Athena and Ceres...
Laying on the floor in pain, Lucria calmed herself down as her cosmos began to spread across the whole room.
"C...er...es.." A woman's voice called out to Lucria.
Lucria wasn't able to speak as she was sleeping silently on the floor.
"Athena?" Ceres spoke appearing in her true form taking over Lucria's body. "You're alive."
"Barely...I thought you were..."
"No, I have come back to perform my duties as a goddess of nature. Gaia has requested my presence to assist you but...this girl." Ceres frowned as she stared at Princess Sienna placed out on the platform with a golden arrow in her chest.
"She will not die..." Athena spoke softly. "Though...the girl that you shared a body with...how will her body...?"
"She refuses to use her own cosmos as well as mine when she is in danger. Lucria might lose her life is she strains on her mortal body for too long." Ceres frowned.
"...This battle is not suppose..."
"To happen? I understand that but...he harmed her..." Ceres said angrily as her cosmos flared all around the room.
"Please...stop them...my knights will fall is he continues..." Athena pleaded.
"...I will do my best." Lucria muttered as she tried to move her body. "Saga...you're mine."
"No, you have suffered too much." Athena said with Ceres agreeing with her.
"Fuck it. I do not care what happens to me but I will not see anyone get hurt anymore." Lucria sat up weakly.
"Lucria, you're being stubborn." Ceres commented.
"And? Saga taught me that-so did Seiya when he protected me from Misty. I want to give them all something back." Lucria said as she pulled out a lance. She placed the lance against her chest.
"Don't do that! You will wind up dead just as the Princess! Killing yourself won't stop this!" Ceres shouted just before she heard some banging on the door. It was Saga.
"Shit..." Lucria thought.
"Open the door woman! Or I'll take them down myself. You still haven't finished your time." Saga shouted as he punched the door.
"Time?" Athena questioned.
"Don't...want to know. I guess I have to play it off." Lucria said as she turned to the two goddesses. "Go hide your cosmos. I'll keep him away from the princess." she finished. The two's cosmos disappeared as Lucria opened the door. Saga placed both hands on Lucria's cheeks and kissed her roughly.
"Come back to bed." Saga rasped as he picked Lucria up off her feet.
"Fine." Lucria said as she kissed Saga demanding for more, "I want this Saga..."
Saga gave Lucria a grin and placed her back on the bed, "Lucria. You are not leaving this place. Not as long as I am here."
"Hey, you can't keep me here Saga! I am not your prize! I am the incarnate of the goddess Ceres-I could probably kill you if you piss me off!" Lucria said as she raised her voice.
Saga placed his hand on Lucria's throat, "You won't want that to happen now would you?"
"..." Lucria fell silent as he moved his body over hers.
- - -
?lair kept running until she spotted Aioria walking outside the temple of the leo. "Aioria!" ?lair shouted as he looked at her.
"What the-hey, you are suppose to be with Miro right now ?lair. What are you doing here?" Aioria looked surprised.
"I'm going to find Lucria-the bronze knights are..." ?lair stopped thinking about what was going on. "Something is going on between Lucria and Pope Ares."
"Of course, they are married. It's pretty obvious that-" Aioria began to speak as ?lair gave him a glare.
"Not that damn it! Doesn't it seem strange that Lucria has arrived with the bronze knights besides the fact that the Pope has lost some of the silver knights to them." ?lair said angrily.
"Why would Pope Ares do something like that?" Aioria questioned.
"You tell me. Lucria hanging out with the bronze knights. Her leaving the sanctuary. I think something doesn't add up here." ?lair said curious.
"Now hold on. You don't think-" Aioria was interrupted by ?lair's hand.
"Pope Ares is behind this shit and I want to know how the hell my friend Lucria is doing." ?lair summarized. "I'm going to the Pope's grounds and don't think of stopping me."
Aioria didn't speak as he tried to think?lair just stood there in anger. "You might be up to something. Pope Ares has been acting wierd since Lucria left that day with the Pegasus clothe. He has been arrogant at times or at least cruel to some of us than rather respectful." he thought.
"I have to go." ?lair said as she ran past Aioria. Something about her made Aioria watch her.
"Her cosmos...someone is protecting her." Aioria thought as ?lair disappeared into the temples up ahead.