Jayr POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  I look at Shura who is now on his knee, greeting Saori as he finally reizes her as the Goddess Athena, and sooarted expining everything to him, at the same time he recalled the memories of Saga's use of his teique on him when he found out the truth, so he quickly asks for fiveness, and once again swears his loyalty to Athena.

  Meanwhile, I'm giving first aid to Shiryu, who is now unscious, as without all the tension of his fight with Shura, he rexed a exhaustion take over his body 'Let's see, a few broken bones, mostly ribs, and a few cracked here and there... it wait... The deep cut ohigh severed the major femoral artery... This is the first thing I have to fix if not he will risk bleeding to death once again... the cut on the arms are retive shallows... low priority, just stop the bleeding, and take care of the rest after... The injuries on the head are just a cussion, that with a bit of o and some rest and it will quickly pass, and a shallow cut on the forehead... Plus the various torn and exhausted muscles... Overall he is "fine", and that means in no mortal danger...'.

  As I'm fixing Shiryu, I notice the ing from the emple 'It seems that Camus and Hyoga are about to fight once again... It is better that I hurry to patch up Shiryu and leave him under Shura's care and move to the Aquarius Temple, I'm sure that Camus is ready to give his life to make Hyoga stronger... or Freeze him until the end of the Holy War if he 't break through the wall that is in front of him... For sure some Saints take some things to the extreme...'.

  Hyoga POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  After we left behind, Shiryu, Jayr-san, and Saori-sama, we quickly climb up the stairs that lead us to the temple guarded by my master, the Aquarius Temple, and after some time, the temple is finally in sight, the temple is smaller than the rest and without particur embellishments, but is distinguished from the others by a particur architecture in drical form, which brings it very close to the upper part of the Pantheon in Paris, curiously, at the top of the roof, there is a sculpture of an amphora as a symbol of the zodiacal sign, a detail that must have gone unnoticed by many, as it is barely noticeable if one doesn't specifically look for it.

  And standing in front of the temple is my master, Aquarius Camus, clearly waiting for us, or more precisely for me, it seems that my brothers noticed him too, as Shun says "Camus, guardian of the Aquarius Temple", and Seiya follow with "He's Hyoga's master, the one who imprisoned him in the Freezing Coffin back at the Libra Temple!", and hearing that makes me remembers once agaierrifying freezing cold of master teique and his st words before he used it on me.

  Steeling my resolve I say "Seiya, Shun, go on ahead! Leave my master to me!! I want no interference from anyone, not even you!!", then I move closer to my master and say "Master Camus, thank you! For teag me to be a Saint in the wastes of eastern Siberia, words of thanks are not enough... So I'll express my gratitude in the nguage of Saints, through a! I will bine everything you've taught me, and take you down, Master Camus!".

  My master looks at me with a small smile on his fad says "Very well, in that case, I'll als everything into py against you, and this time if you 't reach the level of power o save your mother and protect her and your brothers from what is to e I will bury you forever!", at the same time, Seiya and Shun quickly move forward with the Pisces Temple as their destination, and master let them pass, but as they pass each other, I hear Master say "Be careful of Aphrodite, he is by far one of the most feared Gold Saint of this era, and food reason...".

  Ohey are gone, Master leads me ihe temple and onside the main hall, he looks at me and raising his o he yells "e, Hyoga!!", I respond to my master's encement, by exploding my o, and gathering the cold air around my fist, and instantly densing the surrounding moisture into pure ice which I then shatter and mas itself in the form of tless sharp and cutting snow crystals that are hurled at master with a powerful cold wind through my fist "Diamond Dust!!".

  But master easily catches my teique with his right hand, and says "As I told you at the Libra Temple, the Diamond Dust is a move that I taught you! You'll never defeat me with it! I'll show you the true frozen wind!" and he reflects my teique back at me so fast that I ot dodge, "Argh!" but as soon as it hits me, I notice the differenow the Diamond Dust is much colder than before, it's parable to the time I was frozen in my master's Freezing Coffin.

