Rhadamanthys POV - Underworld, Judecca - 1987

  Some time passed sihe Andromeda Saint, all of the sudden, became Lord Hades, and after that disgusting Saint Orphèe finished with his py he was sent away, and Lord Hades removed that filthy Cloth and donned his clothes, a long purple tunic, with a bd golden ornate belt and shoulder pads, and a long bck cape, his appearance also ged slightly, his skin is now paler, his hair became reddish, and his eyes are of a lighter shade.

  (Image Here - Possessed Shun)

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  [colpse]As I'm looking at his figure sitting ohrone, I hear Minos' voice behihat says "Incredible, that Andromeda Saint was Lord Hades...", and Aiacos adds "Yes, quite unbelievable", to that I 't help but also ent "I know... The boy had swory to Athena ahered many battles despise his youth, a true Saint, now he es here and cims to be Lord Hades...Add that only a very few Specters know what Lord Hades looks like... But who or what was that figure we always saw sitting ohrone beyond that curtain?".

  Then we realize something at the same time, and in shock, I only utter "D...", and what I'm too shocked to say, is told by Minos "Don't tell me... That the figure we've been seeing..." but he also stops, and is Aiacos that fihe thought that came to us "...Wasn't Lord Hades...", at the same time we realize this, I see Lady Pandora ing closer and says "What are you three still doing here? Now that Lord Hades is safe, return to your posts!"

  As soon as she appeared, we get on our knees and greet her as she tinues "Leave the care of Lord Hades to me, do not indulge in unwise specution, uood?", we keep our heads low and reply "Yes, midy", then she nods and gives her and "Direct your energies toward capturing Athena... And sughter any other Saints who have wandered in here", hearing that, we stand up and say once more "Yes, midy!!".

  Jayr POV - Underworld, Fourth Prison - 1987

  We are still sailing oyx River, and I've just finished expining the story of Shun's possession and the fact that only me and Saori khat it would have happened, and saying that Seiya and the others were shocked is an uatement, at the same time, Kanon asks "If you khat he was going to bee Hades' Host why did you let him alive? With him dead this battle would've bee a lot easier!!".

  Before Seiya and the others could argue with Kanon about his idea of killing Shun, I stop them by saying "First because, with his death Shun would have still bee Hades' Host, remember that he is the God of the Underworld reviving someone is something really simple for him, so we would have only directly sent Shun to him... And the most important reason is that for us Shun is the most ideal host of Hades!", my decration shocks everyone in silence.

  Seeing them shocked and fused, I ask "Tell me, who is Shun?", and Seiya replies fused "He is our brother...", while Shiryu adds "... And a trusted rade, who fought many battles with us...", and Hyoga and Kanoo realize something, so Hyoga excims "He is a Saint of Athena!!".

  Hearing this answer I nod and expin with a smile "Right! This is Hades' mistake! He only chooses the purest souls as his hosts, but in this era, he chose Shun, the maio bee the Andromeda Saint! The Saint whh his battles has mastered his o till the awakening of the 7th sense, and during this Holy War even awakehe mythical 8th sense... Could such a man be easily possessed like a normal pure soul?", at the same time, Kanon remembers his experieh Julian and Poseidon, and says "I see... Even Julian a normal human possessed by Poseidon, a God with the same level of power as Hades, was able to stay scious from time to time...".

  At the same time, with my senses, I feel that we are getting closer to the Fifth Prison, and while they are still thinking about what I just revealed, I pull out my golden bow, I take my staanding upright with feet shoulder-width apart, pce the arrow on the bow, and draw it while aiming at a point in the sky, at the same time I trate my o into the arrow that starts shining in a golden light, fused by what I'm doing, Seiya asks "What is going on?", while the others start to look around raising their guard.

  I simply smile and say "Just taking care of something annoying...", and release the arrow that soundlessly disappears in the red and bck sky with a golden fsh, Kanon quickly uands, while the others are still fused, but soon they focus on the area around us, that quickly start ging.

