July 3, 2008 7:00 am
Akko Academy, Malison
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▫️Enzo:

Okay... never thought another school would accept me. Yet here I am. Akko Academy! Or as others call it: the strict, stupid, cheap military academy.

Here youth train to be Zodiac Rangers. I apparently am too now apparently... but I am already a Zodiac so I have no clue how that is going to work. But I am going to train like I'm not some rich kid who already has powers. So that's pretty nifty... I get to play like actor or something, maybe I will use a fake British accent.

Everyone else here is training to get their powers, and the entire school is run under Ames Zodiac, my uncle. He seems pretty chill, and lately he has goo-goo eyes for his new lady friend Larkin, who could probably kick hiss butt into next week if he ever decides to cheat on her.

As soon as I walk in, the first thing I see is how big this place is. It is all open space and has three floors. Two giant hallways where one side leads to the student's rooms, because most live on campus- unlike me who lives at a freaking mansion. The other side of the school is where the gyms and sparring areas are along with classrooms. In front of me is this giant cafeteria, with lots of lines, so that means lots of food. Yes! Food is like my sixth favorite thing. The next thing I see is the colors... most people don't notice that until later, but these colors are just nasty. Dark green and grey and brown... looks like a catalogue for dog poo. Yuck! Then finally I see what I should have seen first. A man. But not just any man, this man looked angry to see me as he walks over, he was very well built and was wearing the normal attire for this school- skin tight thick clothing with armor to match the color of their ranking. His was blue, which meant he was a second, or an assistant to someone. Blue also meant he held like almost no power compared to red, who are the leaders that hold all the power. As far as I understand, the colors go: red, which are the leaders of the whole operation, which is Ames and like five other people. Then purple who are the leaders of the squads. Then blue which are the seconds to all. Then black which are the really good fighters on their way to being red or blue, and who are ready to receive their Zodiac DNA operation at any time. Then yellow who are the ones that have been training for a bit. Then white who are the fabulous new kids. As you can guess... I am white. But jokes on them, because I look dank good in white.

I think my skin was too as I saw this guy approach me. Not only was the bright blue intimidating, it was the exact color of his eyes. Which stood out like angry headlights on his pale slim face. His hair was short and black, spiked up all neatly in the front. I felt like a deer about to be hit by a car as he walks over to me.

"Great!" He snaps at me. "You arrived alive! Suppose that's good new, but it means a lot more work for me... I was rooting you wouldn't make it here, since you are already an hour late."

"Oh sorry, I wasn't aware I passed through a timezone... I forgot to take that into account." I quickly apologize.

"Maybe if I leave you all alone with squad four in the sparring room things might be better." He grumbles. "For ME! And not for you! Because you would be dead after five minutes with squad four, they hold more power in their little toes then you do in your whole body."

"Okay." I nod, getting the feeling this guy did not like his job or me at the moment. Either way he is taking his anger out on me.

He huffs and grabs his Net-pad and dialed a number and practically yells into the phone. "Someone call squad seven and tell Aron that the devil's son is here so he better get over here!"

"Actually... its Enzo," I correct him... I hated being known as the offspring of my evil father. As soon as I said that, I knew it was a mistake when he turns and glares at me over his shoulder and hung up the call and yells at me.

"Whatever!" he yells. "Like I care! I get a degree in the ways of war, I know all the tactic, I have memorized all our enemies and what do they do? They put me in charge of running a school for a bunch of needy Zodiac Rangers."

"If you don't mind me asking?" I hesitate to say, keeping my hands at my side so I don't get a finger bitten off. "What are Zodiac Rangers exactly... your website wasn't helpful and why do I have to become one if I'm already a Zodiac? This whole thing seems rather pointless."

He rolls his eyes and huffs. "Great!! Does no one watch the orientation video online?! Zodiac Rangers are half normal people and half Zodiac, and their job is to do anything the Zodiac Family needs them to do. Jeez, spoiled brat..."

"So wait! Did you you just say half Zodiac?" I ask. "I know they get an operation but how does that even work? Wouldn't like one of their parents need to be half Zodiac? Because if so, I am already there. My father was half Zodiac and my mother was plain--"

"I don't care," he snaps, interrupting me.

