PK steps up to the area and swings his pulls out the handle of his weapon, with a press of it's button it springs to life. PK noting the absence of the ice dust but no matter. He had a job to do! Heh! If your me you already know my answer! I'll never stop my quest to help everyone in this world! That includes Chaos! So you better believe it when I say that I won't lose here! I'm a knight after all, and knights don't falter in the face of evil!

Taking a stroll, Em happens to walk towards a park he had visited before. However, instead of a park, he finds a large crater, with a well sitting in the middle. Walking over to the well, he peers down inside of it. It looks pitch black, but with the surrounding area being as it was, there was little chance it wasn't something important. Man... am I really gonna do this? Emerson pulls himself onto the edge of the well, teetering on the edge, still staring down into the abyss within the well. W-well, it's now or never. Onwards... He lets his feet slip over into the well, sending himself down into the void below.

Tatsuya grins over at PK and... Actually nods along with the boy up until mentions helping Chaos. "I'm no knight, and I sure as hell would call myself a hero either. Despite that though?" Tatsuya smirks as a large man with a white beard and hair takes shape behind him. "I'll do what I can to help, can't say for sure it's the best possible thing... But it's what I think is right so I'll commit no matter what!" A torrent of water takes shape in front of Tatsu, the Persona raising his hands and forming a crashing motion with them as the tidal wave in front of it rushes down toward their foe. Rather than simply attempting to smash it around, however, once the wave has settled into a pool, Dagda would make a grabbing motion and aim to have it stick onto the Shadow. "PK, if you've got any electric Dust left now would be a great time for it!"

Emerson would find themselves falling straight towards a Nexus that seemed to be upside down. It was as if they were falling from their own Nexus to another completely parallel. It would soon occur to them that they were actually the one upside down and would soon end up hitting the ground near where PK and Tatsuya would be fighting the strange shadowy figure. Izumi would notice that the crater would be filled with a strange black swirling liquid. Something about the contents would feel dead and empty but yet there was still something calling to them as if inviting them in. The black figure would be blown back by the water unable to absorb it with the strange energy blade it carried fast enough. The water would stick to its body but the shadow seemed unphased by this. Yomotsu-Ikusa: "Evil? Do you truly believe a knight fights against evil? A knights duty is to their lord and I shall protect my own lord until the end. Any who oppose my lord are the evil ones. Now! It's time for you to all die here and become servants of my lord as well!" The shadow would stick the blade to the ground fighting back against the water. The ground would begin to shake as cracks formed all around. This would cause little more to happen other than the ground to shake but it seemed it was preparing for something bigger.

Of course knights fight against evil! That's their code of honor! To defend the weak and innocent! Heh! Glad to have you on my side Tatsu! I don't got any electric dust but I can do you one better! Here we go! PK smiles as the electricity blades sparks as electricity spurts from PK's arms, going straight into the battery to overcharge it, eventually sticking the end into the water, the current flowing through it, ready to be launched Ready when you are! Pancake...

Orienting himself properly, Emerson thrust his arms towards the ground, sending a large pillar of hard light towards it, allowing him to slow his descent as it slowly shatters layer by layer on impact. After reaching the ground, he rushes over to Tatsuya and PK, unsheathing a longsword and standing beside them. Tats, PK, the hell're you doing here? And what... is that? He looks over the large shadow before them, trying to assess it's strength. Before long, he quickly takes a step back, seeing Tatsuya and PK's plan in motion. He braces himself for any upcoming attacks.

Well she wasn't expecting it to be this benign. You know, puddles of death and all that. But eh, why not? It's clearly a bad decision but, well, seems to be the right thing. So she jumps, and so she lands in the middle of a battlefield. Huh? What the heck is going on here? Some kind of fight club?

