((Was wondering if this had been forgotten lol.))<br/><br/><strong>Yu Narukami<br/>Time; June 5th, 2018.  Monday, 5 PM<br/>Location; Mirrored Dojo<br/>Tagged; The old and the new Investigation Team</strong><br/><br/>Yu walked over to Miki and put a hand on her shoulder, calmly shaking his head no to her alarmed question regarding the mist they were all breathing in.  He wasn't about to let anyone die today.  "The mist took more than three days to have any bad effects on her.  I don't think Teddie can save anyone like that again however since he disappeared afterward, and not a one of us knew what had happened to him for a while.  Needless to say, I wouldn't choose one of my friends over the other if it came to something like that again."  Teddie blushed, something that shouldn't have been possible given the costume he was trapped in while on this side of the divide.  Still, the rosy color to his cheeks disappeared as Yu explained further about their power, letting appear the Tarot Card that could summon his most powerful of friends, Izanagi-No-Okami.  "We don't know for sure why our power takes the form of Tarot Cards, but I know one thing, each of the Tarot Arcanas, all major 22 of them, they match with personalities of all of us in some form or another.  My own is the Fool.  Yosuke, the Magician.  Chie, Chariot,  Yukiko, Priestess.  The list goes on and on."  Heading for the door, he stopped when Shine spoke up his own mind at that moment.  Before he could speak however, Rise got to it first, a sad frown on her face since it was very close to the truth....too close really.  "Except for Senpai here, all of us had to go through places like this, Shine of the Threads of Fate.  You summed up everything this place and the old one was like all too well.  This is like a mirror, able to show nothing but the truth of what we would rather keep hidden forever and a day.  As for the rest, Miki is it?"  Rise asked, her Persona coming down to do a quick scan of the woman in question before she nodded, having answered her own question before she could.  "When you face your darkness and tame it in this world, it becomes a Persona, your personality given physical form and substance, able to fight these beings, these Shadows.  Anyone can do this....only if they are able to face themselves and be able to accept it."<br/><br/>"As for why they haven't already formed for you, I don't know.  As for how we summon our power, after beating our Shadows down, we're given these Tarot Cards.  When crushed, it releases our Persona so we can fight.  How or why it works we don't know, but I can take a guess.  It's our will to live as well as our personality given physical form, so smashing our Tarot Cards is our way of saying we won't lay down and die."  Yu said, finishing Rise's comment since there was still so much they didn't know.  It was time for them to leave anyway.  "We've wasted enough time here.  We need to move."  Heading onward, Kanji and Naoto already way ahead of them, Shadows started to appear ahead of them again, starting to form ranks yet again.  Yu wasn't having it, not anymore.  "You want to learn how all this works?  Then watch and learn.  Izanagi-No-Okami!"  Crushing his card in his right hand, holding his samurai sword in the other, his gray eyes flared with intense power and might that outranked his friends completely in every way.  The white robed samurai like warrior appeared behind Yu in all of his god like glory before laying waste to everything before them, the hallway being cleansed in a blink of an eye.  They'd be back eventually, but they had a clear path at the moment.  "That should buy us some time for now.  Let's move!"<br/><br/>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/><strong>Abigail Takeda<br/>Time; June 5th, 2018.  Monday, 5 PM<br/>Location; Mirrored Dojo, Main Arena<br/>Tagged; Shadow Abigail, the Six Armed Beast, Kanji, and Naoto.</strong><br/><br/>Dodging the last strike that she could, Abigail managed to get her sword up for one last block, but it was awkward, out of balance, and she was weakened from the fight so far.  She felt her hands ring painfully as her sword was ripped out of her hands by the powerful attack.  That wasn't good, but she wasn't alone, not anymore.  Six gunshots rang out, each bullet hitting its mark with deadly precision as Naoto and Kanji entered the arena, the police officer making each shot count as it caught the Shadow Clone completely by surprise, making her grunt as each shot hit a joint in her massive body.  The damage was minimal, but it was enough.  "You need to accept that part of you Abigail Takeda, otherwise it'll never leave and it will continue to try to kill you!"  Naoto shouted as she brought forth her Persona next along with Kanji.  It wouldn't be enough, not on their own anyway.  That point was driven home as both of their Personas floated off fast as they could, planning to hold the creature back.  Instead, they had to either block or dodge the woman's six blades, Kanji's demon king putting his sword to work while Naoto's managed to flick about, fast as lightning.  They couldn't keep up the pace for long as Rokuten Maoh took a blow to its chest, sending both Persona and its master back hard, skidding across the floor on his feet.  Abigail had no idea what she had to do, too tired, emotionally, physically, mentally, to do anything besides scare at what was happening, which should have been impossible really.  All of this should have been impossible!  "Snap out of it lady!  We didn't come this far for you to die now!"  Kanji yelled, grimacing slightly in pain, but he had his usual grin on his face all the same.  He was too damn tough to die here, as were they all.