The Zodiac Story

Major Battle Scars

Running. I'm running.
What from? Who's the threat?
Nothing I've pasted...
It's cold... through the haze I see my breath.
It hurts. But why?
I'm scared, I'm running.
Was... was I going to die?
Footsteps. Heavy breath. Snapping branch.
Darkness coming closer.
I'm running.
It's coming, it's laughing, it wants to strike me down.
I have to keep going... but I don't know why.
Tears. I feel them... leaking from my eyes.
I'm tired, I can't go on. It hurts.
I fall. I stray. I can't get off my knees.
The steps get slower.
The steps sound louder.
The steps are here.
It's here.
It's there.
Standing right in front.
It's legs look so bruised.
So broken.
So awful.
It collapses.
It cries.
It screams.
It... dies.
It's there, no breath, no movement.
Silence.
The cold wind teases.
The trees laugh at me.
The sounds whisper to me:
Look at it...
I don't want to.
It's scary.
It's disgusting.
It drained my energy.
But the forest persists.
My hand reaches out.
It wavers.
It grasps the hood of the creature.
It's ugly.
It's disgusting.
It's so unpleasing.
The wind hisses in my ear.
I pull the cloak and what do I find?
The wind was right.
It was me.

I feel my body. Pain shoots through my body, my breath is heavy and I feel my body ache. I moan. It hurts all over. I try to move and I find that I can't. I don't want to, it hurts. I open my eyes to see.... libra dabbing my forehead with a wet cloth as she holds a bowl in her hands. She sees my newly found awareness and gives a slight smile. "Ah you're awake.", she says softly with a patient smile. She gently strokes my cheek with a light expression on her face. "You know.... those boys....", she sighs and shakes her head, "You can't keep 'em away!" She laughs a bit. She studies my face. "Ah... you must be worn smooth out. Poor girl...", she whispers with a sympathetic look on her face. "Hmmm uh-", I moan, trying to find my voice again. "Oh come on... you shouldn't try to speak. You just woke up after all.", she tells me in a sweet voice. I'm so confused. This is not my bed, not my room, I don't know what's going on, and she's kinda scaring me with the way she's speaking. "W.... what's go....ing.... on.", I mumble, my body rejecting my efforts to speak. She frowns. "Wow you really are stubborn aren't you?", she scolds. But then her face softens up and she puts the cool cloth back on my forehead. "Well.... it's kind of a long story. But then again it's not like you have anything better to do that to listen right?", she laughs. "Okay.... so it all started back when you and Aries cane back inside from your date thing. I don't know if you remember or even witnessed this, but Gemini got pretty upset when he found out what Aries did to you from another one of the signs when you two were outside. I think..... it was.... pisces? I dunno I can't really remember!", she giggles with a smile on her face.

There it is again.... pisces.... shouldn't have known anything about that... and yet.... he's the one who told everybody?

"So... Gemini tried to fight Aries and when you two walked in, he didn't know that Aries was carrying you and he kicked him into the wall and that caused you to fall down. You hit your head pretty bad ya know? I think you got a concussion on the back of yer noodle!", she explains, pointing to her head with a concerned look on her face. "Not to mention your wrist. The way you landed cracked one of the connecting legiments in your wrist which completely snapped the main bone that connects your arm with your hand. So... basically you broke your right wrist and it's in a cast now.", she says, putting some of the more complicated terms into a more simpler form. "You worried a lot of people though.... Cancer stayed in here day and night, not wanting to leave you until I make her sleep. Virgo and Taurus came to see you a couple times, and scorpio even came to see if you were alright! And of course, Aries and Gemini come to see you every day! At different times of course!", she laughs, whispering that last part behind her hand and giving me a wink. But then, she sighs and her smile faulters. "But.... Sagittarius.... poor guy.... I know he's trying to avoid conflict as much as possible with those other two but....he... he's been worried sick about you... he comes and stays the night in here, while his sister sleeps in his bed so they think he's in there.", she sighs. Then she looks at me with a smile. "Man! You're lucky! You've only been here a month and you've already got admirers!", she says with a laugh. I give a weak smile, I try as big as I can manage. "So.... do you.... Aquarius...", I whisper. Her face goes bright red. "Wh-what?! Aqua? N-No way!", she stutters with a certain tone in her voice. I nod slightly, telling her I was being serious. "B-but.....! He's so..... he's so cool! And I'm in my pj's all the time!", she flushes, her hands covering some of her face. She looks at me and laughs. "Heh yeah.... not much under that cloak I'm afraid. Hate to disappoint, but I just ware skimpy shorts and ripped tank top thingies!", she laughs. Now that she mentions it, she is waring something like that: she was waring little comfy short cargo shorts that looked to be made of a comfortable fabric with suspenders attached to her belt loops. She also had on a yellow tank top with an overlaying ripped up, black, oversized t shirt with the straps on the sides of her shoulders and not on her neck, and a lanyard was hanging from her neck. Her hair wasn't in the usual ponytail, it was loose in all of its curly being. She was attractive, and adorable.