Author's Notes: No real notes, Hope you all are still interested and reading this fic. See you at the ramblings.

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Chapter 30: A Trap; Part 6...

~/Jupiter\~

:;"You were expecting me?" questions Jupiter, "Who are ya, anyway?";:

"I am called Golem." the large muscular male responds, raising his large hammer, "Earthquake!!" he slams his hammer against the ground, causing a crack that travels along the ground toward Jupiter.

Jupiter dodges to one side as the crevice widens, then dashes at her opponent and hits his rock-like torso with a right punch.

"Forget it, little Jupiter!" Golem says, "Your strength is useless against me!" he then knocks her away with a right hook. Jupiter's body turns in the air and she lands facefirst.

Jupiter immediately rolls onto her back, "Jupiter Thunderclap!!" she shouts, launching the attack toward Golem. It hits, doing nothing.

"Also useless!" Golem laughs, "I thought you went to school. Electrical attacks are of no use against an enemy who's made out of stone, little Jupiter!"

"Why d'you keep calling me that!" demands Jupiter, now standing.

"I figured you would not remember." Golem says, "Very well... I am the one who trained you in the use of your powers. You were still young so, it is no surprise that you do not remember. Now, though, you have to die!" he runs at her and starts a swing of his hammer, but is forced to stop and shield his eyes from a bright golden light.

Afterward, Jupiter is wearing golden stone-like armor, 'What's this?' she wonders.

~"My Astral Armor." responds Shinya's voice in Jupiter's mind, "Call it... a final gift of my love for you."~

'What d'you mean?' quetions Jupiter in her mind 'Shinya!' however, she gets no response. "Oof!" she is knocked back by a direct hit from Golem's hammer, but she doesn't fall.

"What the!?"

"Thanks, Shinya." Jupiter says, then dashes at Golem. She hits him with a right punch again, this time knocking him back into a wall.

However, Golem stands up and laughs, "Better. But, Not good enough." he says.

"!?"

"What is the matter? You still cannot hurt me, even with Titan's power." Golem says, "Or, Perhaps it is guilt. And, That guilt is preventing you from using your power, or her's."

"What do you mean, 'guilt'?"

"Guilt over your betrayal of love."

"!?"

~"Don't listen to him, Makoto!"~

'But, He's right! I have--'

~"No! Listen, I already know about you feelings for Ami!" Shinya's voice says, "... you remember my incurable heart-virus? Well, There is a cure. And, That is for you to accept the new path your heart's following! As much as I wish we could hold onto the past, we can't! We can't continue into the future tied down by the past!"~

'I... I understand.' Jupiter says in her mind, as she dodges to the left and under Golem's hammer. Titan's double-bladed broad-axe materializes in her hands and she buries the blade into Golem's torso, "Your turn to die!" she says, "Jupiter Thunder Crash!!" she channels her power through the axe and into Golem, causing his stone-like body to explode. She then proceeds through a door which opens in one corner of the colliseum.

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To Be Continued...

Ramblings: Three to go. Hope people's still reading this story and that you're not too confused by reading it. See you in the next chapter.