Saga? POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  Sitting ohrone of the Pope's Chamber, that is located almost at the top of the Sanctuary, just right below Athena's Colossus, and above the Gold Zodiac, I'm waiting for Docrates to e and give him my orders, 'Finally! After long 13 years, I finally know where is Athena, now I end what I started many years ago ond for all... And the good news does not end here, my trol over my body is being stronger and stronger, and so is my trol over the Sanctuary! I'm enf a more brutal training... And while the number of death spiked, the same applies to the strength of those who survive...'.

  But I'm roused from my thoughts, by the ing of Docrates, the new leader of the Sanctuary's soldiers, he is a tall and imposing young man, 4.35 meters tall, full of muscles with wild purple mid-length hair, wearing a red armor that took inspiration from the mythos of the Hydra, but that isn't a Cloth, but a armor made by the Sanctuary's bcksmiths.

  This armor's headpiece resembles the face of a reptile, in the ter of it are the "eyes" which are of reptile the same ones are of yellow color, the chest piece is red with the same yellow "eyes" identical to those found in the hull, below the same are two species of "gills" on each side, the arms pieces are "basic" but with the differehat on its sides in the area he knuckle is a kind of "eye" dark green while the rest is red, at the level of the elbow above the arm are a kind of "crest" in the form of bdes simir to those of the shoulders, in his knuckles are dark green, and extend a total of five cws on each hand, and the shoulder pieces have a design with the shape of the head of a reptile both have a kind of "crest" and the colors are reversed each other, the left shoulder pad has a red and green color in the face, while the right shoulder pad is red in the area of the fad green the rest of the shoulder pad.

  (Image Here - Docrates)

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  [colpse]He ehe chamber and on his knees he says "Docrates is here to ahe Pope summon, what are your orders?" and so I say "Docrates, I'm sure you know the information that those Bronze fledglings shamed themselves in circus-like battles in Japan... To punish them, I sent us Hyoga after them, but it seems that he decided to join them... What you probably don't know is that Phoenix Ikki betrayed Athena and choose to bee the leader of the Bck Saints and anized a death match against these Bronze Saints for the trol of the Sacred Gold Cloth!".

  And I tinue making sure to not slip my act "This is a travesty I 't tolerate anymore! Your job is to grab the ohat started all this, Saori Kido, taking advantage of the battle that will take pce between the Bd Bronze Saints" and l his head Docrates says "It will be done, Pope!"

  And after giving him the permission to leave, I think 'In the rare case he fails, I will send the Silver Saints... I only have to wait for them to gather and... Luckily everyone answered my summon to gather at the Sanctuary, the only ones missing are Crateris Jayr and Lyra Orphee, but that doesn't matter... Let's see I will send Lizard Misty, Whale Moses, Hound Asterion, aauros Babel uhe leadership of Aqui Marin to kill the Bronze Saints uhena, while Perseus Argol, Crow Jamian, Auriga Capel, Cerberus Dante, and Cepheus Daidalos uhe leadership of Ophiuchus Shaina, will destroy the colosseum and kidnap Athena... But this only if Docrates fails... But it is impossible for this to happen, Docrates is the stro soldier of the Sanctuary, in fact, he is as strong as a peak Bronze Saint, the only reason he isn't a Saint is that he doesn't have a Cloth, while the reination of Athena is only a spoiled little girl, that doesn't even know how to use her gifts... But it is better to be prepared for everything'.

  Then expanding my sense, I look at the Gold Zodiac situation and a smile appears on my face "And almost all the Gold Saint are here... Libra Dohko isn't a problem he is stu a... While Aries Mu is still refusing to return... Could it be that he really knows the truth...? Well, it doesn't matter, soon Athena and the Sagittarius Cloth will be in my hands... And after I kill her, the rest of those Gods will be my target, and soon the whole world will be mine!".

