Thanks to VillainKindaOfGirl15 for alerting, and wishmaster17 for alertinre reviewing, favoriting, and demanding I update immediately.:) here ya go and I hope I didn't scrwith this chapter up.

This felt kinda stupid to Alec. Here she was in a palm reading shop, asking questions about something she didn't even really believe. Maybe she just didn't understand it. after changing her mind a couple of times, she came to the shop that wasn't very far from her place, so she thought maybe she could humor herself a little more.

"Alec!" She heard.

"What?"

"I asked how long you were gonna stare into space, Dear" Madam Dahlia chuckled.

"Oh, sorry." Alec held out her hands." Sorry I do that sometimes."

"No need to apologize, Dear." She took Alec's hands and closed her eyes."You don't believe in all of this do you?"

"Not really, but I have an open mind."

"Why do you not believe what you see with your own eyes?"

"I-I want...to, I really do, but..."

"But what?"

"Physic abilities? Ghosts? All of that its just Hocus Pocus." Alec explained." Right?

"My Dear, what have you been seeing?" She asked unconvinced.

"The First Born Son, The Torso, The Bound Woman, The Withered Lover, The Torn Prince, The Angry Princess." she stopped, she was shaking like crazy.

"The Pilgrimess, The Great Child and The Dire Mother, The Hammer." The older woman finished." The Jackal, The , Juggernaut,and the Broken Heart."

"How did you know?" Alec asked, her heart pounding.

"My dear, you speak of The Black Zodiac. 12 Earth bound spirits and one sacrifice as an act of love. Tell me, how many have been gathered?"

"12." She answered, was she really going along with this

"Can you tell me the name of the man?"

"Just his face." she said, shaking her head. "He's an older man, rich I guess because he was always well dressed, he had a beard. Ummm, oh! He had a cane."

"Think." She encouraged.

"It was recent. Do you have a newspaper?"

"Yes." She said, standing, and strode over to her shelf.

When she handed it to Alex, she immediately went to the obituaries.

"Here!" She exclaimed, standing and walking around the table to show her. "Cyrus Kritikos."

Images suddenly flooded Alec's mind, causing her to drop the paper. she was now standing in a doorway. Staring at weird looking machine. Large circles came out of the floor, flipping around as the outer ring rotated. There was a young girl and a little boy trapped in the center.

A man was getting ready to run towards it.

"Arthur, stop!" she heard herself shout.

Then something happened fast and hard. Something that made her feel weak.

"Arthur? Who's Arthur?" Dahlia asked.

"That was trippy." The young girl said, sitting back down.

"What is it?" She asked, excitedly.

"I gotta go." Alec said, quickly pulling out a 50 and putting it on the table before running out the door.

She ran as fast as she could towards her apartment and slammed the door behind her. Breathing rapidly, she slid to the ground. she couldn't get the little scenes playing in her head to stop. They all played over and over again, all at once. The guy with the glasses being massacred, Arthur leaping to his death, and herself looking up from the ground to take the hand of the dead man with glasses. The nameless man.

"what do you want!?" She cried out, cradling her head in he hands. The emotion and pain was too much. She began sobbing." Please...Just stop...I don't want to die..."

theres a little foreshadowing for you guys. I wonder what she meant by that. If you do to please review and tell me what you think;). Thanks again for reading.

TheSpazChik