Yep. Here's another one.

Concept: Shun is more than she appears. Based off the Netflix remake, but using the classic names.

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


After she and her brother are separated and sent to train as Saints, Shun spends the first six months in Sanctuary.

She doesn't understand until she's been there for a few weeks and her trainer, Cerberus Dante, takes her to the Twelve Houses of the Zodiac.

The first House, Aries, is empty. Master Dante claims that it has been so for nearly a decade, but refuses to answer why.

The second House is Taurus. Shun likes Taurus Aldebaran. He's kind of like a big, friendly giant who smiles and ruffles her hair with his large hand. There's something off in his gaze that Shun can't quite read, but she doesn't have time to think about it.

After that is Gemini. There's no one there. Apparently, the Gemini Saint died on a mission a long time ago. Shun doesn't say anything, but she gets a weird feeling when she walks through the House, like there's someone watching her from the shadows.

Cancer is Shun's least favorite House. Master Dante walks quickly through this House, fast enough that Shun has to jog to keep up, but Shun is glad they don't stay for long. The faces on the walls seem to watch her, and once or twice Shun stares too long at the empty pits where a person's eyes used to be and almost throws up.

The House of Leo is much warmer and more welcoming. Leo Aiolia smiles at Shun, and nods lightly at Master Dante. Shun thinks the Leo Saint looks very sad, but she can't quite bring herself to say anything to him.

Virgo is a very nice House, Shun thinks. It smells of some kind of flowers, lavender maybe. Shun doesn't get to meet the Virgo Saint. Instead, a Silver Saint named Shiva leads them through the House and to the other side. He says that "Master Shaka" is busy meditating, and will see them on the way down.

The House of Libra is also empty. Apparently, the Libra Saint is has things to do elsewhere.

Scorpio Milo is a lot to take in at once. He's bright and flamboyant, and Shun isn't sure what to make of him, but he's nice enough, and gives her a pastry one of the servants of his House made. It's delicious and Shun thanks the man profusely for the gift, which she takes her time with as they make their way up to the ninth House.

Sagittarius is the saddest House. Master Dante tells Shun that the guardian of this House, Sagittarius Aiolos, was a traitor who died when he tried to save the life of the baby Athena. It is now that he stops and tells Shun of the prophecy, that Athena will fail and destroy all of humanity. She doesn't say anything, but Shun thinks it's sad that everyone believes the goddess they're supposed to protect will fail. Shouldn't they have more faith?

Number ten is the House of Capricorn. Its guardian, Shura, is a quiet and focused man, who pauses in his training-at least, Shun assumes the motions he's doing are some kind of training-just long enough to nod. Master Dante tell Shun that Sir Shura is one of the ones responsible for hunting down the traitorous Aiolos. Vaguely, Shun wonders if Aiolia is related to Aiolos, and if that's why he looks so sad. Shun knows she'd be sad too, if her brother was a traitor.

The eleventh House is Aquarius, and it is here that Shun sees the first child she's seen in the hours since they'd started this trek up to the Pope's chambers. Hyoga can't be much older than Shun, if he is at all, and he watches her with piercing blue eyes that make Shun shiver slightly with how cold they are. His master, Aquarius Camus, is no warmer in attitude, and watches impassively until they have passed his House.

Last is the House of Pisces. Master Dante tells Shun to be wary of this House, but it doesn't stop Shun from being caught off guard by the beautiful rose gardens. Pisces Aphrodite is probably the most beautiful person Shun has ever seen, and it is not until he speaks that Shun realizes he is a man, not a woman. He smiles and calls Shun cute, tucking a rose behind her ear. Master Dante looks wary, until Sir Aphrodite tells him it's a "safe" rose. Shun has no idea what that means.

Shun doesn't like the Pope. From the moment she lays eyes on him as she and Master Dante step into the main hall of the Pope's quarters, Shun thinks there is something very wrong with this man. She can practically see the darkness coming off of him in waves, and it takes everything she has not to hide behind her master. Instead, Shun kneels when her master does, keeps her gaze carefully on the ground like she was instructed to before they began their journey through the Twelve Houses.


