"Whew. Deadlines, my fingers almost broke! Anyhoo, before we start, readers, please take note, if you leave any notes or ask me anything here on Wattpad past 9:30, I will not reply until 8:30 the next morning, because I, unfortunately, have Internet restrictions. I don't want to seem rude or anything, so just a heads-up! Also, by some miracle, I did a recount and somehow the angels, demons, girls, and boys count are balanced! A miracle I tell you." 

"My lady, my arms are getting sore, and did you edit the script...??" 

*sweat drops* "Er... most likely no, Evan, and sorry. I'll go back and edit later, but for now, let's start." 

"A Zodiac Applyfic, Act 1, Scene 2, Take 1!" 

"ACTION!" 

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"Someone. Get. Him. To. Shut. Up!" Vanira screeched when halfway to Universe's house (more like palace) she got fed up with Willie's loud exclamations at the view outside. "Why must we have an earthling taint our auras with his presence!?"

"Well, excuse me, Miss High-and-Mighty," Willie absentmindedly retorted. "You may be used to this but back on Earth and to peasants like me, this-" He waved a hand at the Angel houses speeding past. "-Is absolutely absurd!" 

"Absurd how it shows off their arrogance," Bliss grumbled, but thankfully nobody heard him.

They all agreed unanimously that they never, ever, ever wanted to ride in that van ever again-especially not through space-until somebody fixed it up. As such, they were all scrambling to get out of the van on wobbly knees once it touched down. 

"Honestly, you'd think you haven't ever experienced galactic-space travel before," Ophiuchus grumbled to himself. "This van is slow compared to the ridiculous speed Aquila loves to travel at!" Whiiiich was very disconcerting, but the zodiacs decided to bypass that for the time being. 

"Woah, hey, T! Check out that skyscraper!" Eira whispered to Turtle. 

"The height is ridiculous," Turtle shivered. "I hate heights." 

Einar smirked smugly. "Well, to demons like you, it may seem ridiculous, but to us Angels, it's perfectly nor-MAL OUCH!!" 

About all the demons hit him at the same time. 

"That's just rude!" Ariana yelled at him. "Need I remind you that you are a Demon too?" 

"We were Angels before," Vanira said, tossing her hair back. "But we got kicked out." 

"Ooo, tough luck," Zaalia winced sympathetically. 

"Hurry up, hurry up," Ophiuchus said impatiently. "We're almost there, and once we do, I can ask Universe to call up someone to input information in his brain." He waved a lazy hand at Willie, who was still staring wide-eyed at everything around him. "You guys can all fly, right?" 

Willie let out a screech as Ophiuchus unfolded his wings. "Wh-WHAT THE ACTUAL-" 

"Yes," The rest of the zodiacs chorused. Willie could only stare with his jaw on the ground as the other zodiacs unfolded their own wings-decidedly smaller and less grand than Ophiuchus's, but for him it was crazy. 

He also found that it was extremely unfair as he started wobbling halfway up the staircase. Seriously, why did they have such high stairs, anyway? 

Ophiuchus sighed when he saw Willie lagging. "Ugh." He swooped back and Willie yelped as Ophiuchus grabbed him by his arms and lifted him up. After he got used to it, he relaxed. "Hey, this is actually pretty comfortable." 

"...You realize this is a one-time thing, right?" 

Soon enough they landed on the front steps of Universe's... palace. "So this is the home of the Supreme Ruler," Haru said quietly in awe. 

Ophiuchus disguised his snigger as a cough. "Well, you shouldn't say that to his face. But I guess that's what people know him as. Follow me-and I mean FOLLOW. It can be super easy to get lost there." 

Which certainly seemed the be the case as they stepped into the grand house of Universe. The walls were covered in beautiful paintings and the ceiling mimicked the starry night sky. Turtle stared up at the sky in awe. "It's... the night," she said wonderingly. 

"Well, yeah," Ariana said, shrugging. "Nothing special. We all see it all the time." 

"But it's so pretty," Turtle protested. 

"Follow, please!" Ophiuchus called. The zodiacs were lagging a teensy bit, because even for the Angels, they had never seen such grandeur. 

