Seiya POV - Underworld, Judecca - 1987

  We finally reach the Hades Pace, but onside the devastated chambers of the Lord of the Underworld, it is clear that we are still too te, the only thing I find here is Shun's body donning his Andromeda Cloth on the grouhe throne, and seeing him, I quickly rush toward him, and holding his body I yell worried "Shun!! Shun!!".

  Shun slowly opens his eyes and says a little dazzled "Oh... S... Seiya...", I quickly notice that he is fine, and from his o, it is clear that he is truly Shun, so I say "That's great! You are yourself again!", then Hyoga asks the most important question "Where is Athena? What happeo her?".

  Shun shakes his head a little then he says "I... I don't know, but I seheir o disappearing behind that curtain...", and points at the shredded bck curtain behind the throne, which reveals another path leading somewhere deeper into the Hades Pace, and looking at it I ent "That curtain, huh...?", and while Shiryu helps Shun stand up he says "Then that is our destination... We have no time to lose!".

  We keep moving deeper into the pace, and soon we find ourselves in front of a huge wall marked with two unknown effigies fag each other, as well as the Faravahar symbol, seeing this I ask "So where did Athena and Hades go? It's just a dead end", then carefully looking at the wall I excim "Man, that wall is huge, what is this thing?".

  And a familiar voiswers "The end of the Underworld, the Wailing Wall...", I turn around and see Shaka's figure kneeling on the ground and bleeding, and surprised to see him in this state I yell "Shaka!!", meanwhile he tinues expining "Athena pursued Hades beyond that wall...", and hearing that Shiryu says "Theta hurry...", but Shaka interrupts him and says "It's hopeless, that wall is the Wailing Wall, only the Gods pass through it".

  Refusing to believe in what he said, I look at the wall and say "No way... We tear it down...", and Shaka ents as he slowly gets up "I thought so too, I tried again and again... But I couldn't even scratch the surfaow look at me... For us mortals, it's a wall of despair!", and while Shun ents "You mean not even Shaka's great strength was able to damage this wall...", I look at this huge apparently iructible wall and ask "So what's oher side? Once you get past the Underworld, what's left?".

  Hearing my question Shaka replies "I don't kher what kind of world could lie beyond the end of the Underworld?" then as he realizes somethiters "Unless... Oher side is...Elysion!!", at the same time, I think, 'I refuse to give up now! If we lose Seika-nee, Miho and the others will all die!', and so I take a few steps bad prepare to destroy this wall.

  It seems that Shun notices what I'm about to do and asks "Seiya... What are you pnning to do?", and not hiding anything I reply "What else? I'm going to elevate my o to its limit and unch myself at the wall", hearing my pn Hyoga yells "But that's futile! Not even Shaka at full power could put a dent in it!", and Shiryu adds " Don't do it! Do you have a death wish?", looking at them I ask "Have you guys fotten? When the Holy War was about to start we voould never give up hope, this may be a wall of despair to everyo the Gods... But I'll never give in to despair, no matter what! I swear I'll destroy this wall and stop the Greatest Eclipse and Hades!!".

  Then I rush toward the wall as I ignite my o and make it burn to its limits, but Shaka appears in front of me and says "They are right, Seiya! Even if you bust your o and throw yourself at the wall, it won't budge", I ignore his warning too and yell "We won't know for sure until we try! Move aside Shaka!!".

  But faster than I could react, he hits me, he did hurt me but temporarily paralyzed my body, which falls to the ground uo move, then Shaka says "I just remembered something I heard long ago...The only thing that destroy the Wailing Wall is sunlight", hearing that Hyoga asks "Sunlight?", and Shun adds "But that's...".

  Shaka uands what Shun means and says "Yes... This is the deepest, darkest er of the Underworld, the rays of the sun ever reach here, it's impossible we mortals simply down this wall... But Athena has pursued Hades in Elysion and needs our help... As Seiya said even though we know it's futile, we have to put our lives on the line".