The waters keep on rushing, electrical currents flowing through it and causing the entire attack to glow with a bright light to emit from the thing. They'd aim to keep on battering their foe down, along with likely causing burns from the heat. Finally, Daga would attempt to pull all the electrical water into one ball around the Shadow. Aiming to imprison it in the substance. At the same time, Tatsuya pulls out a frag grenade and aims it right into the sphere, the shockwave inside sending bits of water flying through the air and hopefully blasting into their foe as well. "Ball Lightning... I'm really bad at naming these, aren't I? Well, hopefully, the effect is better than my naming sense." Finally, the man's silver revolver would form in his hands as he aims it toward the Shadow. Preparing to fire as soon as movements start up once again... He'd also glance over at Em, and someone he's never met before. One is actually good to see, the other is likely a frigging escort mission with their luck. "The gist is that it's some twisted Shadow made from someone's death, this one is made up of the dead PK of another universe to be exact... And as for you teenage girl I don't know, no it's not a fight club. Despite how calm I may sound, we're actually fighting for our lives here."

Mm! Pancake Ball Lightning! It has a nice ring to it! Ho there Em and Lady! I hope your ready for a showdown as the shadow is ready for one! I'm sure that our bonds can beat down any obstacle!

The water filled with the electric current would compress around the shadow but it would just look up with glaring red eyes. Suddenly the water would begin being absorbed into the energy blade electricity and all causing it to grow in size and extend. The frag grenade would finally break the water apart before all was absorbed. Yomotsu-Ikusa: "Do you underestimate my power? To think I'm so weak as to fall for such a simple attack as that? I have foughten much more clever than you!" Finally the shadow would plunge the blade into the ground once more and the current of electric filled water would burst out of the cracks in the ground raining down on any near Yomotsu-Ikusa.

Tatsuya sighs as the water begins raining down on them, Dagda raising its hands once more and beginning to form up a large shield of water above the group. A few bits of the burning hot attack land upon Tatsuya, but for the most part it's simply absorbed back into his Persona's magic as the man glares at their foe. "Hopes and dreams asshole, but don't act so high an mighty yeah? Or do, pride comes before the fall and all that." The water would rush off to the side, not aimed near the shadow at all and quickly vanishing along with Tatsuya's Persona... If magic attacks are getting absorbed, he'll try something else. Hyperion takes shape behind Tatsuya, the man himself darting forward to meet with their foe while aiming his blade at the Shadow for a stab, it's obvious he'll go for the chest from the way he's holding his weapon... And as Tatsuya's just about in range, a huge light burst from Hyperion, aiming to blind the shadow with what amounts to a flashbang and quickly duck down, rather than going for the stab he'd telegraphed Tatsu would drag his blade up from under his foe and aim to cut into the right shoulder from below.

Gah! Izumi would dodge the suddenly raining water, as something falls out of her bag. Once the water is finally gone, she'd look at the yelling Yomotsu-Ikusa. Excuse you but you mean you've fought much more clever people than them. Or that you've fought smarter than them. Though I doubt both of those. So, I'm just assuming since you're all dark and armored, and they're not, that you're the bad guy here? She'd then reach into her bag and pull out a card. Justice! The card glows before actual blades of light erupt around the shadow. Three of them to be precise, they form a triangle.

PK watches the blade absorb the attack and is pretty dumbfounded, allowing the attack to hit him square in the face, luckily for PK, the electricity only helps him recharge his blade a bit, but the water does strike him and leave him a little worse for wear, but a little rain never stopped PK! Gah! What a strange weapon! No matter! We just need to be more careful with our magic! I guess I should have known I would null electricity! Here we go! Round 2! PK recovering from the attack, runs forward and tries to enter a bladelock with the shadow, keeping the weapon preoccupied as he shouts out Our attacks may be simple! But they are full of heart! Goodwill and a desire to protect this world! To bring Chaos to the light! That is why we will win! Now my friends! Strike his back!

While prepared for the attack, Tatsuya's quick shielding allows Emerson to go on the offensive. Forming a multitude of large hard light shards, the sharp objects are then hurled at the shadow. After coming into contact, the shards' durability allow them to possibly dig into the shadow's body without shattering. Just a little taste, love. They'll be back for more. He then backs off from the group and begins to charge energy, forming large amounts of light around himself.

