CHAPTER 01 - THE AWAKE OF A MEMORY

Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun, Ikki, Saori...

All moving on with their lives like they were normal people, without any memories of what happened on their last battle, thanks to the curse spell casted by Apollo.
Seiya, looking for his sister, goes on with his pegasus cloth throught Greece, passing by a small village close to the sanctuary. His mind is away, and his face shows up a mix of sadness and hope, the sunlight is mild in his face, coming with the wind; Shiryu is back to Rozan´s five peaks, only with a minor memory of it´s location, and stands at the top of the rock where he revealed his tecnique for the first time. The wind blows strong, rocking his clothes and hair; Hyoga, back on Siberia, wearing a coat, is very confused, and he´s looking for some people in order to get some answers. The snow storm rages like nothing for him; and Shun walks near Ikki around the Kido Mansion, where they spot Tatsumi calling them. Both look at him with a distrustful expression. Look like both saints don´t recognize him.
All of them are with almost no memories, their minds is nearly empty, wishing to know what happened in their lives.

EGYPT – TEBAS, 2 YEARS AGO

Tebas´ citizens live peacefully like they way they´re supposed to be, but something weird is happening recently: many of the citizens who lived around Amon-Ra´s tomb, which is inside a pyramid located there, are dying without showing any kind of symptoms of any kind of disease. Something very odd is going on in this city.
So, one day, something even more odd happens: the sky, near Amon-Ra´s pyramid where his tomb is located, starts to get dark and cloudy, thunders striking from the sky, and everybody run away in fear of the giant cloud near the god´s tomb, but one youngster, brave and courageous, dares to get closer, and when he does he spots the entrance of the pyramid – once sealed – opening, and he goes on very curious, and, despite his fear, he goes inside carefully. He goes right down one of the paths, being unable to know which one he should follow. While he goes, he starts to feel some odd headache. Lost due to the intensity of his pain, the guy can´t decide fi he shoould follow the left or the right path, but, going thur a certain way his pain diminishes, so he goes on this new path that looks destined to him.
In the middle of the way the guy spots some sorta of shadows passing by him, and going quickly by the same way than he is. He gets scared, but his pain forces him to forget that and keep on going. In the end of this infinite-like labyrinth, the guy find the tomb of Amon-Ra. He gets frightened, because no one ever was sure that if this god was ever there or if he was just a legend, since that he should never have a body of his own; but it looks like there really is a mummyfied corpse with an amulet, the Heart Scarab. Beside his tomb there are four vases, with human-shaped, jackal-shaped, falcon-shaped and baboon-shaped tops. There were Egyptian inscriptions on each one of them: Imset (liver), Duamutef (Stomach), Rebehsenuef (Intestine) and Hapi (Lungs). The young guy gets a little sick to know that the god´s organs were taken away from his body and put in these vases to preserv them, but what scaries him most are the spirits floating the room´s ceiling: they keep spinning for a while, and them they gather and make something that looks like a giant face. It´s Amon-Ra´s face, that starts talking to him:

AMON-RÁ: Muoooohh........youu......

The guy gets terrified, his fear is clear in his face that gets wet by his sweat.

AMON-RÁ: You, the final key to my return, set your spirit free from this body that shall be taken in order to a great god´s ressurection, so your sins shall be forgiven and your soul will rest forever in the fields of Iaru.
GUY: Bu..but....I.. ehh..
AMON-RÁ: How dear you relinquish the Iaru fields for you pathetic life? Humans, despizeble beings, should all die!!!!

