After another set of stairs so long that I feel that we would take the same number of episodes as Dragon Ball Z when Goku ran through the snake way, which for those that do not have PTSD over it, is 13 episodes long, we are finally standing in front of the Libra Temple, a curious and inal pentagonal temple with a regur entrahe entrance is through an ar whose upper part are sculpted in relief the name and sign of Libra, its dome is remi of some Asian buildings, in particur of ese in.

  We, quickly walk inside, and move through the main corridor, reag the main hall, which is a rge courtyard surrounded by ns, and in the middle, a big block of clear ice, with Hyoga frozen inside, seeing him in this state, the 3 Bronzes yells at the same time "Hyoga!!!", then moving closer to the ice block, Seiya yells "Hyoga is dead!?", at the same time, Shun that is studying the ice block says "I sense from this ice, a cold o, even strohan the one Hyoga usually releases", and Shiryu adds "Only Hyoga's master could have dohis! Aquarius Camus!!".

  Hearing that, Seiya asks "Why would he e all the way here just to kill his own student!? And isn't he on our side!!? That is going on here!?", not able to eheir melodramatic ay longer, I say "e on, guys! Use your senses, for once! 't you feel from his o that he is still alive... Yes weakened, but alive!", and indeed, after listening to me, they calm down and finally sense Hyoga's weak o.

  Seiya realizes that his half-brother is still alive, burns his o and yells "There's still a little life left in him, if we get him quickly out of there, he still make it! I'll get him out of this ice! Pegasus Ryuseiken!!", and throws hundreds of light energy punches, which look like small meteors, but his attack is uo make even a scratch, and shaking my head I say "Seiya, this is Aquarius Camus' Freezing Coffin, a teique that gees a block of ice so cold that it almost reaches the absolute zero, and is also enhanced by o, that it means that it will literally never melt, and even a Gold Saint will have problems breaking it...".

  Then Shun asks " we do anything?", and with still Saori in my arms I reply "Well, there are three ways to break this ice, first with an overwhelming strength, the likes none of you are able to use, the sed is to use an even lower level of cold, in this case, the absolute zero, and the st...", and at this point, all of the sudden the Libra Pandora Box appears in the middle of Seiya, Shiryu and Shun, as I tinue "...You use the formidable ons of the Libra Cloth, the only catch is that only the Libra Saint give the permission to use them and only if he deems it necessary... As Athena usually forbids the use of ons...".

  (Image Here - Libra Box)

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  [colpse]But then Saori interrupts me and whispers something that only I hear, and from the movement of her o, I know that is the Athena in her speaking "It's not that I forbid them, it is that I hate them, I hate the corruption they cause to men and the useless death they spread, but there are occasions in which they are necessary, that is why the only ons allowed are those that are part of your Cloths like the Nebu s or the Dragon Shield, so that I be sure that when necessary they will only be used for the right reasons...".

  Hearing her expnation, I realize 'So that is why... I have to admit I was always fused by this, Grandpa always told me that Athena hated ons, but at the same time they trained us in the use of all kinds of ons, then we have some Cloth with ons installed on them, it all seemed so tradictory... So in the end Athena hates ons and doesn't want the Saints to use or rely on them, but she uands that there are situations where they are needed, so some Cloths have them, and as all the Cloths follow Athena's will, she is sure that those ons will never be used for evil'.

  Meanwhile, the Libra Pandora Box opens, and the Libra Cloth in its steltion Form appears, it represents a scale, the ptes are formed by the shields, suspended on a bar created by passing the triple bar through the openings for the arms of the breastpte, swords, spears, and twin bars are located oes, while the other three-pronged bar is hooked to the baked by one of the tridents, which rises upward in the ter, the base of the scale is formed by the back protes on the sides and the tral blo the inside, with the helmet c the waist buckle, the shin guards supp the breastpte are elongated diagonally outward and the armlets rest on the base of the shin guards.

