Saori POV - Japan, Kido Mansion - 1986

  I'm in my grandfather's study in the Kido Mansion together with Jayr, ah are watg over my Saints' fight in the caves under Mount Fuji using our os, I saw Seiya easily defeating his oppo, then falling because he uimate him and he is now suffering a painful slow death, but at the same, his o is growing stroo keep him alive long enough to be rescued, then there is Hyoga's fight how he esisly overwhelmed Bck Swan, but then suffered a crushing deafeat against Ikki and is now fighting for his life too, 'It pains me seeing my Saints suffering like this but this is necesary for them to grow strong enough to survive what's to e...'.

  Right at that moment, Jayr says "Oh, e one! Is this some kind of physics w!? How is possible that Seiya always falls headfirst... This is the sed time in a row... Is he some kind of reverse cat that instead of nding always on his feets, he nd always on his head?", and indeed Seiya who is struggling against Bck Pegasus's teique, and is slowly climbing that steep slope, once again lost his grip and feel crashing his head into the ground, but he is going to be rescued soon, as Shun is quickly moving in his dire.

  Then Jayr frowned and says looking somewhere in the distance "Saori, call Tatsumi and tell him to gather the other Bronze Saints and to get ready for the battle... Docrates is ing here with his soldiers, for sure he is going to attack... At the same time I'll call Dr. Asamori and tell him to send Sho, Daichi, and Ushio, it's time for the Steel Saints test drive...".

  And now that he said, I too notice the malicious o nearing the mansion, so I quickly follow Jayr's advid call Tastumi telling him to prepare the Bronze Saints for the fight and to evecuate the personel of the mansion, at the same time I study further this Docrates, 'He is strong, His o is at the peak of the Bronze Saint level, but he is no Saint... And food reason, he enjoy hurting and killing others too mubsp; there is no justi his heart, only a sadistic joy in bringing pain to the others... How could a man like him bee the leader of the soldier of the Sanctuary?'.

  After a few minutes I move to the hall, where Tatsumi and the others Saints already gathered, and are wearing their Cloths, and Tatsumi moves forward and says "Ojou-sama everyone is ready...", he too is also wearing his Bogu(Kendo Armor) and Shinai with a solid steel rod hidden i the smae time Jabu asks "Saori-ojousama, what is going on?", and I notice that the fousion on the face of Jabu and the other young Bronze Saints.

  (Image Here - Tatsumi Bogu)

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  [colpse]So I expihe situation "The Sanctuary sent his soldiers and at any moment they are going to attack us..." this shocked everyo Tatsumi, and Wolf Nachi asks "Why would the Sanctuary do this?", and under everyone gaze I say "That because, right at this moment, the Sanctuary is uhe trol of an imposter who killed the previous Pope and took his pce... not only that, but 13 years ago, this impostor, also tried to kill the newly reinated Athena, and it is only thanks to the Sagittarius Gold Saint, who sacrified himself to save her, that she is still alive..." and at this point the smarter among them started eg the dots and shod amazement clearly be seen on their faces, while others are still clueless "... And now, the fake Pope is trying to finish his job!"

  And as I said this, I let my Divine o out for everyoo feel, and the moment all on them gets on their knee and say at the same time "Athena-sama!", I nod arain my o once again and say "Stand my Saints! It's time to get ready and fight the darkhat is encroag our world once again!" and with renewed vigor they stand up and say "Yes!" befoing outside the mansion to get ready to fight with the ing enemy.

  I turn to Tatsumi and say "Tatsumi, why are you in this attire?" and Tatsumi with a light bow says "My job is and will always be proteg and taking care of you Ojou-sama, just like I did for Mitsumasa-sama before you... I'm ready to fight and lose my life to protect you!" but right at this moment Jayr appears and says in a fident toh a calm and reassuring smile on his face "There is no need for you to sacrifice your life... As long as I'm here only something at the level of a peak Gold Saint be a threat... And trust me those people are rare...".

