Jayr POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  Looking at the guide-turned-assassin with his head buried in the ground, I 't help but think, 'Yup, my masochistic training that broke my every bone, aroyed and rebuilt every muscle in my body, plus the healing art learned from the Asklepios Imerológio (Diary of Asclepius), transformed my body into a force of nature, sure, I'm not at the level of Saitama, but I punch with enough force to destroy a Bronze Cloth without using o, and that is saying a lot sihe Bronze Cloths withstand until 4 tons of force...'.

  After making sure that the assassin is knocked out, I pull out his head from the ground, then I ched look at the guide/assaulter, he is a young man with a slim but quite athletic build that shows some well-formed muscles in his body, he has a dark plexion, his face has quite on and unremarkable features, his eyes are bck, and his long hairs are also bd tousled.

  Under his cloak, he is wearing his Cloth, a light blue armor, made up of the headpiece that is shaped like a spike, the right shoulder piece is circur and the left one is made of overpping ptes, the left arm piece is shaped like an arrow, while the right piece is simple in design but covers the whole arm, the chest piece protely the upper part of the chest, the waist piece is a belt, and the legs pieces are simple and covers the whole legs until the thighs.

  (Image Here - Sagitta Ptolemy)

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  [colpse]I reize him and find what I was looking fet up and say "He is Sagitta Ptolemy, a Silver Saint, you guys should be a lot more careful, he is known to use a teique that sists in projeg a rain of arrows, but these arrows are only an illusioed to fuse the senses ht of his oppos, with this distra he mao ect his attack against the oppo while he is fused... And he wao use this on Saori...".

  I show them a golden arrow that I found on his body and expin "This arrow is one of the treasures of the Sanctuary, it says that it is able to kill even the gods, after receiving this Golden Arrow, it is impossible for ao remove it or heal the wound in the body, and only wait for his death after twelve hours have passed, ohe time has epsed the arrow will sti the heart of the victim causing his death... The only way to save someone from this is to use the Aegis Shield".

  Hearing that the five Bronze realize their mistakes, while Tatsumi paled realizing in what danger his mistress was a few moments ago, at the same time Saori says "Thank you, Jayr, but we don't have any more time to lose", and as she says that, I notice that the Fire Clock is lit up, and the twelve blue fmes are shining brightly on it, announg everyone of the start of a great battle, 'Luckily Shaina and the others should already have made their move, so the chaos should be tained... I hope...'.

  Then under Saori's lead, we all start our climb through the long-ass stairs to reach the Aries Temple, leaving behind Tatsumi as he won't be able to follow us, 'Goddammit, how much I hate these stairs, at a normal running pace it takes 45 minutes from oemple to another... I uand the idea as a defensive means, running up the stairs to reach the temple, iemple, you find a powerful Gold Saint, and even if you are able to defeat the Gold Saint, you have to tire yourself, even more, to climb another set of stairs for the emple where you will meet anold Saint, rinse a this for 11 times, and I uand why no one sihe Age of Myth was able to pass through the Gold Zodiac!'.

  After a few minutes, I notice that Saori is having some trouble keeping up, so I quickly move o her, and pick her up in a princess carry and say "This way you won't tire yourself rushing up these awful stairs..." and with a calm face, she puts her arms around my ned simply says "Thanks", and at the same time, I and the Bronzes pick up our pad soon we finally reach the Aries Temple.

  The Aries Temple stands out from the rest of the temples for bining Greek and Hindu architecture, it is posed of three wings, in the tral one rises a dome inspired by temples in India, in which the area of Tibet that has traces of the cultures of both India and a, 'Probably because, the Aries Saint is almost always a Muvian, and their inal architecture reminds of a mix of Greek, Hindu and ese... That is also why the surviving ones all reside in pces between India and a'.

