What's this? A continuation of a previous chapter? Shocking!

(No seriously, this is pretty surprising. Hopefully I'll be able to turn this into a full story some day.)

Disclaimer: I do not own Saint Seiya or any of the included characters. They all belong to Masami Kurumada.


Shun stared at the Spectre in front of her. This was bad. The last thing that Sanctuary needed right now was Spectres.

Then Shun realized that the Spectre was not the only thing that had come flying out of the dust cloud.

Across the main street, standing near a flower shop, was some kind of strange beast. It was vaguely canine in shape, and almost looked like it was made of shadows, or perhaps just straight up darkness.

As Shun watched, the creature snarled and threw itself at the Spectre, teeth bared a claws extended.

The Spectre met the beast with something like a growl of his own, catching its jaw and flipping it over, then slamming it into the ground.

"Wyvern's... Roar!" The Spectre shouted. A blast of pure force shot from his raised fist, striking the creature and throwing Shun painfully against the wall of the building.

The beast yelped in pain and then seemed to almost dissipate into thin air. Struggling not to slump to the ground, Shun looked up, and froze as her eyes met the Spectre's own. Silently, they stared at each other for a moment before the Spectre spoke.

"Get out of here!" He ordered in a commanding voice. Shun could do little more than stare in shock as the Spectre threw himself forward and back into the half-dissipated dust cloud.

Shaking off the shock of the Spectre speaking to her and the pain of being thrown against the wall behind her, Shun reached up and grabbed her Cloth tag off her neck. Throwing it in the air, she called quietly.

"Andromeda."

A glowing circle of runes spread out across the ground in front of Shun, and the Andromeda Pandora's Box rose out of it, splitting open to reveal the Andromeda Cloth.

Shun raised one hand, silently calling to the Cloth. The sounds of continued fighting reached her ears as she felt the Cloth falling into place on her body. It was strangely comforting, the feel of the armor and the weight of the accompanying chains.

Now wearing her armor, Shun leaned around the corner of her building again, peaking at the ongoing fight.

With the dust cloud cleared, she could see that there were actually three Spectres, the blonde one and two others that Shun couldn't get a good look at, other than the wings on their armor.

The three of them were fighting a group of the same strange beast-creatures the likes of which the blonde Spectre had destroyed a few moments earlier.

Shun gritted her teeth. The people of Rodario were in danger. Even now, Shun could see several people running away in the distance.

By all appearances, the Spectres were doing their best to keep the beasts contained I the small area they were in now, but they were seriously outnumbered, and it was a losing battle. Normally, Shun's first action upon seeing Spectres would be to run and get help, but they currently seemed to be all that stood between the beasts and Rodario.

Shun took a quick breath, then threw herself forward towards a beast that was attempting to sneak up on one of the Spectres. As she did, she threw out a quick, half-baked telepathic call to any Saint who was nearby.

"Spectres in Rodario." It wasn't much, but Shun could hope that it would reach someone, anyone really.

"Nebula Chain!" The Andromeda Saint cried. The square chain end shot out, wrapping around the beast and shocking it with electricity. The strange creature let out a high-pitched screech and disappeared is a swirl of darkness.

Shun landed behind the Spectre, already focusing on the nearest beast, which had noticed her and was headed in her direction.

"Rolling Defense." Shun growled. The circle chain end swirled around her and the Spectre at her back, knocking away the beasts that charged them.

"What are you doing?" Came the disbelieving snarl from the Spectre.

"Giving us a moment to breath." Shun snapped back. "What are these?"

She turned to glance at the Spectre, meeting his slightly startled black eyes with her own green ones.

"You're-" The Spectre started.

"No time." Shun interrupted. "What are these things?" She repeated her question.

"Shadow beasts. From Tartarus." The Spectre growled. "Drop your defense. We need to get rid of these things before they can destroy the village."

Shun blinked, a little surprised that this Spectre cared about the village that Spectres had been known to attack in the past.

Then she shook her head clear of the thought.

Dropping her Rolling Defense, Shun focused her attention on keeping the shadow beasts from sneaking up on the Spectres. It was how she fought with the rest of the Vanguard, and it was working quite well here too.

But of course, no battle tactic works with everyone. Shun was so focused on watching the Spectres' backs that she forgot that there was no one watching her back in return.

A growl drew Shun's attention. The girl whipped around, only to shriek as she was bowled over by a shadow beast that had snuck up on her.

The creature knocked the young Saint to the ground, even as its for morphed from that of a canine to something more humanoid, and its hand-or the shadow beast equivalent-closed around her neck.

Shun struggled, but the creature had her solidly pinned down, and as it squeezed harder Shun found it increasingly difficult to focus enough to direct her chains to knock it away.

Spots started to invade Shun's vision as she struggled to breath around the hands around her throat. The shadow beast had nearly monstrous strength, and it felt like it was attempting to crush her windpipe in its grip.

As her vision started to blacken and her body started to go numb, Shun was fairly sure she heard the sound of something cracking, and a blinding pain shot through her body.

Suddenly, there was a muffled shout, and the weight pinning Shun down was gone, along with the hands around her neck. Shun rolled onto her side then pushed herself to her hand and knees, coughing as she struggled to draw in a proper breath. But every gasp of air seemed to burn her throat.

Around her, the sounds of fighting were starting to calm down, and as Shun sat back on her heels peaking around her, she saw that all but one or two of the shadow beasts was gone.

She also saw flashes of gold that were easily identifiable as Gold Saints. Several of them.

All too soon, the fight was over. With the addition of several Gold Saints, the beasts stood no chance and were quickly and efficiently vanquished.

Shun closed her eyes, letting the tension in her body drain, only to feel a hand on her shoulder.

"Are you alright?" A voice asked.

Shun looked up and found herself staring at the dark-eyed Spectre who she had spoken to before.

Before she had a chance to respond, another voice spoke up.

"You have exactly five seconds to step away from her, Spectre." Scorpio Milo snarled, his red-painted nail pointed at the back of the Spectre's head.


Two chapters in one day? What is this? I don't even know what to think myself.

Anyway. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I might actually turn this one into a real story one day.