Geist POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1987

  The chaos started all over the Sanctuary just like brother predicted, a lot of evil spirits started attag at random, but luckily they are pretty weak and be easily defeated with a single o-infused blow, they aren't the real problem, just a nuisahe real problem, are the tless foot soldiers of Hades, the Skeleton Soldier, undead warriors donning the Skeleton Surplice, made of the headpiece, a helmet that represents a skull with three small horns, the shoulder pieces, round with three horns each, a small chest piece that barely protects the upper part of the chest, aive simple arms and legs pieces, it is dark grey in color and has a scythe as a on.

  (Image Here - Skeletoer)

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  [colpse]Right now, I and Cassios are leading a group of trainees equipped with the mass-produced model of Steel Cloth, these Steel Cloths vaguely resemble the Land Cloth, they have a basic design in the boots by a "fin" on eakle, the right arm is simple although its ter extends some kind of prote that exceeds the elbow, while the right arm has a somewhat different model to the left arm with a prote with a kind of arc, such prote allows the use of the Steel Bolt Arrow, a burst of pressed energy that be charged with both o and the Cloth internal energy, the waist piece has four protes, located on the sides and on the front of that part of the body, the chest piece has the prote that exceeds the mouth of the stomaified to the shoulders, the helmet also has basic prote in whose upper part is the prote of red color, the shoulder pieces have a cubic shape that covers the shoulders from above, all of them vary in color.

  (Image Here - MP Steel Cloths)

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  [colpse]Soon, we find a group of Skeletoers about to attack, the guards proteg the zone where the trainee lives, so I yell "Let's go! Send them back to the Underworld!!", and quickly move to attack the one leading this group, I raise my arm akin a cobra raising her head, sets my o on fire with my outstretched hand and fingers which produce real lightning with electric charges of 10,000 volts, geed by my o, then I attack yelling "Thunder Cw!!", and with a quick cw strike, I pierce through his Surplid chest, sending the electric charge right into his body, frying him on the inside and killing him on the spot.

  At the same time, I hear Cassios yell "Steel Saints! Focus on suppression!!", and see dozen of Steel Bolt Arrows, hitting the Skeletoers, blog their advance, while Cassios, rushes inside and starts to literally wreck them apart with his monstrous strength, with one punch he caves in the head of one, a powerful kid breaks the Surplice of another leaving him defenseless from the other Steel Saints' attack, he grabs the head of another and rips it off, thehrows it at another with such force that breaks his oppo's arm, he is brutal and effit, using the minimal time, to kill or cripple as many oppos as possible.

  I look around me and think 'Luckily these soldiers are weaker than a normal Bronze Saint, the only problem is that their armor is strohan a Bck Cloth and that they are unafraid of death...', but I stop thinking about that and focus on dealing with this group as soon as possible, and while entering the fray once again I think, 'Luckily we aren't the only ones here, sister, Seiya and the others are also running around dealing with them and the other Specters that made their appearance!'.

  Mu POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1987

  I warily look at the three newers a ready to react at a moment's notice, when, Bennu Kagaho says "Let's not lose any more time...", then he points his fi me, and igniting his os, Kagaho yells "Crucify Ankh", and projects stakes of bck fmes that are quickly moving toward me at the speed of the light, too fast for me to move away, so I do the only other thing, I teleport out of harms' way, but some loy hair are still burned by those bck stakes.

  Kagaho sees that I'm safe and clicks his tohen as he prepares to attack again he says "So you teleport away... But this time, you'll lose more than just your hair, Mu", but before he could attack again, Dryad Luco steps forward, and putting his hand on Kagaho's shoulder he says "Wait... Don't waste your energy with him... I'll easily make him step aside, with my... Curse of the Lily", and as he says this, he raises his hand and gather his o into a strange small bell-like white flower it almost looks like a lily of the valley but something about it is very different, and the moment, the same kind of flowers starts growing all around us.

  At the same time it emanate a strate, and as soon as I caught a whiff of it, I felt my body growing weaker by the sed, and find more difficult to move, so I quickly stop breathing and try to distance my self, but I stumble and fall on the ground, then I hear Luco's voice as he expins "This is the only alive thing that grows in the underworld... A beautiful flower with many uses, first it is able to heal any kind of injuries... the only downside is that the one healed by it will bee a sve, a Skeleton Warrior uhe and of Hades... Another one is the ohat you are experieng now, it is able to sedate anyone who smells its st until they fall into aernal sleep as long as there is an Underworld Flower around...".

