A good ending
By: MimiYamatoForever
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A/N: This is how I had wished to see Soul of Gold end. I loved that all twelve Gold Saints were working together and sad that Aiolos and Aioria didn't get a lot of time together. Some OOC is present as well as a few alterations to the Hades arc and some changes in the dialoge from the episodes. Hope you enjoy.
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"How imprudent," Loki sneered watching as Aiolos and Aioria jumped out of the way. "Then I'll end your lives as you wish!"
The long separated brother's quickly made their way down the hill and felt the devistating cosmo of Loki following close behind.
"Watch yourself, Aioria." Aiolos warned.
"Right." the Leo replied.
They felt the air grow hot with negative static and dodged right before a beam nearly struck them.
"It is no use running!" Loki declared.
As he was about to send another attack in an attempt to hit Aioria, he caught a light from the corner of his eye. Managing to stop himself, Loki was able to dodge the sudden green beam of light that sliced through a rock pillar.
"What's this?!" Loki gasped in confusion.
A sudden cold air caused him to look down at his feet that he saw were suddenly encased in ice.
"Where is this...coming from?!" he demanded as he broke free from the ice and faced the Leo and Sagittarius saints. "This isn't one of your attacks. Is it possible that...?"
"You didn't forget, did you?" Aiolos teased.
"My brother and I are not the only Gold Saints." Aioria said with a smirk.
Loki's eyes widened when he noticed that his prized weapon began to glow a soft golden light.
"The spear...It's...reacting to something. Could this be why my attack was not at full power?"
Tha false god felt his eyes widen more from shock when he noticed numerous gold lights appear on top of rock pillars that surrounded him. One by one, the remaining ten Gold Saints came into sight and stared down at their enemy.
"How is this possible?!" Loki demanded.
"From the cosmo of us Gold Saints, the Spear of Gungnir was created." Mu stated.
"When the twelve cloths resonate, it bears the power to affect your aim. Even just a little." Dohko added.
"Your lives were unmistakably taken! Absorbed by Yggdrasil!" Loki declared.
"Not entirely true." DeathMask mused. "You may not be aware of this of our fellow saint..."
"But Aphrodite's body is immune to plant toxin." Aldebaran added.
"That's right." Shaka confirmed. "After we each were absorbed by Yggdrasil, Aphrodite made sure that we Gold Saints were not completely absorbed by keeping us in a state of apparent death."
"It seems that you decision to absorb me first turned out to be one of your biggest mistakes." Aphrodite stated with a smile as he ran a hand through his hair.
Loki sneered in pure anger from what he just heard. His great plan foiled by something he could have seen from the encounter with the Pisces Saint when he discovered how to break the barrier?
"False god Loki, this world shall be protected by us Gold Saints!" Camus declared.
The tension of a sure final battle began to set in.
"We cannot let him take another shot with the spear." Aioria said.
"We shall beat him before that happens!" Saga declared.
"We shall see!" Loki declared and let a burst of energy shoot in every direction of the saints.
The Gold Saints dodged the attack, the rock pillars destroyed in their place.
"Quickly! Let's stop the Falst God!" Saga declared.
Aphrodite and DeathMask quickly listened as they both charged toward Loki.
"Aphrodite, thanks for earlier." DeathMask said as they ran.
"I just wish I had been there sooner." Aphrodite said.
"We cannot allow our regrets to stay with us." the Cancer saint replied.
Aphrodite nodded before gathering his beautiful roses in his hand.
"Royal Demon Rose!"
"This is for you, Helena." DeathMask said to himself as he prepared his attack. "Dark World Waves!"
The two attacks merged into one as they flew toward Loki, only for the diety to easily block the attack.
Camus and Milo began the next attack.
"Milo," Camus siad. "I..."
"Mission accomplished?" Milo asked.
"I do believe I was able to save my friend's soul." Camus answered.
"Then waver no more." Milo said.
Camus was a little surprised at the Scorpio saint but accepted his words.
"Scarlet Needle!"
"Aurora Execution!"
Loki didn't seem impressed as he once again deflected the saint's attacks.
"With all twelve of us here it's not impossible to put away the false god." Shaka stated as he stood next to Mu.
"Stardust Revolution!"
"Celestial Punishment!"
Loki gritted his teeth and used the spear to cancel out the attack.
"No matter how many of you there are, you will perish before my power!"
"It is you who will perish!" Shura declared as he and Aioria appeared on top of a large rock. "For we are here to protect this land and its people! Excalibur!"
"Lightning Plasma!"
