Fic: we won all the battles (10)
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Title: we won all the battles (part 10)
Link to the whole thing in ari's labyrinth here
disclaimer: Kurumada, Toei, Shueisha own.
Part 10] Lynx
Mu grabbed his arm, but Shura shook it away, trembling with anger. He would not have this. He had grown to love Siryu, to admire Shun to feel for Hyoga… but they hadn’t grown up in front of his eyes. Seiya had been Marin’s responsibility and in a way Aiolia’s pet project, as for him, he always took a modest interest in foreigners -it was nothing but normal since he was not of Greece origin as well. But Miles was a different issue all together, Lynx’s master had been his friend and he had taken the child to Spain a few times, when the old Lynx had taken the boy around the world so he could see first hand the felines whose name he would carry.
Before his good friend went in the mission he never came back from, he had stopped by the Capricorn House and asked him to keep an eye in the kid, in case something should happen.
Shura’s eyes grew hard. Miles was… his.
The child looked at him, green eyes looking for Shura’s own, and extended his callused right hand towards the gold saint for a second, only to cup it in his left a moment later.
- Let go, boy. Athena won’t mind, will you, dear?
Chaos’ voice was soft, almost alluring and Shura could feel its power pulsating in every one of his nerves. He jumped ahead, his right hand looking for the enemy’s throat, but Chaos shoveled him aside without even moving a muscle, throwing him against the far wall.
He was still pulling himself up when Athena came of the shadows and Miles’ cosmos rose to the ceiling, but his satisfaction faded away when the Lynx armor was casted away, the metal shape of a cat forming obediently in the center of the room. Athena looked at the armor and Shura regained heart. Seiya was devoted to Saori and Miles would surely come back to reason with her here. She would make it right.
Athena stepped fully into the light and waved vaguely for the bronze saints to approach. They moved, hand in hand, until they were standing in front of her, their crazed eyes shinning.
- Fufu, temati, raaaaa. Chzt, eeeiiitio!
Athena pinched Seiya’s nose and rose her left leg so high that Mu looked away as her dressed rode up her thigh to her hips.
- Just what I said, then. Go play, childr…
Chaos’ speech, whatever it was to be was interrupted by Mu’s attack. Shura had never seen the soft-spoken Aries saint so angry. His fists seemed to be everywhere, but Chaos always managed to step away an instant before the attacked connected.
Shura used the distraction to get to the bronze saints and Athena, but the goddess had disappeared in the shadows again. Chaos laughed and spoke to Mu as their fight went on, and Shura focused on the two saints. He grabbed Miles and shook him, calling his name. The child looked at him with eyes that were no longer green and then turned to Seiya.
- Should we go then?
- None of you are going anywhere. Wake up!
Seiya raised his hand and lifted his cosmos but Miles’ hand on his shoulder stopped whatever was in the frenzied mind of the Pegasus Saint. Shura grabbed Miles again, but the impact of Mu against his body pushed him away.
Miles looked at him one last time, and smiled before running out with Seiya, howling unintelligibly.
Shura watched them go, and helped Mu off his feet. Chaos was waving the two bronze saints goodbye, ignoring the gold saints who lashed out at him from behind with their more powerful attacks.
Their combined energy made several columns crumble, and they followed Chaos as he retreated to more inner chambers.
Shura cut the tall red curtains and threw them at Chaos, while Mu blinked out of sight teletransporting at the enemy’s back and aiming a punch at his neck. Shura’s Excalibur cut at leg level, swiping upwards as Shura shot out to rebound off the ceiling. Chaos right hand clasped Mu’s fist as he swirled jumping over Shura’s sweeping attack, holding the Aries Saint close to his body as Capricorn rushed up past them.
Shura fell on his knees and rolled back, ready to throw his next attack, but Chaos held Mu’s body between them, circling around the room and behind the columns as Shura tried to find an opening in his defense. The Capricorn Saint hazarded an attack, realizing that Chaos was speaking into Mu’s ear. He might get into Aries’ brain if he didn’t hurry. His hand trailed a fine line on Mu’s cheek and even if he didn’t manage to penetrate Chaos’ defense, the god let Aries go in his retreat.
Mu staggered forward and fell on his knees, shaking his head in denial and Shura was relieved to see his eyes were their usual color. He pushed himself upward and clenched his fists, his frown set on stone.
- I am not like them, Chaos, all your power will never convince me or any other one of my kind.
- So it seems.
Chaos smiled for a second, and then his face was a mask of darkness. Chaos spoke again, and his voice was hollow and far from anything human Shura had ever heard before.
- I will kill you all this time, then.
The earth under their feet shook, and the heavy marble flagstones crumbled as the ground contracted to deliver Mu back into Chaos’ arms. A tear in the air in front of them opened to show Kiki, sitting on the same rock they had left him, his arms wrapped around his knees as he looked over to Sanctuary.
