Astrogia

Hopeless

Each month that went by another royal would be another year old and each month that went by the master plan started to take a clearer form. Spiders, shadows, the plague, Astrogians would learn what real fear is. He would get the delight of watching the happiness fade from someone else's eyes. Maybe he could finally smile again.

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"Now boarding flight 114 with nonstop service to London. Please have your boarding passes ready and your passport opened to the picture ID inside."

The three girls looked at each other and got up uneasily. The smallest of the group made eye contact with the male accompanying them and immediately regretted it.

"Get moving. And if one of you says you know what then heads are gonna roll once we get to our destination. Hopefully it won't come to that. I know some British men that would pay top dollar for all of you." The man smirked and pushed them towards the gate, following closely behind them. "Now show the nice worker your documents and we can sit down where we can all get some sleep. Isn't that right cousins?"

"Yes it is. Here's what you asked for ma'am." The tallest out of the group presented her documents and boarded the flight after the gate attendant scanned her in. One by one the other girls followed suit and practically ran to catch up to the first girl. The man calmly walked in behind them and took his seat in the row right beside theirs.

"What do we do Cameron. We can't escape him now."

"Calm down. We just need to get back on the ground then we can do something. For now we hold off on the original plan. Talia how are you holding up?" Cameron cast a worried glance at the girl who has been quiet this whole time.

"Camilla when we first met do you remember what you first told me? You said no matter what we end up in we can always find a way out well what do we do now?" Talia glanced at the girl sitting beside the window and sighed. "There's nothing we can do now. We should just give up from now instead of getting our hopes up for nothing."

"Funny we met while we were in danger and now look at us again. It's like we can't stay away from trouble." Camilla glanced at the floor sadly.

"I think it's trouble can't stay away from us." Cameron chuckled bitterly. "I bet nobody else is as unlucky as us."

"Oh I wouldn't say that. I know about nine other people who have luck just as bad as yours."

"Who said that?" Talia looked around the cramped space and saw nothing out of place.

"You heard it too?" Camilla eyed her suspiciously.

"I think we're the only ones who heard it. Look around us. Nobody else seems concerned about anything out of the ordinary."

A blinding bright like filled the plane cabin and the three girls were transported to a field filled with grass as far as the eye could see.

"Where are we?"

"A better is where's the creep that kidnapped us."

"Hello ladies."

"It's that voice again. Who are you?" Cameron pulled Camilla and Talia behind her protectively while glaring into the horizon.

"I am nobody dangerous. Just someone looking for new friends that I can talk with. Would you be my friend?"

"Why should we believe you? You can't even show us who you are." Cameron's glare hardened as a figure began to form in front of her.

"I am Ophiuchus and as you can see. I'm harmless. All I want are new friends. What do you say?" Ophiuchus smiled sweetly at the girls who looked at him cautiously. "If you don't want to I can always return you back to where I got you from. I'm sure your 'other friend' would love to hear your explanation for leaving in the first place. It's your choice dears freedom or the life of some sex slave."

"Wait!" All eyes turned to face Talia who held onto the shirt of the man in front of her. "Please don't send us back. I'm begging you! Please!"

"Don't cry dear. I won't leave you. All you have to do is take my hand." Ophiuchus wiped away the tears that managed to escape her eyes then held out a hand to her. His smile widened when he felt her nimble fingers in his grasp and turned towards the other girls. "What do you two say?"

"Talia what are you doing? Have you forgotten our agreement?" Camilla tried to pull Talia back over to her and Cameron but stepped back when Talia pulled her arm back.

"Have the two of you forgotten the predicament we were literally just in? This guy promised us freedom in exchange for being our friend. How could you say no or do you really want to be sold in London? I don't know about the two of you but I'm not going back on that flight." Talia turned back to Ophiuchus and smiled. "May we go now."

"Of course dear." Ophiuchus began walking away with a smirk on his face.

"Wait. We're coming too. They might kill us if we go back." Camilla dragged Cameron to catch up to Talia and Ophiuchus and followed them to their destination.

"What about you my dear? You've been quiet for a while." Ophiuchus played with a tuft of her hair and smiled down at her.

"It's like you said my freedom or the life of a sex slave. For all I know you could force me to be your slave as well. Either way I'm fucked but at least I'm not stuck on plane for hours." Cameron moved her head out of his grasp and continued moving forward.

Ophiuchus chuckled under his breath as he watched the three girls walk ahead of him. He almost had the full set now. Just another four and his plan can finally begin. One way or another his father would be freed from his prison and they would rule Astrogia once again.

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Hello again. You have no idea how proud of myself I am right now. My time limit is probably up but at least I got the chapter out. Ha! Suck on that! But as always vote comment and let me know what you think is gonna happen next.