Another day came and went. As Minato walked in, he was greeted by his dormmates.

"Hey, dude." Said Junpei. "Just missed the Chairman. Dude was sweatin' buckets a few minutes ago."

"Iori's right." Mitsuru added. "I've never seen him act so strange. You would think he had seen a ghost."

Minato shrugged.

"But anyways, full moon." Said Akihiko, with a smirk. "Y'know what that means."

"Hell yeah!" Junpei cheered. "We're back, baby!"

Minato would ask, but people seemed to respond only with a headache and forgetting his question. He instead nodded and remained quiet.

"Maybe after we can check around Tartarus." Yukari suggested.

"Would be fun." Akihiko replied.

Mitsuru sighed, then looked to Minato. "I admit that I am curious to if your abilities have changed since you left. I suppose we will find out soon."

"Yep." Minato said, acting like he actually knows what the hell they're talking about.

The dark hour came. Junpei knocked on Minato's door. "C'mon, bro. Shadow time!"

What?

Minato got dressed and opened the door. "What?"

"Shadow-huntin' time, man." he hands Minato a sword. "Ya ready?"

"Uh...Yes?" Parhaps this was the event that old man talked about yesterday.

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*YUKARI PERSONA MOD

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Blue particles appear around Junpei for a split second before he shakes his head. Minato felt something change within him.

"Uh, come on." Junpei walked downstairs and Minato followed.

Outside, the streets were empty. The moon was full with a yellow, eerie glow.

"Brings back memories." Akihiko said, staring at the moon.

"The shadow is close by." A female voice said.

"Who the hell?!" Minato shouted.

"Can you give us an analysis, Yamagishi?" Mitsuru asked.

"Of course!" Fuuka said. "It's arcana is the magician. It seems fairly weak, though. It's abilities are Agidyne and basic slash attacks."

"Thank you, Fuuka." Said Akihiko.

"No problem. And...I'm glad you're back, Minato."

...? "Uh, yeah. Same here." Who the hell is Fuuka? WHERE the hell is Fuuka?

As Minato was asking himself those questions, the ground began to shake.

"Here it comes."

A mass of hands carrying swords, as well as a blue mask came crawling from around a corner.

Akihiko took out his evoker "Don't mess with me." He pulled the trigger and summoned a red-skinned man in white clothes, holding a golden blade. "Take-micazuchi! Ziodyne!"

A bolt of lightning came from the sky and struck the shadow, causing it to fall to the ground.

"Nice." Junpei complimented. "Check this out." He used his evoker to summon a man with a flaming skull on a motorcycle. "Light 'em up, Hell Biker!"

His persona revs up his motorcycle and drives around the shadow, tossing fireballs at it.

"Not..,that effective, Junpei." Yukari said. "How 'bout You, Minato?"

"Yeah, show us your stuff."

"Uh..Okay?"

"Be careful, mon chere." Mitsuru commented.

Minato paused at that comment, but took out his evoker and pulled the trigger all the same.

"Persona!"

In front of him came a red humanoid robot with gold joints, white hands and legs, blonde hair, and a large harp.

"I am thou. Thou art I. I am Orpheus telos, master of strings"

"Orpheus..? Wait, I think I-AAAAGH!" Minato clutched his head in pain.

"Minato?!"

"You okay?"

Orpheus groaned in pain before he was ripped apart by a new creature, Death. It lunged at the magician arcana shadow, brutally tearing it to shreds.

"Yeah...Just like last time." Akihiko said, a bit off-put by the suprise attack Minato's persona made.

After Death had finished the job, it looked back at Minato, sheathing it's blade.

"Rise young one." It said in his mind in a deep, demonic voice.

"H-huh..?" He looked up at his 'persona'

"I live through you. My true trength is too much for you to contain. Therefore, I bestow upon you Thanatos, the god of death. I wish you luck on your journey." Thanatos disappears, leaving Orpheus Telos, then Orpheus disappears.

"Yeah, still got it, bro!" Junpei said, smiling.

"Th-thanks..." Minato said, before passing out.

"Well then, how do you feel?" Igor asked.

"like me head got hit with a Semi."

"Do you remember anything?"

"Nope. Though, it feels vaguely familiar..."

"Hm." Igor pondered for a moment. Elizabeth looked at Minato and winked at him, making him squirm a bit in his seat.

"At your current state, you wouldn't survive holding the final arcana for it's true purpose. It seems we'll have to hold onto it until your body and mind are ready."

"Okay, whatever that means."

"It's not important right now. Please, continue on your quest. Until next time."

Minato disappeared from the velvet room.

"Quite the predicament we have on our hands." Igor said.

"Ouite so..." said Elizabeth. "With all of his female classmates chasing after him, what am I to do? All by my lonesome..." she frowned.

Igor sighed, silently pitying his young guest for what his future holds. "May Philemon help the poor boy." he thought to himself.