Jayr POV - Underworld, Sed Prison - 1987

  I notice the shocked expression on Orhpèe and Eurydice's face as they reize the light released by the Specter, and soon Orphèe's face return normal as if nothing happened, but I clearly notice that his body is tensing up and his o is sizzling waiting for the right moment to erupt, then look at the smug face of Sphinx Pharaoh with a small smile on my fad think, 'Aaand he fucked up... God how much I love the trope where the vilins unsciously make things easier for the protagonist!'.

  Meanwhile, Pharaoh ignores what his a caused and asks "But why didn't you notify me of his presence as soon as you saw him? Or at least moved against him? You after all swore your fealty to Lord Hades... Could it be... that you're still on the Saints' side, after all?", but Orphèe ignores his question and asks back "I have a question for you... Was that light from years ago YOUR doing?", and still with that punchable smile on his face, Pharaoh challeotally unafraid of the sequences "Heh... And what if it was?".

  I feel Orphèe's o explodes as he decres "Then this pce shall bee yrave!!", hearing that Pharaoh asks with nonce "My grave? Heh... Are you serious, Orphèe?", but he doesn't answer and simply pluck a string of his lyre, and with a simple melodious note, I see Orphèe o invade Pharaoh's body and start to take trol of it, and finally realizing what is happening Pharaoh excims "Huh? My hand... Why, you traitor! Have you fotten our Lord's kindness?".

  Then Pharaoh finally ignites his o to fight off Orphèe's one and now able to freely move agaiarts to py his instrument and yells "Very well! Let's see who's the better musi!! Your lyre against my magical harp! A musical battle for the ages!!", at the same time, Pharaoh, in a burst of o, sends out a focused soundwave that snaps the third string from the right of Orphèe's lyre, then he decres "The oute is already decided!".

  Then Orphèe falls on his knee as the sound of the harp starts overp the lyre, and like the megalomaniac he is, Pharaoh starts expining as he keeps pying that aune of his "Orphèe, most of your attack melodies involve the G string... So by severing y string, I've knocked out your fangs", and walking closer to Orphèe he adds "Lord Hades and Lady Pandora seem fond of your pying, but I'll never accept you before you came along, they only loved my harp... Now I'll show them that I'm a far better pyer than you!".

  Pharaoh's requiem almost fis cresdo, reag its climax, and he finally fully releases his deadly teique "Now submit to Pharaoh's curse and die! Bance of the Curse!", a straone wall appears behind him, the wall is covered with hieroglyphs, simir to those that be seen ihe pyramids of a Egypt, and in the ter appears an image of the god Anubis perf the so-called weighing of the soul ceremony by which the souls of the deceased are judged acc to a Egyptian beliefs.

  Thanks to the sinister melody he produces with his diabolical harp, I feel that I progressively start to lose my strength, and the same is happening to Orphèe, to the point where our bodies almost bee paralyzed, preventing us from being able to defend ourselves properly, but I'm still calm as this is one of the few teiques that I truly don't fear, because not only I'm pretty sure of the fact that my heart and soul are fully banced, but also because even if Pharaoh tries to cheat and tip the bah his o so that the judgment will erase our souls from the universe I still overpower his teique with my own mastery of o.

  But that isn't the only reason I'm calm, and indeed as the sounds of the harp are amplified in my ears as the deadly melody progresses and my energy fades, Pharaoh yells "Heart of Orphèe, I summon thee out of thy corrupt flesh!! Mount the sacred scale!!", but instead of Orphèe, it is Pharaoh's heart that sees the vision where his heart is ripped out, it breaks the ribcage and tears through the chest as if it had a life of its own, flies through the air and is pced on an a scale, which quickly tilts out of bance.

  At the same time, I ow hear the lyre's musice more, and Orphèe stands up as he is pying his lyre and says "Look how far the scale tips, you must be very evil...", then the illusion breaks and a mirror falls from the gaps of Pharaoh's Surplice as he mutters in shock "It... it all was an illusion... No... It 't be... how you stop my curse without y string?".