  Onside the temple, I see Mu's figure waiting for us, he is wearing his Aries Gold Cloth, like all the Gold Cloths, the Aries Cloth cover most of its wearer's body, leaving only a few pprotected with decorative reliefs all over the Cloth, the shoulder pieces are rounded an ected with the chest and waist pieces, f a whole unified prote, but the main charateristic of his Cloth are its horns thus making Mu look majestid at the same time simple, the arms and legs pieces are rather simple in design but covers almost everything leaving only the fingers, the upper part of the bicipids, and the upper part of the thighs unprotected, and of course we 't fet the useless cape that most of the Gold Saints use for cool factor, and I notice that in his arm he has his head piece, a helmet that covers the entire head, from the back, top, forehead and cheekbones, on the sides it has some kind of wings, a three pointed front crest with a bluish syria inid in the ter and a top bar, a thin line of orion that was widely used in Greas, bads in a curved and stitched shape.

  (Image Here - Aries Mu)

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  [colpse]As soon as he notices us, Mu kneels and greets Saoddess Athena, Aries Mu at your service!", and after receiving permission from Saori, he stands up and turning to the Bronzes he says "Put down your Cloths... All but the Phoenix one" and even if fused, they follow Mu order and ohe Cloths are out of their Pandora Box, he starts iing them and says "Just as I thought, they have managed some self-repair, but most of these Cloths are very badly damaged, you may not see it, but there are myriad of tiny cracks in these Cloths".

  Then he once again turns to the Bronze Saints and expins "Listen carefully, Cloths heal themselves to a certain degree... Just as our bodies heal superficial wounds if left alone, however... In their present dition, your Cloth will crumble to dust if aouches them!" and right at that moment Kiki appears on top of Seiya's head and ughing loudly says "Ha Ha Ha... That's right! So you'd better get on your knees and beg Lord Mu to repair your Cloths for you!!".

  Mu calmly looks at Kiki and says "Kiki, my tools...", then turning his head and looking at me, he adds "Jayr, e and lend me a hand... The faster we fix this the faster you move on, by the way, why didn't you fix their Cloths?", summoning my tools from my Soulbouory, I reply "Simple... I fot about it! Do you have any idea on how many things I have to think about and pn!? Plus do not fet the time to train, to practice my hobbies and spend with my sisters and friends... I simply don't have the time to also babysit them...".

  And the 30 minutes, I and Mu repair the four Bronze Cloths the hardest to fix was the Pegasus Cloth, the ohat was repaired not too long ago, 'How the hell was he able to damage it so mu so little time...', and ohey equipped their restored Cloths, they 't help to exotig the differearting with Hyoga, who as he checks the repaired Cloth says "Whoa... My Cloths is overflowing with life force!", and Shun adds "I almost hear it breathing!",

  At the same time, Mu reminds them about the strength of the Gold Saints, and that to defeat them they have to awaken their 7th sense, after that, we restart our climb, and after I equip my Cloth, I once again pick up Saori in a princess carry and start running up the now familiar stairs 'I did these so many times when I sparred with Aldebaran that I know everything about these steps, especially their number... By the way, it is 53613, and fun fact, the number is the same for every stair, and if you do this he 13 times o reach the Pope's Chamber, the final number is 696969!'.

  Anyway, 30 min of stairs ter, we stand in front of the Taurus Temple, a cssic structure of Greek strus, being a great temple supported by ns and internal pces, the characteristiphasize is that it has a relief of a bull's skull in the frieze, as soon as they saw the temple, Seiya and the others rushed inside, and I slowly follow behind them.

  But as soon as I and Saori ehe temple, we are meet with the se of Seiya and the others being blow back, and the moment, the imposing figure of Aldebaran donning his Cloth be seen, slowly stepping forward, blog the Bronze Saints advance, "You may er the Taurus Temple of the golden bull as you please! I, Taurus Aldebaran won't allow it!! I'll test your mettle as Saints of Athena!!!".

  At first ghe external structure of his Cloth is remi of an armored cow, imposing and thick spikes protrude from the shoulder and elbow pieces, the integral helmet sports the two cssic curved horns of the bull, and on the ter a perpendicur row of spikes along the ta of the entire helmet, the shoulders pieces are loaded with huge protes resembling thick shields, the chest piece is simple but the metal of the stomach clearly marks the abdominal muscles, apart from the numerous protrusions, it is in itself a simple garment, no decorative stone is inid, only several simple drawings are glimpsed on the chest and shoulder pieces, while the waist piece is truly inal it is a strip of several polygonal and assembled pieces that protects the waist.

