The last thing that both Minako and Minato remembered before they were released as the seals of Nyx was light, white light that they have not seen in a long time. And it had radiated something that both of them have been grateful for-

-Hope.

Then they blacked out, and when they woke up, they were in a familiar room, the Velvet Room, with Igor, Elizabeth and Theodore in the room, waiting for them to wake up. When they have both waken up and looked at each other for the first time, the first thought that came across their minds?

Who the hell is this person?

Minato had a kind of feeling that he had never felt before when he had first saw the stranger with unusual crimson red eyes. It was a feeling of wanting to protect her. But not the kind of feeling that he had felt with Yukari. No, it was different. For a second, Minato had recognized the feeling for a while, but pushed it away because he thought it was impossible and because he did not know if it was true.

It was like a feeling that he had felt before the incident ten years ago – family.

And the same goes with Minako as she gazed into the stranger's pale blue eyes. A sudden jolt went through her body, and she knew something was wrong, and she pushed her brain to remember what was wrong and if she had missed any information. Then Minako remembered the residents of the Velvet Room, and turned to Igor for an explanation.

"You must be wondering why both of you were released, correct?" Igor said when Minako and Minato both turned to him. But they didn't reply, too shocked for words, so Igor continued, "Well, if you are wondering, then let's start from the introductions, shall we?"

Theodore bowed slightly towards his visitors, "Greetings again, master Minako. It has been a long time since we last met." He then turned towards Minato, "And we haven't met. My name is Theodore, I am Elizabeth's younger brother, and I served master Minako before she became the seal of Nyx."

Then Elizabeth bowed, "Yes, welcome back, master Minato, it has been a long time." She then stood upright and looked at Minako, "I am Elizabeth, sister of Theordore, and I served Minato before he became the seal of Nyx."

"By now, you should be acquainted to each other." Igor said, "And you must be wondering why you were both released from Nyx's seal. Do not worry, Nyx won't be getting out anytime soon."

Minako and Minato looked at each other, dumbstruck.

"Now, let me get straight to the point." Igor continued, "Both of you lived on the same Earth, yet on different dimensions, Minato on one and Minako on the other."

The guests stared at Igor, but they let him continue.

"Both of you have guarded Nyx long and well." Igor praised, "But recently, both of your dimensions has been fused into one. We do not know the reason, as we are still searching for it. That is why both of you are here in the same time."

"What does this have to do with us?" Minato asked.

"Even if the dimensions were combined, why are we released from seal?" Minako demanded.

"The fusing of both dimensions has turned back time." Igor told them, "To the point of when you first arrived at Port Island."

"Are you asking us to do the whole year all over again?" Minako asked angrily. She did not want to pain S.E.E.S again for the second time by leaving them to be the seal.

"We do not have a choice." Theodore cut in, "But you will not be alone this time."

"What do you mean?" Minato asked, still keeping his poker face.

"Since the dimensions has been fused, both of you will have to complete the year, together." Elizabeth told him, "But this will not be a bad thing, since you know what is going to happen to S.E.E.S, and you just might be able to twist it around and avoid it."

"Will there be any conditions that we have to go through?" Minako asked with a suspicious glare.

"Yes, one." Igor replied, "Since the dimensions have been fused, and since your last names are Arisato, with the same kanji, we decided to make you twins, fraternal twins, to be exact."

"You mean lie about our past?" Minato asked.

"No." Igor replied quickly, "We, residents of the Velvet Room, have more powers than you know. And one of those powers is to manipulate the past and memories of humans. We can manipulate your pasts and intertwine it so that both of you will be born as fraternal twins. And since you will be born as fraternal twins, your memories will be manipulated a little, but your original memories will stay. And Death will be halved into two and be given each half to each of you, since there is only one, correct?"

"That's technically three conditions." Minako and Minato stated at the same time.

"My, you already act like twins." Igor replied, hiding a grin.

Minato smirked and Minako scoffed.

"Our time together is nearing to an end." Igor said quickly, trying to avoid anymore time spent, "When you wake up, you will have everything that you have acquired before defeating Nyx and all Personas that you have acquired. But of course, your friends won't remember you so both of you will have to raise your Social Links from scratch."

Minato and Minako groaned, all those hard-worked Social Links going to waste.

"But, as an apologetic gift from the residents of the Velvet Room," Igor said, noticing their dissatisfaction, "Both of you will gain the power of telepathy, and you can only use telepathy to each other. A good power to talk to each other when you don't have the time to, considering you might not want your friends to know everything from the start."

Minato smirked and Minako grinned.

"But since my Master has told me not to favor any guests of the Velvet Room, that is all, in our power, that we can to help you." Igor said, "Everything that you have encountered in the past year will happen, such as meeting Pharos and signing the contract. Every choice you make, be it to control your destiny since you know what will happen, will still give you a responsibility or consequence. Choose wisely, and we hope that this year will be a great year."

Minato and Minako closed their eyes and let the darkness overtake them, glad and aware of their second chance.

And so it begins again…

DLWolf: Hey there guys! My name is DarknessLightWolf and I am a new author on and this is my first story ever dedicated to one of my most favorite games! (Aside from Final Fantasy and all those games.) So please go easy on me! And the disclaimers…

Minako: Oh, so you're the author! I'm glad you gave me telepathic powers and an older brother!

DLWolf: Yes, I know. I'm good.

Minako: …Never mind, I take back everything I said.

DLWolf: What? HEY! If you take it back I'll kill Minato in the next chapter!

Minako: W-What? *Sniff* No don't please! What do you want?

DLWolf: Hm… I'll get the heroine to do the disclaimers…

Minako: Fine! But Minato better be alive! Ehem. Disclaimers: DarknessLightWolf does not own P3P/P3 or any characters in it. There! Happy?

DLWolf: Yes, very! But you were actually very easy to trick…

Minako: What do you mean?

DLWolf: Do you think I'd kill Minato? There'll be too much fangirls that'll stalk me and try to kill me if I did! Plus there'll be you and Aigis and…

Minako: So you tricked me to do the disclaimers? Aigis, borrow your machine gun *takes Aigis' machine gun*, DIE DarknessLightWolf!

DLWolf: Hey, hey no violence! Oh well, see you in the next chapter then, readers! And please R&R, though no insulting comments are allowed, and please don't forget to bring a first aid kit along the way. Thanks!