The spiritual face fly towards the guy, who´s paralized in fear sweating, until it explodes in the floor right on he was standing at, and after the smoke fade, the guy´s body appears floating with a huge energy around him, and he goes floating with his arms opened near his waist. Amon-Ra speaks for him:
Amon-ra: Now the cicle is complete. A great amount of AKH (divine force) granted from the spirits of the dead sacrificed in Tebas for my ressurection, and a little bit of KA (vital force) from a young human like this one to rejuvenate my organs and my body.
Some lights flash in his organs and in the correspondent vases in order: first, his liver, and the human-shaped vase lights up; then his stomach and the jackal-shaped vase; so, his intestines and the falcon-shaped vase; for last his lungs, and the baboon-shaped vase lights up like the others. Right in sequence his whole body lights up, so as the Scarab amulet, and when the amulet and the vases glare simultaneously, from those some energy balls go off. They rise up and go towards the amulet, and when they enter it´s cristal, this one starts to emanate an energy that creates bolts of light to the ceiling, overcoming the torch lights and illuminate all the room. The body of the guy falls off to the ground, the body of the mummy starts to energize itself using all the light there, and slowly returns to his human self. From far away we canr hear the guy screaming continuously, and when Amon-Ra´s body finally gets totally human he stands up naked.

AMON-RÁ: Finnaly I woke up. Greeks, your faith is sealed.

Amon-ra is leaving the room, and as he goes, the image of what happened to the guy appears: his body is in the same deplorable conservation state that an unmummyfied corpse.

1 YEAR AND 8 MONTHS LATER

There is the view of a great sanctuary being build, and it´s almost finished. Around it there are three entrances: one for the chamber of Amon-Ra, the one in the center, dedicated to the god Osiris; one for the room os the two truths, where are performed the judgements of those who died to see if they should go to the fields of Iaru or get devoured by Amut, and the left entrance belongs to Seth, brother of Osiris and his own murderer. Despite of erevrything that happened in the ancient mythology, all gods own respect to Amon-Ra, and they can´t cause any conflicts in his new sanctuary, Seth´s Temple is in the high Egypt, and in the chamber of Amon-Ra there is a great stairway that leads to his throne, and it has two sphinxs behind it, with burning torches everywhere, priests that pray all the time and slaves that serve him; and way behind there´s a big golden statue of Amon-Ra himself. He is sitting on his throne with a pleasured and pretensious looking in his face.

AMON-RÁ: Finally I will be able to see his plans flow, I gotta start to execute it since now...

GREECE, NOWADAYS

Seiya is looking for his sister, asking about her every single village he goes by, until he passes in front of a mirror, but can´t see his reflex. He finds this fact weird, and when he looks back to the mirror, curious, he sees not his image but an young Amon-Ra. Seiya, intringued, looks to the mirror and every move he makes the image copies him. He doens´t understand well the situation, but anyway he starts to do some fooleries until the image stops to imitate him, and that´s when he gets scaried:

AMON-RÁ: What´s happening with your mind, young boy? It is confused..
SEIYA: I...I can´t remember of anything but the fact that my sister came here to find me and disappeared, I can´t find her...but, who are you?
AMON-RÁ: I am somebody that wishes to help you finding what you are looking for. Seiya, are you interested on having you memories back?
SEIYA: How do you know my name?
AMON-RÁ: Seiya, I do know more that you can´t even imagine. Do you want to have you memories back or not?
SEIYA: I believe that is no longer possible. Even if i try hardest, I can´t.
AMON-RÁ: I want to propose you a deal: I need you to do me a favor as a saint, and if you honor that commitment with me you memories from now on shall be restored.

Seiya looks at him kinda suspicious:

SEIYA: But how will I know that you are not setting me up?? No way, I will only make deals if I know what are they about...

Suddenly a flash of light dazzles Seiya´s sight and causes him to fall back. In front of him there is Amon-Ra, (a mirage) that came out of the mirror. Seiya, confused, realizes that his memory is back, and gets thanksful to Amon-Ra, and then reminds of Apollo, Athena, and his friends.

