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"Never again." Minato swore as Sakura dashed towards him, her fist ready to smack him on the face.
"I SAID NEVER AGAIN!." Minato yelled, catching Sakura's wrist in the last second, stopping her oncoming punch. The force of the punch being stopped blew the cars behind Minato away. Minato tightened the hold around Sakura's wrist who was still grinning. Using her free hand, Sakura aimed another punch to Minato's face but the fool stopped that one as well with his other hand, slightly shocking Sakura. Minato with difficulty raised her hands down away from his face.
"You think it would be that easy?" Minato snarled in Sakura's face.
"No.." Mitsuru whispered horrified.
"Minato-san." Aigis panicked, running towards Minato to help him but was stopped by Akihiko "Don't get in the way. Minato will handle it." Akihiko looked at the stalemate between the two persona users "I wish…"
Sakura laughed in Minato's face, clearly disgusting him.
"You bitch! Your practically his slave now." Minato said still clutching onto her wrists. Sakura leaned her head closer "You don't know the half of it Wild Card." Turning Minato, she grabbed him by both of his shoulders, digging her knee into his back.
"NOOO!." Mitsuru panicked.
Minato screamed in pain, but quickly did a reverse backflip since Sakura still had a hold of his shoulders. Minato hit Sakura in the chin with his boots making her release the hold and stumble back. Minato stared right into her eyes.
"You think I'll die this easily?" Minato hissed with complete venom.
"Hahahah." Sakura laughed "Stupid son of a bitch!."
"You fucking degenerate." Minato taunted and Sakura laughed again "Hahaha I'll come for YOUR SOULS!." With that Sakura turned around, with almost inhuman speed, she jumped over the bridge and into the blood red sea.
"Dammit!." Minato yelled as Sakura vanished into the air. Looking down at the blood red sea Minato cursed his luck "Another problem now.." Turning around Minato stood face to face with the worried members of SEES.
"Arisato are you okay?" Mitsuru asked shakily and Minato nodded "I'm okay what about Jin and Takaya?"
"….They jumped off the bridge as well." Yukari answered and Minato cursed "Fucking fantastic.."
"What do we do now?" Akihiko asked and Minato looked up "We do what we came here to do. Lets kill the shadow right now!." Minato ordered, summoning Lucifer's blade "No time to waste. Fuuka scan for it NOW!." Fuuka nodded summoning Juno.
"Its on the other end of the bridge." Fuuka said after a few minutes.
"Okay everyone head over there." Minato ordered "Fuuka and Koromaru stay here."
"Woof Woof." Koromaru barked in agreement.
"Good everyone lets clear this up ASAP." Minato running towards the other end of the bridge with the rest behind him.
"Well shit." Junpei spoke after seeing the shadow. A huge humanoid tied to a giant cross that was suspended in mid-air by a two circles which had wings. It was chained to the cross. The entire mechanism for a lack of better word was rotating. The shadow was huge making SEES look like bugs to it . It had a long neck which had no face, just the hanged man mask attached to it on the end.
"Please be careful." Fuuka's voice reached everyone.
"Roger." Minato answered "Lets end this quickly." Minato ordered, summoning Thanatos who charged at the shadow, intending to cleave it but the hanged man at the last second flew even higher making Thanatos miss.
"Fuck its like a 100feet above now." Akihiko stared at the floating shadow. Thanatos disappeared as Minato cursed "I have no attack that can go that far." Minato bit his lip "I wonder if it'll stay there for all time." Minato wondered, still holding his sword.
"M-i-n-a-t-o." A cold and deep voice whispered, momentarily making Minato's attention divert from the shadow.
"What the—"
"MINATO WATCH OUT!." Akihiko's voice yelled as Minato snapped back to attention but it was too late. With the speed of a bullet, the large shadow slammed onto the ground, create a huge quake, throwing every back.
Minato smashed against a car and cursed "Fucking shadow." He instantly froze as he felt something lick him, quickly turning around he saw Sakura with her tongue out. Minato quickly charged a Morning Star, intending to blast her but after one blink she was no longer there.