"Dude, this place is seriously hype!" Hunter exclaimed, swiveling his head everywhere.

"Seriously, does this place ever end?" Bliss added. Amanda elbowed him. 

"Probably," Hitomi answered rationally.

"Oooo! Look, that room looks perfect for me!" Eira pointed enthusiastically at a door, behind which they could make out a winter wonderland of a playground. "Right?" 

"I will assume you are immune to the cold," Blaine answered her. "Otherwise, then I agree. Right after I finish putting on a coat, though." 

Ophiuchus smiled a little. "When you've lived here practically all your life like I have, it gets a little boring at times. That's why these rooms change almost every day. And when you have a chaotic family like I do. But the room we're going in is here." 

He stopped in front of a pair of wooden double doors with an elaborate design carved on them. "Please mind the carvings, it took forever to convince the Ursa to carve them." 

Pushing open the door, the zodiacs all gasped in unison-again-as what appeared to be a room that was a cross between a court hall and a meeting room was revealed-just ten times more fabulous, of course. There was one large chair, then eight smaller chairs next to it, forming a big U-shape. Each chair had a name engraved on it.

"Welcome to the Court Room," Ophiuchus announced. "Or just the Meeting Room. Either or." He gestured towards the thirteen chairs in the curve of the U. "Please take a seat." 

They hesitantly sat down. "This seems super suspicious!" Vanira whispered to Einar. 

"Just deal with it," Einar whispered back. 

Willie raised a hand, eyes wide. "So, so! Ophiuchus, right? Where are we? Why are we here? What are you guys? Ugh, I have about a billion questions! Are we in an alternate universe? What's going on? Are we in trouble? Are we-" 

A sound alerted them to the presence of another male, lounging in the chair third on the large chair's left. His chair was engraved with the name 'LYRA'. "Gods, can someone shut that human up already?" 

"Wow, no cursing?" Ophiuchus looked genuinely surprised. 

The male scowled and stood up. "Universe put a spell on me. Somethin' about 'not corrupting innocent baby ears'." 

Ophiuchus facepalmed. "Did he really say that? Well, typical of him... But good thinking at the same time." 

"Um, excuse you, are you calling us innocent?" Einar asked. "'Cause I know for a fact that T ain't scared to give me the middle finger." 

"It's your own fault for hitting on so many people!" Turtle shot back defensively. 

The male laughed dryly. "Well, I bet that anyone could tell you that I curse ten times worse than she ever could." 

Ophiuchus nodded. "I can totally back that up." 

"Pardon me if I'm being rude," Amanda interrupted, "But who exactly are you?" 

"Right, introductions." the man leaped nimbly down and landed in front of them, and they finally could get a good look at him. 

He was, first off, a really tall guy-for eighteen, anyway, which is what he looked like. His hair was a light red shade, tipped in silvery white towards the ends, and for some reason, it looked extremely fluffy. Like, super fluffy. But the most strange thing about him was that he had a prosthetic right arm and an eyepatch over his left eye-and not to mention the scars littering his arms. 

His deep ruby red eyes looked them over and the air got slightly hotter. "These are the kids that are forcing me to work overtime, huh?" 

"I know right," Ophiuchus sighed. "So annoying." 

"Hey!" Bliss said indignantly. "For your information, we didn't ask to be kidnapped!" 

Ophiuchus turned to the man. "See, Lyra, I told you that they'd insist that I kidnapped them!" 

"Maybe 'cause you did." 

"Um, excuse me, but did he say that your name is Lyra?" Vanira interrupted them. She giggled. "That's such a girly name-" 

BOOM. The air in front of her exploded suddenly. She touched her slightly smoking hair. 

Lyra had a hand outstretched, expression very murderous, and suddenly everyone could feel the air pressure go up. "Want to repeat that?" 

Zaalia was brave enough to nudge her. "Don't make it worse, Vanira! We're already in trouble!" 

"Don't tell me what to do!"

"Hey, hey," Ophiuchus hurried to diffuse the tension. "Lyra, you can't kill them before the rest of the NPCs come. You can murder them when they reach your test." 

