CHAPTER 02 - THE LIGHT OF RESSURECTION
APOLLO: It´s useless. You, human beings, fighting 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...
PEGASUS SUI SEI KEN!!!
ROZAN HYAKU RYU HA!!!
AURORA EXECUTION!!!
NEBULA STORM!!!
PHOENIX YOKU TEN SHO!!!
Apollo gets angry and surprised, and casts an invisible shield to protect himself. The Sui Sei Ken starts shocking against the force field from the Sun God. Right behind it the freezing bolt shocks too; the phoenix rages against the field, the 100 dragons hit one by one, blasting and cracking the shield. With the attacks there is a very powerful storm, pushing the attacks against the shield, causing him to yield. An furious Apollo says that this is not possible, and lifts his hand, closing it in the air, creating once again the glare that throws everybody away, and when the glares fades all of the saints are down. But where is Seiya?? He is still fighting with the almost-broke force field. Apollo says that Seiya is very stubborn and he should die soon, so he put his two hands togheter and creates a micro sun between them, throwing it towards the Pegasus Saint. This micro-sun stops in front of the breast part of the cloth and goes throught it inside his body. When Seiya feels it he starts to suffer.
BRONZE SAINTS: Seiya!!!!!!!
SEIYA: Arghhhhhhhh...hug... I can´t give up, my friends are counting on me. The Golden Saints, to clear the path to the Elisium Fields, you sacrificed your lives to us and now you are in this prison. I can´t die here!!!
Seiya´s cosmo starts to blaze intensively, and he forces his cosmo against the force field. Looks pointless but, in a desperate trial, with sweat going in his face and a huge amount of cosmo overflowing, he manages to destroy it. Apollo can´t believe it, and Seiya high jumps and hits Apollo straight in the face with his Pegasus Sui Sei Ken, throwing him to the left, against some pillars of his temple. Then, the Pegasus Saint falls on the floor, squirming in pain with the micro sol still burning him inside, and Apollo gets buried by the pillars.
Seiya, still in pain, tries to get up to reach the seal locking the Golden Saints, but his pain is unbearable. He tries to get up but falls again. With a enormously painful look in his face he raises one of his legs, then the other one, and he gets up slowly, but he is still being burned inside.
Step by step Apollo gets up, and Seiya tries to go to the seal. An angry Apollo says:
APOLLO: Seiya, I´m going to destroy your soul, so you can never resurect anywhere again.
When Apollo is about to hit Seiya with a solar beam, in the way there is Shiryu. He goes in the way of the beam and protects itself using his dragon shield, that starts to melt and it gets fully disintegrated. Then, the Dragon Saint takes his arm out of the way and receives the solar attack, being tossed away, while Seiya is still suffering and crawling to the Seal. Seeing Shiryu flying he screams his name:
SEIYA: Shiryuuu!!!
SHIRYU: Arghhh!!! Go on, Seiya!
Apollo bolts another Solar Beam, but this time Hyoga and Ikki get into the way in order to try to stop it, but the power of the divine attack is too big, and when they are throw away like Shiryu, Shun join them and protect them with his round chain, but Apollo´s power causes the chain to evaporate like the other one before it, and then the three saints keep holding the attack with their defenses:
HYOGA: Seiya, hurry!
SHUN: We won´t take longer!
IKKI: Go fast, Seiya!!!
Seiya gets closer of the seal, and then falls off. With a huge effort he tries to stand up, but even so he´s unable to reach the seal, and with his unbearable pain he is feeling, he simply can´t reach it. Apollo strenghtens his Solar Beam and throw Seiya´s friends away, almost carbonized:
IKKI: Forgive me, Seiya!
HYOGA and SHUN: Aghhhh.
Seiya, watching the scene, blazes his cosmos, stands against his pain for a while and pronounces himself. After this a desperate Apollo also screams to Seiya:
SEIYA: I´m not going to give up now, for all of the people who always were with me. Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun, Ikki, and for all the Golden Saints who gave their lives so we could save Athena, I won´t forfeit! Hwoaaaaaaaaaaa.
Seiya slowly gets up with his overflowing cosmo energy:
APOLLO: Don´t do this, Seiya!!!
And Apollo casts his Solar Beam one more time, but when Seiya is about to get hit he holds the seal, and with the beam´s pressure he rips the seal off, being tossed away with it on his hand. Seiya says that he got it:
SEIYA: Haaaaaaaaaaaa......
SEIYA (Thinking): I...did it...
