Michelle : No problem, Minato's gonna chew Ken out for what happened in the next full moon.
Chikara : Lol thanks this chapter is all about the full moon fight.
Nick : Nobody wants to be on this side of Minato.
Minato laid in his bed the next day tomorrow would be a full moon, after this only 3 will remain, sighing his mind wandered to last night, the stupid decision by Ken, just thinking about it made his blood boil.
"Brat.." Minato muttered, normally he would be up for school but today he was wanting to get up.
"Master are you still angry?" A sweet voice called out and Minato know the only one who was causing a ruckus in his mind for a few days.
"Yeah pretty much." Minato answered.
"You need to relax master or else you might not keep a cool head during the battle." Nero suggested and Minato sighed "I know but dammit thinking about it makes me angry, there is something up between them and I need to find out." Minato said getting up from his bed, streching and doing a few light jumps.
"Good boy.." Nero giggled and Minato looked annoyed "I am your master.."
"Yes preator.." She saluted causing Minato to chuckle "Yanno having you around might not be such a bad idea."
Nero gave a big smile "Reallllly?" She cheered.
"Backstabber.." Thanatos's voice called out and Minato chuckled again "Alright keep quiet I need to change, but be ready I'll be using the both of you tomorrow."
"Yes.."
"Roger Preator."
Minato went to the showers and then got dressed, walking down he saw Yukari and Fuuka chatting.
"Morning." They both greeted, Minato covered up a yawn "Morning to you too." Fuuka wanted to wait for Junpei but the couple quickly told her to stay or go with them, having no choice Fuuka walked with them.
"Day after tomorrow is the full moon." Yukari noticed glaring at a approaching fangirl who scurried away.
"Yeah I hope everything will be alright." Fuuka was worried, but Minato patted her back "Don't worry we'll kick some major ass."
"That's nice to hear I was worried since it was so close after the holidays." Fuuka smiled.
The day passed normally albeit boring for Minati, since boxing club was closed today, he did hang out with Keisuke raising his rank to 7.
The next day everyone was tense well except for Junpei, he had a huge smile on his face grinning and joking every now and then.
Minato opened the door to the dorm, stepping in getting greeted by everyone.
"Sup everyone." Minato gave a two finger salute.
"Tomorrow is the full moon but we have nothing to worry about, with Shinjiro-kun joining us." Ikutsuki grinned and Minato suddenly found an urge to wring his neck.
"Shinjiro might be powerful be he hasn't been in active combat for a a long time." Mitsuru answered truthfully.
Minato walked towards the kitchen and saw Yukari and Junpei sitting there eating dinner, he sat next to Yukari with a cup of instant ramen.
"Hey Minato sup bro? Being a hero is so cool, I can't wait until tomorrow dude." Junpei gave what Minato thought was the widest grin ever.
"C-Cool.." Minato smiled awkwardly looking at Yukari who just rolled her eyes.
Finally today was the day, Mitsuru agreed everyone should rest and prepare instead of going to school, earlier in the day Ken approached Minato repeatedly apologizing, Minato still couldn't hide his annoyance but forgave him telling him to be sharp next time which Ken obliged.
Night had fell everyone was supposed to be meeting in the command room, but Junpei was nowhere to be found.
"I loacated it, its close by the mall." Fuuka told everyone.
"Well that's good but where in the hell is Junpei?" Minato asked pretty pissed.
"That idiot he knows this is our most important operation." Yukari fumed.
"I saw his backpack on the couch, but Junpei-san isn't here." Ken answered.
"Should I locate him too?" Fuuka asked.
Minato bit his lip, Junpei could be in trouble, but the shadow could wreak havoc in the mall, the situation was a lost on both side.
"If Iori was in trouble, his persona's power could be strong enough for Yamaghishi to sense it, therefore we must proceed with the mission." Mitsuru calmly stated and everybody nodded, walking out of the dorm towards the mall.
"So where is it?" Akihiko asked.
Fuuka had trouble loacting it, the shadow was entangled into some sort of wires, making the finding process tricky.
Suddenly Minato spoke up "I found it.." Everyone turned to him.