Shura realized the mists that covered the Holy Ground; he could see the Temples beyond the child, and Athena’s House at the top of the hill.
The ground shook again, both in the temple and the hill were Kiki waited and Shura’s cry was lost in the noise. The stone Kiki was sitting on split up as an olive tree grew under his feet, one of the branches springing out to catch the child as he tried to jump aside. The tree grew in front of their eyes, its trunk twisting around the child’s body. Shura could see his mouth open, but the tear in front of them did not transmit sound.
The Capricorn Saint tried to attack, to get at Chaos in some way that would deviate his attention from the boy, but Chaos’ raised hand created a barrier he couldn’t penetrate.
A branched wrapped itself around Kiki’s neck and Shura heard Mu’s scream as the kid’s legs stopped kicking.
Chaos made a swiping leftward motion with his hand and the tear in the air dissipated, the tips of his extended fingers drawing a straight line towards Aries. When he closed them, Mu was dragged over the broken tiles towards him.
Shura shook his head. Whatever force had stood between him and Chaos was gone and the god was too busy with Mu to pay him much attention. He concentrated his power and set out to attack Chaos from the back, instead he found himself fending off the attacks of a dozen bronze and silver saints, their eyes witnesses of the madness that had taken over them.
Shura didn’t know their names, but he was sure none of them had been this strong before. Even with all his best efforts, lines of red opened in his skin as a sharp attack connected on his body, and bones were broken because of punches that shouldn’t even have held the power to bruise him.
They scattered in a circle, and then Chaos was all over him, while the saints closed on Mu. Shura’s senses were strained as reality bent over and he was thrown to a nightmare of diverging possibilities. Chaos didn’t abide by the rules of reality and his enemies felt his attacks as they developed in a million different worlds, all controlled by the god.
And while Shura fought back, trying to retrace the path back to his own world, Chaos’ voice whispered about the billion worlds in which suffering wasn’t necessary, the thousands of realities where Shura could retrace his steps and undo what had been done over the years. While Shura scratched the walls of madness, Chaos tried to convince him that freedom was simply a breath away.
And failed. Shura’s cosmos blew away the illusions, and Athena’s temple came back to focus. The lower rank saints were gone, and Chaos was bending over Mu. The god turned to face the Capricorn Saint, an arm still around the Aries Saint.
go to part 11
Title: we won all the battles (part 10)
Link to the whole thing in ari's labyrinth here
disclaimer: Kurumada, Toei, Shueisha own.
Part 10] Lynx
Mu grabbed his arm, but Shura shook it away, trembling with anger. He would not have this. He had grown to love Siryu, to admire Shun to feel for Hyoga… but they hadn’t grown up in front of his eyes. Seiya had been Marin’s responsibility and in a way Aiolia’s pet project, as for him, he always took a modest interest in foreigners -it was nothing but normal since he was not of Greece origin as well. But Miles was a different issue all together, Lynx’s master had been his friend and he had taken the child to Spain a few times, when the old Lynx had taken the boy around the world so he could see first hand the felines whose name he would carry.
Before his good friend went in the mission he never came back from, he had stopped by the Capricorn House and asked him to keep an eye in the kid, in case something should happen.
Shura’s eyes grew hard. Miles was… his.
The child looked at him, green eyes looking for Shura’s own, and extended his callused right hand towards the gold saint for a second, only to cup it in his left a moment later.
- Let go, boy. Athena won’t mind, will you, dear?
Chaos’ voice was soft, almost alluring and Shura could feel its power pulsating in every one of his nerves. He jumped ahead, his right hand looking for the enemy’s throat, but Chaos shoveled him aside without even moving a muscle, throwing him against the far wall.
He was still pulling himself up when Athena came of the shadows and Miles’ cosmos rose to the ceiling, but his satisfaction faded away when the Lynx armor was casted away, the metal shape of a cat forming obediently in the center of the room. Athena looked at the armor and Shura regained heart. Seiya was devoted to Saori and Miles would surely come back to reason with her here. She would make it right.
Athena stepped fully into the light and waved vaguely for the bronze saints to approach. They moved, hand in hand, until they were standing in front of her, their crazed eyes shinning.
- Fufu, temati, raaaaa. Chzt, eeeiiitio!
Athena pinched Seiya’s nose and rose her left leg so high that Mu looked away as her dressed rode up her thigh to her hips.
- Just what I said, then. Go play, childr…
Chaos’ speech, whatever it was to be was interrupted by Mu’s attack. Shura had never seen the soft-spoken Aries saint so angry. His fists seemed to be everywhere, but Chaos always managed to step away an instant before the attacked connected.
