Netflix Adds Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter Anime Series (Feb 22, 2015) Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, January 28-February 3 (Feb 5. With the help of Athena, the saints increase the power of their armors to a level where they can fight gods. Shiryu, Shun and Hyoga face Hypnos, while Ikki and Seiya reach Hades tomb and find his real body.

Notes: At last I finally finished this. I rewrote everything and from now on nothing will change. This is the story, short, but to the point, focusing on only three characters. Enjoy, tell me what you think and thanks for reading.

Chapter One

Shun suppressed a shudder from the many sounds around him, coming through the thin walls; through the cracks where he saw a figure arch his back, a piece of fabric shoved in his mouth; and throughout the hallway where the rest of his companions were. He lowered his head, staring at the stones below his naked feet, his dried up blood mocking him from where he laid. Unlike him, his blood flowed carelessly around, if not in the same place. There would be more added if the shuffle of feet coming behind his cell door was any sign.

Shun moved his wrist; the leather burned against his skin as the chains rattled to his constant movement. He moved his feet, just to feel the leather rub harshly against his ankles. With hope long gone, he went slack, tucking his chin close to his chest. His green tresses grew more than he would like during his time in prison. It rested past his shoulders, near the middle of his back. No doubt from the filth he bathed in his hair lost its luster. But at the moment he didn't care of the stench he possibly bore; no, his hair concealed his face to the incoming torture was something he adored.

If only for a moment…

When the door to his cellar creak opened, the sound reverberating down the halls, announcing to everyone his turn had come, Shun hissed. Not at the men that entered the room with whips coiled around their hips. He hissed, through clench teeth, when his hair betrayed him (not that it could betray him) as his captor pulled his head back, looking deep into his green eyes.

Staring at him, with an ageless face, skin pale, even under the torchlight, was the God of the Underworld. For the first time, he came to see him, not that it was an honor. He knew eventually Hades will come to visit him.

Shun dare not look away, even when blood dripped past his vision, coming from a reopened wound. His captors jeered at his immobility. Shun paid little attention to them. Another scream manifested through his room, breaking away his concentration. He looked to a side and caught sight of a red glow, while the stench of burnt skin teased his nose.

Hades grabbed his chin and stared into his frighten eyes. The men chuckled at the expression he made but he held no fear toward the occupants in his room. Rather he was afraid if his comrade still lived. But with a hacking cough, he heard him gasp for breath, as the immortality in his blood reawakened him the sixth time throughout the day.

Sadness crept in his eyes. For a moment, Shun believed that his friend had found peace; instead he awoke once more to face the torture again.

Hades smirked, aware of the screams coming from the next wall.

'It's painful isn't it? Hearing them, through and through, never being able do anything. Or maybe you tried,'—his cold fingers danced across his sweaty arm to his wrist—'but the chain was holding you back.'

'What's your point of stating the obvious other than to gloat?'

'To remind you,' Hades said, pulling down his hair to jut his chin out, 'how you didn't protect each other.'

The kill was swift. Shun barely sensed the sword jabbed into his lower intestine, until the blood bubbled out of his mouth, spewing across Hades's face. He pulled out the sword; more blood escaped through his mouth, dripping down his chin, down his ruin clothing, and to the ground.

Shun dangled from his restraints, the pain numbing his senses.

Faintly he saw the king's boots cross his line of vision, gleaming ominously under the torchlight. His red cape swayed as he moved forward and backward and on occasionally to a side. He was addressing his servants; his speech drifting in between his barely conscious state.

Shun then gasped for air. He threw his head back, arched his spine, and took in a breath, smelling smoke at once. Exhausted, he laid limp. He took notice of his wound. It had healed, leaving behind dried blood, a reminder that the dead refused him.

Across from him, sitting on a chair, with a short, oval table near a side, Hades sat, drinking from his wine cup. The room seemed brighter. The torch lights replaced with many candles hung from the ceiling, off the wall, and laid on the floor, away from his throne.

