At first, everything was dark. No light, no colour, only black. However, a couple of seconds later, Leo realised the reason everything was dark was because his eyes are closed.

He opened his eyes slowly, and rubbed his forehead, feeling dizzy from the loss of magic energy from that spell before.

Leo sat up and looked around. The humans and those cats were not moving an inch, staring into blank space and positioned in poses that would've been difficult to hold. He glanced towards the side and saw that the hair of the scarlet haired one is frozen in midair.

Leo quickly realised everything was completely petrified, even the trees from earlier, which are caught in the process of becoming ash.

Is time frozen...? If so, then that must mean-

"Awake? Finally."

The lion spirit jolted a bit from surprise as he heard the voice. He turned his head around to where the direction of the voice came from. And sure enough, it was Calartemis, his grin of a maniac gone and replaced with a frown. Calartemis was rarely seen without his signature cheshire cat grin. If he doesn't have it on, then he must be pissed.

Calartemis was wearing an ebony sleeveless cheongsam with cloud white piping, and tied to his hips is a sash with the same white colour as the piping. Over his shoulders is a white capelet sealed with a copper brooch on the right.

The albino mage waved his right hand a bit, and weight off Leo's wrists immediately disappeared.

Weight? Oh... Right. The chains of Cronus... They were about to disappear anyway.

Calartemis held out a glowing key with the head of a lion. However, the key is different from the other keys, as it glowed red as if it was being heated up in a furnace. Leo looked at the key, remembering that day when it felt like half of himself were being torn apart.

"Back go to the world you're from, come back then after an hour," he ordered impatiently.

Just before he got transported back to his world, he caught a glimpse of another copy of his key hanging from the sash around Calartemis's waist, and this time, it looked normal.

Wait... Where did he-

But his thoughts were immediately cut short when he arrived back to the celestial spirit world, where the air was less suffocating, and where the sky is a deep, navy blue.

Out of instinct, he inhaled deeply while he felt his whole body replenish with energy.

"Leo...?"

Wait, what? Oh, right.

Time is frozen in the human world, but in this world, time still continue to flow.

Aries looked into the deep, navy planet filled sky of the celestial spirit world, thinking.

She rarely thought of things thoroughly, preferring a 'just tell me' approach to questions, no details, just the answer.

But this time, Leo's answer to what happened during that fight was just not enough. Things just do not add up.

That day before the fight happened, Aries came back from the human world, bruises covering her along with a heavily bleeding wound on her head. And then Leo saw it. She and the others would often try to hide their wounds before Leo can see it. But this time, Leo must've thought something doesn't seem right, and he waited right next to the porthole between the human world and the celestial spirit world to see just what they have been hiding.

She tried to convince him it's not that much of a deal, and that it'll just heal like any old wound, and it doesn't hurt that much, anyway. The only problem is, it didn't start to heal like it does most of the time she goes back to the celestial spirit world. Shortly before, Calartemis ordered Arachnen to paralyse the wound with poison, so it healed much more slowly. As soon as he saw that the wound didn't heal straight away, he knew something was wrong.

He asked her who did it, and after a lot of persuading, she responded: Calartemis.

Back then, Leo didn't have an owner, because as the strongest of the Zodiac spirits, his key was reserved for someone powerful, preferrably a king. Because of this, he never knew the true nature of humans, and as soon as she replied with the name of her owner, he immediately assumed humans are ill natured.

Without hesitation, he went to the human world to try and force Calartemis to free them.

That was a stupid choice.

Nobody can beat Calartemis or his slyness. And then he came back without half his-

Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted when she heard a 'whoosh' behind her. She turned around towards the porthole, and saw Leo kneeling on the ground, immediately inhaling the air.

"Leo...?" She quietly said, as it was the first thing that came to mind.

Wait, but if Leo's here, then where's Aquarius and Virgo? He glanced at her, and then silver light surrounded him, signalling that he was about to return to the human world.

How come he's going back to the human world after such a short amount of time? Where is Aquarius and Virgo?

"Wait! Leo, don't LEAVE-"

But before Aries could even finish her sentence, Leo was gone leaving only traces of silver dust.

Calartemis was sitting patiently on a tree branch frozen in time as he waited for the lion spirit co come back. He looked down at his palm.

It has been an hour, and Calartemis felt his body fill back with magical energy, and his age slowly replenish as the wrinkles on his palm disappear. However, new wrinkles started to carve into his hand, replacing the ones vanished by youth.

Calartemis frowned.

He knew even though he had an agreement with the lion spirit, he still can't run away from that damn taboo.

A taboo is like an eternal, incurable disease. Even if you try to cure that disease over and over again, it will still come back, and interfere with you more.

While he was thinking, there was a 'whoosh' sound. In response, he looked up, and sure enough, it was the lion spirit, kneeling down and panting.

"You took long enough," he growled out of the corner of his mouth as he stood up, eyes drilling at the back of the lion's head. Leo didn't notice at all, and he continued to pant.

While grabbing Leo's ginger hair, he yanked up the golden clad lion spirit's head.

"Listen. Thought I we had an agreement that will you not use your light magic until my power recover completely." He hissed, words like venom as he grabbed Leo's hair harder, making Leo slightly wince in pain.

"Just answer now. Did why you use your fucking magic when I ordered you to pretend you lost it?"

"It's... It's..." Then there was ten seconds of silence.

"Answer me now, you mongrel," he snarled as he positioned his fist behind him.

Black electricity climbed up Calartemis's arms, engulfing his fist with back electricity.

"-was about to get struck by a branch," he heard Leo say before Leo looked down at his lips, looking shocked at what he just say. Of course. He owns it, and he could use it to order him to do whatever, and it'll happen automatically.

"What?" He was so busy casting his spell when Leo started to talk, he didn't hear him.

"It was because Hime was about to get struck by a branch."

"That blonde girl?"

"Yes."

"And why?"

"... She was about to get struck by that branch," he replied. He looked at his mouth again. Dammit, it's so annoying!

"What's and important about her," started Calartemis as he stood up and circled Leo like a vulture waiting for it's prey to die, "that makes you want to spare her?" He paused in front of Leo, waiting as he glared at him. Leo looked around, slightly nervous.

"She... She was our guide, and other than that... I don't know- She claimed she was me, Aquarius and Virgo's owner in the future," He blurted out. He widened his eyes in surprise. He wasn't supposed to say that!

"Huh. I well know that already. As I said, perfect she's for my plan," he said. Leo looked at him, confused. Plan? What plan? And how did he know Hime was his owner in his future?

"Oh, yes! Right. Were you frozen in time, and you didn't hear that conversation," he said.

"What conversation?"

"She when arrived here, I froze time, we talked, yada yada yada," he replied. He clicked his fingers, and Leo felt the heavy chains of Cronus on his wrists again.

He held up his right hand, preparing to click.

"Also, make sure she is in one piece by the time you and those others arrive there. Wilderness the is very, well, hazardous. And need I her magic for something."

Calartemis needs her magic for something? For what?

"Oh, and also, mention don't this conversation to anyone."

Click!

Leo blinked. Time started to flow again, and the ashes of the trees began to drift down. Did that whole coversation just happen?

"Loke!" He heard from behind.

"It's Leo," he said as he turned around, facing the blonde.

Yes, she's the 'owner' of his future self and all, but he can't imagine someone calling him Loke. Why would his future self even allow that?

"I... Thought you can't use your Regulus magic anymore."

"That? No, it was... Just a one time thing. Something out of shock..." He lied.

Welp, guess this is it.

I'm sorry everyone. I just don't know how to continue this fanfic. Yep, you all heard me, this is the last chapter of TOtP.

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