Astrovoid Shower- Celestial University Book 2: A Bully Romance

Chapter 24: Zodiac Awakening! The Snake Bearer!

Sehki watched the blade meant for him impale Calypsa, who jumped into the way of the attack. Twin gasped while Ram held her, and Cluster paused.

The other heirs' faces lost all sense of reason, watching the fatal attack of their longest friend and confidant.

"W-wh-why?"

Her head turned, coughing and bleeding, pulling out the blade.

"I told you," losing her grip, forcing him to catch her body, losing the ability to stand. "I won't," let anyone break you but me," pulling his head up to see the sky. "You're ready, now."

He asked her to hold on as the light in her eyes faded. He tried to grab her staff and have her say Hercules to patch herself up, but it was too late. Trembling, pulsating, and breaking down, fear, sorrow, rage, and pain echoed through his body.

The newscopters and authorities arrived to witness the chaos. Several students either hiding or between life and death, flying above the livid heir who's roar and tightfisted hands ready to crush the sinister force as a powerful cosmic entity awakened in the sky.

Sehki's howl reached all twelve Zodiac constellations and the stars that connected them, brightening the night sky. Everyone present or watching live streams bore witness to such a rare spectacle: the heirs, Xia's father, Bethany, the Astrovoids, students, and professors, were unprepared for an entire constellation to shine on par with the original twelve.

The light from the constellation blasted its rays down on Sehki, who's shadow raised in height and strength. His shadow transformed into a massive serpent's shape, complete with wings and a giant rotating body with gourds straightened around the back of its palm, claws, and draconic tail, dominating the space around him.

"Is that?"

Cluster, Jun, and Solomon grinned, while Twin marveled.

"The thirteenth and final member of the Zodiac."

Sehki punched the air. "Go, Ophiuchus!"

The giant beast's roar blasted them back as Sehki materialized the darkness into his hand, attaching shadows to the hole in Calypsa's body to cauterize the wound. He lowered her to the floor, energizing her pulse and giving her mouth to mouth before sinking her body into the shadows.

Cluster attempted to impale him, but the rest of the snake aura coated his body in rapid onyx-purple geysers crushing the Voids in an instant, uppercutting Ram and forcing Twin to blow herself away.

Without looking, he commanded a dark sea to lift Lorena's barely conscious body over, holding her bridal style. Diving into the shadows, he arrived at the Health Center, putting her and Calypsa side by side in the same room as Cree and Candy for Bethany, hesitant for their safety.

"You awakened your StellArt! That power," shivering. "Go ahead and stop the ones who did this, I won't let them die on my watch."

He nodded, running up the building to tag Cluster again, jumping off them to reach the helicopters.

"May I speak quickly?"

"Sure, Absolutely," said the reporter. "But Prince Sehki, we and the viewers at home like to ask, your condition," focusing on his wounds and scars from throughout the night, "are you okay?"

He shook his head. "These students are my responsibility, and I can't guarantee I'll resist choking the lives out of the Astrovoids who harmed them," with a cold, calm baritone. "For now, all I ask is that the medical transport from Cusp Central and Tellus Asylum arrive as soon as possible. The Health Center can only do so much."

"Prince Sehki," said the camera operator. "Look out!"

With just a thought, his giant Zodiac spirit flew up and crushed the flying meteors towards them.

"I'll get the others to safety. Please, watch over their hard earned efforts while I eviscerate their assailants," giving them a smile as he questioned his newfound overflowing power.

The resentment he had from being unable to protect and help those he cared about: Flint, himself, his team, and now Calypsa was boiling throughout his body: this strength was the manifestation of his love to keep all of them safe, which he couldn't hide beyond just a persona anymore.

The same person responsible for all their unresolved trauma was right there, and he was the one who could punish the real culprit.

"Under that mask is the one who attacked the school, masterminded the destruction of Umbra, turned Taylor into a Void, and kidnapped Amarilis. I won't stop tonight until I stop them from committing any more harm. Everyone watching," putting up a peace sign with a grin, "wish me luck!"

"Good luck," they said. He nodded before jumping off the undercarriage, rocketing to Cluster as they lifted their hands up, raining another meteor shower down.

"Will you save them, or stop me?"

"Yes!"

The Ophiuchus beast flew, crushing as many meteors into dust while Sehki's breath accelerated with his feet, snatching and sinking more people into his Zodiac spirit's darkness in the nick of time.

Another student was seconds from getting crushed. He threw a pencil, creating an extra line to extend into a whip and smash the debris into dust. The number of bodies taxed his speed, but he sprung each student out of his massive silhouette to the Health Center as the doctors and nurses arrived for intensive care.

Some medical transport had just arrived while the militia were forced to deal with the Voids that were emerging from the commotion, including the Cetus officer he'd work with before he speeded to. He asked her to focus on reassuring everyone else in case more Voids arrived as the leaders approached.

Ram's portals thrusted him back into Twin's path, creating two tunnels to merge their sword's heat and her wind drills into a giant spinning firestorm.

Like Xia and Rigal, bringing the snake back, spinning around on the floor to create a series of black whips circulating around, pouring water and air magic, crashing against the Asterism Art, nullifying their beliefs they could win into mist.

"Now, it's my turn."