Look at This Photograph
Mav's comments: Love that song, "Photograph" by Nickelback. I just watched Reign Over Me and laughed and cried so hard (I'm such a sap)! During the scene when Dr. Johnson yells at his fellow dentists, I clapped after his speech and heard some tearful laughs (oro?) in response. Based on OFFICIAL Saint Seiya pictures. EDIT: Eris changed to Ellie, thanks to AuroraExecution. EDIT 7/20/10: With the new feature Export, I've edited this directly on FFN. FYI I'm narrating in present tense, so of course, anything that's happened in the past or earlier is in past tense. I like to tell stories in the present tense.
Disclaimer: I disclaim Saint Seiya but not what I like about it!
-+-+Printed Memories+-+-
There are some things we take for granted. Seiya and the others decided to find out what exactly happened to their old stuff they left behind after they went off to train for 7 years.
"SHUN CATCH!" yells Seiya as he throws a yellowed-looking manga at Shun.
Shun, who just hopped out of the entrance to the attic, catches the manga with both hands. This causes him to lose his balance but luckily, Shiryu, who had listened to the distressed maids' complaints, followed him and broke his fall.
"UGH! Thanks Shiryu!" said Shun gratefully. Turning to his fellow brown-haired saint, he immediately looks agitated. Or as agitated as he can look while still looking so girly.
"Seiya! I almost fell down because of you!" cried Shun, pouting as he did so.
"No time Shun! RUN!" yelled Seiya as he rushed forward. Shun flinched as Seiya trips and receives a face-full of the attic floor's dust.
"Hehe! GOTCHA YOU LITTLE DONKEY!" yelled Hyoga. He grabbed onto Seiya's leg in an attempt to stop him from stealing his limited (although not-in-good-condition) edition manga, volume 28 of Rurouni Kenshin.
"You are so gonna get it Pegasus!" And with that, Hyoga starts pulling on Seiya's leg.
"HEY! OUCH!" yelps Seiya. He turns over on his back and rubs his aching head.
"Man, what just hit me?"
Hyoga, who's still holding onto Seiya's leg, lets go and picks up the heavy laden book with glossy clear pages off the floor. Brushing away the dust and finally blowing off the remaining particles, he holds it up to the light.
"That's the thing that hit me?" asked Seiya grumpily, taking the mahogany-colored book from Hyoga. Shun and Shiryu weave their way through the boxes on the floor.
Seiya peered over at the cover. In printed gold letters across the top, a quote was printed. He read it slowly out loud.
"It's not important how often we see each other, but how often we think of each other" quote by Heyner ((from Kingdom Hearts 2)).
The four teenagers stand quietly, absorbing the words. Seiya, first always to break silence and being known for his patience that's never changed from 4 years old, opens the book. The pages make a loud ruffling noise as he unsticks the pages.
A photograph slips to the floor. Shiryu bends down and picks it up. As he stands up, a gentle smile grows on his face. Shun, upon seeing this smile turn into a grin, looked over the older boy's arm. A tall, serious guy like Shiryu wearing a silly grin calls for some curiosity don't you think?
"Hey, let me see!" begs Seiya as he and Hyoga rush over with what they discovered was not a book, but a photo album. Shiryu and Shun faces the two, who took the photo from them for close inspection. They begin laughing. Except for Seiya.
"HYOGA! I remember this! You threw a soccer ball at my legs and then sat on me!" yells Seiya. However, the other three went from chuckling to full-blown laughing!
You see, the picture was of the younger Bronze saints.
Seiya was flat on the ground with a wincing expression on his face as he was sat on by none other than his partner in crime, Hyoga (not sure if Hyoga would still go along with Seiya's "plans" now). A young, short-haired Shiryu, while chuckling, is bent down offering a helping hand to his crushed friend. Shun with short green hair, is shyly hiding behind Ikki watching the whole scene with an amused expression ((this is an actual official picture you can find on the internet, do you remember it?)).
Hyoga, of course, regains his composure first. Or at least enough to speak clearly.
"Haha… yeah. It was right after our first ever soccer game. I was on your side but you still hogged the ball to yourself."
"You're right Hyoga. It was so funny! Right in the middle of the game, you and Seiya began arguing near the goal post. Then finally Nii-san came and kicked the ball in. Tatsumi and the other maids had to come because you broke into a fight."
Dragon joins in their reminiscing session and takes a seat on one of the old boxes. The Pegasus saint swings his legs over on a backward facing chair and rests his arms on the back of the chair. Andromeda dusts off the top of an old box before sitting on it. He is, after all, wearing white pants. Cygnus unfolds a stool and crosses his legs as he sits.
"Actually, I think that day was full of brawls. We resumed the game with your team losing, Seiya."
"It wasn't MY fault! If Hyoga'd just pass it to me, I would've scored the winning goals!"
"What do you mean, Seiya? Don't you remember? It was way before we trained at Sanctuary and your kicking couldn't even be called kicking," retorted Hyoga, who was now edging his stool over to Seiya.
Seiya's veins began throbbing. The Pegasus saint just couldn't let go, even though he did know he couldn't kick properly back then. All that mattered was that he be remembered as a cool kid, and cool kids can kick. Properly.
"Yeah, so when the ball finally gets passed to me, you started chasing me off the field!" replied Seiya hotly, rocking his own chair over to Hyoga.
