Chapter 7 – What happened when they met Eri part 2

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Hyoga sped to Shun and saw just as Eri dug her nails into him.

"Eri! Stop it!" But she didn't, the harp that had Shun trapped emitted a high note that vibrated through the strings. In that brief moment when Hyoga started his stance for the Diamond Dust attack he could see it clear as day, he remembered Shun in the ground of the Libra Temple, the moment they shared their first kiss, the moment he found out he was in love with him. He hadn't even said it yet, he couldn't formulate the right words to tell him, but he knew that Shun knew, right? His angel, his perfect angel with hair as soft as a cloud, with eyes as green as the deepest forest in Mezmai, his pink cheeks, his cold nose, his pale skin marked by battles, his lips, his gorgeous lips that he desired so much and all of him was being sliced right in front on him. Hyoga remembered everything in one second, he changed the stance, he was going to attack with everything he had… he was getting ready for the Aurora Execution. Maybe with cold as low as -273° he could not only freeze time, but the death sentence given to Shun.

He was about to attack, and he remembered everything, specially last week when they all went to the amusement park in Tokio, it was really hot and they went to buy some shaved ice. Shun saw a little boy who was crying because his treat fell to the ground and he went and gave the little boy his newly bought dessert. That was Shun…

Just one more second and he could bring the atmosphere to the temperature he needed. But then he saw a fast object cut the strings before the lethal note could reach Shun's heart.

"I'll be your opponent" Ikki said appearing from the shadows inside the house, he was just behind Eris when she turned to look at him. Shun was on the ground on a pool of his own blood.

"Aren't you sweet? And foolish" Eris told him "He is going to die, already lost so much blood… nothing to do about that, but I guess you could entertain yourself with Orpheus here… I have a sister to kill" Eris said to Ikki and vanished into thin air.

"Come back here!" Ikki yelled.

"Not so fast… you are Fenix, aren't you?" Orpheus asked "It's such a shame you didn't let me kill him; it would had been a merciful death"

"Step back, I don't have time for your games, and step away from my brother" Ikki warned.

"You must be dreaming if you think I'm going to let you pass… he is your brother you say? I see the resemblance… I'll finish him after I kill you" Orpheus adopted a battle stance as well.

Hyoga was about to intervene, he ran back to the house so he could reach Shun and help him but then he felt a strong arm pull and push him right into the house's exterior wall. The arm pushed his shoulder so hard Hyoga heard how it cracked under the pressure and felt an intense pain through his back and right arm. I can't let him win Hyoga thought he didn't practice kicks as much as he should have, he mustered all of his strength and made a back-hook kick with his right leg and send his opponent flying to a nearby tree.

"Who the fuck are you?" Hyoga asked trying not to show too much pain in his voice.

The opponent quickly stood up. "I hope that wasn't Camus's pet best attack… what a waste" the warrior said spitting out blood from his mouth. "I am Kristos of the Southern Cross and I will avenge my killing by your master. I'm going to rip you to pieces" the attack was quick, Hyoga wasn't prepared to how quick it was. He felt an extremely intense and fast pain go through his body and right after that he saw his chest armor break in the middle What the hell? I couldn't even see him.

Kristos then took Hyoga by the neck and lifted him from the ground and squeezed his neck.

No! Not like this, I have to help Shun! I have to go to Saori!

He closed his eyes and in a blink of an eye saw again Shun in the Libra Temple and Hyoga froze Kristos's arms and hands. "Fuck it's so damn cold!" Kristos yelled and Hyoga escape from his grasp.

"You won't use your hands again…" Hyoga said breathing heavily crouching in the patio's ground. "Now tell us… where is Eri going?!"

"You think I will help you? After what Camus did to me? I would gladly sell my soul again to have a chance at your neck, I just wish Camus would be here to see how your head explodes"

"Camus is dead" Hyoga took a deeper look at him and recognize him… that's right! How could he forget! "I remember you now… you begged Camus to train but he refused, you challenged him and in five seconds you were defeated, he let you live but then you just couldn't live with the shame, now could you? You kidnapped me and took me to the shore and tied my feet to a fucking anchor and when Camus came you threw me from the pier into the ocean… you freacking maniac."

"You were always a smart-mouth, weren't you? Then maybe I'll just kill you for the fun of it; now I'll make sure you die and you can meet your master in hell where he must be right about now… he was a heartless son of a bitch and you know it… you know how much a piece of garbage he was. He didn't deserve the Aquarius cloth, and neither will you… you pathetic little rat… I always hated you, I just didn't understand why Camus was so protective of you… you were always weak… you couldn't stop thinking of mommy, couldn't you?"

"Shut up" Hyoga said with hate in his eyes.

"But what could one expect from a Camus's apprentice… that cocksucker… he wasn't a real man; he was weak just like you! He was a freak! Just like all those fagots he trained, Crystal, Issac and you… all of you bunch of cocksuckers!" Kristos continued.

