Pisces
It was already November. The weather started to become colder.
"Hopefully nothing's going to go wrong this time." Cancer said to Scorpio and I as we walked towards the free period room.
Scorpio looked down at the floor. "Something already did go wrong."
I looked down. There were broken glass shards on the floor, and a broken window on the wall.
"Did someone break into our school?" I asked.
All of a sudden, a silver haired girl and a blue haired boy tumbled through the window. They got up, brushed glass shards off their shirts, and started arguing with each other without acknowledging the fact the Cancer, Scorpio and I were there.
"When I said 'find the Zodiac Signs', I didn't mean 'break a window', Neptune." The silver haired girl said, rolling her eyes.
The blue haired boy sighed. "Well how were we supposed to get into the school? There are security guards at the main entrance, Orion's spies are in the school, and this was the only way. You said so yourself, Uranus. This was your idea!"
The silver haired girl opened her mouth to say something, but she saw me out of the corner of her eye.
She turned to face us. "Are you guys the Zodiac Signs?" She asked us. "You've changed a lot since the last time I saw you."
"So I've heard." Scorpio said through gritted teeth. "Who are you guys, and why are you looking for us?"
"Hey, relax, we aren't going to hurt you." The blue haired boy reached his arm out, hoping to get a handshake. "We're just here to try and bring you home."
"We've lived here our whole lives." Cancer said. Then, he added, "Assuming that we aren't actually the zodiac constellations in the sky."
The silver haired girl grinned. "Spot on, Cancer."
Cancer flinched. "How do you know my name?"
"We know who you are, whether you believe it or not." The girl looked around as if hoping to find someone else. "There are only three of you. Where are the other nine?"
As if on cue, the rest of our friends, who were on their way to the free period room, appeared behind us, staring at the scene that was going on at the moment.
Sagittarius looked from Cancer, Scorpio and I, to the glass shards on the wall, then to the broken window, and finally at the two strangers. "What-" She started.
The blue haired boy looked satisfied. "Well now we have the whole team. Let's just hope that someone can think of a valid reason of why you guys are going out of school during free period."
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The blue haired boy and the silver haired girl took us on a walk, where we discussed to possibilities of this whole thing being a trick.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Capricorn whispered to the rest of our group.
"You have a bad feeling about everything." Virgo replied, playfully nudging him with her elbow.
"You don't think we're... actually constellations, right?" Aquarius asked, looking around fearfully as if anything could suddenly pop out of nowhere and attack him.
"That would be really cool!" I exclaimed. "I'd like to know what it feels like to be a bunch of stars!"
Scorpio rolled her eyes. "This is exactly like some fantasy story. Then we'll realise that there's a big threat that's been hiding under our noses this whole time and we have to go fight it or the universe falls apart."
I could hear the blue haired boy in the front sigh. "What's up with these guys guessing everything that's going on?"
At this, everyone stopped talking. So there actually is a big threat that's been hiding under our noses this whole time and we'll have to go fight it or the universe falls apart. I thought to myself.
Finally, we stopped in front of a small warehouse not that far from our school.
The silver haired girl took a small key out of her pocket and unlocked the door. She opened it and told us, "After you guys."
I stepped into the room first. It didn't look like a warehouse at all, but more like a small apartment. There were star charts on the walls, and a large bookshelf full of books sat in the corner of the room.
Sitting on an armchair, reading a newspaper, was Virgo and Gemini's silvery blonde haired brother Mercury.
When he saw the blue haired boy and the silver haired girl, he looked up, "Oh hi Uranus, Neptune. I see you've got company."
"So you're supposed to be my brother, right?" Gemini asked, pointing her finger at him.
Mercury smiled. "Gemini! Haven't seen you since the day before this all happened." He got up to give her a hug, then stopped as he realised that it probably wasn't the right move.
"Family reunions later, Mercury." The blue haired boy, Neptune, said. "Let's call the others."
"Can't." Mercury put his newspaper down. "They're gone."
"Gone as in disappeared or left?" The silver haired girl Uranus asked.
"Left." Mercury replied. "Went to fight that psychic hooded figure."
"The one who nearly killed you that one time?" Neptune asked.
Mercury winced. "Yes, that one. Now are we going to talk business or what?"
I had no idea what sort of business they were talking about, but before I could say anything, Uranus clapped her hands, and 14 chairs appeared out of nowhere.
"Well?" Uranus said, seeing that none of us sat down. "These aren't jinxed. Sit down."
"So who are you guys?" Leo asked.
Neptune paused before answering, "We go by the Planets. We're really kind of like spirits of the planets in the solar system- well, technically we have Sun and Moon too, so celestial objects in the solar system. We're also your siblings."
Libra looked like someone had just slapped her in the face. "Come again?"
"Oh gods, Neptune, not now." Uranus chided.
"They have the right to know." Neptune told her, before turning back to us and saying, "You know the ruling planets and all that in astrology, right?"
"I'm familiar with that!" I exclaimed. "Each zodiac sign has a ruling planet. Some signs even have multiple ruling planets."
"So we're the zodiac signs and you're the ruling planets?" Taurus asked.
"Pretty much." Mercury replied, crossing his legs.
"That's the whole sibling connection thing?" Aries asked. "How come nobody ever told us?"
Uranus looked around to check if anyone else was there. "It will just have to be told at the right time. Things here are starting to turn bad. Abnormal things are happening. It's Orion's evil influence spreading around."
"Why does this Orion dude keep popping up in every conversation we have about abnormal stuff?" Cancer asked.
"He's behind all of it, isn't he?" Aquarius asked, looking like he just remembered something. "And Ophiuchus is his daughter."
"Aquarius, what are you talking about?" Gemini asked.
Neptune looked like he was about to say something, but all of a sudden, the door opened, and seven other people walked into the room.
"Oh hey Mercury, Uranus and Neptune." A tall blonde haired boy who looked suspiciously like Leo said. He stopped when he saw my friends and I. "Are these-"
"The Zodiac Signs." Neptune finished. "Come here. Now we can actually discuss business."
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I've finished another dozen chapters!
I haven't really decided when to end this book, but I have a feeling that it won't be too far away.
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