SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 28 out, this is Chapter 29 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
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Chapter 29: Seiya's True Feelings! The Lie From His Return!
"What?" Seiya was stunned when Titan broke free of the stalemate.
"Giganto Impact!" Titan sent an energy blast point-blank at Seiya, sending him flying. "Athena, your love is wrong." he declared. "Your love has made Pallas-sama suffer, brought disaster to the humans and led many of your Saints to their deaths. You are a Goddess of War that brings destruction. Sagittarius Seiya, your loyal Saint, is another of your victims." his rant was cut off when a blast from Seiya pushed him back.
"I'm no one's victim." Seiya corrected. "Don't make Athena... Saori-san cry."
"A Goddess of War who will do whatever it takes to win?" Titan snorted.
"I know Saori-san has faced her destiny of having been born as Athena." Seiya related. "And has sacrificed herself in battle to protect humanity. She's stubborn and she hates to lose. But the people's suffering hurts her more than anyone else. Each time a Saint died, she grieved. Even if she never shed tears, she cried in her heart. That is who she is. I don't want her to be sad anymore."
"Hard to believe those words are regarding a Goddess." Titan noted.
"To me, Kido Saori is a woman." Seiya refuted.
"Aren't Saints Athena's loyal soldiers?" Titan mocked. "You're following your orders, are you not?"
"I'm not the kind of person who'd follow an order I didn't agree with." Seiya retorted. "I always fight of my own free will. It doesn't matter if she's human or a Goddess. Athena is the one I wanted to protect."
"Are those Sagittarius Seiya's true feelings?" Titan asked and burst out laughing after Seiya affirmed. "I wasn't laughing at you." he corrected, now realizing he and Seiya were the same type of person. "If I have offended you, I apologize. It's only that now, I understand all too well what you're saying. I feel the same way you do. I shall protect Pallas-sama even if it costs me my life. Not because anyone has ordered me to; I shall protect her as a woman. Even if we are enemies, I am happy that I met you and had the chance to fight you. Now, let's end this. Risking our lives for those whom we love."
"Not as two enemies, but as two men." Seiya agreed.
"Satellite Crusher!" Titan dodged Seiya's attack, firing off his two energy blasts in retaliation.
"What a fight." Souma noted, the Bronze Saints had also arrived to the scene.
"Seiya and Titan?" Haruto added. "And they evenly matched?"
"Seiya, we'll help you." Koga voiced.
"Stay back, you guys." Harbinger warned, Juno was still healing his broken bones. "They're fighting each other as men. Don't interfere."
"I'm surprised." Titan admitted, the two combatants broke the stalemate again. "You're still standing and fighting, even after all those hits from my Chronotector-clad fists. But, you cannot survive my ultimate attack. My Cosmos is the size of a planet." he powered up. "Can you withstand it, Seiya? You'll try?" he grinned, seeing Seiya mount his bow.
"I have my friends." Seiya stated. "I have those who pray for me. Even if it takes everything I have, I will defeat you, Titan."
"Then, endure my ultimate attack." Titan tossed his attack. "Gigantic Planet End!"
"Cosmic Star Arrow!" Seiya fired his charged-up arrow into the energy sphere. The golden arrow shot through the energy ball and shot straight through Titan's shoulder and causing the Pallasite's attack to dispel.
"Well done, Seiya." Titan praised. "You are worthy of my mortal peril." and the two fighters renewed their fight. "Pallas-sama, get back." he requested, the Goddess of Love placing herself between both combatants and forcing them to stop.
"You can't go on." Pallas scolded. "I do not wish to see you further hurt."
"Seiya, withdraw." Saori instructed.
"Athena-onee-sama." Pallas turned to Saori. "Let's end this."
"Pallas, there is no need." Saori assured. "Are you not frightened? You're afraid of losing someone you love. Aren't you trying to fight for someone you love? Then, you should know how sad it is, losing someone you love in battle and how foolish it would be. Let us stop this and cease to injure the ones we love."
