Jayr POV - Greece, Sanctuary - 1986

  We reach the Pope's chamber just in time to see the o of Seiya explode as he reaches his 7th sense once again, so I hide with Saori behind the door, and we observe the situation, and see as Seiya gets up, at the same time his o tinues expanding, and the phantom image of the pegasus appears behind him, he then unleashes the light speed version of Pegasus Ryuseiken, taking Saga by surprise and finally hitting him, making him fall on the ground.

  But Seiya is still without his senses and didn't notice that he didn't damage Saga, who got up without a problem and moved o him hitting him iomach making Seiya crumble on the floor, then he says "Fool! You were o think that a few lucky light-speed punches would be enough to finish me... Still, you've done well for someone in your dition, but I won't toy with you anymore... It's time to finish you! Die, Seiya!!".

  Saga is about to finish off Seiya, but before I could move, he stops and looks at the headpiece of his Cloth in surprise "What? The Cloth! It's weeping... Gemini's good face is g !!", indeed, I too notice that the helm of the Gemini Cloth on the floor is n as tears are running down the side where the good face is engraved.

  Saga then yells at his Cloth "Ridiculous! What are y for? What are you so sad about? Why shouldn't I quer the earth!? Shouldn't the powerful rule the sky and the earth!? If not for the strong, this world would've fallen long ago!! Sihe sky and the earth were born, tless evil beings, and even Gods... Zeus of the sky, Poseidon of the seas, and Hades of the underworld... Have tried to subjugate this world at every opportunity! Unless someoh strength rivaling their own rules the Earth... They will invade aroy it!! That little wench Saori Kido ot protect it!! It is I who will be the savior of this era!! And I will kill anyone who tries to thwart me!! No matter who is it!!".

  Hearing this I whisper to Saori "See, even when possessed and corrupted by an evil spirit, even if twisted, his major desire is to protect humanity...", Saori nods and says "Un, my Saints will always fight for justice, peace, and love... They will always be warriors of hope...", then I notice that Saga is about to kill Seiya, and this time I finally act, with a punch I send a light speed o bst that hits Saga's hand stopping him from killing Seiya.

  He then looks around enraged and yells "Who dare to interfere!?", and he finally notices me and yells "Crateris Jayr!! How many times do you want to stop me! It's enough I will kill you now!!", and so I raise my guard and prepare for my toughest fight yet, and while I seem calm oside, inside I'm so nervous that I'm about to shit myself, 'If you ighe Gods, and those with plot armor, he, his twin Kanon, and Shaka are the stro human beings of this world... Hell, Saga basically killed himself but until that moment, he was kig everyone's ass, his brother Kanon, basically waked through the Underworld like it was his pyground and then killed one of Hades' stro Specter without his Cloth in a suicide attack, and Shaka fug fought 3 Gold Saints, with Saga among them, and only died because he chooses to do so...'.

  And it seems that he noticed too as he says "Heh, such bravado is ughable at this point, you are doomed!", but I steel my nerves, and resolve myself to fight 'This time, I 't hold back... In fact, I have to use everything in my arsenal to even have a ce to win this... Let's do this!!', and so I make my o explode, and as a Gold Aura envelopes my body, my fist starts shining and a clear blue orb of water gathers around it, then I yell "Tidal unch!!", and with a pung motion, I shoot it straight towards the Saga, but even if it moves at the speed of light, Saga was ready for it, and he grabs the water-like orb in his hand, and the force behind the blow is only able to push him back slightly.

  With an evil smirk on his face, he says "This is it? While this is fast enough... I have to say that I'm disappointed by the power behind this teique... Maybe it is better that you stick to healing as it seems that fighting isn't for you!", but all I say in response is "Boom!" and from the water-like orb in his hand, hundreds of deyed strong impacts came oer ahat slowly push him bad as the number of impacreases, it raises him from the ground sending him crashing into various ns, then into the ground creating a big crater, and one impact after ahe crater created grows bigger and bigger, and whe impact happens the shockwave geed is s that blows all the dust geed away and causes the whole Sanctuary to tremble, in fact, it caused a strohquake that was felt all reece.

  Taking advantage of this gap, I rush to Seiya's side, and quickly che him. 'Damn, he has broken bones all over his body, and also his internal ans are damaged, morea blocked all his senses, in fact, he is knocked out... The only thing I do now is, bring his senses back, and hope he wakes up soon!', and so I hit Seiya's acupoints one by one carefully iing my o, a his senses one by one, just as I finished rest Seiya's senses, I felt Saga's o explode and expand.

