The School of Stars - A Zodiac Story

Zodiac Chapter 3

Cancer's POV

It's been already a few minutes into school and I've already gotten a crush on someone. Hopefully he didn't mind if I grabbed his wrist - after all, we were RUNNING LATE! The hallways were almost empty, and some doors started to close. 

"Nooo! We're gonna be late!" I screamed.

Capricorn scrolled on his phone. "It's near the mythology corridor."

"Thanks!" I wanted to hug him, but we've only met, and holding his wrist was enough. If I dropped too many hints it would probably be AWKWARD.

We ran upstairs, and I was trying to keep up with Capricorn, but he was so much faster than me and when I finally caught up with him, I was out of breath - like, on the verge of hyperventilating.

"You okay? Sorry I ran so fast."

"No, no, I'm fine." I realized that I should probably stop saying no, and he should stop apologizing, but then again he was only doing that to be courteous. 

"I think we're here..." he stated. The hallways were all empty. I started panicking. 

"What are we waiting for? Let's go in!"

When the two of us walked in, everyone was staring at us from below. That's when I realized how frickin' big this assembly hall was.

"Woah..." I began, but turned to Capricorn, who was red in the face. Poor guy, it looks like he hated attention.

"Come in, Cancer and Capricorn," a low, deep voice said. It was the principal of the school, Jupiter.

"How does he know our names?" Capricorn whispered to me, his warm breath on my face. I blushed, but turned my head around so he wouldn't see it.

We headed up the stairs, which were made of marble, and found two empty seats. I sat at the end of the row, while Capricorn, seated next to me, was next to a boy with blond hair and bright blue eyes. He whispered to the boy next to him, with white hair (like Capricorn) and green eyes that stood out from his pale face. I made out the words: I SHIP THOSE TWO.

The light haired boy nodded. Oh great. Now they're shipping us. Hopefully Capricorn didn't hear them. I was blushing hard. Unfortunately, Capricorn noticed.

"Hey, sorry I made us late. Don't be embarrassed - I'm probably more embarrassed, you know,"

"I'm fine, just forget it." I turned away.

"Girls." I heard the two boys say and rolled their eyes. I sighed.

"Leo, Sagittarius, were you listening?"

The two boys remained silent.

"Allow me to repeat what I said, since some people are fooling around." He glared at Leo and Sagittarius. "As you know, this isn't an ordinary school, it's a school for hybrids."

The blond boy whispered, "Duh, I'm half lion, Mr Obvious." I decided that I didn't like that boy so much.

"However," Principal Jupiter continued, "It is also a place for those who have been blessed with special powers.

I was both a hybrid and also... a witch? If you put it that way.

"You're lucky that you're both. I'm just a stupid hybrid with goat horns." 

"There are still people who still haven't found their powers yet," Jupiter had a warm smile on his face, "but they will if they attend here."

Capricorn whispered, "Yes! I might be both!"

The principal cleared his throat, and said, "As all of you know, this is a school for stars, and the reason you are hybrids or have powers is because you are going to turn into stars. The reason for this, is that we found a new species of life, and they are multiplying at a rate, and Earth needs our help to look after them."

Everyone was on the edge of their seats. "The creatures are what we call mortals, since they will one day die. But we have no idea how the mortals are going to act, so we need your help. If you guys are successful, you will become constellations, and a special group of you, known as the Zodiacs, will guide Earth's mortals. We will pick the special Zodiacs based on how we feel about you."

I gasped. That was so cool! We could actually help Earth. 

Earth, in her body form, walked onto stage and stood by Jupiter.

Earth told us, "We are actually planets, and you guys are stars, we are just in human form, except you still have powers or are hybrid, because you guys are immortal.

Jupiter continued, "And one more thing, which your parents are aware of, after a week, you will be staying here overnight as well, in different rooms, which will be sorted by us tomorrow morning. You will be working a lot during school hours, except you won't do any learning on the weekends."

"Yes!" Leo punched the air, and all attention was drawn on him. 

"You are dismissed!" Jupiter said, and everyone stood up, and started talking. Capricorn asked me, "What's your first class?" 

"Astrology of Stars, what about you?"

"Same! Let's go!"

SORRY IF THIS CHAPTER WAS BORING OR CONFUSING, I AM VERY TIRED AND STRESSED RIGHT NOW SO DON'T MIND ME. THIS WAS A LONG CHAPTER!