Lyra turned away with a scoff. "You should tell them what they should do to keep their lives intact, then." 

Coco hooted, and everyone could tell from her high-pitched hoot that she was screaming, 'He's so dangerous!!!' 

Suddenly a blur of light zipped in, and faster than they could blink a lady in her mid-twenties was sitting on a table. "Oh my, look at how cute they are! Lyra, I hope you aren't scaring them already." Her only answer was the middle finger, but she wasn't paying attention. "I hope you found Ophi a well-enough driver." 

"NO," All the zodiacs said.

"Aqui, if you wanted to convince them of that, you should've told them before we took off," Ophiuchus complained. "Do you know how many complaints I've already gotten?" 

"If you didn't want us to complain to you," Bliss said sarcastically, "Then you should've fixed your car before we took off." 

"On the other hand, though, your landing on Earth was pretty smooth," Blaine piped up. 

"Even though your takeoff powers could use some help," Hunter muttered under his breath. 

"But overall it was... okay." Eira concluded. "Are we cool?" On cue, snow started falling. "... I give up." 

The lady chuckled. "Oh my, you are all just so darn cute! By the way, I'm Aquila!" She flashed a dazzling smile. "Queen of the Skies, Second Test NPC, Universe's personal mode of transportation." Aquila had long silky white hair, bright red eyes, and was dressed in a rather fancy outfit. 

"They don't need to know your personal info, Aquila," Lyra called, stretching out on another table. 

Einar winked at her. "Hey there, hottie, maybe we could go out-" 

"PERVERT!!!" She screeched, and ran to hide behind Ophiuchus. "Get him away, get him away!!" 

Einar wilted. "I give up as well..." 

"Sorry, she's just a little-ugh-sensitive to perverts and flirts-" Ophiuchus grunted, successfully detaching her from him. "Besides, she's way too old for you." 

Haru looked curiously at her, who didn't a day over twenty-five at best. "How old are you all, anyway?" 

"5,963 years!" Aquila chirped cheerfully, and their jaws dropped. 

"Are you kidding me?! You look like you're in your twenties!!" Willie gasped. 

"I'm 3691 years old," Lyra deadpanned, tucking his arms under his head. "Not that impressive compared to those two, though."

"And I would prefer not say, but I'll just say I'm older than Aquila is," Ophiuchus said. "Now do you get it? You're only, what, 15, and she's in her 5000s." 

Einar's mouth kept on opening and closing. He gulped. "I now see my extreme mistake and from now on shall refrain since dude! You're so freakin' old but you look so freakin' young!!" 

Aquila fanned herself. "Thank you, darling, I'll take that as a compliment for my youth. Ah, to be young again~" 

"So, does that mean that we'll stay like this forever once we finish growing up? Or not?" Turtle inquired half-eagerly and half-curiously. "That... would be interesting... I guess?" 

Aquila narrowed her eyes at her. "Oh my. Oh my oh my oh my. This is strange. I could swear I-" 

"Aquila, I feel this need to say that even though you hate perverts, you are one yourself," Lyra switched the subject abruptly. Aquila flushed deeply. "I-I am not!!" She spluttered. 

"Yes, you are," Ophiuchus said. "At times. Seriously, why do you think Universe assigned you an assistant? You don't know when to stop." 

"Speaking of my assistant..." Aquila swiveled her head around. "Where the heck is he?" 

Right on cue, another male materialized out of nowhere and landed on top of Lyra, who yelped angrily at the sudden weight. "I'm right here, right after you forced me to come along. Honestly, if you want me to follow you, then don't go at the speed of light, Aquila!" The newcomer had slightly spiky lavender-colored hair that reached his shoulders and electric blue eyes. He perched cheerfully on Lyra, seemingly unaware of the murderous aura beneath him. "Hey there, zodiacs! Universe finally got fed up with your fighting, huh?" 

"Hey... uh..." Hitomi pointed at a certain redhead that was currently acting as his chair. "You might wanna get off..." 

"Oh don't worry," Ophiuchus said calmly, sitting down and scrolling through his tablet. "He'll be fine. Noise is the only person that Lyra is really weak against." The air exploded around him, but Ophiuchus was unharmed. 