Chuckling, Emerson stops charging his energy and slowly approaches the new dome of light around the shadow. Placing his hand on it, he begins to try and absorb it into himself and claim the light energy for himself. Now this is a treat. Thank you, mister Shadow, for such a delicious meal of light! Itadakimasu~!

The light magic flows into Tatsuya, thanks to Hyperion's powers it's simply absorbed into the man and grants him more energy to work with. The Persona flies up into the air, it'd aim to rush behind the Shadow and form a blade made of hardlight in its hands, the weapon itself being simply physical as opposed to any magical damage. Hyperion would aim to stab the blade right into their foe's back. At the same time, Tatsu stows his blade and summons his gun once more. A bullet would fly from it as he aims the weapon at the Shadow's skull, like PK he's aiming to blast into an eye, the eye PK hadn't aimed for to be exact. "Keep your magic close to your chests people, this thing seems to be quite good at absorbing spells of all kinds in so far as I can tell!"

A large man finally begins to act from his spot behind the group. His previous battles in this world leaving him worn and weaker than he'd prefer. However, he slowly stands from the ground and pulls a short sword off of his back. "Alright. I can't just sit around and rest... you're all doing your best. Now it's my turn!" A blue card floats before Kalib's face and he quickly crushes it in his left hand. A torrent of blue flames would give rise to the phantasmal paladin, Roland. "Alright. Like we practiced!" Both Kalib and Roland glow for a moment as the summoner is taken into Roland's arms and spun around. As his speed increases, Roland lets go of Kalib in a blur as he shoots up into the sky. At the peak of his flight, Kalib positions himself to fall directly towards the shadow. "Here I go! Brave Bomber!" He spins his blade in his right hand as he begins picking up speed, blade at the ready for a vertical strike. His target would be the shadow's chest.

What? You're telling me this thing absorbs the only thing I really can do? Ugh! Izumi digs through her bag trying to find something that could turn the tide against this monster... Fire, no. Darkness, no. Ice, no. Light, no.... Forms? Wouldn't help. Sword? Not with that dome....

The dome was no longer present. It was a burst of energy so therefore, it was released and then dissipated. The crossbow shot would hit the shadow's eyes directly but rather than stick into it, it would simply make an impact with it causing the eye to seem to crack. The shadow would grab towards its eye clearly disturbed by it. The other bullet would from Tatsuya would do much the same to the other eye causing the shadow to stagger. The light blades, however, would begin to dissipate as they attempted to stab into the shadow's back. The energy would begin flowing back into the energy blade. Kalib would fly down towards the shadow striking it directly in the chest. The strike would leave a large gash in its armor. Within a dark energy could be seen sparking out like a current of electricity. Yomotsu-Ikusa: "I'm not done yet...A knight never surrenders...I...to defend the weak. For the happiness of this wo- No, that...I will beat you all!" The shadow in its blind desperation would begin channeling the dark energy into its blade. It would begin slashing wildly causing waves of lightning to strike out in random directions all around it.

Bolts of lightning fly around them, Tatsuya's already moving even as they begin to fly... But the random nature of these attacks actually makes them harder to dodge, amusing the man's skill in reading foes is rendered useless by something like this. A blast flies right into his chest and he stumbles down, landing on one knee as Hyperion vanishes. "A knight never surrenders? Tch, don't think you'll be given the chance Shadow. Your hour of death is here now." A large horned demon takes shape right in front of Tatsuya, Lucifer roars and flies toward the Shadow. Tatsuya himself hopping onto his Persona's back and reaching up for the machine gun he so rarely uses, he'd blast away at the Shadow below as Lucifer dashes about for a while, evading the remaining blasts of lightning save for once which flies into him and causes the demon lord to pause for a moment. Finally, he'd aim to fly downward and grab the Shadow in his hands, assuming that was successful, Lucifer would rush up to about 50 feet in the air, and finally toss the damned thing straight down to the ground as Tatsu burns the last of his clip toward it. "Enjoy Suou airlines jackass, the bullets come free of charge."

