1 Eyes
A/n: I wrote this a long time ago...I don't know what made me upload it, but what the heck, once I have it might as well post it online as well.
Disclaimer: No, no matter how hard I pray and wish, Athena isn't going to grant me the series as my very own. (Actually I'd be satisfied if they just did the anime version of Hades but anyway...)
I dove deep - ever deeper.
Darkness obscured the world. Here, I took refuge in the darkness of the sea. The beauty underneath kept on surprising me, and I kept going back, for a few minutes of respite from the world.
Shades of green and black surrounded me. Fish swam by, and I felt so safe. Here, I always got the impression I was protected. Perhaps it was just a naïve feeling that I still cherished, though at my age perhaps I should know better. But I couldn't stop feeling it, and I certainly did not want to stop.
There it was. The ship. Inside it lay the mother of my favourite student. I swam in and stopped near the body of a beautiful blonde, eyes closed forever in the sleep of death. She was lucky, I supposed, that her body would never tarnish with age. Instead her face would be preserved forever in her beauty.
Hyoga's mother. Hyoga. As usual I felt a pain inside when I thought of him. But why, why did the child inspire such feelings in me? Was it because he was so different from me?
He had potential, but he was too passionate, too emotional to succeed me. No, I could not train him for Aquarius. That Cloth would go to Isaac as I had originally intended. Hyoga would get the Cygnus cloth, and perhaps, one day, he would be powerful enough to compete with Isaac for it. For the boy had potential, but the training it required was not one I could give.
Why could I not bring myself to feel indifferent to everyone? I was supposed to be ice personified, but some persons melted the ice inside me as easily as snow melts in a fire.
Like Hyoga. And Milo. And Isaac, too, to some extent.
Isaac is a good student. His heart is noble. He will be a great warrior someday. Milo, my best friend. His fiery nature could not be more different than mine, yet he has been my best friend forever. I will never cease to be fascinated by him, and I can never stop loving him so deeply. He is like a brother to me, a person I know I can count on for anything.
And Hyoga. The little boy had made an impression deeper than he could possibly imagine. His blue eyes fixed on mine, eagerly ready to please me and do what I said to the best of his ability was a sight I often saw, and it never failed to move me.
I turned and swam out of the ship. I could stay longer than anyone under the water, but even my breath was not unlimited. As I swam out I wondered when Hyoga would be strong enough to come down here and see his mother. He was not yet strong enough, but I was convinced that someday he would be able to do it.
Suddenly I stopped swimming for the surface, and dove deeper. Buried underneath black debris and almost hidden by the other uniform green shades I saw a different colour.
Yes! My fingers brushed the black debris away and closed on a stone. How could it have gotten there? I didn't know. All I knew was that the color was special.
Icy blue.
Hyoga's eyes.
A/n: I wrote this a long time ago...I don't know what made me upload it, but what the heck, once I have it might as well post it online as well.
Disclaimer: No, no matter how hard I pray and wish, Athena isn't going to grant me the series as my very own. (Actually I'd be satisfied if they just did the anime version of Hades but anyway...)
I dove deep - ever deeper.
Darkness obscured the world. Here, I took refuge in the darkness of the sea. The beauty underneath kept on surprising me, and I kept going back, for a few minutes of respite from the world.
Shades of green and black surrounded me. Fish swam by, and I felt so safe. Here, I always got the impression I was protected. Perhaps it was just a naïve feeling that I still cherished, though at my age perhaps I should know better. But I couldn't stop feeling it, and I certainly did not want to stop.
There it was. The ship. Inside it lay the mother of my favourite student. I swam in and stopped near the body of a beautiful blonde, eyes closed forever in the sleep of death. She was lucky, I supposed, that her body would never tarnish with age. Instead her face would be preserved forever in her beauty.
Hyoga's mother. Hyoga. As usual I felt a pain inside when I thought of him. But why, why did the child inspire such feelings in me? Was it because he was so different from me?
He had potential, but he was too passionate, too emotional to succeed me. No, I could not train him for Aquarius. That Cloth would go to Isaac as I had originally intended. Hyoga would get the Cygnus cloth, and perhaps, one day, he would be powerful enough to compete with Isaac for it. For the boy had potential, but the training it required was not one I could give.
Why could I not bring myself to feel indifferent to everyone? I was supposed to be ice personified, but some persons melted the ice inside me as easily as snow melts in a fire.
Like Hyoga. And Milo. And Isaac, too, to some extent.
Isaac is a good student. His heart is noble. He will be a great warrior someday. Milo, my best friend. His fiery nature could not be more different than mine, yet he has been my best friend forever. I will never cease to be fascinated by him, and I can never stop loving him so deeply. He is like a brother to me, a person I know I can count on for anything.
And Hyoga. The little boy had made an impression deeper than he could possibly imagine. His blue eyes fixed on mine, eagerly ready to please me and do what I said to the best of his ability was a sight I often saw, and it never failed to move me.
I turned and swam out of the ship. I could stay longer than anyone under the water, but even my breath was not unlimited. As I swam out I wondered when Hyoga would be strong enough to come down here and see his mother. He was not yet strong enough, but I was convinced that someday he would be able to do it.
Suddenly I stopped swimming for the surface, and dove deeper. Buried underneath black debris and almost hidden by the other uniform green shades I saw a different colour.
Yes! My fingers brushed the black debris away and closed on a stone. How could it have gotten there? I didn't know. All I knew was that the color was special.
Icy blue.
Hyoga's eyes.