Twelve

For millenia, the zodiacs have been running from Orion. They have long since been released from the skies and are running about on earth. On the way from the sky to the earth, something unexplainable happened and they were burdened with amnesia. They have spent countless lifetimes on earth, being reborn under different names and without knowledge of their true identities for the beginning of each of their lives. Orion has accompanied them during their time on earth, but not in a friendly way. He has spent the millenia here searching for them, hunting them; looking for the key. Once he hunts them all down, the cycle begins anew. They are reborn, awaken, and are hunted once more. Leo is always last to die, presumably making him the key, but it is never him. This time, Leo is the fifth to be killed. This time, theoretically, the true key will be found.

-Note-
The human names of the zodiacs are anagrams of their regular names, but if you have trouble deciphering the anagrams, no worries! I will write their names at the end of the chapter in which they are introduced

I don't put out very long chapters and I'm writing this on a whim so I don't have an updating schedule or anything. Please feel free to comment, criticize, theorize, whatever. Thanks for reading!