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ஜ 1st Rise of the Phoenix ஜ

[There's a man walking through the Astral Plane today. His steps are firm and decided as he moves forward, giving his surroundings just a brief glare as he goes. It almost seems as if he knows where he's going... But he doesn't. The time travel must have had a side effect, or he has indeed fallen into a trap set by Chronos. He can barely remember where he was when he noticed the shop and entered it for the first time, or when he entered it the second time, the last clear memory he has is jumping to the lake of time and grasping Athena's chain of flowers to follow her and Shun to the past.

Ikki stops for a moment, a hand raising to hold his head for a second as he tries once more to remember, but nothing comes. It's fine, it doesn't matter anyway, where he is, how he got there... He has to find Athena and Shun, nothing else matters, if this is a prank or a trap he will break free from it and follow them, if not... He will get explanations later on, probably, once he finds them. He eyes for a second the flower bracelet on his wrist, convincing himself that he didn't miss the lead or get lost while holding it. He concentrates his Cosmos, making it reach out, searching, calling, for those of his goddess and his brother or for anyone who would hear it. And then he continues moving forward in silence, keeping his thoughts to himself and searching, for someone or a way out, both options work with him.]

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[Shun feels that cosmo and stops dead for a moment, hardly daring to believe it. He knows that feeling, it can't be anyone else..! He takes off towards it trying to reach the source of that cosmo. When he finally spies that familiar figure he can't help smiling]

Nii-san!

[Ikki takes a turn as soon as he feels the other cosmo, no doubting for a moment that it's his brother. When the boy appears in his line of sight, the older man can't help but let go a brief and small sigh of relief before the other gets closer.]

Shun. Where's Athena?

[Business as always.]

[That question is only slightly surprising to Shun] She's around here somewhere. I was talking with her earlier. Only it wasn't Saori, it was another Athena named Sasha.

[And with that explanation he blinks back tears. It's his brother, he's finally here! And for once he's not beaten half dead when he sees him!] I'm glad you're here Nii-san. I didn't think you would ever come here!

[It's very hard to miss Ikki's Cosmo, even if Mu doesn't know him well. The brief impression he'd gleaned, helping Shaka all that time ago....Well, needless to say, it had left something of an impression on the Aries.

And so the notice of the new Cosmo naturally invites curiosity, and Mu can't resist a small smile as he tuckes his helmet under his arm.]

Your Cosmo is a noticable one, Ikki. If you call much louder, you may attract unwanted attention.

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[Shion does not know this cosmo, he is certain of that. Yet it's heat feels familiar, reminding him of something. He can't pinpoint what it is that stirs that familiarity but he knows it is not associated with good memories. He goes look for the source of that cosmo after a moment, wishing he still had his Cloth. He isn't sure whether he expects trouble or not, but he can't ignore a cosmo like this. Lady Athena is on the Plane, he can't let something that might threaten her exist.

When he spots Ikki he stops for a moment and just observes him.]

[She senses him when he reaches out. The flaming cosmos ruled by anger feels almost familiar to Sasha as she makes her way across the Plane. But his call doesn't go unanswered. She echoes Ikki's Cosmos with the vastness of her own, meeting it halfway and resonating to show she'd heard him.

By the time she comes before him, Athena has set her humanity as Sasha aside for now. The differences between Saori and Sasha are plain to see, from posture to the calm that surrounds Sasha. Hers isn't judging or hostile or even naive trust. But she will not treat him harshly.]

I heard your call.

[Ikki frowns at the way Shun answers "around here somewhere", but maybe the situation isn't as bad as he expected it to be. When Hécate warned him about Chronos' prank he got the impression that besides being forced to share the body of the Athena of the XVIII century said Athena was a baby or a child. But if Shun is so calm about it and says that he was talking to her maybe he got worried without reason.

Ironically, for that same reason he doesn't seem confused by the mention about it not being Saori, who knows if Saori will even be allowed some control of the body she has to share. It's not as if it's her body after all.]

I see, it doesn't matter what her name is, Athena is still Athena. We have to protect her no matter what. Are you both unhurt then?

[Ikki doesn't seem as moved as his brother. Inwardly he's relieved beyond words, as relieved as he felt when he went to Japan and saw Shun there even if he was set on killing them... Seeing that his brother had survived the training still relieved him. Just as now, seeing him well and unhurt, blinking back tears like so often, will he ever stop doing that when they meet? He's not a girl for Goddess's sake. The words, however, make the man frown again, almost offended.]

You thought I would stay behind while Athena [And you.] is in danger? Should I go back then?

[On second thought, maybe he misses that Shun is unhurt, that way the kid (his little brother will always be a kid for him) would be happy to see him. Sure, he said that he's glad but also that he didn't think he would go, how is he supposed to take that?]

[Ikki turns to look at Mu, his expression hardened and unreadable. He was expecting it, but it is still strange, to see the Aries Saint standing in front of him, wearing his Cloth and so very much alive. Even if he didn't know most of the Gold Saints as much as the others, he still lamented their deaths, as necessary as they were to bring a final end to Hades. The help the Gold Saints gave them even after death is something hard to ignore.]

There's no unwanted attention that I could attract. Even an enemy can be useful before his end comes.

[Translation: He just wants to find people, if someone turns out to be an enemy he will smash them after getting information from them.]

[Ikki never met Shion directly, but he felt his Cosmos together with those of the resurrected Gold Saints. Out of the delusion that this is, after all, where he had intended to go -meaning the past, as it seems that after all it was his will that brought him here-, Ikki's also prepared for those encounters. It's easier with Shion, he knew him even less than he knew Mu.