"Where are you?" Minato yelled but no response came.
"Minato help!." Yukari's voice yelled and Minato shook his head "Probably a hallucination." Minato ran towards the scene where everyone was gathered. The shadow was on the ground.
"Apollo." Minato summoned as the sun god's body began blazing "Nova Kai—" He instantly stopped as the shadow flew up again.
"Fucking coward!." Minato yelled as the shadow rose higher.
"Hey Wild Card." Chaos's voice echoed again in Minato's ear as he turned around "Come out Sakura." Minato yelled to the shock of everyone as they too turned around to face no one.
"EVERYONE !." Fuuka yelled as everyone turned around to see the shadow hitting him all with a pure wave of energy Akasha Arts.
"Ugh.." Minato was on the ground, groaning in pain, slowly he tried to get up until something grabbed him by his hair and lifted him up and locked his lips. Minato eyes opened wide..It was Sakura, quickly Minato broke the kiss, disgusted to his stomach, spitting out, Minato aimed a punch but it went through thin air.
"Shit." Minato cursed, it seemed like a hallucination but….those lips still felt real "Fucking Chaos come out now!." Minato yelled and heard shrill laughter in return "This is both me and her…We are one."
"Fuck you both then." Minato snarled, before running off towards the shadow.
"I've had it!." Minato yelled summoning True Assassin, he disappeared into the shadows. The shadow looked startled by the disappearance of the running Minato. Sensing the others are back to their feet. The shadow tried to take off again until Minato dropped from the shadows above and onto its gigantic arm.
The hanged man tried to hit Minato with its other arm but Minato drove his sword into the flesh, halting it from acting.
"What's he doing?" Yukari asked as she saw Minato running up on the shadow's arm. Minato climbed up the shadow's back.
"This ends you coward sumbitch." Minato slashed his sword breaking the chains apart. The shadow stumbled as it was ready to fall down.
"HELEL." Minato summoned as the angel appeared in mid air directly opposite to the shadow.
"Blast it to hell." Helel flapped its wings and flexed blasting the shadow on its back at point blank range. The shadow came crashing down hard onto the ground, as Helel held Minato from any harm. Minato froze as he saw something lying on the same spot that Hamuko died years ago. Having blue hair and a Gekkoukan Uniform….It was surely no doubt Minato. A boot pressed against the dead fool's head and crushed the skull.
"You'll be like this Wild Card." The demonic voice echoed inside Minato's mind who nearly let go off his concentration and that almost made Helel disappeared but Minato caught himself "No Tatsuya said NOT TO LOSE MY COOL." Minato's determination returned as he looked down and saw SEES attacking with their various personas the shadow looked ready to die.
"Hehe." Minato flicked his wrist and Helel disappeared. Minato fell down to the ground and it mid air he summoned Parvati and Shiva.
"Ardhanari." Minato yelled as his body blazed with sun-like heat.
Minato came crashing down. Mitsuru looked up to see some sort of shooting star falling down. Smiling she ordered the team to back away. Seconds before the collision, Minato felt something strange, a complete sense of dread and an unimaginable power that freezed his entire body even Nyarlathotep was no where near it but eventually Minato shook it off, concentrating on ending the shadow below. Minato slammed into the shadow's back sending vicious flames throughout the shadow's body. It roared in pain even though it had no mouth.
With a final scream it melted away. Minato stood where the shadow used to be "It's over…" Minato whispered, tired and burnt "But what was that monstrous power?" Minato asked himself it was something terrible….It reeked off Death.
"Minato-kun.!." Yukari ran towards him, hugging Minato.
"Hey!." Junpei cheered as he smacked Minato on the back.
"We did it!." Akihiko cheered "We did it Shinji." He roared to the sky.
Minato stood up and smiled at his team mates. The people who together with him went through hell and back "We still have work to do though." Minato whispered as images of Sakura flashed inside his mind.
"Minato-san? What will be our victory cheer." Aigis asked.
"I'll fucking kill Nyarlathotep." Minato declared with valor.
