The Fall

**The Fall** is an ancient prophecy that foretolds 'the end' spelling the death of humanity, and the end of life. It spells the deaths of all humans as humanity desires for death to the Night Goddess, Nyx who while not malevolent answers to the desires of mankind by giving them death so therefor she had granted Death to humanity to where one day it will form to call her to summon the Fall.

## Biography

From studying about the Shadows, the Kirijo Group had learned about the Fall, and had since then driven mad seeking to revive Death to summon Nyx, and bring Death as a deliverance towards mankind. To trigger the Fall, the Kirijo Group lead by Kouetsu Kirijo, all assimilated mass Shadows to form into Death however before it can be complete, a researcher named Eiichiro Takeba, had interrupted the experiment which made Death forcibly split apart into 13 different Shadows, the Arcana Shadows, to which if there all destroyed, Death will reform, and continue his mission.

Before he was killed from the incident, Eiichiro relayed a last will message telling everyone to leave the Shadows alone as if there harmed, or killed, it would spell doom for everyone. Shuji Ikutsuki upon finding the message, edited it stating he was 'correcting' it to where it instead shows of Eiichiro telling the viewers to hunt down, and destroy the Shadows. Death meanwhile in a weakened state tried to retreat but was intercepted by Aigis who sealed it in the body of a recently orphaned young boy to keep it from rampaging before going into status sleep.

During the period after Eiichiro gave his life to prevent the Fall, the Kaiba Corporation run by Gozaburo Kaiba which had previously been business partners with the Kirijo Group came to a disagreement when Takeharu Kirijo the son of Kouetsu learned that Gozaburo actually felt the same way in regards to the Fall which led to a falling out between their companies.

## First Battle with the Arcana Shadows

10 years after the incident, the young boy, now grown into a teenager arrived at Tatsumi Port Island just then the first of the Arcana Shadows; the Magician came in, and attacked which Minato awakened to his Persona Orpheus, and it transformed into Thanatos brutally tearing it apart. Next month, two more of the Arcana Shadows; the Empress, and the Emperor which are defeated by Minato, Junpei Iori, and Akihiko Sanada.

Ikutsuki later had revealed to everyone that if all of them are destroyed the Dark Hour would fade away. Although all of them were destroyed it was revealed to be a ploy as the next time the Dark Hour emerged from the defeat of the Hanged Man, Ikutsuki betrayed the team, and attempted to sacrifice them to summon Nyx, and contact the Fall only to be intercepted by Takeharu who was shot dead but managed to land a wound on Ikutsuki.

Not caring if he lives, Ikutsuki, fell down the side of Tartarus committing suicide declaring that the Fall will come no matter what they do. Soon a young boy named Ryoji Mochizuki arrived at the island who Aigis was suspicious of, and later realizes that he is in fact Death in a amnesia like state who regained his memories, and informs everyone of the Fall, and Nyx, and attempted to end things peacefully by telling Minato to kill him as it would erase there memories of the Fall. Minato however refused, and Ryoji informs them how to confront Nyx.

At the top of Tartarus, the group encounters Ryoji but in the form of Nyx Avatar as his role as the Appraiser, and the Harbinger of the Fall, and engages the group in battle. Although defeated, he shook off there assault, and summons Nyx who proceeds to start the Fall. Minato was the only one immune as with the power of his Social Links, he confronted Nyx, and engaged her in battle but Nyx proves to be too much for him. So with all his power he used The Great Seal to seal away Nyx, and delay the Fall.

## Aftermath

Although the battle was won, S.E.E.S. later learned from the Abyss of Time that Minato died shortly due to using all his energy to form the Great Seal, but the seal wasn't for Nyx, it was for the grand manifestation of humanity's desires; Erebus, who's purpose was to contact Nyx to call forth the Fall. The Seal proved strong enough to withstand against Erebus' power. The group manages to destroy Erebus but realizes that as long as there is people with darkness in there hearts Erebus will never be destroyed for good so they all seek to find a way to free Minato from his burden, and stop Erebus for good. While this happens, Elizabeth always stands by whenever Erebus reforms to destroy it, and slow it's progress but it's time to reform grows each time which sets a steady clock down.