Authoress note: Jenny DeVic, once again thank you for your kind review. Thank you for all readers too. I'll trying to finish this fic on chapter 50 or so. I'm glad if this fic can brighten someone day. I will be finishing this fic first before 'Our Memories' and I'm on my own project of writing light novel. Please be patient with me. m(_ _)m
Warning: grammar and vocabulary error.
Disclaimer: none of the character below are mine, they are copyright of Masami Kurumada. I'm only borrowing for fanfic sake
It's Cooking Time!
Part 42
The last event went without any hitch. That could be because there were additional of 4 guests so no one really gone wild with alcohols and Shion had been standing in front of the bar like a guardian. Next chef: Alderbaran. The man had been proposing to put the event two days later and didn't do anything to the interior of the dining room and bar. He asked the bar to be clean of ouzu and nothing else. The fire pit left by the Gemini would be used once again as he, Alderbaran also done bbq Brazilian style. The following morning after the event, everything was back to normal. No one had any hangover or fight or even explosion. It was too normal in fact. There still no sign of Hades's return. Poseidon was back to his Solo's mansion peacefully. The air inside the mansion was in serenity and calmness.
Today, most of the gold saints had been once again away with the Goddess, working and checking inside Sanctuary. The village nearby Sanctuary where most pawn/trainee/citizen resided also need the present of the goddess once in a while.
Only Mu and Alderbaran were the two of goldies that were staying put inside the mansion while the bronze only consisted of Shiryu, Ikki and Shun. Mu was busy inside his usual lab, repairing clothes. The dragon saint was also there. The long hair teen had scroll on his hands, but seeming more interested with the process of cloth repairing then his numbers scroll.
Both Ikki and Shun were inside the library, writing scrolls. And... why did they had to begin writing scrolls were questionable at first. Based on what had been traditionally done in Sanctuary, most of the bronze saints would usually become guards, the front-line defender of the place. The silver saints on the other hand, usually involved in guarding and teaching/mentoring. The engine or the brain of the managing were usually done by gold saints and papacy. Now then, since they were bronze saint, they didn't really need to involve inside the higher hierarchy like what the gold saints did but…
"Why do I have to do this?" Ikki had grumbled, his job was guarding Athena and was not doing menial job like copying stupid warehouse items!
"Because like Shion-san had already said, we are special cases." Shun was humming. Unlike his older brother, he was eager to learn more. Surprisingly enough, his brother was under supervision of Aphrodite to learn logistic inside Sanctuary. He was under both Milo and Aiolia in learning more about human relation job.
"Special case, my ass." He fumed; the ink had dripped into the training scroll he had. "Ergh…" He grumbles some more. Shun smiled in amused as he flipped his scroll.
Meanwhile… the bull star huffed happily inside his own room. He had checked his shopping list twice to make sure nothing forgotten. He would make a biggest steak fest, now he just needed to butcher a cow. Should he? Nah, he would leave it to the pro but he indeed will be buying a whole cow. He could use 10 or maybe 15 kgs of it, the other could be distribute to Sanctuary. He nodded and teleported away toward Sanctuary.
Alderbaran showed up near the border of Rodoria and Sanctuary, following the goddess's cosmo. True to his sense, he could already see Athena was there with Shura, Deathmask and papacy. The crow of kids and people were gathered around, amazed with the gold cloth. Shura looked a little overwhelm with the kids but surprisingly Deathmask was more accommodated, smirking lightly but letting the braver kids touched him.
"Oh! Sir Alderbaran!" One of the kids shouted. The kids shouted excitedly as soon as they saw him and began racing toward him quickly.
"Sir Alderbaran! You don't wear your gold cloth!?"
"Sir Alderbaran, we like the pie you share. What will you teach us next?"
"Yeah! Up up!" They swarmed him as he laughed.
"One at a time!"
Looking at the children, Athena let out a small smile. "Alderbaran is always popular here."
"Yes, he is one of the more approachable gold saints, though…" Papacy paused as he noticed there were still several smaller kids near the Cancer star, looking at him fondly. Shura on the other side, let out a sigh of relief. "I never know, Deathmask is quite patient with kids, I was surprise."
"So was I." Saori said letting out a giggle, yes… who would have thought…
"Saori-san." The bull star, moved toward her, one of the kids was carried and sitting on his shoulder, grinning proudly. "Can I-" He explained what he would do for the event and let the meat from butchered cow to distribute into Rodoria. Athena agreed to let Alderbaran purchased even more cows so everyone could get a share of meat. Papacy also nodded in agreement and let Alderbaran handled the process of purchasing with the finance team.
"Oh, take Seiya with you, he also needs to learn it and a hand on experience will be a good lesson for him."
"Will do, papacy." He paused. "Now, now, kids, how about you play with Sir Deathmask and Sir Shura?"
"YES!" The kids yelled eagerly and stormed back to his seniors. Shura was sweating bullet awkwardly before glaring at him. Deathmask on the other hand, didn't bat an eye, he even enjoying the moment the kids ran toward Shura and sniggered. It was not everyday someone could witness the usual calm Capricorn reacted in panic.