"1…2….3….I'll fucking kill Nyarlathotep." Aigis shouted back. There was silence for a few seconds until everyone busted into laughter.
"Hahahaha what was that?" Yukari giggled.
"But it is the truth." Mitsuru said solemnly "He is back."
"Yeah." Minato agreed but clenched his hand into a fist "But this time I've grown I'll rip him to pieces." Minato swore.
"Hahaha." Shrill laughter filled the sky "In your fucking dreams Minato."
"Come out you bastard." Minato yelled but the laughter disappeared.
"I'll kill you Sakura no more games." Minato swore. Slowly SEES shook the events off and returned to the dorm, happy that they finally ended the dark hour….or did they?
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"Good morning." Minato's eyes opened wide "Pharos?" In the morning had never happened before. Pharos was smiling much brighter than ever before, the sunlight lighting his face.
"This is the first time we've talked during the day time." Pharos smiled "All the fragments of my memory are complete…I now know my role." A few tears leaked from his eyes "As difficult it is…I'm afraid this is goodbye."
Minato's sleepy eyes jerked open completely "What?" He couldn't believe it "Your joking right Pharos?" Over the years the strange enigmatic boy had grown real close to Minato.
Pharos kept sobbing but still smiled "I'll treasure our conversations always…even if today's the end." Pharos took a deep breath "The bond between us will never break….Remember that." Minato quickly pulled Pharos into a hug, something like a older brother would do. Pharos returned it "Yes I'll always remember it….My best friend." Minato smiled as he slowly let go.
SMASH.
Death Arcana reached rank 10.
Minato felt a monstrous power up. Greater than The World. Slowly he soaked it in, relishing the added power "It feels….complete." Minato whispered as Thanatos's power increased tenfold.
"Well done friend." Thanatos's voice echoed inside Minato. The Death social link was always on rank 9 but today it broke that.
"Goodbye." Pharos backed away and slowly disappeared still with a smile on his face.
"Goodbye Pharos." Minato whispered as he totally disappeared "I hope I'll see you again."
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Minato walked towards the school to be greeted by Junpei who was grinning "Hey man that was awesome what you did last night." The word 'last night' hit Minato hard as Sakura's face flashed in his mind but Minato shook it off "Yeah."
"You better be at the dorm early. We're going to have a party!." Junpei yelled running into the school. Minato chuckled and walked behind him.
Minato walked back to the dorm with his whole gang minus Mitsuru. Everyone was looking too happy to care about Chaos or Sakura.
…..
Everyone waited for Mitsuru's father to arrive and then feasted on the marvelous food that Mitsuru prepared for them.
"Epic!." Minato yelled as he smacked Mitsuru on the back. Mitsuru caught her father's single eye…..And he was smiling for the first time in years. Just looking at it, Mitsuru's heart busted into happiness.
….
"Time to strike a pose." Junpe cheered as the group along with Takeharu stood for a picture by one of Takeharu's guards.
Yukari clinged to Minato's arm which he didn't mind. Akihiko placed his arm around Minato's shoulders. Fuuka held his other arm. Mitsuru placed her hand on Minato's shoulder while Junpei held Minato's arm up like he was some sort of champion. Minato smiled at his friends as he felt the Fool Social link rank up.
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The party kept going until….The dark hour hit the world. Everyone was at loss for words at the familiar stench of blood filled their noses. The guards transmogrified into coffins while the moon shone yellow.
"The fuck?" Minato cursed as he stared in shock at the scene.
"I thought we ended the dark hour." Junpei cried.
"Apparently I was right to have my doubts." Minato snarled in rage "Where's that bastard Ikutsuki?"
"Yes where is he? And where's Aigis?" Takeharu asked.
"I.." Mitsuru's voice was cut short by the chiming of bells. Everyone's thoughts frozed as they realized it was coming from Tartarus.
"Tsk…Everyone prepare for battle. We're heading to Tartarus." Minato ordered as he looked at Takeharu "Sir you stay here." Takeharu nodded and Minato looked at Koromaru "Take care of the house Koro." Koromaru barked and Minato turned around running out of the dorm with his team behind him.