With a little effort, Shun noticed the god in a clear light. Impassive, detached, and not bothered by the heat that engulfed the room, Hades looked pristine in all-black clothing. Not a trace of sweat rolled down his pale complexion. Shun felt bothered at how different he was (after all he was a god) as sweat beaded down his spine and dampened his hair to his skin. He would not show Hades his discomfort but the god smiled, already knowing what had him unease.

'This brings back memories.' He set his cup aside. 'I once had a prisoner, a stubborn, little fool, like you, but his intent was not to kill me.' He rose from his seat, dangling in his hand the hilt of his blade. 'You see he was after my wife, my beautiful, Persephone, which angered me. I had to teach him a lesson. It was my job. Too bad that lesson sentenced him an eternity in Tartarus.'

Shun took in his scent when he drew close to him. Pomegranates, an unusual smell, but it belonged to him.

'But I don't blame him. No. I too fell in love with her physical beauty.'

Condescendingly, he met his eye. 'Still how dare he try to take what is mine.'

The second stab left Shun unprepared. His death was quick, painless, and he succumbed to the darkness instantly. Soon he awoke, in the same room, aside that he had a perfect view of his comrades being whipped and marked like cattle.

'Ah, you're awake,' Hades said. 'My apologies. Sometimes my anger overclouds my actions. You understand. You felt the same way toward June.'

With an empty apology, Hades took a sip of his wine, releasing the name of his partner in an offhand way. The exhaustion faded from Shun's body at once. He was alert, desperate to learn more about June.

'How do you know her?' he said voice raw as if unused.

'Boy, I was in you. Let's put aside the sexual note and focus on what that means.' He stood up, briskly moving his wrist side to side, as if swatting away the implication. 'My soul lived with yours. I read your every thought, sensed your emotions, for fuck sake's, I was you for a moment.'

Within reach, Hades touched his cheek with his index finger, gliding it down toward the curve of his lips. 'Sometimes I wonder if I chose a dimwitted fool as my vessel.'

Shun met his empty eyes. Sabita vabi.

'You've grown quiet, boy.'

He swallowed the saliva in his mouth down his dry throat. For once he realized how parched he was. He mumbled under his breath, angering the god of his low speech.

'I couldn't hear you, boy. Speak up. The prisoners are vocal today.'

Hades yanked his hair. He yelped, and gritted his teeth, annoyed at the mistreatment he received.

'I won't give up hope. You'll see. The others—'

'Others? You mean those ridiculous Saints, your so-called comrades, will save the day? You forget who won.'

'I won't give up.'

Hades released him. 'Now you're repeating yourself.' He turned on his heel, sat on his chair, and crossed a leg, hands placed on his knee. 'Trust me, Shun. You would be pleased to have me as your master.'

'Never.'

Shun assumed the god had rolled his eyes when he said, 'Geez, boy, I'm not saying now. Ponder on the idea. Weigh the pros and cons before you come to your decision.'

He moved his wrists; the chains rattled. 'No, I will never join your side.'

Hades uncrossed his leg and grabbed his sword, laying it on his lap. It was a threat, but Shun was not afraid. 'You Saints on your loyalty. Must I remind you that she is dead? Gone? Deceased? Wake up to reality, boy.'

'No, I won't.' Crackling in lungs and dry cough.

'You like repeating yourself, don't you?' Hades stood, his sword gleaming under the ominous shade of the orange-reddish hue coming from the candles. He approached him, steadily, tauntingly. 'Very well. I won't force you to leave her side.' He stood in front of him; his eyes gleefully taking in his bloody state; and a thought crossed Shun's mind. 'Just don't regret your decision.'

Hades will try to break his spirit.

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An entry in the Saint Seiya franchise, this series is a sequel to the (anime-only) Asgard chapter, and a 'Gaiden Story' to the Hades chapter, as it happens in the interval between the Gold Saints' sacrifice to destroy the Wailing Wall, and the Bronze Saints final battle against Hades.

The Gold Saints just after their death during the Hades chapter, who come back to life on Earth, Far up North, in Asgard. There, a new group of God Warriors, Odin's warriors, have been awoken; Hilda, the Asgardian priestess and Odin's representative, has fallen seriously ill, so she sends her Lady-in-Waiting Lyfia to seek for help..