AMON-RÁ: I am the Sun God from the egyptian mythology, I need your help to end up with Apollo´s ambition.
SEIYA: With..A..pollo´s ambition?
AMON-RÁ: Yes, milleniums ago the great Egypt was torn apart in two: the high Egypt and the low Egypt, so they could be ruled by Seth and Horus. But, for some reason, humans, that were ruled by these gods, went crazy, and a huge war was unleashed litterally tearing Egypt apart. Looked like an endless war, that lasted for years, but what would be the reason that would make this war to be unleashed? The sleep of both gods wouldn´t cancel their divine protection to their people. Some power as big as theirs interfered, the power of some God, but why? Ever since mythologic eras the greek gods were not conniving with our presence; Olymp doesn´t allow any other gods, not only in Greece, but in the whole world. So this is the reason – the interference of the greek gods – why the war was unleashed in our country
SEIYA: A war unleashed by the gods?
AMON-RÁ: This is more than obvious. Since mythologic eras, the greek gods like to play with humans like they were their puppets. But I wouldn´t allow this on my kingdom, so i´ve returned to the corporeal world to end this war, and, in the moment I wished that evil evil ended in the mind of the egyptians, I ´ve invoked a purification power from the corruption spell casted by the greek god, then Apollo appeared.
SEIYA: Apollo?!
AMON-RÁ: Yes, he banished my soul from earth, imprisoning me in my own grave, from where I could do nothing without a body to go back, and I´ve been stuck there until these days.
SEIYA: But...and the war?
AMON-RÁ: Luckily I managed to complete the casting of my spell that broke the efect, clearing up all evil, but Apollo was still there, but the will power of everyone – that were in a struggle in their owns thoughts and realized they were being manipulated – banned Apollo from Egypt.
SEIYA: So...what do you want from me?
AMON-RÁ: As I said before, Apollo can overcome my power, and I am afraid that again the same thing will happen, and this time, with my people not prepared for war we will succumb to him, so I need your help, I need you to defeat Apollo.
SEIYA: But that´s impossible, we already fought Apollo once, but he is an extremely powerful god, and everything was in vain. As punishmente he made us lose our memories.

Then Amon-Ra shows Seiya an image on the mirror where he came from: there are the Gold Saint imprisoned on the dimension created by the gods and sustained by Apollo.

AMON-RÁ: Seiya, look at them...
SEIYA: They...are...the Golden Saints!!!!
AMON-RÁ: Yes, they were trapped there to keep their souls forever in the darkness and prevent them to reincarnate for the rest of the eternity. Apollo created this seal to keep them there, because they are a potential threat, and with their help you and your friends will be able to defeat Apollo.
SEIYA: But how is this possible?
AMON-RÁ: The seal of the Golden Saints can be easily broken, he just need to be removed from where they are now. The problem is that the seal is on the temple of Apollo, and if you manage to accomplish this achievement, the Golden Saints will have their souls free, and them I will be able to resurect them, in order to help you on the battle against Apollo.
SEIYA: Well, if this is really possible, then I agree, but what about my friends??? They are all probably in the same situation as mine, without memories...
AMON-RÁ: Don´t worry, I´m speaking with you and contacting all the Bronze Saints at the same time. I need you to meet me at the sanctuary in five days. There we will discuss about how to go to the temple of Apollo.

Amon-Ra is going back to the mirror slowly as he speaks..

SEIYA: No, don´t go, wait...!!!

Amon-Ra disappears and only Seiya´s image remains on the mirror.

SEIYA: In the sanctuary...Ok then...

Meanwhile, Amon-Ra – at the same time – do the same with the other Saints: with hyoga, reflecting on the icy floor, with Shiryu, in the Rozan waterfall where he´s with Shunrei, with Shun and Ikki in a broken glass at the door fo the Kido´s Mansion, making Tatsumi frightened, and then they all recover their memories and decide to meet at the sanctuary.

SANCTUARY – GREECE

Seiya arrives, and there he meets all the other saints, and gets surprised to see Ikki among them.

SEIYA: Ikki? What are you doing here? You never joined us before the battles.
IKKI: Bah!!You complain too much, Seiya. Since you don´t want me here then I will go away..
SHUN: No, Ikki, wait...

