Disclamer: Why do I have to keep doing this? I don't own saint seiya!
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Yoruichi: "Sorry for the wait, but I hope this story would be to your liking!"
Camus: "Let's see… Opps, I'm running out of things to throw! Wait… NO! I CANNOT THROW THE STATUE! SOMEBODY SLAP ME!"
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Ding. Aioros takes the cake out of the oven, wiping his sweat off of his forehead. "Hey, Aldebaran?" He turned and saw that he was still having a staring contest with his brother. "Woah, give your eyes some water there, Aldebaran." Aioros took some icing and started decorating.
"kishin da omoi o hakidashitai no wa
sonzai no shoumei ga ta ni nai kara
tsukan da hazu no boku no mirai wa
"songen" to "jiyuu" de nujun shiteru yo
yugan da zazou o keshi saritai no wa
jibun no genkai o soko ni miru kara
jiishiki kajou no boku no mado ni wa
kyonen no KARENDAA hidzuke ga nai yo"
Aioros heard. He immediately turned with wide eyes at his brother, who started singing 'Rewrite' from 'Full metal Alchemist.' Aldebaran's jaw dropped open and he blinked, thus loosing the contest. "HA!" Aioria laughed. Then stopped and became serious. "What?" He asked. "I-I-I-I never knew you could sing." Aioros said, dropping his icing squeezer accidentally. "So I guess you have one talent. I keep count of your talents since birth, you know, Aioria?" Aioros said after a while and picked up the tube and started icing again. "When you were born, crying wasn't a talent, and neither was crawling…" Then Aioros stopped all of a sudden. "HEY! I guess that Mu still has NO LUCK with the entertainments! I bet you could sing at Athena's party!" Aioros squealed like a Japanese schoolgirl shortly after, which earned a sweat drop from everyone else in the room. "Oh! Oh! I'll sing 'Eternal Snow, Route L style!" Aioria burst out all of a sudden. "Route what?" Aldebaran asked, for he doesn't spend almost all day in from of an anime-only TV. "You know, Full Moon O Sagashite…Kouyama Mitsuki, Takuto…" He said. "Ug, just let me see the lyrics first." Aioros finished icing the cake. The icing on the cake said 'Happy birthday, Athena. We all treasure today and we hope you will too!' He scratched his chin and added roses around the icing, making it more beautiful.
Aioria quickly dug through his bag, which was in the kitchen. After a while, he returned to his brother's side with a crumbled piece of paper and handed it to him. "Here are the lyrics." He said. Aioros took them and read them over. "Eh, it's really cheesy… But I guess it'll be okay, OH! Leave out the 'Hold Me Tight' part and the 'I Love You' part." Aioria handed the paper back to his brother and stuffed the cake into the fridge.
It took Mu some time, but he finally heard the news. "Are you SERIOUS? Aioria can SING?" He asked eyes as wide as it could be. "Afraid so." Aioros said, wiping his hands on a wash cloth. "Wow…" Mu paced around the room. "Then I don't need to stress my brain out anymore! Yay! I KNEW that 'ask Athena what she wanted to do' was a bad idea!" He said, but then realized that Aioria might not want to do it. Aioria didn't say a thing. After a pause, "OKAY!" Said Aioria with a big grin. "That sure took a long time." Aioros laughed, and that was not good. Nothing is good when an archer is in an amazing mood. It usually means that the archer he or she has something planned, because archers are sly and smart. However, Aioros had no intention to plan anything at all. He was just in a plain, good mood, and it took 3 loooooong minutes for Aioria and Aioros to realize that.