  Still pying, Orphèe moves closer to the mirror and stomps on it breaking it, and says "This is Pandora's mirror, isn't it? You used it oo make me think I was seeing the sun", hearing Orphèe question, Pharaoh tries once more to destabilize him and asks " Heh... Regretting your stupid mistake?", and Orphèe surprise him by saying "No... Actually I'm grateful... A flower o wilts, it never blooms again, humans, birds, is... even the glittering stars all only live once...".

  And with tears falling from his eyes and a sad and resigned smile on his face he says "I was wrong to want a dead persoored to life...", hearing that Pharaoh asks "So you've realized your mistake, now what?", and as he ignites his o once more Orphèe decres "Now, I'll fight! I'll strike at Hades as Athena's Saint", then Pharaoh yell as he prepares to py his harp once more "You fool! You may have been able to block my curse once, but you are helpless with the missing string!! This time I'll deal you a mortal blow!!".

  But as soon as he said this, Orphèe put the broken striween his teeth and starts pying his final piece, and with a burst of o, all the string of Pharaoh's harp snaps, and with a final explosion of his o, Orphèe yells "Stringer Noe!!", causes the enviroo fill with lightning in the form of a small tornado and els electricity geed by his os through the air with the sound waves of his lyre, propelling a voltaic shock of siderable proportions, that project Pharaoh into the air aroys his Surplice as well as dealihal damage to his body.

  After killing Pharaoh, I see Orphèe looking at Eurydice with a mencholic smile on his fad simply says "Eurydice...", and she smiles back at him with tears in her eyes and says "Farewell... My love...", but before this drama could tinue, I interrupt them and say "Could you guys please stop it with this tragic hero drama! I have never liked it to being with...", ign their stunned faces I walk toward Eurydid carefully check her dition, at the same time, I mutter "Hmm... This is iing... It seems that Hades truly revived her in body and soul, in fact, she is pretty much still alive now... the only problem is that her body is fused with the Underworld and if I destroy this e the rules of the Underworld will kill her once again... Hmm, what to do...?".

  While I was thinking about how to resolve this problem, Orphèe, who heard my muttering, moves closer and asks "Jayr... Right? What are you doing...?", I clearly feel a hint of hope in his voice, and it is also natural, as impactful was his decration before, it is normal that he doesn't want to give up the love of his life as long as there is hope, and my words just nhis hope once again.

  I look between Orphèe and Eurydid a bold idea surfaces in my mind, and at the same time, I say "True, I didn't introduce myself, my name is Jayr Pucci, currently the Sagittarius Gold Saint, and probably the best doctor in the world after the mythical Asclepius... And if there is ohing that we doctors do the best is to cure the illness and wounds of our patients and dey or eve death as much as possible!".

  Then I tinue pointing at Eurydiow her case is truly peculiar... She is in fact alive now... When Hades allowed you to take her out of the Underworld he did revive her and protected her with his power allowio remain alive while staying in the Underworld, but at the same time, he cursed her, that in the case you turned around his prote would be gone, and she would be in her current state... Being a part of the Underworld forever her fully alive nor dead...", and hearing that, Orphèe once again ch his fists, remembering the moment when his happiness and hope turned into grief and despair.

  I ignore his current state and with a smile on my face, I tinue expining "But this also left a e to work my magic... But it will be dangerous... Now the choice is yours, will you truly give up on each other, ht for your own hope, love, and happiness as we Athena's Saints always do!?", Orphèe and Eurydice are momentarily stunned by my question, then they look at each other, and I clearly feel Orphèe's hesitation.

  But Eurydice with a smile on her face says "Let's do it! The worst that happen is that I truly die... but even if that happens if the gods allow it, I'll reinate ae with you once more!", hearing her Orphèe nod, then with a new resolve in his eyes, he looks at me and says "What do we have to do?", and with a serious expression I nod and say "You have to make out...", and I smile as Euryditensely blushes and Orphèe.exe stops w as he stammers "Wh...What? How...? Why?".

