"time to go! PERSONA!" Yells 6 as he suddenly turns into a whispy version of himself. He just noticed what happened and decided to use this to level up some

6 notices saeko and motiones for her to come to him

Seeing the change in scenery Aitome got on guard, lurking about behind coffins and shadows as she notices numerous shadows gathering in a garden, never a good sign, slinky nearby slowly she pulls out a shortsword and looks around, trying to find out why the shadows were here in the first place. Whispering to herself as her eyes tint blue Gah.. Tormention, you are up. Try to find what's going on here. With a few words of encouragement she continues to move, trying to stay in the shadows to stay hidden from shadows

6 motions to aitome to move over and regroup

A group of five young-looking adults would be wandering the streets before stopping briefly. They each had small gun-shaped devices at their sides and wore uniforms seemed to be suited for handling multiple conditions that one might not normally associate with combat. Among them were 2 boys and 3 girls. One of the boys with a slightly different looking uniforms would turn to the others before addressing them. His voice would be oddly enthusiastic despite the strange conditions. "Alright, seems like this is our team for this operation. According to HQ this event hasn't happened in quite some time but apparently, Nyx was spotted a few days ago by some of the surviving agents from the arrival. They aren't exactly sure about the nature of this dark hour but if its anything like the one from the early reports then we should be careful, alright? Now, since this is an observation mission I think it should be fine to split up. Just be sure to run away if its anything you can't handle, yeah?" The boy would look towards a shy looking girl among their ranks. There was concern in his eyes as the others began to go their own ways. "Hey, relax, first mission are no big deal. Shadows are usually pretty slow, after all. No doubt you can outrun them especially with that Persona of yours. Look, everyone's on the radios at all times. If there's trouble all you gotta do is holler and we'll all meet back up. Just try to have some confidence, we all had to start somewhere." With that the boy would go his own way as well leaving the girl on her own. His speech made her feel a little better but she was still visibly sweating as she moved through the streets.

[Yukyo was just walking around, as he usually does. This was not something he expected.] "What the- What just happened here?!" [He then looked at the Duel Disk on his wrist] "It's deactivated? How? I charged the batteries just before heading out! This is so weird... Eridan! Come here!" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/442127988818051082/Eridan.PNG "What up, Boss-man?... What the hell's goin' on with the sky? And the water?" "I don't know, that's what I wanted to ask you!" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/442127988818051082/Eridan.PNG "Hey, I'm a genius, but it doesn't mean I'm omniscient." "Okay... Okay. Calm down. Lupus!" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443894851839328266/Lupus.PNG "What is thy bidding, my master?" "Something weird going on. Need you on the field." https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443894851839328266/Lupus.PNG "Serve I shall, master."

*Cobalt watches the garden from a vantage point overlooking it. He furrows his brow.* The world's gone dark.

Walking by, a man with a silver earring notices the eerie garden that was right next to the street... "...Maybe I should stop by here for a second..." He mused to himself as he walks into the garden, suddenly getting a strange feeling that always alerts him when there is something wrong...and something is indeed wrong... He hides behind the trees to see the three strange beings that seem to be looking for something... "I should just stick around...maybe if I can get an opening, I'll strike..." He said to himself..

A blue haired beanie wearing boy, who looked to be in his teenage years, hides behind a trunk of a nearby tree, peeking over at the three familiar creatures wandering around the garden. It’s been quite awhile since his last time in the Dark Hour, that being last December when he had to help stop Nyx with a few other people, and he’s getting the strange feeling that he has to go up against it again. “This is bad... I gotta stay quiet for now...”

