The First Strike
Disclaimer: Meme12 does not own Saint Seiya or any of their characters. She does however owns the following OCs: Sorako, Cain, Heros, ? (Other OCs will be included in this line according to appearance)
AU- Everyone is alive, what if Hades and Athena form a treaty? Contains shonen ai, F x M pairings and OCs
Previously: An old comrade, supposedly dead returns with a tempting yet dire offer. Hades offered no clear answer and the Twin gods were overwhelmed. Cheshire reminisces just as danger draws closer in the horizon.
Underworld Fourth Sphere, Judecca
The Lord of the Underworld was currently resting on his throne with his loyal adviser by his side. Both males were reeling with numerous emotions from the events that had just taken place. The silence though was eventually broken by Hades addressing Hypnos. "Hypnos, is Thanatos alright?" Hypnos blinks before bowing politely as he provided his answer. "Yes, Lord Hades. Apart from his pride, I believe he will make a full recovery." Hades couldn't help but chuckle at the small joke while Hypnos gave a rarely seen smirk which faded as quickly as it formed. "Lord Hades…" The god's grip tightens on the handles of the throne he is seated in. "I would like to remain in denial about this but that cosmo…it is undeniably his…" Hypnos pondered deeply. "Yet he should have perished in that battle…alongside…Lord Cain." Hades shuts his eyes. "I couldn't find them." "Pardon?" Hades reopens his eyes as he fixed his gaze onto Hypnos. "I never found their souls." "T-That's impossible, every soul that has passed on regardless where they have been will arrive in the Underworld." Hypnos questions while Hades sighs. "I searched everywhere, waited for centuries yet their souls have never emerged before me. Yet they were never found…until today… Until Sorako showed up before me." Hades pauses in his thought before he stands abruptly. "Lord Hades?" "If Sorako intends to revive everyone…we must check the seals now!" Before the Lord of the Underworld could proceed, a Skeleton comes running in. "L-Lord Hades…t-there's an attack…the Underworld is being attacked!" "What!?" The words were punctuated by a large earthquake followed by shrill shrieks and screams that punctuated the air.
Heinstein Mansion
"Hey I yield guys! Let me go OK!" Gordan growls while Queen and Myu doubled in laughter at Sylphid dangling from a branch. "Come on darling let him go." Queen coos as Gordan relents, releasing the Basilisk who fell on the ground, butt first which ignite further laughter from his peers. Sylphid pouts, accepting the tanned hand stretched out in front of him. "Was it worth it?" "Weeeell…" Sylphid draws out as he accepted the hand pulling him to his feet with a thoughtful grin that quickly turned into a smirk. "Yes it is." Cheshire let out a chuckle as Sylphid dusts himself off. "It did the trick didn't it?" "Huh?" Myu fixed the male with a long sided glance. "You are laughing." "Eh?" The pink haired male huffs. "You have been quiet all week you know? Everyone is thinking that you are ill or something. Even Lady Pandora was interrogating us whether we had abused you or something." Cheshire blinks as he realizes the difference in Pandora's attitude and the fact that she had readily approve him to stay on the surface without the usual grumbling. "Ah…it's just…" Under the scrutinizing gaze, Cheshire struggles with a response which was interrupted just as the warning alarm sounds.
"The hell…" Sylphid murmurs just as Valentine's voice echoes in their mind. "Gather now. The Underworld is being attacked!" "What?" "How!?" Immediately, Cheshire felt the blood freezing in his veins as he recalled the ever familiar voice that responded to his unspoken question. "No, snap out from it, Cheshire. They are all gone!" "Cheshire we are moving now!" The tanned male snaps out from his reverie as he races to Heinstein Mansion only to pause when he hears a bell ringing. "What…?" Amber eyes widen as he watches a door with iron hinges materialize before him, effectively cutting him off from his comrades and the pathway to the mansion. The bell on the door frame rings as the wooden door swings open and a figure in a red hooded cloak exits the door. "Cheshire!" Sylphid shouts, alerting his other comrades as they see the unknown stranger blocking Cheshire's way. Cheshire immediately leaps back from the stranger who leaps forward, his fist barely scraping Cheshire's cheek and instead smashing into the ground where Cheshire once was. "Time for Hide & Seek. Catch me if you can." Cheshire whispers as he seemingly disappears into a mist. The cloaked figure seemed unaffected by Cheshire's skill as he calmly eyed his surroundings giving a second of an opening for the other Specters to strike.