Mu, as our little 'friends' guessed, had NO LUCK with his part of the party, and it was so late in the night that everyone was done their jobs and leaving. But he sat there, messing up his beautiful pink hair. Aioros, Aioria and Aldebaran left the kitchen after closing the lights and stopping Aioros from waltzing out the door. "Well, Mu, we have good news." Aldebaran said, then stared at Aioros, so he'd reveal the news. Mu's head snapped up almost instantly. I hope they have something that will help me with the entertainment planning! Mu thought. "I bet you're hoping that we have something that will help you with the entertainment planning!" Aioros pointed to his younger brother, "Well, we do! Aioria can actually sing." Aioros finished. "I guess I can." It took Mu some time, but he finally understood the news. "Are you SERIOUS? Aioria can SING?" He asked eyes as wide as it could be. "Afraid so." Aioros said, wiping his hands on a wash cloth. "Wow…" Mu paced around the room. "Then I don't need to stress my brain out anymore! Yay! I KNEW that 'ask Athena what she wanted to do' was a bad idea!" He said, but then realized that Aioria might not want to do it. Aioria didn't say a thing. After a pause, "OKAY!" Said Aioria with a big grin. "That sure took a long time." Aioros laughed, and that was not good. Nothing is good when an archer is in an amazing mood. It usually means that the archer he or she has something planned, because archers are sly and smart. However, Aioros had no intention to plan anything at all. He was just in a plain, good mood, and it took 3 loooooong minutes for Aioria and Aioros to realize that.
Aioros shrugged and went towards Mu, tripping on an unknown wire. "What?" He scratched his head because it was quite dark in the room now and he could not make out what the wire were for. "Are you alright, my main attraction?" Mu asked, looking quite impressed and relieved. The 'my main attraction' part probably meant that Aioria was hired. "Yeah…" Aioria wondered if the cord, as he now made out, was plugged in when he tripped on it. There were so many decisions to make and he was frantic to find the right one, so he plugged the unknown cord in and wished for the best. "What was that?" Aldebaran cocked his head to the right. "Nothing, nothing." Aioria waved his hands up in the air, as if shooing birds. "Alright, if you say so." Aioros still suspected something, though. He could not see what his little brother did because everyone had turned off most of the lights in the room and the only lights were from a lamp, which made the room feel eerie. The only people who were in the room were the four saints, and they were starting to pick up on this spooky feeling. The Pisces temple was bigger than it looked, and now, because the temple is pretty much empty, every word the saints said echoed.
"Well, that was truly weird." Saori sighed as she flopped down on her pink bed with white lace, just like her dress. Saga was sleeping on the sofa and he hadn't woken up from that ice-block impact, and Saori was worried. What if he never wakes up again? …Nah, he's Gemini, a gold saint, who's heard of a gold saint that fell into a coma because he got hit by a block of ice? Saori smiled herself to sleep. Meanwhile, in the other room, Saga had already awoken, and he felt evil again. He rubbed the part which he got hit with and sneaked out of the current room and into another. "Hehehehehehehehehehe…" He chucked as softly as he could, and he took all of Saori's food from her fridge, cupboards, and storages and gathered them up in a big pile about a meter long and teleported them to the Pisces temple. "This will be a snap." He whispered to himself again, grinning because he had finally done something evil, and sneaked out of Athena's house and cackled as he teleported himself to his own temple. He wasn't expecting anyone to be at the Pisces temple at midnight. He took Athena's food as a prank so Athena could have no breakfast the following morning. He felt that he had never been evil for days, and he just HAD to pull a prank on the goddess herself.
DeathMask stomped around the streets. He WAS aware of how late it was, but it was his duty to get those tuxedos. It was midnight and all of the shops have closed and there wasn't a single soul on the streets. But DeathMask knew that all of the tuxedo shop owners must be still inside their shops. So DeathMask had an idea. He created and summoned more zombies to attack the poor Tuxedo shop, the finest shop that he was sure of. The zombies dug up from the ground INSIDE the shop, and DeathMask could hear screaming and yelling and some crashing and thrashing around. Then, at last, the door slammed open and the man in fine clothing and the woman in a fine silk dress came running out, screaming, and zombies on their backs. DeathMask stared at the girl for a while, wondering how she could run that fast with her high-heels and long gown. After snapping out of his trance, DeathMask sluggishly entered the store, marveling at the amount and variety of the tuxedos. He had never seen this many in his life. He quickly picked out a few and stared at their price tags. "$165.00" He muttered out loud. Then, after a pause, he made a shocked whooping sound. He could not afford all that! Our poor DeathMask only had about $600 dollars on him, and it was all thanks to tips and pay from his zombies. Wait, what if I went back now? I had 12 zombies working there, and there would probably be a lot of money… DeathMask was so eager to get to the slushie shop again that he forgot that he knew how to teleport; thus arriving at the shop, puffing for breath. "Pay." Zolo quickly handed him a big wad of money. He was too busy dealing with the LARGE crowd of customers that had come to admire the zombies that he didn't realize that he had given DeathMask more than enough. He had given DeathMask $1,800 dollars. "B-but-but.." DeathMask spat, staring with wide eyes at the huge wad of money now on his hands. "Leave, please, I've got work to do!" Zolo waved DeathMask off and whirred up another strawberry slushie. "O-okay." DeathMask turned and ran out the door. "Some things are better not being said." He smiled at the wad of money.