  Jayr POV - Japan, Kido Mansion - 1986

  As I'm reassuring Saori and Tatsumi, I turn my head looking through the window in the distand I say "They're here..." and Saori moves o me and she too looks at the swarm of soldiers ing with a huge 4,35 meters tall man with violet hair and a fierce face behind them wearing an armor that reminds me of the Hydra of Lerna, Docrates.

  Looking at his soldier, all have light plexion and medium body build wearing bck armor simir his, the armor of his subordinates have a simir head prote but with a simpler design, g the horns that are present on Docrates' ohe chest prote is almost identical, the shoulder pads are of a basic design with a shape simir to that of a spike, the chest prote extends to join the waist protector, which presents a design almost identical to that of Docrates' armor, g the fangs above the pelvis. The arm protectors are identical to those of the armor of Docrates, above the kneepad extends a small prote that is uo that of the feet by tact with the prote of the khe foot protectors is of a basic design, but in trast to Docrates, their aremors are in a mostly blue color.

  (Image Here - Docrates' Soldiers)

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  [colpse]But what surprise me is their hey are more then I remember, almost 20 of them 'This could be a little tough for Jabu and the others alone... They are all elite soldiers with a basic mastery over o, luckily I called for reinfort... But Docrates will still be hard to put down... As much as I don't like him, I have to admit that he is strong!'.

  Docrates finally arrives and yells loud enough for everyone in the mansion to hear "Hand over Saori Kido or everyone here will die! You rats have no ce of winning against me! So give up and face your punishment!" but Jabu says "We will protect Ojou-sama at the cost of our life!" and so Docrates gives his order "Thetack".

  And so the fight between Docrates' Soldiers and the B team of Bronze Saints starts, as the soldiers rush at them and soon the fight bees chaotid soon the Bronze Saints start using their moves to quickly dispose of their oppos and try to gain an advantage.

  Orsa Majeki uses his Hanging Bear ramming into his oppo, Geki theends his arms trates all his os into his strong hands and tightly strangles his oppo's neck breaking it, Lio Ban uses his Lio Bomber trating his os in his right fist and ung himself with great violence against his oppo's body delivering a powerful fist strike leaving behind a trail of smoke like an explosion and knog out his target.

  Hydra Ichi is using his Mellow Poison making sharp poisoned fangs sprout from the gaus of his fists to stab his oppo by surprise, and after quickly hitting him 3 times with this attack, he dies immediately from the poison and quickly moves to his arget, Wolf Nachi uses his Dead Howling trating his os in his fists to distort the air around him and projects against his enemies a rge amount of cutting air bdes at the speed of sound , as if they were real wolf fangs, these air bdes tears apart two other soldier.

  While Jabu uses his Uni Gallop, gathering his o into his legs, he leaps toward his enemies and delivers a series ed kicks from the air at the speed of sound, hitting several soldiers at the same time, redug their o only 10, but right at this moment Docrates yell "You useless trash!! Do I have to do everything myself!?", and seeing that he is preparing to attack the remaining soldiers quickly moves out of his way, as Docrates crosses, then flexes his arms, trating his o in his fists and causing the winds around of him to ge due to the pressure,"Iraklís Epíthesi Grothiá (Heracles Onsught Fist)!!" he attacks with both fists, projeg two powerful bsts that transform into torhat sweep away everything in their path, Bronze Saints included, and leave a crater in the ground.

  Luckily even if wounded, everyone survived his powerful attack, thanks to their Cloths, but now they are all defenseless on the ground around the crater created by Docrates' attack, seeing this he smirks evilly and says "Once more!" and he once again does his cheography to gathers his o into his fists, once again causing the winds around of him to ge due to the pressure, and yells "Iraklís Epíthesi Grothiá!!" as he attack with both fists, projeg two powerful bsts that transform into tornadoes.