Shun holds Ikki by his arms:

SHIRYU: Yes, Ikki, stay with us. Right now we have a very important mission to accomplish..
HYOGA: This is true, we have to put and and on Apollo´s ambition and set free the spirit of the Golden Saints from the prison they are, they have to come with some...

Shun interrupts Hyoga:

SHUN: Wait, now I remember. Me and Ikki saw the Golden Saints here at the sanctuary!!!
SEIYA: Is this true?
IKKI: Yes, we saw then when we battled Theseus, one of the Artemis Saints.
SHIRYU: So take us there now!

Shun and Ikki take them to the place where te statue made by the Golden Saints is. Seiya and the others look at it and get exasperated:

SHIRYU: But, how??
SEIYA: It can´t be!!
HYOGA: Master!!

Hyoga cries for his master and get down on his knees ruined, and when he looks to his tears in his reflex he sees Amon-Ra.

AMON-RÁ: Did I leave you waiting for too long???


There is a flash and from it Amon-Ra goes off.

SEIYA: We are ready, we want to go meet Apollo to save the Golden Saints.
AMON-RÁ: I see that you are decided to it, but one thing is sure: how do you make it to a place you can´t see?
IKKI: Are you playing with us? Didn´t you say you would take us to where Apollo is?
SHIRYU: Calm down, Ikki, don´t let rage take us. Amon-Ra, if it´s your interest to dethrone Apollo, why don´t you show us the way?
AMON-RÁ: I thought you would never ask me this. The way to the temple of Apollo is there.

Amon-Ra points to the status of the Golden Saints.

SEIYA: How?!?
IKKI: Enough, I´m not here to hear this nonsenses, either you tell us where is the path or..
HYOGA: Ikki, don´t do that!!

Ikki grabs Amon-Ra in his shirt-collar and pulls him near, but he let go when he hears a comment from Shun:

SHUN: He.. he.. is right...

Shun puts his hand on the statue, and his hand goes thru it.

SHUN: It´s true, people, look at that!!!
AMON-RÁ: Yes, on its lower part the status is intangible. You can go throught a dimensional portal that will lead you right down to the temple of Apollo

Ikki lets Amon-Ra go slowly and embarassed.

IKKI: I...I..

AMON-RÁ: Don´t worry, just focus on your objectives. Now go!

Amon-Ra arranges his threashed cloth.

HYOGA: Let´s rush then, we have to save the Golden Saints.
ALL: Yes!!!

On the moment they are about to enter the statue, Amon-Rá advice them:

AMON-RÁ: The temple of Apollo must be very dangerous, take care, and remember, the seal can be broken easily, just remove it from the main portal of the prison and the souls of the Golden Saints will be free for me to revive them. The problem is that Apollo is probably guarding this seal, so I say again, take care!!
ALL: Yes!

And then all the Bronze Saints run towards the statue, and go throught it.

AMON-RÁ: Huhuhu...good luck, Saints...

APOLLO´S SANCTUARY - ? ? ? ? ?

Seiya and the others are going in a path, Apollo´s sanctuary looks more like a palace, unlike the greek temples. It has a tone of color that varies from golden to brown, and his huge pillars drawed with ninfas look like they have 45 feet.

SEIYA: I´m worried, nothing happened yet since we entered.
SHIRYU: I can´t feel any cosmos around here.

Shun asks for them to wait, then wears his cloth, but his chain won´t answer. They find that very weird, but keep going. The way is lighted by many torches, each one different from the other, and it looks like that, on the top of each torch, instead of flame there is a micro-sun that lights 100 times more.
They find the Altar of Apollo more forward, where he is resting. His altar is in a mini room, where there is a throne in a higher place, reached by stairs on all the sides of the throne, doing something like a cone, and around it only pillars like those on the hallways, and at it´s left a little portal.
APOLLO: I was waiting for you.
SEIYA: How did you know we were here?
APOLLO: Look, Seiya, I´m a god, and everything lighted by the sunlight is under my eyes. I know very well what you are doing here, but you will never be able to remove the seal from the Golden Saints. Ad I will say more: I´ve had a premonition...You are going to die!!!!!!