Persona... The mage would suddenly split off from the rest of its group. Rushing toward the loner girl with a cackle. A large set of cards would form from the shadows giant hands, aiming to circle around her and cover her in a dark light, assuming that it went she'd find herself falling over in an instant. As for the muscleman and beetle, they'd spot the girl with blonde hair... But ignore her for now, no sense focusing on some normal person when there are threats to be dealt with. After walking around a bit, they'd notice Aitome. The Gigas rushes toward her, advancing fairly slowly for now. Upon getting close, it would aim to leap up and crash down onto Aitome with a thud. Followed by the beetle aiming to rush around back, its ally rolling out of the way as the thing aims to rush into Ai with its horn. As for everyone else, they may or may not see these events based on where they are. But there's surely little for them to do given there are only 3 shadows... Or there were only 3, till a 4th burst to life nearby. A white fat man riding a rocking horse would appear in the center of the area, glaring toward everyone and daring them to attack it.

The nervous-seeming girl would grow fearful before being struck by the darkness. It would send her flying back to the ground. She would struggle to stand up as marks covered her body from being burned by the dark. She would weakly try and bring the pistol like device up to her head. "P-persona...please...Aithon!" She would fire the device off as a blue stream of light came out. The energy from the device flowed through her before from behind her body a horse with a flaming mane appeared. She would try and direct it forward before pulling out her radio. "T-they found me...I...need help." The Persona would charge forward in a fiery burst attempting to ram the Magician head on.

As the three shadows departed from the garden, Jiyu would start the come out from behind the tree before a new shadow appeared in the center, causing him to retreat back to his original position. But then, a thought popped in his mind, he could probably take care of this shadow for now and just kill the other two later. Taking a deep breath in and out, he walks from out of the tree once more, eyeing the fat man on the rocking horse intensively. “This one might not be that much of a hassle, right?” Jiyu stands motionless, waiting for the shadow to strike.

"Are they... Ignoring us?" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443894851839328266/Lupus.PNG "It would appear so, master. I advise we attack the beetle monster." "Hmm... It does seem a little weaker than the others. We'll stay hidden for now and try to find out what's going on." https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443894851839328266/Lupus.PNG "Understood, master."

Aitome watches carefully and spies the creatures moving closer, noticing the beetle coming from behind, frowning she pulls out her own pistol like weapon and fires it at her forehead with a twirl, an evoker to the trained eye Lend me your power fox. Do not dally now. With that said she quickly casts a masukuja as a howl is heard nearby akin to a fox, giving all nearby friendlies a boost in agility, as she glows green she runs forward and jumps to the Gigas, dodging the initial strike with the speed before hopping atop of the weapon and running up it to the head of the shadow, dodging the beetle with the shadow as she uses the shortsword in her hand to strike at the Giga's eye. However, she did hear something in the distance piquing her intrest Another Persona user? Interesting...

6 uses rakukaja on his team

The girl takes slow, deep breaths to try to calm her pulsing heart. A bad time to visit for sure, but there was nothing to do for it now. Watching the larger shadows being fought fairly well. The biggest one, the Gigas seemed rather slow, so if there was any hope of helping out, that was probably her best chance... Were it not for the person already atop it, unlikely to be able to distract it, instead she focuses on the other nearby creature, the beetle-like thing. Legs trembling, the girl takes a few steps out of the nearby alley, and throws a fairly small rock at it. "H.. Hey. Over here." She tries to shout, but it ends up coming out as little more than a whisper

6 notices rasa and pulls her over saying "Kid you picked a bad place and a $hit bad time to be here"

The dark hour was here... multiple people were doing what they wanted to, including a young man digging through the garbage, he was minding his own business, recalling the day beforehand, watering plants, staying away from the local populace, even losing his job beforehand, the reason? The boss caught TrashMan digging through the garbage... Now caught red-handed the clock strikes and he lays there in a coffin, unaware of the battle happening around him

The Magician is sent back a bit, it's stunned for a moment by her Persona's blows... But the thing is clearly weakened at this point. And the Shadow would shake it off after a moment, waving its hands around before a series of 2 ice chunks rushes toward the Persona, along with a third aiming to crash into the summoner. The beetle-like shadow would note Rasa's attack upon it, its rage toward her easily seen as the thing begins charging forward with the horn pointed to try and impale the girl. Of course, it is moving somewhat slowly and given the time to turn around, she'd likely be able to evade for now. As for the Gigas, it would roar in pain as the woman's quick swordwork plunges a blade into its eye. Despite that, however, the muscle-bound "human" is quite tough and would aim to slam a fist into her, its blows going far more quickly than its movement had. As for Jiyu and his horse, the man would rock back and forth in place for a bit before putrid air rushes out around it. The horrible feeling of being engulfed in it would render foes more easily affected by ailments for a time, and thanks to the spread those nearby would find it impossible to dodge.

