Sakura The Silver Saint Of Lynx

Prologue

Ascending the stairs that led to a room, he stopped and looked at the two cribs. One housed the newly reborn Athena, while in the other slept the one-year-old reincarnation of Nike. The child was not his concern right now as Athena was the bigger threat to his plans, Nike would be easier to control. Removing the dagger from his slave, he approached Athena's crib and raised the dagger, aiming it for her heart, but a hand stopped it and she began to cry as blood dripped down onto her crib. Aioros, one of Athena's two oldest Gold Saints had stopped the Pope from killing the girl, but pushing him away, the Pope tried again, only to miss as Aioros grabbed the baby, knocking the Pope away as he attempted to attack again: surprising the Sagittarius saint when he saw who was really hiding behind the mask of the Pope. With Athena safe in his arms, Aioros attempted to flee Sanctuary with the baby goddess, unable to take her and Nike. He knew Nike would be safe, she wasn't a threat and would be useful. Turning from the window, the fake Pope glanced at the other crib, all the noise had woken Nike, who was standing in her crib by holding the side of it while her deep blue eyes starred at him, she made no sound as he placed a hand on her head, all she did was blink as one of the relatively new Gold Saints, Capricorn Shura arrived to recive his orders. The Pope dispatched him to kill Aioros, branding the Sagittarius saint a traitor who had tried to harm Athena and Nike, Shura did not question his orders and left to do as he was told, while a maid entered the room to remove Nike while the room was repaired. But the Pope ordered a room to be created near him as he did not want anyone else trying to harm Nike again: no one questioned this and did as the Pope asked. For the next 13 years, Nike grew up under the Pope's watchful eye, her goddess powers not fully matured, as he was making sure that part of her remained locked away as much as possible. Instead, he raised her as a Silver Saint of Athena, the Silver Saint of Lynx, no one knew that Nike, and the agile Sakura were one in the same as her face was always covered, and her hair whenever she was appearing before someone as Sakura: only the Pope saw her without mask and hair covering and had named her Sakura because when the sun hit her hair in the right spot, there seemed to be an almost pink tinge to it. Pisces Aphrodite and Cancer Deathmask were the only Gold Saints who knew Nike and Sakura were the same person, the others did not and that was how the Pope wanted it to remain: for she was loyal to him without question, completely devoted to her master, whatever task he asked of her, she performed to perfection, he had forged her into the perfect weapon and the perfect soldier, easily as powerful as a Gold Saint: she was his key to making the world his, there was no one who could stand in his way now...