Chapter 7
By: MimiYamatoForever
The doors slowly opened and allowed him to be able to walk outside. He did and the bright light of the sun caused him to shield his eyes. Continuing to cover his eyes, a faint purple light surrounded the teens thin form and his feet started to leave the balcony.
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Maybe it was his older brother emotions that were making him so protective. Naturally he wasn't going to let anyone threaten Shun.
The Andromeda Saint had gone through enough bullying when he was a child and Ikki didn't want to see his little brother go through even more torture.
Yes he agreed that Hades had to be prevented from repossessing Shun and returning to take control of Earth but he still felt there had to be another way. No way was Shun going to sacrifice himself.
"Ikki?"
The phoenix saint turned to see Seiya standing in the room.
"I'm on the same page as you on this, Ikki." Seiya confessed. "I don't think Shun has to sacrifice himself to prevent Hades from taking control of him again."
Ikki lightly sighed. True he and Seiya never really got along very well but when it came to their friends and people they considered family were in danger then they would put their heads together to come up with something to save them.
"I know that because you're his brother you're taking this a lot harder." Seiya continued.
"Seiya you don't get it." Ikki interrupted. "You're mostly right. Because Shun is my little brother I am taking this very hard because he's my only family. Ever since he was born I've always been there to protect him and keep him safe. But when I saw him as Hades, fully reincarnated, I knew that I had broken my promise. I had failed him."
"You did everything you could, Ikki." Seiya said. "You care for Shun so much that you didn't strike him to save Earth. You cared for him more than the lives of everyone on the planet. Shun understands that."
"But look at him now, Seiya!" Ikki stated. "Something's going on with him, most likely it's Hades again, Shaka tried to kill him and Shun was going to let him without putting up a fight."
"Shun's not the fighting kind of person." Seiya said.
"He's not." Ikki agreed. "He's always tried to think of other ways to avoid fighting."
"I'm sure that he'll try the same thing again." Seiya assured the phoenix before walking out of the room and leaving the older saint to himself.
I better go check on Shun. Ikki thought to himself.
On the way to his brother's room, Ikki couldn't help but feel that he needed to get there in a hurry. He felt like something was wrong and Shun might need his help. Putting those emotions aside for a second he made it to his brother's room and knocked on the door.
"Shun? Can I come in?"
No answer.
Ikki knocked against and once more got no answer. It was then that he opened the door and walked in. He gasped when he saw the room empty and the balcony doors open. Quickly, Ikki rushed to the open doors and onto the balcony. It only took a few seconds for him to spot the person he was looking for.
"Shun!" he called seeing his brother standing in the middle of the yard looking up at his older brother. But what shocked Ikki even more was while he stood there looking at Shun the green hair of the Andromeda saint quickly turned black before a black mist engulfed Shun and then vanished.
"No." Ikki breathed, feeling all the air in his lungs leave his body. "Shun."
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[Sanctuary]
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Athena raised her head and looked over her statue, the twelve temples and the rest of the Sanctuary. She had right away felt the intense cosmo from so far away. It held the kind of power that only a God or Goddess could possess.
She knew that she was the only Goddess on the planet fully reincarnated. Two other people were reincarnations of a God and Goddess but the cosmo they possessed weren't as powerful as this one. That only left one other possibility.
"Hades has returned." Athena said to herself. "And he is already fully regenerated. That means…that Andromeda Shun truly is Hades and not just his vessel."
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[Japan]
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"He turned into Hades just like that?" Seiya exclaimed. "But how is that possible?"
"It's what we've feared." Hyoga said quietly.
"No." Seiya replied. "It can't be!"
"There's no other way to explain it Seiya." Shiryu said from an armchair; equally quiet as Hyoga. "Shun…really is the reincarnation of Hades."
"But it's just not possible!" Seiya declared. "Why would the God of the Underworld come to this world as a saint?"
"It doesn't matter of the status he held, Hades was still a God. One of the three Gods who founded Mount Olympus and ruled over the other Gods. Hades could come back as whoever he wished. In this case, because Shun is the purest human on Earth it was him."
"I just…I just can't accept that all this time we've known Shun…he was really a God." Seiya muttered as he sat on the couch.
"And a relative to Athena." Shiryu added. "Hades was her uncle."
"This is all so unbelievable." Seiya said.
"I know how you feel Seiya." Hyoga said sitting on the other end of the couch. "But there's not much we can do. If Shun truly is Hades then it would cause more problems. We can't destroy Shun because he's a close friend of ours and that would mean that Hades would continue to live. And Shun would continue to have his past life with him wherever he is."
"Poor Shun." Seiya whispered. "Poor Ikki."
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[Underworld]
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Ikki, my brother, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. Shun thought sitting on the throne in the Underworld palace.
He could easily feel the other half of him trying to take total control and it was going to happen soon. Shun was taking these final moments to think of his loved ones before the next Holy War began.
Ikki, ever since I came out of that fever I've known that I really am Hades. I never told you because I knew there was no way to convince you of it. I knew you wouldn't believe this of your baby brother. But now you know the truth and I can only wish you luck. I'm sorry for making you worry about me Ikki but now I don't think even Athena can help me. I'll miss you big brother.
With those final thoughts, Shun's true self came out and took final control of mind and body. Green hair once again turned jet black and green eyes glazed over.
"After two hundred years, I am once again reborn." a deeper voiced mused.
