Zodiac High: Broken Memories

Chapter 13| »Virgo 1«

Virgo's POV
"And that's my highlights done." Taurus finished, smiling, "looking back, I've really grown a lot." Kaiti, Ivan and Ophiuchus just stared at Taurus, wide eyed and jaws dropped. "Excuse me what the f*ck?" Ivan asked, "is that a made up story? Because Taurus would never beat people up; let alone Aries who's a really strong leader and Aquarius who's just a little sweetheart!" "Thank god Virgo isn't the one who's injured," Kaiti sighed in relief, "or else I'll have to talk to you with my fists and magic Taurus."

I giggled as Capricorn sipped his tea, green emerald eyes lost in thought. I tilted my head at him and poked his soft cheeks, grinning. "Watcha thinking Cap'?" I asked, smiling, "it's not like you to stay this quiet. Normally you'll say something about Taurus' heavy injuries on Aquarius, Taurus disrespecting Aries who is the new leader of the Zodiacs or something." "Well I'm just thinking about our past and how we lived. From Ivan, Kaiti and Ophiuchus' reactions, I can confidently say that events like that seems abnormal..... And here I thought everyone is going say Taurus' stories would be boring."

"Well Virgo has it worse," Taurus said sadly, "she doesn't have wings, which caused quite a number of unfortunate events..." All eyes are on me as I continued smiling, not affected by those past traumatic memories that I've regained after what happened on Earth. "It's time to talk about my memories I guess!" I laughed, "mind you, most of my happy memories are with Leo—" "We heard from Leo already," Ivan pointed out, "do you have any other memories? Maybe some sad angst ones?"

Ophiuchus and Kaiti shot Ivan a look he narrows his eyes "what?" He asked, "can't I not ask Virgo to talk about something else since Leo already talked about his moments with Virgo? Also I'm curious on Virgo's dark memories since Taurus' is pretty bad and he claimed that Virgo had it worse." I blushed, flattered that Leo talked about me before I happily obliged with telling everyone three dark memories buried deep within my head.

'𝓘 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹 𝓶𝓮,
𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓴.
𝓘𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭,
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝓶𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭.
𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓮𝔂𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓼𝓮𝓮,
𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓼𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓶𝔂 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓪𝔂
'𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓖𝓾𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘'𝓶 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓭𝓪𝔂.'

What can a wingless member of the Maiden do? I am nothing but a mere mortal, a shun to my family. Spica is better off as the head of the family than me. It doesn't matter if she's a Virginis instead of a Maiden, she's the brightest star for a reason. Spica Alpha Virginis is a lovely person with soft golden yellow wings, very much like an angel. Maybe Porrima Gama Virginis can take over. He's an intelligent guy, respected by all and shows all traits a Maiden have with his alluring light lavender wings. And then there's me.

I am nothing but disappointment.

If people have a grudge against the Maidens and would attack us, I would be the shield. I would be the one getting beaten, tortured and used for rituals. Why am I used for rituals? Well, the Virgin isn't associated with Persephone for a reason. We are the perfect vessel for all sort of rituals because of our virgin blood. That's all I am. A mere shield. A mere tool. I can't be anything more than a mere tool.