Tropes:

• Amplifier Artifact: The God Warriors get new, red Odin Sapphires that increase their Cosmo to even the battlefield after they lose their Home Field Advantage and the Golds get a better handle of the God Cloths .
  • Cast From Hitpoints: Said Sapphires amplify the users' Cosmo but slowly drain their soul.
• Artifact of Doom: Loki's ultimate objective is to obtain Asgard's ultimate weapon, the Spear of Gungnir, from the fruit of Yggdrasil once it's fully ripe. When seeing the destruction wrought by one strike from it, destroying the Odin Robe, and greatly damaging the whole land of Asgard, it definitely deserves that name.
• Batman Gambit: Odin pulls an epic one and Out-GambittedLoki, the Trickster God of Norse myth, of all people. Hilda was out of commission, and Lyfia was tricked into resurrecting the Gold Saints, which were to act as a power source for his Evil Plan and as zombie puppets. What did Odin do? Promptly take over Lyfia as his representative, and resurrect the Gold Saints in his name, with their full abilities and powers, so they could stop Loki. And then, one of his God Warriors, Utgardar, commits a Heroic Sacrifice to Come Back Wrong, to provide his own body as a hiding place for the Odin Robe, and to keep on protecting Lyfia so she can bail out everyone with Odin's power when the time is right.
• Back from the Dead: Very literally. The Gold Saints are resurrected and transported back to Earth from Hell.