  I stop fooling around and expin "Well, you see she is a normal person as soon as I separate her from the Underworld, something that will put quite a burden on her body, its w will still kill her... But if you ect your o to her through a kiss and ignite your o to the 8th sense and protect her from the Underworld's ws, it will give me the time to heal her, and take her away from this pce... of course with some help", and as I expin this, I use every ouny power to sense Mu's o and ect with him, as he is the only one oher side with a teleportation ability so powerful, and after a while, I'm finally able to sense him and send him a message quickly expining the situation and my request.

  And after some bad forth, it seems that to save someone from the Underworld is more difficult than it seems as it he power of 4 Saints, me and Orphèe on this side to proted save her, and Mu ahmask to pull her out, as his e to the Underworld Hills, the most superficial part of the Underworld will also help in this endeavor.

  Once everyone is ready, Orphèe and Eurydice look at each other and shyly kiss in front of me and as I feel Orphèe o totally merging with hers as he embraces her bust, I move o her and quickly make my move, I put my hand on her bad send my o inside her body starting the regeion process of the Dark Resurre, the teique I learned from the Asklepios Imerológio (Diary of Asclepius), and with my other hand I focus my o and create a sharp ice bde, and with it, I cut Eurydice's bust from the stone, and at the same time, Orphèe takes a step back allowing Eurydice's body trow as our os keeps her alive.

  Seeing her being quickly I think, 'Well, this method is a little brutal and barbaric, but it looks like it works...', after a few minutes her body is fully regeed, and feeling her heartbeat, I nod and quickly summon a cloak from my Territory to cover her naked body, then I spike my o to send a signal to Mu ahmask, and soon Eurydice disappears in a fsh of light, leaving behind only I and an exhausted Orphèe, who now looks at me with eyes full of gratefulness, relief, and pure happiness.

  After a few minutes, he recovers from his state and says "Thanks Jayr! Words 't express how grateful I'm for what you have done... The only thing I do is lead you to Hades... You probably don't know but he rarely shows himself even to his 3 Judges, let alone on folk, however, once every 13 days, I py my lyre before him, and today is luckily one of those days, this is the only ce we'll have to strike at Hades!!".

  I shake my head and say "That could have been a good pn... But Hades isn't truly there when you py... in fact, Hades hid his true body in the Elysion, and only possess the body of a mortal with a pure soul each 200 and so years to fight with Athena...", Orphèe is shocked by my information and asks "Then what we do? The Elysion only be accessed by the Gods, and those who they approve!!", I smile and say "We know that... And Athena has already prepared everything for this war all we have to do now is follow her pn, right now she is moving toward Judecnoticed by the others, all we have to do is take the Judges' and Pandora's attention from her and, at the same time, move toward the Judecca ourselves to help her...".

  As I expin this, I feel Seiya and Shun's o getting closer to our position, and at the same time, I feel Kanon's o explode and the os of 6 unknowers disappears, while some other are moving toward us 'It seems that Kano with Lune and allowed Seiya and Shun to pass, after that he killed some other Specters... At the same time, some other enemies felt my o as I was healing Eurydid are io check...'.

  I then say to Orphèe "Now you go to the Judecca, and py your lyre as always but do not attack as Pandora called the 3 Judges to spectate too... Just keep Hades' focus on you with your music while we e, and be especially careful of Rhadamanthys, he will suspect you and won't listen aranced by your musid most important be careful", he nods and moves toward the Judecca, while I wait here for the guest to e.

  After waiting for a few mihey finally arrive, and I find myself surrounded by dozen of Specters, and one among them ughs and says in a raspy voice "He, he, he! Look at what we have here? A lone Gold Saint of Athena who dares to e here in the Realm of the Dead, where we are at our stro!", and hearing that the other Specters cheer, while I carefully check them 'Hmm, all of them are Terrestrial Star, small fry at that... I don't remember any of them, and their os seems only as strong as an average Silver Saint...'.

