Forever Saints: Chapter 2
Shun opened his curtains, stretched and looked around his gigantic room. There seemed to be something missing, he looked closer and realized he had taken down all his posters. It would've been embarrassing for Hyoga to have seen them. He went into his closet/room, and searched for hours, for the best outfit, he wanted to look good for Hyoga.
Hyoga opened his door to a long, red carpeted, corridor and looked around. He couldn't remember which way he had come from. He took a deep breath and ventured into the mansion.
He passed thousands of doors and turned corners to see rooms you would never expect anyone to have in their house, until he finally bumped into Shun in one of the gyms.
"Good morning!" he said getting off the running machine. He was wearing tracksuit bottoms and a vest; Hyoga hadn't noticed how strong he looked.
"Er, yeah good morning!" replied Hyoga still looking him up and down. Shun blushed, he had thought Hyoga to be still asleep; he didn't want him to see him like this!
"Want some breakfast?' asked Shun. He nodded and Shun led him to a lift, which went down four stories, but they had to walk through 9 corridors and 6 courtyards until they got to the enormous kitchen. Even though it was in the middle of winter, they were still boiling after all that walking.
After eating breakfast, Shun lay on the sofa reading a magazine with him on the front cover, but looked up as he heard a splash coming from the massive swimming pool. He looked up and saw Hyoga swimming. He shuddered; -how can he swim when it's so cold? – He thought to himself shuddering so much that he had to get a blanket to wrap round himself. He gazed at this warrior, now he knew why they said brave warrior.
He slid the sliding doors open and walked out to see if Hyoga was warm enough, (he was now sitting outside the pool)
"Hyoga?" he said, coming up to him,
"Eh?" he looked up, with a confused and tired face.
"Are you cold?" Hyoga shook his head vigorously,
"Nah, I'm alright," he said not taking his eyes off the horizon. Shun sat down next to him, by the pool, but Hyoga got back up, grabbing his trousers, top and boots, pulling them on.
"Are you sure your alright?" asked Shun with a frown.
"Yeah, I'm fine" he said putting a towel round his neck.
"Hyoga? What's up?' he asked now sounding a bit worried.
Hyoga finally looked at him, with a worried look as well. Shun got up,
"Hyoga?" he said faintly,
"It's... its princess Saori!"
Seiya washed his face in the basin; and looked up into the mirror, but looked away again. He wasn't sure that what he had done was right. Was it just lust? Or was it something stronger- was it love?
He pulled on a shirt and opened the bathroom door, to the bedroom. He looked around; Shiryu wasn't there anymore. He walked over to another door and walked into the kitchen. Shiryu was sat at the table eating corn flakes. Seiya sat down opposite, but never dared look at him. Eventually, after half an hour of silence, he looked up to see Shiryu staring at him. He didn't look away in embarrassment to have been caught, but kept on staring. He spoke then in an unfamiliar tone, he had never heard him speak before,
"Seiya I... I-I'm sorry about last night," he said now looking away.
"It's alright," he reassured feeling a bit guilty.
"No it's not I took advantage of you, I'm sorry! It's just I-" but he couldn't finish the sentence as Seiya leaned across the table and kissed him.
"Shiryu? What's the matter?" he looked down then up; eyes full of fear,
"It's... its princess Saori!"
"What's wrong with her?"
"I got a message today- she'd gone mad! She's going to destroy the whole world! If we don't do something quick we'll all be dead by the end of the month!" Seiya had a sudden vision of her standing on a cliff, waves bashing against it, dress blowing in the wind, trident held high, and laughing menacingly.
"Well, where are all the other knights?" Asked Seiya,
"They wont go near her! It's up to us Seiya! We have to defeat her!" He started to breath heavily and tears spilled from his eyes. She was their friend, and once Seiya had thought her to be more. How could they defeat her? When once so emotionally involved?
"What about Hyoga? Shun? Ikki?"
"I just called them, they're coming over". Shiryu started to cry even more; Seiya had never seen him like this! Which made him even more at a loss of what to do!
"Hey! It's gonna be all right!" he said comfortingly, patting his shoulder. He wiped the tears from his eyes, and got up to go on the balcony for some air.
He looked down at the cars going by, his eyesight going blurry and blinked hardly forcing the tears to roll down his soft cheeks to have clear vision again. It wasn't so much the fact that they had to kill Saori; it was that; in order to do so, they would have to become Saints again. Ever since they had split up, Shiryu tried to put it behind him. But he couldn't, all the memories of the faces he had killed hovered in his mind, haunting him. But tomorrow he would have to face the one thing he had been hiding from... tomorrow they would go to the sanctuary.
TO BE CONTINUED....