Then, Seiya faints. Apollo, blazing an immense cosmo furiously answers:
APOLLO: Oh, you. You took my honor down, and I´m going to pulverize you all now, you miserable worms!!!
But he wasn´t counting on the Golden Saints, resurected by the power of Amon-Ra: in the Seal´s door appears an Ahnk symbol, who glows strongly, and from it – like going throught a portal – go out Shion, Mú, Aldebaran, Saga, Kanon, Deathmask, Aiolia, Shaka, Dohko, Milo, Shura, Camus and Aphrodite, all alive, but without their clothes. Apollo looks unconcerned. Everybody prepare to the battle against Apollo...
APOLLO: This is pointless, even if you are in a unmeasurable number you will never be able to defeat me.
AIOLIA: Why do you think that a God like you can thinks himself stronger than us?
APOLLO: This..is...an absurdity!!!! A human can´t be compared with Gods. This is the same to compare you with insects! I´m going to show you the difference between a God and a human.
When the solar beam is about to hit the Golden Saints – who are concentrating their cosmoes with their unprotected bodies – a golden light stops the solar beam. It´s the Sagitarius Cloth, fully recovered from it´s destruction on the Elisium Fields.
Then, all the other Gold Clothes are send there too, all brand new. They got surprised wondering who could have done that to help them they feel a strong and warm cosmo: it´s Athena!!!
ATHENA: I´ve finnaly awaken, thanks to the cosmic explosion from the Bronze Saints, then I predicted the danger you were exposed to and had to send you your clothes to protect you and then put an end on Apollo´s ambition for good.
APOLLO: Damn you, Athena!!
The majestic clothes surround the body of all the Saints, except for Shion and Kanon, and the Sagitarium Cloth remains empty in the middle of the temple. Side by side with his master Shion, Mu asks to him:
MU: Master, wouldn´t be a problem for you to fight wihtout your Cloth?
SHION: Don´t worry about me, but about defeating this God.
MU: Ok.
All the Golden Saints look hopeful and happy with the fact they are fighting again for Athena.
APOLLO: I wish to warn you that not even your Golden Clothes will be able to protect you.
AIOLIA: You are too confident on you God title, but you don´t seem to know who we were, do you? We were the Saints who finished the 12 Titans.
Apollo, kinda discomfortable to hear that, call them petulants and attack them with several solar beams at lightspeed. The Saints run towards him dodging the bolts, one by one. Apollo gets mad and blazes his cosmo even more, casting more and more solar beams. This time some Saints go getting beaten: Aldebaran, Shura, and even Saga would be hit, but right in the moment he would be hit by the attack from the God, his brother Kanon desperately steps in his way in order to protect his brother.
SAGA: No, Kanon!!!!!!!!!
Seeing this, Shion jumps forward and sets up his CRISTAL WALL , which holds the beams casted by Apollo. From his behind Dohkon jumps forward, casting his ROZAN HYAKU RYU HA. Apollo tries to hold this attack, but he doesn´t suceed, and ends up being thrown against the wall.
SAGA: Why, Kanon?
KANON: You are my brother, I wouldn´t do anything else.
SAGA: But I´m wearing the Gemini Cloth and you are in your naked body.
Kanon faints. Taking advantage of the fallen Apollo situation, the Gold Saints rush to attack him. Aphrodite see that Apollo is getting up, and makes giant rose shafts to rise up from the floor, destroying the ground underneath Apollo, throwing him up. The Sun God manages to sustain stable in the air, and the plant tryes to hit him in another tackle, but Apollo holds it by extending one of his hands, causing the plant to wilt. Spoting a breach on Apollo´s defense, Shura beams his EXCALIBUR, which wounds Apollo´s shoulder, causing him to fall off in the floor with a bleeding shoulder, but his wound heals right after that. Still with his hand on his shoulder the Sun God sees the GREAT HORN from Aldebaran and tries to hold it with his bare hands, but this attack also toss him away.
When Deathmask is about to cast his SEKISHIKI MEIKAI HA, Shaka holds his arm and jumps, pushing him away, but it´s too late: an energy wave – like some solar radiation – hits all the Golden Saints at the same time
DEATHMASK: What the...Shaka, you didn´t...
ALL: Hwaaaaaa!!!
All the saints are now down, some of them are only on the floor, while others are on some ruins of the room, like stones or pillars. They are all standing up, and an angry Deathmask is under Shaka, who slowly gets up off him.
DEATHMASK: But what do you think you...