"Harry Aquarius!" A girl about my age comes running over to us. This man must be Harry Aquarius. Great, now I know who to avoid like the plague for the rest of my days.

"Ugh!" Harry rolls his eyes and looked at the girl. She was wearing yellow, which meant she was still training and not ready for the real stuff yet, pretty low class. "What is it now?"

"I was walking down the hallway with Charles and we were holding hands and having a good time and then I kissed him and then he ran away!" She looks as if she's about to cry.

"Listen kid... I have told you a million times... Charles doesn't like you, he likes Mackenzie, so just give up on the guy!" Harry snaps at her. Man, this guy sucks at being a councilor. If that even was his job. I gulp and stood there, a bit scared that he was going to rip my head off any second now.

"He loves me!" I heard her yell as she ran off crying to what I assumed were the bathrooms.

"He loves you not!" Harry yells at her as she ran off. "Now as for you new kid-" he was pointing at me, but something caught his eye behind me and he shoved me aside.

I look in the direction he was looking and see some kid who was holding his wrist. He had bright blond hair and was wearing a green hoodie. Underneath he was wearing black, which signified that he was almost ready for powers, or was training with powers.

"Hudson... you injured your wrist?" Harry sort of asks, but also had a demanding quality to his voice.

"Haha!" Hudson laughs. Just based off of how idiotic his laugh was I could guess this guy was the school class clown and idiot. "Yeah, I fell out of a jet." He then giggles... seriously, who giggles these days?

"No!" Harry ran his fingers through his hair and looked as if he was about to rip it right out of his head. "You aren't supposed to be anywhere near the jets! You have staff practice!"

"No!" Hudson stood up. Still holding his wrist, he uses his other hand to point at Harry. "You know those staffs? They are made of wood and wood comes from trees and I refuse to participate in an activity that encourages the relentless slaughter of our wooden friends of the forest!" This kid looks like he was about ready to fight anyone who gave a tree a dirty look.

"Oh my...." Harry grits his teeth and rolled his eyes. "Why do I have to deal with you today Hudson? Go talk to the school doctors... and stay away from the jets!"

Hudson glared at him, probably because he had a wooden pen in his coat pocket, then left to probably go see a doctor. Harry looked around and huffed before grabbing my wrist and dragging me to some training room.

"Hey!" I yell at him. My shoes have no grip and do nothing to stop me from being dragged across the tile flooring into the middle of a training room. Inside the entire room was filled with equipment for training and sparing. Well it use to be... most was on fire now.

"Aron!" Harry snaps. "Didn't I call for you?!"

"Sorry!" I heard a sound come from somewhere in the middle of the flame room. It was very hot and I was already sweating up a storm, and my outfit was white... which was perfect for this situation because white clothes are see through when wet and most noticeable to pit stains. Yay me!! First day of school and everyone will know me as the sweaty kid.

A young boy ran out of the flames, he looked to be around sixteen. He was wearing blue, to signify he was a second to some leader. He had sandy blond hair, that was smoking a bit, probably caught on fire somewhere... but I didn't want to tell him. His fire brown eyes were filled with happiness and joy, like the entire room around us wasn't going to burn down and kill us. He had a long sword at his belt and stood with his hands at his side and his feet together in front of us.

"Aron... how many times do I have to tell you!" Harry yells at him.

"I'm sorry," Aron says, looking around at the flames. "I was trying to figure out how to work with my new power and I guess I can't really control it yet. My bad." He smiles like setting the entire room and everything in it on fire was just no big deal.

"Honestly! Your sister is never this much trouble." Harry grumbles and hands my wrist to Aron. "This is the new kid. He will be in your squad, so make sure he doesn't die after I'm done with the paperwork for him. His providers have more money then you will ever see in a thousand lifetimes, and I am sure they will have your head if you kill him." Harry snaps and immediately walks to the door and opens it for himself. He turns back and glares over his shoulder at me. "This school is miserable. You can hate it all you want here kid... but I hated this place long before you! So enjoy your time here at Akko Academy" Harry says to me then walks out of the room without another word.