SEES arrived at tartarus to find Ikutsuki standing there, smiling wider than ever before. Aigis was standing next to him, looking at the ground with unfocused eyes.
"What the fuck is this all about?" Minato yelled glaring at Ikutsuki who smiled even wider.
"Was it a lie?" Mitsuru asked, shaking in anger "You knew from the beginning that the dark hour wouldn't disappear."
"Excellent deduction Mitsuru, unfortunately your realization has come too late." Ikutsuki spoke.
"Noo…" Yukari was shocked beyond words.
"You tricked us?" Ken cried.
"Everything is as I planned... It is not unexpected that the Dark Hour and Tartarus remain. In fact, I never intended for you to rid the world of them. Quite the opposite, actually. The 12 Shadows were parts of a whole... They were destined to be reunited. ...And that was accomplished in no small part, thanks to your efforts. Soon, Death, the almighty, shall arise and bring fourth the Fall..." Ikutsuki stated and then laughed.
"Ten years ago... I, too, was a scientist for the project we've of spoken of. The experiment went awry, but that is not why the Dark Hour and Tartarus were born. They manifested as a result of harvesting the Shadows' power-just as the experiment was designed to do. That is why your grandfather gathered so many shadows... To bring about the Fall."
"He's totally lost it." Junpei yelled.
"I have a question for you." Yukari spoke, shaking in anger "Was that video…..A lie too?"
"Ah yes he did record that video. But of course I had to make some modifications." Ikutsuki grinned.
"You doctored it you son of a bitch?" Minato yelled, this was just too much. The man standing above that tricked him far worse than Nanjo "I TOLD YOU NOT TO SCREW WITH ME." Minato yelled "I SWEAR TO GOD I'M GONNA KILL YOU."
"Aigis" Ikutsuki commanded "Capture them and prepare them to be sacrificed."
Aigis nodded "Understood." Minato barely managed to register that Aigis flew towards them as a hard metal fist slammed against his face. Quickly shaking it off Minato charged his fist with a Ziodyne…But stopped inches shy of Aigis's face "I….can't." Minato muttered as Aigis punched him repeatedly on the face until he blacked out…
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"Ugh.." Minato slowly opened his eyes. His face was bloodied and was hurting back. Minato's eyes fully opened as he realized he was crucified on a cross suspended in the air.
"The hell?" Minato struggled to break free but the metal bindings were just too strong to break through. Eventually everyone woke up.
"Where the hell are we?" Akihiko asked.
"Father.!." Mitsuru cried as she saw Takeharu being restrained by Aigis.
"Ikutsuki? What's the meaning of this?" Takeharu demanded as Aigis held him.
"There's sacrifices. The prophecy shall be fulfilled." Ikutsuki laughed.
"You son of a bitch I'm gonna rip your head off." Junpei spat.
"Aggh." Minato screamed in pain as he tried to summon Thanatos but was shocked by volts of static "The fuck?"
"Hahaha..as long as your crucified you can't summon your persona." Ikutsuki laughed "Now Aigis finish him!." Aigis pointed her unlocked fingers at Takeharu Kirijo.
"Aigis please no!." Mitsuru begged. Aigis lowered her guns slightly in confusion.
"Aigis stop!." Minato yelled and Aigis's pupils opened wide, she lowered her hand down much to the shock of Ikutsuki.
"No matter." Ikutsuki pulled out a gun and pointed it at Takeharu who barely managed to react before…A loud bang was heard. Everyone stared in shock as Takeharu slumped to the ground in a bloody mess. Ikutsuki laughed manically.
"FATHER!." Mitsuru screamed, as tears dropped from her eyes. "FATHER NO!." Mitsuru screamed in pain and Minato's realized that feeling all too well….losing someone in front of your eyes.
"Nooo.." Minato whispered. Minato's heart took a sword right in the middle as he gazed into's Mitsuru's crying eyes "NOOO!." Minato yelled "NO MORE!."