  (Image Here - Taurus Aldebaran)

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  [colpse]After seeing him, the group of Broarts their attack, the first to move is Seiya who uses his Pegasus Ryusei Ken, throwing hundreds of light energy pu the same time which looks like small meteors, and seeing the speed of his attack I think 'Oh... He really improved, that attack is at Mach 2 speed, at the level of a Silver Saint... But it is way too slow to be a threat for Aldebaran... Well not that he o dodge'.

  And indeed, Aldebaran stands still, as Seiya attack hit him, but it is uo deal any kind of damage, at the same time, Shiryu, Shun, hyoga, and Ikki try to pass through him, but faster then any of them could reach, he puhem all sending them crushing on the ground, and of course I stealthly make them pass out as this is Seiya's fight and the one where he hopefully awaken his 7th sehen he says "I told you, I wouldn't let you pass, to get through you'll have to defeat me".

  Aldebaraakes his fighting pose, and cross his arms ready to deliver a powerful blow at a moment notice, and seeing Seiya fusioaunts him "I don't o assume a fighting stance against Bronzes, I defeat you as I stand!" and to further instill this idea, he throunch hitting the wall behind Seiya, creating a big hole on the wall, at the same time willingy leaving behind a hint for Seiya about his teique.

  I look as Aldebaran tries to demoralize Seiya, but he ignore him and jump to deliver his Pegasus Ryusei Ken from a higer position, but Aldebaran blows away Seiya and his attack with a low-preat Horns, making Seiya crash through 4 wall, and on the ground, Seiya says in pain "Th-the Great Horns... It's like every joint in my body has been dislocated".

  At the same time I expin to Saori "The Great Horns, Aldebaran's teique, sisting of a fist strike at the speed of light, which allows him to strike at a distahanks to the energy bst released by his o, for someone who is not able to move at the speed of light, the movement of the fist is imperceptible, su attack is capable of shattering the victim's bones and body into a thousand pieces, resulting in immediate death without any suffering, oher hand, those with a prote capable of resisting the impact of the blow, end up paralyzed, unscious and temporanely lose their sense of touch".

  Aldebaran calmly walks near Seiya and says "Mu and Jayr did you no kidness by repairing your Cloth for you, your damaged Cloth would have disied and your vitals an with it..." thearts stomping his feet on Seiya chest, breaking the ground below him and slowly burying him, and listening to his words I 't help but scoff in a low voice "Yeah! Like the most physically powerful Gold Saint 't break a mere Bronze Cloth with his finger if he really wao..." and Saori calmly looks as Aldebaran stomps Seiya in the ground and says "His trol over his force is perfect, he is hurting Seiya enough to push him past his limit, but without permentaly damage, anything... and it is w as we expected, Seiya's o is growing stronger as we speak!".

  Indeed, after being buried into the ground, Seiya's o grows stronger enough to reach the threshold of the 7th Sense, and jumping out of the hole, he attack Aldebaran with his signature move, f Aldebaran to use his hands to block it, then Aldebaran uses anreat Horns to send Seiya flying, but with Saori's o support, he once again stand up, and his o grows even stronger, so much that he finally awakens his 7th sense.

  And this be cleary seen in their csh, as Seiya this time is able to follow Aldebaran's light speed movements, and is able to barely block his Great Horns, but the power behind it is still too much for him, and is blown away once again, but that was enough to push Seiya beyond his limit, and is o answer by reag the max level possible, and as he stands once more, the phantom image of the pegasus appears behind him, and during their csh, Seiya is finally able to refelct back the Great Horns, resulting in a bst that sends both of them flying, But Seiya who was ready for it, use it to his advao take Aldebaran by surprise, and with a karate chop he breaks the left horn on Aldebaran's helm.

