Okay I know, it's been a while but even after doing this I want to get started on the next one so it may be a double header tonight G Needless to say this one was long and borish but it does lead into it all .... which is one reason why I won't post it alone tonight VEG
-Chapter 6-
Ikki had not bothered to venture back out poolside once Shaka left, in fact he hadn't bothered doing much besides returning to his room and flopping on his bed, he hated mind riddles, just spit it out was his motto cause it hurt less going in.
Shaka of course had spent the rest of the day hidden out in the library, just because he couldn't meditate it didn't mean he couldn't find some way to relax just the same .... of course the lack of meditation had likely been a good thing today when it counted but it could sure leave a serious gap when one was use to devoting so much time to meditation and such only to find you lacked the ability to relax enough for something that you enjoyed so much ..... no matter how many hours, different ways or times you made the attempt.
He'd managed to find a few interesting things in his search to something that truely intrigued him but all in all it had been another effort that seemed less then productive, with the loss of what he knew it seemed everything had become more difficult, not just the sence that it had changed and he needed to adjust but more like mourning his own loss while not showing it .... and he was failing badly.
"Will you tell me now, patience is a virtue yes but sometimes everyone needs a helping hand to sort out their problems" came the voice from the door .... he had not heard it open and there half in the door stood the younge purple haired girl that they all had come to know as their goddess, little more then a girl herself and yet able to produce so much of what they had been trained to recognise as their lifes mission, the thing they were to protect even blindly as it had at one point been.
"I don't know if it is a problem that can be sorted, just faced when it finally decides to come and see who stands afterwards" was the only answer that had come to mind as he looked with lidded eyes .... even here in the safety of the library he had tried to remain calm, coming had not been his idea and he had only accepted it to settle anothers mind but now he was questioning weither bringing the problem here where Athena was at greater risk had been wise.
"I see .... fighting solves everything" she'd said, sounding somewhat disappointed as she opened up her own cosmo, seeking answers to questions she had not asked and held no way of asking. Even if the knights served her to their very core to them she was still the outsider, the new comer and this was foriegn ground to her all together.
" No ..... this is an issue where nothing comes of it but fighting, it won't solve it but it will end it, a finality as nothing else has worked" he sighed, more then just a touch reluctant to share it with her, in fact he hadn't even shared it with anyone .... was it wise to leave them blind to the threat, it wasn't like this one seemed to show any interest in any of the others and there had been many others around both here and back at the Virgo temple.
"Are you sure ..... you have tried every avenue and nothing has come. How sad everything in life must be a fight" she mused, sure all of Athena's life was that of wars but one did not fight needlessly, hers were battles of defence and nothing more, she did not openly seek war out and to hear that there was no other solution from one who would follow someone they had never even seen till recently so devotedly and yet not understand them at all just brought back all that had happened it interfere with her and all of her knights, not just those that had been decieved.
Unknown to her though she had hit on something he himself had asked many years ago, asked the only person that could understand and yet still he did not understand the answer. If there were gods and goddesses then why was there need for pain and strife, why not just eliminate it all and save the world from pains that they did not need. Without sadness what is happiness, without war what was peace, without pain what was pleasure and so even now when it should make sence it was one of those things you never seemed to get the whole answer too for the answer was nothing, if you never knew war then peace would be nothing, no values attached to it because there had been nothing else but that. Man made his life as he so wished it, it was avoiding the unnesesary pains and strife that one had only to do in life and although he had known nothing but his serenety it was now gone and only he himself could fight to regain it. "I have done what I know to be the best paths to anulling the issue and so far they have failed, leaving me the one path left .... not all pathes are a peaceful one"
"I understand ..... but even the ones that are not peaceful need not be walked alone, just remember that" she smiled sadly, more a reassuring smile then anything heartfelt as she turned and quietly closed the door, leaving the blond knight to consider both her words and the facts buried within them.