  Shaka sits ius position as he makes his o explodes and yells "bust, my life!!", but before I could stop him, another familiar voice yells "Hold on Shaka!", and appears o him putting his hand on his shoulder and stopping Shaka from sacrifig his life, looking at him, I help but yell in joy and relief "Jayr-san!!!".

  Jayr POV - Underworld, Wailing Wall - 1987

  I arrived just in time to stop Shaka from uselessly sacrifig his life, and say "A man of your caliber shouldn't die in vain...", Shaka looks at me and says "But Jayr...", I stop him and looking at the Wailing Wall in front of me I ent "Really! To destroy this wall you need sunlight, and the first thing you think about is to bust your life and o in hope of produg it!?" then look a Seiya still on the ground and add "Or simply smash your hard as Gold Cloth head on it in hope of destroying it...".

  I shake my head and say "Really... I don't know what to say... You only think about solving things with your o or fists, 't you guys use your head for once?", then I turn to Shaka and say "Shaka it true that for mortals is impossible to produce sunlight on their own... But something that you fot and mostly ignore, is that the normal mortals sihe Age of Myth didn't use their o to solve their problems... But use their head and teology!".

  I open my territory and from it, I bring out a device that I asked Dr. Asamori to prepare just for this occasion and say "What is impossible for you be easily done by a smarter mortal with some tools and a little of time... I present you the o-fueled Sor Simutor... A piece of stific equipment used to replicate sunlight in trolled boratory enviros, they are essential for researd testing of products and processes that either use or are affected by sunlight, in use since 1975 by various researcher...".

  The Sor simutor is made up of a light source, made of many Xenon mps, a power supply, that is the device that verts o in energy used by the Steel Cloths, optid filters used to modify the output beam, and of course the trols o operate the simutor, it is quite bulky, but it will get the job done, 'And with this, I also save all the Gold Saints for killing themselves for produg sunlight through their o and Cloths!'.

  (Image Here - Sor Simutor)

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  [colpse]And while setting up the Sor Simutor I expin "With this device, we easily gee the sunlight o open the wall... or at least to weaken the wall enough so that it easily be destroyed... The only downside is that at least two Gold Saint have to remaio it to output the o needed for it to work and to keep the Wailing Wall open...", and hearing that, Shaka nods and says "If this work as you intended, I will do it!", at the same time, another set of footsteps be heard ing, and the moments a group of Specters appears, and one among them says "We won't let any of you get to Elysion!".

  But before any of them could attack, a beautiful lyre requiem with a numbing effect that paralyzes the minds of those who hear its melody be heard, and the Specters fall into a sleep-indug stupor, as Orphèe figure appears behind them and says "Sorry, these ones were able to avoid me long enough to reach here, but I was able to deal with all the other Celestial Star and quite a few Terrestrial Star...", at the same time one of the Specters still fighting against Orphèe's Death Trip Serenade says "O... Orphèe... You... t... traitor...".

  Then Orphèe's music ges as his o explodes, and Orphèe yells "It's time to end your suffering! Stringer Fine!!", and projects the strings of his lyre to catch the enemies aheir bodies apart, at the same time, Seiya excims "Orphèe? Lyra Orpèe? The legendary Silver Saint said to have a better mastery of the o thahe Gold Saints! What is he doing here?", and Orphèe looks at him and says "It's is a long story... And we have no time for that... Quick Jayr use that thing to open the Wailing Wall, I'll guard you all!".

  Hearing that I nod, then turn to Seiya and the others and expin "Guys... before we breach the Wailing Wall, I want to tell you guys what you will find oher side of it... After this wall, you will find the Lethe River, only it isn't really a river, but a Hyperdimension, a great spad time anomaly which divides the Underworld from Elysion... This area extends for many light years and is a pce where spad time are destroyed, only the Gods or people who received their prote are able to cross the area without disiing immediately and withstand the great ic forces of that pce... But you, with your Cloths refed by Athena's blood, move through it".

  After expining that, I and Shaka move he power supply of the Sor Simutor while I expin "The only thing you have to do is pce your hand on that red sensor and stantly send your o in it, which will theransformed into energy used to gee a strong light through all these mps, the light then will be pass through that mirror like-thing that will filter and ge it to be equal to sunlight, and with it, we will open the Wailing Wall".

