Scorpio113:Hey everybody!!! Sorry this took SO long to put up! I had this tremendous writers block and I was all depressed for a whole week so I didn't really feel like writing something happy or anything so I kinda waited untill I was out of my dark funk.
Camus: …
Milo: Well why didn't you come to me? I would have cheered you up!
Scorpio: I prefer going to Aphrodite
Aphrodite :*glowing with pride*
Scorpio: He just makes me forget everything that's wrong with me and makes me happy… without the use of vodka
Dohoko: *outraged* MILO!!! Are you giving alcohol to MINORS?!?!?
Scorpio: *sniff* I'm not that young
Milo: It was only a little bit
Shion: *shaking his head* That's really irresponsible of you Milo
Milo: sure…blame me
Hyoga: Lighten up on him a bit guys
Everyone: *shocked*
Shun: *sighs*
Scorpio113:(ignoring everyone) Ikki would you be a dear and…
Ikki: NO
Scorpio: *pouts* please?
Shun: Oh c'mon Onii-chan
Ikki: *grumbling* Fine!. She does not own Saint Seiya or any of the characters in this story. She also does not own the movie Anastasia (From which this fan fic is based)There Happy?
Scorpio: Thank you Ikki
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High up in the rafters a little creature with aqua marine hair looked down on the little group of humans.
"Yah one problem with that honey"
the creature said
"Anya is dead…in fact all the Romanov's are dead!"
The creature with the aquamarine hair turned to a flask that had started to glow, although he didn't notice. The creature was a small mouse like creature no bigger than the palm of your hand. He hoped up and looked at the flask. A creature had slipped out of the top.
"Am I right my friend?"
he asked. Then it dawned on him that the flask was alive once more. This was the flask that his master had used to tear down the Russian empire, and now it was alive once again.
"HOLY CROW!!!"
the creature shouted as he fell backwards, luckily for him his small had had caught hold of the elaborately decorated moulding.
"Oh great"
he muttered
"You're telling me that, that thing has come alive once again, just because some chick claims that she's a Romanov?"
Another one of the smoke people slipped silently out of the flask and looked at him before floating off into the distance.
"OK OK I GET THE MESSAGE!!!" he shouted "ENOUGH WITH THE GLOWING AND THE SMOKE PEOPLE!!!"
he sat down on the ledge and brought his small hands up to his forehead as if he had a really bad headache.
"Waite a second" he said "If that thing has come back to life…that means…Anya's alive?"
He peered down to gaze upon the silver haired woman, who was arguing with a man with turquoise hair. Suddenly the flask began to float in the air and the creature tried to grab it, but his foot got caught in the string and he was pulled under.
"Whoa!!!!" he shouted as he was dragged, unkindly, into the world between world.
"Ow…I'll tell you what ow"
He said aloud rubbing his sore bottom, once the magic flask had let him down. The creature glanced around to find himself on a small rocky outcropping, surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites. Laying on the floor in precarious piles, lay heaps of bones.
"Oooo…creepy"
he muttered. He began to explore the place where the flask had taken him when movement caught his eye. A man with long blue hair.
"WHO DARES INTRUDE IN ON MY SOLITUDE?!?!?"
He demanded.
"Master? Is that you?" the creature asked
"Aphrodite? Is that you? My most loyal servant?"
"Master? Your alive?"
Saga snorted "Yah sure. In a matter of speaking" he growled.
"Something is not right. My curse is unfulfilled"
"Yah I know. I say her princess Anya is alive!!!"
Aphrodite exclaimed as he climbed onto his masters shoulder, catching his eyeball as it popped out of place, and gently putting it back.
"ANYA?!?! ALIVE?!!! THAT ROMANOV BRAT!!!!! HOW DARE SHE!!!"
Just then his hand came flying off to smack against the nearest stalactite. Saga gasped as he gripped the stump that used to be his hand.
"Look at me" he wailed "I'm falling apart at the seams. I'm a wreck!!!!!"
At that he slumped down upon a make shift throne that was made out of bones. (you see he was, and still was, a very vain man)
"Actually master"
Aphrodite said as he moved to sit on his masters chest
" considering how long you have been dead you actually look quiet good"
you ARE a wreck though and you smell horrible!!!! Aphrodite though but he wasn't going to share that with Saga any time soon.
