Dark Intentions, Dark Cloths
"Their Cloths!" Eden pulled away his fist, stopped against Whale's Menkar's hand like an impregnable wall. He backpedaled and squinted at the three Silver Saints. Bootes Bayer, Whale Menkar, and Hound Miguel cackled like mad men in a bar, and shrugged off their mantles.
Their armors luster like chromium, but a color like the night's sky during a new moon cast its color upon the Silver Saints. Eden's eyes widened, and whether it was his blood, as the son of a God, or something else, he didn't have an inkling of a doubt on what he must do.
"Whale, Bootes, Hound." While a calm spectator, Athena felt dread.
Menkar's bulked arm flew in Orion's direction. A Saint's fist did not confuse an enemy, and the force of the Whale intended to kill. A radiant glow flashed between Eden and Menkar, a wave of pressure rippling out like an explosion.
"Tonitruī Saltan!" Eden uttered the words to summon his constellation's technique. Menker groaned, his fist grazing off an orb sizzling of electric energy. The orb burst, flinging the Silver Saint back. Whale slid on his heels and straightened his posture, and his arms crossing expressed that even Orion's thunder was futile.
"Nothing hunts against a whale." Menkar said with a confident grin. Eden scowled and crooked his body into a fighting posture. A violet aura brimmed around him, his heart calling the Cosmos. A thunderous roar echoed shortly afterward and without a single gesture, a Pandora Box appeared. It split apart, and a white Cloth with violet highlights wrapped around Eden.
"Menkar," Eden spoke smoothly, the Cosmos around him splitting from his body, forming in a ring. A ring of orbs shining with lightning energy; Eden stared at Whale Menkar with a stinging gleam that confronted a foe.
"You will pay for what you just did." Along with the gleam, Eden, a Bronze Saint, spoke with a certainty of victory. The orbs trembled violently, and with a swing of Eden's arms, the orbs stretch out into bolts of lightning, wrapping into a lancing beam. The sight of it belied the coolness of Orion Eden.
"Tonitruī, Fera Caelos!"
"Grand Fang!" A shadow suddenly bounded over Menkar, digging a foot into the ground. A large clump of marble suddenly rose above ground and took Eden's Fara Caelos, scattering a mist of debris. An explosion like of heavy artillery fire landing inside of a hectic battlefield resounded above Athena's Temple.
"I should expect a God's son to be strong, but you don't underestimate us Silver Saints!" A wide smile splitting his face, Hound Miguel emerged from the debris cover, eyes surging with a belligerent desire.
"I ain't scared of you God kid, not when I've seen death with my very own eyes!" The Hound closed his hand around Eden's throat, and Orion's feet left the ground. His body arched overhead from one single heave, and he was launched midair. Eden sprung around, and was met by Miguel's flurry of punches.
The white-haired woman observed the actions of Eden and Miguel for only a short while, her eyes falling back to Whale and Bootes.
"Menkar, Bayer, retrieve the Ophiuchus Saint at once. Bring her." Her words were heavy with an exalting quality, and the two Silver Saints lifted a cry of compliance, lacking any deception in loyalty. Why?!
Menkar and Bayer crouched down next to Shaina's motionless body. The Whale Saint scooped her, and he next heard the faint sound of sprinting feet. A punch crashed into Menkar's face.
"You bastards!" It was none other than Kouga. A silver light swelled from his body like a beating heart, and the force from his fist made Menkar's arms taut. Shaina was left alone for now. Their Cosmos flaring, Kouga and Menkar entered a grapple. It could be seen from a distance that the Cosmos of Pegasus blended with the Black Cloths of the Silver Saints like a monochromatic painting
"Why did you do that to Shaina?!" Kouga was shorter in stature, but he looked up at Menkar with a brazen fury that that did not discriminate hierarchy. It suited the one who faced and wounded Gods in every Saint generation; even Seiya faced virtually any opponents, including his fellow Gold Saints. Menkar's feet drifted back from the lithe Kouga pushing him, and away from Shaina's body.
"Not so fast, Pegasus!" Bootes flung his three reigns, wrapping them around Kouga's waist and neck. He strained as he pulled. The Pegasus Saint would not budge.
"Come, Pegasus!" Kouga cried out. Another Pandora Box, pristine like the Cosmos covering Kouga, materialized and opened to reveal a metallic-looking model of a winged horse. The horse broke apart and donned over Kouga; his Cloth sprouted feathery wings at the back. Bayer felt a strength shuddering him, and his feet began to slide against the ground as Kouga pushed Menkar.
"No Bronze is a match for us!" Bayer yanked at his crimson reigns, and they snapped. A passing electric current slashed them in half. Orion Eden, while in his bout with Miguel on the ground, found an opening and sent his Cosmos from his finger to aid Kouga. That sacrificed some attention on Miguel, and the Hound Saint, swift as a rodent, sent a kick in Orion's gut. Eden's pupils dilated, and Miguel used the same foot to slam the ground again.
"Grand Fang!"
"Ugh!" A chunk of marble propelled Eden into a pillar.
"Eden!" Kouga pulled away from Menkar's hands. He no longer felt Bayer's reigns tugging him, and his arms began to drift in a wavy motion.
"Rise, Cosmos! Pegasus Ryuseiken!" The Pegasus Saint threw a punch and unleashed his passion in a form of a cosmic flurry. Menkar was blinded by the speed of bright meteors rushing towards him, and they land on him, jerking his bulky body. It was enough to only make him withdraw to the white-haired woman; she had beckoned them to her side.
"The new Pegasus serving Athena," she said. At her far peripheral, she saw the Gold Saint Sagittarius Seiya on his knees at a distance, and could only think with rancor at how the boundless indiscretion of Pegasus continued to thrive.
"You lost your friend, now lose your Goddess. Miguel, Bayer, Menkar!"
"Yes!" At the woman's command, the three Silver Saints in black spun around and made a beeline for their former Goddess.
"Athena! Prepare to die!" They said in unison.
"Miss Saori!" Seiya rushed over to the Silver Saints, and much faster than any feet came a rain of gold upon Bayer, Menkar, and Miguel.