"Harold, do you think it's safe to go back now?" The girl in the silk dress asked nervously, brushing off zombie skin from her dress truffles. She was quite uncomfortable hiding and spying on their shop in a dark bush.
"I don't know, Harriet." The man replied, brushing off zombie skin from his ruined Tuxedo. Now if you looked at him closely, you would've seen that he and the girl were married couples, no more than thirty years old. "Good thing we had a flamethrower in our storage, though." The man chuckled, still staring at their shop. The door was open and god knows what's currently inside of it.
"What about now, Harold?"
"No, Harriet. Let us go in at dawn."
"Where do you think all of those…? Things came from?"
"I don't know, Harriet."
"Do you think that man is some of Wizard, Harold?"
"Indeed I do, Miss, indeed I do."
"Do you think he's going to come back again in the bear future?"
"Indeed I do, Miss, indeed I do."
"Oh! There he is! That SCUM!"
"Indeed I do, Miss, Indeed I- Oh shoot, I cant use that phrase here!"
DeathMask entered the shop, placed the wad of money on the desk, and took 17 Tuxedos. Then he thought again. He took 18. For Saga, he thought. There were 2 Gemini saints and one cannot go without a Tux. He did not know math but he knew instantly that the wad of money plus the $600 he had would be more than enough for 13 Tuxedos. So he placed the entire wad of money on the desk, beside the cash register. He tucked the Tuxedos in a bag that was on the desk with a sign that said: 'Take one if you have purchased something' and was surprised that the bag was big enough.
"Let's go in, Harriet."
"But, won't he turn us into toads or something?"
"Not if we call the cops."
"Let's not, Harold."
Harold, the man, stood with pride and dignity, even though his Tuxedo was ruined and stormed into the store. "FREEZE!" He shouted, holding up a toy gun. Harriet was behind Harold and looked quite embarrassed to be in such a ruined dress. "Uh, your pay is on the table?" DeathMask slipped out the door. He didn't want anymore trouble. The man blanked in confusion and saw that he had taken 18 Tuxedos. Then he counted the money on the desk and his eyes popped out of his head. "Sir?" Harriet said in a calmer and kinder tone. "Uh, yeah?" DeathMask turned his head. "Do you know the slightest thing about math and money?" She asked, patting her husband's back. "No." DeathMask replied. Harold had calmed down when Harriet had patted him, because he was chocking on air. "Sir," he turned around, straightening what was left of his Tuxedo, and asked, "Do you know what 1 + 1 is?" He cleaned his glasses, and swore when the lenses fell out. "Ummmm…" DeathMask's mind took him back from when he was a little kid. He remembered someone telling him to add people together with math because people were big and to count. "1+13 or maybe more." DeathMask replied proudly. "What?" Harriet chocked this time. "Why is it 3 or more?" Harold asked. "Because a male and a female added together equals 3 or more." DeathMask shrugged. "If they're having twins, or triplets, or quadruplets…" He shrugged again. "…" The couple stared at each other for a long time, and then burst into laughter. DeathMask ignored them and teleported back to the temple of Pisces.