Th persona would be struck by the two icicles head-on without the focus of its summoner to even give it a chance to evade causing its image to flicker before bursting away in a flash of blue light. The girl would look forward with fear and confusion before backing away slowly. That would be when the third icicle struck her directly in the stomach. She would be shocked for a moment before slowly looking down to see herself stabbed by the ice. Blood would begin dripping from her mouth as the realization of her own demise began to sink in. She would fall to the ground as tears welled up in her eyes. Both the evoker and radio from before would drop beside her. The radio would have a voice speaking through it, it was the older looking boy from before. "We're on our way! Confirm that you're still alright?...H-hello, Imai? Are you still there?!? Imai?!?" The girl only had moments left before she would finally bleed out.

"Alright, Lupus! This is our chance! Attack that beetle with a slashing attack!" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443894851839328266/Lupus.PNG "Understood!" [The cloaked humanoid then used the blade on its arm to slash the beetle.]

Seeing as this is the oppertunity to strike now, Naoya jumped out and unsheathed the Kusanagi, and yelled, "Persona!" as he summoned a Black, humanoid figure with a red cloak on its back and has a somewhat king like demeanor about it... "Vishnu, Garudyne!" He yelled as the king like being unleashed a heavy damaging wind spell towards the three strange beings...

Jiyu attempts to back away from the air to avoid getting in its range but unfortunately, he breathes in the majority of the air, causing him to cough almost five times in a row. After his outburst of coughs, he would inspect himself, seeing that there wasn’t any physical damage done to him, other than the strange feeling in his body. “Ugh, I feel like I can get sick at any moment... Aw whatever, I guess I just gotta fight through it.” Raising his right arm, the teenage would snap his fingers a moment before getting engulfed by a green light. The light would disappear after a moment.

Aitome sees the fist coming for her but reacts too slowly, getting hit but not too badly, the fist only grazing her leg and leaving a hefty bruise but nothing too bad, grunting she places her hand over the Shadow's face as the air begins to cool and sparkle around her Endless Pain. With that said ice fused with nuclear begins to spread over the shadow's face, not doing anything just yet, however with any irritation it would explode in a fury of light, with that done Aitome jumps off and looks around for anybody needing help. Seeing someone get struct and die in front of her makes her flinch for a second as darkness grows in her pupils, shaking it off as the blue tint returns as she curses Damn... I have to do better...

OOC: is there room for one more

Rushing to the injured girls side, Saeko looked around and realized there was little she could actually do. "C-Can you move?" She sadly did not the medical training to be of much use, but she figured she could try and help the girl away and wrap the wound using her work apron if nothing else, but with the monsters nearby, something would have to be done soon. Ironic, since this post is rather late.

At the moment not quite, not even sure how much longer it'll be going really. On another note, sorry for this being so long between posts. The Gigas would scream, light washing over the beast and staggering it for a moment. After shaking its head for a bit the thing would look down and note that one arm seems to be missing, black ooze rushing from the stump that Ai's magic had left behind. Despite that, it would rush toward Aitome with a renewed rage and slam its foot into the ground, a wave of raw force rushing out around the stomp. Of course, it would then find itself slammed into by the blast of wind, clearly barely holding together at this point. And since the shadows are all in quite different spots no you can't hit all 3, I'm saying it hit this one. As for the beetle, Rasa's little trick would, in fact, work out. The thing slamming into a wall of a rundown building behind her, this would stun it for a moment. This allows Something or Another's blade to slam into the thing, leaving a nasty gash but not killing it. After shaking that off and turning back around, however, a burst of flames would rush from the thing's horn and towards the two near it. The mage simply cackles to itself, taking a moment to enjoy its victory before sending a quick blast of lightning down into the dying girl's chest. This would no doubt finish her off, and the thing stares at Saeko with glee clear in its movements. As for Jiyu's foe, the rocking horse neighs at him... An attempt to inflict the boy with rage, but one that had failed despite the sicking air making him an easier target. Instead, the thing on its back simply moves its hands at him in a bring it on gesture.