"Its in the club." Minato stated as he turned around "Fuuka concentrate there." Fuuka did as commanded and then spoke "Yes I sense it, its acutally there everyone." She told everyone and Minato nodded summoning a sword "Lets go.."
"But Arisato how did you know?" Mitsuru asked curious.
Minato shrugged "I don't know, I ain't nothing compared to Fuuka's ability but only during the full moon I can sense shadows, not there weaknesses but just there locations." He answered and Fuuka looked relieved.
"Thats exceptional." Mitsuru clapped and Minato nodded "Yeah yeah lets haul ass now." He commanded "The team will be Akihiko, Shinjiro and..." He looked at the team he wanted to pick Mitsuru but his eyes trailed down at Ken, he wanted to see if Ken does indeed change, Minato himself was going so healing wasn't going to a problem.
"Ken..." Minato finished turning around "This bastard might be the toughest yet, be ready everyone." He warned walking towards the door kicking it open, the team followed they found nothing out of the ordinary, but Minato took commanded everyone to go lower at the base floor.
"Freaky." Was all that Minato could say, the shadow was enormous with a black body and white mane around its mask, the jet black body had what appeared to be bulbs attached to it, it had four limbs all of them buried deep into the wires system, the air around it cackled with electricity, the wires were everywhere, Minato quickly switched to Thor hoping to lessen the electrical damage.
"Woah freaky bastard." Shinjiro muttered readying his axe.
"This takes the prize." Akihiko stated as he took on a boxer stance.
The shadow noticed the group and gave out a roar making everyone cringe.
"Shut up you bastard." Shinjiro yelled.
The battle had started and Minato issued the orders "Akihiko don't try going for Zio spells they won't work hammer it with all you got, Shinjiro use physicals but don't fight close the wires may shock you, Ken HEAL ANYONE who is hurt." Minato commanded as he summoned a card of Ares.
"Gotacha."
"Who does he think he is?" Shinjiro hissed and Minato yelled back "Your leader dammit."
"Yes senpai."
Blue mist surrounded Minato as he crushed the card "COME FORTH ARES." The god of war manifested and Minato commanded "Cut it through." With a huge war cry, Ares ran towards the shadow raising its huge sword but just as he was about to hit, the wires around the shadow caught him, surprising Minato, he was about to charge but the shadow gave out a screech, glowing blue, the wires around Ares cackled with electricity, Minato found himself getting shocked, Ares screamed in agony as a devastating current ran through him.
"Shit.." Minato cursed as he felt the pain dropping to a knee.
"You okay?" Akihiko asked and Minato nodded without talking he summoned a card "Apollo Agidyne." The sun god appeared and launched a fireball at the shadow who absorbed it with no damage.
"The bastard absorbs Zio and Agi spells." Minato warned all.
"Arisato is everything alright?" Mitsuru asked.
"Yeah just found out the bastard absorbs Zio and Agi spells no weakness, I'll report to you once we kill it, stay on standby until I say so." Minato commanded and then disconnected the link.
"Skadi Freeze and shatter it to pieces." Minato crushed the card as the Ice goddess appeared throwing a Nifhliem at the shadow, a huge block of ice freezed the shadow.
Shinjiro smirked "Leave it to me." He raised the evoker to his head and shot, the horse riding persona appeared and Shinjiro commanded "Shatter it." Castor charged towards the shadow and tackled it the shadow didn't move and it was still enclosed in ice, a few cracks appeared but the block of ice didn't shatter.
Minato summoned yet another card "METATRON GOD"S HAND." The angel appeared and rammed it fist on the ground, almost instantly a cloud of electricity appeared above the shadow, the cloud busted open and a huge golden fist came slamming onto the block of ice shattering it completely, a few blocks of ice flew from the impact.
"Amazing senpai." Ken whispered.
"That was...easy.." Akihiko sighed "You took all the fun.." He walked towards the carnage and saw the shadow howling in pain, Akihiko smirked "The end for you." He raised the evoker to his temple but the shadow suddenly stood up and blasted him back with a Ziodyne.
"The fuck?" Shinjiro was shocked as the image of a smoking Akihiko flew back and slammed against the wall.
"Senpai you okay?" Ken asked running a Dia on his hand healing the wounded boxer.
