Shura and Aioros agreed that they would speak the most serious things about Sira via cosmos and the rest, so that the girl would listen to them in greek or spanish. Despite her age, Sira wanted to help prepare dinner and quickly learned to communicate with Sagittarius through gestures, Aioros was very good so she even ended up teaching him new words through small games that kept them busy until quite late.
The clock read almost one in the morning when Shura decided it was time to go to sleep:
"And you? Where are you going to sleep?"
"I will sleep with Aioros on the sofa. Is it a problem for you sleep alone?"
Sira shook her head so, obediently she left the room saying goodbye to both in Greek. When left alone, the Saints of Athena opened the sofa bed and settled in because it was not the first time that they did so since in summer, the living room was the best place to sleep.
***
The days passed and Saori couldn't be happier with the evolution of Sira in the temple of Capricorn. The girl soon made herself understood with the greekt and she managed to get along with Bafi and Helena as well as with several Gold Saints who soon became interested in her.
In just three days, she would definitely move to the Sanctuary to start her training as a future carrier of Capricorn so… it was time to give the conversation that made everyone's hair stand on end: Who was Athena, what was the Sanctuary and who were the Saints of the order of the goddess. Shura was in charge of translating Saori's words, point by point and without softening a single context. He also translated the Sira's questions, which seemed more concerned about not fully understanding the narrative than concepts such as "burn the cosmos." At the end of the explanation, the illustrative image captivated the girl: Seiya, Elyn, Marin and Jabu appeared wearing their respective cloths, explaining one by one the differences between them and the hierarchical order in which they were found. At the end of the meeting Sira was ecstatic:
"LA LECHE, SHURA! (WAO, SHURA) SAORI IS A GODDESS! AND I WILL BE ONE OF HER WARRIORS!"
Capricorn continued to succumb more and more to Sira's charms even though the week had been a long road uphill for him. The girl was hyperactive, she needed to run, scream, vent, and for that reason, Shura couldn't wait to start training her to discharge all that energy. On the other hand, she was also mischievous, too much for him although Aioros said that nothing could be compared to Aioria and Milo during their childhood so the spaniard tried to focus on surviving Sira's tricks: he had woken up many times with a mustache painted on his face, with the entire bathroom turned upside down or the girl had come to jump on him asking for breakfast... not to mention that he had discovered her rummaging through her closet several times in search of a T-shirt that she ended up owning:
"Mola que te cagas." (It's very cool) she had confessed.
That night, Sira tried to tell Aioros on her conversation with Saori but Sagittarius didn't show the same enthusiasm as other times because despite the gestures, understanding Sira's hysterical words was a lost case and in the end, it was Shura the one who told him what happened:
"Well...At least she has taken it well."
That was true, although they didn't know for how long.
***
Shortly after going to the bedroom to sleep, Sira made an appearance in the living room again; Fortunately for Shura and Aioros, the girl looked like an elephant in a china shop, so it was easy for them to put distance in their nightly cuddles before seeing those crystalline eyes appear in the middle of the night:
"What if I'm not good enough for her... Shura?"
Those broken words caught Capricorn off guard, needing a couple of seconds to get up on the couch and pull the girl closer. When Aioros turned on the light, they could see that Sira was about to cry, as if something in the bedroom had destroyed her illusion:
"What do you mean?"
"To the Gold Saints... what if I'm not good enough to protect Saori? They are the most powerful... What if I can't be as them and Athena gets mad at me?!"
Aioros asked for explanations via cosmos, since although his spanish had improved somewhat, understanding Sira when she burst into tears was quite devastating. Shura found himself in the position of calming the girl while his mind informed Sagittarius of the problem, Aioros felt a crush of nostalgia because that phrase had been asked by Aioria when he was little, but it was strange that a girl as current as Sira had that fear more worthy of the past generation in which being worthy of the goddess was a priority.
