Athena's statue is crying while the sky gets dark.
Saori wakes up worried and has a vision: a spirit with an hood rises from the floor.
"You're... King of the Underworld, Hades. What do you want from me?"
"Athena, I have come to take you"
The spirit rises his scythe and beheads Athena.

Meanwhile, at the 5 Peaks, Libra is thinking:
"Athena... A dream? Or is it... a premonition? So... the time has come. I was hoping that it would be my imagination, but... the time has come."
Evidently the appeareance of the spirit was just a dream, but is a signal that Hades is going to wake up.
While Libra is still thinking, the visual goes many kilometer far away, where some peaks are surrounded by clouds.
"When the seal - that Athena casted on the evil at the end of the Holy War 243 years ago - will lose its power, the 108 Evil Demons lead by Hades, King of the Underworld, will live again from the depths of the darkness."
While Libra is thinking that, Athena's seal flies away from the tower it sealed and it crumbles.

[A new Holy War is going to start]

Is night time at the Sanctuary and Shaina is having a inspection when she discover that Silver Saints's tombs have been opened.
"From when was it like this?" Shaina asks to Ichi.
"When we passed two hours ago, there was nothing unusual." worried Ichi answers.
"Digging up the graves of the Saints, who did this?!" Nachi asks.
"Stealing the corpses of the Saints, what are they going to do?" Ichi adds.
"Wait. This was not done by digging from above. Rather, it seems like it was blasted from the below." Shaina says, after looking carefully the holes.
"True" Nachi agrees.
"Are you saying that the corpses came out of the grave?!" Ichi is shocked.
"That can't a dead human can't do such." Nachi observes.
"No... There are people that can." thinkful Shaina says, while she watches a falling star "He can... that person that controls death..."

Even at the first Temple Mur is thinkful.
"In the distant past, a huge and evil power was released... Can it be that..."
Suddenly the wind starts to raise powder and many strange falling stars appair in the sky.
A man with an hood arrives, he's like the one in the dream.
"Stop there. If you continue any futher, I can not guarantee your life." Mur says.
After some cold glances to each other, the man starts to speak.
"Mu, you can never attack me."
"What?"
"Did you forget...my face."
Mur catches a glimpse, two familiar eyes appears over the hood and he's shocked:
"C, Can it be... It can't be... Y, You are..."
"Isn't that disrespectful in my presence? Kneel down."
Mur esitates.
"What happened? Can't you follow my orders?"
Mur dedides and quickly goes down on his knees.
"Yeah. That will do. You cannot go against what I say." the man has a short break, then he continues to talk solemn. "Mu, I order you: bring Athena's head here within twelve hours. You can do it."
Obiouvsly Mur can't execute such an order: he would betray Athena.
But he doesn't refuse immediatly, he would betray the man he seems to know well.
"I, I..."
"What are you hesitating for? Now, quickly bring Athena's head..."
"Even if it is your highness's order, I cannot do that." desperate Mur replies.

A red rose appears.
"You know how sinful it is not to follow his highness's order." a familiar voice says.
"That voice...!" Mur exclaims, standing up.
Another cloaked man arrives, letting fall a rose. The light shows his face: he's Aphrodite!
"You are...!"
"Seems like you remembered." Aphrodite replies.
From a near pillar, also Death Mask comes out, laughing, cloaked too.
"You guys!" Mur is getting angry, while the two former Gold Saints are laughing by themselves.
"Death Mask of Cancer." he exclaims with pride.
"Aphrodite of Pisces." he says with sensual voice.
"You, those bodies are... Couldn't pass away and wandered out as a ghost."
Mur is perplexed, so Death Mask starts to speak:
"We are not ghosts. We swore to King Hades and were granted a new life!"
"Hades! King of the Underworld..." Mur is shocked, while the others continue to laughing.
"In exchange for the life, became a puppet of Hades... Trying to take Athena's life... Are you still a former Saint of Athena!? You ought to be ashamed" Mur says.
"Shut up! Living all these years yan't understand the fear of the World of the Dead!" Death Mask exclaims, taking off his cape.
Aphrodite takes off the cape too. They both wear a cloth.
"Why are you wearing the Gold Cloth!?" Mur is surprised, because the cloths's shape is the same of the Gold ones; then, he notice the colour "No, it's different... Black like the bottomless darkness... A cold shine like the moon... It is not the Gold Cloth!"
"Yes, this is not the Gold Cloth." satisfied Death Mask explains "Rather, the Cloth of the World of the Dead, the Surplice! King Hades's loyal soldier of the World of the Dead! The Mark of Specter!"