"It's useless to try to beat me." Loki stated as he sent an attack that landed directly on Aioria and Shura.
The two suffered for a few painful moments before they were suddenly wisked away by Aldebaran and Dohko and land safely.
"I'm always watching after you youngsters." Dohko teased before he and Aldebaran charged toward Loki. "No time to hold back any power now."
"He shall fall by our fists!" Aldebaran added. "Great Horn!"
"Rozan Rising Dragon!"
Their attacks seemed to hit their target directly but when the smoke cleared they saw that Loki was nowhere in sight. Instead, the evil being was now floating in the air above them.
This lead him to be floating between two stone pillars where Aiolos and Saga were standing.
"Aiolos, I did not ever expect to be here face to face with you like this." Saga said.
"I can see in your eyes that even after death, you've taken a thorny path." Aiolos replied.
"It is nothing compared to the amount of blood and suffering you have done." Saga said.
"To be able to fight side by side again...I see it as an honor, Saga." Aiolos said with a smile.
"Aiolos," Saga said with a smile and they leaped into the air above Loki. "Galaxcian Explosion!"
"Atomic Thunderbolt!"
The two attacks from the powerful saints collided and everyone felt the ground shake and air rush by. The smoke slowly cleared to reveal a large crater.
"Did it work?" DeathMask asked.
"No," Aphrodite gasped when the last little bit of the smoke cleared away to reveal Loki standing there without a single scratch anywhere to be seen.
"You foolish saints forget that because I have brought you back to the world of the living, you are marked with the Einherjar." Loki stated.
The twelve saints suddenly felt the cursed marks on their bodies and appear on their skin. Each of them suddenly felt their cosmo weakening.
"These marks..." Aldebaran muttered.
"Are signs that you are of the legion of the dead." Loki answered. "Because of this, your bodies and your lives are only half of their true strength. If I so wish it, I could take back the lives that you have been given. All it would take is one attack from Gungnir."
Loki raised the spear that began to form a red orb.
"Now, you shall die!"
Loki shot the orb right for the Gold Saints who attempted to dodge the attack. In horror, they watched as the orb came devistating close and made contact with...
Aioria opened his eyes slowly but they quickly widened when he saw that he had not taken any damage from the attack.
Instead, he and the other Gold Saints were protected by orbs of pink and black light.
"What is this cosmo that protects you?!" Loki demanded when he saw the saints were unharmed and he felt a great outside cosmo that was protecting them.
"This cosmo..." Aiolos said in confusion. "I've never felt anything like it before."
"Who could it be that saved us?" Shura asked.
"Gold Saints of Athena,"
"That voice," Aldebaran gasped as he looked up to the sky.
"It sounds like..." Milo drifted off.
"Andromeda Shun." Aphrodite finished. "But...how?"
"Gold Saints," Shun's voice spoke trough their cosmo. "The battle in Elysion had a different outcome than we had hoped. In order to save Athena, Pegasus Seiya and the world...I have merged souls with Hades. Becoming his true incarnation. Because of this, I have gained all of his powers. Loki believes that the mark of Einherjar he placed on all of you is what is keeping you from your full power by his will and it is forever lasting. But he is wrong!"
"What?!" Loki gasped. "I am the one who placed the mark on them and keeping them from using their full power! They are part of the legion of the dead!"
"You are wrong." Shun replied. "While the mark does limit their cosmo, therefore giving you the advantage over them, there is one thing that you failed to realize! Because they last burned their cosmo to the maximum and gave their lives together in the Underworld, I have the power to grant them their lives back and give them access to their full power."
"WHAT?!" Loki roared in rage.
"Was this why it has been so difficult the entire time? Even after destroying the barrier that drained our cosmo?" Milo questioned.
"Yes," Shun answered. "The mark limited your access to your individual cosmo. But, as the incarnation of the ruler of the Underworld, I can fully revive each of you. Giving you back your full cosmo as well as your flesh and blood bodies and lives. You may remain on Earth and return to Athena's side as her proud Gold Saints."
The Gold Saints were stunned.
This information they were just given was astounding. The kind and gentle Andromeda saint they knew had gained control of Hades power as his new incarnation and was now freeing them from Loki's curse.
And the chance to return to being Athena's Gold Saints.
"Loki had all of you revived because he required the same energy and light of the sun that your gold cloth's could give. Therefore his revival was minor. I will now grant you full revival!"
The pink and black orbs that surrounded the saints formed into spheres around them and lifted them off the ground. The orbs lights grew brighter and then each of the gold saints felt a slight burning sensation where the Einherjar marks were located on their bodies.