  (Image Here - Libra Cloth)

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  [colpse]And as Seiya and the others are looking at the Cloth, I wake up from my musing and tinue "...Anyway, luckily for you all, Master Dohko is the current Libra Saint, and I think that both he and Athena will allow you to use these ons to save the life of your fellow Saint", and with that, I wink in Saori's dire, who nods, and at the same time, Shiryu's fetish kicks once again, so he undresses and says "Thank you, Master Dohko"

  Then from the Cloth, 2 pieces fly toward Shiryu who grabs them and as they transform into nunchakus he expins their fun and gives a brief demonstration of his ability to wield them to Seiya and Shun and at the same time tries to find the best on to use on the ice, after the nunchakus, came the spears, shields, triple rods, tonfas, and swords, and oer another he gave a demonstration of his mastery of the ons, and after he was done, I put down Saori, move near Shiryu, then faster than he could react, I grab the triple rod, and start bonking him hard on the head as I yell "NO HORNY! It's fihat you what to give a demonstration of your skill ahe ons' capabilities to have the best ce to save your half-brother... BUT WHY FOR THE LOVE OF ATHENA DID YOU TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTH AGAIN TO DO IT!!!? Keep your exhibitionism at bay! Now put on your Cloth again, or I'll keep bonking you!!".

  After my scolding, Shiryu once again put on his Cloth and then choose the sword as a on to use in order to free Hyoga from the Freezing Coffin, as with the other ons there is the risk of crag Hyoga together with the ice, so he gathers his o and focuses all his attention oask, and as his o once again reaches the 7th sense level for a brief moment, yelling "Revive us!", with a vertical ssh he cut in half the block of ice, freeing Hyoga from it.

  As soon as the block of ice broke, it evaporated in an instant leaving behind only Hyoga's body, who now quietly ys on the floor, surrounded by his worried half-brothers, then Seiya with Hyoga in his arms says "He's almost dead from hypothermia! His heart's barely beating!", and Shiryu worried "We 't let him die after all this! We've got to do something...", to which Seiya "But we 't get him proper treatment in this pce! What should we do?".

  Rolling my eyes, I move closer to them, and uo tain myself, I imitate one of the most hated characters in books to ever be created "Hem Hem!", at the same time, with a shudder I think 'Oh god! After this, I have to ask Saori to se my soul...', having caught their attention I tinue "Seiya, did you nd too many times on your head? How did you fet that I'm here!?", and I watch a realization and relief sloears on their faces.

  I put my hand on Hyoga's head, and send my o into his body, slowly raising his temperature and healing the damage he received from Camus, which are not much from being with 'Yup, Camus's trol over ice is superb as always, he dealt the right amount of damage to make him imprint in his memory the teique and not deal any sting damage at the same time...'.

  After 20 minutes, Hyoga recovers and opens his eyes, then he asks "Wh-what happened? My Master was testing me when he...", and I finish "You failed that test and now you have to take the make-up exam that will take p the Aquarius Temple... Your master eve as far as to give you repetitions, so that you be ready for the final exam... so for now recover and study the assig he gave you!", hearing that Hyoga stood in silend hen Shiryu helps him up, and we slowly move toward the destination, the Scorpio Temple.

  A few dammed stairs ter, we are standing in front of the Scorpio Temple, one of the most simple as it is a temple with a single wing held externally by 2 triads of ns, it is a mixture between a Greek temple and a Muslim temple, on the facade, there are 2 domes oeral limits, and the sign of Scorpio in the ter with the inscription "Scorpius".

  Standing in front of the temple is my friend, Milo, wearing his Scorpio Gold Cloth, and with his arm crossed, but as soon as he saw us, or more specifically Saori in my arms, he gets on his knee and says "Scorpio Milo, weles the Goddess Athena, back to her Sanctuary, I'm at your service!", and Saori with her usual calm voice says "Rise, Milo, thank you for everything you have doil now for the Sanctuary".

  Then Milo led us ihe temple, and its interior sists only of a rge tral hall, and while walking through the halls, Seiya asks "So you aren't going to test us or something like that?", Milo doesn't even look at him and replies "You're not weak, you made it all the way to the Scorpio Temple, that's almost a miracle in itself... And most importantly, you guys are with Athena, this is her Sanctuary, and if she is leading you, to me it means that you pass, I'm not ied iing and training you, especially since you still have to fight Shura, Camus, and Aphrodite, two of which will seriously try to kill you".

  Then Milo turn to me and ask "Jayr, are you sure that you want to deal with Saga yourself...?", and with a fident smile I reply "If I 't dey Saga long enough to free him from that evil influehen how I hope to fight against Hades' Specters? Don't worry, at least I'm sure that I won't be killed by him... at least not quickly...", he nods, but then he nags "By the way, why did it take you so long to e here?".