  To my immense horror, Saga gets up and calmly walks out of the crater ughting, he would appear totally uninjuried if it wasn't for a small trickle of blood ing out of his mouth, but with my medical experience, I tell that I didn't hurt him much, in fact, at most the only damage I dealt was a little shook to his internal ans, then he says "Ha ha ha! I take back what I just said! You fight!! I felt that one, now it's my turn!!", and he moves at light speed, and sends a punch aiming at my face, but I dodge and ter with a kick, But he is able to easily follow my movements and grabs my leg, but his hand is shaking uhe power of my kick, so he ents "Not only good teique and mastery of the 7th sense, but also incredible phisical strength parable to Aldebaran... You are really full of surprises Crateris Jayr!!", and he punches me on my chest with an uppercut.

  And the instant, I felt a strong impay chest, and the shockwave geed made me cough some blood, and at the same time, I'm sent flying, and a few moments ter, I crash against the ceiling, then fall to the ground spitting some blood once again, 'Goddamit! That hurt!! And it is only a simple punch! It's almost like fighting with Aldebaran all ain', while I was thinking that, Saga looks at my Cloth, and ents "Hmm... Your Cloth is alser than a normal Silver Cloth... In fact, it almost felt like pung a Gold one...".

  Then he appears o me and while I'm still down trying to recover my breath, he starts to stomp on my back with ever-increasing strength as he says "But it doesn't matter, you interfered back at the Gemini Temple as well Crateris, I won't make your death an easy one, I'll see that you suffer before you die!", then as he raises his foot, to stomp on me once again, I roll out of his way, a up once again.

  Seeiill standing, he smiles and says "Iing! You are really sturdy, but his you psyche and will as strong as well...? Let's put it to test!!", and uanding what he is about to do, I brace myself and chece again my termeasures for what is to e, at the same time, Saga's o fres, then with a quient of his hands, he shoots a beam of light at the speed of light, yelling "Demon Emperor Fist!!", it is so sudden and fast that I'm uo dodge and the beam of light goes through my brain.

  But luckily Saga's o cshes with the one I put into my brain and reinforced throughout the years, rending his teique useless, but I still act like I'm affected by it, meanwhile, Saga move closer fident of his victory, and says "He, he... You're trapped, the Demon Emperor Fist has taken over your brain, you have no free will, you must do whatever I say, now.. Stab yourself in the arm... Do it...", and I gh the motion, while appearing tle against his order, 'Those ag lesson I took st year are useful now...'.

  Saga sees this and once again ands "Why do you hesitate? Do it!", and right at this moment I fre my o and punch Saga in the face with all my strength yelling "Surprise Motherf***r!!" sending him crashing against another n of the Pope's Chamber, but Saga quickly recovers and stands up, then after spitting some blood, he says "So you were fooling me! You were able to defend against my Demon Emperor Fist!! It seems that you really have reached the Gold Saint level, right now we could be iate of Thousand Day War... do you know what this means?".

  Getting ready for his attack, I reply "When two Gold Saints with equivalent forces front one another, it is said that their battle will iably reach a stalemate, and this frontation is referred to as a "Thousand Day War" sihe Saints both die ht forever without a winner...", Saga smiles and says "That is right... but we aren't equal... I have another on I have yet to use, sider this your reward for having fought me until now...".

  Saga's o explodes once again, as he yells "Before you die, you shall witness my greatest attack!!", knowing what is about to e, I only have the time to think 'Oh Shit!!', and use all my o to brace for the impact, meanwhile, Saga trates all of his o energy to the maximum iween his hands, then yelling "Gaxian Explosion!!", he releases it in the form of a gigantic shock-wave capable of obliterating nearly anything in its path.

  To me, the attack looks like a myriad of gaxies and ps e crashing into me, and at the same time I'm blown away like a ragdoll crashing and boung on the ground multiple times, I feel all the bones in my body break, and even my Cloth has cracks all over its structure, I also feel the whole Sanctuary shaking once again, and I'm on the brink of losing sciousness feeling immense pain all over my body.

  'What... the... fuck... Did I... just got nuked... I knew he was strong but this...', in fact, unknown to me the Greek Gover is o as the aftermath of the Gaxian Explosion was like a small tactiuke has bee off in Greece.

  As I'm struggling to find the strength to get up and fight one again, I hear Saori's voice yelling "Saga, stop! Don't let the evil spirit trol you... Fight it!", then I hear Saga struggle for a few moments as he whispers "Go-Goddess Athena..." but thearts ughing manically as he yells "Ha ha ha! Thank you for ing here! You spared me the time to e and search for you... Now, I'll only have to kill you... And I'll bee the ruler of this world ond for all!".

  Hearing this I struggle even more but my body doesn't follow my and 'e on! Move!! Shit! Shit! Shit! e on I 't let her die! Where the fuck is my plot armor!?', but as I'm starting to panic, I hear Ikki's voice as he yells "I won't let you harm Athena! Ho Yoku Ten Sho(Fming Wings of the Phoenix)!!", then I feel the hot winds geed by Ikki's attack, but I don't rex 'Ikki is not strong enough to really harm Saga...', at the same time, Saga's voice says "Phoenix you too dare to interfere with me now!!?".