"I said SHUT-UP" Hyoga yelled and freed his right fist that was getting squeezed harder as each second passed, his knuckles were white as snow. The Aurora Ray hit Kristos and killed him immediately. Hyoga was breathing heavily and hissed as he realized how much pain his right shoulder really was.

Hyoga picked himself up and turned his blurry sight to the beach and saw Shiryu fighting with no armor, he had several wounds in his arms and chest and he could clearly see how his left arm was broken. He wanted to help Shiryu but turned his sight again to the living room where Ikki was smashing Orpheous head against the kitchen island once, twice, three times until Orpheus slid to the floor. Orpheus spited blood from his mouth.

"Not any amount of harm you do to me will return your brother back to life" Orpheous said. What? No, I must have missed heard him… Shun is not dead Hyoga thought I can still feel him… barely. "But Eris just might… he could return not only your brother but the love of your life as well… this is why I'm here… so I can see my love once more" Orpheous continued.

"You disgust me… you sold your soul for such a selfish reason… you were never a true saint you bloody bastard" Ikki said before finishing him off with one lethal blow.

Ikki looked at his brother's frail figure still wrapped in the strings bleeding slowly from his wounds. It was more difficult by the second to feel his warm cosmos around. Ikki turned around and looked at Hyoga who was standing by the door, tears in his eyes.

"We need to go" Ikki finally said.

"Ikki, we need to help him" Hyoga said.

"He is going to die… the only one who might be able to save him is Saori… which means we need to get moving… she is our priority; do you understand me?" Ikki asked him, red eyes… maybe he did have a heart after all, and it was breaking… he was going to lose the only family he had left.

Ikki came back to give Shun an early birthday present, a picture he found in an old deposit storage unit with his family belongings back in Surrey. It was a picture just before his parents passed away. He was going to tell Shun about the promise he made to their mother … to cherish him, protect him… he was going to keep it, he was going to be the brother he deserved.

Ikki loved that little baby, he loved how he couldn't pronounce his name correctly. His mom always called him Zachary… Shun with a smile in his face and opening his arms so his brother would carry him would called him Ikki and made motors sounds so Ikki would play with him pushing him up in the air making airplane sounds all around the house. The name stuck… he liked the way it sounded… and loved even more that baby who was the dearest person in the world to him.

He was about to die… Shun was about to die… he could feel it.

"I can't leave him" Hyoga whispered.

"Do you think Shun's going to like the idea of you jeopardizing everything to try and save him?" Ikki said back.

"He needs our help!" Hyoga yelled, tears now falling freely on his cheeks.

"You think you can help him? He needs a transfusion and bloody stiches, neither of us will be able to help so move your fucking arse and get going" Ikki said and let a traitor tear fell as well.

"He didn't leave me… he didn't give up on me… I can't Ikki, I need to save him" Hyoga said.

"We need to save Saori… I won't tell you again" Ikki said and took Hyoga's right arm and with a hard push put it back on its place. Hyoga closed his eyes and more tears fell. "I don't want him to die either but there's nothing else we can do"

"He lost a lot of blood with Aphrodite was well… he is strong… he can make it if we help him" Hyoga insisted.

"He is the strongest… amongst us… but he just won't make it Hyoga" Ikki said leaving Hyoga right beside Shun. Hyoga dropped to his knees and started to take off the strings that still tied him. In a couple of seconds, his hands were full of it… red, scarlet red, warm… leaving… his clothes were now drenched and Hyoga hugged the weak body and cried even more.

"Please don't leave Shun… just please" Hyoga begged the unmoving body.

"Hyoga…" Shiryu called from the door. "We need to go"

Hyoga didn't want to. He stood up with Shun still in his arms and put him in the living room couch. Hyoga pushed Shun's hair away from his face and gave him a kiss on the lips… trying to transfer his cosmos… maybe just maybe… but nothing happened… "Please wake up" Hyoga whispered to Shun who was still asleep.

His worst nightmare… Shun not waking up from the floor in the Libra Temple… the fear that drowned him… it was now real.

"I love you… I'm sorry I could never just say it… I love you" Hyoga said and kissed him again on his temple and left him there.

He walked to Shiryu, who was crying as well but none said anything.

Tatsumi came running to the living room shocked of the destruction left and what it might mean for his lady. "What happened?" he asked in shock

"Tatsumi, you need to get everyone in the island out of here, we are going to get Saori, but you need to get everyone to safety" Shiryu told him.

"Where is she? Where is Lady Athena?" he insisted.

"A god took control of Eri… it's a long story… Seiya is with Saori right now… he won't let anything wrong happen to her" Hyoga said.

Tatsumi turned and looked at Shun in the couch "Is he? Is he dead?"

"There's no time to waste here" Ikki said now joining Shiryu and Hyoga in the door (what was left of it) "Get the people to safety… Shun will be fine there, we'll come for him later"

"Don't you want Tatsumi to take him to the Sanctuary in the helicopter? Mu could help him" Hyoga cried.

