realityshifted | ஜ 3rd Rise of the Phoenix ஜ

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ஜ 3rd Rise of the Phoenix ஜ

[Anyone approaching the kitchen today will find it in a complete state of chaos as Ikki cooks in it. He's not used to work in a kitchen so he has just no sense of keeping things in order or anything, the times he sneaked inside a kitchen to get good when he was little he didn't have time to clean up after all. On a first sight it looks like the work of someone who may be out to destroy the kitchen rather than just use it, at least what he's cooking doesn't seem toxic even if he has created a huge mess to make it.]

Tch, I should have just returned and eaten whatever there was around.

[At least he seems to recognize that he has created a mess. But he doesn't seem willing to clean it at all. He eyes the food he was making, seems he has made too much but he supposes he can leave it here for whoever comes next if they want, he certainly isn't going to throw it away himself food isn't to be wasted.]

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Still fighting at the war.

[That seems to be all he's willing to say about it for now.]

The ground for the Holy War we fought has already started to be filled, Thanatos was just sealed.

[At a great price and Ikki finds it hard to consider it worth it when he knows that one day a little girl will fall into the temptation of opening the seal two men died for. But there's still Hypnos left and they can't change the past.]

Shiryu and Hyoga finally appeared as well.

[It took them long enough goes without saying, it's only a minimal complain after all, from a guy who can't just be honest with himself and admit that he's relieved to know that they are fine. The fact that they didn't bring good news about what was going on in their time didn't help though.]

I see.

[He most certainly remembers this, and Shion's reaction to it...

and the eventual fallout.]

An excellent time for reinforcements - there is a battle coming that could end the war far sooner, if you wish to become involved.

It doesn't matter if we can't get our hands on Hades' sword. Our goal in this mission was to destroy that, not the Holy War itself. If it hadn't been for Chronos' joke we would have never even got anywhere close to the Saints of that era.

... It's starting to not matter, though.

[He is starting to just not care. So what if it may alter the future. They are stuck in the past and meanwhile in their time, the Sanctuary is being attacked already. Angels, had Hyoga said, soldiers aiming to kill Seiya. What would it serve for if they destroyed Hades' sword if Seiya was killed anyway?]

Then follow Shion. You may have a chance.

[He figures Ikki's smart enough to figure things out based on that. On the other hand, he has to bit down a pang of guilt for effectively having just thrown Shion and Hakurei alike under the metaphorical bus.]

Shion...

[There's a pause as Ikki mulls on that.]

I don't like to use knowledge gained here there, but if it may bring us faster to our goal I think I will do it. We don't really have time to waste in a war in which we're not allowed to fully participate anyway.

As I said, it is a chance, and will provide an opportunity. You make take or leave the information as you will.

I know, I know.

[Ikki's the last person who needs to be told what to do... Or who wants to be told what to do even. But really, Shion had to tell the others why Athena had killed herself, Dohko had to tell them how to get to the Underworld... And Ikki? Ikki just went ahead and just showed there kicking some Specters asses.]

You said you were traveling, you meant here or at your world?

At home. [Given who he's talking to, Mu chooses his next words carefully]

The cloths are calling for their departed masters. I'm looking for them.

[Why does he have to choose his words carefully. It's not as if Ikki's a difficult person and a time bomb, oh wait.]

... Say what?

[He's not sure he's getting the correct meaning of what you just said... He's not, right? Mu's probably just talking about new people to be trained as Saints for those cloths.]

There are some who believe that the souls of the Saints are very old - that after death they wait some time, and return to the earth to continue to protect it. Who's to say if it's true or not, but the cloths themselves know what to look for, and call to their eventual bearer.

[The good news: it's not what he had thought at first after all. The bad news: it's still something he doesn't like. Though it's not the first time he has heard it.

His fists clench at the memory of an argument with a now deceased Gold Saint from the past.]

So basically you're just looking for fresh meat to become Saints. You could have said it just like that.

[It's Ikki, he will reject the idea that his soul is just a recycled thing from the past, and that his destiny was decided by more than just a damned and bored rich guy. While at the same time ripping off any romance from the idea of being Saints. Talk about Cosmos, stars and whatever all you want, Mu, it won't change the fact that they are just little more than cannon fodder.

Feel free to punch him if you want.]

I wouldn't put it so crudely. I'm not simply grabbing any child I find off the street in the vague hopes that they could be the one.

Why not? It worked the last time it was done.

[Not that it was the Sanctuary the ones who did it but... It's Ikki, what is being fair.]

I'm not fond of shedding blood needlessly.

And I didn't even mention that you didn't even need to worry if there were parents.

[Ikki snorts.]

Did you leave a note as to where you were going?

[Not that Ikki ever leaves notes.]

I do not force. I ask. Do not project your experiences on the Sainthood as a whole. I'm sure some time in the past has shown you that has not always been the hellhole it became.

Shion knows where I am.

I never said it was a hellhole. But I find it hard to believe that if the next potential Taurus says he doesn't want to go with you and become a Saint, you will just nod and continue even if it means leaving a Cloth without owner.

[He's right, though, the past Sanctuary was nothing like what Ikki knew or imagined. But he still finds it hard to believe that there's an easy way out of Sainthood.]

What about Athena?

If the cloth is his destiny, he'll find his way to it in time. Either way, Taurus is spoken for.

What about her?

Yeah, you don't force. The so called destiny does.

[It's ironic. They fight Gods, Athena defends' the humans' right to life and decide their own destiny... And they are forced by a destiny as old as the world.]

Does she know where you are? ... Do you even have an Athena around?

Destiny would also dictate we die eventually. [In most circumstances, at least.]

She is not at the Sanctuary.

I would say that's just nature, no destiny.

[Not at the Sanctuary, he says.]

And where is she?

We may have to agree to disagree.

According to Shun, she's in Tokyo, I believe.

So it's the same Athena I know? Not Sasha?

[He won't ever say that woman's name, ever.]

As far as I know.

[Ikki's just going to snort and grab food to eat. Though he wants to ask why Mu is bothering doing it himself when the Kido Foundation already has experience in those things.]

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