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Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed this ffic. I decided to post the last two chapters together :)
Any comment is welcome! And hehe I still have more ideas for this drabble and even another horror one.

THANKS!

The Wake Up

Everything was darkness. Ikki felt as he was on water and then the sweet breeze over his wet body. He could smell some peach or mango essence around him and felt some warm and soft hands over his arm. Gently the Phoenix Saint began to feel his whole body again. The pain wasn't totally there but he knew his wrist was dislocated and he had wounds in every inch in his skin. He took a deep breath and opened his eyes widely, he was scared now so didn't think twice when he throw a punch to the air to whatever o whoever were touching his arms.

"Ah!" Ikki sat down quickly and yell because his wrist. "Asshole!"

"Are you fine, sister?"

The Bronze Saint sighed and could now recognize everything around. He was in his room in the Virgo's Temple and over his neck was the Holy Rosary. And in front of him, Agora was holding Shiva on the floor, for sure was the Peacock Saint because had her nails painted in red and a cute skirt... and was bleeding from the nose.

"Shiva? Agora?" he asked seeing them and then held the Holy Rosary as he moved backward. "Are you... are you real?"

"Yes, Ikki." the Lotus Saint smiled.

"Of course, stupid piece of shit!" Shiva yelled showing her middle finger. "I will make you bleed, you big idiot!"

"Shiva, calm down now."

Ikki felt a cold shiver over his back when turned to hear the third voice. From the door, entering with a tray, Shaka walked slowly to leave it in the floor and sat between the Phoenix and the Peacock Saint.

"Sorry, master." she said showing her nose and calming a bit. "Ikki hit me."

"Let me see." the Virgo Saint held her face to see the ostriches and cleaned the nose with a towel. "You will be alright, darling. But you already say all that to Ikki." he smiled and kissed her forehead. "You need to control yourself." Shiva nodded. "And you, Ikki..." he turned to pour some hot tea in a cup. "I understand you might feel a bit out of place, but try to don't hurt my students."

The low rank saint just saw the hot cup of tea in front of him and Shaka with a smile. Seeing around and seeing the two students and the master of the temple, Ikki could feel again the peace it was always around. He sighed and came close to hold the tea but his hands were shaking.

"It might be the medicine." Agora said as he rose up and turned off a candle that had some liquid over it in a little tray. "We needed to keep you asleep these days."

"Days?" Ikki asked a bit surprised.

"You was in a terrible pain and bleeding so much when we found you." Shiva said cleaning her nose and verifying she wasn't bleeding anymore. "The only way to help you was making you fall in a deep sleep. Two days, or two and a half to be specific." she smiled and winked. "I took care of you personally."

"Shiva." Shaka said just to receive a little giggle from his student. "Sorry, Ikki. You might understand she woke up a bit... funny today." but then he smiled and moved his hand as he rose up. "Kids, let's go. Let Ikki rest all he needs." he then returned his attention to the Bronze Saint. "Rest all you need and... do not remove the Holy Rosary from your body."

"Sorry." Ikki said with a calm voice. "I... I broke up the other protection."

"No, I'm the one who should ask for forgiveness." Shaka answered. "I should had tell you about the candle and why needed to stay like that but... it was somehow a secret I needed to keep."

Agora nodded and Shiva saw them to then gasp and fake a sad face.

"What are you talking about?" she asked. "What do you mean by protection? And why is a secret? Hey! I didn't know it! Why do you hide me things?"

The older brother just pushed her softly with a hug to go out of there as she was asking over and over about it. Shaka sighed and saw to Ikki. He was so serious and shaking from the pain and medicine. Shaka came close and kneel down in front of him to see closer his eyes and face. Indeed, this Phoenix Saint wasn't totally awake and wasn't totally himself now.

"Rest, Ikki. I will explain you everything later." he placed both of his hand on Ikki's head. "Let me see what you saw and lived and I will explain you better."

It wasn't even a second when Shaka closed his eyes and saw almost everything. He was astonished but anyway smiled.

"Shaka? Everything I saw... was it real?" the Golden Saint nodded. "I almost die."

"But you are a strong Saint, Ikki. You are alive."

The Realms

"As you remember, the time we fought and were enemies, I sent us to another dimension because was the only way to escape from death. In this world exist more than one dimension or, as we call it, realms. My training has make me travel around them and even control some of the creatures or spirits that live there. I can see them, listen them, feeling them and even talk to them. They are everywhere around us but sometimes they fall from certain people or spaces. Do you know some ghost and disgusting creatures adores Cancer Temple? And even my beloved student Agora has some of them around him."

"What?! My brother?!"

Shiva interrupted as he saw Agora. She was a bit amazed.

