A/N: Finally I finish it…! Yes, complete…!!!
T.T So many tears…(well that's just me…:D ) I kept listening to mellow songs when writing this…Autumn in My Heart's instrumental, Winter Sonata violin and piano, Melodies of Life's song…
Yes, Sanich-chan, a month…! :D More than a month for finishing these four chapters. I missed you too Akiko and Ale-chan…T.T! Sob…thank you YaoiLover56 for the reviews, and Kamiya Sensei, intensify, SylpheCat, purple anime, and Pitaloka, and Tifa, and icetear, Tasya, Treya, Kami, MimiYamatoForever, Jadej.j, mikaela_hime, and …well thank you for all of you who've reviewed and make this as favorite….!
I have to inform that maybe for the next four months I won't write fanfiction too often, well…that will be rarely…I am now focusing doing something related to my occupation….wish me luck….!
Once again thank you so much…! *hugs*
Chapter 16
Thrilling Destruction
It's been two days since the bronze and silver saints didn't watch Kido's mansion, for they had to take care of Kiki who was ill.
"I think this is because you often watch the mansion at midnight, Kiki," said Shiryu sympathetically when Kiki was sneezing. All were encircled Kiki now. The stubborn kid didn't want to leave the comfortable couch in front of the television, the reason why he chose to lay his body there.
"I'm ok, Shiryu," said Kiki. "This is just an ordinary flu, not a disease possessed by Mi—"
Kiki soon closed his mouth. He automatically glanced at Hyoga, who gave him slight glare.
"By Milo," Shaina finished. Of course she didn't know what Kiki exactly meant; she only thought Kiki recalled to the time when Milo was still 'alive'.
Seeing Shaina's expression turned gloomy, Shun grasped her shoulders. "Shaina, there will be huge fireworks festival tonight," Shun beamed. "The whole Tokyo can watch it clearly from their houses. What about watching it in this dock house's backyard?"
"Good idea, Shun," replied Ikki and Seiya at once.
Shaina finally let out a smile. She glanced at Marin, who smiled as well. The bronzes have so much helped her post Milo's 'death', and she felt so lucky of having such caring friends.
A minute later, they heard knocks on the door. Seiya soon got down of the couch and opened the door.
His body was frozen from head to toe when seeing Athena and Poseidon standing sideways in front of him. Behind them there were Kanon and Sorrento. Athena and Poseidon wore wonderful traveling coats, made them looked definitely impressive.
"S…," stammered Seiya after five minutes. "Saori-san…"
Everybody turned their heads hearing the name. The same as Seiya, they got shocked also. Yes…who wouldn't if a goddess who hasn't appeared for centuries (actually only for months…) and a deity who has been locked in an antique vase suddenly popped up in front of their door as if nothing happened?
"S…Saori-san," Shaina approached Seiya then stared at Saori and Poseidon. "What is he doing here?" she asked.
"Believe me," Poseidon replied, irritated. "I myself didn't plea to come here."
"Poseidon comes with my invitation, Shaina," said Saori shortly. "May we come in?"
Hesitated, Seiya and Shaina let the two deities entered the house, also Kanon and Sorrento.
Then Saori told the bronzes and silvers a very long story from A to Z, from Olympus Mountain to the pendants to the mansion's selling to Hermes to Helm of Invisibility to Poseidon's trident and so on. She only didn't tell the parts which involved Milo.
"Now you have understood," said Saori at last. "My question now is, would you mind to steal Hades's pendant?"
"No, my lady, we don't mind at all," said Marin immediately.
"Marin, we won't ever let a woman doing this dangerous mission," stressed Ikki. "This is male business, ok?"
Before Marin and Shaina could protest, Saori soon said, "Fine, who will steal the pendant?"
"I will," said Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun, and Ikki altogether.
"I beg your apologize?" said Poseidon sarcastically from the couch behind them. It was so clear he hasn't forgot all horrible things the bronzes have done to him. "Have you forgot we only got ONE Helm of Invisibility?"
The others turned quiet. For the first time in their lives they agreed with Poseidon.
"Ok then," murmured Shun. His face turned slightly pale. "I will steal the pendant."
"What?!" the others snapped. "Are you insane, Shun?!" snarled Ikki.
"Probably," replied Shun calmly.
"But—"
"Niisan, I'm his incarnation, and I can recognize his weakness and what to do so he won't catch me in the act," cut Shun with an unusual glare.
