Jayr POV - Death Queen Isnd - 1984

  I look at Seika standio me, notig that even with my o's prote she still having some trouble withstanding this hellish isnd climate, and say "So we're doh this isnd if you want to spend some time with your half-brother we stay here for a few more days", but with a lot of sweat falling over her body, Seika shakes her head and replies "No, It's fine knowing that he is safe... More or less..." then as we start walking back to the boat with worry in her voice she asks "Is the training to bee a Saint always so hard and cruel?".

  Letting out a sigh I reply "Yes... While the method ge from pce to pd from master to master... It isn't strange for some traio die during the training... You have to uand that a Saint is one of the stro human beings ever existed, even opposing the Gods isn't a dream from them... In fa our history, the Saint of Athena opposed the Gods many times, and e out on top... It is normal that reag such level of power requires a huge amount of effort and sacrifices...".

  Then looking at her in the eyes I tinue "You know? With my current power, that is equal to that of a Gold Saint... I'm still in the middle of the pack among the Saint of Athena, not talking about their ehat is why I still train hard every day!", and shocked by my revetion she asks "Eh? I never saw you training?".

  With a wry smile, I expin "In the day I train my 7th sense, by cutting off my every other sense... I practically drive the boat with only my o leading me most of the time, and wheop at night I train my body, going uer and training uhe pressure of the o... The only time I didn't train is when we... Well... You know...", and uanding what I'm referring to, blushing she nods, and soon in that sweet awkward silence, we reach Athena's Bidoof a from this trashy isnd.

  Ikki POV - Death Queen Isnd - 1984

  It is a day like always my lousy excuse of a master is t me once again, as he keeps talking about hatred this and hatred that, like I didn't know that feeling well enough, anyway as I'm gettien up, I once again challehe master, and his response is fast as always, no matter how much I train, I'm not able to follow his movement and hit him, will hatred really help me kill this bastard.

  Finding myself once again on the ground, I spit a mouthful of blood and piss off Master Guilty once more, and on instinct I prepare for the ing pain, only this time it doesn't e, standing in front of me is a young man, with messy dark blue hair, and a silver box on his back, he is holding Master Guilty leg in pce seemingly without effort, and soon I notice that he is around my age too.

  When Master asks who he was the young man says something about being a healer, then I think that Master Guilty attacks the young man with his , he is too fast now for me to follow, but the instant Master is wriggling on the ground, while the young man is still in the same pce like nothing happens 'How fast he really is!? I just blinked and the moment the bastard is already down... And why he isn't killing him!?'.

  Then the young man turn around and present himself then he says something about the bastard being uhe trol of some evil force, and as he turns to look at the bastard on the ground, a young girl that looks somewhat familiar es o him and ask if he heal Master Guilty, Jayr says that he and expin what teique was usen on him and how to resolve it.

  He put his hand on Master Guilty head and soon I feel an huge energy ing from, energy that I know to be o, but his is different from Master Guilty, it is calm, peaceful, f, and many times bigger, but as soon as it appears his o recedes and after poking Master Guilty's body with his finger he stood up and gavi him space.

  And now, Master feels like a totally different person, that familiar iy is still there, but now feels focused, and less disgusting, it is strange, even the way he act it the same but different in the meaning, and when Master Guilty asks why Jayr was here, he starts talking about some Pope being killed and a Gemini Gold Saint taking his pce, hearing this new ehe Master like I never felt before, but Jayr quickly calm him saying something about some Hades guy and a Holy War.

  Then he spoke about a future he saw, in where Esmeralda died, hearing that piece of information, something snapped in me, and a great hatred and an enormous feeling of power enveloped 'So that is what he means by using the hatred... Good with this power I'll take the Cloth kill the bastard before he hurt Esmeralda, go back to Japan and kill that bald bastard, that tortured us, and that old bastard, that forced us into this hell, I kill that little bit...'.

  But all of the sudden, Master Guilty, punches me hard snappi of my thought and starts yelling at me "Stupid!! It's good to use your hatred to burn your o but don't be trolled by it!! You o find your anchor to keep yourself always steady... If not you could bee what you hate the most and will hurt the ones you love!!! And now calm down she is still alive!".

  His word are a cold shower that woke me from my almost crazed state, it true she is alive, and Master is cleary different, before he was cruel and sadistic, but now he is yes ruthless, but uhat I feel for the first time his self restraioo is full of hatred but he trol it, he isn't trolled by it, I stood up once again and for the first time I thank Master for his teag, for real this time.

