Constellations of Magic

Chapter 4

'Almost there Kaeda, almost there. Just a couple more steps and then you will be at the Leo Temple. Just need to get into my room to grab the cloth box to finish my personal mission.' Goes through the head of said blonde haired girl as she continues on her run down the flight of stairs which connect the Virgo and Leo Temples. She was so tired and just wanted to fall asleep but knew that she had to get to the Aries Temple before she could go to bed.

Finally, Kaeda finishes climbing down the stairs and makes her way into the Leo Temple, heading straight for her bedroom in a rush. Standing in the main room of the marbled building, you would be able to see a few different hallways around you but there was one specific hallway to your right that went deeper into the darkness of the temple. The lanterns and touches which lined the main room were all either burned out or were turned off by that of the Leo Gold Saint. The 16 year old has no idea if he was asleep or was still awake but she did not have enough to go and check. She wanted to go and say hi to her older brother before leaving the temple but knew that she had to hurry to her bedroom.

With that decision in her mind, Kaeda makes her way down the unlit hallway towards her designated room, passing by a decent sized door on her right as she moves down the hallway. The constellation representing the Leo is engraved into the middle of the mahogany wood, with an outline of a roaring Lion framing the engraved constellation. The blond haired girl smiles with familial love towards the room but then turns away, taking step after step towards her own room which has the constellation of the Byakko engraved into its wooden base, showing off that this was the bedroom of the Byakko Saint.

The blonde haired girl placed her hand onto the door handle, stopping for a slight moment though to suck in a deep long breath of air, before slowly pushing down on the handle to open her door. The light brown wooden door opened all the way to reveal Kaeda's bedroom, there really wasn't much in it though besides a lone bed, a curtain covering the window on the farthest wall away from the door, and a small desk next to her bed with a lamp in one of the corners and a journal in the middle of the desk. Big lettering could be seen written upon the front cover of the leather journal and as Kaeda got closer to the desk, she could see that the lettering spelled out, 'Life At Sanctuary.' It was essentially a diary of the many years she has lived within the grounds of Sanctuary, including the meeting of her friends, the Bronze Saints, and even her boyfriend, Phoenix Ikki.

Kaeda smiled and then turned away from the desk, dark blue eyes landing on a big silver metal box, beautifully decorated with the symbol of the White Tiger and other ridges rising from the box. This was her Pandora's Cloth box, the one she had traveled all the way down from the top of the mountain to retrieve, and now that she has it, it was time to head the rest of the way down the mountain towards the Aries Zodiac Temple. Kaeda makes her way from one side of the bedroom to the other, where the box was located at the side of her bed, and grabs onto one of the shoulder straps, picking it up with ease even though it seemed to be quite heavy due to the armor set living within.

Pulling the box up and onto her shoulders, Kaeda turns back towards the doorway and starts to make her way out of the bedroom, facing the door to close it as the blonde haired girl makes it full out of the room. She goes to face away from the door and just as she turns to start walking once more, she comes face first into a hard chest, knocking her off guard and causing her to fall backwards onto her butt. She squeaked out in shock and then made a loud grunt as she landed on her butt, rubbing it to soothe the pain away and look upwards at who it was that she had run into. The frown that had once been on her face quickly turned into an excited grin as she realized that this person who she had run into, was the Guardian of the Leo Temple Leo Aioria and the man that she calls her big brother. She stands up from her position on the ground and hugs him tightly with a high pitched, excited giggle coming from her vocal cords. Kaeda was so excited to see her brother and she didn't have to go looking for him before she made her way to the Aries Temple.

"Woah there Kaeda. What made you all excited? Not that I'm against it or anything, I'm happy to see you too." Aioria says whole wrapping his own arms around the blonde haired 16 year old. It seems that he wasn't wearing his cloth, just like all the other Gold Saints, except for a certain few that were probably going on missions at that time.

"Nothing Aioria, just happy to see you!" Kaeda says with a huge grin on her face. "I was just about to head down to the Aries Temple since Mu wanted to take a quick look at my cloth." She continues to say as she pulls back from the hug with the 20 year old, brown haired male.

"So late at night?" Aioria questions slightly at the odd suggestion of having a cloth check up in the dead of night  even though the sun had set not even 2 hours before Kaeda arrived at the Leo Temple to retrieve her cloth box.

"I don't know, but don't worry, I'll be back soon so I can get to bed on time. Don't we have a training session tomorrow with Seiya and the others?" Kaeda asks, remembering that her friends were supposed to be coming to Sanctuary in the morning from Japan.

"Yes, Seiya and the rest of the Bronze Saints who faced off against Lord Hades are supposed to be coming back to Sanctuary in the morning. We wish to see how the Bronze God Cloths stand against the Gold God Cloths." Aioria responds to Kaeda's question with a soft smile on his face.

"Sweet! Anyways, I really gotta get going, Later Big Brother!!" Kaeda says with a huge smile on her face and then starts to run out of the Leo Temple with Aioria calling out behind her, "Bye Little Leo!" Making her giggle with glee, happy that she had the best big brother ever with another brother who she is getting to know, Sagittarius Aioros.

Kaeda ran as fast as she could down the stairs, which connected the Leo Temple and the House of the Cancer, with her cloth box on her back. She only had a couple more temples that she had to get through, which were Cancer, Gemini, and Taurus before she could even begin to walk through the House of Aries. At least once she hits Gemini, she can give Shura's message to Aioros, that is if he is even in the Temple of the Twins visiting the twin Gemini saints Saga and Kanon. Mostly visiting Saga due to the two oldest saints, besides Dohko and Shion, being in a relationship.

Once both of her leather bound feet touched the platform in which the Cancer Temple resided on, she slowed down out of respect and walked at a slower pace then what she would have normally done at any other time, since it was late at night and all that. She didn't even know if the Cancer Saint, Cancer Deathmask, was even still awake so Kaeda decided to go at a slower pace so she wouldn't wake him up if he was trying to sleep. Normally he would still be up speaking with the spirits of the Underworld, or he would be going up to the Pisces Temple to annoy (or better yet cling onto) Pisces Aphrodite.

The 16 year old finally reaches the entryway into the Temple and walks right in, looking around to see if Deathmask was still awake. When she could not see any actual movement she reached out her Cosmo energy to see if it could locate the dark blue haired male. A golden Cosmo could be felt responding to her call and she smiled, at least knowing that he was in the Temple and not out annoying anyone to death. Deathmask always did have that certain personality about him that would make you question if the man was sane in the head or something else.

Kaeda continues on through the Temple of Cancer, noticing that Deathmask wasn't even going to try to stop her from continuing, which was a good thing because seeing all the little faces on both the walls and the floor could be a bit freaky at times. Especially when it was late at night and there was no actual source of light to help keep the mind from playing tricks on the viewer of said faces. She shivered at the thought of the faces possibly coming to life and so she just kept her head facing forwards and did not look back until she was out of the Temple fully. Once she could see the beautiful dark blue sky with all the twinkling little stars above and around her again, Kaeda let out a huge sigh of breath that she didn't even realize she was holding.

"That was scary and thank goodness I don't have to do that again until later on." Kaeda says to herself as she starts up her run once again, her hands gripping onto the shoulder straps of her cloth box even tighter to make sure that the metal container was still there and was not going anywhere, anytime soon.