When Shun was sure nobody dared to block his way again, he approached Saori and paid out his hand. "Please give me the Helm of Invisibility, Saori-san, and tell me your plan."
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In Kido's mansion…
Aphrodite swept the floor with his eyes gazing at nowhere. There was no use looking at the floor…he wouldn't concentrate sweeping it anyway… His mind was somewhere else.
For the millionth times he really regretted Athena's decision to revive them all…
He'd died three times…and that was hurt, really hurt. In front of the Wailing Wall he'd entrusted Athena to Shun, saying that Shun would certainly do a miracle…and he, Aphrodite himself, would die. At last…
Then he woke up again. And he knew it meant more responsibilities, more anxieties…. Because Saints never met any peacefulness once they were on the Earth; the proofs have emerged in recent moments….
He was tired. He was tired of living…he just wanted to be normal. He really envied his incarnation, Albafica, who has poison grown in his own blood…
It would be really fun…, he thought gravely.
His exhaustion almost reached its limit post the things happened the day before.
That day, Hades suddenly appeared in front of the Golds's room, accompanied by Rhadamanthys.
"Where is Virgo Shaka?" he asked in his terrifying cold voice.
The Golds were shocked hearing it. All of them turned their heads on Shaka, who oppositely looked unbelievably calm.
"I am here," replied Shaka.
"What were you doing?" Hades asked. Once again his voice caused the napes on Rhadamanthys's neck raised.
"Tidying up my bed?" answered Shaka simply.
"Rhadamanthys said you messed up."
"The fact is I did nothing."
"This is the second time you confront me, Virgo Shaka, and I will give you precious lesson before you can do further!"
"Stop disturbing him!" Mu suddenly snapped and marched between Shaka and Hades.
Hades's eyes turned colder and colder. That look again…the face which was so sadistic, full of loath and revolt, the same as when he looked at Camus and Hyoga, Saga and Kanon, Dohko and Shion…
"You try to defend your friend?" asked Hades to Mu.
"That is what friend will do!" snapped Mu. "You do not know anything about it because you are heartless! You do not know the meaning of love, of life, of friendship…you do not know how it feels to lose a friend or family, because you do not have any!! You know nothing, Hades, and I am really pitying you!"
Mu panted. He wasn't aware Shaka was murmuring his name and his fellows watching him with touched feelings and admiration. What he knew was…his throat started to get hurt when he remembered Milo…
"You seemed willing to do anything," said Hades then.
"Yes!"
"You are ready to be the shield of Virgo Shaka?!"
"Yes, I am! You cannot touch him unless I am dead!"
"Fine," replied Hades. He released his pendant from his neck, then threw it to Shaka. Shaka caught it in reflex.
"Kill Aries with that pendant, Virgo Shaka."
Shaka's calm face transformed. He turned pale and anxious.
The scene in Inferno suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, when Hades asked him to kill Athena with his trident…
"What…?"
"Didn't you hear Aries?" Hades jeered. "Unless he is dead, I cannot punish you. So pity, I have to ask someone to kill him, because I do not want to blaspheme my hands with a saint's blood. I give this honour to you, Virgo Shaka. Scratch Aries's heart with this pendant, and he will immediately die."
"You…," Shaka panted. He clutched the pendant so tight with his slightly trembling hand. Mu was still standing in front of him, seemed very tough and unaffected, while the others looked at him with faiths, for they knew Shaka would never do anything to Mu or to anyone. He wasn't a God who has absolute rights to take someone's life anyway…. He was just a man…a being…Shaka of Virginity…
"Lord Hades," Rhadamanthys suddenly voicing. "I think…I think we don't have to kill Aries Mu with that pendant…"
Hades, very fast that Rhadamanthys had to hold his breath, looked at him sharply. "What are you talking about?"
"Your pendant is too precious to be blasphemed by Aries's blood, that is why we have to keep it holy and pure, lord Hades."
Hades narrowed his eyes.
"If you allow me, my lord…," Rhadamanthys bowed his back, "I will take the pendant back so it won't be dirty and…muddy."
Hades was about to answer when Shaka threw the pendant at him. It was caught deftly by Rhadamanthys.
"Come on, Rhdadamanthys," Hades suddenly spoke in a low voice after Rhadamanthys handed him the pendant. "I have just been aware that my paintings are more important than all of these wastes…I have to continue my paintings…," his eyes turned empty and sadistic.
"Lord Hades, I have just remembered, today Minos and Aiacos plan to meet you," said Rhadamanthys hurrily.