"You met the Pope?" Seiya looks like he wants to jump up and start yelling.

Shun nods. "I was sent to Sanctuary to train to be the Aries Gold Saint. It took them six months to figure out I'm a Virgo. I'd never someone as angry as the Pope was when Master Dante took me to tell him. I thought he was going to kill us both."

Shun, Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga, Saori, and Tatsumi are all situated at their waterfall meeting place, sitting or standing around doing nothing of import. Shun isn't even sure why she's telling this story, just that it kind of slipped out. But everyone is listening, so she supposes it's not so bad.

Hyoga eyes her for a long moment, then speaks. "Is that when you were sent to Andromeda Island?"

Shun starts to nod, then hesitates, shrugs. "It was two weeks before I could go anywhere, but yes, that's when I was sent to Andromeda Island."

No one asks why she couldn't go anywhere. Shun is very, very grateful for that. She's not sure she's ready to tell them just how bad things are in Sanctuary under the current Pope.

Saori has proven to be far too sensitive to hear something like that right now, not when she's already so troubled by the prophecy.

That is a story for another time.


By the time Shun, Shiryu, and Hyoga have gotten free of Crow Jamian's bizarre feather trap, the Silver Saint is long gone, Saori in tow and Seiya in hot pursuit.

Fortunately, Shiryu is nothing if not adept at sensing Cosmo, and he locates the direction in which the three have gone with relative ease. It's a matter of minutes, of making sure Tatsumi is alive and breathing, before they are on their way to help.

Along with being the best at sensing Cosmo, Shiryu is the fastest of their little group, Shun is fairly sure of this fact. But for once, Shun finds herself in the front. She's not sure what's driving her to push herself to go so fast, just that she can't stop, even when Hyoga yells for her to slow down. At some point, she's out of earshot, and she doesn't feel bad in the least.

Ikki is there when she arrives.

He's in the middle of a fierce battle with Cerberus Dante, and Shun almost doesn't stop them.

Master Dante was anything but kind to her in the six months he trained her. He pushed her harder than anyone but her own brother ever pushed her, even harder than Master Daidalos and Miss Alanna on Andromeda Island, but Shun will acknowledge that she learned a lot from him in those six months.

She doesn't want to fight him. She also doesn't have a choice if she wants to save Saori. It doesn't take a genius to see that Ikki isn't interested in the young goddess.

Instead of attacking head on, Shun directs her chains to hit the ground between them.

Ikki looks up, sneers. He doesn't radiate hate in waves the way he did before, but he's not the brother she knew when they were little. Shun doubts he'll ever be that Ikki again.

"If you're here," Ikki says, "Then the others can't be far behind. I'll leave these two to you. Even you can probably handle them."

Shun bites her lip, doesn't call out to her brother when he turns and starts to walk away. Master Dante, however, does.

"You're crazy if you think I'm just going to let you get away, Phoenix." He snarls, and sends one of his spiked balls shooting at Ikki.

Shun is faster, however, as she uses her own chains to wrap Master Dante's up.

"I'll be your opponent." Shun declares firmly.

"Dante, would you wrap this up already?" The other Silver Saint groans, looking supremely bored.

"I'm working on it." Master Dante snaps, attempting to pull his chains free of Shun's.

Shun takes the moment of distraction to jump down in front of Saori, planting herself firmly in between her goddess and the Silver Saints who would do her or the unconscious Seiya any harm.

"You had best step aside, little girl. You don't know what you're dealing with." Master Dante snarls.

Shun takes a deep breath. "I know exactly what I'm dealing with, thanks. You don't scare me."

"Well maybe I should." The man spits back.

Shun takes no pleasure in killing her former master.

She appreciates being turned to stone even less.


What do you think of this take on Shun? I'll probably end up writing more in this universe eventually.

See you soon.