Chapter 28

(Sagittarius POV)

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I was at the archery range, running and shooting my arrows at the target. I aimed for the next target, a moving target this time. I took a deep breath and readied to fire-

"Hey Boss!" I heard someone shout and released the arrow too soon, missing the target. I turned to the one who shouted and I saw that it was another centaur. Unlike Leo, with his minors, my group, Sagitta, who are my arrows, a part of me, and thus were affected by my change. The Sagitta in front of me, Banyan was his name, looked apologetic when he realized that I was practicing my shots. 

"It's alright," I told him, "What is it that you wanted, Banyan?" 

"I got a message from Orion, our new armor is ready," he told me. With our more dramatic change in shape, our old armor couldn't fit our bodies anymore so we had Orion make us new ones. 

"Let's go then," I told the young arrow, and we were off. 

Time skip

We arrived at the armory that was also home to Orion's Forge, the grand establishment that stood before us.

I had arrived along with the rest of my herd, we stood at the entrance of the building.

"Orion, my herd and I are here for our armor," I shouted at the door, it opened and then walked out the Great Hunter himself, the Original Canes Venatici at his side. 

Orion is a large man, about half the size of the Spirit King, with multiple furs around his waist, he had a large hammer in his hand and a spear in the other. The Canes Venatici at his side were three large hunting dogs, collared with ropes and their fangs in a snarl. Unlike the current groups of Canes Venatici, these dogs aren't friendly, far from it, they only think of the hunt. The dogs looked at my herd with hungry eyes, and I moved my body to cover the majority of them from the canines' view. Orion saw my movement and looked at his dogs.

"You three, get," the hunter told the dogs, and then the beasts went back into the forge. Causing me and the rest of the herd to relax after the rapid beasts' departure. 

"Sorry 'bout that Sagittarius, the dogs are hungry, haven't had any meat yet today." Orion apologized, I accepted it.

"I was told that our armor is ready," I told him, he nodded his head. 

"Ya, it is in the back, I'll bring it out for you all," the hunter told us and he went inside, and then returned with a box that was filled with armor, all of them would matching the other, I reached to grab one of the armor sets to were when I was stopped by Orion.

"Those aren't for you, they are for the Sagitta, this is for you," he told me bringing out another suit of armor, this one was different from the other suits, "Go on, but them on."

The Sagitta split up based on gender and then put on their armor, and I did the same. When we regrouped, we all wore our armors, the female Sagittas' armor had plating in the front and the back, as well as on the legs. Both the male armor and the female armors had this plating, but the female armor had a priestess like clothing on under the armor. This was probably to separate the two genders in the heat of battle, because the women tended to be chosen as frontline healers, and another reason was to show them as magic users. The most of the men of my Sagitta are horribly inept at using, creating, or carrying magical arrows, that was left to the women and the few men that could do it. 

I had finished placing my armor and then I looked at what my Sagitta's had on comparing my armor to theirs's. While theirs was simplistic with nothing on it, other than the cloth difference, mine had depictions of my herd and arrows. My armor was also larger than what the Sagitta had. The biggest difference of the armor was the helmet, it was something that I had, and the others didn't. 

"How do you like it?" Orion asked me, forcing me out of my musings. 

"They are great, now it is time to retrieve our weapons," I told the man, and he nodded his head and led us to the armory.

"How many Zodiacs are left that haven't retrieved their weapons?" I asked the blacksmith.

"Other than you, all that is left is Taurus and Ophiuchus," he told me, I nodded my head as we entered the armory, I was expecting that. Taurus will come after me and then the snake bearer will come. 

"Alright," I told him, and we arrived at the archery section of the armory. 

It was a larger room filled with bows and quivers, but at the center of the room was my bow, The Kaus Media, it is my prize bow, it has been many centuries since I have last seen it. The bow from afar looked like a normal bow, but it wasn't. As I got closer, I saw the celestial runes that glowed on the wood, flowing through the golden riser (A/N the middle of the bow, I looked it up, so it may or may not be true) of the bow. I picked it up and looked at the unbreakable string that was the drawstring. I experimentally pulled the string and I felt complete, like I was given my other half. 