  Seiya POV - Japan, Mount Fuji - 1986

  A week passed since we received Ikki's challenge, and now, Hyoga, Shun, and I are on a helicopter of the Graad Foundation, quickly flying toward our destination the Wind Cave at the foot of Mount Fuji, the pce where we will be fighting against Ikki and his Bck Saints for the Gold Cloth, at the same time, I'm still worried for Shiryu, I had a nightmare about him dying to revive our Cloths, but at the same time, I have faith that he will return to fight together with us once again.

  After a while the helicopter's pilot says "We arrived!" and so we open the passenger door and jump off without a parachute, using our o to ease the nding, but without my Cloth, I still have some difficulties, and tumble a little before stopping in front of the Ten Wind Caves joined by Shun, and Hyoga who says "So it seems Shiryu didn't make it in time after all".

  And I say trying to hide my worry and failing "Something must have happeo Shiryu, but I'll fight without my Cloth" with Shun that says worried about me "B...But you'll die for sure without it" but soon I notiething in the distand say "W... Wait!" I see in the distahe vague figure of a man with a Pandora Box on his back, still, as I run toward it thinking that it is Shiryu, the vague figure disappears leaving behind only the Pandora Box, my Pegasus Pandora Box, that opens itself and my Pegasus Cloth in its steltion Form appears as good as new.

  Seeing this I say shocked "I 't believe it... Was it really Shiryu's ghost that delivered it..." and Shun quickly reminds me "Seiya, why don't you try it on", and I say "Y... Yeah..." and equipping the Cloth I think 'This is really it, it feels exactly right!! This is truly the reborn Pegasus Cloth!!' and yell "I'm ready for the battle!!".

  Then I turn my attention bay Pandora Box and say "B...But how did the Cloth get here? Could Shiryu's soul have really brought it? It seems impossible but... Hey!!" as I eaking, the box starts hopping away, and Shun uses his to hit something in front of the Box, that soon reveals to be a boy of short stature, possessing tousled, reddish-colored hair that he keeps down to just past the nape of his neck.

  Seeing the boy I ask "Who the hell is he?" and the boy looks at me and says in an aone "Don't be rude, I've gohrough a lot of trouble t you this Cloth... That Shiryu fellow couldn't e, so Lord Mu told me to deliver this Cloth to you" and as worry and ay for his well-being crash over me once again, I grab the boy from his should and ask "Why couldn't Shiryu bring it? What happeo Shiryu!?".

  And the boy replies "Whoa, I... I don't know! All I know is that Lord Mu said that Shiryu would risk his life to repair those two Cloths" shocked I ask if Shiryu is dead scared of knowing the answer, and unsciously increasing the fory grip, and the boy says "Ow, I... I don't know, I only know that much! Really, I slease let me go, O...!".

  Realizing that he is telling the truth, I let go of the boy and apologize "I'm sorry thank you fing the Cloth all this way" then Shun put his hand on my shoulder and says "Don't worry, maybe Shiryu's not dead..." then he pulls out four bells and says "We should carry these bells so we hear each other in the Wind Caves" and Hyoga asks "You mean if we hear the bells jingling, we'll know the other's alive?" and Shun nods.

  So we all tight the bells to our wrists and Hyoga and Shun quickly ehe caves each from a different hole, I turn to the boy give him the st bell and say "This is Shiryu's bell, if Shiryu shows up here, give it to him if he is alive... No... He is alive and I'm sure he is ing" then I too walk toward ora random aer while saying "I'm entrusting it to you...".

  I start desding the rocky and narrow cave, the temperature of the cave is slightly colder than outside, and after walking for a while, I start losing my sense of dire "It's even more of a maze ihan I imagined, Hyoga and Shuered through different caves... I hope they are not lost already... Huh!" and now in front of me, there is a huge open space with sharp stactites and stagmites all over the pce "Whoa! I had no idea that there was an enormous cavern like this uhe Mount Fuji!!".