  With a grin, I ask back "Where you so nervous aed to finally meet Athena that you waited in front of your Temple the whole time as soon as the Fire Clock lit up?", and Milo looks away saying "N-no way! There is no way that I stood in front of my temple for 7 hours waiting for her to e...", and with a wider grin I only say "Tsundere..." then lean my head to the side to dodge the lightspeed scarlet beam of red o that was aimed at my face, while Milo tio walk as nothing happened, looks at me with a smile and says "Sorry... A dangerous bee was gettihe Goddess Athena, and as a Saint, I had to do something about it... What were you saying just now?".

  As our banter tinues, I notice Seiya and the others looking at this se with their mouths wide open, and turning to them I say "What? You thought that we are all duty and no fun? Even Gold Saints have to let loose from time to time... on this note never give Aldebaran a beer, st time a quiet driween friends, became a huge party that in the end took over all of Pka Vilge and became a festival with songs, dances, snack stalls and all other kinds of fun activities, ohat guy let loose there is no stopping him...", and at that Milo nods and adds "Yeah, in the end, the festival sted 3 days... And it would have tinued if Jayr didn't put Aldebaran to sleep to stop him".

  I shrug my shoulders and say "I had to... Too many got too intoxicated with alcohol, it was starting to get dangerous", while we were talking, we passed through the Scorpio Temple, and oher side we stand in front what I'm going to think of as my nemesis from now on, another long ass set of stairs, so we say goodbye to Milo and move on toward the 9th temple of the Gold Zodiac, the Sagittarius Temple.

  While I was running up the stairs leading to the Sagittarius Temple, all of the sudden, I felt a strange sensation, almost one of longing, but soon disappeared, but then I notie kind of shooting star quickly moving toward the temple in the distance, and I'm not the only one as Seiya asks "Shiryu! What's that? A shooting star?", and Shiryu just says "It went into the Sagittarius Temple!!", and I calm them down by saying "Calm down, that is the Sagittarius Cloth that we brought here, it felt our and Athena presence moving closer to its temple aurhere to wele us".

  Soon after that event, we stand in front of the temple, which is simir to that of the Scorpio although it incorporates the inscription Sagittarius and a sculpture representing a taur with an arrow and a bow, walking inside we find that it is divided into several rooms and corridors, with apparently with , and while walking through these dark corridors, I warhers "Be careful of your steps, this temple is full of annoying traps...", and indeed moving forward we find all kinds of traps, from the cssic pitfalls to volleys of rock arrows.

  At the end of these annoying dark corridors, we reach a wall, o which is the Sagittarius Cloths, that as soon as it feels our presence points its bow at one point on the wall, even if it seems like it is pointing at a now baffled Seiya for some strange reason, to which I say "Seiya, take a step on the right and you'll see that it isn't aiming at you", Seiya follows my instru and ihe bow remains aimed at the wall, then the sed, it let out the golden arrow which pierces the wall, breaking in such a way, to reveal the message hidden behind the wall.

  I move close to it and say "This is Aiolos' final testament... τα παιδια ηρθαν εδω αφηνω την Αθηνα σε σενα, Α?ολο (írthan ta paidiá edó Sou afíno tin Athiná, Aíolo), it means 'To the youth that came here I entrust Athena to you, Aiolos', it seems that he ow entrust Athena's life to you..." then I whisper to Saori "...He is still watg over and proteg you", at the same time, I notice a ing from the Cloth into Seiya and the other's body, rest their strengths, while they are still moved, by Aiolos' trust and loyalty, then the exit to the temple reveals itself, and oside, I notice that the sky is now being dark, and looking at the clock, I see that 8 hours indeed passed since we started this.

  Then with renewed vigor, we move toward our destination, the Capri Temple, guarded by the Spanish, Japanese named, warrior of a greek Goddess, using a British myth as a basis for his stroeiques, brainwashed to follow the orders of an evil spirit possessed guy with a dual personality, Capri Shura.

  And soon we reach the Capri Temple, it has cssic greek architecture, on the roof, there is a sculpture, simir to that of the Sagittarius Temple, obviously this one representing a goat, uhe entrahere is the inscription Capri and below it the zodiacal symbol of Capri, after crossing the entrance of the temple, we find a dark corridor at the end of which is a showcase in which there is a statue of the goddess Athena giving the sacred sword Excalibur to the first Saint of Capri, and the ceiling of this showcase is adorned with reliefs of angels and the inal saint of Capri riding a horse and carrying Excalibur in one of his hands, representing the main teique that all the Capri Saints learn.

