Taurus
"Fallen stars?" I asked my eleven other friends. "What are those?"
"Ms Medea mentioned them. So did Mr Argonautica." Sagittarius mentioned.
"Mr Argonautica was probably talking about those he mentioned in that vision." Aries piped up. "What was the list again? Hercules, Perseus, Andromeda, Orpheus, Phrixus and Helle."
Scorpio eyed her brother like she was trying to communicate with her eyes. Aries made a signal telling her to knock it off.
"Hercules, Perseus and Andromeda are constellations." Virgo noted.
My sister Libra who had just walked into the room said, "Aren't those the names of some of our teachers?"
Pisces immediately jumped up from her seat. "That's what I said! Ooh, maybe all of our teachers are secretly constellations-"
"That's not exactly true, Pisces." Aquarius interrupted her. "Medea is a sorceress from an ancient Greek myth. So is Jason, Orpehus, Phrixus and Helle. Atalanta too, if we're talking about her."
"But they're all Greek related." Capricorn noted. "There has to be some sort of connection."
"I remember reading some Greek myths when I was younger." Cancer recalled. "I remember Phrixus and Helle being in some myth related to the Golden Fleece. Yeah, it was some ram who was later raised into the heavens as the constellation Aries..."
At that very moment, all of our heads turned to look at Aries. I could've sworn that Aries whispered "Fuck off" under his breath.
"Do you still have the book?" I asked him. He ran into his room and returned with a hardcover book titled "Tales of Constellations".
"They have stories of every constellations here." He said, flipping through the book. "They have zodiac constellations as well... Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces..."
Gemini sat up at the mention of her name. "This has to be a coincidence. Our names match those of the twelve zodiac signs."
Leo, who was checking his phone for something, looked up and said, "It might not be." He showed us a video of Ms Medea and played it to us.
She was talking to her phone. "Master Orion. Yes, the Zodiac Signs are still in Earth. They're teenagers, still unbelievably stupid. I haven't had the need to kill them just yet. Yes, yes, I know their names. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. I have one of them here right now. No, no, he hasn't annoyed me just yet. None of them suspect anything. They don't know about me being an all-powerful sorceress or anything. I await your orders, sir. We will rid the universe of the Zodiac Signs, and soon the entire universe will be under my- our control!"
None of us said anything. That silence was interrupted by Sagittarius the conspiracy theory lover, who was muttering something under her breath.
Even Virgo was shocked. "I-I don't understand."
Leo looked up at us, a grim look on his face. "Don't you get it? We're the Zodiac Signs."
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I lay there in bed, Capricorn fast asleep in the bed beside mine. I couldn't stop thinking about what we had this afternoon about us being constellations. From what I understood, our science teacher was working with someone to get rid of us, some of our teachers were people from Greek myths, and we were constellations.
I forced myself to fall asleep. Even as I did, I couldn't stop the flood of dreams that were coming at me.
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I found myself in a small space, a tower of a fortress, nonetheless. I was standing beside a tall man. He had brown hair and grey eyes. He wore an ancient Greek tunics, and he had a quiver of arrows and a bow slung on his shoulder.
"Excuse me, sir?" I asked. He paid no attention to me.
All of a sudden, the door broke down. A tall, large man wearing a lion-skin cape barged into the room. He held a large club by his side
"Stop whatever you're doing now!" He demanded. "Don't make me try to stop you."
He reminded me of my PE teacher, Mr Hercules.
The brown haired man I was standing beside sneered. "Hercules, the most well-known hero of all time. Here to stop me, I believe."
Hercules raised his club. "You can't stop me, Orion."
Orion. The name had been mentioned by Sagittarius, Leo and Aries countless times.
Hercules charged at Orion. The two had some sort of a wrestling match before Orion retreated behind a machine. The machine seemed familiar, and I wondered to myself where I'd seen it before.
"Dealing with illegal Banishers now, aren't you." Hercules readied his club, ready to strike.
"Come at me." Orion sneered. Hercules leaped forward, ready to smash Orion's skull with his club, but Orion pressed a button on his machine, and it zapped Hercules with a ray of blinding purple light. Hercules disappeared.
"He's not going to know where he is on Earth." Orion said to himself. "If I'd turned this machine's powers up a notch, he would've gone to Earth as a baby. Oh well, better save that for the Zodiac Signs..."
Zodiac Signs again? I asked myself as the dream faded.
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I was in the same room at my previous dream. Orion was still there, but there was another person. She was a blonde haired green eyed maiden, tied up in the corner, shouting insults at Orion.
"You no-good, evil, conquering, malicious little BITCH!" She yelled.
"Silence, Andromeda." Orion hissed. "And to think that you weren't the type to cuss."
The door hinges broke again to reveal a black haired green eyed man that looked strangely like my English and homeroom teacher Mr Perseus.
"Perseus! You shouldn't have come!" The woman, Andromeda screamed.
Orion held his arms open. "Perseus, what a surprise! I wasn't expecting you."
"Let her go." Perseus said through gritted teeth. "And drop the machine."
Orion looked down at the Banisher in his hands. "This little toy? I'm afraid it's just the beginning."
He was forced away from the machine by Perseus, who attacked him with his sword. Orion pulled a sword out of nowhere and the two began to duel, Andromeda watching helplessly.
Finally, Perseus knocked Orion's sword out of his hand. As Orion went to get it, Perseus ran to Andromeda's side and untied her.
"Are you okay?" He asked her.
"I'm fine, just-" She gasped. "Watch out!"
Orion had found his way back to his Banisher. With a zap of blinding purple light, the two were gone, and the dream faded again.
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I found myself in the same room over and over again, watching helplessly in each dream as people brave enough to face Orion were banished from Celestia by the Banisher. Atalanta, Meleager, Orpheus, Phrixus and Helle were all sent down to Earth.
This dream, however, was different.
Nobody came through the doors. Orion sat there next to his Banisher, waiting for someone to come, but nobody walked into the room.
Suddenly, Orion's body tensed up. It was as if he was being watched. He stared at the floor in front of him, and I could see what he was looking at. There was a shadow on the floor. It seemed like it belonged to nobody, but Orion was clever. He seized the cloak of the shadow.
The shadow's owner fell to the ground. It was a white haired teenage boy wearing glasses. A large brown cloak hid his snowy white wings.
Orion laughed. "A nice try at an invisibility spell, but not powerful enough."
The boy grimaced. "If you're going to send me down, you'd better make it quick." This voice was familiar. I could've sworn that I heard it before.
"Where are the rest of your little friends?" Orion sneered.
The white haired boy glared at him with such intensity that Orion could've turned into stone. "None of your business. Now stop what you're doing."
Orion picked the boy up by the hood of his cloak. He was small compared to Orion, but that was because Orion was around the height of a giant.
"You'd make perfect bait." Orion said, directing his gaze to a closet in the room.
The boy tensed up. His glare turned into an expression of panic, his legs flailing.
"Let go of me!" He protested. Orion walked over to the closet and threw the boy in it.
"Good riddance." He whispered to himself. "The Zodiac Signs aren't going to like this."
The boy's muffled screams came from the closet. Orion paid no attention to them.
I was still wondering who that was when I remembered Aries, Leo and Sagittarius mentioning in their vision that one of the so-called "Zodiac Signs" wasn't there. Capricorn in their vision said something about them...
I gulped as I realised who that must've been.
It was Aquarius.
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Oh the suspense. The Zodiac Signs are starting to become self-aware now. What a perfect way to continue the chapter.
Have a good day/night!
Peace out,
The author owo