  Seiya looks at his opporiumphally and yells "Well, Aldebaran? Are you man enough to aowledge defeat!? Or do I have to break off the other horn?" and in respoo that Aldebaran starts to ugh loudly and says "No, Seiya you win! Ha ha ha... You go, pass through the Taurus Temple", at the same time, I wake up the sleepiies, who then rush to Seiya and gratute him for his win, while I move closer to the broken horn to find an ao a question I had since I became friends with Aldebaran.

  Pig up the horn I start to examining it 'Hoo...!! So this is what happened!! It's Saori's o who helped in breaking the horn of the Taurus Cloth, after all to break a Gold Cloth you need a power parable to the Big Bang, and no matter how much plot armor Seiya has, his newly awakeh sense 't reach such power, hell not even the Gold Saints normally , if not by using the forbidden teique Athena Excmation, or they pull off a miracle! In this case the Taurus Cloth just followed Athena wishes and broke itself under Seiya's blow so that he pass through, and I think that the same happened in the inal timeline'.

  My musing is interrupted by Aldebaran's voice who says "Seiya, if you think it will be this easy up ahead, you're wrong, don't uimate the Gold Saints!", and Seiya replies "I know, you gave me a good taste of what a Gold Saint do" the together with the rest of the Bronzes, he rust ahead leaving I and Saori behind.

  And at that moment, Aldebaran turns to Saori and knees giving his greeting "Taurus Aldebaras the Goddess Athena! It's an honor to wele you in my temple, excuse me for not greeting you earlier", Saori aowledge him and tells him to stand, then I move o him and simply put the broken horn on his helm and with a little of o from Saori, the horn fixes itself uhe surprised eyes of Aldebaran that asks "How is this possible, I'm sure Seiya broke it!?", but I shake my head and expin what really happened, making him ugh once again.

  Then I pick up Saori once again, and follow after the Bronzes, while Saori says "So far, everything is going acc to the pn... But the emples will be the ones of our enemies, and in the end a true fight between Saints will happen...", still climbing up I reassure her "Do not worry, I'll do everything possible to make sure that no one loses his life today! You have my word as your Saint, and your friend!", and hearing that, a small smile appear on her calm face for a few seds, before turning back to her pateony face,'Man... I'd like to make her smile more, but with all the burdens she shoulders, it will be a hard task to aplish... Well, I'll try my best!'.

  After some time, we finally reach the Gemini Temple, a small temple that is formed by three wings, two side wings that join with the first one inside, which is modified to create the Labyrinth of Gemini, what most characterizes this temple is that oside of the two teral wings are sculpted images of two angels, representing the duality of the guardian, one of them holds a lyre and the other a serpent.

  As soon as we stand in front of the temple, we see Seiya and the others running out of the temple fused, and I quickly uand what is going on by the presence of a sedary temple idendical to the inal, so as they were about to rush inside once again, I yell at them to stop and start expining "It is useless to blindly rush inside, right now Saga activated the barrier ihe temple, the Labyrinth of Gemini, when this barrier is activated, the interior of the Gemini Temple bees an endless byrinth that disorients all enemies, who wander around ihe Temple without finding the true exit, the oppo is further fused by the appearance of a sed illusory Temple".

  Hearing that, Ikki asks "Then how are we supposed to pass through this temple, if everytime we rush inside we are sent back to the entrance!?", still with Saori in my arms, I reply "It is pretty simple... One of you close your eyes, a his o guide him, leading the way for everyone else... After all it is only an optical illusion... But you should still be careful because Saga still attack you from the Pope's Chamber using his teique, Another Dimension, trust me you don't want to be hit by that one unless you know how to teleport yourself from a dimension to another, and to use such powerful teleport you o have awakened your 7th seo be able to feel a familiar o to follow... Now let's move on!".

  And so we all rush ihe Gemini Temple, in the end Shiryu was chosen to be the oo lead us all, and all seems going well, at least until Seiya yells "Shiryu, stop! Enemy ahead! It's the Gemini Gold Saint!" and indeed in front of us there is a pletily bck figure wearing the Gemini Cloth, seeing this I warhers "Do not recklessy attack it! This is Saga's Empty Gemini Cloth, an ability with which the Gemini Saint trols his Empty Cloth remotely as if it were a puppet, while projeg his voice as well as the illusion of a body within it, this makes his oppo believe that the Gold Cloth is being dressed by an individual who stands in his way."