Inside one of the rooms on Athena's temple…
"…" Seiya was rubbing and pulling his hair in frustration, he really didn't like to take part in paperwork job. He would be just fine being bodyguard. He was so sure this was some parts of punishment from Shion for trying to sneak out alcohol in front of the mariner last night. Ikki, Hyoga, and him had been able to drag Isaac into it, while Sorrento and Shiryu declined to take part of it. Tethys also was clever enough to stay put too. They were all discovered by Shion quickly, a glare from him was enough for the teens to back down quickly. And this morning out of the blue, Saori had agree with Shion that they were special cases that didn't fit in into bronze saint category. That also why, instead of only being a bodyguard and doing only foot soldier job, they were now geared up to take more responsibility which means the additional task/the paperwork. The gold saints were ecstatic with the additional five members on taking care Sanctuary.
Suddenly he had been thrust in the hand of Alderbaran and Deathmask who always deal with buying items/goods etc. In other words: purchasing department. Today Deathmask had given him manual to read and he didn't really understand what and how the operation would be and the Cancer had just leave him to his own device without further instruction. He finally shouted in relief when he saw Alderbaran appearing in front of him.
"Thank you! I really think I will be buried with these scrolls. I don't understand anything and what this thing means!" He said flinging his arms in disarray.
"Just in time then, now let us do one order." He said, taking blank paper.
Saint
Seiya
Aiolos was reading the report on the assist request from one of village in Peru about El Tunche. Hyoga was there with him, trying to straighten his toga while reading the copy of the report on the same time.
"What is El Tunche?"
"Hmmm, soul of a cruel and violent man who never find peace, roaming in the forest of Amazon. They said when he walked, the step sound like a whistle." Aiolos trailed as if trying to remember what else to inform his junior.
"A soul? Should that be the specter's job?" He growled; his toga was all right, but he couldn't find a way to settle in. "Why did you guys use toga? I really don't like being exposed like this." He began while Aiolos blinked.
"Expose? Excuse me, our toga is quite long, almost reaching the ankle."
"Still it feels weird when you don't have something on underneath it."
"… Don't tell me that you don't wear your underwear."
"Eh…" Hyoga suddenly flushed.
"You go commando under the toga?!" Aiolos gawked at first before laughing earnestly
"But Seiya taught me… Damnit Seiya!" The blond hair teen blushed harder while Aiolos was trying to muffle his chuckle. Just in time too, the door was open fast and come in Seiya with paper.
"Hey, Saga, I need… eh." He stopped before moving back, reading the Greek plate on the door. "Oh, sorry wrong room."
"SEIYA!" Hyoga charged into him with speed, the Pegasus saint was quite confused at first but since someone was specifically launching toward him, the younger teen quickly turned his body and ran off. Laughter could be heard from the room even louder. Enough for the occupant in the other room to open the door out of curiosity. What he saw was two of their newly recruit 'apprentices' playing cat and mouse game. Shaka raised his eyes, and yes, his eyes were open since he need it to copy numbers. He looked into the open door, next to their room to find his senior was still laughing like a hyena.
"What happens?"
"Nothing, Seiya just told Hyoga that he should go commando when wearing toga."
"Oh, that it, huh?" Shaka said unimpressed. With this, Aiolos stopped laughing.
"Wait, what do you mean by 'that's it'?" The Virgo didn't elaborate any further as he closed the door. Aiolos yelled of 'Oi! It is funny!' was ignored.
"So, you heard, Camus." The blonde hair gold saint walked toward the desk and sat, taking his feather pen back before dipping it into the ink bottle.
"I do." The ice master was back at his writing after a momentary pause but there was unmistakably smile on his mouth.
"Sigh, really?" Saga shook his head in disbelief but it didn't mean he was not amused with small harmless mischief.
"Ah, it just crossed my mind, that's all." Camus shrugged.
"Right. Besides, you and Kanon started it." Shaka was eyeing his senior. It was indeed true; that the twin had tricked the same prank to the trio, Deathmask, Shura and Aphrodite in the past.
"And Aphrodite got us before so…" The ice master trailed slightly. He had also experienced the uncomfortable of being too loose down there, the first time he and his peers were using toga in their first day. Though he had noticed, he was the only one that felt uncomfortable while the other didn't seem to mind at all.
"Since Seiya was coincidently asking Aiolia while we were around last night."
"We don't see any harm in pulling the tradition of telling that." There was a pause as Camus asked. "I'm curious, is any of you adapt this discipline?"
"Of going commando?" Saga gawked.
"Sometimes." Shaka spoke without any hint of embarrassment.
"EEE!" The oldest lad suddenly found the Virgo in a newer light.
"When it was hot day, mind you? Beside I read somewhere it's healthy to let it loose once in a while."
"Where did you read that?" The ice master was now become more interested.
"Some magazine called men health? Aiolia had that stack of magazines in his room."
"… your mind is already corrupted, Shaka." Camus shook his head.
"What that had to do with reading?" The blonde hair saint looked at him clueless.
"Back to topic, actually we can blame Dohko for that, he was the one who told me to go commando on toga." Saga mumbled slightly. "But while it was true thousands of years ago. Now though, we had this invention called underwear."
"So, everybody had this baptism of going commando in toga?" Camus asked
"Nah… Aiolos got the pass." Saga said.
"Maybe we can trick him alongside our juniors that we indeed going commando in toga." Shaka smirked even wider. Saga was eyeing him weirdly but Camus let out a quiet snort.
"You really spent too much time with Milo and Aiolia." The Gemini saint shook his head once again, however… "That will need everyone to take part in convincing Aiolos." The oldest gold saint in their generation let out a grin.
To be continue
