Note: This is not the last chapter there is still 1 more.
Also.... is ANYONE reading my fic?
    All characters except Lilith, lunarvile, St. Hermlin high school and
Persona are all a copyright of Atlus entertainment.

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                                                The Shadows: Part 5

    The group looked upwards at the massive tower. The skulls of many
dead scaled up forever. Fire burned and sparks flew through the air. The
looked forward then too the gate. It was open as though welcoming them
in. Natelooked at the rest of them. "It seems Guido underestimates us."
    He got no response except they all walked past him and started up
the tower. Nate soon followed. They looked around the room. There were
no stairs ut there was an elevator. They all mumbled because they knew
Guido was mocking them. They pushed the up button and walked in. The
door closed behind them as the eelevator started to go up.
    Hour's seemed to pass, endless hours upon hours. They went up and
up. They fought not to go to sleep. But within hours they reached the
top. The door opened and they walked out, gazing upon what layed before
them.
    A room of yellow stone. About three classroms large. All across the
ground and on the walls were Pentagrams, written in white paint. The
were about twice as large as a person. They had odd words scribbled on
them in various languages. But the most important thing was he crystal
throne at the end of the room.
    It was shaped like a demon roaring upwards. Its eyes were pure
rubies, inspiring a look of hate. The claws stretched outwards as a arm
rest. The arm rest that rested Guido's arms. He had a smile on his face
and was looking at his sword rested in his lap. The dark beady eyes did
not even bother to reconize the group of teenagers he wanted revenge on
so much. He had ashort black hair and a black buisness suit on to match
his attitude. "Welcome my friends. What do you think of my humble
abode?" In a very moking voice.
    Chris got into a battle stance. "You'll die, dear brother. Die and
go to HELL where you belong!"
    Nate pointed his fencing sword at Guido. "We'll show you our power."

