Kayleigh, the Saint Knight of Lyra Chapter 10: Kayleigh's Training, a saint seiya fanfic

Chapter 10: Kayleigh's Training

Hey ho! Ten down, one to go! This is one of the last two chapters that'll be updated up before I continue my writing with the last few for the story! Again, enjoy and feel free to review and comment.

Everyone climbed and climbed up the mountain until they finally reached to the top. Kayleigh reached the door first. She knocked. Then after a short while, an old voice spoke from inside the house. "Oh! A visitor." The door opened up and there stood an old man with a white beard and he's wearing a green Chinese robe and a rice farmer's hat. Kayleigh stared and thought that he's Dohko's grandfather or something at first. She asked. "Uh, hi. Is Gold Saint Libra Dohko in, please?" He replied. "Uh, let me think. Hmm. Yes, yes. I am. Come in, come in."

Everyone entered the house and sat on the cushions surrounding a small table on the floor. Even though, the house was still tilting on the mountain's summit. Dohko brought in a tea set. "Settle down. Tea's ready." He then asked for a reply from Kayleigh. "Well?" She answered nervously. "I want you. . To train me, Libra Dohko, sir. For the Galaxy Wars Tournament." He then answered. "I don't train anyone. Libra Dohko's retired, so yadda yadda yadda!"

Shun pleaded. "But, you've got to help her. Without your help, she'll never beat Hades or the Four Black Saint Kings." Dohko coughed from his sip of tea. "Hades? Black Saints?! Are they involved in this?!" Shiryu asked. "You know them?" "Hades too?" Asked Seiya. "Never heard of them. But, I do know Hades. However, they got to be stopped!" He turned to Kayleigh. "What's your Saint Knight name?" She answered. "Lyra Kayleigh, sir. And I'm princess of the mer people from the Kingdom of Oceans under the rule of Poseidon. My brother." He replied humbly. "Well now, Lyra Kayleigh. I know your siblings well from the Mediterranean Sea." "You know my family too?!" She asked excitedly. He looked at her and answered. "Well maybe, maybe not." Then everyone sighed in confusion and embarrassment. "Now, let's get down the hill, and we'll see what you're made of!"

He advised them to move to one corner of the house. "Move over now, please and be careful not to get up." What he means is that in order to get to the foot of the mountain, they need to have the entire house go sliding down the slope while being inside without damaging anything! "Woah, woah, woah!!" Everyone shouted. Kayleigh whispered to Shiryu. "How old is he?" "Somewhat in his early twenties." He answered back in whispers. "Huh?!" She asked, being severely confused. "I thought he's in his late sixties." "Well, I'm a lot younger than you think, young lady." Dohko answered. She raised her eyebrow.

Then quickly, the house stopped at the foot of the mountain. As it stopped, the jolting of the house tossed Kayleigh, and the others out the door and they landed on the grass. Shunrei, who have left the House of the Saint Knights, ran over to Shiryu. "Oh! My goodness! Shiryu! All you okay?" Shiryu mumbled as he tried to get up. "Yeah. I'm fine." Shunrei helped him getting up from the ground. "Whew! You scared me." Shiryu asked her. "What brings you here?" She answered. "The Princess told us that you were going to bring Kayleigh to train at Master Dohko's. Are you sure you'll be all right to train her with him?" "It's for an important purpose she has to take care of, yes. But, don't worry. Everything will be fine, Shunrei. And if we need anything, we'll ask you." He answered. "Well that's for sure." Said a voice. It's Kayleigh, dusting herself from her fall. "Some big help he's going to be, for tipping the house downwards." Then, Dohko landed on his feet after he's tossed out the door too.

He spoke to Kayleigh as he landed on a rock and sat on it. "So, Lyra Kayleigh. You want to win the Eternal Cloth of Lyra? Then you'll have to challenge the Black Saints into only two events. The Steeple Chase and the Saint Knight Duel." He took out his walking staff and he drew pictures on the ground to show her examples of how the battles will go. "So, if the race was won by more than one winner, they should go into a battle to decide the winner?" Asked Kayleigh. "Correct, indeed. You see, the Princess was always looking for powerful knights to become Saint Knights of Athena. And again. To win the Eternal Cloth, win the Saint Knight Duel and the Steeple Chase!"

And so, it has begun! Dohko and the five Bronze Saints had Kayleigh practice her jogging skills and strength with the Steel Saints and the Three Silver Dragon Saints. She failed at most times on the jogging tests but, Dohko had more in store for her. He even got Seiya and Shun to contact the three popular female Saints in the team to train with Kayleigh on her fighting skills. Eagle Marin, Ophiuchus Shaina; which are Silver Saint Knights and a Bronze Saint who is a friend of Shun's, Chameleon June. Seiya even warned Kayleigh to watch out that Marin and Shaina can be a bit hard on their training students. But she won't mind.