  'Yes he is right, I was about to bee the kind of people I hated the most, and that happened in almost an instant... Finding my anchht now the only things that keep me going are Shun and Esmeralda... I have to always remind myself of them!' as I was thinking this, Jayr tinues with his story of the future, and I'm scared by it, as it almost perfectly follows my previous thoughts, but I'm gd to find out that I regain my sanity in the end as Shun, Hyoga, Shiryu, and Seiya join forces and stop me.

  Then Jayr expins that he wants me to in a few words, put on an ad train my brother and the others for the ing storm, and Master Guilty agrees to help but his words, remind me of his previous self sparking once agaired in me and my o grows as sequence, but this time I keep myself in check remembering Shun and Esmeralda, who always helped me in these 4 years being the pilr of my sanity, and this time my o feels more natural, under trol, 'Could it be that Master Guilty provoked me iionally?'.

  After that episode, I go back to what be called my home, and as I'm walking bay pce, a simple undergroud room, with wall made of rock that makes the iter theside and nothing else, not bed, no chair, no desk, nothing, I'm thinking about the strange day I had today, when all of the sudden, I hear a girl's voice "Ikki... Are you okay?".

  Turning my head, I see a young girl with blonde hair and green eyes, with a pale skin tone, running toward him looking worried, and in a soft tone I say "Esmeralda...", she quickly reaches me and cheg my injuries she says "... Look at all those bruises... One day yoing to get killed...", shaking my head I says "No, it's alright, I told you not to e here anymore, you're putting yourself in danger by helping me...".

  (Image Here - Esmeralda)

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  [colpse]But with a smile she replies "It's fine... Don't worry about me..." and she starts ing my wounds, and looking at her carefully taking care of me I think 'I won't let anything hurt you... I will destroy that awful future with my own hands... At any cost!' and in respoh my resolve, my o once again burns, strohan I ever felt before.

  Jayr POV - Indian O - 1984

  A feassed since we left, the Death Queen Isnd, we moved away from the equator, and are now moving along the tral Indian Oic Ridge, where Andromeda Isnd is located, and if everything goes well awo hours and we should be there.

  In the early hours of the m, I'm once again preparing breakfast while Seika is still sleeping in our , and as I'm cutting the fruit I hum a song in a low too not wake up the exhausted Seika "?Sometimes\Somethiiful happens in this world\You don't know how to express yourself, so\You just gotta sing\I just had sex\And it felt so good\A woma me put my penis inside of her\I just had sex\And I'll never go back\To the not-having-sex ways of the past?".

  Then as I utting everything into the pte, I feel two soft arms around my waist, and and the f heat of Seika's body as she gently kiss my ned says "Good m, Jayr", I stop what I'm doing, slowly turn around, and ing my arms on her lithe body, I give hug, then I give a pe the mouth and say "Good m, Seika... How are you feeling?", and with a pout she replies "Exhausted... Really, you have too much stamina, from the medie book I have read usually a avarage man st from 7 to 13 minutes duriration and are just one shot and done... But you... Just don't stop..." feeling guilty, I once again kissing her and say "Sorry Seika, I'll try to restrain myself more".

  After breakfast, Seika went back to rest in the bed, while I disabled all my senses and started driving the boat using only my 7th sense as a guide, and after an hour I felt that we are now near our destination, as I felt many active os in the distance, so I quickly restore my senses, and look around and finally in the distance I see my destination.

  A volid located on an oic ridge, because of its nature, it is inhospitable and the ditions are prohibitive for any form of life, as fauna only a few reptiles inhabit, and the flora is almost ent, oher hand, due to its geographical location, the isnd is subjected to signifit thermal variations so that temperatures are very high during the day and very low at night, the isnd is small in size and in the ter stands a rge volo, which is still active, the only ones living here are the traihe guardian of the isnd who trains them, and a few attendans.

  (Image Here - Andromeda Isnd)

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  [colpse]I stop the engine, and go down in my , finding Seika sitting on the bed reading one of my books that talk about medie, hearing me ing inside she raises her head and asks "Are we near?" I nods and sit o her expeg another question "So... why are we here? Another brainwashed Saint? Will it be as dangerous as before?".

  I simply reply "Well this isnd is dangerous only for the trainee and for those who want to gain the Andromeda Cloth as its trial is quite brutal... And we are only here to warn the Master here... He is already suspicious of the Pope, but he is pying his cards the wrong way, and it will end up with his and everyone else death..." then with a smile, I add "But still be careful, the people here are a bunch of S&M perverts fixed with s and whips...", but Seika ignores my warning and with a cute pout says "You jest!... Now, go and start the dog process while I prepare".