"What for?" replied Hades as he turned around and walked away in elegant move. His eyes were still empty and his voice sounded far away, but with jeer inside it.
"They want to talk about your Rumanian cooperation which was burnt," Rhadamanthys followed his master. Soon their voices turned inaudible, but the Gold Saints were still able to hear the words "Alright. Ask Minos and Aiacos to come here" from Hades and "Let's have a tea time before they arrive, milord" from Rhadamanthys.
All Goldies took very deep breaths afterwards…they had thought about very wild and dreadful things such as bloods and deaths…but thanks God it's over.
That was making sense enough to cause great exhaustion in Aphrodite's self. He was relieved for Hades seemed forgetting about his schedule to serve him. Had he remembered, he was sure the second pendant would have killed him in only a second due to his mental breakdown.
Back then, Minos and Aiacos indeed came to the mansion. Both of them, Hades, and Rhadamanthys were talking until evening. Aphrodite wasn't sure whether it was true or only his imagination, but he felt Rhadamanthys never stopped watching his lord until he entering his room to sleep.
Aphrodite was still lost in thought…
…until he suddenly heard something moving in his surroundings.
The Pisces raised his head and looked at his left and right side. There was nothing there, nobody. But he was sure he heard footsteps.
And it was familiar…
"Shun?" he checked. He would never forget anything related to the one who had been successful killing him long time ago.
There was no answer.
Aphrodite frowned his forehead. "Shun, is that you?"
Once again he heard no answer.
It was about five minutes later Aphrodite finally gave up. How stupid he was…thinking Shun was here…how come Shun could step inside this full-of-barriers house…? Ok, maybe Kiki has helped him teleporting, but even Kiki couldn't make either himself and the others invisible. Besides, he wasn't even sure Kiki was able to teleport someone into this house again; Hades has announced he has sealed every form of teleportation with only heaven knows how.
Aphrodite continued sweeping and decided Shun's footsteps were only his imagination. He's been thinking about him, maybe that was the reason.
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Meanwhile, seeing that Aphrodite has continued sweeping, Shun started to tiptoe again…….
With the Helm of Invisibility he didn't only become totally invisible, but he could pass through the wall and the door like ghosts. Only…the helm couldn't make him inaudible. His steps still could be heard, let alone his voice. When he had been successful entering the mansion, he was glad for he didn't have to pass anyone. He could step lightly on his way to Hades's room.
Yet he had to tiptoe when he saw Aphrodite in the corridor he had been about to pass. He swore he had made his steps to be completely inaudible so Aphrodite wouldn't hear him, but he couldn't believe Aphrodite still could recognize his movement…
"Shun?"
It caused Shun immediately stopped his tiptoe. He sighed in his heart: of thirteen Gold Saints he would probably meet, why it had to be Aphrodite…?
He really wanted to jump in the air when Aphrodite finally gave up. He continued tiptoeing and hoped he could arrive at Hades's room as fast as possible.
And finally there he was. In front of Hades's room. Shun stood in front of the door to collect his breaths. Entering the room could mean two things: success or death. If he was still alive after stealing the pendant, he swore he would treat all of his friends to buy any clothes shown in Shinjuku's shop window. A gown for June would also be nice.
If he was dead in the middle of this mission, well…that would be fine…he has left a letter for his brother, which told about what kind of coffin he wanted to stay in…. No…not Freezing Coffin, he hated cold…a coffin made from willow or elder would be very attractive…and he had also told Ikki he didn't want his coffin to be covered by lilies…he wanted roses…no matter if it was bloody roses, piranian roses, or…what's the white rose's name…?
If only Ikki's face hadn't turned scarlet, he would have also told him about where he should be buried…
Shun shook his head quickly. No…this is wrong…don't think about horrible things…just think about victory, Shun…, he thought.
Once again he took a very deep breath…then passed through Hades's door. It was as easy as before…luckily Hades only sealed the form of teleportation, not the ability to be transparent.
The napes on Shun's back rose when he saw Hades slept on his bed…
As Poseidon said, Hades always slept in this hour. As if it made any difference…as if Hades would turn into cute rabbit while he was sleeping…
Shun put his hand on his heart which thumping so fast. He was really afraid Hades would be awakened by his heartbeats. It would be so silly…
Once again Shun took a deep breath, then tiptoed very carefully to Hades's bed.