  All of the sudden, I hear a male voice behind me "Heh, heh, I've been waiting for you, Seiya..." turning around, I see a young man, who I admit, is almost like seeing a darker version and slightly older of myself, and is Bck Cloth, clearly shows who he is, as it is a copy of mine only b color "Bck Pegasus!!", who in an arrogant and fident tone says "You are te, I thought perhaps you'd chied out".

  (Image Here - Bck Pegasus)

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  [colpse]Raising my guard, I taunt him "You're alone... You better have a piece of the Gold Cloth", and to that he jumps high and yells "Here's my reply to that! ????? ????? ????(Bck Meteor Punch)!!" and from his fist, hundreds of bck light energy punches es at me at the same time which makes it look like small bck meteors, I'm able to dodge almost all of them, but the five or six that I couldn't dodge, I made it so that they hit the Cloth, trusting in its improved defenses.

  And so Bck Pegasus' attack is uo hurt me, as the Cloth easily withstand his blows, but the power behind them still makes me crash against the stagmites on the ground, creating a cloud of rocky dust, then I hear Bck Pegasus' voice "Haa, so that was the Pegasus Bronze Saint? When I heard he had special training at the Sanctuary, I expected more, Ha ha..." but he stops when he sees me once again and shocked he asks "What the heck... Did you dodge them all?".

  I check my Cloth and reply "Not all, five or six came through... If this had been my old Cloth, I might have been mortally wounded, but no my revived Cloth! There's not a scrat it!! Such strength! It affords incredible prote...!", and at the same time, I think ' Shiryu, thank you for this Pegasus Cloth which you risked your life to give me! Perhaps your soul is within it, after all!!'.

  Then Burning my o even more I yell "Watch carefully, Bck Pegasus!! Withhe true Pegasus Ryusei Ken!!" and pung with all my power, I create hundreds of light energy puhat are too fast for him to dodge and start hitting him all over his body, breaking his Cloth, and sending him crashing into the ceiling, then he crashes on the ground bleeding all over his body, uo move, leaving behind a piece of the Gold Cloth.

  I pick it up and say "I've recovered the gold belt! Now to find Ikki and take back the head protector too" but then I hear Bck Pegasus's weak voice that says "Haa... You'll never reach Lord Ikki... Sorry to disappoint you, Seiya, but you won't win, because I struck the winning blow first... In a moment you'll know the terror of the Bck Meteor Punch... The terror of the Bck Death Punch... Heh heh heh..." then he slumps unscious.

  Even if worried about what he said, I still keep moving forward, but soon I notiething strange, my breath bees more bored, my body feels heavy, I'm starting to stumble, and my body temperature is increasing with an overall feeling of weakness "W...What's wrong with me?", then I feel that the spots where the Bck Meteor Punch hits me are throbbing, so I remove my wrist protector and notice that a bck mark formed on that point and realize the truth of the situation "The Bck Meteor Punch pass through the Cloth and slowly destroy the body from the inside!".

  Then my body starts burning, and I remove the rest of the Cloth and notice that the bck spots are growing, turning my whole body bck "This is what he meant by 'The terror of the bck death'... I thought he was worthless... but the bck pegasus is a fearsome oppo...", and I'm so mu pain now, that miss my step and start falling from steep cliff, rolling down the sharp rocks until I crash headfirst on something hard, most probably a rock, thehing bees bck.

  Hyoga POV - Japan, Wind Caves - 1986

  As I'm walking through these maze-like caves for some time, and now I find myself in a huge open cavern, and I hear the voice of Bck Swan that was waiting for me "I've been waiting for you, us! Today, I'll finally show you which of us is the true swan" but I calmly say "If you give me the Gold Cloth piece, I'll let you go unharmed. We saas better in our first fight in the forest he Kido Mansion, If it wasn't for the other Bck Saints you would be already dead".