When the pile of food suddenly appeared at the temple, the saints were freaked out enough. They screamed and their screams echoed and they screamed again because the echoes sounded like ghosts. Mu summoned his strength and confidence and poked the pile of canned and bagged food. "Someone must have teleported them here." He said very calmly, when inside he was jumping for joy. Who'd ever heard of ghost foods? "…I didn't." Aioria said. "Of course you didn't." Aioros replied. "So… Should we… Go back?" Aldebaran broke the moment of silence. "Yeah… After we put all of the food away or something… It's freaky in here." Mu nodded and stood, stretching his legs. "Now where do you think this came from?" Aioria stared hard at the pile of food, as if expecting it to melt or something. "Let's stuff it in the fridge. Maybe it's a blessing from god or something." Aldebaran stood also, and yawned. "Do we have enough space?" Aioria asked his brother. "Yeah." Aioros crouched and gathered all of the food and stuffed it in the fridge, making sure that none were too close to the cake. "Everything was just the way it should be. The tables and chairs were in place, the decorations had been placed into their spots… Now if only DeathMask would hurry up with the Tuxe-" Aioros was cut short when DeathMask appeared in front of him. "This day officially cannot get ANY freakier." Mu murmured before him, Aioros and Aioria screamed again. It was amazing that none of the other saints were awakened by all of these screams. Especially Camus. Sometimes Camus has insomnia and he gets grumpy and 'freezy' when he's awakened from his hard-to-get sleep.
After DeathMask got the freaked out saints to calm down, he gave them the Tuxedos to choose from. Of course, the saints had first pick so they got the best Tuxedos. "Hey, why did you get one with purple polka-dots on it?" Mu asked, clearly surprised and shocked. "What?" DeathMask peered at the suit that Mu was talking about. He was so busy grabbing the Tuxedos and getting them out that he didn't know that he'd picked a nerd Tuxedo. "Well, I uh…" DeathMask's face was so red that he looked like a ripe strawberry. Aioros, Aioria, Mu and Aldebaran looked at each other back and forth and went to comfort DeathMask. "Oh, that's okay, but I never knew you were a nerd." Mu nodded, patting DeathMask on the back. He had a calm and serious face on but inside he was laughing like a clown.
"But I-I-I-" DeathMask stammered, how dare he call him a geek?
Aioria didn't give DeathMask time to finish. "Oh, yeah, we all respect your tastes, I mean- we're all different!" He nodded too.
DeathMask had had enough and before anyone could say more, he stormed out the temple opening with the nerd Tuxedo on the floor of the Pisces temple. He left the Tuxedos the other four saints chose with them. "He forgot it." Mu blinked at the purple polka-dotted Tuxedo. "Maybe we should call him back to get it?" Aioria shrugged. "No, he's so far I can't see him." Aioros tried his best to see in the dark but there was no sign of DeathMask as far as the eye, or Aioros' eyes could see. "Then he'll come and get it tomorrow first thing." Aioros finished, picking up his black Tuxedo with a rose tucked in the chest pocket. "Aioria, let's go, Aldebaran, Mu, I think we should all go before it's early morning and the sun comes up." Aioros suggested. It was a very good suggestion, as the other saints shivered at the mention of 'midnight'. Ghosts come out at midnight; they were all told when they were kids. The saints grabbed their Tuxedos and went out with Aioros, faster than him, to be exact.
Aioria was the youngest of all of the gold saints, but however, he was the most mature. Kannon and Saga were 28. Even Aioria was 20, but Aioros was 14. He remembered that he was revived, but by who? All he knew was that he was revived, and that he had to live his life as it was. The other four saints slowed down and Aioros was the leader of the gang again when it became very dark and everything sounded creepy. Then the saints realized that they could teleport and slapped their heads. "Why do we always forget about our powers? We can't go through all of the temples, it'll wake everybody else!" Mu slapped his head several times and calmed down a little by meditating on the spot. "Well then, good night, everyone." The saints said and all disappeared to their own temples. When they arrived, they tucked themselves into their beds almost instantly, but Aioros stayed up to brush his teeth.
--The Next Day--
The saints met up again at the Pisces temple. Only DeathMask and Saga was missing, but nobody noticed as they got to work again. It was about 6:00 am and everybody was working to set the party into place. "Food, food, food- AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Shura screamed as the cans and packages of food from Athena dumped out of the fridge. He looked around, his eyes wide and his mouth dry. He breathed in deeply, calmly placed the fallen food back into their freezing prison, took out the food he prepared, and pretended nothing happened. However, his hands were still shaking. Where the heck did we get all that food? Shura asked himself and placed the food on the table. They didn't need to be microwaved.
"Oh yeah!" Aphrodite jumped. "Where is all my furniture? Did somebody take them?" He asked. "I did." Camus raised his hand. "People were tripping on them so I teleported them over to my oh-so-empty temple." Camus nodded, glancing at the other saints behind him, who were all scrunching together in shame. "Oh, well, we need them back, remember, party furniture!" Aphrodite said. "I had them set up yesterday night!" Camus snapped his fingers and the furniture appeared, all arranged and the room felt more homey instantly. "I can't believe you had the time!" Aphrodite was clearly pleased.