Upon hearing the shadow speak, PK stops and lowers his cross bow, placing it back onto his back as he walks up to the figure bracing for the electricity as it conducts through harmlessly Heh... You really are me! As much as I would love to end this! I don't think I can! Smiling an awkward smile PK rubs the back of his neck before reaching out with his arm, a gesture for a handshake So! What do you say? We both know what must be done! It doesn't have to be this way! We can both unite against Chaos and fight back! To bring him back to us! To save somebody lost in the dark! But most importantly! Our friend!

Emerson sighs, unable to draw energy from the light that was released from the shadow. He then places his hand over his face, and mask appearing, before being ripped off. Behind him, the large stature of Samson grows from within him. All right, Sammy, give 'em a God's Hand! Samson nods, before blasting off towards the shadow, ending his dash with a firm punch to the shadow's chest with it's left hand. It then follows up with a second punch to it's face with it's dominant right hand.

Seeing the monster get utterly savaged by Tatsuya, Izumi would just stare on in awe for a moment, hand idly pulling a card out of her bag. She pays it no attention, however, for she feels rather insignificant next to.... that. I... think it's sufficiently ended white version of that thing.

"Hehe! That only kinda stung..." Kalib's landing did a number on his legs, so he wouldn't be running anytime soon. However, since he knew that movement wasn't a great option at the moment, he stood his ground as the waves of lightning struck him. "...hah...hah....okay, that hurt a tiny bit more..." The lightning was enough to burn a majority of Kalib's attire, and not to mention the number it did to his exposed arms. His breathing was abnormal as his heart began to come to terms with the sudden voltage. "But...we aren't done yet....gragh..." Kalib notices PK trying to speak with the shadow, so he does the dumbest thing he could think of: helping him. "PK...don't mess up!" The blue card appears once more as Kalib slashes it with his sword, causing Roland to appear once more with his shield at the ready. "Go! Roland!" Roland quickly stands beside the shadow and attempts to block the onslaught of bullets with his shield, as well as attempting to intercept the grab from Tatsuya's persona. "Tatsu! Give the kid a chance to talk. Haaah...we know how it'll go...but let him at least try!" Unfortunately, he couldn't have noticed Em's attack and thus couldn't attempt to intervene.

Tatsuya unleashes a brutal assault with a combination of gunfire and attempt to grab onto the shadow but Kalib's Persona would interfere blocking the bullets and stopping Lucifer before it reaches the Shadow in the process. PK would approach and attempt to reason with the shadow. It was breathing heavily and couldn't properly see PK. Yomotsu-Ikusa: "Your words don't matter anymore...I'm already gone. No matter what happens now I'm dead either way. Soon this leftover body will run out of energy and then I shall cease to be. You've already won. This was simply my final struggle..." Em's punches would connect knocking the shadow down as tears of a black substance began leaking from its eyes. Yomotsu-Ikusa: "Yes...just like that. Let me die as a knight. Let me die still holding onto my sanity."

Well... sounds like he wants someone to finish him off. I think my methods are a bit extreme for this, so why don't one of you handle it? Izumi looks down at the card she was holding, Judgement, before grabbing something else off the ground and putting both card and item in her bag.

PK grunts as the hits fall onto the shadow, but he turns and gives Kalib and the others a nod before paying full attention to the Shadow shaking his head No! You don't have to die here! You won't! Would a knight ever give up? They fight till the bitter end against all odds! If even a silver of hope is there your supposed to reach out and grasp it! If it's out of your reach then you get your pals to lend you a hand! Everything can be solved if we work together! You know this! I know this! So get up! PK then grasps the Shadow's hand, getting close and staring right at him with that big dumb smile I think they say " I am thou and thou art I"! Let's work together to end suffering! I'll be your strength and you'll be mine! Even with that happy expression he knew that the being wasn't long for this world, but hopefully it could at least die happy.