  While I was cheg them out, the oh the raspy voiow named Grunt A, says "Why don't you say anything? Too scared? Cat got your tongue?", I ignore his useless taunting, and y arms, at the same time, I ignite my o, which gather around my body and transform into a water-like aura that envelopes my body, then yelling "P Rain!!", I quickly spread my arm wide, and release a massive amount of clear blue o droplets in every dire at ohat almost like heavy rain, hits everyone around me obliterating their Surplices and killing them on the spot.

  I look at the result of my attad nod at the fact that I was able to avoid damaging the flower field, then I mutter "It feels like I didn't use this move in a long time... But I truly don't o use such attack if I'm not in a numerical disadvantage...", but my musing is interrupted by Seiya and Shun ing toward me yelling my name, 'It seems that they finally caught up...'.

  Once we regrouped, they start to expin what they went through until now, how they woke up together, their meeting and fight with Charon where Seiya defeated him, and hearing of this, I remember an old joke that almost seems true, 'Pegasus Seiya, the Saint who always fights only the first and the st oppo, leaving all those between to the others... and now that I think about it it's true... Against the Bck Saints, he fought only Bck Pegasus and Ikki, the Sanctuary, only Aldebaran and Saga, and even in Asgard, from what I heard, he fought against the first God Warrior and the st!'.

  Meanwhile, Shun expins how Kanon killed Barlon Lune ahem pass while he stalled Rhadamanthys, but just as he finished his tale, Kanon joins us and after chiding us for losing time chatting like old dies, we all move toward the Third Prison together, which is found by traveling a dirt road, which is fnked by two high walls of rock.

  The greedy and wasteful souls are punished in this prison, where they roll heavy stones uphill eternally for their sins, but the rocks will always iably roll back down again, this pce is guarded by the Spectres Golem Rod Troll Ivan, but when we reached them, we found out that they were already dead, as Shiryu and Hyoga just killed them, and sroups grow once again and we move toward our destination, the Fourth Prison.

  After walking for some time we finally reach the Fourth Prison, the S of Darkness, which is iy a rge valley covered by dark mountains and bathed by the dark waters of Styx, in this prison are puhose who suffer from extreme rage and despair, on top of a simple raft sailing these dark waters, we find the guardian of the Fourth Prison, Ly Phlegyas.

  A tall, athletic, young man with blonde hair and blue eyes, donning the Ly Surplice, this Surplice represents a Ly, a wild dog from Africa, its color is deep purple, and is full of razor-sharp cws from head to toe, seeing him, Shiryu ents "Look, everyone! A raft! erfect timing!", and Hyoga adds "Don't tell me we're supposed to pay a toll, like on the Acheron River...?", hearing them, Ly Phlegyas replies "Heh, no toll, I'll let you ride for free... But only after you died by my hands... Of the Divine Crime Star, Ly Phlegyas!".

  (Image Here - Ly Phlegyas)

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  [colpse]And after saying that, he jumps from the raft and ignites his o gathering it in his hands that are now shining in purple light, and yells "Howling Inferno!!", and he projects his o in both hands to directly attack us, but Kanon mutters "What a waste of time..." and trates all of his o energy to the maximum iween his hands, then yelling "Gaxian Explosion!!", he releases it in the form of a gigantic shock-wave capable of obliterating nearly anything in its path.

  And for once I admire the vision of a myriad of gaxies and ps exploding and crashing oarget of this teique from a bystander position instead of being the one receiving it, and admire how it obliterates Phlegyas' Surplid kills him on the spot, 'Still one of the most badasses teiques of this Universe, still it is be on the receiving front for once...', as the dead Phlegyas falls iers, Kanon realizes something and says "Whoops! Fot to ask him how long it takes to reach the Fifth Prison... Oh, well, too te now... Let's go!", and jumps on the raft.