"Really?"
asked Saga he's such a teenaged girl sometimes. He as giving him that creepy look that he gave when he wanted a complement. It was SO eerie.
"Yah honestly. You look Great!!!"
Aphrodite tried to look Saga in the eye as he said this, he wasn't the greatest liar.
"Hmph"
Saga snorted as he got up, that was when he noticed the ancient looking flask sitting on a stone.
"Where did you find that?"
gasped Saga as he dove for the flask.
"My old friend"
Saga purred as he stroked the flask lovingly
"Together again"
Aphrodite rolled his eyes.
"Oh sure the loyal servant gets tossed aside when something better comes along"
Aphrodite muttered as he kicked a loose pebble. Saga ignored him as he began to recite the incantation to call upon his spirits.
"Come froth my minions and fly for your master,
Let your evil soar,
Rise to the surface, fly ever faster
Kill the last Romanov, I expect no less or no more"
As Saga recited this, green smoke people, as Aphrodite called them, rose out of the flask and up into the air where they disappeared through the boundaries of the world between worlds to complete their incomplete mission.
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Meanwhile
Rachel was fast asleep in the train cart as the country side rushed past them. Aldebaran was playing with Luca, and Camus busied himself with the forged documents. Rachel began to toss and turn in her sleep, Aldebaran glanced upwards to see Rachel's face scrunching up in distaste, as if she were having a really bad dream. Fearing that she might fall off from where she lay, Aldebaran gave Camus's leg a good kick, and then nodded towards where Rachel lay kicking and thrashing. Camus sighed as he got up to wake her. As Camus was bending down to shake her shoulder, Rachel's are shot up with the force of a freight train, or so it felt like, and smashed right into his nose.
"OW!!!"
Camus exclaimed as he fell back in surprise and pain. Unfortunately, he ended up sitting on Luca, which earned him a bite on the butt. Rachel awoke to Camus's cries of pain
"Oh I am so sorry…I thought you were…"
she trailed off
"Oh it's you, so that's ok then"
Rachel said full of distaste, as manoeuvred her body into an upright position.
"I'm hungry"
she said aloud as she glanced around the small train cart for food. Aldebaran laughed
"You'll get your supper soon, Rachel, but for now I think you should apologize to Camus"
Rachel rolled her eyes and said
"I don't think so"
She growled as she got up and left the cart. Camus was still rubbing his soar bottom.
"Evil creature"
he muttered as he too left the cart.
"Oh Luca"
Aldebaran crooned
"Take a good long look at your master"
He picked up the dog to face the door
"There is a unspoken attraction between them both"
Luca barked then ran to the window, where he had spotted a animal with a greenish tinge to it, flying along side the train. He began to bark at the creature when Rachel came back into the cart with her hands full of food.
"Luca!!!" she hissed "Cut that out. Here Alde, I brought you something to eat."
"You child are a angel sent from the heavens"
He said as he took and éclair out of her hands and wolfed it down. Rachel wolfed down her own éclair and put one aside for Camus. As much as she disliked the man, he wasn't all that bad when you got past the stubbornness, and the bossiness, and the fact that he didn't think women could do much in the world, there was something underneath it all that Rachel couldn't quiet put her finger on. Rachel gazed out the window, slouching in her chair, idly stroking Luca, who wagged his tail and rolled over for a tummy rub. Rachel giggled and she turned him over and started a tug-o-war with her scarf. Aldebaran smiled at the scene, it looked like it came straight out of a painting. A teenaged girl playing with her dog in the warmth of a cabin while a winter storm let out all it's furry. The only thing that was missing form this picture, was a handsome young man who would look adoringly at her as she played. If only he would stop being so stubborn Aldebaran thought. The beautiful scene was broken by Camus bursting in and saying
"We gotta go"
as he pulled down the luggage from above.
"What's wrong?"
asked Aldebaran. Camus gave him a look of contempt as he said
"This is the reason I hate this government" he growled "Everything is in red"
"RED?!?!"
Cried Aldebaran, Rachel gave the two of them a odd look.
"There wouldn't be anything wrong with our papers now would there be maestro?"
Both Camus and Aldebaran gave her a look that was crossed between cheesy and sheepish. Rachel rolled her eyes as she pushed past Camus to follow Alde. In the process of pushing past him, her hand smacked him on the nose…again!
"OW!" Camus whimpered "I think you broke my nose!!!"