  Looking at that I 't help but think 'But what in the holy Elysion has Athena to do with Excalibur!? Wait! I remember that I read somewhere that King Arthur's myth took inspiration from the Greek ones... In fact, there is a simir greek myth of the sword of the Athens King, Aegeus that he hid under a rock for fear of the usurpers, he then persuaded his wife Aethra to tell their son Theseus about it only when Theseus was strong enough to lift up the enormous rock, it is simir to Uther and Arthur myth... So in a really broad sehena does have authority over Excalibur... Wow... The more you know...'.

  At the same time, we keep moving, and Saiya yells "I don't sense any aybe ass right through!", but I quickly remind them "Fat ce! As soon as we leave the Capri Temple we'll find a huge backyard, it is usually used by the Capri Saint to engage in bat against those who have dared to cross his temple because if they fought i, the statue of Athena could be damaged, stained or sullied... It's kind of the tradition of this temple so do not lower yuards!".

  And indeed as we were running through the backyard, a sharp o ssh came creating a huge chasm, but thanks to my warning beforehand, they were ready for it, so everyone was able to rea time, but roup still split into two, one made of Seiya, Hyoga, and Shun on the side of the stairs leading to the Aquarius Temple, the other made up of me, Saori and Shiryu, still on the backyard of the Capri Temple.

  Then I hear a ugh, and an arrogant voice says "He He He... Your friends were able to jump in time, but apparently you guys cked the ce to do it yourself, or did the chasm I created, made you weak-kneed?", Shiryu turn around and says "If I had leaped, too we might've all been hurled into the depths of the earth by your sed attack", hearing that, the same voice says "Ha! You mean you stayed behind so those three could safely escape, you impudent fool!? But what about your friends here, why did they stay behind too?".

  And after giving the signal to Seiya and the others to move on, I turn around and finally look at Shura, a tall, slender, and athletic young man, he has short, spiky hair with bushy sideburns, his eyebrows are thin and his eyes are sharp and narrow with small opaque irises, the color of his hair and eyes is teal green, and of course, he is donning his Capri Gold Cloth.

  I admit that the Capri Cloth is one of the most plex ahetic, it provides full prote and its design is purely medieval aifully ored, the headpiece is a mask where in its front part it rgely protects the face, c the cheekbones and cheeks, only leaving free the eyes nose and mouth, in the forehead protrude the elongated aioned horns of the goat, the chest piece, like the rest of the Gold Cloths, provides plete prote from the o the waist, it is adorned with ornate spirals very simir to Greek and Spartan armor but in relief, the shoulders pieces are cave in shape and of signifit volume, simuting the armor of an armadillo, it is made up of several embed ptes and has spiral ors simir to the chest, a curved horn protrudes from its edges.

  The waist piece is prised of a thick belt in which it has two pieces assembled on its lower part, it has the same pattern in orion, the arms pieces have a plex and elegant design, they are made up of several ptes one on top of the other to provide ample prote to both extremities, and the legs pieces maintain a simir design lio the armguards and cuff.

  (Image Here - Capri Shura)

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  [colpse]After a quid a bit of sensing with my o to firm his situation, I say pointing at Shiryu "Well, I decided to stay here to stop him from doing something stupid and to free you from Saga's trol", hearing that Shura smirks "I'm sorry to burst your bubble but Saga doesn't trol me, I'm doing everything by my own will, after all, I'm a Saint of Athena, and Saga's orders are Athena's will..."

  Hearing that a smirk appears on my fad I say "Yeah the almost void and opaque eyes are a clear indication of that..." while thinking 'And with that, I firmed what kind of trol Saga is truly using to keep Shura on a leash... He inputted in his brain the idea that all the orders Saga is issuing him e in fact from Athena herself, and Saga is in faly a messenger... So in a certain sense Shura is doing everything by his own will... His will to serve Athena as one of her loyal Saint'.

  While I was thinking that, Shura's o spikes as he says "Yoing tret those decisions, boys!! I'm Shura, the Capri Saint!! It was I who mortally wouhe traitor Aiolos as he attempted to flee 13 years ago!!", and at the same time, Shiryu's o grows in iy as he says "Now, I'm really gd I didn't jump! I'll beat you with every ounce of strength left in my o and avenge Aiolos!!".