Shaka just points to Apollo – who is fully recovered and like nothing happened to him – and says that they still didn´t understand the differenc between them: The Sun God can´t be defeated or deposed by anyone!! Saga setps forward and says:
SAGA: This is true. Apollo was never defeated by anybody. He was deposed by Abel, that, due to fact he was a tyrant, was banned from his role as the Sun God, in order to Apollo to return to his place once again. Only a god with a power so strong as the sun could ever defeat him.
Behind the Golden Saints there is Seiya – wearing the Sagitarius Cloth – with the Sagitarius Arrow pointed to Apollo between them and says:
SEIYA: Being a god or not we will produce the power of the Sun here too...
An scared Apollo says:
APOLLO: This is not possible, he was down almost dead. How can he even stand up?
Seiya, very weak and still feeling the effect of the mini sun, asks for the help of all the Golden Saints to once again reproduce the sunlight like they did once on the weeping wall.
APOLLO: If you do that they are all going to die like in the weeping wall on hell.
SEIYA: I don´t care, we need to end up this gods ambition to destroy this world that we love so much and where we were born. We knos this world is very corrupted, but they are not all like that, and we fight for these people: the people we love, our friends.
All cosmoes overflow.
APOLLO: Damn you!!!!
And seiya sends in all his cosmo focused in a giant ball looking like the sun. The Saints gather togheter their cosmoes on the peak of Seiya´s arrow, who fires the arrow that turns into a very powerful ray of light, and he screams: SAORI!!!!!!!!!!
A blinding flare appears, and so do the image of Athena. By the ending of the light all the Golden Saints, Seiya and the Bronze Saints are surprised. They are still alive, and can´t understand why. Suddenly a godlike voice calmly speaks:
ATHENA: Once I´ve let you die, so I could get the chance to be saved, but I couldn´t do anything, because I was under the influence of the blood-leeching prison made by Hades. But this time is different, I wouldn´t let something unfair like this happen again.
Everybody, with tears ins their eyes, get thankful to Athena. They look to where the Golden Saints were once sealed, and in the door there is now the image of Apollo carved on it. The Sagitarius Cloth leaves Seiya and rushes back to it´s destination house.
MU: Yeah, Aiolia, once again your brother were here to help us all, the Golden Saints. He is a brave warrior, and even after his death he is still protecting Athena.
AIOLIA: Yes.
MILO: Look out, looks like everything is about to collapse
SAGA: Let´s go, get the Bronze Saints, I will take my brother. Hurry!!!
After they get out of there the Golden Saints go through the dimensional door who lead them to the temple of Apollo, and leave by the statue where the Golden Saints were carved, but whos is carved now is the own Apollo. The Saints get relieved for the fact that Apollo´s ambition is over now, and right after that they go to meet Athena. They are carrying the Bronze Saints in their shoulders – they are way too wounded – while Saga is carrying his brother Kanon.
On the 13th house they find Athena, who gets desperate with the situation of the wounded saints, specially for the Bronze ones.
ATHENA: Seiya, are you very hurt?
SEIYA: I´m ok..ugh..(Seiya faints)
MU: Don´t worry, Athena, Seiya is unconscious now, but i´m sure he is going to be ok.
ATHENA: I understand, but...Hyoga, Shun..Ikki!!!
DOHKO: The only one conscious right now is Shiryu. He can tell us something about what happened..c´mon..talk to Athena...
ATHENA: Are you okay, Shiryu?
SHIRYU: Yes... I am...
ATHENA: So, what was the reason for Amon-Ra to resurect all the Golden Saints?
SHIRYU: He said...said that...
Shiryu also faints. With no one left to ask about it – the other Saints already had fainted – Athena says that they must get to the hospital to take care of their wounds.
ATHENA: Gold Saints, I need you to take immediatly the Bronze Saints and Kanon to the medic center near the Kido Mansion. There they will be under better medical eyes. And I want a Golden Reunion whithin 12 hours. We need to tdiscuss about the reestructuration of the sanctuary, since you are all back.
ALL: Yes, Athena.
Mu assigns for the task of taking the Bronze Saints to the medical center.
GOLDEN REUNION
ATHENA: Very well, are everybody here?
SHION: Yes, Athena, except for Mu, who went to the Kido Mansion take the Bronze Saints to the medical center.
ATHENA: Fine, so we can start the reunion. Well, we´ve been through difficult times, as difficult for you as for the Bronze Saints, and I wish to thank you all for your noble attitude to protect me and the sanctuary with your lives. But we have to rebuild the sanctuary again, and we need you help, Golden Saints, to create the next generation of Saints and recast the Clothes to each Saint that owe them. For that I first need one Saint to be the great master of the Sanctuary. He will be coordinating all these steps, in order to the Sanctuary to be what it was before that huge holy wars.