  Hearing my expnation, Shaka nods and says impressed "Truly the mortals' teology advanced so mu these few years that they are almost able to make miracles I thought impossible without the use of o... It seems that I truly detached too much from the world to not notiuch things ged...", I let out a wry smile and say "Well, some things ged, but some a still the same, people are still suffering and many still do many wicked things... but there is still hope that things will get better...".

  Theh put our hand on the sensor of the power supply and start to send our o into it, activating the Sor Simutor, then the array of mps lights up, and starts shining their light on the mirror-like filter that verges the light into a bright shining beam of sunlight that impacts against the Wailing Wall, after a few moments of silence, just as I was starting to get worried that I fucked things up and that only by sacrifig 12 Gold Saints this wall be destroyed, I hear Hyoga shout "Look! The Wailing Wall, it's melting!!".

  Then I hear Shiryu yells "Shit!! I looked directly at the light, I 't see anything! Guys, I think I'm blind!!", and 't help but roll my eyes and think, 'Dear Athena! If he isn't undressing, he loses his sight! What the hell was Kurumada smoking when he e up with Shiryu's character?', meanwhile, Seiya says "God This wall is almost a few kilometers thick, I 't see the end of this hole...", and finally Shun says "e on! We 't tinue waste time like this let's move on!", and soon I feel the four Bronzes running into the hole we made.

  Meanwhile, Shaka says "This devies a lot of our o, but we 't stop, I clearly feel that if we stop using the Sor Simutor, the Wailing Wall will quickly regee, so we are stuck here...", hearing that I nod and say "Not really both Orphèe and Kanon take our pce... only Kanon is still on his way here, but it shouldn't take too much time for him to e", at the same time, I feel two other familiar os ing here and mutter "They are also here...".

  Seiya POV - Underworld, Hyperdimension - 1987

  After walking through, what I think are, a few kilometers of the wall, I, Shun, Shiryu, and Hyoga finally stand in front of what only be the Lethe River that Jayr told us, and now I uand why he called it a Hyperdimension, it is a seemingly eunnel-like space, in which, I clearly see with my naked eyes that time and space are stantly ging within it, something I didn't even think ossible.

  I look at this spad excim in wohis is the Lethe River... it is truly a Hyperdimension...", Shuo me ents "Look... Time and Space are in stant flux here...", at the same time, Shiryu picks up a rock a throw it in the space, and we look in horror as the rock is obliterated the instant it was ihe Hyperdimension, and I hear Hyoga mutters "No wonder only Gods pass through".

  I look into this strange space tunnel and quickly notice a light in the distand from it, I feel the traces left behind by Athena's o, so I point at it and yell "Look! That light must be the way to Elysion! That's were Saori-san is chasing Hades' soul, and also where we o go!", Shiryu nods and says "You are right! Let's go, it's all or nothing!!".

  We look at each other, then nodding we do a leap of faith and jump in the Hyperdimesion, but soon I feel an incredible force pressuring my whole being, it is s that I feel all my bourning to dust under such pressure, even my Cloth appears to be on its limit about to break at any moment, so much that I 't help but yell "Unnh... What incredible pressure! My body and Cloth are both about to get pulverized!!".

  While still in pain, I look at the other's situation and notice that not only they are in the same state as me, uo move at the mercy of the forces of this space, but we are also drifting apart and away from the light leading into the Elysion, "We're getting pulled away from Elysion!! A... At this rate, well be done for!!", and hear my brothers calling each as we drift further apart uo interfere.

  As the pressure is getting stronger, and we are drifting apart uo act, I almost give in to despair and say "Unnh... I guess there was no way for humans to do this, after all, only the Gods walk through this road to Elysion... E...Even with these Cloths, which were revived by Athena's blood... Cloths that were supposed to be invulnerable...Unh!! Wh-What is this?", all of the sudden, I feel the pressure around me decrease, but that isn't the only thing that happened, from my Cloth a pair of wings appeared, and with their appearance, I clearly feel that now I trol my movement in this space.