"Yeah it didn't do much damage thanks to Polydeuces but its still alive?" Akihiko turned towards the shadow which was glowing blue, it suddenly gave a screech and then a vortex of electrcity engulfed it, the group stared in shock as the open wounds the spilled ichor began to close up all the damage done was being repaired, the electricity disappeared and the shadow again stood without any damage.
"Shit it can heal by absorbing the electricity." Minato cursed as he drew his sword, charging at the shadow, Minato casted a Sukukaja and dashed left to a bundle of wires slashing a couple of wires "Cut the wires down everyone so it can't heal itself." Minato commanded as he slashed another one making the shadow scream.
Shiniro rammed his heavy axe on a bundle of wires cutting them in half while Ken made his persona charge and cut through the wires, the shadow gave out another screech as it blasted the members with a Maziodyne, throwing them backwards except Minato who had Thor equipped but the shadow thought ahead wrapping Minato in the wires, it rammed Minato to the walls multiple times without stopping, the group tried to help but was blasted again by a muti target spell.
"THANTHOS." Minato yelled as the persona appeared using its bare hands it broke Minato free from the wires.
"Brave Blade." Minato ordered as Thanatos flew at the shadow swinging its huge sword hitting ther hermit on the back making the three light bulbs shatter.
The shadow gave out another scream as it rose up, Thanatos disappeared but the shadow continued rising up soaking all the surrounding electrcity and from the looks of things it was preparing for an attack.
"The shadow has alot of electricity charged up." Fuuka warned and Minato walked towards the group, healing all of them with a Salvation.
"It's charging for a powerful attack but it may take sometime this is our chance we have to attack with all we-Argh.." A sharp cry emitted from Minato's mouth, he felt something being stabbed into his shoulder.
Quickly turning around, Minato was met by a fist to his face, he backed away and opened his eyes quickly, it was Yukari standing there with a maniacal smile on her, clutching a blood stained arrow.
"Yukari?" Minato asked surprised.
"Yes baby?" She said seductively and tried to ram the arrow on Minato's chest but he quickly blocked it his eyes locked onto Yukari's brown...no golden eyes he quickly realized who she was it wasn't Yukari it was the shadow of her.
Kicking the shadow in the stomach, Minato pushed her away looking around his eyes opened in horror as Mitsuru, Junpei and Akihiko were there fighting the members of SEES, Minato quickly realized the shadows that manifested days ago finally showed them self.
"Fuck!,everyone attack back these are the copies." He warned and was about to get twacked by another punch by the shadow Yukari but he quickly dodged it, charging his fist with a Ziodyne, He slammed in onto the shadow stomach, the hand glowed brighter and a full charged Ziodyne blasted Yukari away slamming her against the wall.
Wasting no time, Minato tapped on his microphone "YUKARI, MITSURU COME HERE AT ONCE KOROMARU AND AIGIS, STAY WITH FUUKA." He commanded as he looked around.
Shadow Akihiko was fighting Shinjiro who was aware of the shadows exsistence, the shadow tried to go for a jab but Shinjiro caught it and smirked "Your no Aki." He quickly headbutted him, shadow Akihiko staggered back but spoke "Killer." Shinjiro froze with the words a horrible memory hitting his head, and that's all the shadow needed he hit a uppercut throwing Shinjiro to the ground, he wasted no time stomping on his chest brutally.
"SHINJI." Akihiko cried as he saw his friend on the ground, he tried to make a run to save him but was met by a painful heel boot to his groin, he screamed in pain as shadow Mitsuru drove her heels this time to his head making him drop on the ground "Sorry for all the wet dreams Aki." She mocked and Akihiko busted with rage quickly standing up, he rammed his fist on her stomach, the shadow screamed and backed away throwing a puppy look to Akihiko "Would you hurt your love?" She asked and Akihiko snarled "Your no woman that I love."