    Yuki frowned. "You'll pay for destroying are city!"
    Mark glared a Guido. "You Bastard! Ready to die?"
    Mary waved her fencing sword in the air. "You'll lose Guido. You'll
lose like last time."
    Guido shook his head. "You don't understand my true purpose. The
true purpsoe of the A.S.H system."
    Nate pushed his glaces toward his face, trying to fix them in the
right position. "What do you mean the A.S.H system?"
    Guido stood  up and held his arms out. "This is what I mean! This is
the A.S.H system. My pride and joy. The key to my desires."
    Yuki waved her fencing sword at Guido. "What is this A.S.H system
do!?"
    Guido laughed. "Why what's happening. A.S.H stands for automated
soul harvestor."
    "Are you telling me you've been harvesting the souls of the people
in the city?" Nate asked.
    Mary gave Nate a very weary look. "And what of the demons? And the
weather?"
    Guido smiled. "Now since you'll die very slowly at my hands begging
to serve me I'll tell you what I know. (I'm soory for this readers it's
like a James bond movie now. Sigh. I have to explain it one way or
another.) This system takes the souls of the people in the  city. It
turns the souls into power for my new Persona. Then the waste, human
bodies, are empty shells, what you know as demons. Also creating this
persona has an odd effect on weather."
    Mark gave him a astonished look. "You gotta be...... no it..... no
we couldnt...... been fighting.......fighting our friends ands people we
know?"
    Guido laughed a demonic, forever echoeing laugh. "Thats right.
Sending your friends to hell! Your the evil on here not me."
    Mark yelled at the top of his lungs. "You Bastard! I'll kill you
this time! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! PERSONA!!"  Nothing happened though.
"What the Hell?"
    Guido laughed. "I have a Persona dampening field here. Anyways your
pathetic persona could never defeat me. Have a look at a real persona!"
With that the floor shook and a miniature version of the tower they were
in flew up from the floor. The tower then split in two revealing a
persona card. "This is persona DARK GOD. The ultimate persona!"
    He began to walk towards the persona card but an invisible field
blocked his way. "What trickery is this?"
    Fire flew upward from where the barrier stood and Lilith appeared.
She wore a long, silk, flowing dress. Her white hair stretched down to
her feet. Her fangs were veadent and her eyes blood red. Horns pierced
upwards from her hair. In her hand she held a spear. "No no no! You
don't get this until you've killed Philemon."
    Mark looked at The lady in a puzzled look. "Who the hell are
yo......"
    Lilith gave Mark a evil glare. "SILENCE!"
    Mark tried to moved but was imobilize.
"I......can't........move......"
    Guido waved his hand in fornt of Lilith. "I have my own private
revege to take care of. Step aside."
    Lilith smiled, one of her fangs were evadent. "Do you want the dark
power? The power to challenge the gods? To be a god?"
    Guido smiled and in a fury of haste. "Yes, Yes, Yes give me the
power."
    Lilith nodded and stepped out of the way. "Then take the power."
    Guido licked his lips as the teenagers watched in wonder. The were
frozen as well. Guido walked over to the card and grabbed it. He felt an
imbrace of dark power. An un describable evil. The power surged within
him. He could feel the power surge into him, such great power, like a
tidle wave. But when it hit he never absorbed it he was washed away in
it, "What the......."
    "You wanted the power then be damned by it for eeternity and serve
me." Lilith said in a true voice of power.
    Guido staggered for a moment. "You....... You....... tricked
me......... damn you Lilith damn you to hell!"
    Lilith laughed. "Your own greed is the weapon to fight you. Your
kind is easy to manipulate."
    Guido let out one last roar for mercy before he was washed away.
Then the whole figure of him changed. He blinked once and his eyes
changed from black to red and his pupils were like that of a snakes. He
grew giant blood red bat wings witch stretched about fifteen feet. His
hand doubled in size creating masive claws. His whole body grew to be
twice it's original size. Hi clothes were torn and ripped off him
leaving only a shadow of himself. His red skin. like the fires of hell
burned and bubbled. He roared as fangs frew from where teeth used to be.
He loomed over everyone even Lilith but it was obvious he could not
match her power.
    Lilith smiled. "Go feble servant destroy these gnats and scatter
their blood across the world!"
    The teenagers looked in terror as the figure loomed over them. But
then a figure appeared above the creature. Philemon froped down onto the
creatures back. The creature strugled to get Philemon off but couldnt
reach him.
    Lilith was about to help when a blade was caught infront of her
neck. A tall teenager was there. He had short red hair and wore the
school uniform. It was Eric.
    Mark let out a small laugh with the bits of his strength he had
left. "Damn you Eric, couldnt you have come sooner?"
    Eric laughed. "I had things to do." He then stopped for a second and
continued to focus on Lilith. His blade came tighter to her throat. "One
move and I slit it."
    Lilith nodded and let a small laugh. "Well done Philemon. But you
will die and I shall be free."
    Philemon shook his head as he struggled to stay on the creatures
back. "I am you, you are me. We can't be seperated for long or death for
both. Good and evil seperated."
    Lilith sniffed holding her head high as Eric tightened the blade.
"Darkness is more powerful then the light. I can survive without the
good half. YOU SHALL DIE!"
    Philemon laughed. "Yes I will but you die with me."
    Lilith looked puzzled. "What?"
    Philemon smiled. "I'm going to drw to much power from my persona. It
will cause a overload. The explosion will be so big it will consume the
city. But it's not in vain."
    Mark staggered for strength. "What do you mean..... we won't let you
destroy our city nomatter what."
    Nate attempted to move once more but couldn't. "The greater good
must prevail. If we stop them here they can't destroy the world. A city
for the world, a fair trade."
    Lilith shook her head, careful not to moved it across the blade.
"Such an explosion (Star Trek idea warning danger will robinsin danger)
Will rip a hole in reality."
    Philemon noded. "I have tought Eric how to seal it once your dead.
Remember Eric, you need split second timing."
    Eric nodded. and Lilith looked in terror as a aura appeared around
Philemon and the one word he screamed was, "PERSONA!!!!!!!!" Waves of
energy spread out of him. The flailing persona above looked like it was
struggeling to get this done. The building shook and began to collapse.
Philemon started to go in and out of reality. you could see him one
second the next he was transparent. Then he exploded into fury and fire.
Then all was black.

                                End of part 5 (there is a six TRUST me)
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    Sigh at the end of this fic I get really screwed up. I get caught in
writing about a temperal paradox. It ends up like the ending of
countless star trek episodes.
    WARNING: I have wrote many stories VERY few of them have a happy
ending. So warning part 6 ends happily ever after. WARNING.