All bad situation had a limit and Elyn was soon overcome by the loneliness and darkness of the temple where she lived. She was an active person who, despite enjoying meditation, needed to be surrounded by people with whom to express their emotions or to unload tensions. Her mind and conscience longed to escape the tragedy and every moment, her mind repeated: How many warriors had perished in previous battles, taking with them a piece of those they left behind while their loved ones had to keep walking towards the future? Aioria was one of that people and she couldn't stay there hidden forever.
The girl got up from the ground, had been sitting in that corner for days in front of her silver armor, with her head resting on her knees and hugging herself dancing with the memories of the past, enjoying an era in which her life was complete despite the absence of the goddess Athena. Elyn got into the shower and on leaving, grabbed the training uniform to march to the coliseum as she had always done. Along the way, she picked up her long greenish hair in a ponytail while her mouth hummed one of the first songs she learned in Lantau and served to calm her heart regardless of the situation that overwhelmed her. It was the first time she had descended through the twelve temples completely since her return to the Sanctuary and although she didn't meet anyone on the way, see the dawn from the white steps of the place renewed her spirit a little.
Upon arriving at her destination, the girl understood why she hadn't met anyone on her way: all the gold saints who were survived were training; it was obvious, for them it was common to lose allies or other companions at their service, especially in recent times when Hades' specters seemed to begin to rise. Milo was the first to detect and received her in the colisseum with a smile from ear to ear, Elyn corresponded him without words, her connection with Scorpio was as special as the one Camus had shared with him because Milo's character didn't leave of being an injection of vitality regardless of the circumstance:
"Do you feel like training with me?"
"With you no, bug*" she said looking away at her new target "How about I cross my fists with the Lion?"
Aioria turned to observe her, he could count on the fingers of one hand the times when both had exchanged words beyond what is strictly necessary, so the girl's suggestion left those who heard her speechless. Leo didn't frightened in the slightest, shrugged and accepted the challenge; He had never faced Camus' sister directly but he was craved do it since the beginning. He didn't like at all that prepotent girl who had the courage to go with her face uncovered without being a Saintia and who took complete confidence to interact without respect in front of the rest of the golden warriors.
The referee of the battle was Mu and the rules that were established were simple: the first to fall to the ground or use a cosmic attack against the rival would lose the confrontation, it would be a melee fight, with no time limit. Both opponents agreed with Aries' words but they never stopped looking at each other. Aioria had to recognize that Elyn wasn't just common person, her gaze was as icy as that of Camus of Aquarius as well as the cosmos she gave off wasn't a hundred percent that of a silver saint: There was something different than Marin or Shaina, a much greater hidden force. Leo rubbed his nose as he prepared, deep down he cared little for Elyn's power, he would make her bite the dust in seconds.
***
Hyoga and Seiya appeared in the arena shortly after the start of the fight. The blue eyes of the Cygnus Saint were caught in Camus's reflection in the middle of the battle, where a fight against Aioria was taking place. His mind was blocked by not understanding how his master could be in a battle like that after having perished days ago, it was something impossible to believe:
"Wao, really is Elyn fighting?!" Seiya exclaimed beside him as he ran to see the show from closer.
"Who is?" Hyoga asked after catching up, realizing that as was obvious, that person wasn't Camus.
"Elyn of Pisces Australis." Milo of Scorpio intervened next to the teenagers "Don't you know who she is, Cygnus?"
Hyoga fixed his eyes on the person in question, a girl who moved at the same speed as the Gold Saint of Leo and who managed to dodge all the blows he was trying to give her. She was agile, extremely fast and accurate in the attacks she launched, managing to destabilize her opponent on more than one occasion:
"Elyn is Camus's little sister." Scorpio confessed, thereby stopping the heart of the Bronze Saint.
***
"When are you going to apologize, Littlefish?" Aioria told her.
Elyn narrowed her eyes, Leo wasn't as stupid as he seemed and had read between the lines the authentic intention of the girl to cross her fists with him. She had always insulted the memory of Aioros in front of the lion: when the death of Sagittarius occurred, she didn't even live in the Sanctuary therefore, it was easy to succumb to the image that Aphrodite and Deathmask gave the fallen saint and many years passed until Elyn was old enough to know that Sagittarius' acts didn't coincide with the accusations made on him but still, she had never approached Leo to apologize for her words:
"I don't know what are you talking, Aioria."