  Shura let out a mog ugh and says "You said yoing to beat me up, pup? Little fools with big mouths disgust me!", then faster than Shiryu could reach, he swings his right arm and releases another a very sharp bst, posed of extreme o tration, that cuts deep into Shiryu's right leg and splits the grouh him 'Ooh, Shura is toying with him, that is why there is only a deep cut on his leg instead of simply being cut off like the grouh him...After all, his teique Excalibur, easily cut through a Silver Cloth, and with the right power even a Gold Cloth isn't safe from it, the weak human flesh is a joke pared to them!'.

  And indeed, as Shura says "Surprised? Have another one!" he swings his right arm once again, and releases two other very sharp bsts of pressed o, produg two deep cuts on Shiryu's arms, making him fall on his khen raising high his right arm and gathering his o on it to give Shiryu the finishing blow, Shura says "I am the stro of the 12 Gold Saints! This teique allows me to cut through anything, its name is Excalibur, taught to the first Capri Gold Saint by Athena herself using the mythical sword as a basis, and nothing stand before it!! Die Shiryu!" and swings his arm down, but this time Shiryu is able to react to it, he takes a side step to dodge the sharp bst, and moves closer to a surprising Shura yelling "I won't go down without a fight! Now It's my turn Shura!!"

  Shiryu makes his o explode and with an uppercut, he releases a Rozan Shoryuha (Supremacy of the Rozan Asding Dragon) geing a shockwave in the shape of a dragon that hits Shura, but as he is blown up by Shiryu's move, he takes advantage of the strength of his oppo's teique, to use his legs to grab Shiryu from his armpits pulling also him up and yelling "How naive! You've used a fool's move against me! You see? You've bee flying by the force of your own attack! Salto de Piedra (Jumping Stone)!!" and he powerfully throws Shiryu, making his crash against the mountain wall with such force that it cracks.

  Shiryu rebounds from the wall and crashes to the ground in front of Shura who says "I'll lop off your head and put you to rest!", and this time, he uses his left arm to release another Excalibur, luckily Shiryu recovers just in time to use his Dragon Shield to block the teique, but in the end uhe shocked eyes of Shiryu, the shield ends up cut in half and a shallow cut is also present on his arm, then Shura says "Thank the Dragon Shield, boy, if not for it, your arm would be gone! But now you have nothing to protect you!".

  Shura then releases a quick series of Excaliburs and says "Here, I'll strip the rest of the Cloth from you while I'm at it!" and cuts his Cloth to pieces, leaving only the headpied the waist pie his body intact, 'And once again, Shiryu founds himself half naked in a fight... God, he gives more fanservice than a female M an ecchi manga...At least his o is growing stronger with each passing moment and is about to read fully awakeh sense'.

  Sure of his victory, Shura releases another Excalibur yelling "Have you accepted your doom, Shiryu? This time it's not your Cloth, but you that I will sli two!!", but before Shura could fully release his teique, Shiryu, in the moment of life or death, finally awaken his 7th sense and pull off a Shinken Shirahadori, blog Shura's bde like arm, bare handed by g his hands and stopping Shura, but his headpiece still ends up sliced in half.

  Shiryu, holding a firm grip on Shura's hand, says "Shinken Shirahadori, the ultimate secret move of Budo, passed down in my homend of Japan, it's a move that will defeat you!!" then as his o keeps expanding, the phantom image of a dragon appears behind Shiryu as he kicks Shura in the head making his headpiece fall off, and Shura crash on the ground stunned by what he is seeing.

  And I take advantage of that moment to quickly move behind Shura, and putting my hand on Shura's unprotected head, I send my o into his brain and purge Saga's o from it, freeing him from his trol, but Shura turns around and yells "What did you do coward!!" and releases another Excalibur at me, but I easily dodge by taking a side step, and pung him in the face I reply "I freed you from Saga's trol, you weren't following Athena's orders, but the orders of an evil spirit of Hades who possessed Saga!!".

  Shura gets up once again and screams "That is impossible! Saga is one of the most loyal Saints of Athena, and also one of the stro!! How he succumb to an evil spirit! You are lying!!", but just as Shura was about to attace more a powerful and warm Divine o appears, then I hear Saori's anding voice from behihat says "Stop, Capri Shura!", and Shura unsciously stops his movement, and finally from the first time he notices Saori's presence.

  Odyin