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  • Utgardar is eventually revealed as this when the markings show up on his body.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Gold Saints ultimately defeat Loki and stop him from taking over the world and send their Gold Cloths (with Poseidon's assistance) to help out the Bronze Saints fighting in Elysium. However, they also decide to return to being dead after their mission has concluded, leaving Lyfia in tears but she continues to tell their story to the children of Asgard, in order for their legacy to be remembered.
• The Bus Came Back: Hilda Polaris from Asgard anime-only arc. And her sister Freya too.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: In this series, every Gold Saints has their own version of exclamation before burning their cosmo to transform their regular Gold Cloth into God Gold Cloth, as seen in episode 13.
  Aries Mu: Rise!
  Gemini Saga: Burst!
  Leo Aiolia: Burn!
  Libra Dohko: Rage!
  Sagittarius Aiolos: Burn!
  Aquarius Camus: Scorch!
  all of them: ..our cosmo!
• Call-Back: All over the place in the 3rd Episode.
• Came Back Strong: Arguably, all the Gold Saints, since they now can summon God Cloths as a Super Mode, unlocking a further degree of power than what they could muster before dying at the Wailing Wall.
• Came Back Wrong:
  • The Gold Saints suffering from Resurrection Sickness seems to indicate this at first.
  • Also, when Loki brings out his Elite Mooks, the Einerjahrs, Dohko points out they don't have Cosmo or anything, and they look like plain zombies, so these fall in this trope.
  • Utgardar is a willing example of this trope, taking part in Odin's Batman Gambit to conceal the Odin Robe.
  • Loki also fully intended for the Gold Saints to come back wrong, but got Out-Gambitted by Odin.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Same as the original series, but taken to ridiculous degree when Aiolia casually breaks down a wall and a chain attached to his leg.
• Continuity Nod: Of the Asgard Saga overall, since it was an anime-only filler and hardly got any recognition before this point.
  • Dohko remembering Aldebaran's defeat against a God Warrior in the past (Mizar or Alcor more specifically).
  • Sigmund is Siegfried's older brother.
  • Deathmask still can't use his Gold Cloth, after being abandoned by it all the way back in the Sanctuary arc.
  • Episode 5 shows both Shura and Aioria's feelings regarding the former's involvement in Aioro's death.
  • The dagger that Saori used to kill herself in the Hades Arc reappears and it's used as an Amplifier ArtifactMacGuffin to manifest God Cloths, to create a gap in Yggdrasil so it can't absorb the Gold Saint's Cosmo.
  • All the former God Warriors appears in episode 9: Sigfried, Mime, Syd, Alberich, Thor, Hagen and Fenrir.
  • Andreas gives the God Warriors a new batch of Odin Sapphires, though these serve as power-boosters rather than keys to summon the Odin Robe. It doesn't stop Frodi from summoning the Odin Robe anyways for Aiolia to don during the fight against Loki though.
  • Episode 13 has two nods in the same scene. After Loki is defeated and the Gold Saints are ready to die again, they muse about how they wish to send their cloths to Seiya and he others in Elysium. Poseidon then reveals himself, saying their Cosmo woke him up, and he is willing to help them send the cloths across dimensions; then, Hilda is suspicious of him because he manipulated her in the Asgard saga, but realizes they have no better option. This wraps up Soul of Gold in both Saint Seiya manga and anime's continuity.
    • Fridge Logic: However, while the events of this series take place in a few days, it is not possible for so much time to pass for the Bronze Saints in Elysium, who go there right after the Wailing Wall was broken. Unless, time flows slower in the Underworld than on Earth, or the Saints spent literal days in limbo trying to reach Elysion across the Hyper Dimension. (Which seems to be the most plausible explanation since the Greatest Eclipse is still underway)
• Crossover Cosmology: The Greek-myth based Gold Saints end up in Asgard.
• Curbstomp Battle: Several throughout the series. Some of the most notable examples would be Aldebaran vs. Hercules during episode 7 and Saga vs. Sigmund during episode 9.
• Deadly Upgrade: Given that overexerting themselves might very well suck their life force, activating one's God Cloth counts as this.
• Demonic Possession: It is suspected it is what happens to Lyfia, or something close enough that the difference is moot. Eventually revealed to be Odin's influence as he is awakening within her, since Hilda can't perform her duties for now.
• Didn't Think This Through: Arguably, Loki with powering up Yggdrasil to produce Gungnir from the Gold Cloths. This enables them to have a modicum of sway over Gungnir's attacks and screw with Loki. Though to be fair to him, he thought to get rid of the twelve Gold Saints BEFORE executing his master plan, was supposed to have offed them for good, and it would have worked too, if not for the Spanner in the Works that was Pisces Aphrodite.
• Doomed by Canon: The Gold Saints.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Oh Lyfia..
• Evil Counterpart: Some of the new god warriors seem to function as this, having similar but opposite qualities as the Gold saints. Appropiately enough, they tend to battle each other so far. Examples include:
