The Zodiac Cycle

1.5 Brace yourself

When Keith arrived at the Capitol of the Cooperative, he realized something about Amber.

She was incredibly curious.

He could nearly see the sparkles in her eyes when they passed a minotaur and she was even fascinated with humans. She remarked about their ears and the fact that they had funky looking hair.

As Keith watched her marvel at all the new sights, he pondered something that had been bugging him.

He had been rude and asked if Amber was Transgender but never given her any context. There had never been a female Leo among the reincarnations. There had been female secondary Leo's, but never a primary.

The first Leo was a male Lion fey, as ironic as that was. The only one more ironic than that was the centaur that was the first Sagittarius.

The reincarnations were born after all twelve of the signs died a natural death, and the Leo was always the last born, the youngest. The rest could be in any order.

Keith led Amber to a park where, as he noted, the Aries and the Gemini were both headed, together.

"How convenient." He laughed.

"What is?" Amber asked, pausing her admiration of the city.

"Some zodiac signs are naturally drawn to others. Normally there's at least one set of friends when the signs are activated, but this time there's two." He pointed to the dark red and grey dots nearly on top of each other "and both sets are in this city."

Just then, something caught his eye. A girl, about 5'6" walked a couple yards in front of them. She was muscular and had a short, red undercut that was swept to one side and reached below her curved ears. She was very clearly human other than her strange, light red eyes. Her skin matched Amber's and was absolutely coated in freckles on her face and shoulders.

Another noticable thing was the curvy, black V on her right shoulder. The Aries sign.

She was wearing a cropped white tank top with a black trim and a pair of ripped black shorts. She also had a red jacket tied around her waist and a pair of black and white tennis shoes.

"That's the Aries, I'm sure of it." Keith announced "best we go talk to her before she walks off." Keith took a step in the girls direction.

Amber grabbed his shoulder. "Have you no tact?"

"What's tax?" He asked quizzically.

Amber sighed, pinching her nose "tact, not tax. It's like, a sensitivity in dealing with others."

"I dont follow." He tilted his head to the side.

"It means," amber started "that you can't just waltz up to someone talking about destiny and not having a choice."

"Is that not how to get someone to join your team?" He seemed genuinely puzzled.

"That's more how you get a restraining order against you." Amber raised an eyebrow.

Just then someone else caught their eye, she was much more noticable than the Aries that was now watching her.

It seemed, she was a fey. She was small, probably only 5'2" maybe less, thin and lacking in most assets. She had pale skin also covered in freckles and thin blonde hair that was in a very long braid flowing behind her almost tail-like. She wore a yellow crop top and a pair of denim shorts and no shoes. Her feet werent actually feet per-se, more like they grew thin and slightly scaly after her knees where they seemed to become raptor feet (like the bird type Raptors, not dinosaurs). Sprouting out of her arms were brown and black feathers that were about her arms lengths at the longest, spread wide open as she glided down towards the red-head. Poking out from under her hair were tufts of white feathers that were probably meant to cover her ears. Her eyes were slitted and both different colors. The right was a dark blue, the left was yellow.

Below her yellow eye, sitting on her cheekbone, was a roman numeral 2 that looked like a tattoo.

"And there," Keith stared "is the gemini."