Ikki made a face, he was clearly uncomfortable "Hyoga listen to me! Shun's going to die. I'm sorry, I wish I could be the bearer of better news, but he is going to die… if he doesn't… then let him take his tiny little butt back to the fight where he should be… if he were faster, stronger we would be already helping, but since he is neither… let him get there on his own… Now, I won't repeat myself again. Let's get moving!"

Hyoga reluctantly started moving and as they reached the beach Ikki said "We need to find Seiya. I feel him not far away from here. Let's go" and the three men started their way to reach the fight that would hopefully end all things related to Eris and the Ghost Knights.


Shun could hear Hyoga… he could hear his brother… but he was drifting… falling, falling into the deepest darkness.

But he didn't feel rest nor peace, he felt cold, he felt pain, every single blow, punch and kick. He felt the training chain the kids in the Andromeda Island used to choke him with just for pure fun. He felt the snake bites of the Dark Andromeda Saint, he felt asphyxiated when he was turned into stone, he felt the pain in the Gemini Temple as he saw Hyoga being drifted away and the heartbreak of watching him in his frozen grave. Nothing else could compare to that pain, not even the pain of being sucked out of his blood… the pain of thousands littles glasses encrusted in his skin, the pain of being sliced in pieces… nothing compared to the pain of watching Hyoga dead… frozen…out of his reach.

Please not yet… Shun thought and prayed and that's when he felt it… he heard it… that's when he opened his eyes.

No, not yet dear boy Shun heard a voice in his head say… different from his own and then, somehow, he felt alive again.


It took him around 40 minutes to reach the place where his companions were fighting deep in the forest.

Each sprayed in the ground defeated, he saw as Seiya was trying to put himself back on his feet.

"You don't learn, do you?" Eris asked Seiya.

The sight was horrendous. Saori had both hands tied to two different Greek columns in what looked like a small Sanctuary. The apple she cried about earlier was a bright golden artifact that was stuck to her chest draining her energy.

Shiryu had a serious injury in his head, Ikki had an open wound in his abdomen and Hyoga was on his knees breathing heavily trying to hold his arm.

"Is it broken?" Shun asked him as he approached him.

Hyoga turned slowly to look at him… he started shaking, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"How?... I… I can't believe it" Hyoga whispered.

"It's ok… I haven't left" Shun told him with a warm smile.

"You were gone…" Hyoga said perplexed… "How are you walking?" He asked in shock looking at him… most of his wounds were now closed… "How?"

"I think it's pointless to ask questions… I'm here aren't I?" Shun told him. "Seiya… don't give up… I know you can sense us… we are right here with you"

In that point Seiya who had fallen again, burned his Cosmos to the infinite and in that moment a golden star reached him… the Sagittarius cloth.

"You little brat don't learn, do you? The time when Earth is filled by my knights will come tonight! Athena is about to die and I will shed this body and return to my real form. The hate in the human's hearts will help me destroy this Earth that she loved so much. I will be victorious and you…" Eris yelled to Shun. "I will kill you myself!" When Eris was about to attack Shun, Shun used the Andromeda chain to hold her right hand. "What do you think you're doing? I will vaporize you!" But Eris was shocked to find that she couldn't move her left hand either… it was frozen. "Nothing you do will stop me!" but right then, the golden arrow struck her, joined by the power of the Fenix's wings and the storm of the Raising Dragon.

Shun saw how Eris's Cosmos exploded in front of his eyes as a great earthquake began to roar from the ground.

"Seiya, you need to take Saori to the Sanctuary now" Shiryu order.

"But guys… look at the beach, there might be a tsunami any minute now… what are you going to do?" Seiya asked taking a weak Saori in his arms.

"Seiya, listen to Shiryu… if you get there… tell Mu to send Kiki" Shun said as the earth roared and roared.

Seiya took Saori and flew in the sky like a golden comet.

The four saints didn't move to save themselves, they were exhausted and watched high into the island's mountain as the sea moved away from the sand forming little by little a gigantic wave.

"So, this is it, huh?" Hyoga asked grabbing Shun's hand in his own.

"Seems to be" Shiryu answered him as he sat in the ground.

"You guys are soooo dramatic" Kiki said appearing from nowhere.

"You are late" Ikki told him.

"Nobody is going to thank me? Manners guys!" Kiki said as he performed his telekinesis and brought them to the safety of the Sanctuary. Now, safe from the reach of death they could recover and hopefully answer some questions along the way.


Author's comments: That took longer than expected... fighting scenes are not an easy job.

Anyway, after watching the movie, my intuition told me that Kristos and Hyoga had some unfinished business, Kill Bill style, so I thought maybe they knew each other back when Camus was teaching Hyoga in Siberia. My thoughts were that he went bonkers after being denied training. I never liked the character, the 2 minutes he was in the movie but gave me the homophobic vibe for some reason.

Well... next chapter will be a slightly more romantic so I hope you like it and please leave a comment so I know I'm going in the right direction.

:)