"I am NOT weak against him!" Lyra shouted, promptly shoving the male off him. "Now get off before I regret letting you live!" Maybe it was their imagination, but the zodiacs could detect a little hint of redness on his face. 

"Touchy, touchy," the man teased, jumping to stand by Aquila. "I'm Noise, by the way, Aquila's personal assistant." 

Zaalia, who was seeing Willie's face as he slowly started opening his mouth, desperately tried to wave her hands to keep him quiet, but it was too late. 

"I SHIP IT!!!" Every head turned his way as Willie shouted gleefully. 

"Uhh... uhhh... uhhh..." Ophiuchus swiveled his head around, noting the increasing change in heat around them. "Lyra, please, do not blow up the Court Room, last time you did that we all almost died." 

"Yeah, LyLy, keep your gayness under wraps," Aquila commented offhandedly, picking at her polished nails. "I'd hate to have you go deaf already." 

Lyra growled. "I'm gonna kill Universe. I can't even curse! How the heck am I supposed to let my stress out? And don't call me LyLy!" 

"Sure thing, LyLy." 

"Anyway!" Ophiuchus clapped his hands and a wave of calm washed over everyone, ignoring Lyra's hiss of 'don't try to manipulate my emotions'. "Now that we're all acquainted, Noise, would you please do the honors...?" 

"Oh, so that's why Aquila dragged me along," Noise noted, hopping off the table. He snapped his fingers and a remote control appeared in his hand. "Which one is the human?" 

Willie raised a hand tentatively. "Er, that would be me, I think..." Inwardly he was screaming, WHY ME?!?!?!!

"Come here and stand in front of me, please." Willie complied, casting slightly terrified looks at the zodiacs, receiving a mixture from 'wouldn't give a sh*t if you died' to 'you can do it! Be brave!' in reactions.

"Now, let's see..." Noise hummed contemplatively. "Which way should I do this? I'm afraid if I input it all at once his brain will be overloaded." 

"I think you can put it all in at once, but make it so that the information will ease into his brain slowly," Ophiuchus instructed. 

"Okay then. Don't look so scared, this will be absolutely painless." Noise concentrated for a second. There was a loud beep! and then Willie staggered back a little, blinking as he collapsed into his seat. "Woah. Okay. Yeah. That's... a lot of information." 

"Toldya you need to work on variation," Lyra called sarcastically. 

"Shut up, I'm the only reason you're not deaf by now!" 

"So?" Aquila asked eagerly, leaning forward. "Now do you understand?" 

Willie blinked. He opened his mouth, but the only thing that came out was- "That's one hell of an ability." 

The next second the NPCs were roaring with laughter. The zodiacs, on the other hand, seemed a bit insulted. "Hey! I have a cool power too!" Einar yelled. 

"Yeah, watch me!" Hunter swirled water around. 

"And me!" Turtle added, her hair twisting into about a million colorful hairdos at once. 

"Me too!" Amanda chirped, lighting her hair on fire. 

"Y'all are a bunch of showoffs," Ariana said. 

"Oh, my dear boy, I simply adore you now," Aquila wiped away her tears. 

"That's not his power," Ophiuchus explained, catching his breath. "It's just his magic. Noise is amazing at mental magic, but he has to channel it through something-in this case, he prefers a remote control since it's easier to pinpoint things with it." 

"MAGIC?" Willie's eyes gleamed. "Like... Harry Potter?" 

They all exchanged confused looks. "Who the heck is Harry Potter?" 

Willie gasped over-dramatically. "You've never heard of Harry Potter?!" 

"I think I've heard of it somewhere..." Eira said slowly. 

"He sounds kinda dorky," Vanira said bluntly. 

"Isn't he the Chosen Guy or something?" Hitomi asked. Haru shrugged. 

"Back to the topic at hand..." Ophiuchus intervened. "Willie, you should be able to understand everything now. I don't know how but somehow you ended up on Earth." 

Lyra growled. "I bet it was that-" he paused. "-that Orion who caused that." 

"Orion? That big and buff guy who's totally ridiculous?" Blaine half-joked.

