(aka, possibly the fluffiest chapter too)
Alyssa had instructed the group to wear sports apparel suitable for the Water Round. Everyone at Zodiac Street ended up wearing a variety of gym wear.
They all met at the nearby park where the Water Round would start.
- = {🔔}= - (the bells are ringing)
"So what is this big twist you're talking about?" Alex adjusted their sports cap. Everyone stood in a circle near the drinking taps awaiting a response.
"I'll get to that." Alyssa nodded. Behind her, Leo and Sienna were filling up five different coloured sets of water balloons with the tap's water and placing them in their representative bucket. "First of all, we are all aware of the rules of the Water Round, right?" The group nodded. "Good because I am not explaining myself. We have made some changes to the original one."
"What do you mean?" Lily asked her hands on her hips.
"Well for starters, the area is smaller. We are only limited to the road outside our houses, our backyards and the park. The inside of the houses themselves, the Earth sign houses and the outside of Zodiac Street are strictly out of bounds. But there are safe areas such as the drinking fountains and your garages." Alyssa explained. She nodded when the group expressed commotion. "Yes, despite the inside of the houses being out of bounds, your garages are safe. I have let the leaders of each house know in advance."
"So, this is why you texted me, Alex, Arlen, Aika and Carol. It's on the water round." Skyler recollected.
Alyssa clicked her fingers. "You've caught on. Also, you guys did an amazing job opening up the backyards, setting up the garages and putting up the party banners for each house!"
Everyone remembered about the banners. When leaving everyone noticed that dangling from the roofs of five of the houses were different coloured banners. House 1 had red banners, House 3 had yellow, House 4 had green, House 7 had blue while House 8 was left with purple.
"The teams all start simple but will get complicated later on. To start, the teams will be your housemates." Alyssa started. She got cut off by everyone cheering. "HEY!" Everyone went silent. "Let me finish. You won't be staying with your housemates for the entire game."
"What?!" Colin frowned while hugging Pete and Skyler. "Why?!"
Alyssa crossed her arms. "Because every team would be swapping team members. Every third person eliminated from the round would lead to Leo blasting this." Leo had pulled out an air horn and pressed the top. Everyone covered their ears except for Sabrina who was not looking up from her phone. "When the air horn sounds, everyone remaining would be returning to the park to swap teams and be assigned colours. There would be a ten-minute break to rendezvous at the bases before we start the round again. Does this make sense?"
Some of the group nodded, others shook their head.
"Wait, just to clarify." Colin held his hands out. "The twist is that we are switching members. Which means.."
"Coming up with new strategies and learning how to deal with changes!" Giselle finished.
"Yes! And you would be ranked individually instead of groups. Once we get to the final six, things will be done individually." Alyssa grabbed everyone's attention. "Since fifteen of you would be playing..."
"Fifteen? No, no, no." Sam shook his head. "You mean eighteen right? As the Earth signs are not here."
"Me, Alyssa and Leo will not be playing." Sienna looped her arms around Alyssa and Leo.
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Zodiac Street
RandomSurely, you heard of those many zodiac stories about living in mansions and having countless adventures, have you? Well, what if I tell you this book is like that, but instead of all the zodiacs living in a house, there will be 24 zodiacs living in...
