Saint Seiya: Of Silver and Bronze
Chapter 1: Sleepless
Shaina found herself unable to sleep, a rare thing for the woman known to all knights as "the strongest Amazon". And the funny thing about it was that her mind was constantly drifting to Seiya. She found it odd though; for most of Seiya's training she had let Cassios beat him senseless and even then after all of that she'd tried to kill him with her hands. "And now he knows that I love him, only I can't be sure that he feels the same way. Is that why I can't stop thinking about him?" she wondered as she rolled over and looked at the wall of her house. It wasn't like her to be worried about what anyone thought of her, most of the time all she cared about was the fact that she remained the strongest of all the female knights. After putting herself in harms way to protect Seiya and give him the strength to fight his opponent she expected him to confess that he felt the same way, but he was so focused to say anything more than he was glad that she was alive. Shaina knew she should be glad that Seiya cared that much at all. "Maybe I should talk with Marin. She was Seiya's teacher after all, so she should have some insight about what I can do about Seiya." Shaina said as she rolled over so that she was looking at her mask, something that Seiya had a habit of breaking on more than one occasion. Whatever she was going to do it would, no it could wait until she got a decent night's sleep.
As Shaina woke up she wasn't exactly looking forward to doing. Not that she had anything against the silver Eagle knight, the two women were rivals sure, but that didn't mean that they didn't have some sort of respect for each other. "Marin, there you are. Can you spare a moment, we need to talk." Shaina said as she found the red headed knight overseeing several younger trainees. She looked up at the green haired knight and behind her mask her face was smiling slightly, but she let out an annoyed breath, "Fine. Finish this repetition and then pair up and spar with each other." She said directing her face at the young trainees. The two knights made their way to a quieter area of the Sanctuary, "Okay Shaina, what is it? You have a score to settle with me or something?" the red headed knight asked as she removed her mask and looked at the green haired knight. Shaina smirked as she removed her mask as well, she had nothing to hide from Marin, or at least not now and wasn't going to make it seem like she did, "No, its nothing like that. I actually want your advice on something. I've been having dreams about Seiya and well… I was wondering what you'd do in my situation." She said, unable to make any type of eye contact with her fellow knight. Marin was shocked, it wasn't like Shaina to actually admit that she needed her help with something, let alone something that involved Seiya, "Forgive me Shaina, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. You're asking me to give you advise about how to approach Seiya with your feelings correct?" she asked Shaina, now wishing that she had on her mask. Shaina sighed and felt embarrassed about asking Marin something like this already, the fact that Marin was struggling not to laugh at her wasn't helping. "That's right. I let Seiya know how I feel about him, but I worry that he doesn't feel the same. He was your student and I wondered if you knew anything that would help me talk to him." Shaina explained as if it wasn't already obvious. Marin nodded and took a deep breath, Seiya had told her about Shaina's confession and that he wasn't too sure about his feelings for her, "Well I think that you ought to talk with Seiya and make sure that he understands that you aren't just playing him." Marin said crossing her arms over her chest and leaned against the pillar behind her. Shaina sighed, she was afraid that Marin would say something like that and she knew what that meant."So you're telling me that I need to go to Japan and talk this whole thing over with Seiya? Are you crazy! I don't know any Japanese and there's no way that you could teach me enough so I know where I am!" she protested with a furious blush on her cheeks. Marin sighed and shook her head in annoyance, although Shaina was older than Seiya, but not by much, the two of them were oddly alike. "Look, Seiya speaks Greek right? Just go into town and give him a call okay? Tell him to meet you at whatever airport you'll be flying into. He'll pick you up there and then you two can have you're little chat." She said as she put on her mask and approached Shaina, "But either way it's up to you whether or not you go through with it. If you don't you'll be having those dreams." She said as she walked away from a shocked Shaina in her wake.