  After a few mihe raft reaches the shores, and we finally reach the Fifth Prison, a nd of small mountains of rock that is covered with darkeombs made of stone blocks, where the heretics burn forever in the fiery tombs, seeing this Shiryu ents "What a terrible pce...", and Hyoga adds "Let's just quickly move across this...", and after the fming tombs lies the Labyrinth of the Minotaur, a knotted huge field of stone walls so fusing and intricate no one find their way out, and in front of the Labyrinth's entrance we find the Spectre Deadly Beetle Stand.

  The only thing I say about him is that he is a huge man, as his Surplice covers most of his body aures, the Surplice itself is shaped like a beetle, the headpiece is a helmet, and it has pincers and two eyes that would represent the head of a beetle, on the arm and legs pieces are made of the limbs of the beetle, and the chest piece is the abdomen of the beetle and has wings.

  (Image Here - Deadly Beetle Stand)

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  [colpse]Seeing him Seiya yells as he and the others prepare to fight "Looks like this is our battle!!", but Kanon stops them and says "Calm Down! It's already over", as soon as he finished speaking, I smile, and look as a golden fsh quickly falls on him and pierce through his body from the top of his head, then he falls on the ground dead, and say "! My personal record! Dead ter from 50 kilometers!".

  Looking at the dead Specter Hyoga ents "Sorry, I feel like we keep leaning on you guys...", but I stop him and looking at the entrance of the Labyrinth, I say "No time for apologies, it seems that our oppo is here...", and at the same time, I see Rhamanthys ing out of it, and slowly walking toward us, and Seiya and the others notice him too and yell "Rhadamanthys!!".

  Then Kanon moves forward and says "You again, perfect, I was getting bored with all those small fries...", Rhadamanthys looks at us and says "I came here to wipe all of you eyesores off the map!", at the same time, I feel his o boiling and know that he is about to act, and ihe instant he makes his move, but he finds Kanon standing in front of him who says "Whoa there... You guys go on ahead... We'll settle this one on one, how about it, Rhadamanthis?".

  The Specter smiles and accepts Kanon's proposal "Very well, I'd like nothier", at the same time, Seiya Shiryu and Hyoga move past Rhadamantis and into the Labyrinth of the Minotaur, while I remain here and as Rhadamanthys looks at me, I say "Don't worry I won't interfere with yht... I'm just here to help in case the other Judges es and gang up on Kanon...", hearing that both Kanon and Rhadamanthys nods before they look at each other once again in silence.

  After a few seds, Rhadamanthys breaks the silend says "I heard you sughtered my subordinates in the Bck Valley... So I must also avehem as well...", at the same time, his o explodes as he trates it between his hands, which he pces in front of him pointing in the dire of Kanon, and yells "Take this! Greatest Caution!!", and releases from the palms of his hands a powerful tidal of shockwaves of iergy in the form of tless purple spheres, which ceaselessly move toward his target, Kanon's body.

  But Kanon keeps his calm and quickly raises his o and using his hand he parries every blow with it even though the strength behind this teique still pushes him back a little, but soon Rhadamanthis is shocked that his teique doesn't work a stops, and Kanon says "Is this all? Strahought you were stronger... Oh well, I'll end this!", and taking advantage of the stuate of his oppo, he 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 that send Rhadamanthys flying.

  But he and his Surplice are still intact, something that surprises me, 'So eveween Surplices of the same level there are some differences... The Gaxian Explosion easily obliterate the Surplice of a Celestial Star... But Rhadamanthys one is still intact, this means that his and the other Judges' Surplices are a level above the rest... Truly parable to the Gold Cloths...', at the same time, I hear Rhadamanthys mutter in a fused tone "What is this? I feel heavy and slow... Something is wrong...!", and at that, I smile, 'I see, Orphèe didn't only buy some time... How sneaky, I didn't think that he was able to pull this off...'.

