Chapter Eight: The Truth
In a comforting way, the saint of Andromeda held onto her tightly, stroking her long bi-colored hair and softly whispering to her so she could calm down. Once she had stopped crying, Kohaku didn't move from his grip on her since she didn't want him to see her this miserable.
"Now that you're done crying… How about you tell me who did this to you…? It was Hades, wasn't it…?" Weakly and reluctantly, she nodded in reply as she whimpered and sniffled.
"That explains why he hasn't bothered me lately… He hasn't done anything really horribly perverted, has he?" That time, Kohaku didn't answer. Her silence was all he needed to know the truth.
"That sick freak…! I won't let him do anything like that to you ever again, Kohaku. I promise."
"Just now, he… He had taken your form and tried to rape me. If you and the others hadn't came and woke me up, I… I probably would've been as well as lost my mind." His embrace grew a little tighter, more protective just by what she explained to him.
"Hades has gone too far …" Just then, Kohaku had an idea and looked up at Shun, gently touching his face.
"Then how about we take him down again…? I have an idea, but we'll need Ikki's help since he's probably the only one that can do it."
"What are you talking about?" A weak smirk then formed on her lips.
"We'll need Ikki to hit us both with his Phoenix Genma Ken. It'll send us both to see Hades and then we'll stop him from ever doing this to me again… But you'll have to trust me completely when we do this. If something goes wrong, we could both loose to him." He hesitated for a moment then nodded a little.
"Alright, I trust you. Let's hope your plan works out the way you think it will, Kohaku." She then smiled at him a little more, although still a bit weak, and kissed him softly.
"If I know what the end result is, then I know that it will."