55th: Opposing Gates

Summary: They had been made to fight each other anyway.

It happened rarely – especially lately – but it happened. Leo was one of the more sensitive spirits and he felt when one of his kinsmen was summoned and each time, he prayed that no second spirit would be summoned to the same fight as well – or at least not to the other side because if this happened, the whole Realm of Celestial Spirits froze.

Aquarius would stop her conversation with Scorpio or Pisces to pray silently that it would end with a draw because she knew that fights between spirits rarely ended when the battle was over in the Human world.

Libra would sigh and buy cacao because most spirits came to her to talk about the fight because she was supposed to be the best listener among her fellow spirits.

Aries was an unlucky spirit because she had the highest score of fights against a fellow spirit which was probably part of the reason why she always apologised.

The Archer and the Maiden would lower their heads and try to skip away while Scorpio tried to cheer everyone up which ended in a failure most of the time. Cancer would sign and disappear in his own house while Taurus would end up being slapped by the female part of Pisces for his perverted comments which were originally supposed to loosen up the tension in the realm. Pisces themselves would try to get the other spirits to talk about the slightly traumatic experience to fight your friends over and over but it rarely worked.

Capricorn, however, merely shook his head. "No matter how long it is all fun and games in this world, we have a duty and I fail to see the point in complaining about this duty."

The terrible thing about this sentence was, as Leo had concluded, that he was right. They had been made to fight each other anyway after all. All in all, the situation was always complicated because it was difficult not to take sides even though everyone knew that those fights between the spirits were nothing personal.

"I hate this," Aries had once said, long ago. "To fight a friend is wrong."

"A lot of things are wrong in this world, Aries-chan," Aquarius had agreed. "But we cannot change the ways of this world."

"As much is obvious," the Ram had admitted.