"Sylphid!" The Basilisk nods prepping his skills as Myu tries to hold the enemy back with his telekinesis. The hooded figure barely blinks as he teleports rapidly, trying to avoid his telekinesis hold. "Slow him down my faeries!" Myu exclaims as translucent butterflies swiftly flutter by and surround the hooded male. The faeries surrounded the male, cornering him as Myu's telekinesis held him in place. "Send him flying! Annihilation Flap!" Sylphid roars as he sends a gust of wind straight towards the hooded being. As the whole scene occurs, Cheshire watches on with his skill activated on a tree branch overseeing the battle in a semi corporal mist like state. "Guess they have it covered but there is…something familiar about this warrior…" Cheshire watches, his eyes widening as dark flames erupted from the hooded male's feet, swirling around him, burning the faeries away. "What!" Myu exclaims as he watches his butterflies burn away and the hooded figure broke free from the telekinesis just as the Annihilation flap struck him head on. Instead of being flung away, the male catches the wind with his hand. "H-How?" Sylphid stammers while Cheshire's eyes widen as the male proceeds to incorporate dark flames within the gust of wind and redirects the attack straight back at his friends. "Sylphid, Myu, move! Grand Axe Crusher!" Both males moved as Gordon proceeds to meet the flame tornado head on. "Gordon!"
In that split second, Cheshire watched as the hooded figure had already went around the tornado and had went directly behind his best friend. "Myu look out!" He screamed in his mind as his friend abruptly swirled and barely managed to defend himself from a flaming fist that sent him flying. "Myu! Decapitate him, Blood Flower Scissors!" Queen exclaims, a bloody guillotine appearing behind him as the blows fell upon its intended target. Instead, of decapitating its victim, the hooded figure dodged each blows before delivering a black flame orb straight into Queen's stomach that exploded on impact. This resulted in Queen crushing into several trees, coughing blood. "Queen! You asshole!" Gordon roars as he shreds through the flame tornado only to find the hooded figure right in front of him, as a flame covered fist slams into his face, effectively knocking him out of commission. As the battle went on, Cheshire's eyes widen with realisation. He had seen those moves…his memories of a very dear person to him begin to overlap over the figure. The figure of his memory would have noticed him, stop and call out to him in his warm voice. "Cheshire?"
The cat like spectre was violently pulled out from his memories as he hears Sylphid's screams of anguish. Cheshire's eyes widen as he views the scene before him. His friends were all lying on the ground, covered in varying degrees of burns. Sylphid was currently being choked by the hooded figure, his hand wrapped around his neck. Wordlessly, with his free hand the male rummages through his cloak and pulls out an orb. "Your souls will contribute to my lord's cause." "Like…hell…f£%$ker…" Sylphid chokes out as the hand around his neck tightens as the orb begin to glow. Faster then he could react, claws shreds through the air slicing the hood of the figure and causing him to drop the orb as well as loosening his grip on Sylphid. The mist swirled and Cheshire reformed into vision, his bangs covering his face as the figure stood up. The shredded hood fell revealing messy black hair and darken orbs. "Don't do this…please." Cheshire murmurs as the hooded figure charged ahead towards him as Cheshire fades into mist only to reappear behind him to claw his back before disappearing quickly. "Don't make me go through this again." There was no response as the male responded back by releasing a ball of flames towards Cheshire who dissipated and reappeared to strike the male in the gut. "Don't you remember me…?" Cheshire whispers as the hooded figure continue to strike at him, Cheshire dodging his strikes by dissipating into mist and reappearing just out of range of his attacks. "Wake up…please…" The male made no response only to resume his attack as soon as Cheshire materialise before him. The cat like specter barely managed to raise his arms in defence as the attack sent him flying but he rebounded back by leaping off a tree truck and slams the male to the ground, pinning him with his knees and locking his hands above his head with one claw and the other on the enemy's throat. Blank eyes stare impassively as drops of salty liquid dripped on to his face, as Cheshire faces him, heaving from exertion and sobbing openly. "Don't make me lose you again… HEROS!"
Underworld
One second made all the difference when multiple doors begin materialising in the different areas of the Underworld. Before the Skeleton guards even realised, the doors flung opened sending in hordes of harpies. In a moment, the Underworld was pure chaos as flocks of harpies were launching attacks towards both the Specters and the dead souls of the Underworld. "Who the hell pissed you off Valentine!?" The pink haired male glared at Rune. "For the hundredth time, this is not my doing!" The male exclaims as he summons his own harpies to take out the enemy harpies. "Is there a way to turn them to your side? We are going to be constantly hit here if we don't make a move now!" Rune exclaims as he flings aside several harpies with his whip while Valentine steadies himself. "There is no point in doing so unless I find their leader and defeat it. Survival of the fittest is the rule of the Harpy." Rune 'tch' as another wave of harpies dove down. They heard a scream and watched as one of the skeletons was taken down by a harpy. The harpy flips the male over, her eyes glowing as she sucks out the male's soul. "I may not be an expert but harpies do not do that." Valentine stares at the scene in disbelief before a sense of realization cross his face. "We need to find the leader now." "What?" Rune asks as Valentine stands, gathering his cosmo. "Cover me." Before he can respond, Valentine allowed his cosmo to erupt, startling the surrounding harpies.