"Ugh! Tougher than we thought. Lupus, you've done good. Come on out, Libra!" [As the figure in a cloak disappeared, a much bigger one wearing heavy armor and bladed gauntlets appeared in its place] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443932762638909441/unknown.png "Ha ha! Tis truly been a long time since I last fought a worthy adversary!" "Good! We got a beetle to clean up! Think you can manage that?" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267325051169275914/443932762638909441/unknown.png "Think? I will end this foul creature!" [The armored knight then threw one of the blades on its gauntlet at the beetle.]

Naoya, dissapointed that his wind attack didn't work, quickly looked at Saeko and the girl that are about to die... He quickly summoned his persona, Vishnu, and Jumped in the way, "I won't let you guys die!" His persona nulls the attack...though...there's the girl to take care of.. "Diarahan!" He said, as Vishnu casted a healing spell on the girl, "There...wait...what?!" He noticed that the girl was dead already...nothing else to do... "DAMN IT!"

The girl would look up to Saeko while attempting to dry her tears. She would try to fake a smile as if not to die with despair in front of a stranger. Softly speaking she would ask one final thing. "If you see the other...tell them I'm sorry...for not running away..." The lighting would be conducted into the ice which would act as a lightning rod to channel the blast into her own body. The electricity ran through her before her eyes would be whited out and she'd drop fully to the floor. The evoker would be left behind intact but her radio would've been fried.

Aitome prepares to dodge again but seeing it nearly fall over on its own weight just backsteps a little, moving out of harm's way as her eyes flash to red as she unsheathes the second sword off her back, her eyes shifting to a red tinge. Fox I leave this to you now. Great! I've been itching for a fight! Where are they? I'll tear em to shreds! Talking to herself for a bit while she looks around seeing the beetle being take care of she decides to finish off the gigas, twirling the blades in both hands she smiles as hard light appears behind her in the form of swords as she runs forth, when she gets close she jumps and swings in an X formation with her short swords before having the light pierce the center of the X and explode into pieces That should do it! You should know when you're done for! Now be a good shadow and die!

OOC: I have to go, I may come back later...but it may be late by then...

OOC: Same, I've got to go to sleep.

Upom seeing the shadow taunt, a confident smirk would appear across Jiyu’s face. He cracks his knuckles Before being by them to his sides with his fists raised a bit. “A taunt, huh?” He lets out a faint chuckle. “Now you’re just getting me even more pumped!” Turning to the side, Jiyu puts his left hand in his coat pocket and raises the right. With his right hand slowly coming down, he points to the shadow, replicating a famous pose from an anime he watched. As he did so his persona, Washington, suited in his Continental General uniform with black bandages wrapped around his head, covering everything but his orange glowing orange eye, manifests itself behind Jiyu. It’s long white hair flows from out of the back of the bandages. The persona points a green hilted orange glowing sword at the enemy, firing an orange beam directly at it from the tip of the sword.

The young girl takes a few steps back as the creature tries to recover, glancing around in hopes of being able to repeat the trick if it charged again, only to be surprised by.. Fire, why is it always fire? the girl covers her face with her arms as she steps further into the area in an attempt to get some space, naturally the flame sears her arms and clothing, but not to a point where she would be unable to recover, still she does her best to grit her teeth and bear with the pain "ngh... C... Come on." Once the flames have passed, she does her best to keep a more firm, defiant stance, with a few feet between her and the creature it would be easier to react if nothing else, anything in hopes of keeping its attention for the others to be finished

With a tear in her eye, she jumped to her feet. I am not good at helping others, am I? She couldn't help but let paranoid thoughts creep into her head, but she moved quickly for the Evoker the girl dropped as she realized the monster now set it's gaze on her. Picking the device up, she pointed it towards the thing and fired, only for no bullet to help her. She stared in disbelief for a moment.