  But just as the tornadoes are about the reach the Bronze Saints that are still rec from the previous blow, three figures appears in front of them, all three of them wear a colorful armor, and the one in the middle with a red armor that vaguely resembles a bird, raises his has left arm and with the four turbines on it, absorb the o of Docrates' attad store it making his tornadoes bee harmless breez, seeing this, Docates yells "Who the hell are you guy!?" and the three say at the same time "We are the Steel Saint!"

  Those three are the Steel Saints, on the left is the Land Steel Saint Daichi, a short young man that it seems almost a kid, with shreen hair and blue eyes, wearing the Land Cloth, an armor with a head protector that reminds me of a fox head, with shoulder, arms and legs protector of basic design and the chest has a coarse prote that extends from the bottom of the o almost unify with the waist, that is in fact a simple belt.

  (Image Here - Land Daichi)

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  [colpse]On the right is the Marieel Saint Ushio, a young man of slim build, pale skin, brown hair and bck eyes, the feature that stands out most about Ushio is the scar on his left cheek, wearing the Marina Cloth, an armor with a helmet simir to the head of a fish, the arms have a basic structure that spans from just before the knuckles to the elbows, with turbines located on the left arm, on both arms, the prote of the feet extend throughout the bottom of the foot, the shoulder pads have a scarcer prote thaher Steel Cloths, the waist is a sort of skirt that covers the entire pelvis and groin, the chest has a vast prote that extends from the bottom of the o unify with the waist.

  (Image Here - Marine Ushio)

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  [colpse]And in the middle there is the Sky Steel Saint Sho, who is the tallest of the Steel Saints and the best looking, with an attractive appearance, Sho has short blue hair, with a fringe of bangs c one eye, preventing it from being seen, he has a fair plexion and dark eyes, and is wearing the Sky Cloth, an armor with a helmet simir to the head of a bird, perhaps a Tou, the arms have a basic structure that ends from just before the knuckles to the elbows, with turbines located on the left arm, the prote of the feet extend throughout the bottom of the foot, the shoulder pads have a design almost identical to those of the Lio Cloth, the waist has a design simir to that of the Marine Cloth, although all this prote is unified with the chest protector that has a vast prote that extends from the bottom of the o unify with the waist through aension that crosses the tral part of the chest.

  (Image Here - Sky Sho)

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  [colpse]Sho then he project the attack of Docrates that he absorbed before, back as a powerful bst against the enemy aiming at Docrates and his remaining soldiers, causing a strong explosion that blows away Docrates' Soldiers and knocks them out, but Docrates himself remains unharmed, and enraged he yells "You bastard!" before rushing at them, but once he is close enough, Daichi move in front of the others and cps his hand, and from it a deafing sound and a strong light, temporarily disableing his sight and hearing.

  Thehree start to coordio attack Docrates with kicks and punches all over his body, but they are still uo deal any sting damage, and are only able te him further, and even if he still didn't recovered, Docrates starts his terattad with a sweeping kick he hit all three of them at the same time sending them crashing into the mansion.

  So I decide to quickly act, without aig, I send a wave of o into his body and use the only move I was able to learn from the Asklepios Imerológio (Diary of Asclepius), Ferite del Passato (Past Injuries), making Docrates suffer the pain of any injury that he have sustained in the past as though it just happened, and just a a little punishment, I made sure to make him revive every injury that he sustained in all his life, it is proved supereffective, as Docrates didn't even have the time to scream in pain, as his eyes rolled on his back, and he fell on the ground uncoscious like a puppet that had his strings cut in an instant.

  While everyone else was fused by what it happened, Saori, the only one who uood it, looks at me and says "I think you killed him..." but I shake my head and say "I'm a medic, I know it best, you 't die from too much pain... Sure an excess of pain cause you to go into shod that be the cause of death, but Docrates has too much life force to die from that... At most I damage a little his mind... But trust me when I say this... He only get better!".