  But soouation quickly ges again as I hear a new male voice say "Heh, what's the matter Rhadamanthys? This is so unlike you, shall we lend you a hand or two?", turning my head, I see the in of this void think, 'In the end, they came... Good...', ahe other twest mortals of the Underworld, Griffon Minos, a man with long white hair and light e eyes, while his skin color is white, and Garuda Aiacos a young man with semi-long bck hair with some purplish tinge and bck eyes, with this all three Judges of the Underworld are here.

  Seeing them, Kanon says "How ve... All three Judges lined up like ducks, now I wipe you all out in one blow!!", hearing his cims, both Minos and Aiaile, and Minos asks "Heh, you think you take us on alone?", while Aiacos adds "Talk about blissful ignorance... We'll show you...", and Mihe sentence "... How foolish you are".

  Then Aiacos' o explodes, while at the same time, Rhadamanthys tries to stop him "W... Wait!!", but it is too te as Aiacos unleashes his attack he quickly crosses his arms and yells "Gactica Illusion!!", and soon a grand illusion of demonic eyes are seen fshing in the background as Aiacos unleashes a high-speed air current at Kanon through crossed arms, a current s that the space is about to be ripped apart, that sends Kanon flying and after a few moments he crashes headfirst into the ground.

  Aiacos turns his head to look at Rhadamanthys and asks "Rhadamanthys, why did you interfere? That one blow would have killed him in an instant!", at the same time, Minos moves forward and adds "That's right, and he would have not suffered... ic Marionation!!", and uses the o to create very fine and solid, almost invisible, threads, that wounds around Kanon's body ging to his arms and legs, lifting him from the ground, and fused Kanon says "Uhn... What now? I... I'm raising... Into the air...".

  His body moves like a marioied to a bunch of strings and surprised Kanon yells "It's like I'm being pulled by invisible strings... My body's moving all by itself...", and with a sadistic smile, Minos says "Heh... That's right, you have just bey darling puppet, you o longer move even a finger unless I will it, how do you like that?", at the same time, Minos makes Kanon's hand rise and says "We'll start with one finger first...", at this moment I decide to make my move, but all of the sudden, I feel a familiar o nearby.

  Pandora POV - Underworld, Judecca - 1987

  I'm here, doing what I'm meant to do, taking care of my little brother, who is now resting on his throne as he adapts to his body, while still seeing the world in different shades of gray, 'Sihat day, where I found that derelict building near my home, which was surrounded by a dead garden, and was shut by a heavy lock, but as I got nearby the lock opeself, and ihis building, I found a box with a Seal of Athena, curious I broke the seal, and the souls of the gods Hypnos and Thanatos were released, aold me that I will bee Hades' sister and that I must protect him until the final battle begins, and if I did, they would graernal life...'.

  Then I think about the followis and my meeting with Shun and Ikki, '... And when mive birth to Hades' soul, all lives at home began to die except me, and after some time, uhe guidance of Thanatos and Hypnos, I found the perfect host for my dear little brother... the man who now stands in front of me Shun, protected by his big brother Ikki... I admit that I found many simirities between Ikki and me, both of us are ready to do anything and gh every kind of pain and torment to protect our little brothers...'.

  But my thoughts are broken, as I feel something, and say "This o... My chest is tightening! What is this intimate o I feel? It's uhe o of any other Saints who have infiltrated the Underworld, and is so aggressive, too", then I finally reize it and excim "No... It 't be... This o 't be his! He's e to recim HIM!!".

  Jayr POV - Underworld, Fifth Prison - 1987

  At the st seinos ges his mind and says "It's such a chore to go finger by finger, arm by arm... Let's get to the point and snap your neck", at the same time, Rhadamnthys gets up and says "Wait, Minos, Kanon is mine don't butt in", Minos looks at his fellow Judge and says "Heh, but if we hadn't shown up he might have killed you... And don't fet he isn't alone... In any case, it's all over!".

