Unsurprisingly, so is Hitan, and so isn't Dolphin, whom is still off at the coast terrorizing other SAMBers. The second-oldest member of the gang was analyzing the ice block, which really wasn't much to look at, except for the fact it was too shimmering and it had no cracks in it at all. It was too perfect, and accompanied by the ice particles and snowflakes floating around it, it was a bit too beautiful, too. Like it was decorated for the person in it.

Well, it was called Freezing Coffin, after all.

The maker of that same coffin was leaning on the side of it, looking towards the distance, his expression as cold as usual and not betraying any guilt that he held inside. Meanwhile, Milo was blathering on to Shura about something, though the Capricorn didn't exactly seem to be engaging in listening, staring off into the distance.

Gemini was obviously absent, though whom knows if that's a good thing or not.  

Galaxian looked pretty peaceful overall. His wounds weren't healed, though, as he was still frozen in that coffin. His position was still the same, as could be expected.

The gang was mostly waiting for Echo to show up, as they had said per instructions, but they seemed to be pretty restless. Well, maybe except Shaka. He looks pretty content in his current cross-legged position.

(During the time Echo comes in, the effect of the spell had worn off)

Echo turned visable in front of Galaxian's ice coffin. 

"Uh, hi," Echo mumbled, staring at the huge gang. 

"Dolphin! Quit scaring the SAMBers!" Silence yelled. 

(No worries, they're strong. :D)

"Hi," Shura greeted sharply.

Dolphin responded from across the world with a high-pitched shriek like, You don't say?!

Echo clasped her hands together while saying, "Now what do we do?" 

Silence looked annoyed out of her mind. 

"WE'RE HEEEERE!" North screeched, dragging Lilian with him. Lilian panted, face flushed from running so much, "A-are we late?" 

Echo nervously said while turning  quite a bit transparent, "I thought we might need some extra help..." 

Shura started to say something, but was interrupted by North and Lilian.

And then Milo, because the youngster grinned and said, "Can't be late if there was no time set in the first place."

Shura rolled his eyes slightly, shutting them as he did so, then turned his head towards Echo. "We have a bit of a hefty plan that may or may involve crossing to an alternate dimension."

"Universe," Hitan corrected, not looking very fazed.

Dolphin knew how to use telekinesis, so it dropped a bagel onto Silence's head while continuing on to do what it was doing.

Silence cursed at Dolphin, not caring how many children were around. 

Echo's eyes lit up, and she turned fully visable. She seemed to get excited, and as she rambled her voice got louder. 

I do this a lot IRL, when I get over-excited I basically shout everything

"Ooh! Another universe! I've been to multiple universes before, other than diamensions! Universes are fun! What universe are we going to?!" 

Lilian smiled at the comment, and North laughed his loud laugh. 

Incoming...

(Forgive if doubles)

Shura blocked off his ears. Shaka didn't seem to do anything. Camus clapped his hands over Milo's ears. Hitan looked unbothered.

Especially since Dolphin returned them, in his language.

"It's...complicated to explain," Camus tried to explain, though Milo was wriggling around to get his friends' hands off of his ears.

The other three couldn't hear him, so there was no clarification. Hitan stayed silent with his usual neutral expression.

Echo still was excited. 

"Well, try your best to explain the universe!" Echo cheerfully said, clapping like a young child, stars in her eyes. 

Silence started to swear in Glitchian, then decided to stop to take a break from yelling, for now anyways. 

Dolphin shrieked back curses in the dolphin language. Shura covered his ears. Camus reached over and clapped his hands over Milo's ears. Hitan looked unconcerned.

"It's...hard to explain," Camus tried to say, except for the fact Milo was now scrambling around to get his best friend's hands off his ears.

"All we know is that we won't be there when we go there," Shaka explained. "Everything else of knowledge is in Galaxian's hands. We also know we can't transport him there, so we need a place to put him. Though nothing of harm should come to him once we're gone. Otherwise, everything is set."

Echo nodded, then said, "Is it okay if I say bye to Galaxian? I mean, it seems like we will be gone for a while..." 

Silence screeched in Glitchian to Dolphin, which by her tone wasn't so... "nice" things. 

Camus nodded.

"Well, you don't have to ask us," Shura added sharply, probably a tone he didn't intend to use.

Dolphin screamed back in dolphin.

Hitan ignored the havoc going on. "I can stand watch over him." He smiled at Silence. "Good times."

Echo flinched visably at Shura's tone, but nodded. 

She turned at took a few steps towards the frozen Galaxian. 