  She nods theurns to Tatsumi and says "Tatsumi go and ahe up and the fix the damages, also send the Saints to the hospital to check them over, and put the soldiers still alive in the fi we prepared for them... As for Docrates..." and she looks at me, and I say "Don't worry, I will make them temporarily uo move by pressing their acupoints... and strip Docrates of his 6th sense, so that he 't use his o, they won't be able to do anything".

  She nods, and as Tatsumi move to follow her orders, I say to her "It seems that the Steel Saints are only good as a support... They aren't strong enough to deal with a Saint level threat, it is a failure..." but she has a different opinion and says with a fident smile "That's not true, they were able to fight and survive against an oppo almost at the Peak Bronze level, without the use of o using only their peak human physical fitness and teology... Think of what a Saint trainee could do with it, or even the guards and soldiers, moreover the teology still improve... This is a success!" and I realize that she is telling the truth.

  After that we both move back to her study to che the situation of the fight against the Bck Saints ba the caves uhe Mount Fuji, and at the same time we have an afternoon snack.

  Kiki POV - Japan, Wind Caves - 1986

  How b, I'm here stitting on a rock at the entrance of the Wind Caves looking at the bell that guy named Seiya left me, I let out a sigh and say "He wants me to give this bell to Shiryu, only Shiryu's never ing! He gave his life to repair the Cloths, a dead man won't show up...Huh?" then I notiething falling from the sky right in front of me.

  Shocked for a moment, It takes me a while to notice what it is "Huh!? A coffin... Where did it e from!?" the coffin opens on its own and looking inside I see Shiryu "Shiryu!!?" and once again shocked by what it is in front of me, I fall back as I notiething "Whoa... Wah... Aaaah... Sh... Shiryu is... Shiryu is... ALIVE!!"

  Then from behind me I hear my Master's voice "He's back from the gates of the underworld... He wasn't pletely dead, and it's not his first time, he almost died in a fight with Seiya too... Shiryu has been in the realm between life ah for seven days..." and as Shiry stood up and walks out of the coffin, Lord Mu says "The Dragon has e back from the abyss of death twince!!".

  Then Shiryu says to Master "Thank you, Mu, for resurreg the Cloths" and Master say "o thank me, but should you fight in your dition?" to which Shiryu replies "I have to, my friends are fighting for their lives in there..."

  Then Master teleports Shiryu's Pandora Box here and says "Very well, Here is your Cloth as promised, but be careful, you are still weakned by your ordeal" then Master warn Shiryu about the fact that he should be careful and not lose anymore blood as he still didn't recover and he doesn't have much left in his body, Shiryu thanks Master once again, then I give him the bell, and the moment he walk ihe cave .

  Shun POV - Japan, Wind Caves - 1986

  I'm walking through these winding caves for a few minutes now, and I still didn't see any enemy around, but all of the sudden I hear something "That sounded like a bell jingling... Maybe it was Seiya or Hyoga..." then I notiething shining down below he steep cliff "Pieces of the Gold Cloth!! How did they get here?".

  Soon I start looking around searg for a clue, and the moment, further down the cliff, I see a figure that looks like Seiya that is slowly trying to climb it, "Oh?! Is that you, Seiya?! Hang in there!! Seiya!", I notice that he isn't responding "Uhh, It's no use! He must be badly injured, I've got to get him out of there somehow...", so I quickly trol my and wound it around his wrist and say "Hold on, Seiya, I'll haul you out!" and looking at how deep the cliff truly is I think 'It could have been a lot worse for him if he hadn't gotten snagged on that rock, he'd have ended up in this abyss for eternity'.

  But just as I'm slowly pulling Seiya up, a bck s around my right arm, and I instantly know who is my oppo "Bdromeda!", a young man with dark green hair and bck eyes, wearing a bck version of my Cloth, who says "Ha! Don't waste your strength pulling him up, he fell to the Bck Meteor Punch, also known as the Bck Death Punch!! Bck bruises appears where the fists strike, and they grow bigger and bigger until they cover the whole body! And wheire body is covered the victim dies!! Seiya's already 90% bck, he'll be dead in a few minutes... Don't waste your strength resg that corpse, you'll need all you've got for your battle with me!".