  I go back to the helm and carefully drive Athena's Bidoof, he small port, as this isnd is surrounded by insidious sharp rocks, as soon as we dod nd on the insnd, we move in the dire of the training grounds, as the sounds of their harsh training be heard in the distance, while Seika says "Holy... It's so hot here... even worse thah Queen Isnd..." but I reply "No... Not really... it is just that I was shielding you with my o there... Here it isn't needed...".

  Jayr POV - Andromeda Isnd - 1984

  As soon as we reach the training ground, Seika quickly moves close to me hugging my arm, as she sees all the trainee here training with some kind of or whip as she says in a low voice "Ahh... There are really perverts here...!!".

  Then we hear a girl's voice that says "Who are you? How did you find this pce? What are you doing here?" looking at where the voice is ing from, we see a a tall girl with a slim, well-proportioned build, she has yellow hair and a fair plexion, she appears to be strong and fearsome because she carries a whip, and is wearing a training suit that is the same as Shaina's, having a small prote on her shoulders, and it is characterized by a yelloink color and of course her face is hidden by the mask, I quickly reize her as June.

  (Image Here - June, Chameleon June w/o mask)

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  [colpse]At first, she is wary of us, be she then notices the Pandora Box on my bad rexes slightly, and at that moment I reply "Hello there, my name is Jayr a Silver Saint of Athena, I'm here to talk about something with your master, Cepheus Daidalos, I'm sorry to intrude in your training but you lead me to him?".

  She stood in silence for a few seds before turning around and saying "Follow me...", and led us further ihe training grounds on an isoted beach, and soon we see the se of two young men fighting each other using their s, one is a young man around 17, with with a broad and muscur body, his skin has a fair plexion, his face is quite coarse with well-defined features such as a rge mouth, a sharp nose, and a rather promi , he has short dark hair, and is using his to easily deflect most of the other boy, he is Daidalos.

  (Image Here - Cepheus Daidalos)

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  [colpse]The other is an attractive young man ile and thin appearance, he has long green hair, and dark turquoise eyes, wearing a traifit with dark blue shoulder protectors, and with cssic Greek sandals of the same color as the protectors, he relentlessly attacks Daidalos, but all his attack are parried or deflected by his master, he is Shun, Ikki's little brother.

  (Image Here - Shun)

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  [colpse]I look at their fight and analyze them 'Daidalos became a Silver Saint at 13, and soon after he was seo bee a Master, and I admit he is talented, from what I feel he is at the peak of the Silver Saint level... in fact he on the brink of awakening his 7th sense, but that st step could take years... Meanwhile, Shun... He has already trol over his o... In fact, he is almost at the Silver level... But he is holding ba fear of hurting the others... Really his affinity for s is so much that he ed even himself... But the fight is about to end, Shun is totally exhausted'

  And in a instant Daidalos takes advantage of Shun's gap in his defeo disarm, bind him, and sms him into the hard sand, stunning him and bringing ao this sparring, then Daidalos removes his and frees Shun, who is n to recover his breath, walk o him, and looking at him, Daidalos yells "Get up, Shun! If this were a real battle, you'd have died 15 times today, it's been years since you came to Andromeda Isnd, aren't you ashamed that you haven't made a bit ress? Get up, Shun, if you're a man!".

  At the same time June runs toward the knocked out Shun yelling his name, and Daidalos says "Stay out of this, June! You're still a novice yourself..." but June responds "Master, Shun reached his limit, you'll kill him! Please stop the training for today! Please, Master Daidalos!".

  I chose this moment to walk forward and introduce myself "Hello there! My name is Jayr, Saint of Athena, and probably the best healer you will ever find... I have a few moments of your time to talk about something..." and with an aone he replies "Are you here to give me another useless summons to return to the Sanctuary from the Pope?".

  I shake my head and reply "Nope, but it is reted to it..." hearing that Daidalos gave a signal to June, who pulls up Shun's body and starts slowly moving him away, and I turn to Seika and says "Seika, you go and help June, also che your half-brother and apply what you learned until now" and she nods and follow after June, leaving me and Daidalos alone.

  Daidalos looks at me and says "So, speak why are you here" and so I start expining to him my reasons for io warn him, once again I told the story of Saga the corrupted Saint, about my ability to see limited instances of the future and that I saw him and the other trainee here killed by the Pisces Gold Saint, because they "rebelled", to further firm my story, I allowed him to see an instance of his future using my Cloth, only the se we saw was that of Shun taking the trial and obtaining the Adromeda Cloth.

