Chapter 18: The Zodiacs Lose Hope

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    The Astro-Zodiacs and Dax looked at each other eye to eye, ready for a face-off. They clenched their hands, brushed their hair, took a deep breath and stretched their hands as well. A snap of a finger is heard before the battle started with the group of heroes and the bad guy."Let's take him down!!" They all shouted as they used their magical zodiac powers and dark powers. They unleashed as they all said the words. "Aries!" Eddie yelled as the magic rams prepared to hit him, but Dax used some dark smoke to kill the rams as Elliot jumped out from the ground and unleashed some crabs. "Cancer!" she said as the crabs prepared to pinch Dax, but he defended himself by snapping his fingers to protect himself with a protective barrier.

"Oh, no!" Elliot was shocked. "Get him, Linda!"

"Allright!" Linda took a deep breath as she started to run away and jumped above Vernon before jumping higher dramatically. She straightened her legs, locked her knees and her arms are in a touchdown motion before saying the word. "Scorpio!" she shouted as the magic giant scorpions started to stung the figure, only to get carried and thrown into the air before exploding into dark dust.

"Your powers are no match against me!" Dax taunted them as he saw some magic lions ready to pounce at him. He grabbed the lions by their tails, turning them into dark lions, much to Ron's shock.

"What are you guys doing?!" He said as the lions pounced him.

"Ron!" Eddie shouted in horror as he summoned the magic rams again. "Headbutt him!" he ordered.

"Leaves, go!" Alberta unleashed the starry leaves from her hands. Shanda, Lina and Gina summoned their powers to defeat Dax.

The kids' powers were summoned in order to defeat the dark figure. All of a sudden, The rams, lions, scorpions, crabs, fishes, water-bearers, twins, bulls, balance scales, archers, leaves and sea-goats ended up becoming evil and darker due to Dax's protective barrier protecting him and avoiding him from being killed. They started to charge against him as Eddie and his friends tried to beg them to go back.

"Twins! What are you doing?!" Lina and Gina asked before the twins punched her into the ground.

"Lina! Gina!" Shanda yelled as the fishes hit her in process.

"No!" Alberta tried to tell the leaves to go back to fight, but failed as they hit her in process.

Eddie became frozen as he watched his friends being hit by the dark zodiac signs. He stood still in shock before the rams hit him into the air, falling flat into the ground. "This...wasn't....supposed to...happen..." he said weakly as Dax, looking victorious, approached close to him.

"Feeling bad? I know you guys are feeling." he said as he pulled out a star from his pocket. "I think you're gonna love your lives in Dark Piscium." He snapped his fingers to let the star to suck the Zodiacs into Dark Piscium. He put the star in the sky before launching himself to earth.

Later, the Zodiacs found themselves trapped in Dark Piscium, who is a empty void with D symbols on the walls. They were shocked as they didn't defeat Dax after losing to him.

"Eddie, what happened?" Phil asked.

"Dax defeated us with his powers. He has a protective barrier, turns Zodiac signs into evil ones and killed the rams with dark smoke." Eddie explained softly.

"How did you know that, wimp?" Ron put his hands on his hips.

"We're not strong enough to defeat Dax, Ron! We're useless!"

"Of course we are! Your sister pushed you every day when you go to school!"

"And you didn't believe me when we were hit by the zodiac symbols!"

"I didn't know you were following me outside!" said Shanda.

"Shanda! I'm your brother, not your little brother!" Eddie shouted at her angrily.

"My zodiac powers are useless against Dax!" said Elliot.

"We thought we were able to defeat him!" said Linda. "In time, look at us! We're trapped in Dark Piscium!"

"Oh, wonderful. Now you didn't tell me that Dark Piscium is a land of voidness!" said Eddie.

"I was about to be eaten by that pot monster with his sharp teeth!" said Alberta.

"You know what's so nice? You're a freak!" said Ron.

"Wait, are you calling me a freak? You're the freak!"

"Oh, really?"

"Really nothing! I hope that Dax will get some D badges to show you: Honesty, bravery and Loyalty!!!!" Eddie yelled at his own friends, including Lina and Gina. "G-Guys, I...I didn't mean to...I'm serious, really. I was..."

"I wish if you accept us as Dax's minions." said Elliot.

"Y-yeah, so do I..." Shanda was in verge of tears before running away from her friends.

"I wanna go home..." Linda started to sob as Talia comforted her.

Eddie laid himself down in the floor after yelling and hurting his friends' feelings. He felt so depressed as he said to himself. "I'm sorry, Mr. Horoscope. I let my friends down." he said as he began remembering his early years with Shanda. Ron began remembering of how he was bullied by some bullies in primary school, which made him to turn into a bully. Linda blowed her nose in sadness as she pulled out her pom-poms and threw them away. The rest of the group felt saddened and began to lose hope.

Back to earth, the cheerleaders missed Linda so much and looked at the sky, still darker. They sighed as they realized that they won't see her again.

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