Wait…Remnant Time already?" Yukari checked Nanako's condition. She could fell the emptiness of the hallway that was crowded minutes ago.

Junpei who was standing beside her also felt the same trait.

"That's odd; Yamanaka-sensei said that they're going to take it easy for today—" Junpei said as he opened the sliding door to look the surrounding.

He then found Azusa was standing a few doors to the left with a familiar person.

"Huh? I-Is that Chidori…?"

"Oh, good afternoon, Doctor Junpei." Azusa who noticed the doctor approach him along with the person she talked to. It was a rather skinny woman with frilly Gothic Lolita white dress and long red hair.

"Is this person your acquaintance? She has been looking for you; she said her name was Yoshino Chidori—"

"Junpei, it's nice to see you," Chidori held Junpei's hand.

"Ooh~ your fiancé is here huh, doctor?" Yukari chuckled at the sight. "Chidori-san, we're sorry but we're tending a patient right now."

"It's okay, I just wanna ask one thing," Chidori lowered her sound. "Why do I feel like I'm in the Dark Hour? And why I am feeling that Takaya and Jin are still alive?"

There was a moment of silence.

"Y-Yoshino-san, are you, a Persona-user?" Azusa was surprised.

"Oh, so you're Persona-user too, little kitty?" Azusa blushed.

"Man, what's going on now?" Junpei sighed. "Yukari-chi, contact that teacher. I want to talk with Chidori."

As they walked, they finally found a terrace café—suitable enough (at least) to sit into. They took seats in front of there as an intense talk began.

"Do you know the origin of shadows; as well as Dark Hour?" Jin asked the rest of girls, they shook their heads. "I see, you guys are the newborn Persona-users, eh?"

"Yes, it's not that long since we got our powers," Mio added.

"Master Suzuki already wielded my power since 2009, when my real body died." Jin explained. "The Dark Hour originated in 1999; it was after the blast happened when the researcher of shadows had contained all of the strongest shadow in the world."

"You have real body!" Jun and Ritsu gaped at the same timing. "A-and those researchers were crazy!"

"I was an artificial Persona-user back in 1999 until 2009. My power's awakened forcefully during some research involving street children in Tatsumi Port Island, along with two of my subordinates." Jin sighed.

"They need Persona-user to venture Dark Hour secrets, but all of the children died except for me and two others."

"That must be Thanatos and Hypnos, huh?" Ritsu asked.

"No, the other one of my subordinates isn't Thanatos, and she's still alive," somehow Jin smiled. "I think Hypnos is him, Sakaki Takaya, I highly-respect him because of his resolution and his dream to see the almighty Death before he died. So he made Nyx Cult along with me and acted as the High Priest."

"Death…?" Mio repeated. "Is Death was Nyx that Shinjiro-san talked about?"

"You got the point," Jin continued. "The Fall, or Nyx, will descend upon earth if human wishes for it. But it was miraculously sealed back in 2009 by a Persona-user—"

"…And the person who sealed it is Nagisa Kaori-san, Shinjiro-san's girlfriend," Mugi completed the sentence. "But, umm, why humanity wished for Nyx to come, and why that person can seal Nyx away?"

"If humanity has fallen to despair, Nyx will be near, but there must be much reason behind it." Jin crossed his arms. "As far as I know about the Great Seal, Nagisa Kaori had control over Death's power, but I don't know the rest of it."

"Wait, I think I remember that Shinjiro-san said that she's a 'multi-Persona-user'," said Mio. "That must be why she can seal Nyx? With all of her power?"

"Maybe, but I doubt all of our conclusions are true." The man stood up suddenly and walked outside café lot.
"Jin, there's something that you didn't explain." Jun rose from her seat and stopped the man. "It's about how and why I joined the Nyx Cult."

Jin turned his head, "I don't think this is the right time to explain it," he pointed his finger towards the sky. "I feel Thanatos is near here."

"Huh? Where?" Ritsu looked to the direction Jin pointed.

Jin concentrated a bit before he replied, "I think from the direction where Master Suzuki goes to school."

"Y-Yui was STILL in school with Nodoka!" Mio gasped. "L-Let's go to the school! She might be in danger!

Yui felt like she was floating in the blissful darkness after Nodoka casted Mudoon on her.

She was still crying, sobbing loudly as she remembered the way Nodoka treated her coldly, the way Nodoka fought her without much hesitation, the reason she fought with her…

"Where's this…?" Yui frowned. "Where's Nodoka-chan…? Where's…everyone…?"

She closed her eyes, let her tears flowed freely in the unbounded darkness.

"Nodoka-chan…Nodoka…chan…" Yui called her best friend name desperately.

Suddenly, a brink of light embraced her direction.

Yui could see a girl with black school uniform, auburn hair that tied in high ponytail and hip-red colored music headphones around her collarbone was sitting alone in the light. As Yui floated near to the girl, the girl spoke.

"My, is Ryoji-kun successfully sending a person to entertain me…?" she mumbled with flat tone. "It's not necessary, though…"

Yui could move her body somehow, so she approached the girl. "Is Nodoka-chan also sent you here?"

"Nodoka…? Who's that?" she replied, "I have been here alone all the time,"

"What's your name?" Yui then greeted her.

"I must be the one who asked first, why are you here? Ordinary humans couldn't pass the Great Seal easily, "the girl returned. "Well, I'm Nagisa Kaori, nice to meet you."

Thou art I, I art thou.
Thou have been blessed to bestow skills of Persona of Temperance Arcana.

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To be continued.

Maybe I didn't include it in the story but Nodoka's Social Link is Death—not Kaori, even that she's the Great Seal. Sorry if the battle's short compared the other shadow battle, I need to include more terminologies for everyone to fully understand the whole condition, and I'll add more battles through it, though.

And, oh yeah, Takaya and Jin recorded as died in January 31st, 2010.

Then, could anyone already can guess the Hypnos user? Read and Review~ XD