  But my train of thought is interrupted by the impay back, as I bnk out for a moment as I crash against a n of the temple, then once I fall to the ground, I recover and I'm shocked to find out that my leg is actually frozen, I hear my master moving closer, and as I'm looking at him, he asks "What is absolute zero? Answer, Hyoga!", trying to remember his teag I reply "Unh...A-absolute zero... Is the temperature at which all things freeze, -459 degrees Fahre or -273.15°C! Put in another way, it is the temperature at which all movement ceases!".

  "Aaah!", then I'm once again hit by master's Diamond Dust and painfully thrown against the wall, and as I try to get up once again, I notice that my is also frozen "Ugh... N-now my right leg is frozen too... This is bad, I'm practically helpless", then Master Camus says "As you know, Hyoga, absolute zero is the ultimate cold that a Saint unleash! But to produce such extreme cold lies beyond even my ability! The one who wins in a battle between Saints that use ice is the one who get his ice the closest to absolute zero!".

  Uanding what he is trying to say, I add "And that is determined by the strength of his o...", and Master takes a rather familiar stance, with his arms in a jug position pointing upwards, at the same time his o explodes and expands, he says "Yes, Hyoga, no matter how much you fil about, you'll never elevate your iy level if your o doesn't match it! You 't possibly get closer to absolute zero than I, and that is what separates victory from defeat!!".

  The phantom image of the Aquarius appears behind him, he lowers his arms, and yelling "Aurora Execution!", discharges all the o in the form of a gcial stream, and with my legs frozen, I'm uo move, so I grit my teeth and burning my o to the max to create a barrier of cold air around me, I take the full bst of this dreadful teique, that send me once again crashing into the ground, but thanks to the impromptu barrier, I was able to diffuse some of the force of this move.

  At the same time, something inside me clicks, and I feel my o growing stronger and colder, so I get up once again, surprising my master that asks "Hyoga, you just suffered the Aurora Execution! A you stand again?", and as I feel my o now better than ever, I say "Master, you taught me that a move that a Saint has seen once will never work on him again! And Even if I 't get all the way to absolute zero,I swear I will elevate my ice to your level! And I will take you down!!".

  And with renewed effort, I unleash my stroeique, freezing the enviro by expanding the cold air under my trol, I move closer to Master and hit him with an upward hook "Kholodnyu Smerch (Cold Tornado)!!", the punch releases a rge tornado of air into the sky, in the ter of which is Aquarius Camus, but he once again proves to be better as he takes trol of the tornado and sends it bae, making me crash against the ceiling, and as I fall I 't help but say "Even my ultimate move had no effect... Camus... You are indeed my master... I 't hope to approach your power...", and crash into the ground, defeated.

  I feel my master moving closer and hear him say "So you finally see that your attacks are useless against me, eh, Hyoga? Still, I give you credit for blog the Aurora Execution! I've no stomach for needlessly prolonging your suffering, I'll provide you with a pce of eternal rest like your mother! The Freezing Coffin!!".

  I feel an incredible cold surrounding my body, and feel all my body's funs ceasing oer another, losing my senses oer another, and my sciousness starts to fade, but there is ohing that my master said that made me desperately g to my will, the word "mother", and I remember once again why I'm fighting, I'm seeking the strength to not only save but also protect, "Unh... Ugh... Mama (mom in Russian)...".

  I feel my o responding to my will and produg a cold as strong as the orapping me, and with a final push the ice I'm able to release bees even colder, and I break free from my Master's teique, and I hear his surprised voice "He shattered the Freezing Coffin!! That means that his ice is colder than that of the Freezing Coffin...It would have to be very close to the absolute zero!! Could Hyoga have finally...".

  With my eyes still closed, I slowly get up but I feel like I'm about to pass out at any moment, meanwhile, like a broken dam, my o tinues produg cold air all around me, and on instinct, I push it toward master, and I feel him doing the same, and I feel the bst of icy air swirliween myself and master, reag a state of stall, but thehing bnks out.

  "Hyoga!! Wake Up, Hyoga!! The frozen air swirliween us will bst you to pieces! Hyoga!", It seems, I'm hearing Master's voice warning me about something, then I feel other familiar os call out to me 'Seiya... Shiryu... Shun... Isaak... Jayr-san... Saori-sama... Mama!', then I hear Master's voice again, this time it is clear "Hyoga! Wake up and dodge it! The frozen air is about to strike you!! Open your eyes, Hyoga!! Hyogaa!!".