I looked up at Aron, who was patting his hair to try and get a small fire out. "Welcome to Akko Academy!" He smiles.

Aron grabs a fire extinguisher and pulls on the handle, the white foam comes out the nozzle and the fire disappears behind the blanket of foam. He chuckles to himself as I watch him and the half-burnt down room.

"So... good first day so far? I'm Aron." Aron smiles at me and holds out his hand.

I put my hand on his and give it a small shake. "Pleasure." I state, giving him a weird look. This guy can not be my supervisor. I'm going to get killed under his supervision in two minutes.

"Our first battle session is about to start any second now. That's where we all fight each other, we work on our self defense and battle strategies. While we do that the medical nerds practice making sure we don't die." Aron explains and went to a small locker and pulls out a sword for me, it was about the size of my forearm, so very small for a sword.

"Wait... so I could die?" I ask as I put the sword on my belt and Aron hands me a shield.

"Technically yes... but the medical students are very good, so probably not." Aron smiles like dying isn't a big deal... not like it's permanent or anything. In case you can not tell I am being 200% sarcastic. No joke.

I give him a weird look as I strap the shield to my forearm. It's a forcefield shield, that will pop out when I press a button, but for now it just looks like a bracelet. These weapons I actually consider pretty handy.

"I'm going to be your supervisor." Aron smiles as we walk through the hall ways, which are filled with other people, mostly in yellow and white suits. "We are squad seven. Our leader is my sister, her name is Stella."

"That's a pretty name." I say as I look around at how big this place is. "Doesn't it mean stars or something like that." I try to ignore the irony that I got placed in squad Seven. Whoever was in charge of assignments must of had a kick when they put me in here.

"Sure." Aron shrugs. "I don't pay attention to name meanings a lot. What's your name?"

"Enzo." I state, looking at the cafeteria, where breakfast was getting cleaned up. It seemed like these people liked to throw a lot of food instead of eat it, based off how much was on the floor and walls. "Enzo Zodiac." I state my full name, leaving out my real first name, don't need people here to call me Seven by mistake. My only hope here is that the entire school doesn't believe I a the offspring of that monster, I just need to blend in and stay low.

"Well Enzo." Aron smiles. "I don't know what to show you, since you are already a Zodiac... you have powers, so I don't know why you are here?"

"All the other schools rejected me." I explain, looking at the lights, which were like rectangular plates on the ceiling that glowed a faint yellow color.

"Oh so now Akko Academy is the reject school?" Aron laughs. "Don't worry... everything is going to be fine! I'll stick with you, we can train together and nothing bad will happen."

I felt like I should of knocked on wood at that moment. Talk about jinxing me, thanks new friend I have barely meet! This year is going to be interesting.
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"So your father is Seven?" Aron asks as we got into some thicker armor for the battle. "What is he like?"

Dang... well that didn't last long. If this idiot can put two and two together, anyone can.

"It's a hate hate relationship." I state as I try to figure out which shin guard goes on which leg.

"Please." Aron laughs. "You obviously haven't seen two girls fight, girls are way worst."

"Girls aren't that bad-" I say.

"Then you obviously haven't meet Alisha." Aron says as he switches the armor in my hands to show me I had it backwards.

"Who the heck is Alisha?" I say, probably a bit louder then I should.

I didn't notice a girl, with long black hair and a leather jacket over her black suit, entering the room. She had her hair handing down her back, reaching about to her waist and sunglasses across her face to hide her green eyes and pale skin. That was Alisha apparently. The whole room went silent, and everyone turned to me, who had just bad talked her.

"You are looking at her." Alisha declares. She is with another person, this one was a boy. He is wearing black leather jacket as well over his black suit. He also had black hair like Alisha, his was short and combed to a point in the front and his skin was just as pale as hers. His eyes were were the ocean, a mixture of blue and green. These two must be related or something.

"Holy crap." I jerk back. "That is Alisha? She is hot." I whisper to Aron.

"Yeah." Aron gave me a dirty look. "That's Alisha Virgo, she is the third, and youngest child of Oberon, king of Alberich."