At most days, Dohko, Seiya, and the others have Kayleigh do test fights against the three female Saints. On one of the matches, Marin did tell her that she does need more strength to dodge her Meteor Punch, Shaina's Thunder Cobra Claws, and June's Chameleon Tail Whip.

However, Dohko and Shiryu did trained Kayleigh to climb up to the top of Dohko's mountain with weights. At the end though, she's always tired and her feet ended up sore. But, the fiver Bronze Saints, the three female Saints would always give her good care with healthier food, lots of rest and even a hot spring bath.

Dohko gave her a simple advice. "Your lyre along with your cosmo are always your important allies, Lyra Kayleigh. Focus and intertwine your cosmo with your lyre. Trust your cosmo with your lyre along with your heart." Day after day, she trained and stayed focus with her cosmo along with her lyre. But somehow, it didn't seem to strengthen her abilities to prepare for her big battle. But she will never give up.

Sometimes, at daily sunsets, when she's trying to jump over hurdles during her jogging tests after racing with her friends, she can recall the words Dohko told her. "Focus and intertwine your cosmo with your lyre!" As she tried to jump overt the last hurdle, her leg ended up tipping it over and she landed on her front side. It did hurt a little. As Dohko, the Bronze and Silver Saints came up to her, she mumbled depressingly. "Oh! Forget it!"

Everyone build a campfire in the valley to talk. Kayleigh drank he cup of hot chocolate that Shun and Esmeralda made for her, Dohko, and everyone, and then sighed in a thought that she'll never obtain her strength from her cosmo. "I bet with his Scale of Poseidon, my brother would've done it. Neither did my sister with her Mermaid Cloth. Whenever I had mistakes like this during my first years of training, Kaza would always laugh with a silly grin on his face."

"You can be as good as your siblings, Lyra Kayleigh." Said Dohko, sitting on a rock. "You think you're as perfect as them? Well, no one is. Besides, your brother is just a man, like all of us." "Uh, actually, we're all mer folk. Friends to your kind. But, almost." Kayleigh corrected. He paused and then said. "Oh. Now, that explains a lot. He's for a start. And why won't the rest of your siblings ever let me become an ocean pope?" Then Kayleigh and the rest of the group looked at each other. Shiryu shook his head annoyingly.

During the next few days on the last three months before the start of December, Kayleigh then mastered her obtaining with her cosmo, her cloth and her lyre together! Day by day, she had little time to rest until the tournament of the month! But she'll always be ready! She even won her last test matches against Marin, Shaina, and June! She began to know that using her cosmo's strength would help her dodge their attacks! She can even recall the words from which the Libra Saint told her. "You can be as good as your siblings, Lyra Kayleigh."

On the very last race against Keir, Wen, Li, and the Steel Saints, Kayleigh's speed picked up momentum and acceleration and she finally won! Everyone was happy that her training had paid off! Even Dohko himself was proud! Then he summoned raining water crystals from the clouds to celebrate! Kayleigh was happy herself too as she gave each of her friends a hug. "I did it, Onii-sama!" She thought. "If only you can see me now, you would be proud of me today!" "I do guess I underestimated her." Said Shaina, rubbing the back of her head as she watched the fully trained girl jumping. "No. We all underestimated her." Said Marin. "She did frighten me with one flash from her lyre's strings." Laughed June. "Well, she's no ordinary kid, you know." Marin spoke as she crossed her arms. "She does sometimes have a very persistent nose. Doesn't she, Marin?" Shaina asked.

During the night, Kayleigh had her lyre and her cloth packed up and ready; on account of Shun and Ikki. Dohko shook her hand before she left to stay at the Princess' mansion before the tournament on the next day. "Old Libra Dohko will watch you win tomorrow. Remember Lyra Kayleigh, stick to good food. You are what you eat." He took out a bag of peanuts an enjoyed a few. "Hmm. Nuts." "Thanks, Libra Dohko." Kayleigh bowed.

As they walked off, Seiya spoke to Kayleigh. "Kayleigh, you don't know how happy the Princess is going to be when she hears the news." "Ans we're all proud of you, Kayleigh. You should wait until Orpheus comes tomorrow." Said Shiryu. "Oh! Why, I can't wait to meet him!" She cheered happily. "Sure." Laughed June. "And let's go bonding as two knights of Lyra." Said Shaina.

Later on, Dohko starred at his house on the foot of the mountain. He said to himself. "This is a much better spot for a house. I have to be raving mad to push my house back up the hill."

Sienna: Oh my, that's a lot of training for that young lady.

Hyoga: That's funny! Shiryu's master wanting to be a pope!

M.S.K: It surely was. And Shiryu's right. Dohko was in his late twenties.

Shiryu: No! He is!

M.S.K: Well, I can remember only this. When I first see him in your show, I thought he's in his early seventies.

Shun: Well, you did told us that you see him transforming back into his younger self again.

Ikki: I really ought to see that happen in the next chapter.

M.S.K: Ack! Hey! Ikki-san! You made that as a spoiler for that chapter!

Ikki: Eh?! What's that suppose to mean!?