Guardians Of The Zodiac : The Newbies

Chapter 6 : Virgo

Blossom was terrified. Just a second ago a bright white light engulfed her, and then she saw black. 

Am I dead? She thought. Her eyelids fluttered open. She was in a black space. A void. There was nothing but darkness. 

I am dead! She thought. 

She saw tiny lights in the distance. They looked like stars in the night sky. Then she realized something. 

"Wait," she whispered, "I'm in space!" her voice echoed. "And I'm floating! Wow!" 

"Hello?!" she called out, "anybody here?" 

"We are!" said a voice. Blossom turned around. It was all her roommates. 

"We're in the vastness of space!" the geeky girl babbled. 

"Look, there's the Earth there! And here is Alpha Centurai, and next-" 

"Impossible!" Clover said, folding her arms. 

"You're the one who's impossible!" the geek said, sticking out her tongue. 

Clover was about to respond with a retort of her own, when the sky suddenly started glowing. The sky began to ripple like a lake. 

Blossom shushed everyone. "I think someone is watching us!" she said. 

"Uh-Blossy?" Selene quipped, "Who exactly is this 'someone'?" 

"I am," said an ethereal voice above them. They all gasped. They were all silent. 

"Who are you?" Marceline asked, breaking the silence, "and what the HECK are we doing here?" 

"Wait," Heather interrupted, "I think I know you. You're the legendary Queen of the Zodiac, aren't you? I read about you in the magic fair!" 

"Affirmative," the Queen said, "but call me Zenith. You ought to." 

Blossom stared at Zenith. She had a pair of curly horns, like those of rams on her head. 

The hair on one side of her head resembled a mane, and the rest curled onto a scorpion's sting. 

She had a big mask on her face topped with crab's claws. She wore fresh white robes, and her legs were but a fish's tail, glittering and shining. 

She was it. 

She was the one. 

She was the Queen of the Zodiac. 

She began to speak. 

"You girls are here, in space, because you are very special," she said in her sweet voice. 

"Why?" Jazz asked. 

"You are the Guardians of the Zodiac," she explained. 

"Within each of you lies the essence of your Zodiac and the powers that come with it." 

"Did you say powers?" Paris asked. 

"Yes. Your powers will be a surprise. But you will come to know in time." 

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Queenie, since you're done, we're going, OK!" Marceline said, pushing Heather by the shoulders.  

"Not now, child," Zenith said, "you have to listen to my story first." 

"But-" 

"No buts. Listen." 

She began her story.