  Finishing my story, Daidalos curses "Shit! So something really is wrong with the Pope!? Not only we lost the guide of the Pope, but a corrupted Gold Saint is leading the Sanctuary! And now to save the trainees I have no choice but to be brainwashed!??" but I quickly stop him and says "Wait! Calm down! Who says that you have to be brainwashed? We know the enemy's pn and how he will act! So it is easy to find a solution to this problem!".

  Daidalos quickly calms down and says "I'm listening..." and so I expin my pn "First when the summon es, you will respond to it and go to the Sanctuary to meet the Fake Pope, then it es the hard part... When you meet him and if he uses his teique on you... You will have to act that it worked, then you just have to return, that will make you gain enough time as Saga won't suspect you if you 'follow' his orders... Then all you have to do is wait for Athena to make her move... I guaratee you that she will a two years!".

  Hearing my expnation, Daidalos nods and then ask how to resist Saga's teique and I tell him the three way to do so, the first is to have a strong o and will, and the sed is to withness someone being killed, but I quickly dismiss this one, and the st, is be uhe effect of another simir teique, and that I will use it on him a harmless one, like making him love spicy food or force him to piss with one leg raised, basically something that maniputes his brain to ge his normal behavior but that is difficult to notice so that when Saga uses his teique, they will cel each other.

  Daidalos then with a stern face says "Do it... I have to do everything possible to save my trainees... And even if your pn fails... I'm relieved of the fact that I'll be able to shape Shun into an incredible Saint..." and with I smile I put my hand on his head and says "He will be one of the best!" and steadily send my o inside his brain, making sure that it stays hidden and ued, even by a Saint of Saga's level.

  After that, Daidalos thanked me for my help, ao che the other trainees, while I went toward Seika's position, and found her outside of Shun's dwelling waiting for me, onear her I ask "Why are you waiting outside?" and with a smile, she replies "I checked on Shun, and from what I have seen he is fine, just exhausted after he woke up I left him with Juo look after him... It seems that she has feelings for him... So I didn't want to intrude on them... So did it go well?".

  Shrugging my shoulders I reply "I did everything I could do... Now, only time will tell if what I did was right..." Seika nods walks toward me, and hugging me she says "It is right! And even if you make a mistake, you only have to work harder to fix it... And if it is too hard for you to do so, just ask for help! You are not alohen releasing me from her warm and f hug she says "Now, let's go to our destination... I just hope it isn't another pce like the st two...".

  With a wry smile I say "Well... Our stop is in India, to be more precise in the Himaya Mountain Range... on one of the peaks we will find the pace of Jamir... only to reach there we have to pass through a multitude of ghost possessed skeletons guarding the pce...", hearing that Seika let out a sigh and says "Great all the pce where there are Saint are dangerous... , what? You will tell me that the Sanctuary that seems the most secure, but in fact hides a portal that leads to hell!?".

  And at that moment I look in another dire and starts whistling the good old The Simpsons Theme, while starting to slowly walking away, and as Seika notices this she yells "WAIT!! NO WAY!!! REALLY!!!?".

  June POV - Andromeda Isnd - 1984

  I slowly y Shun on his bed with the girl Seika, who quickly moves and che him with clear in her eyes, and after a few minutes she let out a sigh and says "He is fine... He only has some bruises... In fact he should wake up in a few minutes..." hearing that I let out a sigh of relief, then she says "You really care about him..." and to that I could only stumble "Y... Ah... Not really... It is just..." but she simply smiles and going outsides she says "It's fine... Having someone supp you give a lot of strength... I know it! I'll leave you guys alone now, but please take care of him!" and then she quickly left

  And after looking after Shun for a few minutes "Urgh..." he woke up with a start and look around his surroundings in fusion but soon I asks "Are you awake, Shun?" and looking at me, he says "June... You took care of me again... I'm sorry you've had to take care of me so many times since I came to this isnd... I've lost t of how many times you've saved my life...".

  Hearing that, something in me snaps and I pleadingly asks "Won't you please ge your mind? There's no way you'll ever bee a Saint, Shun! A Saint uses his own body as a on to protect Athena and defend Justice... You weren't built fhting, Shun! No matter how much you push yourself it's hopeless! The only reason you've survived is that Master Diadalos is careful to stop before he kills you! But if you keep goiually you'll be sughtered! Give up and go home to Japan!".

  He stood up from the bed and move closer to the window and says "I 't go batil I bee a Saint, even if I die trying... My big brother, Ikki, was sent to hell oh, Death Queen Isnd, in my pce, I'm lucky to be here, even if it's just as hellish! At least here I have a kind Master to instruct me... And I have you..." hearing that I could only say in a choked tone "Shun...".

  Odyin