- Elyn doesn't like Saintias at all but The Pope has a great weakness for misbehaving his most faithful followers; therefore, the Silver Saint of Pisces Australis is obliged to supervise the training of a group of them. However, among the Saintias, there is one in particular that Elyn can't stop looking at... –
Art by: SilvyTaurie
"It will be you who oversees your morning trainings."
"What!?" Elyn exclaimed, forgetting the protocol that she should keep in front of Saga while he acted like The Pope "I-I mean... S-Supervising a training is the responsibility of the Gold Saints"
"And what was it but your cloth in the past?"
The girl cursed Saga and the powerful cosmos that she kept inside herself to have had the opportunity to receive Pisces Australis's cloth. Yes, it was currently a silver piece but, as Saga had pronounced, the origin of Australis was the same as the missing Saint of Ophiuchus:
"It will be done as you wish, Pope."
***
The warrior arrived at the coliseum at the scheduled time the next day, Saintias's group was already starting basic training and they were waiting for the arrival of their supervisor, muttering about the beauty of the Gold Saints. They didn't know it but Elyn would able to hear them from a distance. There were four, so delicate and perfect that the Silver Saint rolled her eyes and felt that she could defeat all of them just by looking at them... until she noticed one of them: the only one whose hair looked like a delicious sweet made of cotton candy. Without realizing it, her steps slowed down a little to be able to better observe the girl she had fallen in love; the Saintia was a whirlwind of energy that ran from one place to another and joking with the rest of the maidens. She also seemed to have green eyes, two emeralds that shone with excitement when they saw her appear in the area:
"Hi-Hi!" she exclaimed "Are also you a Saintia? You must be new, I don't know you ... my name is Diana! I'm a Saintia of Noctua, and you?"
Elyn was overwhelmed by the way the Saintia spoke. “For the tears of Athena… she's so adorable! Where did this candy come from?” She thought excitedly, the sweetness with which Diana expressed herself captivated her heart in just a second although Elyn's face maintained the calm and inexpressive expression that characterized Camus, nothing on her face made her think that inside, Elyn melted herself at every gesture of Saintia:
"No. I am a Silver Saint" she still replied bluntly and very serious.
"But you don't wearing a mask. Only Saintias can have their faces exposed."
"I don't care about that stupid rule. I am the Silver Saint of Pisces Australis, with or without a mask so don't compare me again with all of you."
"Calm down, Elyn, relax." Milo of Scorpio's voice suddenly rang behind her "They don't know about your pact with The Pope, so relax your words."
The warrior turned around, Scorpio was one of her best friends in the Sanctuary but when she was working in the activities entrusted by The Pope, no one was welcome, especially if he threatened to curtail her authority with the group of Saintias. However, at that moment, the girl knew that he was right:
"I'm sorry." She apologized but the damage was done and Diana, although she accepted her words, looked at her suspiciously.
Then, the Saintia ran towards Milo and hugged the neck of the Gold Saint, he smiled for the contact with the maiden of Athena and Diana's friends screamed in a whisper, excited for to observe the encounter. Elyn was speechless before the trust between them, as if they had known each other for a lifetime but that couldn't be possible since the Scorpio Saint had never mentioned having contact with people outside the Sanctuary although it was clear that there was something between him and Diana:
"Let's go to work." Finally Elyn said.
Even being uncomfortable by the situation, the Australis Saint concentrated all her strength on keeping a cool head and imposing authority on training. None of the girls protested about the change ordened by The Pope, as if it didn't matter that that morning someone with the rank of silver who supervised them; however, the exercises seriously depleted the Saintias. The Saint of Australis had no special attachment for that type of warriors so she tried to make them suffer with a training that could even deplete the Gold Saints... but only one remained standing: Diana gave herself giving one hundred percent of her strength and this baffled Elyn because she had always thought that the Santias were warriors who would hardly be able to face (and defeat) the most powerful enemies no matter how attached they were to the goddess Athena. Diana looked different to the other Saintias and the Elyn's violet eyes watched the girl's body, her amazing speed and the sweat of her forehead falling to the floor; Diana of Noctua had a lot of resistance, she endured any exercise and, above all, she did it with a smile on her face and with words of encouragement to motivate her companions. When the training finished, the Saintia ran to meet Milo:
"Well done!" exclaimed Milo, that he no detail had been lost of exercises while heading towards Diana "I am proud of you, sweety."
The Saintia smiled broadly, captivating Elyn from the distance. The girl had never felt that strange tingling in her stomach, she also wanted to congratulate Saintia for the hard work but something in her mind told her that there was time to retire until the next day. Australis had surrendered to her hatred towards the Saintias and she had spoken very badly to Diana for it, she had even tried to feel superior with training proving that all of themwere weak warriors... but now, Elyn wanted to hide in her temple and never goes out again. For this reason, she left in silence and without saying a single word, thinking she had said enough.