Even when he was lying unconsciously on his bed, he still looked extremely frightening…
And there it was. The pendant. It was attached perfectly on his chest. It was hung by the chains around his neck with delicate fashion. Shun planned to cut the chain with the pliers he had prepared so that he could take the pendant right away. He only hoped Hades wouldn't wake up in sudden way and snapped his pliers then use it to cut his neck…. He was completely bluffing when he told Ikki he knew what to do in order Hades wouldn't catch him in the act…actually he didn't know anything…he only wanted to prevent his friends to fight Hades…he, as usual, would be very glad to sacrifice himself.
Preparing something horrifying would happen to him…Shun slowly took his pliers from his pocket…then…almost closing his eyes…touched the chain in a very very careful way…
He did it. He got the chain.
He was about to cut it when Hades suddenly moved and turned his body to the left.
Shun's heart was like jumping hundred kilometers away…he was so shocked that he almost screamed, but luckily he could quickly save his breath…. Once again he took a deep breath, feeling so thankful Hades was still asleep…
But he groaned in his heart when discovering the situation got more and more difficult… Hades was laying sideways right now, and the pendant was covered by his right hand; it was almost impossible to be stolen.
Now what…? Shun thought irritably. Did he have to wait until Hades changed his position again? But what if Hades kept sleeping in that pose until he was awake…?
There was no other choice. Right now he had to explore all of his courage to set Hades's hand aside, cut the chain, and at last steal the pendant. He remembered his promise to his brother, his friends, also the Gold Saints…he had promised he wouldn't let anyone or anything playing with the Gold Saints again.
To hell with his own safety…
For the hundred times, he took a deep breath.
And suddenly a brilliant thought popped up in his mind…
Orpheus…Lyre Orpheus…
That's it…he got it…Orphee's song was the thing which could make Hades sleeping very tight, wasn't it…? Hades wouldn't wake up once he heard that song…
Slowly…very slowly…Shun hummed the tune of Orpheus's song… He was surprise his hum could be so beautiful and relaxing; maybe the fights against Mime and Sorrento had created effect for him.
Shun didn't know whether it was true or only his vision, but looked like Hades now was sleeping tighter than before.
He didn't stop humming. Very carefully…very-very carefully…he set Hades's hand from the pendant…
He did it. It worked well…
Now cutting the chain…
Shun touched the chain, then placed it between the head of his pliers…he prayed the pliers didn't make a loud sound…otherwise it would ruin all the tunes he hummed…
The Andromeda closed his eyes in anxiety when he cut the chain…
Click…
The chain was successfully cut.
Shun opened his green eyes slowly…and he…once again…breathed in huge relief seeing Hades was still asleep.
Now taking the pendant…
Still humming, Shun touched the pentagram pendant…(he promised he would sterilize his hand after all was over). He then pulled it very slowly from the chain…and…
Done.
Meiou Hades's pendant now was in Andromeda Shun's hand.
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Shun didn't know how fast he run away from Hades's room. He even wasn't aware his sweat had soaked his whole outfits. What he knew was, as the plan, he immediately went straight to the Goldies's room once the pendant has been in his hand.
When he's been inside the Golds' room, he soon took the Helm of Invisibility off.
"Wake up, Gold Saints!" he called in harsh and anxious voice. He approached the beds and started to shake his seniors's bodies. "Deathmask, wake up! Aphrodite…! Shura, Saga! Please, wake up…!"
"What's going on…"
"I thought I heard Shun's voice…"
"Where's the fire…?"
"There's no fire, Aldebaran, all of you wake up now!"
Aiolos was the first who could gain full consciousness.
"Shun?" he wondered. "What are you doing here…? How come—"
"We have to destroy the pendants!" Shun yelled with raising the pentagram he's stolen. "I stole this…with the helm of Hermess…the other pendant—it's here…Athena and Poseidon are waiting, they will act with their staffs…! They—they will destroy the pendants and Hades would come back to Olympus mountain! The pendants made from whatever it is from Tartarus, it has to be unified, then we have to destroy it, now Athena and Poseidon are—Athena and Poseidon will destroy it, now with Kanon and Sorrento and the Bronzes they are waiting—"
"Shun—"
"We must destroy it!"
"Shun—"
"Athena and Poseidon are waiting—"
"Shun, Shun…!" Aiolos grasped Shun's shoulders anxiously. "Calm down…we don't even understand a single word you're talking about…!"
Shun panted. His face was pale as paper.
"Here, drink this," said Saga as he gave Shun a glass of mineral water. Shun drank it in one swallow. He felt a bit better.