"Well, I stay up until later than midnight, you know." Came Camus' reply.
"So you only had about 6 hours of sleep?" Milo asked, seemingly worried at the moment.
"Yeah." Camus surveyed the room. Everyone was looking at him with dropped jaws and wide eyes like he was wearing a miniskirt. "I do this all the time!" Camus finally shouted, he had had enough of the staring.
"Oh, ahem, excuse me." The other saints muttered and got back to work.
"How did you know the shape of my temple- oh right, you were in it all day yesterday." Aphrodite self-answered his own question. "Well, I'm going to go back to work, good job, Camus." Aphrodite waved and went back to work, as he had said. Camus didn't even give a nod or a smile; he didn't do those things until it was absolutely necessary.
Camus checked on his statue, true to Hyoga's words, it did not melt. The girl stood high, like the goddess herself, her gracefulness and beauty seemed to lighten up the room. Camus' job was long done.
Milo was very satisfied with the results of the preparing and he was sure that Athena would enjoy it. He opened the fridge and stared at the cake for three whole minutes. "Wooooow…" he was about to drool when Aioros slammed the fridge door on Milo's hand. "Ow!" Milo blew at his hand. "Why did you do that?" He blurted, his hands bright red. "Because counting the days that Aioria screwed up, it took me about three days to make that." Aioros replied, looking as if he didn't care. "And if you were so worried about your hand, you should've worn your gold armor." Aioros smiled. He was right; no one in the room was wearing their usual armors. Milo sighed and backed away. He saw the vacuum cleaners in a corner and he decided to put them away. It'd look absolutely silly at the party if this was in the way. Milo thought as he lifted the cleaners up, pressing a button by mistake. Beep. Everyone turned to look at Milo, they jaws dropped like when they heard about Camus' bedtime. Milo sweat dropped. I can never face my friends again… I knew that was bad, everything would be messed up! However, gentle winds came out of the vacuum cleaners, blowing the roses out whole. Milo looked at the vacuum cleaner controls and he was dizzy just glancing at it. The other saints in the room also stood still as ice, not knowing what will happen. After 12 minutes of silence the vacuum cleaners stopped blowing out roses and everybody deemed it safe to look around and inspect the damage. However, no damage was done. There were roses on the corners of the room, on the faces of the downside corners, none in the middle or anywhere nears it; there were roses on the tables but none in the food. Milo was the last one to turn but he slowly did so. "Please, goddess…" He prayed quietly to himself as he turned around. He breathed a sigh of relief when his fellow saints patted him on the back and laughed.
Kannon, on the other hand, forgot about his job because he was so busy helping with everyone else's. He helped throw away the lost rose pedals and the roses that had too little pedals, just to make everything look nice. Last night, he didn't know that his older brother, Saga had come home. Kannon was too tired to go to the bedroom so he slept on the couch. Saga had sneaked into the bedroom while Kannon was still snoring. And to this moment, Saga was still sleeping in his bed.
Athena woke up without breakfast today. She opened her fridge and found nothing in it. "Oh well." She yawned again and closed the door. "WHAT?" She slammed the door open again. "Where has all my food gone?" She semi-yelled at herself. Then she stared at the couch. Saga was gone. "He must've taken my food!" The goddess became angry and ran with rage all the way to the Gemini temple. It was good exercise. And anyways, she was confused that Mu's and Aldebaran's temple was empty. When she got to the Gemini temple, she went straight in, still driven with rage. She found the bedroom of Saga quickly, but wondered if she should knock. What if he was sleeping… Naked? The goddess shivered and made her decision. She knocked.
Saga awoke like an arrow shooting up. He rubbed his eyes and took his time; first he brushed his teeth, and then washed his face. Finally he opened the door. He was not naked at all; he was wearing his usual clothes, ((not the armor)) and was shocked when he saw Athena herself at the door. "Y-yes?" He asked, he doesn't really stammer, especially when he's back to himself, but this was a surprise, if anything. "Well, Saga, I know you still have amnesia…" Saori started, trying to figure out the way the words were supposed to come out.