  • Shaka and Balder; one being said to be the closest man to God while the other is said to be immortal and maybe a god himself, for extra points, both have long hair.
  • Aldebaran and Heracles both being their teams´ resident Big Guy but one being calm, serene and kind while the other is aggressive and is willing to hurt innocent people.
  • Mu and Fafner; both being their teams smart guys, but one is a Pragmatic Hero, and uses his intellect to analyze a situation and for the greater good, while the other one takes sadistic pleasure in experimenting with innocent people and mercilessly tortures his opponents. Deathmask serves as another good counterpart to Fafner, since both are the 'black sheep' of their respective groups but Deathmask learns compassion for others in this story's beginning while Fafner revels in villainy.
  • Saga and Sigmund; both older brothers who were considered paragons among their respective groups. But while Saga developed an evil side and yet became the Pope of Sanctuary, Sigmund had been loyal and tried to report Hilda's own brainwashing but was branded as a traitor instead. Amusingly, both of their deceased younger brothers, Kanon and Siegfried, take action during their fight to respectively guide Saga's hand and protect Sigmund so that he could be saved from Andreas's influence.
  • Aiolia and Frodi; both being the perfect image of the brave hero on their side, both having ties with Lyfia. But Frodi fanatically believes in his cause, and Aiolia seeks to find the true reasons behind their resurrection and the battle.
• Evil Plan: Andreas reveals that his true objective is to nurture the fruit of Yggdrasil using the Gold Cloths' power, and because of that he manipulated Lyfia into reviving the Gold Saints.
• Fate Worse than Death: Deathmask traps Fafner forever in the the Yomotsu Hirasaka, the entrance to the world of the dead, between the life and the death. And it is AWESOME.
• Forced into Evil: Camus sides with the God Warriors because of a promise he made to Surt after accidentally killing his little sister in an avalanche.
• Foregone Conclusion: The Gold Saints dying at the end of the series.
• Foreshadowing: In Episode 13's opening sequence you can briefly see Julian's possessed eyes, foreshadowing his intervention on getting 5 Gold Cloths to Elysium, like in the original manga.
• Grim Up North: The anime is set in Asgard, which had been used for an anime-only arc of Saint Seiya.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Pisces Aphrodite, big time. First, he demonstrates he can put roses in his enemies, which allows him to read their minds. Second, see Spanner in the Works, below.
• Heel–Face Turn: Frodi and Sigurd eventually change sides when they realize the extent of Andreas's machinations. There's also the case of Utgardar but that was more him being Good All Along.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The Gold Saints give up their new lives in order to stop Loki and save Asgard.
• Home Field Advantage: The God Warriors are stronger when near the Yggdrassil, becoming more than a match for a gold saint. To make things more uneven, Yggdrassil absorbs the Gold Saints' cosmo when they're near it.
  • After Episode 5, Aiolia, Aldebaran and Milo destroy the crystals at the base of Yggdrasil which stops the power drain.
• Hypocrite: In the classic series, Camus says to Hyoga that emotions and feelings are an obstacle. Here, all his entire actions are driven by feelings.
  • This can arguably be justified by the fact Camus merely stated that emotions should not stand in a Saint's duty, which he thought he had fully accomplished by dying again for Athena at the Wailing Wall. Therefore, he thought he could use this second unfettered life to fulfill his pledge to Surt.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Deathmask failed to protect and save the flower shop girl Helena's life in episode 4.
• Important Haircut: Deathmask spends the early parts of the series badly shaven and fooling around, but fully shaves his beard for the final battle as he prepares to avenge Helena.
• My Greatest Failure: When younger, Camus caused an avalanche that caused the death of Surt's sister. Now, he's at the God Warriors' side because he swore to someday compensate Surt for what he did.
• Never Found the Body: Aiolos.
• Off-Model: The series seems to have around 3 animation teams; 'Team A', as the fans are calling them, which makes the battle scenes and gives the armors beautiful lighting, 'Team B' which makes stills and, while there is no lighting, it still looks decent, and 'Team Z' which seems unable to understand human anatomy and the fact that armors have more than one color.
  • There are also isolated incidents such as Aiolia's now infamous 'Giraffe Neck' and Frodi's little ballet steps.
  • Hopefully this should get fixed by the impending Bluray release.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Einerjahrs, as brought back by Loki, tend to be mindless zombies in guard armor that he can control and destroy at a whim. Utgardar is also revealed to have become one willingly to fulfill his duty to Odin.
  • Loki thought he had summoned the Gold Saints as this, tricking Lyfia in performing the ritual, but he was Out-Gambitted by Odin who chose her to be his next representative. This explains why the markings on the Gold Saints and on Utgardar or the Elite Mooks are different.