Shadow Junpei was hammering Ken on the wall multiple times with Ken making no effort to fight back, how could a boy fight against someone taller than him add to the fact that his spear was thrown aside, Minato ran to help him but was stopped by a pair of arms wrapped around him almost squeezing him to death, Shadow Yukari latched onto him digging her fangs onto his already injured shoulder making him scream in pain, she dug her fangs deeper until someone pushed her off Minato, she stumbled back and saw Yukari glaring at her "Hands off Minato." She snarled summoning IO blasting the shadow back with a Garula, the shadow gritted her teeth "Bitch." She cursed as she lunged forward but was again pushed back by a Megido at point blank range this time by Minato.
Mitsuru took care of her own shadow "You talked a big game during sleep lets see if you can back that up." She raised her rapier to strike but the shadow blocked it with its own "You wouldn't give a shit if all of them get killed." She taunted making Mitsuru mad "JUST SHUT UP." Mitsuru yelled driving a knee to her gut and then slashing her face with her sword, ichor trickled down on the shadow's face who gritted its teeth "Bitch."
Akihiko tackled the fake one off Shinjiro ramming him to the ground punching him on the face multiple times "Who's the weak one now you pathetic asshole." He yelled as he kept punching until the shadow blocked it turning around he aimed a jab striaght onto Akihiko's face making him back wiped the blood and ordered "Shinji go help Ken right now." Shinjiro's eyes darted towards Ken who was getting choked, his eyes opened in worry Shinjiro ran forward, slamming a fist onto Shadow Junpei's face making him let go of Ken, the shadow stumbled back and looked at his attacker Shinjiro who cracked his knuckles "Try to pick on somebody your own size." Ken almost shouted "GET LOST I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP." Shinjiro sighed "Don't be an idiot kid." Shinjiro ran forward lifting Junpei off his feet slamming him onto the ground.
"EVERYONE THE SHADOW." Fuuka screamed as everyone stopped the fighting and looked at the shadow, its black body had turned blue, seeing this Shadow Mitsuru smirked "Its done Junpei now." She yelled and Junpei punched the surprised Shinjiro across the face making him back off, before he could react the shadow took a smoke bomb and threw it onto the ground, thick smoke appeared as everyone started coughing and gasping when it cleared the shadows were gone.
"Crap they ran away away." Minato cursed but Fuuka screamed again "ITS ATTACKING THE POWER IS ENORMOUS." The shadow screamed as a huge and bright blue light erupted for the sides, engulfing everyone, Minato could feel the deathly power if Yukari was hit she would die, without thinking he grabbed Yukari by her shoulders, pulling her close almost in a hug, he turned his back against the attack bracing himself, he barely had the time to think about switching to Thor again when electricity erupted in the entire arena, everyone screamed as they felt the almost millions volt running through there viens, the shadow took its time preparing for the attack while the shadows kept SEES busy, Minato clutched Yukari tighter as he screamed the pain was soul shattering, they were stupid to ignore the shadow.
The torture ended as the attack finished, everyone even Akihiko collapsed to the ground in pain while Minato was still standing smoke radiating from his body, he slowly let go off Yukari as he dropped down to a knee, turning around he saw the carnage, Ken was unconscious along with Mitsuru, Akihiko and Shinjiro were barely alive but the shadow was still standing, Yukari's started to sob seeing the carnage infront of her.
Minato gritted his teeth looking at the shadow "B-Bastard." It felt like the shock had melted his voacl cords, he tried to get up but collapsed on a knee, Yukari was trying to charge a Dia in order to heal him but the damage was too great and from the looks of things the shadow was already gearing for another attack.
"Preator." Nero's voice called out "Summon me, use my Noble Phantasm, its our only chance." She advised and Minato nodded to her standing up with every bit of energy he summoned a card and then crushed it summoning Nero.
Minato smirked "NOBLE PHANTASM." He yelled and Nero's facial expression hardened, she raised her hand summoning a rose "Behold my glory." She dropped the ground and then lunged towards the shadow, sword in her hand but still continued her speech "Hear the thunderous applause." She cleaved a mass of wires making the shadow scream directing the others wires to her direction but she dodged and continued speaking "My Golden Theater! Kingdom of Heaven and Hell... My heaven, reconstructed." She yelled as he slashed the shadows multiple times with roses coming out from the impact, she jumped back driving the sword into the ground, a flash of light exploded and Minato could swear he was in a theater, a beautiful theater with flowers flowing, everything was decorated in red, with Nero standing in the middle "This is where the limelight shines!" She smirked as she drew her sword back into her hand and saw the shadow trying to recover itself but it had already used all the electricity and thanks to Nero's previous slashing the wires were cut off.