Tatsuya sighs and looks over at his friend, geez since when were they treating these damned things as if they're even capable of being reasoned with? What's the point here... Tch, guess it ain't his demon to fight either way. "You gotta a point there, not as if this one's mine... Well, if he really wants to try and reason with it I guess that's his thing." The man shrugs and pulls a lighter from his pocket, he'd grin at Kalib as he looks into the flames. "If anything happens, I'm sure we can deal with it anyways. The Shadow is clearly hurt, and I guess I'll just have a little faith in PK this time rather than doing it myself." Tatsuya looks over at the boy and his shadow... Part of him just assumes that he'd better strike simply to keep any harm from happening, but he might as well give PK a chance. "I'll kick both our asses if PK gets hurt by that thing, but eh for some reason I get the sense it won't come to that ya know?" He snaps the lighter shut and smirks at Kalib for a moment before simply looking toward PK again, his eyes closed as Tatsuya just waits. Not even looking at the "battle" in front of them at this point.

"I...stopped him?" Roland fades as Kalib takes a knee. Tatsu's words cause him to smile softly as he stares at PK and the shadow. He'd be sure to hold Tatsu at his word if anything did go wrong, but he should be fine. "Do what you...gotta do, PK. We're right here!" A blue card appears before Kalib once more and he grabs it in his left hand.

Emerson immediately calls back Samson after the punches, the figure fading back into him as the mask reappears and disappears from his face. Ah, sorry sorry sorry! Didn't know we were trying talking! My bad! He sighs, putting his hand on his forehead before sitting down and waiting.

The shadow would simply stare up at PK through its broken eyes. A dark substance resembling tears coming from its eyes. Yomotsu-Ikusa: "It's like a nightmare to continue existing like this but even still, I want to save Yomi. No matter what it takes they can still be saved. You must defeat Chaos, it's the only way to bring this story to a close. Please, do it for both of us..." With that the shadow's armor would begin to break apart and fall off as PK was presented with another version of himself, beaten and crying. The other PK would look up once more smiling. AU PK: "I believe in you so please, believe in the PK that believes in you!" The other PK would begin to fade in a burst of sparks as the sparks would fly around PK before becoming part of him. PK would feel and energy surge through him. He could feel the pain and hope the other him held in his heart even still. It was that hope that allowed him to maintain even a fraction of who he was in the end. Now only the bridge leading to the heart of Yomi remained. The heart of it all. The heart of the one truly behind this all.

Of course you want to save Chaos! We believe in the same thing! If anything you should take your own advice! I already know we've won this! It'll only be a little longer until it's all over! PK then lets go of the hand for a second as the sparks invigorate him, vibrating with this rush of emotions flowing through him, falling to one knee Gah! You sure kept a lot locked up! You should know better then that! Even still! We'll fight Chaos together! With that, PK raises his hand into the air as a long blade appears, resembling the shadow's blade to the centimeter, as it materializes PK holds it within his hand and speaks For this is the weapon we wield together! The Bacon Fusion Blade! It'll store energy like my laser blade but it's fueled by our bonds! [i]With that cheesy line out of the way, PK places the weapon on his back and turns to the rest of the party, laughing lightly[/I] Thanks for putting up with that! Hehe! I probably toke a little too long! At any rate we only have one stop left! The Heart of Yomi! Together now everyone! We shall cross the bridge of destiny and save Chaos! Huzzah!

"Well then..." Kalib struggles to stand but manages to do so slowly. He looks at his arms with frown, they were pretty messed up by that last attack from the shadow. He attempts to stretch them out and get a feel for how much he could use them. The answer wasn't great. But he ignored that for right now, he smiled at PK before stepping towards the bridge. However he'd turn around and address the others quickly. "We've come this far guys. So let's get in there, kick ass, save the day, and get home so I can whip us up some grub!" Kalib's stomach growls in agreement, causing him to laugh shyly. "Hehe...let's get to it!"

Saving Chaos huh? Tatsuya looks himself over... He's not doing that great, they've barely rested since coming into this hellhole. And well it was just a bit, the lightning coursing through his body did the man no favors. He'd sigh as Hyperion forms behind him once more, the healing light of Salvation covering the party for a moment before the Persona vanishes. "Geez, that'll take some time to work but... I'm guessing we should be good again once we've gotten to our next battle, yeah? Either way, you're both right on that count we should deal with this and get the heck home. I'm tired as hell from all this..." He'd start walking down the bridge, checking over his weapons as he does so... Looks like this is the end, soon enough.