"How can you stop fighting?" Pallas demanded. "I know you hate me. I tried to destroy the humans, Earth and you. I wanted your attention, even if it meant your hatred. What I've done is steal those you loved. Still, you can forgive me?"
"I could not answer the deep love you harbored for me as the Goddess of Love." Saori removed her Kamui Cloth. "I was unable to fill you with my love. But, didn't the other Goddess Guardians love you? Don't you have someone who love you now? We're fighting each other, hurting each other, and trying to see the end of our fates. But now, we can be released from our fate. Anymore fighting will only hurt and sadden those we love. I cannot hurt the one you love anymore. Pallas, I just want you to be happy. Titan, please help Pallas to be happy."
"Your words are too good for me." Titan fell to one knee. "I have always intended to serve her with my life."
"Pallas." Saori held out her hand.
Pallas took the hand, the two Goddesses' Cosmo flooded the area.
"What's this?" Yuna gasped.
"Pallas, there isn't anyone who's not allowed to be happy." Saori assured. "Let us atone for it. We can start again. I shall carry the burden of your sin as well. I shall walk with you. Like the humans who take each other's hands; who share their pain and suffering. We can start anew."
"I'm a failure as a Goddess of Love." Pallas sighed. "Your love is so vast. I entirely forgotten that Ceres-nee-san told me that there are different kinds of love."
"I can sense a kind Cosmos coming from Pallas." Yuna noted.
"This is her true Cosmo." Ceres supplied. "As the Goddess of Love. Pallas-imouto finally came back."
"Athena-onee-sama." Pallas turned to Saori. "I'll return your life." she removed her Chronotector and reached her hand out to Saori who clasped it.
"Something's wrong." Vesta frowned, the Cosmo flow was interrupted when the twin Ouroboros rings came to life and entwined themselves around Saori and Pallas' bodies, creating an energy sphere that kept Titan and Seiya out.
"I can't have you two going back together." Europa chided. "Using a God to defeat a God, then kill the surviving one. That was the plan; guess I'll have to kill them both."
"This is your doing?" Titan growled.
"I'll defeat you." Seiya swore and the two former enemies charged Europa.
Europa easily deflected his two attackers, shedding his Chronotector at the same time. "It is so confining, looking like a Class-2 Pallasite. This is my true form." he revealed his real Chronotector underneath.
Having drained both Saori and Pallas, the twin Ouroboros slithered to Europa.
"What is this?" Seiya hurried back to Saori, Titan doing to same with Pallas. "Their Cosmo is badly weakened."
"Curse you, Europa." Titan glared. "You'll pay for this."
"The twin Ouroboros serpents." Ceres recognized the twin snakes.
"This is just like that time." Vesta agreed.
"Titan, let me." Juno injected her healing light into Pallas.
"Titan, you have disobeyed my God's order and you saved Pallas." Europa reminded. "That is treason. For this serious crime, you will pay with your life." he then summoned the Eternal Dance before him.
"What Cosmo..." Ryuho winced.
"The blade is more powerful than when Pallas held it." Eden added. "As though it was a God itself."
"It is to be expected." Ceres remarked. "Considering Eternal Dance originally belongs to Saturn."
"This is a God's power?" Subaru was stunned.
"You've seen this before; within yourself." Europa reminded Subaru.
"Subaru?" Koga blinked as Subaru walked towards the Eternal Dance. "What's wrong?"
"Haven't you always thought you'd like to be a God?" Europa prompted.
"Humans are strong." Subaru let the entity sleeping in him awaken. "But that is a temporary strength. A God's power is eternal."
"That's right." Europa grinned. "Because you were a God right from the start. Now, Ouroboros, the ring of two snakes that absorbed Pallas and Athena's Cosmo, will make you eternal, beyond life and death." he fed the stolen Cosmo to Subaru. "The time has come. Now awaken, my God, Saturn-sama!"
Subaru shattered the Equuleus Cloth as he reverted back to his Saturn self.
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