***
However, Elyn didn't suspect that that afternoon, she would receive a visit at Pisces' Temple. The girl was sitting on the back porch, between the steps leading to the Temple of The Pope and the garden of Aphrodite, with a guitar in her hands and eyes closed, humming songs she had learned over the years. A known cosmos caught her attention but, as usual, that shudder wasn't reflected in her hands or the voice, neither in her face; Elyn was used to showing her emotions no matter who was ahead but on the other hand, she was an expert in creating a barrier that no one could cross. Being exposed was only feasible when anger or extreme happiness overflowed her; meanwhile, she tried by all means to follow her brother's advice: to be cold and keep personal feelings aside:
"Do I interrupt something?"
Diana's voice got Australis Saint to open her eyes and stop playing. Gently, Elyn set the instrument aside and turned to watch to the girl, showing a little smile. La Saintia returned the gesture but Elyn was only able to blink while her mind was captive for the emeralds that watched her curiously:
"Oh no; you can pass without problems."
"Actually... I came to visit you, I thought that something bothered you during the training, you left the coliseum with a serious face."
"Don't worry for it, is... just my face." Elyn blushed quickly, remembering how absorbed in her thoughts she had found herself for not saying goodbye to the group she had supervised that morning "I hope it wasn't very hard."
"Maybe a little" laughed Diana sitting next to her "but it has been a while since I had so much fun."
"Sorry, sometimes I forget the rank I have, the fault is my cloth."
Elyn proceeded to summarize to the Saintia that, actually, she contained in herself the cosmos and power of a Gold Saint but that, because Pisces Autralis Cloth had been degraded for to give birth to the Cloth of Pisces, she possessed a rank lower. While listening her, the Saintia brushed her hair from her face and a delicate smell caused Elyn to shudder. Up close, the girl was more beautiful than she had thought at first and the idea of compared her with cotton candy returned to her head, making her imagine that spending the afternoon stroking that mane could be a new relaxing hobby:
"It's so interesting... is it for thit that you know Chinese?" Diana asked.
That question took her by surprise for a second, Elyn didn't understand the why of that question until her brain reminded her that she had been talking about where she found her cloth and chanting while Diana was going through the Pisces Temple:
"Oh no!" Suddenly, a laugh emerged from the mouth of the Saint of Australis "I just try to sound similar. I learn songs while I travel since I was little but I am only interested in rhythm and the lyrics... it just comes from my head."
"You sounds good, I like your voice."
"I'm sure not as much as I like yours, sweet candy." thought Elyn as she thanked Saintia's compliment and when she saw that Diana had no intention of moving from her side, she picked up the guitar again for to return to sing. While tuning the instrument to make sure that no note would betray her, Australis decided to engage in some conversation:
"Since when do you know Milo? I didn't expect you to be friends."
"He's my boyfriend."
"W-What...?"
The Saint's hands stopped and her eyes blinked without believing what she had just heard. The butterflies of her stomach died immediately and the happiness that she had for to have such a beautiful person by her side vanished, Elyn didn't understand the reason because she had just met the Saintia that morning like to feel this distressed by this news. However, she soon regained her good humor when she saw how the effusive Diana told her how she met the Gold Saint, gesturing for anything and getting excited just like a little girl at the details that Milo had had with her over time. From what Elyn soon understood that they both made a wonderful and endearing couple. When Saintia fell silent, they both remained silent for a few seconds, lost respectively in their internal emotions; It was then that Elyn's fingers began to move around the neck of the guitar and her voice was whispering a song she learned the same day that Australis's cloth appeared in her life. The warm sunset also accompanied them, Diana followed the rhythm of the song with a slight nod, causing her cotton candy mane to rock in tandem, giving off a pleasant aroma that mixed with the odor of the roses of Aphrodite's garden. Elyn smiled at the moments of her voice should shut up and let the musical notes flow, sometimes she blushed because she thinking that she connected so quickly with a Saintia was strange, something like a crush but in the depper of her heart, she liked to feel that emotion.
Finally, when Diana said goodbye to her after a good time together, the Saint of Australis gave her one last look at The Pope's Temple. There, she could distinguish the figure of Saga, hidden behind the helmet and tunic of his superior. She knew that he was satisfied with the result of his order and for this, Elyn drew a half smile before losing herself in the Temple of Pisces, contacting the one who watched her via the cosmos:
"Thanks for giving me the chance to meet her, Saga... but you're still an idiot..."
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Extra fact: the song that Elyn hums at side to Diana is based on a song belonging to the OST of the drama "The Untamed" : Click here to listen it It is not necessary to read the real lyrics, remember that Elyn doesn't know chinese and she just hums as she remembers ^-^!
Special thansk to SilvyTaurie for giving me the chance to make my character interact with someone else ^-^!