The Virgo Saint, his students and the Phoenix Saint were all sat down in the entrance of the Virgo temple drinking some tea. He decided to explain everything to Ikki and to Shiva, who was now curious and heard about the secret.

"Well, yes." Agora nodded. "I can't control them, but I can see them sometimes and normally heard them." he patted Shiva's back in a soft way. "Don't worry, aren't the same than the ones that live in the Cancer Temple."

"These creatures can be good or bad, but honestly they doesn't have moral to follow so is just a way to say it." Shaka kept talking. "Agora has being a good human being, so he has three of those called spirits that protects him."

The Peacock and the Phoenix Saint saw each other. This was indeed interesting.

"How many do I have? Are good or bad?" Shiva asked still holding the cup of tea in her hands.

"Darling, you have only one and... let's say it already knows you well to act as it should when it needs to."

"That doesn't answer anything."

"Anyway, as I was saying. These spirits decides to stay with certain people or places. I'm always being followed by them because, as you remember, one of my attacks means to ask them to fight for me." Ikki nodded. He was serious because was still tired and intrigued by all this. "But they always are free to walk around my temple and the Sanctuary. And every time I go outside these walls, some of them stay here. Normally, the demons."

"Demons?" Ikki asked. "I was being attacked by demons? And why they knew everything about me? How... why they hasn't attack Agora or Shiva or anyone else?"

Shaka pointed the Rosary that was still in Ikki's neck.

"Had you notice that every single of my servants wears a rosary like this in its hands and some women wears some henna tattoos?" the owner of the temple smiled. "Agora and I are strong enough in mind to don't let them enter, and they are under my control so they behave with you, Shiva and other Saints around." he sighed and held Shiva's hand. "This time I wasn't around, you broke up the protection and they decided to do anything they wanted."

"I'm not strong as you..." Shiva said almost like a whisper.

"You are strong, Shiva." Ikki smiled. "Maybe just... maybe you need more training with your mind."

"And you are always wearing a protection. That's why I always bought them for you, my girl." Shaka smiled and pat her hands to leave them. The bracelets made a lot of sound and Shiva smiled moving her feet to make them sound too. "Now, they know some details about everyone, Ikki. Don't feel it is personal or anything at all."

He felt a bit of fear and sighed. Ikki wasn't an open person but looked like the spirits and demons didn't mind that. He drank a bit more of the tea and held the Rosary to remove it from his neck and better have it in his arm.

"That's why they showed me all that." Ikki was talking to them but seeing the beads of the object. "My old master, the kids... but I don't understand why they said there was my mother."

Shaka nodded and poured some milk on his tea.

"It wasn't your mother but the feelings you have about her. Seeing that monster, you feel a bit guilty about what happened to her." Ikki didn't answer but was enough for the Virgo Saint. "That monster was a dead body and was in the half. You still bearing her."

"And why you? I saw you too."

"Well..." Shaka saw his students who were very interested in the topic. "It was something you told to those horrible kids without face."

"Oh..."

The silence was there for some seconds as they both drank some of the tea. Agora and Shiva couldn't understand so, before the Peacock could ask something as always, Ikki decided to take the word again.

"And Esmeralda?" even if Ikki said it, Shiva felt a shiver. She really didn't like the story when Ikki told her about the girl. "I thought I left that pain in the past."

"How did you see her or the monster?" Shaka asked.

"She was just bloody, she was still looking like herself."

"Really?" Shaka asked. "You meant, maybe she had something in the face or in the body to know it was a monster."

"No, she was totally fine." he sighed and closed his eyes. "Lamentably those other monsters killed her twice in front of me. And she kissed me and held my hand. What does it meant?"

"They were just playing with your mind."

Agora interrupted as he stand up and fixed his civilian clothes. He smiled and saw to the principal stairs as another Bronze Saint was climbing them.

"Brother!" Ikki stand up in the moment Hyoga run to hug him. The Russian young man was indeed happy. "How do you feel?! Oh my God, you are alive! You are awake now!"

"Yes, yes, I'm." Ikki smiled. "I'm fine, I just need to go out of here."

"It is a good idea." Shaka smiled as he and Shiva did the same than the other Saints. "Go and relax a bit. You can come back later. Just, to take some prevention, don't remove the Rosary."

The Cygnus Saint was happy and knew that his best friend would explain him all. But before he could say something or say goodbye, Ikki asked them to let him and Shaka talk alone some minutes. Hyoga didn't mind so he came close to Agora and Shiva, and after all was ready to ask for a date to the Peacock Saint... even if it meant asked it in front of his old brother.

Now both ex-enemies were alone in the front of the stairs while the other three were almost inside. The Phoenix Saint looked indeed tired but anyway smiled to the Virgo Saint and owner of that temple.

