Chapter 4 - Landing

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Virgo POV

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Virgo POV

I peered through the window as Cancer got up behind me. "Purple land?" he asked.

"Hold on a moment," I told him as Aries joined me at the window. She didn't shove me, but gasped when she saw the glittering purple landscape below the wisps of clouds.

"Is that . . Opal?"

Instantly, all of my friends got up and crowded around the windows. Capricorn joined me and Aries and looked over her shoulder. I felt my palms get sweaty. His dark brown eyes scanned the land below. "Looks like it."

"I SEE A TREE!" Sagittarius shouted eagerly. Aries left the our window to go join him, saying, "Move aside, lemme see. Is it purple too?"

"EVERYTHING IS PURPLE!" Aquarius shouted, right beside Sagi. I sighed at her childish behavior and Capricorn laughed.

"Does anybody know where the hell we are?" he asked. 

"NO!" Cancer, Taurus, Aries and Scorpio answered at the same time. He turned back to the window with an amused smile. 

"Do you see anywhere we can land?" Capricorn inquired, eyes on the ground. It took me a moment to realize that he was talking to me, since my heartbeat had just sped up.

"Oh — um." I straightened my glasses and squinted out the window. Did the purple seem to be getting closer? "I think this thing is landing itself." I gasped as a thought occurred to my head. Capricorn turned to me.

"The captain's cabin," we said at the same time. Capricorn nodded and blinked as the rising sun's rays fell through the window. "You go check, see if it's on an automatic course."

Gemini popped up beside me. "Can I come too? I haven't seen the whole ship and I wanna."

"Sure . ." I said. "Wait — how did you get from there to here so fast?"

"Don't question it," Capricorn said with a smirk, then turned back to the window. His eyes widened in surprise. "Um, we're accelerating."

"GUYS LOOK IT'S ANOTHER TREE," Aries gasped. I peeked over Capricorn's shoulder and saw groves of violet trees that were beginning to come into view. He exhaled. "We've got to find out where the heck we are."

"Definitely not back home," Pisces murmured from the window next to us. She looked at me and him. "I think someone's waiting for us down there."

"Um, I've — gotta go." I grabbed Gemini's hand and pulled her out of the room. She followed me mildly, oohing and aahing at the various paintings on the walls, sometimes taking her phone out to take pictures.

"Do you have any idea where the captain's cabin is?" I asked her once we'd gone though a few hallways and I was sure that we were lost. The airship was big enough for that, after all. She paused and tilted her head, deep in thought. "Well, my dad does own a bunch of boats . ."

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