There was a tense silence as the harpies seemingly fall back with one of them screeching in sharp burst thrills just as a shadow smashes straight into the earth where Valentine and Rune were once standing. The dust clears revealing a nude young lady with messy reddish brown hair. "W-What?" Rune gasp while Valentine steadies himself. "Guess I found the leader. If we want to end this, She has to go." The young lady was silent before releasing a deafening shriek, it's shockwaves blowing away the other harpies and almost flinging the two specters away from her. Valentine grimaces as he steadies himself only to find the girl right before him, arm drawn back to throw a fist right at him. He narrowly dodges the fist inches from his face and grabs her by the arm, intending to fling her. The girl seamlessly grabs his hand with her other arm, seamlessly moving her lower half using the momentum to kick Valentine in the stomach. Valentine coughs, his grip loosen and the girl took the opportunity to use him as a rebound to free herself completely by kicking the male a second time. The strength of her kick actually sends Valentine skidding backwards a few feet as she eyed him snarling.
"Valentine!" The pinkette coughs blood but steadies himself as the female shrieks, summoning a new wave of harpies back at him. "Two can play this game. Feed on her soul, Sweet Chocolate!" A wave of harpies glowing with the faint pink of Valentine's cosmo appeared screeching as they tackle the waves of harpies. Both colonies of harpies clashed forces while the Specter and his opponent had a face off. "I need to end this quickly before you wipe out the Underworld. Greed of Live!" Several dozen violet rays went flying straight towards the young lady who continues to stand in place. Instead, she opens her mouth and to the shock of Valentine and Rune, swallows the attack whole. Both males watches with agape jaws as the attack disappears into her mouth. The girl straightens but suddenly coughs, her features furrowing as if she wanted to vomit. "Valentine move!" The Harpy barely registers the young lady literally vomiting his attack back at him in a super powered ray. Rune manages to grab the Harpy with his whip as he watches Valentine's deflected attack wipe out half of the harpies while leaving craters in the ground. "What…is she…?" Rune asks as the girl coughs out smoke and was panting to cool her mouth.
"No time to question that, her guard is down!" Valentine states as he speeds right up to punch the girl in the gut when her guard was down only to realise he was punching an after image. "What?" Before he could react, a feet came slamming into his temple, stunning him. In that moment, Valentine was met with a barrage of fists and kicks that he was barely able to block. "Valentine!" Rune exclaims as he tries to interfere only to be block by a barrage of harpies. "Damn it! Get out of my way!" Rune exclaims as he resumes the actions of knocking out and defeating harpies in order to assist Valentine. Eventually, he manages to find an opening and dashes in, charging his cosmo. "Valentine!" He stops, eyes widening in shock as he sees Valentine lying on the ground, his Surplice cracked while the young lady remained standing, covered in dust, dirt and blood that was not hers. "How…" Rune had little time to answer as a fist came straight into his vision.
Heinstein Mansion
Heros blinked as drops of warm liquid dripped on to his face. How does this Specter even know his name? Lord Sorako had not mentioned this Specter to him, neither did his new comrades who had accompanied him on this mission. More importantly, why was this Specter crying over him? He watches as the silver hair specter heaves and gaze at him with anguish filled yellow eyes…eyes as bright as the moon…
Heros's eyes widen as his vision was once again bombarded with the same figure with those same anguish filled eyes. Except his hair was longer and there was a strong smell of smoke, fire and blood accompanied by a searing heat…Heros grimaced as his skull once again begin to throb, escalating into an excruciating pounding as his vision begins to blur. Cheshire having heard the grimace soon noticed the pained expression on the male. "Heros…?" Heros groans which soon escalate into a loud cry of pain as he roughly pushes Cheshire off him, clutching his head. "M-My head…!" Cheshire was immediately gripping his shoulders. "Heros, hold on." His hand glows a gentle yellow ray, before placing his hand on Heros's forehead. As Heros continues to groan, his eyes once again switching from black to purple intermittently as Cheshire tries to heal him.
He was so focused that he almost misses his senses tingling, narrowly avoiding a blast of energy headed in his direction. "This attack…that means…" The attacker steps into view and Cheshire felt his heart sink once more as a familiar individual stepped into sight. The figure steps into light, revealing sandy blond hair in a ponytail, stern brown eyes watching as Cheshire stares at him shell shocked. "It has been a while…Cheshire."
To be continued
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P.S About Cheshire's attacks, so I remembered reading Lost Canvas and yes his attacks were not mentioned at all. So I went online to Saint Seiya Wiki and I see the names of his attacks listed there however I couldn't find another source to confirm it. The name of the attacks though really reflects Cheshire's abilities therefore I am using the name and created the descriptions of the attack based on the names.