Death Mask goes on and points his finger:
"Move there, Mu, you are not even worth talking to!"
Mur doesn't pay attention to Death Mask, he close his eyes and open his arms, like he's meditating.
"Are you going against his highness?"
"True... I can never go against his highness. But do not think you wishes will go through me!" Mur answers quietly.
"Then, we will go through by brute force!" Death Mask countersays.
Death Mask e Aphrodite fly close to the ground to pass the first Temple but Mur doesn't move and creates an energetic barrier againts them.
"Sekishiki Meikaiha!" Death Mask tries quicky to break it, but his blow is stopped and returns, like it has been reflexed by a mirror. The saint falls back to a column.
"Meikaiha... was repelled..." Death Mask says sadly, while Mur's barrier is still working "What! This is!"
Death Mask stands up to try again, even if he is not very sure, but Aphrodite interrupts him with elegance:
"Wait, Death Mask. Just the defense of Mu, I'll break through it."
A red rose is flying in the air...
"The black rose that crushes every thing that touches it..."
The rose becomes black and comes back in Aphrodite's hand, with many petals.
"Pirahnian Rose!"
Roses fly to the barrier but they are sent back, hurting badly Aphrodite.
"What!?" the Saint cries, while he falls with a damaged cloth.
"Do you understand now? No one can break through this Crystal Wall. Attacking the Crystal Wall is like attacking your own reflection in a mirror. The attack is repelled, and you merely hurt yourself." Mur explains, protected because he is behind the barrier.
"Enough is enough, Mu." says the man still with the hood that has been silent for the whole time while watching the others "There two are my followers. Everything that you are doing will be a mutiny against me. Deactivate the Crystal Wall."
Mur doesn't say a word but doesn't seem to pay attention to that order.
"I'll force it to. I can't just force my way through it, are you?" the man launch a little light and breaks the barrier easily. Mur stops to defend himself.
"Now, go, to the room of the goddess, where Athena sleeps. Go get the head of Athena." the man orders while his two buds are rising up.
"We're former guardians of the Sanctuary." Death Mask exclaims.
"We know all the passages of the Twelve Palaces." Aphrodite continues.
"Stop it, Mur." the man has noticed a disappointment from Mur "I have said that they are my followers. If you point your sword at them, you are also pointing your sword at me. Are you going to point that sword to me, Mu?"
Mur feels impotent.
"Get out of the way!" Death Mask jumps and knocks him. Mur is hurted.
"You...!" Death Mask hoped that Mur let him pass.
"To defend this Twelve Palaces is my calling. I am Mu of Aries. Even if I get killed, I cannot let them pass."
"Then, I'll kill you!"
Death Mask blows Mur with many fists.
When he expand his cosmo to kill him someone attacks him from the back.
"W, Who interfered with me?!" Death Mask asks, fallen on the ground.

"Seiya..." Mur is surprised.
Seiya jumps toward them, carrying the cloth in the box.
"Mu, what happened? Why are you just letting yourself get beat up? What are these people!?" Seiya doesn't know anything and pretends an answer.
Death Mask and Aphrodite are laughing.
"Aphrodite, Death Mask!" after a while Seiya recognizes them but he still doesn't understand. "Why are these fallen warriors in the Twelve Palaces? W, Why?! Is this a dream or is it a ghost?"
"They are not ghosts. They are now the King of the Underworld, Hades's soldiers, Spectre." Mur answers.
"Spectre?"
Seiya is confused and Mur tries to explain:
"Athena's true enemy, the one who must be defeated. That is... Hades. In the distant past, there was a long and intense battle between Hades, who tried to rule with the darkness and fear, and Athena, who tried to stop that from happening... To stop that, Athena has summoned the Saints to this place."
"So, that was it! The battles until now were all just preliminary skirmishes!" Seiya exclaims, talking about the wars against Ares, Asgard and Poseidon.
"If you understand it, go back. This is no longer a place where a Bronze Saint like you can come. Hurry and leave." Mur wants Seiya to stay out of trouble.
"What are you saying!? How can I go back! I will fight too, for Athena!" obviously Seiya wants to cooperate and doesn't understand Mur.
"If you do not follow, only death awaits you, it is the order of Athena."
"What!? Athena, Miss Saori drove us Bronze Saints like us and said to kill them if we do not follow!?" shocked Seiya exclaims.
"Yes. This is the wish of Athena."
"That's not true! We are Athena's Saints!" Seiya is almost crying but he doesn't "Mu, this is some mistake of some sort! Let me talk to Miss Saori, let me talk to Athena!"Mur doesn't pay attention to him and start to expand is cosmo. Seiya is loosing will.
"It is a mistake of some sort..."
Seiya can't end the phrase because Mur blows him with energy, letting him fall.
"It is not a mistake."
"It is. I won't believe it!" desperate Seiya says, while he rises up.

