Everyone watched as sagittarius crumpled to the ground, no tears escaped her eyes and no weeps were audible, but the utter shock she felt echoed around the room to hear the name of her brother in the case that he's a murderer.
"It's not true" she muttered the words incredibly quietly, only capable to hear by scorpio who was by that time cradling her in his arms, her head buried deep into his chest.
She was being rather dramatic but someone that she knew was out there and expected the main highlight of her life would be to meet him, was all wiped away with the knowledge that he was a murderer of a king's wife. Andromeda sat awkwardly, unbeknownst to the cause of all of this
"Guys, we need to straighten this out," Andromeda's voice was quaint but firm and had a tone of demand in it "there is a man out there, killing people and we're just letting him get away"
"Alrighty then," Scorpio chimed in, helping Sagi off the ground cautiously "this is my cue to start gathering clues with half the zodiacs and the other half starts taking action"
"Who's going with who?" Aquarius asked, resting her hand on Pisces chest
"Let's separate by fire, earth, wind and water," Scorpio said, leaving a few couples a little upset "fire team will figure out his backstory, earth team will figure out why he might've done it, wind team will figure out what his next plan might be, and water team will figure out where he might be, Andromeda?"
"Well," the girl started "I was never told much about Ophiuchus, only that he lived with us to train to rule his kingdom, I can't help you Zodiacs."
"Luck isn't in our favour but I think we can do it," Sagi said unconvincingly, still in shock about the recent information
•••
The fire team were scrounging through the library on anything that could relate to Ophiuchus, and when they searched through the master book they found chapters ago, again nothing was there.
"Guys, Sagittarius is Ophiuchus' brother right?" Leo inquired "If that's the case, they would have the same parents and we could just ask Cepheus who they are"
"Sounds like a plan," Sagi smirked, already coursing up to the main tower where Cepheus spent most of his time.
Sagittarius walked up the cracked stone stairs, careful as to not wake any sort of monster, grazing her hand against the smooth walls and letting her fingernails scratch over every ridge and hollow. Her feet made small clicks as she turned her knees into a right angle due to the steep, narrow walkway. Her steps became bigger, skipping some, darkness swaying in and out, shadows blurring her vision and the small flames on cloth wicks lining the walls were spaced out. It felt like she was walking for ages, her lips pursed as she was reaching the top and her hand left the wall. She walked up to the hefty man and asked him
"Who are my parents?"
•••
"There's no clear motive..." Capricorn whined, throwing himself on the bed, completely flustered beyond words
"Maybe he didn't need a motive?" Taurus suggested "He seems like a psychopath"
"That's sagittarius' brother you're talking about" Virgo reminded the beige haired girl who simply scoffed and continued to think
They were sitting around a table in their room, all in some sort of position that had remained for the better part of the time that they were together, all of them had their own speculations of Andromeda but all were to afraid to mention it in fear of the others bringing them down. Regardless of their rogue thoughts, they still sat in ponder, unable to put anything down on their notebook other than random notes and small doodles here and there, thanks to Virgo and Taurus. They were all equally focused, but none of the three were focused at all. They couldn't find anything, boredom clouded their mind and all the only sound that polluted the air was that of the cd player, spinning some sort of jazz. Taurus felt a slight grainy feeling in her mouth because of her habit of grinding her teeth, Virgo finding half of her nail chewed off and the end Capricorn's pen was practically obliterated. They all knew that they weren't getting anywhere, would one of them finally perk up and break the ice? Well yeah, it was Virgo who simply hit a breakthrough
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Nightlight | A Zodiac Story
Fantasy"Well what do you think? That you can do, control me?" "That's precisely what I know I can do" "You think too highly of yourself," her lip was quivering as she confidently spurred out those words, she was afraid of the man with the dagger and knew...
