The Zodiac Kingdom

Chapter 11 - Unnoticed

Scorpio POV

"Bye Earth!" We were all huddled around her, and our arms were outstretched to wrap her in a big hug.

"Well, I just have to go for now, but I promise, I'll be there for the war. And I'm not leaving the kingdom yet. I'm just going to tell the planets that I'm leaving." Earth reassured, and slowly backed away to avoid missing her bus stop.

Pisces looked up at her with longing eyes as Earth climbed the short steps up the vehicle. "Wait!" she blurted out. Earth turned around and gazed at the smallest sign, who handed her a handmade bead bracelet.

"It's for good luck and safe travels!" Pisces' lips curled up into a warm smile, exposing her white teeth. She handed it to Earth, who smiled tenderly before quickly saying that she was going to be late. Then she continued up the short steps and disappeared into the back.

"I found a hotel that we could all stay in for a while, since we're going to be training tomorrow anyways, and our house is too far." Sagittarius shoved his phone into the signs' faces.

"It's cheap," admitted Capricorn, who hated wasting money. "Let's go for it."

"Yeah!" Cancer agreed. "I am not running another 21 miles or something like that here until I get shouted at by Aries!" Capricorn stared at her, amazed that she ran all the way here, but disappointed that her brain didn't think about the idea of taking public transport. He smacked his head in disbelief.

"So... how many rooms do we need to book?" Virgo asked while shaping her nails with a nail filer.

"Clearly, the 12 of us can't fit into the same room." Leo rolled his eyes. How necessary.

"So... 2 rooms?" Libra asked hopefully. Leo and I shook our heads. "What?" she continued, "6 girls and 6 boys. Easy."

"No, not easy. I am not sharing a room with lion face." I said, crossing my arms.

"Well, I don't want to-" Leo started, but everyone else agreed.

"I don't think that... anyone wants to share a room with Leo... he... takes up a lot of space...." Taurus tried to look for the nicest words as possible, but failed in doing so. Everyone turned their heads to Sagittarius' direction.

"He's not that bad..." Sagittarius confessed. All the fire signs originally lived in a separate house, and since it had 2 rooms, Aries had to take 1 of them, since she's a girl, leaving Leo and Sagittarius stuck in one room together. I once went over to visit Aries, and I saw how much space Leo took up... basically 2/3s of the tiny room. However, Sagittarius was a very minimalistic person, and didn't mind. I found it very unfair, and I seriously don't see how Sagittarius can put up with his selfish behavior.

"Okay, because of this controversy, let's get 4 rooms, with 3 people in each. Fair?" Aquarius folded her arms.

"Okay!" Pisces beamed.

Soon, everything was settled. When we arrived into the hotel, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer all ran outside to a snack shop nearby, and bought more snacks than all of us combined could all eat. However, Gemini was broke, so Cancer and Taurus paid for all the snacks, and let's just say that Gemini felt really bad for the rest of the night.

"Are all of you guys happy now?" I asked them cheekily.

"Yep!" Taurus replied. "And here's some ice cream for you. We're going to distribute snacks to everyone." The three of them ran across the hall, knocking on the doors that belonged to the other zodiacs.

"So... what do you want to do?" Capricorn emerged from behind. "I'm not that tired now, I guess I'm used to staying awake." I nodded, and stared at my ice cream cone, which was wrapped in its paper cover. Capricorn laughed to himself. "They gave you one too?"