  (Image Here - Bdromeda)

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  [colpse]Then he yells "Time to see who the best Andromeda really is!" and he pulls his trying to make me let go of Seiya, and instead making me injure my hand as I keep my hold on the that is holding on Seiya, and the moment he asks "Why won't you let Seiya fall, you fool?" to which I reply still in pain, as I'm being pulled from both my sides "I... I won't let him die...".

  Annoyed, Bdromed says "Idiot! He's pratically dead already... All right! We'll see how long your phony charity sts!!" aarts attag me with his other , who quickly multiply and hits me in various points making me scream in pain, but for some sadistic reason, he is only attag the pce covered by my Cloth, crag it in the process, and at the same time prolongling my sufferings, at the same time, the holding Seiya slips from my hands for a moment, and reinf my grip I injure my hand further.

  , Bdromeda yells mog me "Don't let go! If you do, he'll fall head first to the bottom!" but then I hear another deeper voice that says "That's enough, Bdromeda" and I hear Bdromeda yell "Bck Dragon!", and I see another young man, that slightly reminds me of Shiryu.

  (Image Here - Bck Dragon)

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  [colpse]Then Bck Dragon says "That d is still Lord Ikki's younger brother, don't torture him needlessly, finish him with oroke!", vinced, Bdromeda decides to finish me and yells "Have a taste of my special move!! Bck Fang Nebu!!" and I see him once again attag me with his , that once again multiply and this time transforms into bakes that binds my body, and bite me, and soon I feel them painfully draining my blood.

  Suffering from Bdromeda's attack, I'm still trying to find a way to fight bad save Seiya at the same, but not finding any, I'm undecided on what to do, and right at that moment, I hear Seiya speaking to me through his o 'Sh... Shun...' and so I focus my own o and reply 'S... Seiya you're still scious? Thank god...' then he says 'Shu, me fall, Don't get killed for my sake' but I reply that I won't let him fall.

  Seiya hearing my telephatic message replies 'Then we'll both be dead in a moment, but that Bck Saint wouldn't stand a ce against you in a fair fight! Let me go! And take him down...', still struggling in the bakes' vice, I say 'I... I 't do that, this battle is all my brother's doing, I'm responsible', but Seiya made his decision and say 'Don't you see? Even if you pull me up, I'm a dead man, your duty now is to defeat the Bck Saints, Shun... Goodbye!!' a he breaks my and fall doown into the abyss and I only scream "Seiyaa!!!".

  In my grief, I burn my o to the max and free myself from Bdromeda's Bck s by breaking them then I say "Now, I'll show you the power of the Nebu s... It's time for payback!", and Bdromeda screams "Fight the iable, you stubborn fool, you don't know the power of the Bck s!" and once agaiacks, but this time I use my o to manipute my s to terattaebu !", my multiply by huo increase the number of hits, and slice through Bdromeda's s and hits him breaking his Cloth into many pieces and sending him crashing against the wall unknow if alive or dead.

  But before I celebrate, Bck Dragon talks about the fact that now in this pce there are 5 pieces of the Gold Cloth gathered here, and that the wiakes all, but also says that I don't have enough strength left to win, but my attention is now caught by my movement, as its warning me of some dahen I hear a familiar voice that says "Wait, here's one more for the pot! The right gau!!".

  Seeing his figure I only scream in joy "Shiryu!! You are alive!" then he says that he is gonna fight and I give him a quick summary of the situation, and I tell him that I'm going to save Seiya, then I once again see my s movement and this time I uand their warnings, they shifting bad forth warnihat there is a sed enemy.

  So I turn once again to Shiryu and say "Shiryu, I have to hurry, I'll leave the fighting to you... Ohing, beware of the shadon!" then I my around a stactite and quickly lower myself into the abyss, not before repeating "Beware of the Shadon Shiryu!".

  Odyin