The novelization of Saint Seiya. The story of Seiya reimagined, written and told with some important alterations on the story.
Cover Artwork: Tiago Fernandes (@tfernandes)
An absolutely impossible image: a body flying through the air. So unused to looking at the sky and much more adept at looking at mirrors and cell phone screens, the awake citizens that night didn't even notice anything weird.
Seiya, Shun and Hyoga followed the flock of crows that flew carrying Saori's unconscious body. They crossed avenues, streets, gardens and took the direction of mountains they already knew from past battles.
But the crows climbed to even higher and more unknown escarpments.
Skilled, trained warriors like they were, the three of them leaped from stone to stone, deftly climbing the huge heights of the mountain. And, as they carried nothing, they very quickly arrived at the band that struggled to take flight.
From a higher stone, Shun threw his chains and hit some large crows that disbanded, making Saori's body topple dangerously.
"Be careful, Shun!' Seiya warned, moving forward.
Hyoga also launched a blast of ice that crossed the sky, driving away other birds from the flock.
"I'll get her with my chains, Seiya!" said Shun said, releasing his chain again, which caught in Saori's fists preventing the crows from flying on.
Part of the group that didn't carry the girl's weight turned to them, but they were soon pushed aside by Hyoga's freezing cosmos.
Slowly, Shun managed to pull Saori's body, because, in the air, the crows were still struggling to thrust forward; until they no longer resisted Shun's strength and two of them abandoned Saori, to Hyoga's despair, who tried to alert his friend.
For Saori would fall over the precipice.
Seiya jumped off the rock towards her.
"No, Seiya!" shouted Shun, seeing his unprotected friend launch himself into the darkness trying to reach the falling body still attached to his friend's chain.
She was still far away and Shun knew he would have to trust Seiya, as the fall would be fatal if he kept the chain attached to the girl; the sudden stop could break her arm, or the momentum of the pendulum could slam her deadly against the stone wall. He retrieved the chain and prayed for the best. He saw the body fall against the sky and Seiya's figure jumping towards her.
"Glide, Pegasus." prayed his friend.
And Seiya fell towards Saori's body. Her white dress closer and closer; he stretched his arms forward and finally caught her from falling into the abyss; he had the dexterity to hug her and turn on his own axis so that the impact against the wall in front of them was all in his body. And from there they fell back down the cliff, the height was much lower, but Seiya's arm snapped when he stretched it out in front of him to stop the fall that could be fatal to both of them.
They stopped immediately; Saori fell a few centimeters on the stone, while Seiya rolled to the side, crying out in pain. His arm broken. He looked to his right and saw Saori's white dress with her arm sticking out of the abyss that steeped further down. He pulled her to lean against the wall and felt a huge pain in his arm.
At least she was safe. She was alive. He took a deep breath, seeking air.
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