The Zodiac Cycle

1.4 The Second Tracker

Zach paced down the hall, Tracker in hand. The 12 dots flashed on it and the other black dot was already in contact with the orange dot.

His attendant raced after him "My Lord, what will you have us do?" They spoke of the Zodiacs activating.

He turned his head slightly to look at them and said, "prepare my boat, I'm going to the mainland."

The attendant nodded quickly and scurried ahead of him. He looked at the screen on the Tracker. There was a cluster of four dots within the Cooperative. Zach guessed that he could get in fairly easily and try to gather those four before the Guardian and the Leo could.

He found his way to his personal study and pulled out a book titled Legend of the Zodiacs and flipped to the index, searching for the page he would find the sign for each color. He found the page, number 132, and flipped to it. He got out another book on the Zodiacs and flipped to a page comparing the power levels of the 12.

The first dot he checked was dark red, the Scorpio. The chart had Scorpio paired with the planet Pluto, showing it was the weakest. That one is useless.

The second was the light red, standing for the Aries. The Aries seemed to be associated with Mars in 6th place. Better than the Scorpio, but still not good enough.

The last two were yellow and grey. They symbolized Gemini and Cancer. Gemini held with Mercury, the third from the top, and the Cancer was with the Moon, one above the Gemini, only surpassed by the Leo of the Sun.

These were the two he had wanted. Zach knew that Cancers were emotional and considerably not the most preferable between the two, even if they were stronger. He decided he would pay them a visit, but it would be better to kill them instead of trying to reason with them.

Zach fixated on the Gemini. Geminis were good at lying and adaptable, though indecisive. Having the Gemini be his agent would be pretty easy to manage and might even give him a better chance of warding the Zodiacs off.

The attendant came rapping on his study doorway, "your boat is ready, what course would you like?"

He took a couple pages from each book, making the attendant flinch, and put them in a folder he pulled from one of his shelves with several other pages on the Zodiacs.

The Zodiacs were a threat, and Zach intended not to let them stop him. He was going to save the world, purify it, and populate it with only the worthy.

"Set course for the Cooperative on the mainland, we leave in ten minutes."