Chapter 3 - Hidden Powers
Everyone stood dumbfounded until Haruchi spoke first.
"Quest? What quest? You never told me anything about a quest." Haruchi said staring daggers at Hoshi.
Hoshi ignored the questions and addressed the rest of the other people. "You are all reincarnations of the original Guardians of the Zodiac. Each of you were born under a sign and has the memories of other reincarnation of past lives. You have to find 12 keys (for each person) to seal the evil called Jetana. Haruchi will explain."
"What? Why me?" Haruchi pointed to herself with a shocked face.
"Because you know most of it" Hoshi said without looking at her.
"Fine. Basically, for example, I'm the Guardian Capricorn and each of you are your signs Guardians. The story is, Jetana was once a good and powerful person until evil corrupted her. She was also once a Guardian Priest. It took 11 Guardian Priests all their power just to seal her away. The Guardians then put a spell on themselves to be reincarnated if Jetana was ever released. And that's where we come in." Haruchi finished, taking a deep breath.
Before anyone could say anything, Hoshi tapped her star collar and 12 necklaces similar to Hoshi's collar. Only they were connected to the black material and at the end was an oval-like jewel, encrusted in gold and was connected to the black material by two small pearls.
"These pendants can transform you, translate languages so you can speak, read, and write them. They also have some other uses, but I can't remember them right now. To use them just say, for example, Guardian Virgo, and your power awakens and your outfit appears also." Hoshi said explaining.
"So these pendants will give us our power that is within us?" Aisha asked.
"Yup"
"Can we try it out?" Lika asked with round eyes.
"Umm- hmm. Who wants to go first?" Hoshi asked while scanning the room.
"I will" Kazumi raised her hand.
"O.K. Wait, before you do it, here are your necklaces. They each correspond to your element. Miya, Ratana, and Faina, you guys get the white ones." Hoshi waved the three white necklaces to them.
As soon as the necklaces came into contact, they had a white aura for a few seconds, and then died away.
"Lissa, Melia, Haruchi, you guys get the green ones," a forest colored aura surrounded them.
"Okana, Nodoko, Aisha, you guys get the red ones," a fiery red aura surrounded them.
"And Kiyoe, Lika, and Kazumi, you get the blue ones," a cerulean blue aura surrounded them.
"Okay, to awaken your powers, put your hand on the pendant and guardian first, then your sign, then "Awaken!". For example Kazumi, your sign is Pisces, so you would say "Guardian Pisces Awaken!", and then you'd get your powers first and after you use it the second time, you get your outfit." Hoshi explained.
"Okay, let me try it" Kazumi exclaimed.
She placed her right hand on top of the pendant and said "Guardian Pisces Awaken!"
She was then surrounded by dazzling water-like ribbons. The ribbons surrounded her and wrapped into a cocoon. When the cocoon started to fade, Kazumi still looked the same.
"Hey, nothing happened. I still look the same. Why is that Hoshi?" Kazumi pouted.
"Nothing's wrong, but did you see anything? Like a scene or a place?" Hoshi questioned.
"Well, now that I think about it, I did see a scene, sort of like I was watching a scene from a movie. I was standing on top of this body of water, and the water was moving all around me then stopping then going fast and then going in reverse, almost like a remote control sort of scene." Kazumi answered with a thoughtful look. "I also remember that I was watching the entire thing and I think my hands were also unconsciously following the movements"
"Then you have the power of time-control. That only means that you can control time at your will, like reverse time, stop time, or forward time. But you can't travel through time." Hoshi said, her eyes stern on the last part.
"Now that we have that covered, why don't we try you new power Kazumi?" Hoshi said, smiling.
"O.K., but how does it work?" Kazumi asked, confused.
"Does anybody have some water we can test it out on?" Hoshi asked.
"I have bottled water. Will that do?" Lissa asked, taking out a bottle of water from her backpack.
"That'll do. Give it to Kazumi" Hoshi instructed.
"Here ya go." Lissa said, as she handed the bottle to Kazumi, who then asked what was she supposed to do it.
"Thanks" Kazumi said as she took the water bottle.
"Tip the water bottle and let some water flow out. Then imagine the water reversing, going back into the water bottle, then fast forward it so that the water comes out again." Hoshi told her. Kazumi tipped the water bottle, she closed her eyes and imagined the spilled water going back into the bottle.
"Oh! Kazumi! Look!" Miya exclaimed.
Kazumi opened her eyes to see the water doing exactly what she had imagined.
"Cool," Kazumi breathed before picking up the water bottle and putting it into her bookbag.
"Me next! Me next!" Faina said, jumped up and down, raising her hand.
"Okay, do the same thing Kazumi did before" Hoshi said chuckling, amused at the way Fiane was acting like a child.
"Okay. Guardian Aquarius Awaken!" Faina said, while touching the pendant. Millions of silver thread-like ribbons surrounded her, wrapping her in a cocoon. When it was over, Faina dropped out.
"Ouch, that hurts." Faina said, rubbing her butt.
"What did you see?" Melia asked, helping her up.
"I saw myself fading in and out." Faina said.
"You have the power of invisibility" Hoshi told her.
"Cool, how does it work?" Faina was all excited again.