"Amnesia?" Saga didn't know what she was talking about.
"Yes, amnesia, you- Oh… No... .Don't tell me you're back?"
"Back? I was never gone, woman."
"That can't be helped, but since WHEN did you have access to my refrigerator and cupboards and my FOOD?" Athena was finally getting to the point, and she was making it strong, too. "Why did you take ALL of my food?" Saga looked down at his watch; he had one, and saw that it was Athena's birthday. He didn't say a thing. "What? I don't know what you're talking about!" Saga semi-stammered, looking innocent. He was good at lying, since he had pranked many people in his life to believing that he was his brother and so he could get the blame placed on him. "Oh…" Athena looked down; it was her turn to be embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Saga, I shouldn't have come here, stormed into your house-err, temple, and woken you up…" She sounded sad, and indeed, she was. Now Saga felt bad for her. "Well, I'm sure that if you come with me, to the Pisces temple, Aphrodite would be more than likely to serve you breakfast." He said, pointing up. "But it's so far…" Athena complained, but her stomach disagreed. Her stomach took the suggestion, and kept it. "I'll do it!" Saori said almost immediately after her last remark. Everything is going well… MORE than well… This'll help me with my job, too… Saga turned away and grinned evilly and led Saori up the stairs from the Gemini temple to the cancer temple.
"Everything is set! Now we'll just have to wait for Athena to come OH WAIT!" Milo screamed. "Where is DEATHMASK? And why are you wearing a Tuxedo and WHY DON'T WE HAVE ONE?" Milo sobbed as he poked Aioros' Tuxedo, and then he poked Aioria's, and when he got to Aldebaran, the guy poked Milo back, making him stumble to the floor. "Don't poke me; I'm sure that DeathMask will be here soon with your Tuxedos." He said which earned a sigh of relief from his friends, again. Everyone was sighing a lot these days from the stress.
DeathMask was at home, in a fetal position, crying and whimpering. He had been like that all night; he hadn't had sleep at all, and now he looks like a giant panda. When he heard the approaching and warning footsteps of Saga and Athena, he got on top of himself, grabbed all the Tuxedos and quickly teleported himself to the Pisces temple as the two stepped in.
"Hm, I could've sworn I heard something." Athena whispered to Saga as they walked past the cancer temple and into the Virgo temple. "It must've been your imagination." Saga whispered back. He hated being nice, but he if he didn't and screwed this plan up, then his friends would be eviler than him, and that was bad. Meanwhile, Athena became more and more suspicious as she and Saga entered another empty temple. The next temple was… You guessed it-empty, and the silence was killing Saori from the inside, even her stomach was scared to growl. "Saga, why do you think it's so quiet and empt-" Saga perked and interrupted instantly, "So uh, what did you mean I had amnesia?"
"Ah, I meant that you were hit on the head with something I don't know and you forgot who you were and stuff, and then you got hit in the head again by Milo, throwing an ice block at you, and you came back." Saori replied, not minding the interrupting at all. "Oh, were you worried?" Saga dared not say that but he said it; he was running out of things to say for the topic. "Of course I was! We all were!" Saori wasn't someone who lied but she didn't know that the other saints were perfectly happy with the new Saga.
The saints were overwhelmed that DeathMask was finally here. "Put this on DeathMask." Aldebaran whispered to Seiya and handing him the geeky/nerdy Tuxedo that DeathMask left yesterday. Seiya shrugged and coolly went up to the pale DeathMask and, whistling innocently, dressed the Tuxedo on DeathMask. "…" Everyone stared. "I-I didn't know that you guys hired a CLOWN! Good job!" Milo went around and patted everyone on the back. "I'm NOT a clown!" DeathMask stormed over and hit Milo on the back of his head, dropping the rest of the Tuxedos. The saints 'ooooohed' and 'aahhhhhed' and picked out their own Tuxedos, even Milo did. They put them on and found that it fit them perfectly. "Oh, you must be DeathMask! Right, well, I guess I did get you back, eh?" Milo happily nodded and realized. "Chop chop, let's get the surprise ribbons and stuff ready," Milo said, Seiya, Shiryu and Ikki got their hoses ready. They'd been stuffing it with ribbons. "Okay, let's rehearse it." Milo ordered, waving his hands in the air. The other saints got their noise-makers and put on their party hats.