  And listening to him I open my eyes, but it is too te to dodge, so, in a desperate effort, I explode my o to the maximum and even beyond, and grab the frozen air between my hands, but it is so stong and cold that my Cloth freezes and shatter into many pieces "Agh! Raah!!", then with my everything, I feel a brand new awareness and infusing my o into the frozen air, I push it bay master, hitting him and sending him flying.

  Then I notice that the shoulder piece where I hit him is now frozen, and Master notices it too as he yells "My Gold Cloth is frozen!! In order to freeze a Gold Cloth, one has to reach the absolute zero!! Hyoga you did it! Now show me you have truly mastered everything I had to teach you!!", and I see him taking the stance of his ultimate teique once again, and in respoo that I do the same, I raise my arms in a jug position pointing upwards, at the same time my o explodes and expands once again, behind masters appears once again the phantom image of the Aquarius, while behind me appears the us one.

  We both lower our arms at the same time and yell ""Aurora Execution!!"", discharging all the o in the form of a gcial stream, that csh against each other resulting in a devastating explosion of frozen air and ice, that freezes everything iemple, and I feel about to lose it once again, I used everything I had in that move, and now my vision starts to blurry, and I hear my master's strangely weak voice "Heh... Well done, Hyoga, in this battle, while enduring the Aurora Execution, you mao make it your own, you have learned all I have to teach, and eveeriween life and freezih... With your sense pletely gone, you still mastered absolute zero... You have awakehe very essence of your o, the 7th sense!!", then I see him fall to the ground, and soon totally exhausted I do the same while saying "Thank... You... Master...".

  Jayr POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  Quickly running up the stairs leading to the Aquarius Temple with Saori in my arms, I notice that the air became a lot colder, and in fact, snowfkes started to fall from the sky, at the same time, I feel that Camus' o is slowly fading, 'That idiot!! In end, he pushed himself too far to make Hyoga grow! I o hurry, god what a pain, Athena blessed the Gold Zodia such a mahat prevents lesser evils to invade, as well as any sort of teleportatioween two temples, so the only way is to fug climb these stairs!', worried I whisper to Saori "Hold tight! I'm going to speed up... that Andouille de Camus almost got himself killed!", so I increase my speed to the max while using my o to protect Saori from the aftermath of such a speed, and at lightspeed, I rush ihe Aquarius Temple, that now almost seems like a frozen cave, and find Hyoga and Camus ying on the ground.

  Letting down Saori, I rush to Camus' side, and quickly start fixing him 'Damn, this idiot to save Hyoga pushed all the excess frozen air and shockwaves geed by the Aurora Executions into his body, right now while oside he seems fihe inside is a jumbled mess, with ans ruptured, frozen, or simply failing... I have to be careful with my o... The frozen ones are the st I have to worry about, as a Saint that practically lives in ice, he deal with that himself, I just have to make him regain sciousness, and fix the ruptured ans, once he is out of danger and awake, Camus himself will be able to use his o to slowly fix everything else'.

  At the same time, I feel Saori using her o to sustain Hyoga and Camus' os 'And when the Goddess herself made a move it is impossible to die, you he intervention of anod to be killed...' and at the same time I give a quick che Hyoga, 'Hyoga is only exhausted, most of his injuries aren't evehal, and are quite easy to heal... Really Camus held himself back a lot, he made Hyoga feel close to death many times, but he truly never was in danger...'.

  Fog baus, I quickly mend his ruptured kidney, liver, and spleen, then slowly melt his froze, and make it pump again, 'I'm tempted to bitch sp him to wake him up...' then looking in the dire of the Pisces Temple I murmur "Only Aphrodite and Saga remains...".

  Shun POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  While climbing up the stairs leading to the final temple of the Gold Zodiac, the Pisces Temple, I and Seiya stop, as we feel Hyoga's o waning, and at the same time, a few snowfkes start falling from the sky, then I hear, Seiya that says "Don't look back, Shun... Trust in Jayr, after all the same happeo Shiryu and soon after, we felt his o recover...Moreover the final temple is just ahead, we 't lower uard now!".