  And ihe moment, I hear Ikki's shocked voice "Incredible! The Ho Yoku Ten Sho isn't doing anything to him!!" and Saga calmly says "Your moves are useless against me... Now let's see how you fare against the power of your own attack", then I hear Ikki's scream and the sound of his body crashing against something and falling on the ground.

  Luckily Ikki doesn't give up, and he says "If I 't break your body with the Ho Yoku Ten Sho, then I'll shatter your mind with the Hoo Genmaken(Phoenix Phantom Fist)!", and now Saga's voice seems almost amused as he says "Yoing to shatter my mind, you say? Mine? Intriguing, then I'll attack yours with my legendary Demon Emperor Fist! So which of us will quer the other's mind? It's a race, Ikki!!".

  Meanwhile, their exge makes me calm down, and I try to gather my strength to overe the wall in front of me 'Calm, Jayr! Calm! Not all is lost you are only hurt a little... You always khat this Universe was full of bullshit strong characters... And I'm going to bee one of them too... I don't want to lose against Saga, the Gods... And not even against the other Champions... think of all the people you are fighting for... my family mom, dad, Shaina, Geist, grandpa Jayr, and the others... my friends, Aldebaran, Aiolia, Milo, Camus... Seika! Saori! I'll protect them! Burn! Burn my o let my eruly feel the power of Crateris Jayr!!'.

  And as I feel my o answering my plea burning strohan ever before, the csh between Saga and Ikki ends up in a draw, but just as they were about to restart their fight, they stop, as I'm standing up, and hear Ikki and Saori ask at the same time ""Jayr! Are you alright?"", while Saga excims "Impossible! He got hit by my Gaxian Explosion! It's already a miracle that he is still alive, much less still standing! And his o is growing stronger each passing sed!!".

  I reply to the worried Ikki and Saori with "Some broken bones and ruptured ans... But overall I'm fine..." at the same time, I notice Seiya getting up and slowly walking toward the curtains behind Pope's throrying to reach the Athena Colossus, and Saga notices too as he says "Pegasus has risen to his feet again too!! This 't be! His senses are gone, he 't see, or hear, or even feel anythi..." but then he looks at me and realizes what has happened, so he yells "Crateris!! You restored his senses!!! Now he is moving toward Athena's Temple! He's trying to get the Aegis Shield! I won't let you do it! I'll finish you before you get to that shield!".

  But I move in front of him to stop his advand as he yells "Jayr!!", I send a telepathic message to both Seiya and Ikki, to Seiya I say 'Seiya hurry... I'll hold him here... take the Aegis Shield, and point it at Saga te the evil spirit!, while to Ikki 'Ikki, retreat with Saori and protect her I'll stop Saga!', while I say to Saga "I... I won't let you pass, not until Seiya has the Aegis shield...".

  Hearing that, enrage Saga so much that yells "You fool, do you really think you bar my way? I'll Bst you both at the same time!!", aarts trating all of his o energy to the maximum iween his hands, but so do I, and since I was gathering my o since I stood up to unleash my stroeique, my process is faster then his ohen as my o explodes with a forparable to that of the Big Bang, I twist my arm and release all o yelling "Hundred R Ice Fangs!!", and gee a powerful and turbulent wave-like vortex of o with tless ice spears within, all of them with the temperature at the absolute zero, that hits Saga and pierce throughout the whole body, with his Cloth uo protect him.

  The massive and turbulent wave-like vortex keeps pushing Saga's body while tinuously hitting him with ice spears, blowing him through the temple wall and outside making him crash into the mountain's wall, after releasing this teique, I fell on my kotally exhausted, and trying tain my breath I say "Haa... That... Haa... Should have... Haa... been enough...", then I hear Saori and Ikki footsteps as they came o me, then I hear Saori's worried voice that asks "Jayr... Are you alright...the whole Sanctuary shook once again!", and Ikki add "I thought that Saga released anaxian Explosion, but we didn't hear the loud explosion makes... So we came to check...".

  I turn to Ikki and ask him "Ikki you gh that hole and che Saga... He should be still alive as I made sure to not hit any vital point, but I used my stro move, and I'm worried about him...", Ikki nods and go to ched soon e back saying "He is out cold with many ice spears impaled all over his body... but he is still alive...", and as he was talking, Seiya es back with a big pletely round shield with several touches and ors on its surfad in a golden coloration.

  (Image Here - Aegis Shield)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Then Seiya gives the shield to Saori, and together we all move toward Saga, but I'm moving with Ikki's help as I'm still wounded by Saga's fearsome Gaxian Explosion, and weakened by unleashing the Hundred R Ice Fangs, a teique I e up with by bining the principles of the White Ice Spear and Naruto's Rasengan.