Every time the goddess tried to mention about the temple being so empty, Saga interrupted her with some pointless statement, then, at last, "Are you hiding something from me, Saga?" She asked. Saga stopped dead in his tracks, those words that he'd been so scared of has escaped… "No, not at all, I just feel like talking…" They made their way up to the Pisces temple, and when they stepped in, was the very moment the rehearsing started…
"SURPRISE!" The saints all shouted, blowing their noise makers and releasing the ribbons into the air. Some other saint threw some balloons up, too. "Oh, my god! You guys remembered…I am SO happy!" Athena cut in; the whole room was silent, except for Saga, who was laughing so hard that his face was red. "…" The saints all stared at the goddess, then at Saga. "Yyyyeah… We did, and we arranged this party!" Milo chuckled. "I am so glad that you guys would do that! This is awesome!" Athena exclaimed, looking around. "Now, my lady, let me show you to the food…" Aioria escorted Saori to the food table, where she squealed with delight. "Well?" Kannon poked is brother. "What did you do?" He asked, for everyone else's sake. (That wasn't Aioria and Saori, who couldn't care less) After Saga explained about his little 'prank', everything became clearer, and everybody forgave him, especially Kannon, because he didn't have to go with the trouble of doing his job. Athena was stuffing chips and pop corn in her mouth and chugging pop that everyone thought she was crazy for a second. "You… Overdid it, just a little bit, Saga." Shaka whispered to Saga, making sure that Saori didn't hear. "Oh, this is so great! Now, if you guys brought me presents…" Athena said, turning around. "Uhhh…" All the saints moaned in unison. "DON'T give them to me, because this is enough!" Saori grinned. All the saints sighed in relief, again, in unison.
"Ahem...Your prayer?" Milo tapped Shaka on the shoulder and Shaka jumped. "Uh, yes…" Milo picked up the microphone and said, "Attention, Shaka has a prayer for us today…" He handed the Microphone to Shaka after everyone was staring at him. "Uh… Happy birthday Athena… We all treasure today and we hope that you will too?" Shaka chuckled nervously. "That was… Not you, but, uh, nevertheless great!" Milo started the applause. "Yay." Shaka wiped off his sweat and stepped off the stage-like platform. "Hey, he stole your idea, Nissan!" Aioria whispered to Aioros. "It's okay." The elder whispered back, and went into the kitchen to get the cake ready.
"What games do you want to pla-" Milo was shushed by Mu. "I have something in store." He winked, and Milo understood with a nod. "INTRODUCING… Without further ado, though there wasn't any in the first place… Aioria the singer, with the song… Uh… With the song…" Mu scratched his head. "Eternal Snow." Aioria whispered into the microphone because everyone was staring. Then there was the applause again. Aioria stepped onto the side of the room and cleared his throat.
Kimi wo suki ni natte Dorekurai tatsu no kaNA?
Kimochi Fukurande yuku bakari de
Kimi wa Kono omoi kidzuiteiru no kana?