  Enraged, Bck Swan yells "What?!! We'll see who will die!! This time it's your turn to fall before my Musta Lumimyrsky (Bck Blizzard)!!" and he quickly gathers dirt from the enviro while creating cold air around the fist, instantly densing the surrounding moisture in the form of bck ice, which then shatters and mas itself in the form of tless sharp, cutting bow crystals, which are hurled at me through a powerful cold wind, but I use my o to easily vert and use his own ice as mine.

  Bck Swan is shocked by the fact that his attack is useless against me, and I say "I told you before, your Io will only e in a film of ice... And now it looks like you 't even mahat!" not wanting to lose any more time I point my fi him and say "Kolts)!", I throw a small puff of ice crystals at him with from my index finger, upon reag him these form a ring around the victim's body that quickly unfolds into several rings of ice, the number s increases the more time passes, and these close ever more tightly over their prey, momentarily paralyzing him.

  Looking at the rings surrounding his body Bck Swan and realizing its effect he says scared "W... What is this? A ring of ice crystals... Impossible! why 't I move..." and I expin "By now there is no way for you to escape the ring of ice, I'll say this o time, put down the piece of the Gold Cloth and leave!" but he stubbornly refuse "Don't insult me! I'd die before I'd surrender! If yoing to kill me, the over with!!".

  I choose to respect his choice "Very well... Out of respect for your ce, I'll bury you in the most appropriate manner..." I burn my o to the max possible a explode, freezing the enviro by expanding the cold air under my trol, approach Bck Swan and hit him upward with an upward hook "Kholodnyu Smerch (Cold Tornado)!!", the punch releases a rge tornado of air into the sky, in the ter of which is Bck Swan that crash into a stactite and remain stuck there with his body frozen, only his head and right arm free.

  I look at my defeated oppo and say "Normally, you'd be totally encased in a pilr of ice for eternity, but I left yht hand free... If you really are a Saint, you should be able to find a way to extricate yourself, somehow" but he surprises me, as with his free hand he simply pulled out his eye and teleported it somewhere, before losing sciousness 'Why would he use the st of his strength to rip out his own eye instead of esg...?'.

  I stop thinking about this and pick up the piece of the Gold Cloth he dropped, then moved forward while thinking 'In the end, I 't fulfill the mission given by the Sanctuary... I just couldn't hurt Seiya, Shiryu, Shun, and the others... Especially after what the fight between Seiya and Shiryu showed me, I 't hurt them, these victims of that bastard of my father that gathered those 100 orphans to send them to bee Saint for his own enjoyment...' but I stop thinking as I hear the jingling sound of a bell, and starts looking around.

  But I don't find anything out of pce, and I don't hear the sound anymore, "I thought I heard jingling... It must have been my imagination..." I stop these distrag thoughts and once again move forward searg for Ikki.

  Seiya POV - Japan, Wind Caves - 1986

  I regained my sciousness, and as my whole body hurts especially my head, and while feeling my whole body on fire I, still dizzy, slowly try to climb the steep cliff, and after climbing for a few minutes, I'm close to the top of the cliff and in the distance, I see the blurry figure of Hyoga, I try to call him but he doesn't stop and keeps walking away "Uhn...", I decide to not give up and I try to grasp another rock to pull myself up, but I lose my grip and once again fall, crashing my head into the solid rock that I feel crag under me, then all I see is darkness once again.

  Ikki POV - Japan, Wind Caves - 1986

  All of the sudden, I feel the presence of Bck Swan's o behind me, but when I turn around all I see is his eye "What's this...? He teleported his eye...?", then I uand everything "So, Bck Swahe st of his strength to teleport a record of Hyoga's moves... Well done, now I'll see what was burned into your vision..." and using my o, I unicate with Bck Swan's o inside his eye and see everything he saw.

  After a while, the temperature lowers, and I hear Hyoga's voice "What did you see, Ikki?", and looking at him I say "The image of your defeat! Hyoga!!", he drops the pieces of the Gold Cloth and prepares to fight saying "You really think you defeat me? If you fight me, you'll be the one who breaths his st breath here!".