  The others follow after him, but I notice that we are too many for this small raft and so, I once agaihe wings of the Sagittarius Cloth to fly and follow after them, and on our way to the Fifth Prison, something happens, something I knew would happen one way or another, but even so, the way it happened, still took me by surprise.

  After 10 minutes of traveling the Styx Rivers, all of the sudden, Shun's body stiffens for an instant, then his aura and o ge, and like magic, he disappears like a whiff of smoke uhe shocked eyes of everyone, as Seiya yells "Shun! What happened? Where is he!?", and starts looking around and calling his name, while Kanon looks surprised that something like this happened before his eyes, seeing the free space, I nd on the raft and say "It is useless looking around for him... Right now he is in the Judecca fighting his greatest battle...".

  Rhadamanthys POV - Underworld, Judecca - 1987

  'B!!', I'm in the Judecca, the residence of Lord Hades, God of the Underworld, and Pandora, Hades's sister and ander of the army of Spectres listening to this b music pyed by Lyre Orphèe, a former Saint of Athena who swore loyalty tod Hades, for the favor of granting him a ce to fulfill his foolish wish, all because Lord Hades was moved by Orphèe musiething I 't really bring myself to like, if you also include the fact that I 't really trust him, lowers the ce of his musiunig something to me even more, I prefer Sphinx Pharaoh's o least I know for sure that he is loyal to Lord Hades.

  At the same time, I look at the others presehat are indeed enjoying this Saint's music, sitting in front of me is Lady Pandora, probably the ohat appreciates this Saint the most, being a musi herself, then on my right, there is my fellow Judge of the Underworld, Griffon Minos, he is a man with long, white hair and his eyes are light e, while his skin color is white, he dons the Griffon Surplice.

  The armor is bd has huge wings, they have 3 sets of feathers, and the arms of the wings have a series of articuted overpping ptes, the shoulder pieces are very long to cover the entire arm and are segmented into 8 overpping parts that taper and beore angur and end in a poie so that when viewed in profile it simutes the plumage of the animal, the waist pieces are long and pointed, c the ehigh, the tips are slightly raised outwards, and the headpiece is a helmet that covers most of his head, except for his face.

  (Image Here - Griffon Minos)

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  [colpse]o him, there is another fellow Judge, Garuda Aiacos, who has the appearance of a young man, with a white plexion and semi-long bck hair with some purplish tinge and bck eyes, he also wears his respective Surplice like every Specter of Hades has to do, dark in color, his headpiece is a helmet that is encrusted with gems that simute Garuda's eyes.

  It also has horns, wiended vertically, its chest i part carries a design that shows its wings, it has great prote si covers all the body except for the fad some of its extremities, the arms and legs pieces do not differ mue from the other as both carry cws with protectors that protrude from their extremities.

  (Image Here - Garuda Aiacos)

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  [colpse]All of them have an almost entranced expression, as they are moved by this Saint's music, but just as I'm thinking of killing him just to stop him, all of the sudden, a figure appears in the middle of the hall right in front of the stairs leading to Lord Hades' throne, and as I reize him as one of Athena's Saint that attacked Lord Hades' Castle, in fury I yell stopping the musid making everyone realize the intruder's presence "How dare some Athena's scum to tarnish Lord Hades' abode! Die!!" and I burn my o and move to attack him.

  But he calmly looks at me and says in a familiar voice "Hold, Rhadamanthys!! I am not fond of battle, withdraw!!", and I finally notice that his appearance is very simir to the one Lord Hades showed us, but he is clearly sitting ohrone behind those curtains so I once again move and yell " Fool! How dare you pose as Lord Hades, just because you look alike? You 't fool me with su act!!".

  But the Saint this time ands "Did you not hear me tell you to restrain yourself? Rhadamanthys, Stop!!", and under his and, my body stops moving, and this time I reize who truly is in front of me even if logic tells me otherwise "That dignified air... That Sanctity... That o... It's not an act! He is Lord Hades himself!!".

  Odyin