As she already suspected: A Cloth was waiting for her at the end of the cave. Due to the color of the pieces, Elyn didn't know to differentiate the range to which it could belong but something told her that it wasn't a common piece because its brightness and the cosmos that it gave off didn't seem to agree with the low-ranking armors. However, what was an cloth belonging to the order of the Athena Saints doing in a place like Lantau? The girl advanced a little more to see more carefully what she had found: the object-form of the armor reminded her incredibly of Pisces, it also had a fish shape but it had fewer pieces than the golden armor and the position of the animal's visual was different, somewhat coarser and simple but conveyed the same serenity and beauty.
[ Ιχθείς Αυστραλίας ]
"Ichtheís Afstralías" Elyn read in the base of the piece "Piscis Australis."
A slight vibration in the air determinated that this it seemed to be the name by which the cloth have been baptized. The girl's heart sped up and her mind suspected that this could be the reason why the Grand Pope had ordered Aphrodite to accompany her on her first mission abroad: the constellation of Pisces seemed to be linked to that ancient treasure.
"Well, now the priority is... get this thing out of here." the girl told herself.
The idea of carrying the armor, introducing it in the water and get out to the water it was discarded immediately, she alone wouldn't do it, so that she contacted Aphrodite via the cosmos:
“Dite, I found what we wanted. It's an armor. ”
However, no one answered for a while. Elyn snorted, releasing the air with such force that she lifted certain strands of her soaked bangs, she had no choice but to retrace her steps, locate her travel companion and return when they were both; Now that she knew the exact place where the goal was, they wouldn't need to wait again to the night for to take it back to the Sanctuary.
"Great... thanks, Dite!"
“Elyn, stop protesting. Talk with the cloth, now it's yours.” it resonated then in her mind.
Aphrodite answered her call and, because of the answer she gave him, the girl knew that her partner knew much more about the mission Saga had entrusted to them. The girl looked again at the figure that stood a few meters away from her, a beautiful iridescent fish that simulated jumping out of the water. Was that really the armor she would wear as Athena's Knight?
"Come to me, Australis."
***
Two weeks after returning to the Sanctuary, Mu of Aries visited the twelfth temple with a thick book in his arms. Elyn went out to receive him, as she did with almost all the Gold Saints who passed through the entrance of the Pisces temple because while Camus was in Siberia, she stayed in the Pisces Temple accompanying Aphrodite:
"What have you got there, "MuMu"?"
"I came to bring you this by order of the Pope" said the Lemurian "It contains information about the cloth you brought from Lantau, it's your duty as its future bearer to know its history and this book is the only one in the entire Sanctuary that contains such information."
"But... you know more than this book, right?"
Mu smiled. Of course, she was right; he knew much more than what that book narrated thanks to the teachings of Shion of Aries, the long-haired boy could to enter the consciousness of the armors he repaired, finding in them part of the soul of each saint and learning from the experience they accumulated inside:
"Come on, Mu... I don't want to read what it says here, you make it more entertaining, show me."
How to refuse that girl's request? Aries sighed while still showing the smile he had drawn, he didn't understand how someone who so blindly followed the orders of the strange Grand Pope could like him so much:
"Okay, LittleFish let's go down to my temple."
Elyn was a great friend of Aphrodite and Deathmask, Shura of Capricorn and Milo of Scorpio, all those who inhabited the upper temples had some friendship between them but the rest, those who lived after the temple of Sagittarius, seemed to plunge into another circle: Shaka never opened his mouth (or eyes) or left his trance, Dohko remained in the Five Peaks and sometimes it was rumored that he was also another traitor to the Athena, Gemini didn't occupy his temple, Aioria was a magnet to make her lose her patience and Aldebaran... was a big teddybear but didn't interact much with him either. Mu (or Mumu as she called him) was undoubtedly the one that best suited Aquarius' sister personality: he was smart, pleasant, powerful and the first defense of the twelve temples and for this reasion Elyn had always admired Aries' bravery:
"The real name of the armor is Piscis Austrinus" Mu began to tell her while he leading the girl to the workshop where the cloth in question rested since arriving at the Sanctuary "But also it's known as Pisces Australis; it was the first fish constellation in the sky until the arrival of the twin fish, Pisces; in fact, the Pandora Box that today keeps the Pisces cloth is originally that of Australis. It's said that The Southern Fish, has drunk from the water of the Aquarius vessel and gave rise to the two fish that saved the life of the Aphrodite Goddess, thus giving way to the birth of the constellation that now forms part of the Zodiac."
"So... was it considered unusable after the birth of Pisces? Is that why it wasn't in the Sanctuary?"
"That part of the story is still somewhat confusing but I can say that Australis was degraded to the rank of silver when Pisces armor was forged and has never been dressed by anyone; In fact, some parts were reused and the Pandora Box was used for the twin fish, so it currently lacks a box to be stored. The Pope has entrusted me to create a new one but that will take a lot of time."
"Silver ... Did you say silver? Am I going to be a Silver Saint?"
"Did you expect to steal us any gold cloth, LittleFish?"
"Maybe you doubted it?"
Elyn let out a laugh at such a possibility as she directed her gaze to the object-form of Australis. Now that she saw the cloth with a much more intense light than the one in the cave where he found her, it seemed much prettier than the first time: the armor had a delicate turquoise tone and a bright glow that she had never seen before, it was similar to brightness of the golden armor but in turn, didn't seem to be part of them and after hearing the story that Aries had told her, she understood why. Mu was striving to clean it, to remove all the moisture and dirt accumulated with the step of many centuries of abandonment and he was doing a job worthy of admiration. The butterflies fluttered in Elyn's stomach at the idea of carrying the armor officially in the future, the Grand Pope had given the approval for her to stay with Australis not only for having found it but because her cosmos seemed to resonate with that of the cloth:
"I think it's perfect for me." she finished by saying, running the fingertips over the surface of one of the pieces with great care. "It doesn't belong to the twelve Gold Saints... but if it's related to them, even it's very close to Aquarius and Pisces; just like me. I can feel that it has felt very lonely all this time, Mu... and now that I found it, I don't want it to feel that way again."
***
Years after that conversation, the one who felt lonely was her and Australis, it was more complete than ever.
Since her arrival at the Sanctuary and after the appearance of Saori Kido as Athena, Elyn hadn't poked her head through any training session nor had people seen her again anywhere. The night she presented in front of the goddess ended up spending it in the temple of Scorpio because Milo was the only person who could give her comfort for the death of Camus, Aphrodite and the others who had complemented her life since her early childhood; but the next day, the girl went through all the temples of the fallen Saints, tidying their belongings and keeping everything in a shed that she built deep inside the garden of Pisces.
She finally settled in the twelfth temple definitively since, after all, her armor belonged to that place and Pisces had been her home from the beginning. Elyn also swore to care for and resurrect each and every one of the roses that had perished in the battle of the twelve temples in honor of Aphrodite because as long as there was no new Saint of Pisces, she would keep that place and become the last bastion that It would protect the goddess Athena from any threat.