  As I struggle to ignite my o a away from the influence of this flower, I see Behemoth Viote, slowly moving in front of me, with her arm crossed, then she says "Let's end this and move forward!", and she raiser her leg ready to finish me off, at the same time, I'm finally able to ignite my o, but just as I was about to move, I felt a strong psychic power take a hold and stopping me from moving, then as Viote was about to stomp me to death, I hear his voice "Enough, Viote, I've sealed Mu's movements, I shall finish him off myself, hurry and take Athena's head! Do not fet that we only have 12 hours...".

  She simply shrugs her shoulder and says "Then we will be off...", and soohree move past the Aries Temple, at the same time I feel many others pass through it after them, he moves in front of me and says "Have you prepared yourself? You have itted many crimes against me, Mu, but you are still precious to me, therefore, I shall kill you myself, painlessly... Farewell, Mu!!", but all of the sudden the Fire Clock lits up, and surprise he excims "What? The Fire Clock just bzed to life!! Wh-who in the world...".

  Before he finishes his phrase, an old man ughing be heard, and the moment, the figure of Master Dohko calmly walking with his e be seen "Ho, ho, ho... It was me... Dio... ehm... I mean Dohko... truly the manga that young Jayr let me read was truly eaining... Anyway, long time no see, Shion, 243 years, eh? I hought we'd be reunited like this... Why don't you reveal yourself already, eh? My dear friend...".

  Then Master Dohko burns his o to rip apart the cloak c him with his telekinesis and says "You're the one who fell to the hand of Saga's evil side, the former Pope of the Sanctuary, Aries Shion!!", and indeed, in front of me there is a young version of my Master and father figure, Aries Shion, a tall young man with light green long hair and the simir facial features of me and Kiki, as well as the two tikas on his forehead all characteristic symbol of our muvian race, he is wearing a dark copy of my Aries Cloths, it is basically an Aries Surplice of dark purple color.

  (Image Here - Aries Shion)

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  [colpse]Both I and Master Dohko are surprised by his appearance even if we knew what to expect, in fact, Master Dohko says "You should be 261 years old, like me... But you look just as you did before the st Holy War!", and Master Shion calmly says "Surprised, Dohko? This is the power of the God of the Underworld...Because I've pledged fealty to Lord Hades, I've been granted a sed life overflowing with vitality! My body is 18 years old, in the prime of life when humans are at their stro and most beautiful! By trast, my dear Dohko... You've aged".

  But Master Dohko simply says "It's an illusion... Your life and youth are mere illusions, why do you think I lit the Fire Clock... Your life shall st only as long as that clock remains lit, you know that better than anyone, Shion", then Master Dohko looks at me and says "Mu, pursue the Specters at once, work with the others to prevent them from getting near Athena", then he raises his e to send a bst of his o to free me and says "In mere 12 hours the Fire Clock will go out! During this time you must protect Athena at all costs and remove all the Specters from this pce! I'll take over here, go, Mu!", and I simply reply "Yes, sir!", before rushing up the Gold Zodiac.

  Aldebaran POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1987

  I feel the chaos encroag the whole Sanctuary, the os of the Saints and soldiers g against the malevolent os of the Specters, moreover I feel many very powerful os ing closer to the Taurus Temple, at the same time, I remember Jayr's warning 'He said that I uimated my oppo and was caught by surprise by his teique... In the end, iure he saw, I was only able to kill my oppo by exging my life for his... He also told me that i vision he saw that the number of Specters attag the Gold Zodiacreased, as a result of his as...'.

  Soon I feel many presences ehe Temple, and I raise my guard for any ued attack, and one quickly came, a strong o Bst appears out of nowhere, but as I'm ready for it, I'm able to guard against it, but even so, the bst still pushes me back by a few meters, and at the same time, I feel many presences quickly pass through, and move out of the Temple tinuing toward the Gemini Temple, at the same time, only one of them remains behind, most probably to stall or kill me.

  And indeed, after I recovered my bance, I hear a creepy ugh, and my oppo finally makes his appearance "Hie, hie, hie... o meet you, I'll be the oo kill you, I'm the Terrestrial Darkness Star, Deep Niobe!", he is a man of 20 to 30 years old, he stands slightly bent over as if he were hunchbacked, he has well-defined wrinkles or marks on his face, a wide nose, and a big mouth, his body is slim but athletic due to his dition as a warrior, and his armor, is dark grey and purple, the shoulders pieces are in the shape e cws, his headpiece is a helmet that extends pletely along the head of the Spectre, it has a design that resembles an amphibian with rge fangs, the legs, hips, and arms pieces has several cws distributed along each prote.

  (Image Here - Deep Niobe)

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  [colpse]Without waiting another moment, Niobe ignites his o and says "I'll quickly kill you, don't worry it will be painless!", his o reaches the maximum, and he yells "Deep Fragrance!!", to produce from his Surplice, a sweet fragrance of death of purple color, but as soon as he urged his o, I jumped back to increase the distaween us.