"Why you and your students did came back?" he asked in the end.

"I didn't feel your cosmos in this realm so I was worried when I felt it in the hell." Shaka answered.

"Do you always take care of my cosmos?"

"Didn't you wanted to do the same before I go?"

"Hey, I hate when the people answer me with a question."

Shaka sighed and turned to see his students.

"I do... sometimes. When it is necessary." he smiled. "After all I do feel the same." Ikki's eyes opened widely and smiled as Shaka did. "Human after all."

"Yes of course, god Shaka." Ikki laughed. "Fine, then I better go and relax and explain all to Hyoga."

"Yes, he was very concerned about you."

Both, again, where in silence. But Ikki needed to cut it.

"I would need your help, right?" he asked to Shaka. "I don't feel totally as myself."

"Ikki, you will need my help only if you ask it. And I will be happy to help you heal that. I'm not a psychologist but I can hear all your problems and use some of my techniques. I will help you to let go your mother, your guilty and even your hate from your master."

"And with Esmeralda." Ikki sighed. "I swear, I thought I had it in control. But the pain came back? It is the only explanation I have."

"I do believe you, and yes I will help you." Shaka said. "I will help you with everything you need so you can still being the strong Saint I know."

The Phoenix Saint nodded and saw how Agora was a bit angry with Hyoga meanwhile Shiva was blushing a bit with an innocent smile. Maybe it was time to go now and save his best friend from an angry Lotus Saint.

"Even with... well, maybe if you feel the same and..." Ikki cleared his throat and the Virgo Saint smiled. "I don't want to interfere with your illumination."

"Ah, it isn't an interference. In fact it is something I should experiment in this realm and this life. So yes, even in that." he smiled and saw Hyoga and the other arriving. "We will see while you come for the help."

"Come for what? Are you planning a date?" Hyoga came close.

"Shut up, duck." Ikki said with a serious face. "Don't you understand what friendship means? And it looks like you are the one who has the date."

"Ok, let's shut up and go." Hyoga was smiling but a bit nervous and Shaka could see it. "Bye, bye, Shaka. Good bye, Agora." he smiled to Shiva. "Darling."

"See you tomorrow." She said waving her hand.

The Virgo Saint and Ikki saw each other with a smile. They were saying goodbye but too other two things and one of them was the fact that Ikki trusted in Shaka to even ask for his help.

The three Virgos saw the other Bronze Saints going. Indeed Ikki looked a bit turned off and out of himself, but maybe passing time with his best friend might help. Those three could see how the sun was almost hiding totally and spend some seconds there till the only girl decided to talk.

"Fine, so... master Shaka is the best liar and all but you Agora, you sucks so terrible."

"Shiva? Your manners." The master said without removing his sight from the two figures that were entering to the Leo Saint.

"I'm sorry, but it is true. I wouldn't know something was odd if Agora wouldn't talk." Shiva saw his old brother. "Why did you lied about Esmeralda?"

The Lotus Saint was serious as his master. Shiva even smiled seeing how the men that were always at her side had some details in common.

"Master Shaka, are you going to tell to Ikki?"

"Maybe later. But you can tell to Shiva." he turned and began to walk. "I need to make another candle to control those bastards."

"Master!" Shiva said. "Your manners!"

The Virgo Saint indeed was relaxed now and liked to joke around with his students and friends. Maybe after all the stress of the Holy War and being always a strict Saint with himself, he wanted to explore other things in his life.

Anyway, both students sat down again and poured some more tea on their cups.

"Sister, we had never told you about the creatures and spirits that are around the temple and around us. Normally we would need a special training to control them, but for the moment I just had the luck to can see them. Anyway, we hide all this to protect you." the Peacock Saint smiled. "And now you know about them. If you ever feel they are playing with you, only remember two things; you are more powerful than them because this is your realm and the training the master Shaka has given to us is totally enough to defeat them."

"Indeed. What's the other thing?"

"They will be always animals or monsters." Agora saw her very serious. "Only that and no more."

The Peacock Saint spent some seconds thinking and then couldn't move. Her eyes opened widely and saw the stairs as if she could keep seeing Ikki.

"Those... spirits." she felt sad for a moment. "They can't take a human form?"

"They can take a human form but not totally, and it is always the face and the hands the only thing they can't copy."

"Does it means that Esmeralda was..." Shiva couldn't hide her tears. "Agora, she traveled to one realm to other to take care of Ikki?"

"He said she looked like herself, she kissed him and held his hand without fear." he stop seeing Shiva, she was sad and crying. "Don't tell him about this." Shiva nodded and cleaned her tears. "Our friend will never forgive himself if he knows Esmeralda gave her soul for him."