ATHENA: Shion.
SHION: Yes.
ATHENA: With all the experience you had during all these years as the Sanctuary Master, and even without Cloth you are still considered a Golden Saint, I nominate you as the new Great Master of the Sanctuary.
SHION: Thanks, my goddes, I´m very happy with your choice.
Saga smiles shy from behind, gets happy with the decision and thinks:
SAGA (THINKING): I´m enourmously happy. As long I wasn´t nominated the Master of the Sanctuary, I have the honor to nowadays be one of the 12 guardians of Athena. I don´t want more than that to me.
ATHENA: And what about you, Deathmask, Aphrodite?
Each one of them get paralized in fear for a moment, and getting up each one of them say:
DEATHMASK: My godess, during all my life as a Saint I never had you image as a role model, I never saw you, that´s why I never had a strong bond with you.
AIOLIA: But how? We never saw her either, and our faith on her not even started to diminish.
ATHENA: Aiolia, let he go on, please.
AIOLIA: Sorry, my godess.
DEATHMASK: You know, Athena, for many years I´ve been living only as a Saint, not as an Athena´s Saint, and today I fell proud for being your Saint.
ATHENA: This is good, Deathmask, but about your evilness, I won´t censure you for that, I will only censure the fact that you hate in battle would be used against innocent peoplo.
DEATHMASK: Yes, Maam.
Deathmask has a mix of fear and reprehension look in his face.
ATHENA: If you use all this will to fight in order to protect innocents, you will have my blessings.
DEATHMASK: Thank you, Athena.
ATHENA: And what about you, Aphrodite?
APHRODITE: Er...my dear Godess, beauty for me, like everyone know, it´s above it all, and the beauty of your cosmo glows higher than the beauty of the dinive godess I have in my name. Just like Deathmask, by felling you presence here with us, I don´t have words to describe how I´m proud to be a Saint at your service.
Athena smiles.
ATHENA: Very flattering, Aphrodite. Fair enough, since we started the reunion, we have more thing to talk about.
Athena keeps talking with them by hours, and in the end of the meeting she says to them:
ATHENA: Well, since everything has been discussed, you are all free to return to your houses and protect OUR sanctuary
While everyone is getting back to their positions, Dohko returns and asks Athena permission to speak:
DOHKO: Athena, should I get back to my place as guardian of the Seal of Hades?
ATHENA: Of course, Dohko.
When Dohko is going out to get back to the five peaks, Athena asks him to wait.
ATHENA: Wait!
Dohko gets back and asks what happened:
ATHENA: Right now I need all the Saints to be inside the Sanctuary. This is one of the reasons I´ve called for the Golden Reunion: I´m not having a good feeling, since Amon-Ra is back to this world, and the Egyptian Saints already gave us troubles.
DOHKO: This is true. By the time you were only a baby, the Golden Saints battled some of the Amon-Ra Saints, but they were leaded by their evil god, Anubis, which using the Staff of Amon-Ra lead his Warriors to a massive attack to the Sanctuary. I´m not sure if Amon-Ra would be the same like them.
ATHENA: Yes, but...There is something I´m finding weird about it all, so I would like you to stay here too.
DOHKO: Of course, my godess, I will go to my house then.
KIDO MANSION
The Bronze Saints are hospitalized there to recover from their wounds. Meanwhile something odd is happening outside: a myst approaches the medical center where they are. From this myst a short-brown-haired man with brown eyes gets out, with egyptian wears underneath a Gold Cloth with orange parts, holding a Scythe with a ruby on it´s top. He says:
?????: The Bronze Saints souldn´t be a trouble for us, but since it´s an order, I have to attack.
He points his scythe to the medical center, and from its ruby a red bolt goes off. When the bolt is about to strike the medical center, it´s stopped for some kind of a barrier. Scared with what happened, he gets mad for the failure and prepares to beam a stronger bolt, but from the shadows comes the Aries Saint Mu.
MU: It´s pointless to try, you power won´t break the cristal wall, and...who are you that comes intending to kill the Bronze Saints?
????: I don´t owe you any explanations, I´m here just to do what I was meant to, and I will do it even if that´s necessary to kill you.
MU (IN A STONE-COLD TONE): Kill me, you consider yourself a man able to accomplish that? If yes, so come and fight me.