Author's Note

Hello everyone this is Keshaunthesilverwolf here with chapter 35. This and the next are going to be a bit of Spike heavy chapters. Also this chapter will have allot of elements from persona 5. So if you haven't played the game. Ignore this chapter until you played the first 3 hours of it.

To Face Myself part 1

A few days have passed since Spike's birthday and him getting his harem. But something within the purple dragon has changed, and not for good. Let's see how our heroes are going to help him.

Pov: Keshaun

After the whole ordeal Spike has locked himself in a room by himself only coming to eat, wash himself, and to get a book.

He started to punch the walls in anger. He feels like he became a monster. I decided to have a talk with him in the HTC alone.

"Why are you acting like this Spike?" I asked putting my hand on his shoulder.

"When I was consumed by my greed. I felt like I possessed by a monster. I saw everything and felt everything I was doing but I couldn't control myself." Spike said starting to cry a little.

"I don't want to feel like that ever again. I don't want to hurt my friends and family." Spike said sobbing before I shushed him.

"I have an idea for dealing with that side of you. But you have to trust me. What in your mind do you see the library as?" I asked grabbing his shoulders.

"Um, I think of a mountain range or mountain cave with gems for some reason." Spike said wiping his eyes.

"That's all I needed to hear Spike. Cause we're fighting your greed." I said.

(Intro sequence)

"Wait what? What do you mean by that?" Spike asked surprised by what I said.

"I know a way to send someone to a place where you see the darkest side of said someone." I said pulling out my cellphone instead of my D-GEAR.

"Really?" Spike asked

"Yep. I hope you're ready. Cause this is going to be a bit trippy." I said opening an app.

"Spike the Dragon, Golden Oaks Library, Mountain cavern." I said into my cellphone as it recorded it.

"Beginning Navigation." My phone said as black and red ripples appeared around us.

As the ripples surrounded us the time chamber turn into a cliffside.

"Are we at a mountain?" Spike asked.

"Yep. This is it." I said looking around.

"Wait what happened to your clothes?" Spike asked as my clothes changed.

( this what Keshaun is wearing in here)

"Welcome to the metaverse, Spike. The mind of all things with a soul. My clothes changing represent my will of rebellion. And finally this version of the metaverse is called a palace. Made by someone who has twisted desires." I said.

"What do you mean by twisted desires?" Spike asked.

"If someone has some very deep desires. Their palace will come to fruition." I said as another portal opened revealing Justice and Caleb.

(Justice is wearing this as his phantom thief attire and his weapon is a great sword.)

(Caleb is wearing this.)

"Nice to see you two today. So what's up?" I said smiling.

"Just wondering why the meta-nav updated today." Caleb said sarcastically.

"To only see that you brought Spike to his own palace." Justice said sarcastically.

"I decided to help him fight his greed. So that's what I'm going to do." I said heading inside.

"Wait for us then. I want to check this place out." Justice said as the rest of the dragon quartet head inside.

(You can stop this at anytime)

Inside the mountain, beautiful gems and shiny, polished rocks acted like lights as we explored. Every so often the sound of pebbles falling or water dripping echoed though the halls.

"Where is your shadow self Spike? We don't know where we are at all." Justice said groaning.

"Don't complain Justice. Be greatful we are being attacked right now." Caleb said looking around.

After a bit of more walking. I saw someone shadows ahead fighting over some gems. They looked like a Miner wearing a grey gas mask that covered their faces.

"We taking them out?" Justice asked as we were hiding behind some rocks.

"They aren't attacking us of the blue, so we should just ignore them." I said as we walked away from the miners.

After a bit more walking. A sword flew past my nose. Jamming into a rock wall.

"Well, we found Shadow Spike." I said sweating a little.

"Sorry about that Keshaun. I thought you were a monster in the form of him." Shadow Spike said with a deeper and higher voice.

Shadow Spike is wearing purple knight armor excluding a helmet. He has yellow eyes, and allot of scars on his face that looks really recent.

"What happened to you?" Justice asked.

"My greed did this. I tried to stop him by myself. Though you can tell that it didn't work out." Shadow Spike said putting his hand on one of his scars.

"I know you were trying to help him." I said knowing a similar thing to this.

"Then explain it then." Shadow Spike said.

"You wanted us to help with the greed. But in order to do so, we had to come here. So that you can have help against your greed." I deducted as Shadow Spike nodded.

"Hit the nail on the head. But I need to show you where the treasure is. The treasure is a the bottom of the mountain. Try to get there as soon as possible." Shadow Spike said before walking away.

"Wait, what about you?" Caleb asked stopping him.

"I know my way around this mountain. It wouldn't be a good thing to keep you on the same path as me. This mountain has multiple ways to get to bottom. Try to avoid the greed, he comes to take the gems. I know you three are strong, but it's a warning for me in the real world." Shadow Spike said as Spike nodded before Shadow Spike disappeared.

"So should we start exploring, or should we head back?" Justice asked.

"We should head back. The girls might be wondering what happened." I said pulling out my phone sending us back.

As the ripples surrounded us. The world transformed back to the Time Chamber.

"Come on we should get ready. Tomorrow, we go through your palace." I said as exited the Time Chamber.

(Outro sequence)
(Post credits scene:

"There you guys are. Where were you?" Twilight asked.

"Just went on a walk after Keshaun talked to Spike." Justice said.

"Okay, you all ready to eat? Michael made burgers." Gilda said holding a burger in her claws.

"Sure" the dragon quartet said as everyone began to eat.)