"Well... uh... we'll get you out of here soon!" Echo said, trying to stay positive. "And, uh, bye for now, if it takes a few more... days expected." 

Echo didn't want to accidently say, "If something bad happened," because she didn't want to think like that. 

Good vibed were contagious, from what she heard, so Echo was going to stay positive! 

Hopefully. 

Silence sighed, "Next time I see Dolphin, he is most deffinatly getting slapped."  

Dolphin whistled in glee and dropped another bagel onto Silence's head from afar.

Galaxian didn't respond, though it looked like he smiled for a millisecond. Probably an illusion.

Milo tapped the ice with his fingers in an almost affectionate way and stood up.

Hitan's wings appeared with a flourish and he flew onto the top of the ice block, looking before coming back down.

"Let's go find whomever it is that can help," Camus decided, waving his hand slightly.

Shaka stood up suddenly, the support being the air, and raised his hand. "Are you all ready?" he asked softly.

Echo faced Shaka and nodded. Quickly, she dragged a now very angry Silence, Lilian, and North over. 

North waved at frozen Galaxian, Lilian gave a small respectful bow, and Silence gave a nod towards his direction. 

"We will not be there in technical sense," Shaka emphasized, and then he started glowing with gold light, as did Milo, Shura, and Camus.

"Don't talk while being in the Dimension," Shura reminded, before they, along with Silence, Lilian, North, and Echo, vanished for an instant.

The next moment, they were apparently in a network of...voids, twirled together. At the end seemed to be pitch black, but the four Gold Saints were trying to veer to the side.

After about five more seconds, Echo, Silence, Lilian, and North dropped down onto the ground from a fairly high height, and Galaxian's gang was nowhere in sight. 

Echo stiffled in a scream, and unfolded her wings. 

North carried Lilian in his arms, gliding. The reason was that Lilian's once beautiful dove wings were burnt and broken. 

Silence didn't seem to mind the falling from the air, and landed rather gracefully on her feet, while Echo stumbled and nearly

face-planted. 

North and Lilian landed softly.  

Echo looked around, and was about to yell out, but remembered Shura's words to not talk.

The narrator would like to clarify that the universe is not the Dimension. The Dimension was the network of voids.

It seemed like quite the nice place. The place seemed to be overlooking a town--a city, and a very large one at that. It was thriving, and populated. Many people were moving to and fro, and most seemed to be friendly.

On top of a board stacked onto a pillar were words carved, probably in Greecian: "Sanctuary, Athens, Greece". But the font looked enough like English to make it out.

Where they landed were closer up, where it seemed to be different. There were ruins of pillars, though workers were harrying to fix them. Many people were in training outfits. They were so engaged, no one had noticed any of them yet. 

Echo signed in sign-language, "Well, where did the rest of Galaxian's gang go?" 

North was too busy looking around, wide-eyed, pointing at random objects. 

Echo thought, raising a brow at the sign, "Athens, Greece?! What?!" 

"Hey, y'all, what are you doing here? You ain't looking like any trainees here," shouted a voice. It belonged to one of the people in the training outfits, and he spoke strangely-fitted together English. He had curly brown hair and a pretty muscular/tall physique, looking about twelve. He looked suspicious...

Echo, relaizing that maybe she could speak in this place, stammered out(and taking not of how sketchy this guy looked), "O-oh! Sorry! W-we didn't mean t-to intrude! Um, we'll leave as soon as we find some friends!" 

North walked up behind Echo, and Lilian gave a slight bow to the guy. 

Lilian said softly, "Greetings. We will not be here long. We mean no harm to anyone here." North only gave a simple nod.  

He doesn't exactly look sketchy. He looks suspicious of Echo and the rest.

"What friends?" he asked. "I didn't know we were allowed to have friends visit here." He didn't seem to relax much, though.

Ooh, I thought you meant he looked like a suspicious person

"O-oh, um, what?" Echo asked, tilting her head. "Not allowed to have friends?" 

"No, not allowed to have friends visit, so unless you're some distant relative of the Patriarch, you probably wouldn't be here." The boy looked over Echo and her gang. "Though you don't look like Him at all. Other than the hair color."

oof, Phil let my post through

"Oh nO, oH no, Oh No!" Echo mentally screeched. "I said something wrong! Wait! Just lie!" 

"O-oh, um! Yes, we are very distant relatives!" Echo lied, biting her bottom lip and turning a bit transparent. 

North and Lilian kept strait faces, and Silence only scowled and crossed her arms, glaring at the man before the gang.