  Soon we find ourselves in front of Saga still out cold and pinned on the mountain wall by hundred of ice spears, the Gemini Gold Cloth is damaged almost beynition, and I'm sure that if this mountain wasn't protected and reinforced by Athena's y teique would have obliterated it 'Dear Athena! I almost killed him...it is easier to say what isn't wounded or damaged... Hell, the fact that I was able to damage a Gold Cloth to this extent is already scary, after all, as said many times, to destroy them you he same level of power o destroy a universe, and only the Gods easily use that level of power...'.

  While I was wing about the damage I caused, Saori lift her shield and points it in Saga's dire saying "Aegis Shield, please save this Saint!", and under her plea, the shield lits up in a pure golden light, that moves faster than the speed of light, lighting up Saga's body, for a few seds before stopping, then a lot of things happens at the same time, the ice spears melts away, and his wounds close, his hair turn back to their inal violet-blue color, and some kind of bck shadow is purged out of his body with an anguished scream, then with nothing holding him, Saga's body falls on the ground.

  After a few seds, Saga opens his eyes, he gets up and starts looking around, but as soon as his eyes nd on Saori's figure, he quickly gets on his knees and says in a voice full of guilt "Goddess Athena, I'm Saga, the man who tried to kill you 13 years ago... I've been waiting for you to return for many years... To beg for your fiveness...", seeing the resolute gaze in Saga's eyes, I had a hun what he is about to do, so with my st strengths I burn my o once again, and quickly tackle him into the ground stopping him from killing himself.

  And not giving him any time, I yell "You idiot!! How killing yourself atone for the supposed sins you have itted!? We all know that you were possessed by an evil spirit impnted in you by Hades' subordinate, and you fought the evil self that it has geed all your life... Hell, your evil self said the same thing that if it wasn't for you stopping him at the crucial time, he would've quered the world many years ago!!".

  Seeing him stunned in silence, I tinue "Moreover, if you really want to atone for your sins! Do it like a fug Saint and tio fight for pead justice for the rest of your life! Athena still got a lot of fights ahead, and she needs all the Saints she gather to make sure to rotect humanity once again! Hell, right as we are talking, Athena's enemies are gathering their forces... Athena needs you and your strength to protect this world, we need you!".

  At the same time, Saori es o us and says "Saga, yht between good and evil is over, and I believe that the real you is a good man, so please do not give up, and fight for justice again!", and with tears in his eyes, Saga says "Th-thank you... It is truly my desire to fight for pead justice...", then I let go of Saga, who this time get on his knee and decre "I, Gemini Saga, pledge my allegiao you, Saori Kido, the Goddess Athena! to fight at your side to safeguard pead justice upon the Earth!!".

  After this we all start moving down the Gold Zodiac with Saori leading the group and at the same time I send a message to my sister and the others to gather everyo the foot of the Gold Zodia the Pisces Temple, we find Aphrodite and Shun waiting for us, and while Aphrodite is surprised by the state of Saga's Cloth, he once again pledge is allegiao Athena and joins us, while Shun is being carried by Ikki, in the Aquarius Temple, Camus with the still knocked out Hyoga in his arms joins the group.

  The one is the Capri Temple, where Shura joins and carries Shiryu like a sack of potatoes, in the end, moving from temple to temple, all the remaining Gold Saints join roup, but only Deathmask is absent, it seems that when I was fighting Saga, he freed himself a somewhere to think about his mistakes and things I told him, I hope that he recover and bee a better Saint, he was able to bee a Gold Saint so, at least in the beginning, his heart was in the right pce.

  In the end, we are joined by the 10 Gold Saints, who now stand in front of the entrance of the Gold Zodiad find all the other Saints, soldiers, and guards waiting for us or more specifically for Saori, and soon Tatsumi es running asking "Saori-ojousama are you alright?", to which she replies "I'm fihere is not even a scrate...", theurns to the group and says "You have all gohrough so mue, thank you... But now, I say that evil has finally been expelled from the Sanctuary!!".

  Then all the Saints, soldiers, guards, and every other perso here, get on their knees and yell at the same time "Athena, we pledge to fight at your side to safeguard pead justice upon the earth!!", and at the same time, Saori's Divine o explodes from her body and envelope everyone and everything in the whole Sanctuary and even beyond as she says "And I'll always be fighting at your side as the Goddess Athena!!".

  A everyoarts cheering and celebrating, and for the first time in years, the depressing and oppressive mood that was dominating this pce is finally gone, and I help but say "With this, we'll make the Sanctuary great again!", but as soon as I said this, a cold shiver runs up my spine, and movio Saori I whisper "Saori! Please point the Aegis Shield in my dire, I think an e-skinned evil spirit has just possessed me...".