  As I'm expining that, I study the Gemini Cloth, the head piece is integral, uhe ptes are the famous faces of the two twins, symbolizing the dual nature of the sign, they are human faces carved in relief, idealized but expressive and rge, more or less like a real face, the one on the left is the "good" fad is reizable by its serene expression, the one on the right is the "bad" face, with snted eyes and mouth twisted into a grimace.

  The chest piece covers the entire chest, abdomen, hips, back, pelvis and hips, even making a belt, it is a metal pte that s around the chest equally in all dires, rotating over the shoulders and uhe arms to form a back protector, the rest of the piece is a ft, smooth pte, c the entire chest and hips down to the groin, where it bees a belt, on the abdomen is a hexagonal pte that attaches to the belt buckle.

  The shoulder piece are semi-oval, with a ft top edge, the arms pieces, pared to the rest of the Cloth, are funnel-shaped, they are mostly drical and protect hand, wrist and forearm, passing from the fio the elbow, the leg protectors cover that limb pletely, elongated in correspondeh the calf, the shin guards on the upper front edge overp the knee pads.

  (Image Here - Empty Gemini Cloth)

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  [colpse]I move near Shun and in a low tone I whisper to him "Despite how simple it seems to be, it is a plicated teique, that requires all Saga's tration to maintain, and be quickly u the slightest disturbance of the one who executes it, so use your s to secure all of us from his teique, while I disturbe his tration, once you have the opportunity use your to attack him", at the same time, Saga says "It seems that you know my identity, but that doesn't matter, you will all die here! Behold the power of the Gemini Gold Saint!! Another Dimension!"

  Under Saga's and, a cra space opens behind us towards an alternative dimension that, with great power, tries to absorbs us, this dimension has the appearance of a spatial void filled with ps, nebue and distant stars, but luckily Shun followed my and and secured us with his s, but we are still being slowly pulled toward the endless void, and in the end the around Hyoga breaks, and he is sucked into the unknown dimesion, seeing this makes me a little worried about him.

  But I calm myself reminding myself 'No, focus Jayr, you told Camus about this possibility he should be able to save him!', so I foy senses, and seach fa's o, I quickly find him knowing his general position, and so I fre my own omentaly disturping Saga's one and stopping his teique at the same time, then Shun burning his o says "Saga-san, do you know why Andromeda has two s? The circle on my left is for defense... And the triangle on my right is for offense... The differece between the s is usually slight, but when I burn my o their special characteristic bee clear! The circle protect me with a wall of steel, the triangle finds and attacks the enemy wherever he may be...".

  Then as Shun explodes his o, he throws his triangle and yells "Go, my triangle ! The one you seek is not the puppet before of you... but the one pulling the strings from afar! No matter how many light years away he is, fin him and strike him down! Thunder Wave!!", and under Shun and, the tip of the zig-zags like a wave-shaped lightning bolt that releases lightning and gees a powerful pierg attack, simutes the movement and visual form of lightning, the tip then open a cra the space where it disappers, for a few seds, before returning, with some kind of medallioagled on the , the one I remember seeing on Saga's neck when he disguise as the Pope.

  And indeed as soon as the returhe Empty Gemini Cloth stops moving aurn to its steltion Form, it represents a strange figure with two heads and four arms, it is obviously the twins, but the shape of the object is such that it looks like two people fused at the shoulders and legs.

  (Image Here - Gemini Cloth)

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  [colpse]Even the illusion around us disappears, allowing us to move forward, after I reassure them of Hyoga safety, telling them that I warned his master about this possibility, and so we once again start climbing the hellish long ass stairs, toward the cer Temple, guarded by that sicilian bastard of Salvatore, who is mostly known as Deathmask, for his creepy hobby of deg his temple with the faces of his victims.

  Odyin