The Forgotten Zodiac

"No, the...wolf-monster won't eat you." Quint shook his head. "Where did you come from? Is there a human settlement near here?" He asked gently, kneeling so that he was eye-level with Tyler.

Tyler shook his head. "There's no humans. Humans is big people, like mommies and daddies. We don't have any of those. We just have people." He rolled his head back and forth, smiling at Quint's question, as if it were the funniest thing in the world.

Quinn seemed very confused at this, before he realized what the child was saying. "There are only people your size where you came from?" He asked quietly. Rin and Quinn would both freak out for sure...

((Here's the part where we stop again and wait for Hannah to post.

Haha, I kind of want Kazue to hit Quinn. xD))

((No, here's the part where I say something else and then we stop. Now that you mention it, I do too. Also, I have Quint and Quinn as twelve/thirteen in my head. Sorry if that's wrong.))

Tyler shook his head. "I didn't say that." He paused, trying to think of the best way to explain it. "There are some people bigger than you, but they're only a little bit bigger than you. Then the guards take them away."

Kazue's eyes moved to glare at Quinn. "You wouldn't understand, would you?" he looked up at the walls. "Sure, this is nice, plesant place, but it's  not right. I shouldn't be seeing this, this isn't real, illusions make me feel sick. They mess up my senses," he said, looking back at Quinn. "Get me out now."

((Sorry, no slapping yet.))

((That's about right, Sage. They look around that age.

Darn for no hitting yet.))

"Oh...you're right, I don't understand..." Quinn blinked. "I can't, Quint is the one who put us under. I can move us, but I can't remove the illusion...I've forgotten how."

Quint frowned a bit, thinking. "So, there are guards who take away people when they grow bigger than myself? That doesn't sound nice..." A concentration camp, he thought. Where they take the orphans and put them to work when they're old enough.

Yeah, Quinn and Rin would definitely be angry. "What are the guards? Are they human, or something...different?" Quint asked.

((HIT. HIM. NOW. PLEASE.))

Tyler nodded and rolled his eyes. "Didn't I tell you that already? Of course it isn't nice. It's mean and nasty and bad." He paused, considering what the guards exactly were. "They're almost people. Sometimes people they took come back, but they're... Different when they come back. They don't smile, or laugh, and they take people away too, even though the people don't want to go. I don't like them."

Kazue clenched his fists. "Then get Quint over here," he said, looking like he was starting to lose some measure of his self-control. Red eyes flickered around the room. He hated being decieved like this. Even if it meant no harm.

"I see..." Quint murmured, nodding a bit. "Alright, I understand. But you need to understand something; We're not monsters. At all. And we can help, if we all agree to it. Do those...people want help?"

"Quint is probably b-busy?" Quinn said, backing up a bit. Kazue was starting to scare him. He was changing the illusion with his own powers? How was that even possible? The illusion started reflecting Quinn's fear, shadows swelling threateningly around them. Quinn moved back towards Kazue, not sure what would happen if he stepped onto the darker floor. The illusion had already had enough; they were like living beings, and if Quint didn't have enough energy to keep them the same (which, he didn't), they could turn nasty.

Tyler shook his head. "He was a monster." He stopped and thought of an idea that let both of them be right. "Is he your pet monster? A nice monster?" He nodded, more to himself than to Quint. "Yep. That's gotta be it. He's your pet monster."

((Aw, Tyler, you're so cute.))

Kazue gave a jolt. "What are you doing?" he asked, staring at the floor. "Please, get me out of here," He said.

((Exactly. Quint should totally go along with that. Cancer is the Zodaic's pet monsters. Hear him rawr.))

"Er...yeah. Pet monster. Don't call him that, though, he doesn't like it." Quint shrugged. "You never answered me, do you and the people want help?"

"I can't!" Quint wailed, grabbing onto Kazue's arm out of fear. "I don't know how, I can't remember!" He hung on tightly as the shadows got closer, swirling and circling like a shark or something.

"Don't remember? It's your power! How could you forget something like that?" KAzue barked, pulling his arm away from Quinn and standing. He watched the shadows distrustingly. "Quint!" he called, hoping the other twin could hear him. "Get me out of here!"

Tyler frowned, staring curiously at Quint. "Why would we want help? What do we need help with?" He stopped as a possibility occurred to him. "Do you mean you could make the soldiers stop taking people away? That would be nice, but it's im-POSSIBLE." The little boy shuddered, remembering the last time people had fought the soldiers. "The soldiers would just kill you and your friends and your pet monster and then you would all be dead."

"We're Zodiacs, kid. I don't think you quite understand that part." Quint shook his head. "Come on, we can help." He turned his head, looking at the corner. Was someone caling him? Good grief, it must have been Quinn or something. He was running dangerously low on energy...he'd let the others out in a minute.

"I don't know!" Quinn shook his head quickly. A shadow lazily wrapped around his ankle. Quinn panicked at this point, letting out a scream and grabbing onto Kazue's leg.

Quint jumped at the scream. That was deifinietly Quinn. Quint frowned, snapping his fingers.

With that, the illusions vanished all at once.

((Next time. Haha.))

Kazue looked around as his surroundings turned to normal. He shook Quinn off of his leg. "Go back to bed," he ordered, returning to sorting everyone's things into neat stacks.

Tyler blinked when the surroundings reappeared and immediately hid behind Quint. "I'm not scared, I'm just making sure he eats you first." He muttered, glaring at Darius. He then kept looking around, observing Ophile and Cancer the most nervously.

Quinn shied back towards his bedding, wiping his eyes and sniffing. That had been scary...

Ophile stood up when he got out of the illusion, shaking himself off. "Okay. I'm glad things have calmed down now. I know I've said it before, but humans are disgusting."

Tyler glared at Ophile from the safety of being behind Quint. "I am not disgusting! You're the freaky-wolf monster that kills butterflies!" To him, apparently, killing butterflies was the most terrible crime anyone could commit, and he did his best to express this, along with his extreme dislike of Ophile.

Darius crossed his arms and stared at Quint and Tyler. "Well? What did you find out?" He was assuming, of course, that Quint had found something out, though he hadn't discovered much.