Shiryu shakes his head. "Once again, you two. Once again," says Shun as they all thought back to last weekend's Movie Night at Seiya's and the earlier jen-ken-po match.
Shiryu and Shun stand up to start looking through the boxes for their old stuff, not just because they don't want to get involved in the feud, but rather before the others find their stuff and blackmail them with their secrets.
Shun opens the box that Shiryu vacated. He reaches in and pulls out two tangled yo-yos. Shiryu, catching the bright colors of the yo-yos, walks over and takes them from Shun.
"I can't believe it's up here!" exclaimed Shiryu. He looks over them fondly, remembering how he had won these off a fair.
"Um… I don't think they're yours…" said Shun slowly, as he remembers a certain incident that will… um, cause certain Bronzies to suffer a Rising Dragon.
"What do you mean, Shun? Of course, they are! Why, they've even got my nam—"
Shiryu trails off as he notices something very odd about his purple dragon and yellow tiger yo-yos. He didn't notice before but with his Saint-trained eyes, he sees that the emblazoned prints are actually a translucent sticker on a plain yo-yo. They're fakes! He also remembers that the last two to play with these were none other than…
"SEIYAAAAAAAAA! HYOGA!" roared Shiryu. Shun steps back a few paces as he sees uncharacteristic pointy demon eyes on his friend.
Shun and Hyoga stop arguing and fall over on their sides as they tried to scramble away from the glowering Shiryu. They could even see his cosmo, which is red instead of his normal green.
"UH-OH!" they yell in unison.
-+-+Bringin' the Old First-Aid Kit+-+-
"Ouch! OUCH!" squeals Seiya, as Miho applies antiseptic to his Dragon-ridden wounds.
He and Hyoga were first stomped on repeatedly since they were already on the floor by Shiryu.
He must've gotten that move from fighting with Deathmask… ugh! thought an aching Hyoga, who received the most stomps since Shiryu was using his right leg and he just happened to be on the right side.
"Ellie, can't you be a little more gentle with those things. It hurts!" whines Hyoga to the young blonde girl who became acquainted with the Cygnus Saint when her body was taken over by an evil woman ((remember her from Saint Seiya The Golden Apple Movie?))
"Seiya! Stop whining! I can't believe you called me over like that! I was scared to death," said Miho as she slaps Seiya's freshly bandaged arm.
Ellie and Miho were working at the Orphanage like usual. They were watching an "Ugly Duckling" movie when they received distressing and screamingly loud phonecalls from Kido Mansion.
"What? I thought I was gonna die ok!," grumped Seiya as he recalls that after the stomping, Shun had held onto Shiryu from behind, allowing the trounced saints to seek cover.
But Shun wasn't strong enough to hold back an angry Dragon, thus a wild chase ensued. Hyoga, with his quick thinking, saved himself by telling Seiya to take the right corridor, knowing full well Shiryu was lurking around the corner.
After hearing the satisfying scream of Seiya's excruciating agony, the Cygnus saint ran into the hallway phone. Quickly he dialed the Orphanage, hoping the girls would come and take the Dragon off their hands. Hyoga knew that if there's one thing that Shiryu doesn't like, it's seeing a girl cry.
"Hyoga! You lied about being beaten to death just to have me and Miho to beg Shiryu to stop! You even said Shiryu was being controlled!" cried Ellie, as she thought back at how scared the two girls were, hearing Seiya screaming like a girl in the background.
"Yeah Hyoga! YOU BETRAYED ME!"
"Hey, it's every man for himself," replied Hyoga, huffing and turning his face away, only to come face-to-face with Ellie's tear-stained and angry face.
Seiya, looks over at the two lovebirds-not-in-paradise, gets a brilliant idea.
"Y'know Ellie. There's a recent picture of Hyoga that I have. Wanna see?"
Ellie drops her angry expression and gives Seiya a curious look. Hyoga does likewise, but with more of a hint of suspicion in it. Ellie follows Seiya into Hyoga's room. He hands the blonde a picture frame.
"HYOGAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she yells.
"OMG!" as Hyoga gets up and runs through the open front door. Ellie runs past a surprised Ikki, who's holding the door open. He just came from a walk around the park.
"What's their problem?" asked Ikki, immediately slumping on the Victorian couch.
"MWAHAHAHA! Vengeance is mine! I just showed Ellie a picture of Hyoga receiving a kiss from Sailor Moon at that Sailor Moon Anniversary Celebration at Tokyo Dome. It's a good thing I'm a good photographer!"
Ikki perks up and laughs, "Any chance of having any extras of these?"
Shun laughs and Seiya gladly answers, "Heck yeah! I've got tons of poses of Hyoga getting kissed or hugged by every one of those Sailor Scouts. I knew they'd come in handy if he ever pulled anything on me!"
And with that, Pegasus, Andromeda, and Phoenix hurried to Seiya's room, searching for the Sailor Moon photo album.
"Boys!" pouts Miho, hands on her hips.
EXTRA: AuroraExecution, you gave me this sweet idea when you PM'd me that you also like that picture of the Bronzies when they were kids. Precious I tell 'ya! EDIT 7/20/10: the next chapter will explain how and why Shun knows what really happened to Shiryu's yo-yos. PLEASE REVIEW!