He turns to look at the other with a stoic expression.?]

So we meet like this, Aries Shion... [He takes note of the lack of Cloth. It's not unheard of of Gold Saints not wearing their Cloths, but seeing that this is Shion and the Plane seems to be whimsical...] Or would you prefer another name?

[It's not as if Ikki has ever treated with a Pope to know how to act, not even with a fake one, figures.]

[He found Shun and that brought relief to him... And questions once the illusion was cleared up, but still he had kept calling. He hold what he had said, Athena is Athena, no matter her human name, time or anything. And he wants to make sure she's fine with his own eyes. When she appears, he sees clearly why one could mistake her for the Athena of the XX century, but also why one would never make such a mistake. She holds herself gracefully but she lacks the same kind of refined elegance Saori had, neither are in her eyes or face traces of the emotions Saori used to wear on her sleeve. She seems kind, truly kind but firm, while Saori seemed like a little girl lost when she tried to be kind, and wavered when she tried to be firm in something that didn't fully come from her human part. Then again, maybe Ikki judges his Athena too harshly, but he doesn't care.

He stands for a moment, uncertain when she speaks, before finally kneeling down, not completely and not for long, it's painfully obvious he's not used to this kind of displays.]

I'm Phoenix Ikki, Phoenix Saint from the XX century. I'm glad to see you unhurt.

[Saga chuckles...

'So you are here as well... Phoenix...' Somehow, he feels relieved. Despite he has never been on good terms with Ikki (mainly because of their last fight), Saga admires his potential as a Saint as with the other Bronze Saints. But the Phoenix was different and the Gemini knew it...

... Both emerged from the Hell they went through, even if it were a different one for each other...]

[From the shadows, Saga steps forward and behind the Bronze Saint, facing the other's back.]

As sneaky as always... Ikki.

[That gets an eyebrow raise.]

If I didn't know better, I'd say the Phoenix was lonely.

It's a good thing you know better then.

[Lonely? No, worried, yes, though by now he knows this place won't calm his worries. Ikki crosses his arms as he studies the other for a moment.]

How long have you been here?

[Ikki doesn't turn at first, instead barely tilting his head to spare the other a glance.]

Should I take that as a compliment since it's coming from you?

[Definitively, being warned didn't made it easier at times. He turns fully, facing the other.]

I didn't expect to meet you again like this.

[He laughs amusingly, facing him with a smug smile.] I never said it was a compliment.

You mean being alive as I am now?

I didn't say I would normally take it as one either. But with your skills I would say that you considering someone sneaky could be considered one.

[It must have taken a lot of skill to impersonate someone for thirteen years and have no one suspect who he really was. Ikki arches an eyebrow at the last part.]

I mean standing in the middle of an Astral Plane between worlds and dimensions. The part regarding you being alive... I can't say I would count that out anymore.

[Even with Hades dead who knows if other deities can't bring people back somehow. Like Chronos, for all he knows he could pull people from their times and throw them around or something if he so wished.]

I do try.

Close to four years now, off and on.

At least there have been off moments then.

[He's not entirely with this, even if apparently it was his will to enter that shop again. If asked he will say he won't ever return again, but who knows if that will hold true, maybe his "will" will again decide on its own. But at the very least, they aren't trapped or anything, now that would be specially irritating.

There's a myriad of questions still in his mind, from small ones regarding the other's health to bigger ones regarding the plane or the others' time. But he's still mostly confused and was never a man of many words so he keeps them for himself for now. Instead he decides to, once more, go business route.]

I have been told Athena is also around here.

They may happen when you wish - a thought will take you home, and likewise return you here, when you wish. There was a small brochure written with more information, if you'd prefer to get information that way.

She is. [The levity leaves his voice, then. Athena's welfare is serious.] She arrived a few days ago. It is the Athena from the 1700s, however - not Saori.

[If he wishes, then why is he still here? Must be something more to it, or maybe he's just in denial.]

Hn, the brochure may be useful, where can I find one?

[That's a second confirmation, Ikki closes his eyes and frowns.]

I see.

[His tone is tense and he seems to consider asking something else, but obviously ends saying something different.]

She's Athena either way, though I doubt you need me to remind you of that.

[But what else can he say? He's wary at the very least regarding talking about what he had been doing or why, or why he takes so easily that the Athena here isn't the one he knows. It's not Mu's problem, there's no reason to share it or worry others. If he had known the Shun he met wasn't the one he knew... He wouldn't have said anything either.]

This way, then. There is a kiosk that stocks them, and it's not far from here.

[He turns to walk towards it, though he keeps his pace slow so as to keep conversing with Ikki in the meantime.]

She is, yes. I was surprised, however.

How much do they cost anyway?

[He's not big in money, actually he has none. He lives in a way that rarely requires him its use so it only comes as an afterthought that he has no way to pay for the brochure. Though part of him thinks those shouldn't cost anything, but who knows.

He follows Mu easily, having no problem with keeping the same pace as the other.]

Because of Athena being here or because she's another human name and face?

They, like everything here, don't require money.

Both, though I suppose neither should.

Good. I may like this place a bit more then.

[Inwardly relieved and with one less worry, though he doesn't seem impressed on the outside. He shakes his head.]

Maybe they shouldn't, but I doubt anyone can blame us for not expecting to see any other Athena other than the one on whose side we fought.

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