Theft of the Zodiacs (A Zodiac Story)

I'll never leave if you keep holding me this way

The twelve signs had walked into the mansion in intervals in order to not raise any suspicions about their presence. 

The Minds and Fists team hung around on the first floor, as they waited for the Faces team to get done with their part.

Cancer, Leo, Aquarius, and Scorpio all stood at one corner of the room, keeping their eyes peeled for anything that could be a clue for the key.

They were growing impatient, but right then, Lucifer walked into the middle of the room, and the crowd cleared for him. 

"Good evening, fellow friends and family." Lucifer smiles, "I thank you all for coming here to celebrate my boy's birthday." Lucifer looked around at everyone, a glass of champagne resting in his hand as he spoke, he was wearing an expensive tux and he nodded at the crowd, "My son, Kiernan, will be joining the dance shortly." He walks out of the circle he created for himself and goes to speak with a man.

"I'm gonna join the dance if Kiernan's gonna be there." Cancer whispers, "Perhaps I can get some information out of him?" She looks at Aquarius, blinking through her mask.

Aquarius nods, and Leo looks at Cancer, "I'll go in with you, the dancers keep switching anyway, you're bound to get a dance with Kiernan at some point." 

Cancer nods and she and Leo walk to the middle of the crowd, where all the other dancers were waltzing. They start moving to the music, dancing and finding synchronicity with the other dancers.

Aquarius moved away from Scorpio, walking to the bar at the corner of the room. She removed her mask, which, weirdly enough, made it kind of hard for her to breathe. Her eyes went back to Cancer and Leo every now and then, watching them dance with absolute strangers. 

And that's when she noticed a guy, striking and masculine, he moved down the staircase beside the bar, and walked right by the bar, towards the crowd of dancing strangers. He was handsome and tall, and Aquarius watched as he was stopped by a woman in dark red, her mask the same colour. The woman smiled at him, placing her hand on his chest. He seemed apathetic, swatting the woman's hand away. He tried to walk away again, but the woman stopped him once more, moving in front of him. Aquarius knew who he was.

"Scorpio. I see Kiernan. I'm gonna make my move. But there's another woman who has her eyes on him." Aquarius whispers, loud enough for her voice to reach the earpiece.

Scorpio looks at Aquarius from across the room, and she points to her right at the man in the tux and the woman who was obviously being a nuisance. 

Scorpio nods before he walks over to Kiernan and the woman, he gently taps Kiernan's shoulder, he turns around and Scorpio would've been lying if he said he wasn't the least bit intimidated by the guy's chiselled face.

"Mind if I steal the lady for a moment?" Scorpio smiled, winking at the woman, whose eyes were now scanning him, head to toe.

"By all means," Kiernan said, stepping aside.

The woman threw herself at Scorpio, smiling at him, "Want to join the dance?" Scorpio says, smirking.

"Please." She says, her voice low and seductive.

Scorpio leads her to the dance floor. Aquarius gets up and starts moving to the son of the devil, but stops shortly as she watches him walk to the dancers in the middle of the room. 

"Cancer," Aquarius says, spotting the short black-haired girl, as she dances with another man, suddenly looking up as she hears her name being whispered into the earpiece, Cancer's eyes meet Aquarius's, "Kiernan's joined the crowd, 'tis up to you now."