  Then he rushes at me yelling "The proof is ie!! Here I e, Ikki! Diamond Dust!!" he gathers the cold air around his fist, instantly densing the surrounding moisture into pure ice which then shatters and mas itself in the form of tless sharp and cutting snow crystals that are hurled through a powerful cold wind through his fist, but I have already seen this move and know how to ter it, fog my o in my right hand, I push forward and reflect back his attack, sending Hyoga crashing against the rocky wall.

  Then looking at him from a higher pce I say "Once a Saint has seen a move, It will never work on him again... This is especially true for me... And there is no way a seal fool too attached to his almost dead mother could defeat me" he is surprised by my revetion, and I take advantage of it "Surprised eh? But my move will strike your mind instead of your body!! Hyoga, I'll tear your psyche to shreds!! Hoo Genmaken(Phoenix Phantom Fist)!".

  And with a quick punch aiming at his head, I send a thin line of o into his brain, forcibly showing him the halluatioed directly in his own brain, inspired, in general, by his own life and his unscious, in fact, I'm making him revive the moment his mother almost died, with a little horror twist 'I hope this will help make you stronger, Hyoga...'.

  After a few seds Hyoga lets out a scream, and I say "What is it, Hyoga? Do you feel the shock of Hoo Genmaken... Have you lost your mind?" but slowly rising his head and with fire in his eyes and his o slowly rising, he says "I... Ikki you tried to destroy my mind, but you've done just the opposite... By defiling my most preemory... You have roused my mind and soul to fury... Now nothing stop me from burying you...!! Taste the fury of us! Kholodnyi Smerch!!"

  And with an upward hook, Hyoga releases a rge tornado of air into the sky with me at the ter, but once again, I knew what he was about to do and had the perfect ter ready, I quickly unequip my Cloth and move away from Hyoga's move making him hit my afterimage, then move behind him and as soon as he notices that he missed, I say "I told you, once I've seen a move, it won't work on me again" and he replies "But I've never used that move on you before...".

  I calmly expin "As his st absp; Bck Swan teleported his eye to me... No doubt you've heard that a dying man's st sight bees burned into his retina, well we Saints do something simir, and thanks to that, I reize your move..." then notig his bout of weakness I add "You're helpless now! My Hoo Genmaken did damage your psyche, sure you recovered from it, but that exhausted you".

  'Still, it's amazing that you had the strength to do the Kholodnyi Smerch... But this s the end... Rest, for now, Hyoga!!' I gather my o into my fist and throowerful punch aiming at Hyoga's chest, uo dodge I break his Cloth arate his chest hitting his heart, making it stop, but at the same time, I send a small ember of o inside his heart that will protect his life until he burns his own o to stand up and face me once again.

  But even if his heart stopped, with his impressive will, Hyoga grabs my arm and says "I... Ikki, you think you've won a great victory, but I won't let you walk away unscathed! My defeat will cost you an arm!" and he punches with his other arm aiming to break my arm stuside his chest, but I easily block it with my other arm while coating it with my o and as result, his arm protector breaks as it cshes with my fist.

  Shocked by the result he says "Impossible... He shattered my Cloth's gau with his bare hand..." and I expin "You still don't uand, do you? As weak as you are now, you don't have the strength left to kill an ant, now, let go of my arm!" but he trate his remaining o in my arm freezing it as he says "I told you, your arm is the price, I won't let go even ih!".

  Theopped breathing and falls as he let go of my frozen arm, and looking at his apparently dead body, and feeling my o inside his heart proteg his life, I think 'You froze my right arm, as you promised... I'll give credit for that, Hyoga... Yoing to be a strong Saint, so fight! Don't give up burn your o let it explode and rise once again, I know you do it... Brother', at the same time I prepare to fight the others that I'm sure, will e to fight a me.

  Odyin