Lyra glared at him. "Yes, that big and buff guy who also was the one that cut off my arm and slashed my eye. You'd be wise to not underestimate him." 

"Seriously," Aquila added, her face serious for once. "He's not much on his own but he's smart and knows how to exploit our weaknesses." 

"We all fought against him a long time ago," Ophiuchus said, a faraway look in his eyes. "We almost died. I'm sorry we had to defeat him at the cost of your wounds, Lyra." 

Lyra huffed and turned over. "... There was no other choice." 

"I wish I had gotten here earlier," Noise murmured. "But he was already gone by the time Universe found me."

Ophiuchus cleared his throat. "Ahem, let's move on from reminiscing... Aquila, how come Universe still isn't here?" 

She hummed a cheerful beat, tapping her hands on the table. "Dunno. Don't ask me." 

"Yeah, my butt's getting sore," Bliss complained. 

"I'm so sorry for my lateness." Bright yellow-green lights floated down from the ceiling and then dissipated to reveal a man standing in front of the largest throne-the one with the name 'UNIVERSE' carved on it. He had brown hair and was wearing a black suit with a black top hat. When he lifted his hat he revealed a pair of bright golden eyes. "Sorry I'm late folks, but now that I'm here, let's get this punishment check on the road!" 

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"Annnnnd... CUT!" 

"Great job, everyone, you can take a break while I finish up!" 

Thanks for reading, my dear readers! In this chapter, we were introduced to some of the NPCs who, if you were paying attention, are going to be the ones to 'punish' the zodiacs. Hooray hooray. You can tell me what you think about them if you'd like. Note, they don't belong to me! Only to the people who created them!

For a lil' extra... 

~ Aquila ~

Ability - She can transform into a huge eagle and full form can easily cover the entire sun with her wingspan, but usually tones it down to about 3x the size of a golden eagle. She can fly at the speed of light or faster.

Special Skill - Her wings are so powerful that in full form with a single flap she can blow away entire cities, and each feather is as hard as diamond. They can also create tornadoes and hurricanes. 

✩ is Universe's personal mode of transportation

✩ hates perverts and flirts even though when desperate she will resort to... inappropriate... methods

✩ an extrovert and loves talking to new people

For more information go to Darkblaze450's OC book! I highly recommend it! [CREATOR'S NOTE: THIS CHAPTER DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE.]

~ Lyra ~ 

Ability - He can quickly heat anything including the air around him to combust or explode. He can also transfer the heat to different parts of his body to make his body super hot. He is immune to the heat but not the sound of the explosions.

Special Skill - He can nullify or neutralize anyone's ability and skill for a short amount of time by releasing a powerful shockwave of nullifying magic. The stronger the opponent the faster it'll wear off (ex: it would only work a couple of minutes or not at all on Ophiuchus but on one of the zodiacs it'll wear off after ten minutes or so.)

✩ will blow up anyone who insults his name 

✩ despite what he says, yes, he is very weak against Noise as he is very much gay

✩ kind of a bipolar person, one minute blowing up somebody the other quiet and reserved

For more information go to THASENPAIFREAK916's OC book! I also highly recommend it! [CREATOR'S NOTE: THIS BOOK NO LONGER EXISTS.]

~ Noise ~

(My OC)

Ability - He can turn his body into molecules using electricity and also create weapons with the same method, so normal people can't attack him at all. 

Special Skill - He can shield someone from any attack, magical or not, but it will break under extreme pressure. Can wrap it around someone, spread it out, or just around himself. 

✩ really can't stand people who kill for no reason at all

✩ Aquila's very tired assistant

✩ has a HUGE temper. Don't piss him off.

And that's it for today, folks! I know I said that I'd update every Monday, and I think I'll keep to that schedule, but I may be a little off sometimes since I respond when ideas come. ;) 

I hope you found this chapter enjoyable and the next chapter, things will FINALLY start getting exciting. (I was going to have the explanation here, but I got kinda lazy.) Again, if you want me to change anything or say something about how I portrayed your character or if you want your OC to talk more, just tell me and I will comply. ^v^

See you in the next chapter! 

-A.A.C.