  But just as he is about to snap Kanon's neck, I move my o and discreetly lower the temperature around us, then I focus it ohreads on Kanon's body and soon it reaches the absolute zero, I freeze and break them freeing Kanon, uhe shocked face of the three Judges, but at the same time, a fiery, aggressive and familiar akes his presenow, and Ikki makes his appearand as the temperature starts to rise once more hiding what I just did as Ikki's fiery o could have easily dohe same, he says "Need a hand? Not that I think you Jayr-san but you never know... And Kanon are you alright?".

  Kanon slowly gets up and says "Never mind me, Ikki, something unimaginable has happened... Your little brother Shun is Hades, God of the Underworld!", Ikki looks at Kanon and asks stunned "What? Shun... Is Hades?", but after a few moments he starts ughing founding the thought funny and says "You're nuts, I've know Shun sihe day he was born, how could he be Hades?".

  But Aiacos says "You're our Lord's older brother? Heh... Then rex, Lady Pandora is tending to Lord Hades at Cocytus", hearing the name Pandora causes Ikki to gh one of the most sacred moments of an anime or manga, the fshback, a moment no one dares to interrupt, 'Oh one of the hidden ws... Nobody dares to do anything as a character goes through a fshback... Look Ikki is standing unfocused for a few seds now as he remembers his meeting with Pandora and no one of the three Judges makes a move... In fact, I also 't even move a finger even if I want to, it is really peculiar... It is like time stopped...'.

  Ikki's fshbads aters "I'd fotten pletely about that night just now... And now Shun is in that girl's hands? Uhn... But why? What does it mean?", at the same time, Aiacos says "You may be our Lord's brother, but you're still a mere Saint... You die along these two", and hits Ikki on his back sending him crashing on the ground.

  But soon after Ikki gets up and says with tears falling from his eyes "I... I see... I get it now... Shun is pnning to die, that's the kind of man he is...", seeing him like that Aiacos yells "What are y about? Give me a break!!", and moves to attack Ikki once more, but this time, Ikki is faster and is able to punch Aiacos hitting his head and making his helmet fly off, and as his o burns like fiery fmes he decres "Okay losers, take your pick, who wants to go down first?".

  It is Garuda Aiacos who answer Ikki's challenge and says "Very well, I'll take you on, I, the Celestial Valiaar, Garuda Aiacos!!", seeing that he is the oepping forward, Ikki taunts "Ha... Not so cool with your helmet knocked off, huh? Here I e!!", and rushes to attack him, but Aiacos is faster and easily dodges Ikki's attacks by sidestepping and ents "Too slow!" and with his elbow, he hits Ikki on his back sending him crashing into the ground.

  On the ground Ikki mutters "No way... Why 't I hit him?" before Aiacos grabs Ikki from his head and pulls him up, at the same time, I feel Aiacos' o exploding as he first expels a gust of wind through his arms yelling "Garuda Fp!!", sending Ikki s miles into the air at top speed, while at the same time, the Specter then crosses an "X" on the ground with his feet and says "In three seds, he'll plummet to his grave... 3... 2... 1... 0!"

  At the end of the tdown, Ikki is knocked back down to the ground, crashing onto the "X", exactly as Aiaarked, creating a big and deep crater, but I clearly feel that Ikki is still alive and fine, and it seems that Aiacaos noticed this too as he says "You're still breathing! You're a hardy little creature, just like your steltion...", he then ignites his o and once more swings his arm yelling "Let's blow you away a sed time!! Garuda Fp!!", sending Ikki s miles into the air again at an eveer speed than before.

  Then he crosses another "X" on the ground with his feet and says "Three seds... This time he'll perish on the spot... 3... 2... 1 ... 0...", but as Ikki doesn't crash on the ground, Aiacos looks up fused and not finding Ikki he excims "What? Impossible! Where is he? It's like he sprouted wings and flew away...".

  All of a sudden, Minos tries to warn his fellow Judge yelling "Watch out, Aiacos!!", but it is too te as Ikki who is behind him, attacks him with a fiery o-enhanced punch, that makes Aiacos fall on the "X" sing he marked, while Ikki decres "The spot you marked was, in fact, you own gravesite... The same attaever works twice against a Saint, you should know that by now!! So who is ?".