"Well, imagine yourself fading out like you visioned it before, then imagine you fading in again" Hoshi told her.
Faina closed her eyes and imagined her left hand fading away. When she opened her eyes a few seconds later, her hand was gone.
"Cool!" Faina said. Then she imagined her hand back.
"My turn!" Aisha said with a sparkle in her eyes.
"O.K., do the same as they had done"
Aisha touched the pendant and said "Guardian Sagittarius Awaken!" A flaming ball engulfed her, causing the others to back away and put on worried faces, worrying that the fire could have burn her.
"Aisha? Y-" Miya was cut off when the fireball disappeared.
When it was gone, Aisha stepped down without a single burnt or scratch mark on her.
"You okay?" Kazumi asked, worried that the fire could have hurt her.
"I fine, the fire sort of felt comfortable" Aisha said, a reassuring smile on her face.
"What did you see?" Haruchi asked.
"I saw myself in this volcano, except I wasn't even sweating. My hair was longer than usual and flying around me to protect me from the heat and the lava bubbles, which by the way, they could have probably burned me." Aisha told them while touching her hair.
"It's called prehensile. It's rare, but you're one of the few reincarnations to have that kind of power." Hoshi instructed. told her, finding it amazing to find another prehensile user
"Wow, the name sounds kind of cool, but what kind power is it?" Aisha asked.
"It's the power to control your hair and turn it into anything you like. You could stretch it or sharpen it into daggers and attack. It's rare, but you're one of the few reincarnations to have that kind of power" Hoshi instructed. "Now, think of your hair like Medusa's"
Aisha thought of her hair being like Medusa's hair, full of snakes. Then she thought of one of these snakes shooting out, and grabbing Miya's hand.
"Ow! Hey! Let go, Aisha!" Miya shouted, trying to shake Aisha's hair from her hand.
"Oh, sorry about that, Miya. I just wanted to try it out and you were the one that was closet to me." Aisha said. Then she thought of the snake coming back.
"Can I go?" Lika asked.
"Sure" Hoshi said.
"Guardian Scorpio Awaken!" Thick sandy colored ribbons moved around her in a sluggish kind of way, wrapping around her. She came out soon afterwards.
"So?" Kazumi asked. She was busy playing with the water in the water bottle, so she didn't look up.
"I was in scenes from like the past and the future. That obviously means time-travel?" Lika questioned, while raising an eyebrow.
"Yup, but you can only travel through time, not control it. That's Kazumi's job. Although I'm not sure how to test it, but try concentrating and take us back 5 minutes before" Hoshi asked.
"But won't we lose our powers?" Aisha asked, still playing with her hair.
"No. Because this is only like a test run, you won't actually lose your powers unless you go further back in time."
"O.K."
"Take us away, Lika!" Hoshi shouted, throwing her wings in the air.
Everyone giggled at that, thinking what a funny bird Hoshi is. Lika concentrated on entering the past, five minutes before when they all met. Everyone suddenly felt themselves being pulled backwards, as if there was either a giant black hole of a vacuum behind them. They all decided on the first one though.
"Holy – " Some of the Guardians started to say, but didn't finish when the next thing they saw was complete and utter darkness.
Everyone felt the darkness surround them for a spit second before a light shone into the place and then they all felt themselves freefalling to the ground.
"Ahhhhhh!" Everyone screamed when they were out of the black hole thing. Suddenly they fell on top of themselves from 5 minutes ago, who disappeared upon contact.
"Ouch, that hurts." Okana said raising herself up. "Okay, I wanna go next"
"Fine, you all should know what to do by now." Hoshi said.
"Guardian Aries Awaken!"
A flower that looked like it was made of lava, came up from beneath Okana and started to close up around her, forming a bright orange flower bud. Soon the bud unfurled again and sort of disintegrated away. Okana landed and sort of brushed herself off.
"I saw myself in my room, surrounded by my drawings and such when they suddenly started coming to life and started talking to me and doing other human like things." Okana said.
"Animation. It's an interesting power, yet hard to master. Although I don't know how we can test it." Hoshi said to Okana.
"Why don't we use one of the manga books upstairs. I've always wanted to make them come alive" Okana said.
"Sure. Who wants to go get it?" Hoshi asked.
"I will" Nodoko raised her hand.
"Okay. We'll wait here for you" Haruchi said. For a few minutes, nobody said anything. The only sound were Kazumi time controling the water, Aisha playing with her hair, Lika who thinking of what time period to go to, and Faina, who was busy fading in and out with her powers. Soon Nodoko came back with a Tsubasa: Reservoir of Chronicles book.
"Why this book?" Okana asked, taking the book and turning it over.
"Picked it randomly" Nodoko said, shrugging
"Oh"
"Try and make something come to life from the book. Although I think you would want to start with an inanimate object" Hoshi said. "Maybe the sword or that feather. Actually start with something smaller, that feather looks like the perfect one to animated"
"Um...O.K." Okana said, sweatdropping in confusion. "But how would I do that?" Okana asked, flipping to the page with the feather on it.
But before Hoshi could say anything, they heard 2 things from upstairs:
-One: People running and screaming, a lot of people running and screaming
-Two: And a giant roar sound could be heard.
