The Zodiac Cycle

1.11 The Train

TOOT TOOOOOT

The train in front of us whistled signaling that it was time for us to go. The brown dot, we'd noticed, traveled throughout the human territory a lot, and after chasing after it for a few days, we had finally caught up. The Virgo was somewhere on this train.

Rebecca seemed a bit averted to trains, looking at it like it was some kind of weird monster that creeped her out.

"Now I must warn you all, the virgo will be our first earth sign. I would suggest that Nolan or Ash confronts them because water signs get along with earth signs better than the other two elements." Keith instructed as we boarded the metal beast, taking spots near each other in the passenger car.

I ended up sitting by Rebecca, Iris by Brianna, and Nolan by Ash. Keith sat alone.

"Should I search the cars for the Virgo?" Keith asked insistently.

I shrugged. Keith seemed a bit annoyed by my response and sat down with a sigh.

"Take a breather Keith." I urged. "This train isnt going to stop for a couple hours, just relax for a bit."

"Where's the train even going?" Brianna asked, seemingly apprehensive. Iris pulled her knees to her chest and laid her head on them silently as the train started moving. Brianna looked at her for a second sympathetically before rubbing her back a bit.

"You okay?" Nolan asked her.

"I'm fine." Iris responded softly "I just get a bit motion sick."

"You can fly." Ash pointed out.

"Exactly, I dont usually need to ride things. At least my own wings bring me smooth sailing." She looked a bit sleepy "and I'm not feeling it yet, but better to be prepared now."

"Most aerial species have some sort of motion sickness." Keith pointed out. "But my family made sure to get that out of me when I was young..." he looked a bit traumatized for a second.

"Yikes." Rebecca chimed in.

"Any of you need a bite?" One of the servers was pushing a trolley along the aisle.

Each of us grabbed something except for Rebecca.

"Dont like penuts?" Ash waved one of the bags.

"I'm allergic to peanuts." Rebecca replied.

"Milk?" Nolan suggested.

"Lactose intolerant."

"Sandwich?" I offered.

"That has tuna on it. I don't like seafood."

Nolan glared at my sandwich for a second "me neither."

We all sat there in silence for a second before bursting out laughing.

"How do you eat?" Brianna giggled.

"With her mouth, duh." Iris teased.

"Seems we all have something wrong with us, wether it be parental issues, motion sickness, or dietary restrictioms." Ash chuckled.

"What can we say, we're Huma-" Brianna paused looking at me, Iris, Nolan, and Keith "I mean, different. We are not perfect, how about that."

"Could yall be a little quieter please?" The person sitting closest to Keith turned to us. "I'm trying to read a book."

We all looked at the guy. He had thin black hair that hung over his forehead and big, dark brown eyes. His skin was a dark chocolate brown and he was wearing a white t-shirt with denim overalls and beige gardening gloves on his hands. He also had black boots with some caked on mud on. He was another human.