"She's mean and will kill you dead." Aron finishes whispering to me. A girl walks over beside Aron, she smiles as he said the last part. This girl had brown hair, that hung neatly below her shoulders in perfect curls. She was not thin like Alisha was, or any of the other girls at the academy I had seen. No, this girl was all curves, and large ones too, she wasn't thin, but I dare say she was the most beautiful one here despite her figure. Her eyes were bright purple like electricity and she wore a purple outfit, signifying she was a leader. This must be Stella, Aron's twin sister and the leader of squad seven. I gulp and try to pretend like I didn't notice her and put on my leg armor.

"Prepare to be pulverized squad seven." Alisha says as she grabs me by the collar from behind and held me up to her face. I could see fire in her blue eyes.

"Hi." I try to smile and be friendly. She was way bigger and taller then me and could probably break my head like a walnut with her thighs.

"You are going to drown." Alisha's blue eyes fill with power. "You are going to lose in the next game of war, ten bucks says you all will be in the infirmary by the end of the day, and you won't ever come back." Alisha laughs and drops me as she walks back over to the male. I crawl away and back over to Aron and Stella.

"So we have to beat her?" I gasp. "She is like twice my size!"

"Don't worry." Stella states. "Blythe always has a plan for us. Now listen closely, I'm Stella Scorpio, your leader. So you listen to everything I say and obey every command I give. Every Zodiac Ranger has a special skill, like the strength of the wind or the power to communicate telepathically. Don't worry, because Alisha doesn't have anything yet, so we just need to find her weakness. Unfortunately, her and her brother are the best snipers on campus."

I look at Aron asking him to please explain this craziness. "This game, its like capture the flag but with dinner." Aron explains. "Instead of a flag, everyone has to get to the lunch line without getting 'killed',  you are trying to take down the most people so your squad can all get there safely, and get dessert." He turns to look at the other squads.

Stella huffs. "But she isn't very fast considering all the land she has put on lately."

Alisha clenches her fist and punches Aron straight in the noes. She was actually quite skinny for a girl, and I know Stella was just saying that to get on her nerves. But then a full out war emerges in the commons area. Stella had disappeared to somewhere else and I jump to hide under a table as a pile of mash potatoes hits the wall from the lunch area.

If I just stay here, under the table, out of the way. I will be out of-

"Hey newbie." I hear Alisha's words behind me. "I heard you were a tough Zodiac kid, son of Seven. But you don't look evil to me."

"Please just punch me and get it over with!" I beg, scooting away from her.

"You some cool power I hear, and I'm not sure if I like it." Alisha snaps.

"It's not cool." I state, taking off my glove. "You see this, I am forced to wear these gloves, because if I don't whoever I touch will die."

"You lucky lier, they have to be cooler then that." Alisha whispers as she tries to grab me to keep me in her sight. I don't even think. I just throw up my hand to try and push her away, I throw up my gloveless hand...

She screams out in pain as I fell her skin against mine.

"Enzo stop!" Aron runs to me, hitting my arm aside.

"Some people train their entire lives, and they don't get any powers." Alisha pants, clenching her hand. "You got powers just by being born! Now, you are making ME look bad!"

"Umm. Have you checked a mirror?" I snap, just letting the words flow out of my mouth with no filter whatsoever. "You don't need my help in looking bad."

"Those are your last words." She launches herself at me. I grabbed onto her arm as she falls on me and she screams again, just as the rest of our squads of Rangers were starting to show up and address the situation. They pull me off of her, she was in bad condition. The medical nerds picked her up and rushed her off away from me.

I stare down at my hands as I put my glove back on. I find out later that Alisha was immediately transported to the hospital as her heart rate dropped fast. Her brother Simeon went with her, he looked frightened of me. Aron and Stella stood by my side as I watch her leave.

Why did I feel so happy? I did something wrong. Holy crap! I'm turning into my father. I can see it now, me blowing crap up as everyone screams: watch out for Enzo, son of evil Seven. When he gets angry he will take your live. How did I end up this way, with hatred burning through my veins like fire? Then I start to piece it all together. This all started with my hatred for my father, now it is spreading. I can't kill everyone. But I can kill the person who began this all. It may take me years, decades even, but I will be the one who kills Seven Sagittarius Zodiac.

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