  Seeing the purple cloud expanding, I once again think about the details of this teique, 'I remember that Jayr said that this st, onhaled, causes the victim to begin to lose his sehen the limbs of his body begin to fall asleep, and he begins to lose sciousness, moreover holding the nose or closing the mouth to avoid inhaling the fragrance is impossible, as the fragrance seeps through the pores of the skin and travels through the nervous system to override the five senses, and within seds causes the victim to pluo the deepest death... Truly a dangerous and deadly teique... If you don't know anything about it!'.

  I take advantage of the fact that my oppo is taken by surprise by my quick rea to unleash my stroeique, I take my fighting stance by crossing my arms, ignite my o to the maximum, and as the phantom image of a bull appears behind me, I yell "Feel the might of the Golden Bull! Great... Horns!!", and I uhe my arms like an Iai teique, to release, two powerful massive waves of o towards my enemy at the speed of light, that hits h such force that his Surplice pulverizes on impact, and his body is literally ripped apart by the overwhelming force, so much the what impacts the Temple's wall is an almost unreizable mess.

  I look surprised by how easily I dealt with so much that I say "Really...? That's it? I expected more from the specter that was able to kill me...", then I finally notiother preseering the Temple, only this time is a friendly one, and indeed, Mu calmly appears and says "Did you fet, Aldebaran? In the first vision seen by Jayr, you were deaf because of yht with Siren Sorrento, and didn't know anything about your oppo, taking you out by surprise with that nasty teique would've been really easy... But now things are different...".

  I nod at that, then I ask "True... By the way, how was your meeting with the former Pope?", Mu lets out a sigh and replies "Couldn't do much or say anything too revealing... The Specters were always near him, the less they know the more effective our terattack will be... Now, I'll keep moving, as we don't know how the others will fare against the other Specters... After all the Crateris Cloth's visio omnipotent... When I wao check if my future oppo ged st week, what I saw was the image of an older Kiki donning the Aries Cloth, while it did make me proud seeing him like that, it wasn't useful for the current threat...", but I rebut "What do you mean it isn't useful? It clearly showed what you are fighting for! For a better future!!".

  Saga POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1987

  I'm quickly moving toward the Athena's Temple when I feel that the enemies have ihe Gemini Temple, and so to dey them, I quickly activate the Labyrinth of the Twins, an illusion to make the enemies wander aimlessly around the Gemini Temple without being able to find a 'This should keep them occupied for a while... After all, not even Gold Saints easily escape from it, even while knowing of its existence...'.

  After that, I focus oher intruder who is now ihe Temple, I clearly feel that he holds no malice toward Athena, that's why I'm not in hurry, and this very familiar o already tells me, who he is, and why he is here, and indeed, onside the Temple, I see him, my brother Kanon, kneeling in front of Athena, seeing this I have some mixed feeling about it, on one hand, he was the ohat gave the ce to the evil spirit possessio take trol and acted against Athena with his plot with Poseidon, but oher hand, he realized his error, and once he heard about the atta the Sanctuary he quickly came to defend Athena, and I 't help but be proud of his choice.

  Athena looks at Kanon and says "As I already told you, I five you, and if you truly desire so, the Sanctuary will be your home once again, so rise your head Gemini Kanon", my brother raises his head, and I notice the tears falling from his eyes, theices my presend says "I'm gd that you absolved me of my sins, even if I still didn't five myself, but I 't be the Gemini Gold Saint, that is my bra".

  I move forward and say "You are wrong about that... We both are the Gemini Saint, I'm also the Pope now, and I 't move as easily as before, but you oher hand do it... the Gemini steltion represents the twins, one light, the other dark, one protect, the other destroys, it was such sihe Age of Myth, together we are the stro Gold Saint, so, will you fight for pead justice with me, once more?", and I offer my hand, Kanon looks at me, still with a hint of a tear in his eyes and holding my hand he replies "Yes, Saga, I swear to sacrifice my life in the fight for justice!".

  But the moment is interrupted by the fact that now I feel that the Specters were able to pass through the Labyrinth of the Twins, and are now quickly moving toward the cer Temple, so I say "Kanon, keep guarding the Athena's Temple, while I watch over the situation at the Sanctuary, we have to deal with all the Specters here before we start our terattack!", I bow to Athena, and quickly move out of the Temple and say "I'll make sure to protect it, this is my duty as a Gold Saint and Pope... Kanon isn't the only ohat has to atone for his sins and truly five himself" and with a chuckle, I add "Really what a pair of brothers...".