"What a liar" The Gold Saint threw a punch straight into her face but she had already anticipated it and deflected her face to counterattack with a side kick that the gold warrior also stopped with his wrist "Now you understand what it feels like, right?"
"Close your mouth at once, kitty."
That someone like Aioria saw through her inner wall with such ease started to piss her off and it was reflected in her blows, which were much faster and followed although Leo was able to counter them all:
"Is that the only answer you can think of?" A new impact stopped Elyn's movements and the situation were exchanged when the lion began to push her back with his punches "Who is the traitor's sister now, huh? Tell me, Elyn, you carry his blood, so are you also a traitor like him? Why are you still here if we all want you to leave?"
The girl recognized those words in her own mouth years ago but didn't expect to get affected her like a dagger in the heart. She had pronounced these words in the past against Aioria, it was true that Elyn had found with enough courage to impose herself on top of him attacking Aioros' memory... but the girl was ten years old when that happened frequently, eleven maybe; at that time she didn't understand the hardness of her words and less, if Aphrodite and Deathmask fed their bad behavior against the shattered Leo Saint:
"You're a complete asshole, Aioria..." Elyn grabbed one of the lion's fists, stopping him on the spot."I understood things very late, fuck, I was a girl when I told you those things."
"And yet you have always kept looking over my shoulder."
Leo attacked on the other flank, the girl also stopped him, ready to face his rival:
"That isn't true. When I discovered the truth of Saga I wanted..."
An unexpected hit at the head clouded his eyes, Aioria moved his own head for hit her and it didn't let her finish her sentence, so Leo took advantage of the second one who lowered her guard to kick her stomach. Then, a batch of very rapid punches to the chest drove her a few meters back but the warrior managed to keep her balance instead of falling to the ground in agony:
"Well, well... do you knew Saga was behind all this, huh?" Aioria reloaded against her, an attack without compassion loaded with all the rage that the Gold Lion had accumulated against her over the years "You're another traitor, right? Tsk... So, you should have been here, you should have seen them as they falling one by one after another before a group of Bronze Saints!"
Elyn then defended herself against Aioria's fists and stabbed her heels into the sand just before giving Leo a punch in the face that was as or more powerful than he had given her. Aioria spit blood when he felt his split lip and suddenly, he felt an energy that, without control, began to flow outward from the rival who had been about to knock down: It was a cosmos perhaps superior to that of a Gold Saint. He couldn't believe his eyes, the energy that Elyn gave off was golden, worthy of any of his arms mates but... how could it be possible if the girl wore silver cloth? For a second he thought of Seiya and the others who had exceeded their limits to gain victory over the Gold Saints but what their green eyes witnessed had nothing to do with it, the energy of Camus's little sister was exactly the same as the golden warriors issued:
"You... don't will pronounce... one more word against them, Aioria..." whispered Elyn, out of control "You aren't going to tarnish their memory knowing what hurts to lose a brother!"
The combat took a turn of one hundred and eighty degrees in a matter of a blink. Suddenly, the girl had transformed into a beast that left Leo at the height of a stray cat. A single blow was enough to push it back by inertia, regardless of whether it was protected or not, Elyn's cosmos sprang up nonstop and grew beyond the seventh sense. The girl revealed that she possessed a hidden force inside her much more powerful than everyone thought and that was something that baffled Aioria completely, why if Camus's sister had so much power she wore a miserable silver cloth lost in half of a chinese island? What kind of cosmos did she have for Athena to have consented all her acts even after knowing that she had been a follower of someone like Saga?:
"It's true that I knew it... I knew that Saga was behind all this...!"She ended up confessing the girl in tears of helplessness "but I also knew how to stop it, damn it! I ALSO HAD A PLAN TO SAVE HIM...!!
Elyn wanted to give the final punch to Aioria, ready to kill him using the same way in which the Bronze Saints had killed her beloved people, but her hand was stopped a small inch from Leo's chest thanks to Milo's intervention and the Crystal Wall of Mu that still ended up reduced to nothing due to the explosion of cosmos it received. The silence was only interrupted by the accelerated breathing of those involved in the fight while the rest, contained any movement to the possibility of missing something important:
"... But, at the end I couldn't do anything... and everyone died without I being able to do anything to avoid it..."