After the rest of my herd had gathered their weapons, we headed out. We stampeded throughout the realm, screaming and celebrating with joy at the reunion of our bows. 

Someplace else

(Aquarius POV) 

I was creating shapes out of the water from my urn, I looked around at created things from stars, to forest. As much as I hated the humans that did this to us, to the brat. I can't help but smile, because I have truly become the water bearer as my name suggested. I grabbed my trident, my Situla, and spun it around, using the water to maneuver myself through the air, fighting water warriors. I looked at one last water warrior, and I charged at it. I reached the water image, and raised my trident to attack it only to be blocked, by a pair of swords.

I looked at the wielder and I was slightly shocked to see it was Libra who had stopped me.

"I was training, why did you stop me?" I asked the scales spirit.

"I thought that you would appreciate having real opponents rather than ones of water," she told me, and I nodded my head. I returned the water to my urn, leaving only enough to allow me to move and I got into a fighting stance as did Libra. 

"Ready and GO!" 

I had attacked first, aiming to disarm her, but she stopped it by changing the gravity around me. I was flung back into a rock, but this didn't stop me, water might be weak to the effects of gravity but that doesn't mean that I am. I reached for the water in my urn, which was behind her as she was walking closer to me, and I used it to attack her in the back. She was shocked by this and stopped her gravity attack. I used this to my advantage by quickly swimming through the air and positioning the Situla to attack. She parred this by placing Ordo and Verum between the prongs of my trident. Before she could use her gravity magic to force me away, solidified the water into hooks that were positioned to take her with me if she forced me away, creating a stalemate. 

"I guess this is a draw," Libra told me, and I smiled and agreed


"Ya, I guess it is," I told her, and we sheathed out weapons.

"It has been forever since we had sparred like that," she told me.

"That is because I am always on a date with Scorpio," I told her, she gave me a curious look.

"Why don't you just get married already?" she asked me, "You two have been dating for forever."

"Well, I am just waiting for him to ask me," I told her with a slight blush on my cheeks.

We just sat there and continued our talks with each other.

Somewhere else

(Pyxis POV)

I was looking down at the planets below me, the closest one was 10 miles Northwest, and the next closest was 15 miles Northeast, the farthest one was 30 miles North. I looked back up at the other bird constellations with a worried expression on my face.

"Caw caw ca-caw?" (Are you sure this is a good idea?) I asked them, Deneb was the first to respond. 

"Don't you believe me?" the black swan man asked me "It must be because my feathers are black." the man added to himself. (A/N For those of you who read the manga, this is one of Yukino's spirits in the anime, from the Eclipse Celestial Spirits Arc) 

'That wasn't what I was thinking,' I thought to myself, I looked at the other spirits and they gave me a thumbs up, jerks. I was a penguin before this, not an eagle, I don't know how to fly. 

"Ca-caw CAAW" (Can any of you show me any hints?) I growled at them, then one of them stepped up, one of the Tucana spirits. She lifted her wings up and down slowly, showing me how it was done. I copied her, and less gracefully managed to get some lift off. I went back to the ground and then looked back over the edge. When someone pushed me off of the cliff, and I went plummeting down, heading straight towards the North planet. 

I looked back up and saw that the rest of the birds were falling down with me. Some of them, mostly Aquilas, looked at me and showed me how to slow down and get ready to land. I copied them and heard the tingling of my chains that were attached to my compasses. Slowly but surely, I was slowing down and hovering in the air. I was joined by the rest of the birds and followed the rest of their examples, so I was flying through the sky having the time of my life. I later learned that it was one of the Apus that had pushed me of the rock. 'I just needed a little push' is what he told me as I tried to pluck him. 


Someplace else

(Taurus POV)

I had just exited the armory with my ax, Aldebaran, it was a double headed ax. I spun it around and I looked at the flickers of fire that glinted off of the blades. I was thinking about some training that involved attacking very hard rocks when I got a sudden chill. I turned around and I saw Ophiuchus standing behind me with her weapons by her sides, her medical kit, Barnard, and her poisonous blade, Rasalhague, she looked at me with this snakey smile that I knew she could tell what I was thinking. 