"THANATOS." Minato yelled with all his mind. Drawing into the earlier power-up by Pharos, he tried his best to summon Thanatos to aid them. Minato's body was surrounded by a dark aura and his pupils went black. Thanatos's ear shattering roar echoed around.
"Come forth!." Minato yelled again as the bindings that restricted him broke off. Minato fell on the ground onto his feet. His body shaking with anger.
"AIGIS take care of him now." Ikutsuki commanded as he backed away. Thanatos was still present behind Minato a lot larger than before.
Aigis dashed towards Minato pointing her guns at him. Minato looked at her with emotionless eyes and the android froze. Minato grabbed a hold of her wrist and guided them towards his forehead "Shoot.." Minato dared as Aigis's eye went wide….She slowly lowered her guns and spoke shakily "Minato-san.."
"Free them." Minato commanded as he walked forward towards Iktusuki. Thanatos was still behind him as if feeling the same anger that Minato was.
"You'll die horribly." Minato hissed as Ikutsuki backed away.
"Thanatos." The death god charged towards Ikutsuki, grabbing him by the hair and lifting him up. Ikutsuki's eyes went wide as the death god drove his sword into the traitor's stomach. Ikutsuki slumped to the ground as the persona disappeared.
"I told you didn't I?" Minato summoned a dagger and slammed it onto Ikutsuki's leg making him scream in pain. Minato kicked the dagger farther in "Bastard." Minato yelled, kicking Ikutsuki multiple times in his injured stomach.
"KILL HIM!." Junpei yelled as he was freed.
"Break that son of a bitch in half." Akihiko snarled in hate.
"It will be done." Minato grabbed Ikutsuki by his hair, charging a Agidyne into his fist, Minato repeatedly bashed Ikutsuki on his face. Horribly burning his face.
"AHH." Minato screamed in hate as he shattered both arms of the traitor "You asshole." This time Minato threw him onto the ground and drove a dagger into his back. Ikutsuki was slowly dying because of blood loss.
"Son of a bitch!." Minato yelled summoing Asura. The Grand Being blasted Ikutsuki at point blank rage with a deadly Megidoloan.
Ikutsuki slammed back and fell onto the ground, deadly close to the end of the roof. Minato slowly walked towards him. He had enough of the backstabbing in his life. Minato forcefully made Ikutsuki stand up.
"I will give you the most horrible death ever." Minato hissed but Ikutsuki smiled "T-T-The F-Fall." With every ounce of energy he managed to it.
"HELEL ! SATAN !." Minato yelled as the two deadly personas appeared, sending a shiver down Ikutsuki's spine.
"Armageddon!" Minato yelled, blasting Ikutsuki on the face with it. Ikutsuki yelled in pain as the flames scored his body, almost deforming him. Minato grabbed Ikutsuki by his hair, not caring for the flames, summoning Lucifer's blade, Minato drove it through Ikutsuki's stomach. Still grabbing a fistful of hair, Minato threw him off the roof of the tower. Slowly he watched as the flaming body went lower and lower until it disappeared.
Minato slowly turned around to see Mitsuru crying on the floor like a child. Everyone gathered around her but didn't know what to say.
Minato slowly walked towards her. Crouching down next to her. Mitusru continued to cry out "Father! Please wake up." But Takeharu laid motionless on the ground.
Minato closed his eyes, slowly pulling Mitsuru into a comforting hug "I'm sorry it's all my fault." Minato whispered as Mitsuru clutched him tighet, burying her face into Minato's chest, straining his jacket.
"It hurts!." Mitsuru cried louder as Minato stroked her hair in hopes of calming her down "I'm sorry…." Mitsuru kept crying, nobody dared to hug her in all these years…but now she just didn't care. She kept sobbing into Minato's chest.
"How did it come to this…?" Minato whispered, things had certainly taken a turn for the worst. Minato was slowly getting tired. He was tired of fighting for his life. He was tired of fighting for almost a decade.
"But I won't quit." Minato swore as he tightened the grip around Mitsuru.