Hyoga gets angry thinking about Camus on this situation and says:

HYOGA: The only one who´s going to die here is you, Apollo.

Then Hyoga send his AURORA THUNDER ATTACK , but Apolo not even try to avoid his attack: he just stands, and the power of the Cignus Saint is torn in half. Then his attack flow is reversed, returning to Hyoga and hitting the others, throwing them against the temple´s wall.

APOLLO: It´s useless, every attack against a god will return to yourself.

Seiya slowly gets up, and then starts to blaze his cosmo...

SEIYA: Agh...this is not true, we were been able to hit gods so many times before by elevating our cosmoes to the maximum, and you, Apollo, once were a target of one attack of my own, and I gonna do it again.
APOLLO: How dare you despize my power, kid? Have in mind that I didn´t fight seriously, because I didn´t believe humans would have such this capacity. But now it´s different. You are evil beings that opposed to the gods, and that´s why your race shall be terminated...

Apollo lifts one of his hands opened, and then close it. When the hand closes, between his fingers a strong flare comes right off, and after the flare take all the place where they are, everything gets dark. Behind Apollo, Seiya can see the sealed portal where the Golden Saints are, and this is the only glowing thing besides the own Apollo. Seiya warns his friends about the location of the statue.

SEIYA: Guys, right behind Apollo there is the seal of the golden saints.
SHUN: Yes, I see it. That must be the seal.
HYOGA: We have to take them out of there immediatly.
APOLLO: NEVER!!!

And he beams an undefensable light that hits all of them, but, when he thinks it´s all over, there are the five saints, all with their clothes on and going towards Apollo, that angrily tries to counterattack. First Seiya strikes with his PEGASUS RYU SEI KEN, but it has no effect. Then, Apollo beams a flash of light that barely hits Seiya, causing him to fall on the floor laying down on his lift side, proping on his arm; right in sequence Shiryu attacks with his ROZAN SHORYU HA, but Apollo stops his attack with only one of his hands, and then his fist starts to burn Shiryu, but the Nebula Chain hulds Apollo´s arm and pulls it back. Apollo let go on Shiryu, that falls on the floor, and makes the Chain red until it evaporates, burning Shun too; Ikki jumps and beams his PHOENIX YOKU TEN SHO , that makes no effect too, because Apollo goes through the attack with his hands lifted and opened, cancelling the Yoku Ten Sho.

APOLLO: You blazes are nothing but a little brase for me, kid.

Then, Apollo beams a solar bolt on Ikki, tossing him away and making him to shock against the ceiling and dragging him there until he hits the floor.
Seiya tries his Ryu Sei Ken again, but they return to him and send him away near to where Hyoga is. Then, when he recovers back from his Ryu Sei Ken, he opens his eye and sees Hyoga standing in the position to launch his Aurora Execution.

SEIYA: Hyoga!!!
APOLLO: What do you think you are doing?

But, instead of sending his most powerful attack, he concentrates power in his lifted hands and runs towards Apollo.

HYOGA: Hyaaaaa!!!!

APOLLO: It´s useless, I´ve said...

Hyoga thinks that he can´t launch a ranged attack, because it´s gonna be tossed back, and intends to attack Apollo´s body directly. He dodges some attacks beamed by the Sun God, and jumps up grabbing him from behind, trying to freeze him and put him in an ice squiff.

APOLLO: Idiot!! Are you trying to freeze the sun?? This is impossible, and I´m going to show you.
HYOGA: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Hyoga begins to be incinerated just for touching Apollo and faints. Apollo flies to his throne.

APOLLO: This is pointless. You, human beings, trying to fight God. Don´t You understand?

Shiryu stands Hyoga up, supporting him with his shoulder; he´s weak and with a painful look in his face, trying to stand on his feet. Then, all the injured saints get togheter and start to blaze their cosmoes. Apollo gets surprised, and they all get ready to use their most powerfull attacks...