  Seeing them, I 't help but excim "Wings!! My Cloth sprouted wings!!", then I quickly move and reach for Shun, at the same time, I notice that also Hyoga's Cloth sprouted wings, and he went to the rescue of Shiryu, at the same time, Shun asks "How did you grow wings?", to that question I simply answer with "I don't know! Probably was Athena's blood that made these grow...".

  Then as soon as Hyoga and Shiryu arrive, I yell "All right! Now we get to Elysion!! Let's go!!", and together we fly toward the light in the distance while withstanding the pressure of the Hyperdimension.

  Jayr POV - Underworld, Wailing Wall - 1987

  As I'm p the Sor Simutor with Shaka, I feel Ikki's ing closer, and he isn't alone, following slightly behind him is Pandora, so to avoid further drama, I'm about to warn Orphèe about her presence, but it seems that I'm too te, as he is looking at the entrao the hall with a frown on his face.

  Soon Ikki and Pandora walk inside, and I clearly hear her surprise as she mutters "The Wailing Wall... Open... so easily...", at the same time, I see that Orphèe is about to attack, so I quickly send a telepathic message, 'Orphèe... Don't be so quick to judge her... I know she did harm you and Eurydice, but it isn't like she had any trol over her as... I saw what she went through... At a very young age she fell uhe influence of Thanatos and Hypnos, two Gods, how could she resist them, a defenseless young girl... I just ask you to not judge her yet... After all, now Euridyce is fine... Give her a ce!', and I see him slightly rex and nod in my dire.

  Meanwhile, Ikki notices my presend asks "Jayr-san! What happeo Shun? Where are the others?", and so I quickly reply and give him a summary of what happened since he was thrown in the Cocytus, from Shun's exorcism to the opening of the Wailing Wall with the Sor Simutor, until the point where Shun, Seiya, Hyoga, and Shiryu already moved toward the Elysion.

  Hearing that Shun was free from Hades' influence, Ikki lets out a sigh of relief, but when he heard about the other moving past the Wailing Wall, he simply nods and starts to move troup with them, but before he could move closer to the hole in the Wailing Wall, Pandora stops him "Hold, Ikki! If you go after Shun, Shiryu Hyoga and Seiya, you'll be obliterated... I heard that the Phoenix Cloth repair itself... So I suspect it hasn't received the prote of Athena's blood".

  Hearing what she said, Shaka is about to say that under my instru, the Phoenix Cloth also received Athena's Blessing, but with my eyes, I signal him to shut up, meanwhile, with his back fag Pandora, Ikki says "It's not a problem... I've gotta go!", then Pandora hugs him and with tears in her eyes she says "I'll help you go to Elysion... But iurn, avenge me, please, Ikki".

  Ikki slightly looks at her and asks "Avenge you?", and she takes a step bad simply replies "Yes", then Ikki says "So that's why you freed me from the icy hell of Cocytus...", but Pandora shakes her head ahis by saying "Heh... I'm sure you could have escaped in time without my help...", then she expins while holding a neck her hand and looking at it "But I finally woke up, I remembered that 13 years ago my family was sughtered by Lord Hades...".

  Holding the tears in her eyes she tells us her story "Hades Castle... It was onown as Heinstein Castle, a pace surrounded by beautiful kales and greenery, I was born and raised there... My family, the Heinsteins, were bright and loving people... My geher... My beautiful mother, pregnant with her sed child... And me, raised with love and care, like a little princess, but one day... I brought evil upon the Earth with my own hands".

  At this point, she shudders remembering what happened, but she doesn't stop and tinues with her story "One day, I ignored my father's warning and moved by curiosity, I went into the old woodshed in the deepest er of the garden... It was said that its doors had not been opened for over 200 years... But I watched as an invisible forbolted the heavy lock... And as if pelled by a spell, I stepped inside, and found a small jewel box... shut with Athena's seal".