Rachel rolled her eyes
"Men are such babies"
She muttered as they moved further and further away from the authorities and unto the baggage compartment near the front of the train. Rachel gave the two men a surprised look as they entered the freezing car. Aldebaran gave Camus a disappointed look, but Camus was to busy looking around the car and trying to come up with an excuse.
"I'm not dumb you know."
Rachel said as she took a seat on a box marked "Dynamite"
"I know when you two are in trouble and I know forged papers when I see them."
The two men give her a surprised look as they broke apart from their whispered conversation. They looked sheepishly at her again, until Aldebarans look of cheek turned to one of horror. He moved swiftly towards Rachel and grabbed her by the arm firmly and threw her off of the crate.
"OWW HEY!!! WATCH IT!!! What the hell you doin'?"
Rachel growled as she dusted herself off. Camus whistled
"They still keep dynamite on trains? I thought they gave that up years ago"
Luca began to bark shrilly.
"Ah shut up you mutt"
Camus growled about to kick the small puppy.
"HEY!!!"
Rachel shouted, picking up her pet before he got hurt.
"Asshole"
she muttered cradling Luca in her arms. What the humans didn't see was that the spirits that Saga had conjured up had finally arrived. Suddenly the ground shook violently throwing all four of them tumbling to the hard floor of the train. Rachel fell on top of Camus who fell on top of Aldebaran, who unfortunately, took the brunt of the impact. He grunted in pain as his right arm took the brunt of the impact. Luca went flying into a corner of the cart.
"Get off of me!!!" Camus whined
"I'm trying!!!"
Rachel snapped. Aldebaran said nothing.
"Hey Alde…you ok down there?"
Camus asked. He got no reply. Aldebaran was currently biting his lip to keep from crying out in pain, as the weight on top of him continually shifted and changed.
"Alde?"
Camus asked again. Camus shoved Rachel off of him, then proceeded to roll off of Aldebaran. Aldebaran sat up, but the movement sent pain shooting through his arm. He grunted in pain. Camus took one look at his friends face, then looked down at his arm. It was bent at an obscure angle. Camus pulled a look of disgust, seeing the twisted limb, thinking about how much pain he must be in. Rachel, who had been trying to see what had happened by looking out the window, came running back
"Guys we gotta go!"
she said Camus could detect the fear in her voice.
"Alde!!!"
she cried upon seeing his arm
"We have to fix it!!!"
Rachel went over to a broken box and took two pieces of wood to make a splint, then she tore at hem of her skirt to make long strips of cloth.
"Now Alde…this is going ton hurt…a lot"
Rachel said as she took his broken arm into her hands. Aldebaran nodded but nothing Rachel said could have prepared him for the shock and pain that coursed through his body when she put the two pieces of broken bone back together. He howled in pain and thrashed against Camus's strong firm grip. Rachel worked quickly, placing the two pieces of wood on either side of his arm then binding it tightly together. She made him a makeshift sling out of the scarf that was hanging around her neck, Alde on the other hand, was feeling very bad for showing weakness in front of a woman. His embarrassment didn't stop him from whimpering in pain though. Camus gave his friend a sympathetic look, he had experienced his fare share of broken bones over the years of living in the streets of Russia and having something broken wasn't ever pretty.
"I'm fine"
Aldebaran gasped
"Thank-you Rachel"
Luca pranced over to Aldebaran and began to lick his face, Aldebaran chuckled.
"What were you saying earlier Rachel?"
Asked Camus who finally remembered Rachel's earlier panic.
"Oh yah that's right"
Rachel said suddenly remembering what had bothered her earlier
"There is no more bridge…it's gone" "WHAT??????"
Shouted Camus and Aldebaran in complete unison.
"We have to get off!!!!"
Alde exclaimed
"But you can't do any jumps with that arm Alde"
Rachel said "Why didn't the conductor stop the train?" though Camus "Surely he would have seen that the bride was out" Instead he said
"Simple problem solved"
Three pairs of eyes turned to him
"We just stop the train ourselves"
Rachel slaped her forehead Now why didn't I think of that? Aldebaran grinned at Camus
"Ok I'll go"
Rachel said, getting up from her spot on the floor and moving towards the door at the other end of the room. Camus ran to catch up with her, and grabbed her by the shoulder.
"I don't think so"
he said in a dangerously quiet voice
"If anything IM going"
He then shoved Rachel towards where Aldebaran lay propped up against the box of dynamite.
