A Zodiac Hero [BNHA]

Chapter 16-Cancer

Scorpio had come to me for training more with her water. I told her that she could've gone to Pisces but she wanted me, which was weird because none of the Zodiacs ever came to me for help. "You have more control over water than Pisces does. Not that her training wasn't useful, but you stretched your water quirk more, so I need your help." Scorpio protested, and she was right.

When my quirk manifested I helped purify water. By doing that I gave my family a steady supply of water that didn't have salt in it. "Fine," I said and led Scorpio to the giant jacuzzi in front of my house. I made a water ball from the water in the jacuzzi and threw it to Scorpio, who caught it right before it fell onto her head. She glared at me. I smirked.

I ran into the house and got a bucket. Then I went back out and put the bucket in front of Scorpio. "Push the chlorine out of the water, and into this bucket," I commanded. Scorpio blanched.

"How am I supposed to do that?"

I sighed. "Just do it." 

Scorpio ground her teeth together, and it looked as if she was really trying, but nothing was coming out of the water ball, and so she tried harder, stretching her limits. But she was getting nowhere and it was time to stop her. "Stop, you're just going to deplete your energy." Scorpio stops, but still holds the water ball up.

"Before even pushing out the chlorine, you have to find it first, it's sorted through the water, so sift through the water, look for the chlorine, and then push it out," I said.

Scorpio stared at the water ball, but I could tell she was looking for the chlorine. "Found it." She said, still staring at the ball of water.

"Use the water to push it out." I directed her, and Scorpio did just that, and water with white frothy bubbles fell into the bucket. "There you go! And now you have to learn to do it faster." I exclaimed.

Scorpio let the chlorine water, and the normal water fall into the jacuzzi, and then picked up another water ball, repeating the process, except faster than this. I had her do this for the next hour until she could do this almost instantaneously. Except, by the time she finished the sun was just setting, meaning we had a lot more of the day left.

"What now?" Scorpio asked, looking at me with her head cocked to the side. I had an idea what we could do now.

I took her wrist, and dragged her inside the house, letting her sit in my living room. While she was sitting there I went inside the kitchen and made some popcorn. Since that was in the microwave, and wouldn't be out for the next few minutes I went back into the living room, and took the remote to the TV, and put on Mulan. 

The microwave let out a loud beep that echoed throughout the house. I scowled at the beep, and got up from the couch to get the popcorn "You're going to miss the matchmaker part." Scorpio called. I ran to the kitchen and quickly took out the popcorn, and poured it into two big bowls, and carried those over to where Scorpio was watching Mulan. One of her legs was tucked under herself, and the other was right next to it. Her pinkish-grey hair was in waves like it normally was, but she looked so happy and free.

Scorpio puts so much pressure on herself, and because she's the one who's technically going to get us all hero licenses. Then a plan started unfolding in my mind.

One day, maybe in a few years all of us Zodiac signs would take Scorpio out into the country, and she could run free. I remember Scorpio telling all of us that she liked running through fields, that it made her feel free. We would get horses, and we would ride all day. I liked that idea.

One day, I promised myself, one day. For now, we would get lost in Mulan eating popcorn and soda and just being unhealthy.

When the movie was over Scorpio got up and stretched. I could hear multiple of her muscles crack. I loved cracking them, so I got up and stretched as well, and it felt so good to move after being still for so long.

"I have some homework and I need your help," Scorpio said, once we cleaned everything up.

"What?! Why did you wait until after the movie?!" I yelled.

"Well, I wanted to watch," Scorpio said, looking exactly like a child with their hand caught in the cookie jar.

"Get your homework and come right back here," I commanded her.

Scorpio snickered. "You sound just like Cap." I gave her a look that meant I was serious, and the grin disappeared, from her face, but amusement danced in her grey eyes. Scorpio's purple eyeshadow glimmered, and I wished I could do it as well as she did.

I had light blue eyeshadow around my eyes, but whenever I watched Scorpio doing her makeup, she always did it so intricately and delicately, while mine was always messier. She had offered to do my makeup all the time, but I wanted to learn on my own.

Ten minutes later Scorpio had shown up with a packet of literacy homework. I sighed. It was always literacy she had trouble with. She was amazing at chemistry, I knew firsthand because we would often do experiments in middle school, and while everyone else's was blowing up Scorpio would always manage to make the end product beautifully. Even Taurus would marvel at her skill.

I was better and P.E than anything since we also learned things like the different muscles and bones in the human body. She set the packet down on my table in my room, and I asked her what they were doing, and she described what happened in class...except she had absolutely no idea what happened so I dived right into the packet. And it was actually...pretty easy.

I sighed through my nose. "Scorpio, this is easy material." She whined, the sparkly light pink lipstick on her lips forming into a pout. "Did you even look at it?"

"Maybeeeeee." Scorpio stretched out the word and I knew she didn't even skim through the thing. She always did this. Complained how hard her homework was, then held it to the last second, and it turned out it was something easy.

After finishing the homework I looked at the clock and in big dark blue numbers it read:

12:26 AM

Scorpio looked at the clock too and groaned, then turned to me. "Can I crash here?" She saw my face then added in a, please.

" I don't have a UA uniform." I lied. Scorpio frowned and pointed to the UA uniform hanging on my wall. I cursed myself, why did I have to be so organized?!

"Fine. But you have to get a sleeping bag. You know where it is." I said. Scorpio smiled and nodded, reminding me of a tamed dog.

She came back only minutes later and laid out her sleeping bag by my bed. 

I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth. I cleaned my toothbrush, and then removed the light blue eyeshadows around my dark eyes, and then wiped off the dark purple lipstick on my lips. I changed into my thick pajamas, my house cold even though it was early May.

I closed my eyes, and fell asleep, tired out from helping Scorpio get the chlorine out of the water, and then watching Mulan, and helping her with her literacy homework.

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A/N: So, I'm sorry this chapter is a bit late, it was supposed to come out earlier but I was busy doing...well I don't remember what I was doing, and this was a bit of filler since I didn't have much of an idea when the chapter came out shorter than I thought when I finished the two of them training, I just kept adding on and on, until it became long enough I could publish it.