The boy frowned. "You're not very good at lying. You don't even have a Cosmos. His Highness has one that can envelop the entire Sanctuary." He glared back at Silence.

Echo turned completley transparent and cried out quickly, "I'm sorry! We don't mean any harm, we'rejustlookingforpeopleI'msorry!" 

Silence rolled her eyes and said, "What's so inportant on knowing who we are, hmm? And, Cosmos? Highness? What are you even talking about?"

up

"You know intruders to Sanctuary get..." The boy made a slashing movement just above his throat, then raised an eyebrow. "You were lying, weren't you?"

Echo became visable, and had her battle axe out, and her eyes narrowed. 

"Even try to hurt me or my friends, I swear I'll fight," Echo breathed out. 

Truth was, Echo was never more fearful in her life of one rule. 

Wait. 

Maybe that was a lie, but it made adrinaline pump into her veins.  

"And I was lying about being a relative, but I'd never hurt someone without a good reason." 

uP

The boy narrowed his eyes at the battle axe. "You make yourself seem so honest and trustworthy, huh? Are you a Specter or Dryad in disguise, or some other warrior sent down by one of the deities to wreck havoc on Sanctuary?"

The other trainees had taken notice and were kind of crowding around, but in an expansive circle. They were muttering things in another language, and it didn't sound necessarily friendly.

Echo sighed, glancing around. 

"Well, I'm not excactly sure what a Specter or Dryad is... so..." 

Echo shrugged, and made her axe dissappear, although ready to make it re-appear if nessicary.  

"I guess you never heard what a Glitchian is, which is what we are..." 

Echo did a full turn, looking at all the people. 

She muttered in Glitchian, "Well, this could be worst. They could be attacking." 

Which sounded to like, "Akwbgid Jdheb Jsknehrjf. Iduwhbrjg ieib jehvfr." 

Gotta love the fact I'm just clicking random keys

"Ugh. Tell your people to leave us alone!" Silence growled. 

Lilian added quietly, "Please." 

"What are you actually here for?" the boy demanded, then said some other things in Greek. He started pulsing with green light slightly--actually, like the way Galaxian glowed when his aura started up. But the trainee was obviously much weaker. His fists clenched by his side.

"We're here, I guess, to try to get a friend out of an ice coffin," Echo said with a shrug. 

"But I don't think we meant to come here. I think we were suppost to arrive at a different diamension... maybe." 

Echo mumbled under her breath, "Shura please come quickly and get us out of this mess..." 

"An ice coffin?" the boy looked confused, but then he turned back, and his eyes widened.

Because apparently Echo jinxed it. A serious looking young man with serious resemblance to Shura was standing there. Apparently the trainees thought he was annoyed, because they scrambled back, mumbling apologies.

The young man ignored them, focusing right on the outsiders--that is, Echo and her gang. He had spiky, dark green hair and long, narrow, and almost-black eyes. He was lean and thin, yet with strong body structure at the same time. He was tall and looked about twenty three-ish...? Nonetheless, his gaze, much older and wiser, seemed to be dissecting them bit by bit, and he was completely unmoving and silent, as if waiting for them to make a move.

Echo turned, and saw the man. 

"Oh! Shura! Thank..wait" She mumbled the last part, and felt uneasy by the man's stare. 

"He ain't Shura..." 

Echo stared back at the man, and turned mostly transparent. 

North and Lilian started to talk to each other, glancing at the man, and the two started to make a plan. 

Silence glared at the man, but didn't feel uneasy at his stare. 

"What are you looking at?!" Silence snarled. 

"Silence! Don't be rude!" Echo hissed quietly. 

The man narrowed his eyes at what North and Lilian were saying, though he didn't say anything else. If he felt surprised that Echo had associated him with the name "Shura", he didn't show it.

"What's the meaning of this, Adrian?" he asked the boy trainee in Spanish-accented English, whom flinched.

"Uhh..." he stammered. He gestured wildly at Echo and her gang. "They claim to be trying to save someone out of an ice coffin. And that they're looking for s'meone. And..." he muttered many other things in Greek, to which Shura gave the faintest of nods and considered Silence, silently.

"Have I seen you around before?" he asked, adjusting the shoulder pad on his shoulder slightly, with the same unrevealing gaze.

So I am in confusion

Okay, it's only us POVing and this thread has five stars 

SAMBeria egg-splain! 

EGG-SPLAIN.

WHY IS IT US POVING

AND THIS THREAD HAS FIVE STARS