For his part, Shura knew that he had to stop the crying of the girl because listening to cry was destroying his heart... he had had that fear before and he would have given the life for having someone to explain to him that he was still too young to worry about such problems. As long as she didnt wear the gold armor she wouldn't have to prove her worth but how to explain it to Sira? The answer was quick and much simpler than he had imagined:
"Well, well... calm down, Sira... You know? You have reminded me of a warrior who cried the same way as you before discovering that she had great hidden strength.
"For real?"
"Yes, do you know the story of She-Ra, the right hand of Athena?"
"No, no! I want to know!"
The girl vigorously shook her head and wiped tears from her eyes as Capricorn settled her on the sofa, between him and Aioros, so she could hear what was coming in a comfortable position. Sagittarius had understood his partner a bit and raised an eyebrow without believing what was about to happen:
“A long time ago, when there was still no light or hot water in the houses, the Sanctuary received a group of children who had lost their parents. Among them was She-Ra, little girl who was afraid of everything but that she hoped that by being under Athena's safety, all the ills in her life would disappear. She-Ra was trained for a long time but she always thought she wasn't worth anything, even winning all the battles, every nights she cried because she felt it wasn't enough until one day... PLAS! A sound woke her up. When she got out of bed, She-Ra saw several people leaving the Sanctuary so… since that was very strange, she decided to follow them. ”
"Shura the story isn't like..."
"Shhhh !! Don't interrupt, Aioros." Said Capricorn, solemn and immersed in the environment that he had generated.
“They reached the forest, everything was dark, and the sounds of the monsters of under the bed grew louder but She-Ra wasn't afraid because she was a Saint of Athena! She continued on her way until a voice came over her... It was the Goddess! Those people who had left the Sanctuary had kidnapped Athena and took her away to make soup with her! ”
"A soup?... If Saori listened to you..."
"SSHHHH!!!" Sira exclaimed, very focus of the story.
"She-Ra ran to save her goddess using all the movements she had learned but the kicks that opened the earth and her fists ripping the sky was not enough, no... she needed much more to save the person who had saved her the life when welcoming it in the Sanctuary… She should to fight and to burn the cosmos of her interior! So she stretched out his hand, feeling how it could feel like a sword! And then, she screamed with all the force of her lungs: FOR THE GLORY OF ATHENA!! ”
"For the honor of Grayskull", Shura...
"The Capricorn cloth suddenly appeared and was placed on She-Ra, protecting her from the blows of the bad guys," continued the Spaniard, fully immersed in the story that had just been invented and that kept the seven-year-old girl absorbed on him "Zas! Zas! In no time, She-Ra had rescued the goddess Athena and was carrying her in her arms to the Sanctuary. She had won the battle and accomplished the mission of protect her Athena! ”
"Yes, very well, She-Ra! For the glory of Athena!! zas, zasss!" Sira exclaimed "She-Ra defeated the bad guys!"
"Exactly! She-Ra did it! So tell me, are you going to be like She-Ra?"
"Yeeees! I will save the goddess!! For the glory of Athena!!" the girl imitated Shura, with a move worthy of invoking the Excalibur and hit Aioros "Now you're a bad guy, Aioros, and Shura, you're Athena! I will save you!"
For a second, the Spaniard was afraid to see her move the arm as if she were carrying the real Excalibur and that she was actually able to invoke it, but Sira's cosmos hadn't yet awakened, so he settled for having made her forget the bad time and enjoyed for a few moments being the goddess Athena (wishing that Saori never found out about such blasphemy) and how Aioros and the little girl interacted; He didn't feel like a father, rather it was like living his childhood in which he and Sagittarius took care of a very young Aioria:
"Hey, Sira ... Do you know that She-Ra also had a cat?" Aioros said mischievously
"For real!?"
"Her name was Catra."
"I want a cat and tell her Catra!
"We will never have any..."
"CATRA! CATRA! CATRA!" Cheered at same time Aioros and Sira, looking at Shura, knowing that in the end, they will have a new pet... with the name of Catra.