"You're noisy!" Death Mask, bored by the talking, suddenly attacks Seiya and, sure of his power, blows a punch to his stomach.
"Interfering with me, and the next moment someone complaints! Enough is enough!" says Death Mask to Seiya that is almost crying. "You guys are already done with your job!"
Death Mask kicks Seiya but he blocks with his hand; his eyes looks nowhere, then he talks again:
"Miss Saori, Miss Saori, would never say that!!"
Seiya decides to fight, even if Mur and Athena don't want him to.
"I'm going to do it!!" he says while he wears his cloth after a short 3d movie.
"I'll fight you, come on, Death Mask!"
"Humph, what is that sorry Cloth? Pitiful that even Mu won't mend it. Think you can beat me with that trashy Cloth!?"
"The Cloth will not help you beating me!"
"Is that so!?"
Seiya expands his cosmo while Death Mask prepares himself to attack him.
"Pegasus Ryu Sei Ken!"
Death Mask, who believed to end the battle soon with a punch, is blowed by Seiya's cosmo.
"Stand up, Death Mask! I'll fight you until you blow bubbles like a real crab!"
"You little brat! I'll kick you down into bowels of the Underworld!" angry Death Mask countersays, while he is standing up.
"You, Death Mask, are the one going back down there!"
"Take this, Sekishiki Meikaiha!" Death Mask expands his cosmo.
"Pegasus Ryu Sei Ken!"
Seiya is ready to blow while suddenly he's knocked from the back and paralyzed. Death Mask is surprised too.
"What?"
"Why...?"

It was Mur:
"I said that, if you do not leave, I will give you death."
It seems that, for Seiya, things are getting badly...
"That's... Miss Saori..." he whispers crying, while he goes down to the ground "Is it true that you're finished with us? Why is it, why?!"
Mur is still silent but he really regrets.
"It is true, and on top of that, we'll tell you one more thing: Mu is not only going to kill you Bronze, but he is also going to sacrifice Athena's like to King Hades! Do you get it!?" Death Mask says.
"I am not going believe anything you say!" Seiya replies; he's down on his knees and Death Mask is the only one who can get him angry.
"It is your choice to believe or not," satisfied Death Mask answers "but Mu must do it even if he does not wish to do so. As long as his highness is our ally!"
"His... highness?"
"There is no one that goes against his highness in this Sanctuary. I'll tell you in exchange for a ticket to the Underworld. Listen carefully, Seiya! His highness's name is..."
Death Mask is about to kill Seiya when Mur blocks him:
"Do not meedle unheedingly!"
"What?!"
"I am going to finish Seiya."
Mur hurts Death Mask's wrist and launch him away, then he goes to Seiya.
"Mu..."
"Seiya, go to sleep peacefully!"
Mur starts to expand his cosmo.
"This can't be, Mu!"
Under the sight from Athena's statue, Mur launch his blow against Seiya:
"Starlight Extinction!"
Seiya scompare in un fascio di luce, urlando:
"Miss Saori!!"

Meanwhile Athena is resting in his room in the Sanctuary when she feels Seiya's cosmo.
"Seiya!? I thought I heard Seiya's voice just now." she thinks while she stands up "Oh yeah. I said to not let Seiya and the others near the Sanctuary. He can't be near here..."
Actually a little wake of light is all that remains of Seiya in the first temple...