  So we both restart running up the stairs, and while running, we indeed feel Hyoga's o slowly rec, then, I finally made my decision " Seiya, wheer the temple, head straight for the Pope's Chamber in the Great Temple, no matter what... The soohe free Saga-san the soohis useless fight will end", then I look at the temple in the dista has a single wing, the pilrs of the entrance are pced homogeneously and the structure that supports the temple is posed of 2 strata, it has 2 sculptures of fish, symbols of the zodiacal sign, pced at the ends at the top, one on each side.

  While admiring the temple, I notice 2 objects ing fast toward us, so I yell "Look out!!", we stop and the objects pierce the ground in front of us, and I finally reize them they are beautiful red roses, while Seiya asks "Crimson roses? Who threw them?" theice the figure standing in front of the temple, and Seiya says "It must've been him...".

  I then remind him "Seiya, leave him to me, my master talked about him before, he is the Saint who guards the st of the 12 temples, the Saint whose beauty is said to be the greatest of the 88 Saints, together with his cruelty, one of the most feared Gold Saints... Pisces Aphrodite!!", a young man with light blue hair and azure eyes, his skin is apricot-colored and his lips are soft piween which he has a red rose, and under his left eye, he has a mole, which be sidered a beauty mark.

  He is obviously donning his Pisces Gold Cloth, its headpiece is helmet-shaped with a set of fins on the sides, and on the upper part there is a crest-like fin, the chest and waist pieces are a whole, and is a fairly tight-fitting pieposed of ptes that mimic the muscles of the wearer's chest, the shoulders pieces are cave, horizontal, and posed of two interlog yers, the arms and legs pieces are simir to the old Cloths, the only difference is the fins on the elbows and the thigh.

  (Image Here - Pisces Aphrodite)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Hearing my introdu, Seiya looks at Aphrodite and says "So that is Pisces Aphrodite, is he really a man?", feeling a little upset for this ent, as often I'm subject to the same kind of ents, I say "I don't like those kind ents... moreover man or not a Gold Saint isn't an oppo we belittle... Now, Seiya, ruo the Pope's Chamber! I'll follow you as soon as I ".

  Seiya nods and starts running toward Aphrodite while yelling "I'll go, but I may be doh Saga by the time you get there!" then once close to him he says "Sorry, but I'm just passing through!" and jumps over the Pisces Saint, who in respoo this spits the red rose between his lips at Seiya, who easily destroy it with a pund as he nds as away, I use my to grab Aphrodite's arm to hold him and say "You are not going anywhere until Seiya is safely out of the temple!".

  But Aphrodite is still calm and replies "Ha... He may get through here, but he'll never reach the Pope's Chamber, Pegasus will die along the way, seen off by a funeral procession of roses!!", and hearing that I remember what he is talking about 'He is talking about the Path of Royal Demon Roses which is located between the House of Pisces and the Patriarch's Chamber... But Jayr already warned us about it, It should be a problem for Seiya to pass through them!'.

  And indeed, he starts expining about the path and the roses, saying that the Royal Demon Roses are a kind of deadly poisonous pnt, capable of shutting down the senses, aually kill with only their aroma, he probably did this to make me lose my calm and tration, but I won't fall for this especially since I know that Seiya already knows about the danger of the roses, so I take advantage of the time to quickly check the battleground.

  The interior of the Pisces Temple is like the lower temples, divided into rooms and surrounded by numerous ns, some of which are decorated with statues of women, I also notie roses scattered here and there on the ground, then as he fialking, I decide to quickly bind him with my Nebu , but Aphrodite ughs and says "Ha! You silly fool! You actually thought these paltry things would wainst me?" and with a bst of o, he frees himself and blows me away, sending my crashing on the floor.

  Then he says "Now you will succumb to the perfume of the Royal Demon Roses, just like Seiya! Royal Demon Rose!!", and uses red roses as a projectile, enhang them whit his o, and they move so fast that I'm uo dodge them, I'm thrown up in the air by them and once again crash into the ground, and while the impact wasn't to, and I'm not really hurt by them, I quickly realize that I'm slowly starting to lose my senses.

  Aphrodite then says "As I said before, one whiff or a scratch with its thorns, and your senses will start to dim, but you won't suffer, you'll die pleasantly intoxicated, just close your eyes like a good boy and you avoid the terror of death, why bother to rise, Andromeda?", but I ignore what he said, aing up, I say "I'm no civing myself over to a pleasah! Before we parted ways, I made a promise to my brother... That I would fight to the bitter end like a man!! I will show you my true strength, Aphrodite!!".