  Minos ignores Ikki's provocation and with a smile says "Heh... You really think you have defeated Aiacos?", and at the same time, Aiacos' o explodes with such force that sends Ikki flying and crashes on the ground, then the Specter gets up and says "I hought I'd find a man of your caliber among the Bronzes... Very Well! If you want a real attack here it is!".

  As his o reaches the maximum, Aiacos unleashes his attack, he quickly crosses his arms and yells "Take this! Gactica Illusion!!", and again a grand illusion of demonic eyes is seen fshing in the background as Aiacos unleashes a high-speed air current at Ikki through his crossed arms, a current s that the space is about to be ripped apart, that sends Ikki flying and spinning high in the air and after a few moments, he violently crashes headfirst into the ground.

  Aiacos then looks at me and Kanon and says "Now I finally get back to you two", but Kanon with a smile says "Heh... I wouldn't turn my ba the Phoenix", and with the same calm smile I add "I've known Ikki for some time now... And I know that no matter how many times you beat him down, he keeps getting back up, and each time, he grows stronger, just like a phoenix!!", and as my words fell, Ikki's o explodes in strength, as up surrounded by a red fiery aura that takes the shape of the mythical fming bird.

  Pandora POV - Underworld, Judecca - 1987

  I just felt Phoenix Ikki's o spiking once more, when all of the sudden, I feel him stirring and say "Oh... Have you awakened, Lord Hades?", he simply looks somewhere in the distand says "I feel it!", then he asks "Pandora, what is this aggressive o I sense?".

  I lower my head and reply "Nothing to yourself with, my lord, It's merely another of the vermin that have wandered in here... One called Phoenix", he stays in silence for a few seds before he says "I see... This red-hot fiery o... It feels familiar somehow... Bring this phoenix to me!!".

  Ikki POV - Underworld, Fifth Prison - 1987

  As I get up, from behind me I hear Aiacos' voice that says "He gets stronger each time he revives? Then I'll make sure he never gets up again!!", and feel him quickly moving to attack me with a punch, but this time, I'm follow his movement and keep up with his speed, no, in fact, I'm faster, and easily able to dodge all his blows, so I decre "Aiacos! I got a good look at your attack velocity, now all I o do to defeat you is exceed it!".

  He seems truly surprised by it, and this creates a small opening in his defenses, an opening that I quickly take advantage of and so I quickly urge my o and hit him with a 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 abominable illusions or halluations created directly in his own brain.

  Aiaind is strong, so I keep the illusion quite brief and so he is out of the illusion rather quickly, but I clearly see that the damage doo it is still big, so I ask "So how'd you enjoy your tour of hell within the Underworld?", hearing that my oppo asks "Uhhn... So that was all just an illusion, huh?", and he slowly gets up enraged, I look at him and say "I wouldn't step up, you don't have enough strength left to take me down".

  But he doesn't give up and yells "Impossible! I'm a Judge of the Underworld, one of the most powerful of all 108 Specters! A mere Bronze Saint won't beat me!!", hearing that, I ignite my o and say "Then I guess I've got no choice, I have to bail Shun out, I 't afford to hang around wasting time with you... Take this!! The p crushing wi of the phoenix!! Ho Yoku Ten Sho", I create a tunnel of fire in which I and Aiacos are immersed and then project a Phoenix of fire from my hands that flies through the tunnel until it impacts with Aiacos, killing him on the spot.

  Then I look at the remaining Specters and ask "You two want to e at me together?", but before they could answer me, something strange happens, I feel a strange forveloping my body "Huh? Wh... What the... What's going on? I feel so...", then all I see is darkness and feel like my body is being squeezed through a narrow tube, I don't know how much time I spent in this straate, but soon my body impacts the ground, and all I see is some clear white marble.

  Odyin