"Now sit here," said Aiolos as he pointed the bed next to him. "Take a deep breath…"
Shun took a very deep breath.
"Better?"
Shun nodded.
"Now…tell us from the beginning until the end…," said Aiolos softly.
Shun began to tell them every single things, though his hands were still slightly trembling. His sentences were still a bit incoherent, but it was better than before. At least the Goldies could understand it, though with jawdrops.
He told the Goldies everything they needed to know: Olympus mountain, the pendants, Tartarus, Athena, Poseidon, the trident, Hermes, Helm of Invisibility, and so on. Shun's eyes turned wider when he remembered he hadn't told Athena and the others about his horrifying yet successful mission.
"I have to call Miss Saori," said Shun as he took his cell phone from his pocket. With his trembling hand he pressed Saori's numbers, then put the phone on his ears.
"Hello, Saori-san," said Shun, almost yelling. "I did it! The pendant is in my hand right now…!"
Couple seconds later Shun switched his phone off.
The Goldies looked at him with totally blank expression.
"Athena and Poseidon and the Bronzes and Shaina and Marin are heading here," said Shun. "Oh, and Kanon and Sorrento."
"Shun," said Dohko after he has been able to talk. He had a lot of questions to ask, but what came out of his mouth was, "May I look at the pendant?"
Shun gave him the pendant which he unconsciously clutched really tight since he was entering the room. Dohko looked at it steadily, and everybody was mesmerized seeing his hand was slightly trembling.
"Just like Alone's," said Shion, replied by Dohko's nod.
Shion then took a key from his pocket, unlocked a drawer, getting the other key from inside to unlock another drawer, setting aside the fabrics covering a box, unlocked the box, then took the second pendant from it. He gave the pendant to Dohko. "You said we have to unify both of them, Shun."
Shun nodded.
When Dohko moved the pendants close together, Mu blinked.
Oh…, he thought.
He'd ever wondered the second pendant was different with the first, yet at that time he hadn't been able to discover the difference.
Now he could see it: the words "Yours Ever" on the first pendant were raised design. It was embossed on the pendant. While the "Yours Ever" on the second one was flat. Maybe it meant the first pendant had to be put on the top of the second one.
Dohko thought the same way. He unified those pendants by putting the first one onto the second one, and suddenly it was glowing for a while.
All couldn't help to feel amazed seeing those pendants finally stuck very perfectly to each other without glue or another sticky substance.
"Now we're waiting for Athena," said Shion.
He and Dohko smiled warmly at Shun, so that the others. "You're so brave, young man," said Dohko as he held Shun's arm.
"So it was really you," said Aphrodite quietly.
Shun finally managed to smile, the thing he was impossible to do when he was in Hades's room.
The moments when they waited for Athena's group was extremely heartpounding. Each was doing things which revealed their anxieties. Shun was simply sitting on the bed, clutching his hands against each other. Shion was leaning his back on the wall, staring at the ceilings. Mu oppositely gazed at the floor, looked worry. Aldebaran threw bouncing-souvenir on the floor over and over, producing the only sound in the room. Saga leant his waist on the table, playing with his cell phone. Deathmask was laying on the bed, trying to sleep again, but apparently he was unable to (which caused him non-stop swearing incoherently…). Aiolia paced up and fro slowly. Shaka was meditating, although he couldn't help to open his eyes every two minutes. Dohko still held the pendant and watched it silently, seemed unable to stop thinking about Alone and Tenma. Aiolos sat on the chair, his hand was drawing something randomly on a piece of paper above the desk, but his eyes gazing at nowhere. When he looked at the paper to see the result of his work, he discovered he has drawn a pair of wings. Shura cupped his chin thoughtfully. Camus stood near the window, gazing outside. And Aphrodite was tidying up his and his fellows's beds.
About thirty minutes later, Shun's cell phone was ringing. He soon answered it anxiously.
"Seiya?"
He listened for a while, then switched off his phone.
"They're here," were the only words he said.
The others immediately marched outside and ran to the house's door. Aiolia was the first who reached the door…he soon unlocked it (a bit harshly because Shura was interfering…) then opened it very quickly.
In front of him there were Athena, Poseidon, the bronzes plus Kiki, Shaina, Marin, Kanon, and Sorrento standing sideways.
"I have bad feeling about this…," murmured Aiolia after a minute, holding his breath.
"Good evening," said Athena. Her face was pale and she entered the hall after Aiolos asked her to. Without saying anything she released her nike-pendant from her neck, clutched it for a while, and suddenly it switched into a staff.
