Hey, who could it be? (No, it's gotta be...!)

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TWs: Causing fear. Stay safe :)

"You two better have a good reason for wandering out of your orbits~" The Sun spoke as he peered at Jupiter and Saturn.

The Gas Giants shared a few glances before Jupiter spoke up, "We have a problem, Sun. It's about the Fifth Giant."

The Sun's eye twitched and his grin wavered, "Oh...?"

"He's returned- he took the form of Uranus." Saturn continued, "He might be after us Giants after what happened to him!"

"Fifth Giant...?" Mercury spoke, confused about the conversation.

"Fifth? I thought there were only four Giants." Venus spoke from beside him.

"What's going on?" Earth asked as he floated up to them alongside Luna and Mars.

"I don't know; something about a fifth Giant." Mercury shrugged.

Mars' eyes widened, "What!?"

The others looked at him, confusion set on their spheres.

"What is it, Mars?" Luna raised an eyebrow.

"Man, I thought Jupiter was losing his mind when he told me about some fifth Giant... I didn't think it was real." Mars looked down, averting his eyes.

"So you know about it?" Earth questioned, leaning forward, "What's its name?"

"Uhm... he didn't explain much to me." Mars backed away, "Only that it went by X or Nine and it lives in the Kuiper belt."

"The Kuiper belt? What kind of idiot would live in a place full of asteroids?" Venus frowned.

"Ceres," Mars replied.

"The dwarf planets." Mercury pointed out.

"Some other undiscovered phenomena." Earth smiled.

"Okay, okay! I get your point." Venus scowled.

"What are they doing now?" Mars asked as he saw the Sun in his Celestial Humanoid form.

"I have no idea..." Earth muttered.

Before drifting away slowly, Mercury advised, "Maybe we should back up just in case... I don't want to get solar flared if anything goes wrong."

"Good point." Earth agreed, quickly pulling his moon along as he backed away.

"We were wondering if you could be able to track him," Jupiter spoke.

"Ah, if that's all~" The Sun grinned, his crimson eyes turning white as he chuckled and raised an arm, "I can do more than just track him."

A whip appeared in his grasp as the Guardian cracked it in a different direction, setting off an electrifying explosion.

"It's been a long time since I've used this." He cackled, feeling the energy pulsing through his plasma.

"Okaaay, he's officially lost his mind," Mars spoke.

"Did he have one in the first place?" Venus huffed.

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"Pluto! Lucky seeing you here, mate!" Uranus called the dwarf planet over to him.

"Hiya, Uranus!" Pluto flew up to him with Charon lagging behind, "Have you seen Titan? We were supposed to be playing a game right about now, but we haven't seen him all day."

"Ah, no- I've been here the whole time." Uranus sniffled, gesturing to a canvas nearby, "Just painting."

Charon squinted her eyes, eyeing Uranus' face, "Have you been... crying?"

"Wha- no, of course not! Why would I be crying? I definitely wasn't panicking about something earlier." Uranus averted his eyes, "Anyway, Pluto, mate- now that you're here, I was wondering, well... how do I put this?"

Pluto and Charon glanced at each other, the moon whispering, "Are all the planets like this?"

"I... don't think so. I thought Uranus was the most sane of them." Pluto replied, shrugging, "Then again, I never talked with any of them..."

"Oh!" The Celestial Human perked up, "That's right- I was wondering if you knew about what happened to me billions of years ago?"

Pluto raised an eyebrow, "What happened to you...? How so?"

"How did I end up like..." Uranus raised his hands to his head, placing them on either side of the tilted sphere, "This?"

"Uhm..."

"How would Pluto know?" Charon asked, turning her gaze to her partner.

"Well, I..." Pluto scrunched his face, averting his eyes, "I do vaguely remember what happened that day."

"Can you tell me, mate?" Uranus looked at him pleadingly, "I need to know what happened."

"Are you sure?" Pluto inquired, "It- It seemed to mess you up pretty badly."

"It?" Charon grew curious, "Now I want to know what happened."

"Well..." Pluto stared awkwardly at them before sighing, "Fine, I'll tell ya."

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The Sun garnered all the light he could muster, pulling it into a ball in his hands as he muttered a chant.

"What's he doing now?" Earth asked.

"Quiet- it's best not to disturb the Sun when he's in this state," Jupiter spoke.

The Rocky Planets, Gas Giants, and moons all floated there, staring at the meditative Guardian.

"Quinque, quatuor, tria, duo, unum... notum sit, quintus gigas omnes nos circumdabit." The Sun uttered.

"Anyone know what he's saying?" Mars whispered.

"Something about the fifth giant overtaking us all," Earth responded.

"You actually understand him?" Venus furrowed his eyebrows.

"It's Latin- it's not that much of a dead language."

"Dork."

Earth was about to retort when Jupiter cleared his throat, glaring at the planets. The blue rocky planet moved back, smiling sheepishly.

"Virtute Solis et Terrae et Coeli, da mihi vires ut quae mea sunt recipiam..." The Sun opened his eyes, crimson red now replaced by a blinding light.

Everyone turned away, squinting and closing their eyes from the rays.

The lights shimmered as a thunderous voice bellowed throughout the atmosphere, "I haven't felt this young in millennia!"

Mars and Mercury snapped open their eyes as they heard the voice, suddenly remembering it from when Mars called the ball of plasma clingy.

"Uh, is it just me or did the Sun's voice change?" Earth questioned.

"Oh, dear..." Saturn uttered, glancing worriedly at Jupiter.

"Welp, we didn't think he'd go this far." Jupiter looked at the smaller planets, ranging from various facial reactions of 'fear' and 'terror.'

"Now," The Sun grinned, baring his fangs, "I have a planet to catch~"

Earth was knocked out of his scared stupor, his eyes widening as he realized the Sun was moving from his central orbit.

'Wait, what!?'

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No Neptune? I wonder where he's at...

*sips tea*

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