  And to ter his roses, I use my Rolling Defewirling the s around myself to create a barrier, that not only will protect me from further attacks, but will also blow away the roses' aroma, then taunting him to attack I say "As long as I'm encircled by these s, no attack of yours hurt me", but still calm Aphrodite says "I told you, your s wouldn't wainst me...", and I reply with a simple "We'll see about that".

  And he fell for it, as he yells "Well, thehed ials once again!! Royal Demon Roses!!" and throws his roses once again, but this time I'm ready and yell "Protect me, my s! Rolling Defense!!", I repel them ba sending him crashing on the floor as he yells surprised "Impossible! He repelled the Royal Demon Roses!!", then I take advantage of the opening to attack him with my Nebu .

  But he quickly recovers, and disappears in a mist of roses, as my passes through his afterimage, and now I'm looking around to search for him, but I'm uo find a trace of his presence or o as the roses are hiding him "H-he disappeared... Vanished in a mist of flower... But that won't save you, Aphrodite, this in my right hand, the triangle , will find you wherever you hide...".

  I make my o explode and throwing my I yell "... It will find a any enemy, no matter how many lightyears away he is!! Go! Thunder Wave!!", and the tip of the zig-zags like a wave-shaped lightning bolt that releases lightning and gees a powerful pierg attack, it simutes the movement and visual form of lightning, the tip then open a cra the space where it disappears, then in the distance I hear the sound of impact, and Aphrodite's figure reappears.

  'It seems that I was only able to blow off his headpiece, Aphrodite is still fine...', and while thinking that, I hear him say "Incredible... that the might of the nebu could be so great... I looked down on him as a mere Bronze Saint, but this boy's o is closer to that of a Gold Saint than that of a Bronze...", but I take advantage of his distra to attack him once again with a Thunder Wave.

  But the moment, I'm surprised to find my easily blocked by pears to be a simple bck rose, and yell "The triangle stopped! What's that bck rose?", then I feel Aphrodite o rising as he says "I hought a Saint with the face of a girl could fight so fiercely, you've been struck by the Royal Demon Roses and are soon to die... But it seems you refuse to wait quietly for death... Very well, then, I'll deal out instantaneous death, and wrest your s of hope from you while I'm at it! Face the terror of the bck roses!! Piranha Rose!!".

  Aphrodite throws tless tough-as-metal bck roses, and to my immense surprise, my was quickly destroyed by it, broken into many small pieces almost like torn apart, "No... My triangle ... those bck roses broke my Nebu ... What are those flowers!?", and with a bck rose in his hand Aphrodite calmly expin "The red rose will cause a slow death, but the bck roses will kill quickly, the thorns of the bck roses a the same way as that of sharp piranha teeth, pletely destroying everything in their path... Now, you too will be pulverized by their thorns! Piranha Roses!!".

  Ahrows another volley of those frightening tough-as-metal bck roses, and I once again use my Rolling Defeo protect myself, but once again my is destroyed by the bck roses, "No! My circle !!", then Aphrodite says "Heh, now you either attaor defend yourself, without your s, my dear Andromeda, you're as helpless as a baby, you're a thing to be pitied, but I'll end your misery quickly!! Piranha Roses!!".

  And with this st volley uo defend myself with my s, my Cloth too is destroyed, and my skin is torn apart, and I fall powerlessly on the ground feeling immense pain all over my body, at the same time, my senses dim even more and a sense of weakakes over me, then I hear my oppo's voiow, the st of the five Bronze Saints who stormed the Gold Zodiac has fallen, only the Silver Saint remains... The Pope will be pleased".

  As I y on the ground, bleeding, losing my senses oer another, and feeling closer to death than ever, I think 'No! I 't stop here!! It seems that I have to do the thing I hate the most... No matter how much I hate to hurt my oppos, especially the ohat are not evil... For Athena and my brothers who gave their all until now, I have to do it! I'll stop holding back!! I'll unleash my true power!' and as soon as, I make my resolve, I let go of my restraints, a my o fully explode and expand.