The Zodiac Kingdom

Chapter 7 - Spirit Animals

Venus POV

Chiron, Libra, Taurus, and I were chatting about strategies when Scorpio jumped onto Taurus. He screamed.

"Dude? What was that for?"

"Chill. It's lunchtime! I know you probably want to talk to Aries about your strategy that you were thinking about last night, but... can I sit with her today?" Scorpio reddened.

"Sure Romeo." Taurus rolled his eyes.

"I told you not to call me that!"

"Whatever. You're starting to act a lot like Aries now." Taurus stood up and stretched. "I'm so hungry... what's for lunch?"

"Sooo, do you want to sit next to me for lunch?" I asked Chiron. I've always had a huge crush on him but he's never payed much attention to me.

"Well, yeah, but only if Saturn and Jupiter can join!" Chiron assured. "I was going to sit with them today."

"Ok! They can join!" I said through gritted teeth. When were we finally going to have some alone time?

The other zodiacs and planets were waiting for us outside so I joined them and we headed out, chatting.

We walked into a dark room. Wait, what? 

"Aries.... I don't think this is the righ..." I started but then Chiron shushed me.

"Don't you remember this room?" Chiron whispered to me.

I thought for a while before remembering. "Oh yeah, heheh." Chiron moved closer to me and I felt myself blush.

"Do you think that they are ready?" I asked.

"Yeah, I think that they should know now." Chiron told me.

We came to the other planets. Surprisingly, they were talking about whether they should go in.

"I don't think this is the lunch hall." Aries muttered.

"No, no..." Neptune told Aries. "This is the right room, except this isn't the lunch hall."

"Huh?" Cancer asked. "What do you mean?"

"You'll see!" Pluto jumped excitedly. 

The room was just as we remembered, except the statues were different.

"It's time!" Jupiter told us.

"Time for what? Guys you are messing with my mind! Just tell me what this is?" Gemini yelled.

"Are we... meant to eat lunch in here..." Pisces stuttered. She ran to Virgo, wrapped her arms around her and buried her head in her arms while Virgo caressed her.

The clouds moved away and light came into view from above the glass window, placed high up at the dome's center.

"This room is so cool!" Leo said, when the statues became more visible.

"I love this statue!" Taurus pointed to a bull statue.

"I actually prefer the scorpion!" Scorpio added, and ran towards the massive statue.

"I like the goat!" Capricorn said.

Soon all of them picked the animal that they found best.

The clouds blocked the sun again, making the room turn dark.

"Hey! My planet looked good until you cov-" Sun stopped when Mercury nudged him.

"Well, this room is getting creepy! I'm out," Cancer confirmed. As she walked, she accidentally stepped on a loose floorboard which made the room very dark and made the zodiacs float up, glowing in different colors.