The beetle clashes its horn against the blade, being sent flying back a bit but eventually winning out and sending the weapon away from itself. Though a wound can be seen across the thing's horn and it'd move a good deal slower at this point. As for the Gigas, it would quickly be finished off. Its body falling to bits as the thing is cut like an X... Something feels familiar about this move... As if someone else uses something like it fairly often. Then we have Jiyu and his foe, the flames would simply crash into the horse and do less than nothing. Being easily absorbed into the thing's body and even seeming to give it a bit more power. It would then focus, a glow erupting around itself as magical energy flows through the thing. It's clearly preparing something. The mage would... Stare in disbelief, even the Shadow quite simply can't understand the foolishness of what just happened. It would sigh and vaguely gesture towards Saeko, a weak blast of wind magic rushing towards the woman and aiming to send her flying backward. Even the mindless monster feels embarrassed by that, to the point of being half-hearted in its attacks.

A figure would stand a little down the street from where the mage was. They would pull one of the guns from before up to their head and quickly pull the trigger. "Pheonix! Cook them alive!" It would be the boy from before with a much less ethusastic and more vengeful tone to his voice. Tears would already be forming in his eyes as the scene of his new ally laying dead was before him. From behind the boy a large bird with crimson feathers would erupt in a shower of blue sparks. The bird would simply flap it's wings and a vortex of flames would begin swirling forward towards the mage. He'd look over to Saeko and begin shouting. "If you want to live then turn the gun on yourself and face your fears! Pull the trigger and let your power be known!"

I the suppressed self of another shall join this fight!" Yells 6 who uses heat riser on everyone ( not the shadows)

Rasa did well to trick the beetle, but it looks like Rosie will have to step in. She quietly summons her Persona, Natalia, and warps from her perch to Rasa’s side. “Need a hand?” she asks. “Oh, I don’t think you’ve met my partner yet. Her name’s Natalia.” Natalia’s red hair glistens in the eerie moonlight as her slender, leather-clad body bows a bit before Rasa briefly. However, it would prove impossible to see past the humanoid Persona’s slotted, navy-blue butterfly mask.

6 acknowledges the new comer and says to Target the Rider

Hahaha! I think ill call that.. CroZZ! Hehe! What do you mean that's a stupid name? Gah! Whatever! Why don't you do it then? With that quip the red tint vanishes from Ai's eyes as what remains is a pure white, overlooking the battlefield and spying Saeko try to fire a evoker, running up to her and pulling out her own Yeesh! That's not how you use it! This is gonna sound weird but listen to the voice inside you! Channel it and fire it at yourself! Just like this! Vestal! Come forth! Trinity Shield! Pointing her own evoker at her head she fires it with a flinch and summons forth a giant bell to toll, creating a small barrier on Saeko to deflect damage off her and transfer it to Ai in case anything were to hurt her while she summons

OOC: I’m gonna sleep. Will pick up on the action in the morning. GM-san, you’re free to put my character on autopilot until I join back in. And 6, I’ve been in the thread for a while, but only as an observer.

6 shouts "Die!" as he uses swords dance (p5 skill) on the fat man

OOC: I’m gonna sleep. Will pick up on the action in the morning. GM-san, you’re free to put my character on autopilot until I join back in. And 6, I’ve been in the thread for a while, but only as an observer. it was IC but I didn't know u were watching

