The mortal children of the constellations somehow end-up being the Zodiacs. Now obviously the immortals would reject them and try to finish them off, all the while the "Exterior Forces" trying the same thing. And it wouldn't make matters any better...
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Alexander Douglas' POV:
Sunset has always been my favourite time of the day. It's just so fascinating. As a young boy, whenever I got scared or depressed, I always used to sit at the balcony of my room at the academy at sunset and think things through. It always motivated me that even though the sun had set, it would rise again.
I looked at the scene that lay before me. Green land stretched out before my eyes as far as I could look. Pine trees were scattered here and there and the wind blowing past me carried the scent of Musk Thistles and Honeysuckles. I'd always liked Thistles and Honeysuckle. Odd choice, I know, but I was an odd guy.
Millions of people would give anything to be me. I even knew a guy once who'd even tried to sell his soul to just spend a day as Alexander Douglas. For the Fotemistes(A/N: this is the word for the children of the constellations) I was a legend. I was the only one of my kind in the whole history to have ever met Orion himself. I saved the world countless of times and defeated an army of 5000 Abians single-handedly. I was the person who had been chosen to host the Spirit of Crux's Pneuma for a day. Guaranteed that the Pneuma of Crux was the weakest of all Pneumas, still it was a gazillion times more powerful than us mortals and if anyone else had hosted it, they'd have died in seconds. And indeed, the agony was something I'd never wish upon even my worst enemy, but I had to do that in order to protect my homeland.
Finally, I decided, at the age of twenty, to step-down from leadership and live the rest of my days out at some remote place. Of all the things that I had achieved, there was one thing that I wanted to achieve, that no one else had ever had and That was a peaceful death. Normally the Abians killed the Fortemistes early in their lives. I think I was the oldest Fortemistes ever. The Abians killed us to annoy our immortal parents, but I don't think our deaths affect them(our parents) much.
There was also another reason for my stepping-down. Cindy Nolan. I didn't know who she was. I didn't know where she was. I didn't know anything about her except he name and appearance. See, we had this diamond-like structure back at the academy and it was kept under strict security. It was rumoured to tell the future or something. And once when my best-friend had died in a war with the Abians, I had this reckless urge to just break through the security around it and see it.
So, obviously, I was able to do that and when I saw the future-telling-diamond, I was enraptured by it. I was beautiful, almost 6 feet tall and strange pictures danced across it's surface. But I couldn't make out any of them. Instead I touched them gently, momentarily forgetting my grief.
And that was when it happened.
A strange, unearthly voice spoke, inside my head, it said, "Cindy Nolan, she's the key. Once you find her, don't lose her. The Key."
