Persona 4 RP Phase 2

The shadow soon recovers to use deathbound a massive shockwave from his fist. However, the attack did nothing as Maekos Tetrakarn protected the party and reflecting his deathbound back at him. The shadow tries to dodge the harpoon as well but due to Masukukajas effect, the shadow is pierced in the right shoulder sustaining heavy damage and partially hit by its own attack. The makes a feint eerie laugh and pulls it out of his shoulder only to get into stance form. The shadow looks as if it wants to end the fight so it flexes for Heat riser and proceeds to cast dekaja. It looks at Maeko with intensity but stays put where it is in stance form as waiting for a proper strike.

Karin scowled, "Tch, feels like it's makin' fun of us. Valkyrie!" Valkyrie appeared and charged at the Shadow, swinging her swords wildly to keep it off-balance.

"I think he likes you, Maeko." joked Shinta as Lucifer appeared to cast Sukukaja on himself, "Hideyoshi, right? Can you stand?"

The shadow throws out a quick Agidyne at Valkyrie and Karin with his fist and begins to walk towards Karin.

"Hm." Maeko scoffed at Shinta's remark. She retracted her harpoon and aimed for another shot.

The shadow continues to walk toward Karin while i stance position.

"Never turn your back on me!" Rodrigo punched the shadow square in the back as hard as he could without his persona. "HAROOF!" He grunted, slamming his other fist into the shadow's back.

The shadow feels the pain the surge through its body from Rodrigos attack but refuses to fight back at him and walks towards Karin but has his eye fixed on Maeko. The shadow looks as if its holding something back...

The hell's his problem? Maeko fired her harpoon at shadow's torso. "Tetrakarn!" Isis once again casted temporary sheilds around the party. Maeko was panting slightly. Gotta watch the casting..

The shadow moved to the side anticipating her harpoon attack as well as the tetrakarn. The shadow moves towards Maeko at a fast rate and lets out a powerful Agidyne at her, putting everything into its attack!

Maeko takes a defensive stance, "Red Wall--!"S-shit! This isn't Titania!" Maeko unintentionally left herself open. "B-bufudyne!" Maeko attemped to counter-act the blast of fire with ice a little too late.

But before the bufudyne could connect, the shadows Agidyne lands where Maeko is doing almost severe damage to her. However, the shadow put everything it had into the attack and begins to collapse in pain.

"Maeko!" Rodrigo yelled, he jumped on the shadow's back and began pummeling the back of it's head, then jumped off it and ran to her. "You okay?!" He hoisted her up over his shoulder and ran her over to Hideyoshi.

"Rgh!" Maeko winced, some of her hair and clothes singed from the agidyne. "I-I'm fine! Mediarahan!" Isis once more recovered the groups wounds as she panted more, rubbing her head. Isis dissapated.

"Hell no you're not. You're using too much of your power. You may be healthy, but your energy is low." Rodrigo dropped her down. "You guys gotta know at least that much about Personas by now. Can't just drop everything you got all the time."

"Rgh.." Maeko growled at Rodrigo's comments. "T-this Persona..is new. I haven't..adjusted." Maeko replied, panting.

The shadow takes a huge beating from the party and fades away. The party managed to win and begins to take a breather as the gates are let down to travel to the next area. The next set of spiral staircase leads out of the stadium into the second half of the school.

"Tag out." Yomiko said to Maeko as she put a hand on her shoulder. "I'll be the one taking care of everyone for a bit, I havent done much compared to you. Don't strain yourself. Wanting to be helpful is one thing, but trying to the point where you become a liability is another. Besides nobody likes seeing their friends shouldering everything right?" she said smiling at her.

"Ngh. Im fine....." Hideyoshi said. "Im a fast healer.....but Masuyo-kun isn't moving."

"Damn it. He's pretty weak to physical beatings it seems. Makes me wonder why he always charges in towards enemies........idiot." Yomiko said as she began to lift him up.

"Shut up...........im not that weak." he grumbled. "Im just worn out from everything today is all." he said struggling to stand up. "C'mon lets go." he said as he walked to the staircase. I really need to be on the lookout here. Everything seems to wail on either myself or Maeko...... "Ngh!" he groaned as he fell down onto one knee. The ribs? Again? Fucking hell.

The party decides to take a short breather and recuperate before advancing due to damages from the fight.

"Well then," Shinta said with a stretch, "I know I've asked this before, but it bears repeating: Anyone have any guess why this guy was thrown in?"

Karin shook her head, "No clue. At least I've never seen him before."

"...Worst case scenario, it could be a distraction for us." Rodrigo mused. "Though before we came in, it didn't seem like anything else was going on. You guys were in first, and nothing happened while we were on our way in."

As the party begins the ponder why the man was in the tv, a dog appears in front of the party from up the staircase. It appears to be the same dog the party had encountered when it dropped the keys for them.

"Jesus christ." Masuyo said with disgust seeing the dog. "Again?"

The dog is definitely the same one the party encountered earlier. It looks at Masuyo with a sad face again but barks as if its trying to tell the party something. It turns around and begins to walk and encourage the party to follow it.

"Whaaaaatever. Lets just go before that voice yells about having another "surprise" or some shit." Masuyo said with a shrug. The group followed the dog.

"Hmm...Actually, is this dog a shadow?" Rodrigo asked. "It seems oddly helpful for one. Perhaps it got into the tv as well?"