"Aestus Domus Aurea." She yelled as her sword glowed red she charged forward with inhuman speed and gave a final, loud slash to the shadow and direct on the mask, making it howl, Nero jumped back and the shadow continued screaming and slowly it dissolved into ichor and finally disappearing, the threater disappeared aswell.
Minato collasped to the ground, breathing heavily, beads of sweat rolling down his forehead, he barely had the energy to keep his eyes open, the attack took everything out of him and add the pain he was feeling the worst in a long time, Nero walked towards him with a smile, she bent down cupping his face and pecking him on the cheek "I am impressed I didn't think you would be able handle the energy required for my Noble Phantasm." She whispered a Heartful Cry as Minato slowly felt the pain leaving him but with the exhaustion still present, he looked upto Nero and smiled "Your a total package." Nero giggled pinching his cheek and then disappearing.
Yukari ran upto Minato "Minato are you okay?" She was still sobbing and Minato answered with a weak voice "Yeah, don't worry about me heal the rest." Minato commanded as he slowly got up but fell down on a knee again.
Yukari tapped her earpiece "Aigis come in quick." She commanded and the android came running in, her blue eye widened in seeing everyone on the ground.
"Aigis carry Minato, I'll heal the others." Yukari said running towards the injured ones, Aigis carried Minato in her arms out of the club.
Fuuka sobbed a bit at seeing the members okay, everyone slowly got out from the club, relief on there faces at surviving the mission.
"Is everyone alright?" Mitsuru asked and received nods from everyone except Minato "Drained."
"What the earth just happened?" Ken asked, all I remember was getting blasted by the blue attack and then everything went black.
"I don't remember things clearly as well, but Arisato screamed something along the lines as Noble and then flower flew everywhere." Mitsuru told them.
"You missed a show." Akihiko chuckled "A great show, Minato summoned the new persona that turned the club into a threater, and you should have seen the slashing of her."
"I remember...the girl was...cute." Shinjiro said as everybody turned towards him "WHAT?" He yelled stomping "Its the truth." Everyone shared a laugh at the expense of a red Shinjiro.
"Well its save to say Arisato saved us again." Mitsuru smiled "Yes but what we did was stupid, ignoring the shadow we were too caught up in anger to even notice it." Minato looked down.
"Everyone I've found Junpei-kun." Everyone turned to Fuuka "He's back at the dorm but something seems strange, the chairman is there too so he should be okay but lets hurry just in case." Everyone nodded and ran towards the dorm, with Aigis still carrying Minato.
...
"So your one of them huh?" Junpei had a sad smile on his face "All those things...you set me up?" Junpei asked and Chidori stared at him blankly "That was..." She was about to complete her sentence when the door to the roof busted open revealing Minato and Yukari.
"Junpei?" Yukari was surprised seeing Junpei being chained up and with a girl standing next to him.
"Tch...there back already?" Chidori panicked especially with Minato she couldn't win, but then she calmed down seeing the exhaustion on Minato's face, with a almost ghost smile Chirdori drew her evoker.
Mitsuru gasped "She's a persona user." Chidori was about to shoot and summon her persona until Junpei tackled her to the ground, making her drop the evoker.
"Senpai get her gun." Mitsuru quickly ran and grabbed the evoker "Aigis restrain her." She commanded and the mechanical maiden quickly grabbed Chidori by both of her arms pinning them to her back.
The chairman came running in "Huh when did she?" He seemed surprised "I didn't have the slightest clue that she was here." Minato looked at him with a glare "When in hell do you know something, how the fuck could you ignore all the yelling from Junpei uptill now."
The chairman paled "I was listening to music.." He thought up a horrible excuse.
"In the dark hour?" Minato snarled
"I seriously had no idea." Ikutsuki said looking down.
Meanwhile Mitsuru spoke to Chidori "We have alot of questions that we like to ask." Chidori didn't say anything and just kept staring at the evoker.
Junpei looked at her and muttered "Chidori..."