Ophiuchus was in her human form, she couldn't stay in her snake form in the celestial realm, too big to go into any of the buildings. The snake bearer was a tale woman with dark purple hair that had black markings, like it does in her snake form. She had scales on her face and arms, and she wore a skin fitting dress that mimic her scales in that were around her body. The most terrifying thing about her were her eyes. Those purple pupil-less eyes.

"I sssincerly hope that you aren't going to do sssome thing ssstupid," she told me, and I shook my head, I knew that I couldn't do my training, unless she was there with me to make sure that I didn't get too injured. 

"No ma'am," I told her. 

"Good, I hate wrap you up in bandages, again," she told me, and I agreed, Ophiuchus is a great doctor, but she gets a bit too enthusiastic when it comes to wrapping people in bandages, it was the snake in her.  

Somewhere else

(Scorpio POV)

I was looking at my tail once again. I had my toolbox at my side and I looked at the inner workings of my tail. I had the blueprints beside me and a blank piece of paper on the other side of it. I was drawing a blueprint based on my new tail, modifications that I was pissed about. This tail was my work, those humans had no right to mess with my design. I looked at the stellanium implants that were added to the tail, there was a poison lacrima attached to it to create the poison. That wouldn't work, I need to replace that with something different, a lacrima is too fragile for a celestial spirit. I continued to see that there was even more stellanium in the devices.

"At least they got one thing right, the stellanium is probably the only thing that would be compatible to the metal of the tail, wicked," I muttered to myself, writing down my findings. I am a pretty smart dude when I want to be, I mean I made this tail from scrap, and some help from Orion with the shaping of the metal. I thought about what could be used to replace the poison lacrima, 'I am going to need to talk to Ophiuchus about this," I continued to mutter.  I continued on with my work.

Someplace else

(Lyra POV)

"Finally, we are going to get to go to the human realm," Mu shouted out.

"How much has it changed I wonder?" Etu questioned.

"What about the boys?" Vega asked us, and we all looked at her strangely.

"Oh, don't look at me like that, every guy here is the same, there are no new faces, and all of the good ones are either taken or they aren't someone you would want to date." she tried to explain. I just sighed at my sister's antics.

"You do know that you can only go if I let you, don't you?" I asked them, they all nodded. I am one of the few celestial spirits that can summon other spirits, my sister's keys were taken from the human world by the King, to ensure that no wizard can collect my sisters, to raise mayhem and other different forms of disaster. 

"Well, you wouldn't deprive us of seeing the world around us by forcing us to stay here, would you?" Vega continued, the rest of my sisters agreeing with her.

"Don't we have that scrying glass that you can look through?" I asked them and they gave me offended looks.

"It isn't the same," Mu told me. 

"I want to see those Blue Pegasus boys," Vega told me, I sighed.

"Still on the topic of boys, Vega?" 

"Nothing is wrong with boys!"

"What about history?" Eta asked Vega.

"What about it?" Vega asked her.

"Don't you want to see how the cities have changed; how many countries have risen during our time in the celestial realm?" Eta asked her.

"Not really that sounds boring," she told her.

"History isn't boring!" the brainiac sister shouted.

"Yes, it is," the other shouted, Mu tried to get the two to stop but it wasn't working.

"ENOUGH!!!" I shouted and they stopped.

"We have a show to perform, we can continue this conversation later," I told the three and I walked up stage. I turned to see the other three behind me as we went on stage to perform our show, to welcome the night coming to the land of the stars. 

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And this is my second chapter in 2-3 hours, I hope that you enjoy it. Don't worry, in the next chapter we will hear about Lucy and the others. 

I don't own Fairy Tail

-DestinyFerrum

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Meanings for names

Taurus - Aldebaran is the brightest star of Taurus

Ophiuchus - Barnard's Star is the second closest star to Earth and Rasalhague is the brightest star in Ophiuchus and it means head of the snake bearer

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