He just smiled, the more he had come to know her the more he had begin to like her, she put him very much in mind of what he would expect to hear had he even been able to meditate .... and it was a comforting thought. "No .... never alone, I take to much with me to really be alone m'lady"
-End-
is gone to write the next one
-Chapter 6-
Ikki had not bothered to venture back out poolside once Shaka left, in fact he hadn't bothered doing much besides returning to his room and flopping on his bed, he hated mind riddles, just spit it out was his motto cause it hurt less going in.
Shaka of course had spent the rest of the day hidden out in the library, just because he couldn't meditate it didn't mean he couldn't find some way to relax just the same .... of course the lack of meditation had likely been a good thing today when it counted but it could sure leave a serious gap when one was use to devoting so much time to meditation and such only to find you lacked the ability to relax enough for something that you enjoyed so much ..... no matter how many hours, different ways or times you made the attempt.
He'd managed to find a few interesting things in his search to something that truely intrigued him but all in all it had been another effort that seemed less then productive, with the loss of what he knew it seemed everything had become more difficult, not just the sence that it had changed and he needed to adjust but more like mourning his own loss while not showing it .... and he was failing badly.
"Will you tell me now, patience is a virtue yes but sometimes everyone needs a helping hand to sort out their problems" came the voice from the door .... he had not heard it open and there half in the door stood the younge purple haired girl that they all had come to know as their goddess, little more then a girl herself and yet able to produce so much of what they had been trained to recognise as their lifes mission, the thing they were to protect even blindly as it had at one point been.
"I don't know if it is a problem that can be sorted, just faced when it finally decides to come and see who stands afterwards" was the only answer that had come to mind as he looked with lidded eyes .... even here in the safety of the library he had tried to remain calm, coming had not been his idea and he had only accepted it to settle anothers mind but now he was questioning weither bringing the problem here where Athena was at greater risk had been wise.
"I see .... fighting solves everything" she'd said, sounding somewhat disappointed as she opened up her own cosmo, seeking answers to questions she had not asked and held no way of asking. Even if the knights served her to their very core to them she was still the outsider, the new comer and this was foriegn ground to her all together.
" No ..... this is an issue where nothing comes of it but fighting, it won't solve it but it will end it, a finality as nothing else has worked" he sighed, more then just a touch reluctant to share it with her, in fact he hadn't even shared it with anyone .... was it wise to leave them blind to the threat, it wasn't like this one seemed to show any interest in any of the others and there had been many others around both here and back at the Virgo temple.
"Are you sure ..... you have tried every avenue and nothing has come. How sad everything in life must be a fight" she mused, sure all of Athena's life was that of wars but one did not fight needlessly, hers were battles of defence and nothing more, she did not openly seek war out and to hear that there was no other solution from one who would follow someone they had never even seen till recently so devotedly and yet not understand them at all just brought back all that had happened it interfere with her and all of her knights, not just those that had been decieved.
Unknown to her though she had hit on something he himself had asked many years ago, asked the only person that could understand and yet still he did not understand the answer. If there were gods and goddesses then why was there need for pain and strife, why not just eliminate it all and save the world from pains that they did not need. Without sadness what is happiness, without war what was peace, without pain what was pleasure and so even now when it should make sence it was one of those things you never seemed to get the whole answer too for the answer was nothing, if you never knew war then peace would be nothing, no values attached to it because there had been nothing else but that. Man made his life as he so wished it, it was avoiding the unnesesary pains and strife that one had only to do in life and although he had known nothing but his serenety it was now gone and only he himself could fight to regain it. "I have done what I know to be the best paths to anulling the issue and so far they have failed, leaving me the one path left .... not all pathes are a peaceful one"
"I understand ..... but even the ones that are not peaceful need not be walked alone, just remember that" she smiled sadly, more a reassuring smile then anything heartfelt as she turned and quietly closed the door, leaving the blond knight to consider both her words and the facts buried within them.
He just smiled, the more he had come to know her the more he had begin to like her, she put him very much in mind of what he would expect to hear had he even been able to meditate .... and it was a comforting thought. "No .... never alone, I take to much with me to really be alone m'lady"
-End-
is gone to write the next one