"Stay"
Camus ordered as he disappeared out the door and over the train top towards the train engine. He hopped down into the conductors room, and realized three very important things1) there was no conductor 2) they were driving by at an insanely fast pace and 3) The break didn't work Awww…..Fuck
Meanwhile
Rachel was seething. How dare he treat her like a defenceless female!!! That bastard!!!!! she thought bitterly. If they lived through this she vowed to do two things 1) beat his face in 2) break his arm. Aldebaran noticed her look of rage and shook his head. How can two individuals be so blind? he though as Rachel stormed over to him and sat down, furiously stoking Lucas fur. Luca struggled and whimpered but Rachel was too busy with thinking how she was going to hurt Camus to care. After a few moments of silence Rachel began to rant "WHAT THE FUCK???!?!?!?!?!?!" she thundered
"HOW DARE HE! WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS??"
she began to mimic Camus
"Stay here….your not going IM going WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THAT?"
She turned towards the door that Camus had left from and threw her hands in the air, Luca took this as his opportunity to escape from being kept in puppy lock down. Aldebaran placed his good hand on her shoulder.
"Rachel"
he said
"Camus just doesn't want you to get hurt. He may be an ass but he still cares"
Rachel gave him a sceptical look
"Are you sure he feels anything?"
she asked
"He's as cold as the Siberian winter"
Aldebaran laughed, the description fit his friend to a tee. He shook his head and continued on
"Yes he can be cold sometimes…but that doesn't stop him from caring"
Aldebaran left out the part that Camus needed her if he wanted to get the Ten million American dollars. Rachel was about to say something when Camus entered the car.
"we are royally fucked" he declared
"what's wrong?"
Rachel asked, curious to know what could have agitated him so
"Uh well…the conductor's missing…the train is driving at a ridiculous rate of speed and the brakes don't work"
Camus began to pace the small space.
"Well why don't we just uncouple this car from the engine car?"
Asked Aldebaran after a moment of silence. Camus slapped his forehead why didn't I think of that? he wondered. He dashed towards the door and set to work. Rachel on the other hand was to busy thinking about all the other people in the other cars that were behind them. They may die if we don't succeed.
"Damn it"
Camus swore, pulling Rachel out of her depressed dream world
"The cars have somehow been fused together! Alde I need you to give me…uh…a wrench a hammer…Anything!!!"
Aldebaran gave Camus a shocked look. He could barely move as it and he expected him to had him a tool box? Camus sure had a twisted sense of humour. Rachel, on the other hand, decided to be a little more resourceful. She moved towards the box marked "Dynamite" and stuck her hand in it. She had expected to feel hundreds of tiny sticks but she could feel nothing. The box was empty!!! Oh F3%!!! She though to herself. Luckily for our little group, her hand brushed against something small and round. There's one last stick!! YES!!! Rachel cheered. Now to light the stupid thing.
"Alde do you have any matches?"
Rachel asked. He nodded
"My pocket"
Rachel ran over to him and began to search him
"Which pocket? You have like ten different pockets"
Rachel said frantically searching every pocket.
"My back pocket"
He said rolling over onto his good arm.
"Which back pocket? You have seven!!!"
Rachel shouted
"LEFT CHEEK, LEFT CHEEK, LEFT CHEEK!!!!!"
Aldebaran shouted back. Rachel reached her hand into Aldebaran's back pocket, fishing around his odds and ends until she found what she was looking for. With a small cry of victory, Rachel pulled out the small packet of matches, struck one, and lit the stick of dynamite. Outside, Camus broke another of the tools which Aldebaran had miraculously brought him.
"Give me something else!!!"
he ordered, and Rachel handed him the small stick of gunpowder. Camus stared stupidly at it for a few moments before he realized it was lit.
"That'll work"
he muttered placing the stick in between the coup links of the welded cars. He then proceeded to run back and get Aldebaran and Rachel to take shelter behind the only crate in the car. The Dynamite crate. Rachel decided to have a little fun with Camus. (A/N only Rachel knows that the box of dynamite is empty…just thought I would point that out)
"Oh great"
she muttered turning to give Camus a sarcastic look
"Were safe"
Camus ignored her and placed his arm around Rachel, holding her close to him. Rachel's heart began to beat quickly, and a blush stole over her cheeks. What's wrong with me? she wondered, not for the first time. The Stick of dynamite exploded sending chunks of metal flying, and Rachel felt one of the small metal pieces graze past her eye, another one imbedded its self in her cheek.