6 asks jiyu to give him a rakukaja

The young unfortunate woman glances back at the Evoker with an odd glance after hearing shouts from others. Fire it... at myself? Such a thing sounded quite literally suicidal, though it doesn't seem as if she had any other choice at this moment. It seems such a crazy act worked for them, so perhaps it is worth trying anyway. She held the Evoker in both hands, staring at it with a strange feeling blurred somewhere between fear and comfort. The more she stared at it, the louder a voice in the back of her head grew. Who are you? A question posed not just to that voice in her mind, but to herself as well. Putting all hesitation to the side in one brief moment, she gritted her teeth, brought it to her temple, and fired. With a painful screech, Saeko nearly went flying backwards as the device nearly made her lose all sense of balance, but through all this, the sound of glass shattering was accompanied by the wispy humanoid shape formed in front of her. An upside down being, shielded in a suit of thick medieval armor, hung from a flagpole with an elegant banner moving as though in a strong breeze. "I am T̸̰̫͂̆̐h̵̛̻̟͆̚o̴͈͓̫̳̟̊̈́͛ũ̷̙͖̹̚͝͝, T̸̰̫͂̆̐h̵̛̻̟͆̚o̴͈͓̫̳̟̊̈́͛ũ̷̙͖̹̚͝͝ art I..." The being, the Persona, spoke, as it moved its arms, and small vortexes of bright colors swirled to strike the Shadows in the area. "S̴̛̮̝̼̎͂̀̓̏ä̴̤́͐̓́̋ȇ̵̢̯̫̌͊́͘k̴͈̬̰̹̓̏o̵̡͍̝̠̫̐̄̇̉̓̾..." The pain had become to great, as the Persona was summoned, an excruciating migraine spread through her head, and as it struck the enemies gathering around it, the pain was no longer something she could bear. With one last cry of pain, the Persona vanish, Saeko dropped the Evoker, gripping her head. Within seconds, her scream faded away and she fell to the ground, and drifted into unconsciousness.

The mage would attempt to dodge, but it's far too slow considering how much effort it'd been putting into mocking Saeko. At this point, the flames would sear into the thing and leave it crying out in rage. The flames would catch onto it, blazing away for a while before the thing is reduced to cinders. As for the horse and rider, they would begin to blast away at everyone around with a huge burst of glowing white magic. Only to suddenly scream in pain as Saeko's magic slams into them. Shock clear as they're somehow harmed by a spell they've never even met before. Even so, after taking a moment to recover it would- vanish. Normal light returning as everything once more appears as it should, the Dark Hour having ended for now. Of course, there's still various bits of damage spread through the air. But for now, the place is safe once again. Naturally, the coffins would become normal humans again as well... Though something says they won't be too relevant, someone, however, may wish to take the knocked out woman to a hospital. Or not, those very official looking people are around after all. Either way, that is the end here unless anyone wishes to converse, which given our lateness in responses seems unlikely.

With the creatures gone, the young, blonde girl breathes a sigh of relief, taking a moment to catch her breath. All things considered she managed to help out, rather than simply being useless again. Once her pulse settles a bit, the girl looks up to find the garden's owner lying unconscious. And after that last burst... The young girl runs over her side and bends down to check her pulse, only to finally sit after making sure she was ok "T... That could have gone a lot worse. But..." The girl looks at the Evoker lying on the ground beside Saeko, it definitely helped, but it certainly wasn't a pleasant thing to look at.

"Phew. That was a long battle. I should probably stick to duels instead of metaphysical battles with beings that I don't understand." [He then walked away.]

OOC: I'm back, but it seems the main story's over. I'm just gonna close out my part in the story with a few conversations. IC: It seems Rasa didn't need Rosie's help after all. But that doesn't mean she won't leave the area without healing those burns. Rosie would try to get Rasa's attention by tapping her on the shoulder. "Can you hold still for a sec?" asks Rosie to Rasa, quietly ordering her Persona to cast Amrita Drop on her signal. "I want to use some healing magic on your arm." If Rasa accepts the offer, Natalia would surround her in a healing aura, reversing the damage from the Shadow's fire attack.

It takes a moment for the blonde girl to notice Rosie, blinking as she slowly stands up "I... I guess..." She remains mostly silent, lost in thought as she lets Rosie heal her, having no real reason to object "T.. Thank you."