Aioria watched in amazement as the mark seemed to come off his body like smoke from a fire. The area where the mark was burned like as if it were on fire. Still, as he felt the seering pain, his body was starting to feel different.
He had felt so alive when he had first realized that he had been revived but now...Now he could feel the blood flowing through his body. Feel the warmth of his blood seep into every inch of his flesh. His emotions becoming more real and his senses growing sharper.
And his cosmo...exploding!
The burning sensation vanished, as well as the mark of the revived dead. When it did, the orbs containing the Gold Saints vanished.
The air around them pulsed with power as their bodies glowed golden light.
"I feel my cosmo." DeathMask mused with a grin.
"Our true power has returned." Milo added with his own grin. "I feel so..."
"Alive." Dohko finished. "More alive than ever before."
"Fools!" Loki sneered. "Even with your cosmo returned to full strength, you still do not have the strength to defeat the power of the Gungnir!"
"I fear that he may be right." Shaka said. "Even with our full cosmo returned, we are still facing a weapon of the Gods."
"Indeed." Loki mused as he raised the spear into the air. "Even now that you Gold Saints are fully revived, did you think I was unaware of the extent of your powers?"
The twelve saints gathered close to each other and watched the man before them.
"It is you who are unaware of the destructive power I weild!"
The spear began to give off black and red lightning as a sphere formed at the tip of the spear. Slowly it began to grow in size.
"You intervened earlier by resonating your cosmo, even as limited as it was. But no more! Now you shall go back to the Underworld for good!"
The orb exploded into a dome of destructive power and shot straight toward the Gold Saints.
Suddenly Mu, Dohko, Shaka and Camus jumped forward. Together they formed a shield and blocked the beam that was heading right for them.
Aioria watched as four of his commrades did their best to block the power but, to his horror, their barrier began to crack from the force.
He managed a gasp before he and the others were suddenly blasted with an enourmous force of negative energy. The negative force was so great that it sent them all to the ground and their bodies feeling numb and weak.
The Leo saint struggled to try to gather his strength to stand as he looked around to check on his fellow saints.
Shura looked up from where he too was trying to gather his strength. "Had they not shielded us..."
"We would have been wiped out." Aldebaran finished.
"Somehow you surived." Loki sneered and flew towards Aioria. "The strongest of Athena's saints surely have proven that they are a force stronger than I imagined. You must serve me well once you swear allegiance to me."
Aioria found the spear now pointed directly at him as the glowing eyes of the possessed Andreas looked down at him.
He tried to raise his hand holding the draupnir only to have it kicked out of his hand and landing several feet away.
"No, perhaps I no longer need subservients. Instead, I shall end your lives. Starting with you, Leo Aioria."
The Leo glared at the man before him as the tip of the spear inched closer to his face. Just as Loki was about to use full force to drive the spear into the young Leo saint, he paused when he caught sight of something in the corner of his eyes.
Aioria and the other Gold Saints looked into the sky when they felt a sudden calm and powerful cosmo.
"These are...petals." Mu said as a gentle shower of floral petals began to rain onto them. "Crimson as if they were soaked in blood."
Shaka looked up toward the sky.
"I hear it...Athena's voice. Speaking to us."
"Athena," Aphrodite said. "She's telling us...to stand up."
"She's sending us these petals." Mu added. "From the Underworld."
"Even after putting your life at stake," Milo said as he reached up to catch a petal in his palm. "Even after you nearly lost all of your blood and cosmo, witnessing one of your saints merge souls with your greatest enemy...You still extend your cosmo to send us these petals soaked in your blood."
Each of the Gold Saints became aware of the tears that were now flowing from their eyes.
Their goddess, Athena, after just going through one of the greatest battles, was sending them a sign to continue their own. Sending her very blood on flower petals to give her saints the strength and encouragement they needed to defeat Loki.
"We must answer her!" Aiolos declared as he got to his feet.
The eyes of the possessed Andreas widened as he watched each saint get to his feet and felt the sudden growth in cosmo. A golden glow coming from each saint began to grow brighter, causing him to leap away.
"This cosmo," he muttered. "This force is extraordinary!"
Aioria knew that this was their chance to finally defeat the evil that had appeared in Asgard. The chance to use this new life to free the people who had suffered from Loki's evil plan.
"RISE!"
"SEETHE!"
"BURST!"
"ROAR!
"BURN!"
"RESOUND!"
"RAGE!"
"RUMBLE!"
"BURN!"
"PIERCE!"
"SCORCH!"
"BURGEON!"
"OUR COSMO!" The saints shouted together as the golden light grew blinding.