  • Ultimately revealed in Episode 12: the Gold Saints were resurrected by Odin himself, when Loki attempts wiping out their life essence after doing so to his other Elite Mooks, and realising this failed. Lyfia, as Odin's representative, explains that the Gold Saints have been fully resurrected, with full freewill and their abilities, thus averting this.
• Out of Character: Deathmask is less evil and more goofy compared to normal. Justified in universe in that 1) he did turn a new leaf in the Hades arc (willingly taking part in the attack on the Twelve Temples, and clued in to its true purpose) but willingly played the Obviously Evil guy role along with Aphrodite 2) he died again fulfilling his duty towards Athena against the Wailing Wall 3) now, he just got a temporary new life with no strings attached, he knows it is not going to last, so he thinks he might as well enjoy some harmless fun while he's at it.
• Out of the Inferno: Gemini Saga's introduction at the end of episode 3
• Party Scattering: The Gold Saints came back to life in different places, but apparently all of them are in Asgard now.
• Plot Parallel: The story takes place simultaneously with the battle of the Bronze Saints against Hades to the Elysium.
• Power Creep, Power Seep: A very unusual In-Universe example; The Gold Saints have long been established to be the most powerful non-god members of any army, being stronger than Poseidon's Generals and the other God Warriors, and being matched only by Hades' Judges, and even they get curb-stomped by the Gold's stronger members. And, in a series where the Golds get God Cloths, the only ones who could possibly be a threat to them, power-wise, would be GODS. Hence, the series is constantly changing the power balance to give it a genuine sense of tension, first giving the God Warriors a Home Field Advantage that both makes them stronger AND drains the Golds' Cosmo, making the God Cloth a necesity for victory, and, when that is taken care of, giving the God Warriors an Amplifier Artifact.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Something dark is growing inside Yggdrassil and it's using human lives to feed. Episode 4 ends with Aphrodite defeated and implied to be drained out of his Cosmo and life for this thing to feed.
• Power Gives You Wings: The Gold Saints have now, albeit temporarily, god cloths.
• Retcon: Sigmund is imprisoned in the original Asgard-arc because he immediately noticed the change in Hilda's Cosmo when she was possessed by the Nibelungen Ring (controlled by Poseidon), and tried warning other people.
• Resurrection Sickness: Gold Saints using their full powers and overexerting themselves, such as when activating their God Cloths, will feel bouts of weakness and pain, and collapse, as shown when the Einerjahr markings appear on their bodies, and this is implied this is a consequence of their resurrection.
• Revenge Before Reason: Sigmund know how Siegfried is dead, but blames both Athena and Poseidon for his death.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Dohko openly teases Aldebaran about his former defeat against a God Warrior.
• Ship Tease: On one hand, there's Deathmask's remark about Aphrodite on episode 3. On the other, he also has moments with an Innocent Flower Girl named Elena. Only to have her dying.
• Simultaneous Arcs: There will apparently be several pairs of Gold Saints : Aiolia and Mu briefly, Dohko and Aldebaran are already established. Episode 3 gave us Milo and Camus as rivals and episode 4 gave us Milo and Saga and Deathmask and Aphrodite for a very short time, as Milo decides to work alone and Aphrodite is defeated and trapped in Yggdrassil.
• Spanner in the Works: The reason Loki's plan fails (other than making Gungnir grow with the Golds' Cosmo)? He imprisoned Aphrodite, who is revealed in episode 12 to be immune to vegetal toxins first, which allowed him to fake every imprisoned Gold Saint's death.
• The Stinger: Episode 9 has an extra scene after the ED. Frodi lets Aioria go on towards Andreas' chamber and prepares to take on Utgardar.
• Super Mode: The Gold cloths now transform into Golden God Cloths, though for a brief period of time.
• Take a Third Option: Between killing Fafner and a group of children that Fafner is holding hostage and letting him off the hook to protect the kids, Deathmask takes the choice of.. coming up with a technique that lets him trap Fafner in a Fate Worse than Death, defeating him and freeing the kiddos.
• The Worf Effect: In the episode 6 is revealed that Aiolos was resurrected before the other Gold Saints. But has faced immediately Andreas and, weakened by Yggdrasil, he was beaten (managing only to injure Andreas's eye). Then it turns out he still survived, showing up in-person to help Aiolia fight Andreas again.
  • Addressed and defied in regards to Aldebaran. In both of his fights with Herakles, he clearly dominates in contrast to Aiolia's difficulties with Frodi.
• Undeath Always Ends: At the end of the series, the revived Gold Saints decide to give up their lives once again in order to help out the future generation in their fight.
• World Tree: The legendary Yggdrasil that seems to have a central role in the history. It makes the God Warriors stronger and Asgard's weather warm. It's also sucking the life of people trapped in its roots in order to grow something dark inside it.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: About half the Gold Saints have this. Lyfia has sky blue hair.