"Julian, your trident, please," said Athena.
Poseidon silently released his pendant as well and gave it to Athena. After Athena held it briefly, it turned back into a trident.
"How are you?" Athena pointlessly asked all of her saints.
"We're fine," lied Saga after short time. "M…Milo passed away…"
"Yes…yes, I've heard it…," now Athena gazed on somewhere else.
"Here's the pendant, my lady," said Dohko as he gave Athena Hades's pendant.
"Thank you very much, Libra no Dohko…," Athena almost whispered. She accepted the pendant with trembling hands, then put it on the floor. "Thank you very much, Shun…"
"No problem…," answered Shun, with a tone that implied the opposite. He took a deep breath when Ikki, Shiryu, Hyoga, and Seiya grasped his shoulders one by one.
"Please…all of you step backwards…," murmured Athena.
Aiolos reacted. "Princess, let me destroy it…"
And the others's voices started to emerge noisily.
"It's too dangerous for you, Princess…"
"We can do this, my lady…"
"Give us the staff, Princess…"
"You can't endanger yourself…"
"Just entrust this task to us…"
Sorrento also interrupted his lord.
"My lord, I can do this, please give that trident to me…"
"Princess…," Kanon looked confused. He looked at both Athena and Poseidon at once. "Milord…"
"I said no intervention!" snarled Poseidon harshly.
"This is my and Poseidon's task," said Athena to her saints. "I won't ever sacrifice my saints' life again…"
"But—"
"Please step backward."
Athena's voice turned a bit stern now.
In a complete reluctance, all of her saints plus Sorrento stepped backward.
They turned so silent when looking at both deities standing in the middle of the hall; Nike in Athena's grasp and trident in Poseidon's. They looked so impressive and shining. Their long hair was blown softly by the wind coming from the opened door. In front of them, the pentagram pendant lied powerlessly on the floor.
…
A smile appeared on Poseidon's face then.
"Good evening, Hades," he said.
Horror never left the saints and marinas' faces…they've just realized they were too busy locking their visions at Athena and Poseidon that they hadn't been aware Hades has been there, looking at his siblings impassively.
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Five minutes have passed.
"I smelled your scents," said Hades at last.
"I feel honored," replied Poseidon.
"You have changed," Hades said again.
"What do you mean?" Poseidon raised his eyebrows.
"You are…human."
"I am?"
"You are kind."
"I'm not."
"Too kind to be Poseidon."
"I won't do anything which disadvantages me."
Poseidon and Hades stared at each other before Athena interrupted.
"Are you ready, Julian?" asked Athena.
Hades suddenly laughed heavily.
"Julian," he jeered in the middle of his laughter. "A very astonishing name…"
"I wonder what's your problem," said Poseidon calmly.
"You have changed. You have really changed," Hades repeated again.
At the same time Rhadamanthys entered the hall slowly. Looked like he was awakened by the noises in the hall. He stared at the people with stoic look.
"And you, Athena," Hades switched his vision to his niece. "You have not changed."
"So have you," responded Athena. She raised her staff high before saying, "On the three, Julian."
"Rhadamanthys, stop them!" snapped Hades at once.
The next scene seemed happening in slow motions in the Golds' point of views…
"One…," Athena began to count.
…
Rhadamanthys stepped to Athena and Poseidon right after Hades's order.
"Two…"
…
Rhadamanthys almost reached both deities…
"Stop them, Rhadamanthys!"
…
"THREE!"
"Forgive me, lord Hades," murmured Rhadamanthys as he joined the saints' group.
Hades's eyes turned so wild and filled with wrath knowing that his servant was betraying him…. He started to march at his pendant, but at the same time Athena and Poseidon swung their staffs at the pendant and hit it very hard…producing a "CLANK!" and caused it to break into pieces.
…….
Hades stopped stepping when his body was covered with brilliant light. He looked twinkling for about five minutes…
……
…then he was completely vanished.
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At the very precise moment…huge fireworks festival in Tokyo was begun. Various shapes and colours of fireworks erupted in the starry sky, followed by claps and cheering from the people who watched in joyfulness and contentment.
In Kido's mansion, with mixture of feelings in her eyes, the woman with long purple hair gazed at the place on which Hades formerly had stood on.
"Goodbye, Hades…," she whispered.
While far away in Olympus mountain…Hermes and all of his siblings were staring at someone who's just appeared in front of them.
"Welcome, Hades," greeted Hermes.
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