  Deathmask POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1987

  I'm waiting for the intruder to e for some time now, I clearly feel the chaos that is happening all over the Sanctuary, Saints, trainees, soldiers, and Specters are all fighting with everything they have, and we are clearly the stronger force, while I feel that we have some casualties, that is only among the soldiers and guards, even our trainee are now able to fight thanks to those Steel Cloths.

  At the same time, I think about what has happened since Jayr defeated me, and the various events that made me resider my values 'It's strange how things ge, after my defeat itle for the Sanctuary, my Cloth kept rejeg me, not accepting my belief that the goal justify any means and all kind of sacrifices, and so I decided to drown my mencholy in gambling and drinking alcohol...'.

  Remembering the part, a small smile appear on my face, 'Then one day I met Helen and all her siblings, and things started to slowly ge, something about them called me and as I got to know her and the kids better, and seeing their struggles I started to secretly help them form time to time and in the end, as time passed I fell in love with her, for a few months I fot about the Cloth and about being a Saint, and just enjoyed spending time with them... But one day, it all crashed when her illness worsened and almost died, at that moment I truly uood what Jayr was trying to say to me, how we should always try to protect the lives of the is no matter how small, and remebering the fact that he was the best healer of the Sanctuary, I quickly used my o to call him, and he quickly teleported, and saved Helen, at the same time, I once agaihe e with the cer Cloth...'.

  Soon I felt many presences ihe cer Temple, and I prepare to deal with them, and once I see their figures in the distance, I decide to use a preemptive attack, I ignite my o and shout "There is no need for the old Saints to act, I'll send all of you back to the underworld!", I trate my os oip of the index finger of my right hand, from which a white aura gushes forth and yell "Spiritual Infernal Waves!!", then send out radiation in the form of white rings that expands, to try to coil around my victims' bodies to separate the souls from it and suck the soul it into the realm of the dead.

  But as my attack was halfway through its trajectory, I hear a young man's voice that yells "Seki Shiki Nyoi Reirin (Spiritual Departed Soul Summoning)!!", and rain e energy rays crash against my teique, causing a strong explosion leaving me in shock, and at the same time, gave the ce at the others Specters to quickly move past me, as I remain stunned in pce.

  But it isn't the fact that my teique was blocked that shocked me, what truly left me wordless is that my oppo used a Spiritual (Seki Shiki) teique, those are the secret teiques of the cer Gold Saint, no one else learn them, and so I quickly look at the remaining Specter, is a young man of slim build, blond hair, green eyes, and fair skin toh two tikas on his forehead all characteristic symbol of the muvians, but this further fuses me, so in the end, I ask "Who the hell are you? How do you know the Spiritual (Seki Shiki) teiques?".

  At the same time, I finally see his Surplice, the headpiece is a helm and possesses two species of fins eae located on each side of it, oop it has a tail that reaches until the knee, around the neck presents a species of semicircur prote which possesses in the ter a gem of whi turn on two strips that through the arms are uo the back, the shoulder pieces possess a simple and scarce design, the chest pie plete which is uo the waist piece that this subdivided among four protectors whi turn are subdivided in three protes superimposed each other in the front part the prote is subdivided four protes, the arms pieces are of basic design, the legs pieces cover from the thighs to the feet, in the boots the design of leg of a primate be noticed.

  (Image Here - Hanuman Tokusa)

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  [colpse]The young man looks at me and says "I'm the Celestial Skillful Star, Hanuman Tokusa, and it is natural that I know about the Spiritual (Seki Shiki) teiques... After all, I'm the disciple of the first cer Saint, Hakurei!", I look at him with s on my fad say "So, you are cowardly traitor, so afraid of death that decided to bee Hades' sve for an illusion of eternal life... Pathetic!", but Tokusa shook his head and says "No, I didn't bee a sve... I chose to swear fealty to Hades in exge for power aernal life, and I became one of Hades' powerful Specter..." then he spread his arms wide and with a smile he adds "...And to gain all that I only had to kill all my loved ones... It was quite an easy thing to do!".

  Hearing that, almost reminds me of my former self, and shame hit me once again, 'Not too long ago, I was really close to being something as disgusting as this thing in front of me... Really a dreadful thing ower do to man, well, one more reason to not lose this fight... I have pnned a date with Helen, and you 't have a date if they are all dead... So, Hades and his ies have to die!', and with a small smile on my face, I think, as Helen and her little brothers' faces appear in my mind, 'The feeling of fighting to proteething you care about... Is nice!', and at the same time, I take my fighting stand say "Prepare yourself, Hanuman Tokusa, it's time to face your judgment!".

  Odyin