  And with a choked sob, she tinues "When I foolishly opehat box... I opehe path to doom, and freed the souls of Hypnos and Thanatos, two Gods at the service of Hades who told me how to fulfill my destiny... at the same time, my mave birth to the soul of Lord Hades, and from that day forward... Nothing could live iein Castle but my new brother and me, even the grass and flowers withered away, Lord Hades' shield desded upon the castle, keeping everyo... Heinsten Castle transformed into a castle of death... Hades Castle".

  Ikki, who listeo her whole story, then says "I see... So that's why you came after Shun when he was a baby... To give Hades a body", Pandora nods and adds "That's right, Thanatos and Hypnos told me that the one chosen for our Lord's flesh anese Orphan...", hearing that I 't help but think, 'Really a Japanese Orphan... Only that? Do you know how many there are? Only Mitsumasa Kido sired over 100 of them... plus all the other unlucky ones, and you have a pretty long list...'.

  Meanwhile, Ikki lets out a sneer and says "Heh... You're the ander of Hades' Specters, but you are beggio help you take him down... Have you lost your mind, Pandora?", hearing his question Pandora lowers her head and says "I told you, I woke up... After colliding with your fiery life force... Before that, I'd been a sve of Hades sihe age of 3, everything looked dead and gray. the color of the sky, the color of grass... Even the color of blood... But after meeting you again here in the Underworld, I remembered... That the sky is blue, the grass is green... And the blood is a bright, bright red".

  Then she raises her head and says "The Specters and I believed that when Lord hades took over the Earth... The corrupt Human World would be transformed into a utopia and those living in it graernal life..." then tears fall again from her eyes and marks her beautiful face as she says "But now I think that is a lie... And that all life oh will perish just as my family did...", theakes the neckd offer it to Ikki saying "With this, you travel freely across the Underworld... Even through the Hyperdimension, this was the greatest privilege Lord Hades bestowed upon me".

  While this is happening, I sense something ing, and it seems that Shaka felt the same as he mutters "Huh? Now this is iing...", meanwhile, Ikki doesn't take Pandora's neckce, but looks at her in the eyes and asks "What are you pnning to do ?", and Pandora with a sad smile replies "Heh... Now that I have betrayed Lord Hades... There's no way he... Or Thanatos and Hypnos... will five me...".

  And as her words fell, I clearly feel an invisible attaing from afar, clearly aiming at Pandora, but before it could reach her, another bst of es from the entrance of the hall, and intercepts the invisible attack defending Pandora from it, at the same time, Ikki notice the exges and yells "What was that? Pandora! What's the matter?".

  But she doesn't have time to answer as another familiar voice replies "That was an attack from a God... made it purely from his will to kill, a normal mortal do nothing against it... Girl for sure you pissed off some big shot!", and following the sound of footsteps, Kanon makes once again his appearance, 'It seems he recovered a little from his fight with Rhadamanthys...'.

  Meanwhile, Pandora faces again Ikki and says "Ignore me... Hurry to Elysion, but just remember this, don't let yuard down the ones you should fear the most are the attendants of Hades... Thanatos and Hypnos!! pared to them the Judges are infants, they serve Lord Hades, but are Gods in their ht... It is no great feat for them to kill from afar with just a thought", and right on cue, atack came, but this one was again deflected by Kanon, at the same time, Ikki expins to Pandora that he doesn't he neckd that she keep it.

  Seeing this, I shout "Kanon, Orphèe! Take our pd power the Sor Simutor..." then I turn to Shaka and say "Shaka you protect them... and her from the Gods' attacks? After all, between us all, you have the stro defense... And I feel that she needs a ce to truly live her life free of Hades' influence...", Shaka looks at Pandora for a few moments and decres "I feel no evil within her... She will have her ce...", and so I use my telekinesis to pull Pandora he Sor Simutor, while Kanon and Orphèe take our p p it.

  Then together with Ikki, I leap into the Hyperdimension and use the wings of the Sagittarius and Phoenix Cloths to move toward the light that leads to the Elysion, beyond ten billion lights, past hundreds of billion kilometers of darkness, all while enveloped by an almost crushing pressure, we finally reach a world that only the Gods and those they approve of reach, Elysion.

  Odyin