Ichido mo kotoba ni wa Shitenai kedo
Yuki no youni Tada shizukani
Furitsumori Tsudzukete yuku
Hold me tight, Konna omoi nara
Dareka wo suki ni naru kimochi
Shiritaku Nakatta yo
I love you Namida tomaranai
Konnan ja Kimi no koto
Shirazuni ireba Yokatta yo
Aioria tried to stop, but he'd already screwed up, so what's the point? He continued singing to his heart's content, ignoring the snickers from his peers, but taking in all of the shocked goddess standing before him. When Aioria was done, he cleared his throat again, "Uh, thanks." He said, blushing just a tiny little bit. "Ooooh… My… GOD!" Saori squealed for what seemed like the thousandth time this week, before the party was created. "That was amazing, Aioria! Did Aioros know about this? I thought that he was tracking down your talents so oh so you DO have a talent besides crawling and oh I am so sorry but I'm just so overwhelmed and shocked and surprised that you can sing!" Saori said with a giggly tone all in one breath. Aioria chuckled, blushing deeper now. "So, what else have you got?" Milo asked Aioria when Saori turned around to talk about Aioria's little 'talent' to the other gold saints. "I-I have none more." Aioria whispered back, but Milo just smirked. "Oh, that's okay; you've done enough, kid!" He flashed him a thumbs-up and went to Athena. "So, what would you like to do today at this party, Athena?" He asked in his most gentlemen's tone. "Well, I wouldn't mind for some…" Saori seemed to be in deep thought. Everyone stared; a moment of silence has been created. This had been the moment everyone was waiting for… Almost, but if things turned out bad now, the whole party would pretty much go 'Kapeesh'. "Limbo!" Saori danced around in her pink laced dress, which reminded Camus of his ice statue. It had been in the room almost forever, but Athena hadn't noticed it yet. "Limbo?" Mu's face flushed red and pink, Shun swore that he even saw a shade of purple. "Well, I'm guessing from Mu's expression… That Limbo is out of the question?" Saori sounded a little bit sad now. "Nonsense! But uh, let's do something else now- Oh! Dauko brought you a present!" Milo handed Saori the present, which seemed to pop up out of nowhere. "Wow! Isn't that sweet of him?" Saori began to unravel the blue box, taking apart the red ribbons one by one… "It's a… A… A… Limbo rope! W00t!" Saori held up the rope for all to see. "Wow… You guys look happier than you should be, but that's good!" Saori was already unwinding the rope as everyone cheered for joy. Aioros had already brought out the cake and put it beside the lovely ice statue that Camus made.
The night went on great, first the Limbo game turned out to be a great success, and now Mu is obsessed with Limbo. Saori limboed under the limbo rope when it was just 10 cm above the floor. She said that other people in the world could do better, but everyone thought that she was the best in their hearts. That lasted for two whole… Hours… Then there was insane cake eating, Shaka had to apologize after seeing the icing print on the cake, it wasn't needed, but Aioros had fun hearing Shaka stammer and sweat. Everyone had so much fun that they threw the cake around, Camus didn't, it was a cake-fight. Luckily Aioros was able to make another cake by superheating the oven. It was a miracle that none of the thrown-around cake landed on the ice statue, which Saori finally realized it was there when a piece of cake went flying past it. Everyone then ate the cake in peace; the throwing, calming, eating and cooking took about two hours. Then, roses and balloons fell from pretty much the ceiling, out of some bit sprayer like things, and Aioria admitted that the had plugged in Aphrodite's disco-ball rose and balloon spinning plug. Then everyone gathered around, talked about the statue, about how the party was created, what everyone went through, the general stuff, like DeathMask's Tuxedo… DUN DUN DUN… Which… Saori found to her liking because it somehow fit DeathMask in her eyes. Saori was more that happy and overexcited at the party, which was good. Everyone's Tuxedos were ruined, except for Camus', "That neat freak," Milo would call him. Everyone had a great time, and it was sad that the goddess had to leave in the late afternoon. Everyone waved and some even cried, like Shun. Saori went home with a full stomach and Kannon teleported all of the food back to their original places. After the party, the statue fell over and hit Saga in the head, and he got amnesia-again, which earned a cheer from his peers. (Except Camus) Everyone also had fun cleaning up, but nobody really cleaned up, because Aphrodite wanted everything this way, and everyone was WAY to cake-sick and full to clean up anything. However, everything turned out good for the bronze and gold saints. The party was a success; everyone was full and happy… Except for Camus, who stood staring at his beautiful statue, smashed to pieces from the impact of Saga's head…
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"Everything just went so fast that night." Saori said dreamily, remembering the night last year when the saints arranged a birthday party for her. She was sitting in front of her calendar, it was the day before her birthday, again her food was gone, and the saints were acting weird again. Saori prepared herself to go into the Pisces temple with earplugs the next day.
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Thanks to all of you for reading up until here! For a saint seiya story, I received a heck a lotta reviews! W00t! This story, especially this chapter, I was pretty proud of, however… As you can see, the saints weren't talking much in this chapter, and I was describing a lot of things, but that's my writing style, and I think I like it this way. Also, I knew the second-to-last paragraph was… Weird, but that was the effect that I wanted it to have on you. Again, thank you all for waiting so long, I know this took a loooong time, and this chapter was reallllly long, but this was what a lot of other people wanted.
-Shihouin Yoruichi Goddess of Flash