"Ow"
Rachel said, mostly out of surprise.
"What happened?"
asked Camus…something was off…his tone wasn't brisk or cold. It was strangely…warm.
"It's nothing"
Rachel said, moving from their hiding place and out into the open. She walked over to the large side door and threw it open. The snow covered ground rushed passed her so fast that she began to get dizzy.
"Were still moving to fast!!!"
she exclaimed over her shoulder to the two men who were still busy with trying to get back on their feet. Camus, once standing, noticed that there was no passenger car behind them
"Where did the other cars go?"
he asked and Rachel gave him a sheepish look
"uhh well I didn't think we were going to stop in time so I…uhh…unhooked the passenger cars behind us"
Aldebaran laughed and Camus looked shocked. It was then that he noticed that there was a small rivulet of blood flowing down her cheek.
"Your hurt!"
He said in surprise. He placed his hand against her cheek and wiped away some of the blood with his thumb. Rachel stared at him with startled eyes. Aldebaran in the background shook his head, as beautiful as this scene was the two of them were going to have to come back down to earth if they all wanted to save their skins. He cleared his throat and said
"Now if we're going to get off ALIVE I suggest that the two of you start coming up with a plan to slow us down…or did you forget about the bridge?"
Upon hearing Aldebaran's voice, both Camus and Rachel jumped apart and wouldn't look at each other.
"I have an idea"
Rachel murmured. She pointed to an anchor and a long chain. Aldebaran gave her a confused look but Camus already knew what she had planed. He retrieved the anchor and attached the chain to it I hope her idea works Camus though to himself. He climbed out the back entrance and got onto the last rung near the bottom of the train. The speed of ground rushing past him made him feel a little sick. Camus tried to attach the chain to the underneath of the train but something flew past him, nearly hitting him!!!
"What was that?"
He called out to no one. He tried again, and like before something flew past him, almost making him loose his footing on the rung.
"Third times a charm!"
Rachel called down to him, and he glared up at her
"Remark NOT appreciated"
he snarled. Camus saw parts of the bottom pf the train falling off So that's what has almost hit me! Camus saw one of the extra wheels that were place on the bottom of the train begin to wobble. He swiftly looked for a solid looking bar that he could attach the chain to. The Metal wheel was wobbling so bad it was on the verge of falling off, and if it did, it would be the end for Camus. Camus picked a metal pipe running the whole length of the train and began to climb back up…but his foot slipped and he began to fall, just as the train wheel fell free. A hand shot out and grabbed Camus by the arm and hauled him up into the safety of the car. Camus looked back to see a large tree begin to fall backwards with a tremendous crack
"And to think that could have been you"
Rachel said sarcastically, their previous tender moment forgotten. Camus rolled his eyes and began to shove the anchor with the help of Rachel. It fell and for a few breathless seconds they though it wasn't going to catch but then with a jolt, the anchor caught and began to tear up the track. Everybody was flung sidways, except for Aldebaran who had the good fortune of already being up against the far wall.
"Well this is our stop" Rachel called out, picking up Luca in her arms and jumping into a soft snow drift with Camus and Aldebaran following after her.
"Let's never do that again"
Camus said as he began to walk forwards into the snow covered forest.
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Scorpio113: Everyone I'm really sorry, this chapter may suck…it was slightly rushed
Shun: Why didn't you take your time?
Scorpio:*looking sheepish* I kinda felt bad that I hadn't uploaded in a while
Seiya: Hyoga…why would you do that?!?
Hyoga: *shrugs* It's not fair that they are always picking on him…besides Lola wanted me to be nice to him.
Saga and Kanon (in perfect unison): But isn't sticking up for Milo Camus's job?
Hyoga: *shrugs*
Milo: you have quiet a student there Camus
Camus:*sighs* Milo you only like him because he stood up for you this ONE time…in fact I don't even know why he did it. He hates you.
Milo: *looking wounded*
Hyoga: sensei hate is a very strong word
Scorpio: yah it's also a very strong emotion
Saints: *sigh* when will she ever make any sense?
Scorpio113: Please read and review…and remember no flames. (again I apologize if the story seems rushed *bows*)