We are all Lost Stars ---A Zodiac Story---

Chapter 6

"Holy sweet mother-"

"Language,"

"-ducking of Olympus! Where'd she go?!"

Everyone was watching a very panicked Sebastian running back and forth in the room. For the last 20 minutes. "Relax, Spencer. She probably went for a walk or something," Ashley reassured him, trying to calm him down. "No, if she wanted some fresh air she would've been back by now," Spencer countered. "They're right, what if something happened to her?" Grace began to bite her nails.

"Then we could go look for her if she did go for a walk we might be able to find her," Chase suggested to which everyone agreed. Splitting into two groups, with Spencer, Chase, Sebastian in one group and Ashley, Grace in the other.

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"John?"

"Yes, that would be my name," She looked at him with disbelief at his smirk. "What's going on? What are you doing here?" He only smiled wider that left an unsettling feeling in her stomach. "I know it's you," He said. She only looked at him with confusion in response. "Leo," Her eyes widened.

"Our Lord, we have finally found you, after so long. We've been looking for you since you've disappeared with everyone else," He blabbered on and on about Lords and the zodiacs which she didn't understand.

"Wait, I don't understand, who are you?" That set him off a bit. "My Lord, there's no need to pretend. I have found you, you can now regain your rightful thrones, the zodiacs will rise again!"

She looked at the man with a 'Is he mentally unstable?' questioning look. "All you have to do is admit it! And then we can go and find the rest! Just admit it!" He screamed in frustration, kicking a chair that was nearby. She flinched with everyone else in the huge cage. 

"What about your son?" He looked at her and then smiled widely again. "Wouldn't you like to know? He then pointed at someone in a different cage, who looked like he hadn't eaten in days. "This is my son. It's his punishment for not being the goddess Sagittarius. Or he is and he is lying to me!" He raised his voice which made his son flinch away from him.

He then walked out of the large room, muttering about liars and Lords as the door closed with a thud behind him. Closing her eyes, she tries to reach out to Leo.

'Do you know him?'

'...No,'

'Leo,'

'He is no one important, you should focus your attention on getting out,'

She sighed a bit annoyed but did not argue. If there was one thing she had learned about Leo throughout the 17 years of her life was that when questioned about his personal life (before he had barged into hers, mind you,) he hated answering them and will not budge no matter how hard she pestered. 

Looking around she got up quickly only to fall to her knees. Clutching her head as she grunted in pain. 'Lilliana!' Leo called out in panic. 'I'm fine,' She convinced as she got up slowly. Making her way to the cage door which had a lock. She tugged at it, but of course, she couldn't do anything. It was times like this she wished that she had super strength like the people of the beneath. 

She plopped down on the ground, praying that everyone would find her cause that's all she could do now, wait.

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"She's not anywhere,"

"And if she went somewhere, she should've been back by now,"

"Somethings wrong, really really wrong," Grace started to bite her nails, even more, looking agitated. "Ah, no," Sebastian quickly grabbed her hand and pulled it away from her mouth. She pouted but that lasted only for a bit until she tried to fight back and go back to biting her nails. (Which Sebastian prevented her from doing. Again.)

"Did you guys find anything?" Ashley called out to Spencer and Chase who came to join their group after staying behind to check something. "Well, we found something on the ground," Spencer said as Chase pulled something out of his pocket and passed it along to Ashley who took a look at it with everyone else.

It was a piece of cloth with a symbol. Which only looked like a black circle with white stuff flowing around it. "What is that?" Ashley questioned with a raised eyebrow. "Well, we asked around and everyone else thinks that it's Corona, the group that's been kidnapping children around our age," Spencer explained as they examined it.

"You think they took her?" Grace questioned. "Well, it's the only clue so far," Chase huffed in frustration. "But what would they want with her?" Sebastian scrunched his face in confusion. "Well, Lilliana does have 'golden hair' like that daughter of a duke, perhaps it has something to do with that?" 

"Maybe we should book another night?" Spencer suggested. 

"What do you mean?"

"Well, if they went after Lilliana who has golden hair, wouldn't they go after someone who also has orange hair?" With that, they all turned to look at Sebastian who didn't completely understand until they all looked at him. 

"Oh... I'm not gonna like this, am I?"

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Lilliana couldn't help but let the dark thoughts cloud her mind. What if they leave her all alone? What if they never come? What if they can't find her? What if they don't want to find her?

'No,' Leo growled in her head. She sighed. Of course, he heard all that. 

'Never think that. They will come to save you. They will come. Have some faith,' She took a deep breath and exhaled. The dark thoughts that clouded her mind soon disappeared, even if she knew that this peace will only last for so long, she was glad that Leo always chased away her demons. 

She quickly sucked in a deep breath as the door opened. She tried to blend in with all the other girls and boys in the cage and watched. It was Melissa, John's wife. She scanned the area a bit shaken up. She soon set her eyes on her son and reached out for him as much as the bars let her. 

"Louis! Oh, Louis!" She sobbed as she touched her son's cheek. Through the bars, Lilliana caught a glimpse of their son and had to stop herself from gasping. His eyes. They looked empty. He looked empty. It reminded her of well... her. Back when she lost the only person who cared about her, other than Leo. She shook her head. She had to save him. He couldn't stay there. Not with them. She wouldn't allow it.

After the woman fussed over the boy she left soon, closing the door slowly. 

'Leo, have any ideas on how to free everyone and getting out of here?'

'Well, you could try shapeshifting?'

'Leo, I can't shapeshift. What are you talking about?'

'Uh... well you can!'

She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, trying to calm herself down. 

'And you didn't have enough time to, well I don't know, tell me throughout the 17 years of my life?'

'...Surprise?'

'I hate you,'

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Author's note

I know the story's going slow and everyone might be getting impatient but making the chapters longer will take more time and I might not end up updating at all. Although some of the chapters seem like fillers, they all include hints here and there for... later and I want everyone to warm up to the characters and their not so pleasant pasts. The other characters will be coming soon and I kind of planned out how everyone will meet who. I'll try to update when I can and write more but until then you'll have to make do with this chapter. Sorry and thank you!