Shura used the distraction to get to the bronze saints and Athena, but the goddess had disappeared in the shadows again. Chaos laughed and spoke to Mu as their fight went on, and Shura focused on the two saints. He grabbed Miles and shook him, calling his name. The child looked at him with eyes that were no longer green and then turned to Seiya.
- Should we go then?
- None of you are going anywhere. Wake up!
Seiya raised his hand and lifted his cosmos but Miles’ hand on his shoulder stopped whatever was in the frenzied mind of the Pegasus Saint. Shura grabbed Miles again, but the impact of Mu against his body pushed him away.
Miles looked at him one last time, and smiled before running out with Seiya, howling unintelligibly.
Shura watched them go, and helped Mu off his feet. Chaos was waving the two bronze saints goodbye, ignoring the gold saints who lashed out at him from behind with their more powerful attacks.
Their combined energy made several columns crumble, and they followed Chaos as he retreated to more inner chambers.
Shura cut the tall red curtains and threw them at Chaos, while Mu blinked out of sight teletransporting at the enemy’s back and aiming a punch at his neck. Shura’s Excalibur cut at leg level, swiping upwards as Shura shot out to rebound off the ceiling. Chaos right hand clasped Mu’s fist as he swirled jumping over Shura’s sweeping attack, holding the Aries Saint close to his body as Capricorn rushed up past them.
Shura fell on his knees and rolled back, ready to throw his next attack, but Chaos held Mu’s body between them, circling around the room and behind the columns as Shura tried to find an opening in his defense. The Capricorn Saint hazarded an attack, realizing that Chaos was speaking into Mu’s ear. He might get into Aries’ brain if he didn’t hurry. His hand trailed a fine line on Mu’s cheek and even if he didn’t manage to penetrate Chaos’ defense, the god let Aries go in his retreat.
Mu staggered forward and fell on his knees, shaking his head in denial and Shura was relieved to see his eyes were their usual color. He pushed himself upward and clenched his fists, his frown set on stone.
- I am not like them, Chaos, all your power will never convince me or any other one of my kind.
- So it seems.
Chaos smiled for a second, and then his face was a mask of darkness. Chaos spoke again, and his voice was hollow and far from anything human Shura had ever heard before.
- I will kill you all this time, then.
The earth under their feet shook, and the heavy marble flagstones crumbled as the ground contracted to deliver Mu back into Chaos’ arms. A tear in the air in front of them opened to show Kiki, sitting on the same rock they had left him, his arms wrapped around his knees as he looked over to Sanctuary.
Shura realized the mists that covered the Holy Ground; he could see the Temples beyond the child, and Athena’s House at the top of the hill.
The ground shook again, both in the temple and the hill were Kiki waited and Shura’s cry was lost in the noise. The stone Kiki was sitting on split up as an olive tree grew under his feet, one of the branches springing out to catch the child as he tried to jump aside. The tree grew in front of their eyes, its trunk twisting around the child’s body. Shura could see his mouth open, but the tear in front of them did not transmit sound.
The Capricorn Saint tried to attack, to get at Chaos in some way that would deviate his attention from the boy, but Chaos’ raised hand created a barrier he couldn’t penetrate.
A branched wrapped itself around Kiki’s neck and Shura heard Mu’s scream as the kid’s legs stopped kicking.
Chaos made a swiping leftward motion with his hand and the tear in the air dissipated, the tips of his extended fingers drawing a straight line towards Aries. When he closed them, Mu was dragged over the broken tiles towards him.
Shura shook his head. Whatever force had stood between him and Chaos was gone and the god was too busy with Mu to pay him much attention. He concentrated his power and set out to attack Chaos from the back, instead he found himself fending off the attacks of a dozen bronze and silver saints, their eyes witnesses of the madness that had taken over them.
Shura didn’t know their names, but he was sure none of them had been this strong before. Even with all his best efforts, lines of red opened in his skin as a sharp attack connected on his body, and bones were broken because of punches that shouldn’t even have held the power to bruise him.
They scattered in a circle, and then Chaos was all over him, while the saints closed on Mu. Shura’s senses were strained as reality bent over and he was thrown to a nightmare of diverging possibilities. Chaos didn’t abide by the rules of reality and his enemies felt his attacks as they developed in a million different worlds, all controlled by the god.
And while Shura fought back, trying to retrace the path back to his own world, Chaos’ voice whispered about the billion worlds in which suffering wasn’t necessary, the thousands of realities where Shura could retrace his steps and undo what had been done over the years. While Shura scratched the walls of madness, Chaos tried to convince him that freedom was simply a breath away.
And failed. Shura’s cosmos blew away the illusions, and Athena’s temple came back to focus. The lower rank saints were gone, and Chaos was bending over Mu. The god turned to face the Capricorn Saint, an arm still around the Aries Saint.
go to part 11