FALLEN

Hyoga gasped as he suddenly disappeared from the Gemini temple and found himself suspended in nothing. There wasn't anything here but darkness but something had to be keeping him in the air. When he tried to move he couldn't and knew he was trapped.

Hyoga was thinking of Shun's face when he had disappeared. He hoped they were all okay but especially Shun.

He was there for a while wondering how he was going to get out and thinking about Shun when suddenly he dropped. And it seemed like he dropped forever but suddenly he connected with solid ground painfully and when he opened his eyes he was in a temple.

Hyoga stood and looked around slowly. This was not Gemini temple. It wasn't any of the ones he had passed through before.

Hyoga could feel someone else here with him. It felt so familiar but he couldn't place who it was.

"Hyoga."

He whirled to face the voice and saw no one so walked closer to the shadows.

"Who's there?" Hyoga took a defensive stance. "Come out."

The shadows moved and Hyoga gasped in shock as a figure appeared.

"Camus!"

Seiya, Shiryu and Shun were getting tired. Shaka wasn't fighting them but he wasn't letting them beat him either. Shun's chains seemed averse to hitting him, Seiya's meteor punches seemed to veer away, and he wasn't even vaguely troubled by Shiryu's dragon attack.

Shaka stood in the middle of the temple still as perfect looking as when the saints had entered. He still seemed undisturbed by their attacks.

Seiya tried diplomacy. He stepped forward to the gold saint. "Shaka, please we really need to go on if we don't our friend will die."

"I'm sorry but I can't let you through until you defeat me. The patriarch said so." His frame shrugged gently. "I am sorry. I have to attack you now."

Shaka opened his wide aquamarine eyes and punched Seiya.

"Seiya!" Shiryu jumped forward to get his friend and he too was knocked out.

Shun stood back warily as Shaka turned his eyes to him.

"Aren't you going to help your friends?"

Shun swirled his defense chain around him and stepped toward Shiryu and Seiya. He turned sensing an attack coming and watched in horror as his chains stopped swirling and Shaka's fist flew towards his chest.

Shun fell to the ground and turned his head towards the door when he felt a familiar cosmo. He'd know it anywhere...

Shaka turned, eyes closed again and started to sit back in the gloom.

"You missed one."

"And you are?" Shaka's voice floated gently on the air.

"Ikki of Phoenix." A tough looking saint with dark blue hair stood at the doors to the temple looking upset.

"You are with them?"

"Yes. And you are going to pay dearly for hurting my little brother."

Shaka opened his eyes and stepped back out of the gloom.

"Try me."