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Death, Death, DEATH

A/N: Okay I admit I suck at chapter titles. Also happy 100th chapter everyone!

Virgo grinned at the zodiacs from the platform. The cobra was five times as tall as Cancer. The rocks that were scattered around the room were about four times the size of Cancer.

"Virgo!" screamed Sagittarius.

"HE'S DEAD!" growled Scorpio.

"Like Libra and Capricorn?" asked Aries.

"Yeah. He bled to death," replied Leo.

"Wait... he what?" asked Aquarius.

"That pungi looks different," said Taurus while looking curiously at the instrument in Virgo's hands.

"How?" asked Pisces.

Taurus though for a second. "Usually they're used to tame snakes. So maybe this one will-"

Virgo started playing. Then the cobra stretched out its hood and slithered forward.

"We need to figure out of this one spits or not. It's spit may be venomous," announced Gemini.

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE, MOVE! IF THIS ASSHOLE BITES YOU, YOU'RE DEAD!" screamed Moncer. Everyone tried running away from the cobra, but they couldn't run very well in the sand.

The cobra had a spikey tail. It was similar to a regular cobra, but Hydrus obviously made some modifications.

Sagittarius climbed on top of one of the rocks. Then he shot an arrow at the cobra. The arrow stuck in its body. The cobra hissed but it didn't seem to affect it much.

Everyone else started climbing the rocks. The cobra slithered around.

"This is only the second boss. He shouldn't be too hard to kill," announced Aries.

The cobra smacked it's tail against the rock with Scorpio, Gemini and Pisces standing on it. The rock shattered, sending rock pieces flying everywhere. The zodiacs fell onto the sand. The cobra looked down at them.

The fire signs were attacking the cobra with fireballs and the earth signs were making rocks pop out of the ground and attack it. When I said earth signs, I meant Taurus because the other two are dead. The water and air signs couldn't do much from a distance, except for Cancer who threw shruikens.

Scorpio jumped up and swung her axe. The cobra slithered out of the way and swung it's head forward. Gemini used her air powers to blow Scorpio on the cobra's hood. The cobra tried to slake her off, but Scorpio kept a firm grip on her axe and on the cobra. She couldn't do much but try to hold on.

Pisces jabbed his trident into the cobra. The cobra jabbed its head forward and bit Pisces. The it dropped him and left him to die from the poison.

"PISCES!" Gemini picked up his trident and pressed it against the giant bite marks on Pisces' stomach. Pisces grunted in pain as the poison started pouring out. It was working, but it was going to take a long time.

"Watch... out," said Pisces weakly. The cobra was about to bite Gemini when a scythe slashed at the cobra's mouth. The cobra recoiled as black blood oozed out.

"Over here!" shouted Taurus. Then she tried to run as fast as she could away from Pisces and Gemini, hoping that the cobra will follow her. She wasn't getting very far.

The cobra was about to swing its tail at Taurus,
when five claws pierced it's skin. The cobra tried again to shake Leo and Scorpio off, but they held on. The cobra was about to go finish off Pisces when a wall of flames slammed into it. The cobra swung its tail and knocked Aries into a wall. She fell down, unconscious.

"ARIES!" screamed Leo. Then he dug his claws in further. The cobra screeched but nothing seemed to be killing it.

Aquarius impaled the cobra with his sword. He twisted it around and pulled out the blade that was covered in black blood. The cobra tried to attack Aquarius, but he made a strong breeze blow him out of the way.

"No one seems to be hurting it. How are we getting out of here?" asked Scorpio.

"There has to be a secret weakness," said Gemini.

"VIR... GO!" said Pisces who was sitting in a large pool of poison that slowly leaked out of his body.

"Of course! If we injure Virgo, he won't be able to command the cobra. Maybe that pungi that's he's playing is giving the cobra it's strength!" said Cancer.

"Who's going after Virgo? He's all the way up on that platform," said Sagittarius.

"I will," volunteered Cancer.

Sagittarius stomped his foot. "No! I won't lose you again!"

"Saggi, I'm the perfect one to go. I was killed, remember?" asked Cancer.

"But you're not dead anymore!"

"Actually..."

"What?"

"I broke the collar, but I'm still dead."

The cobra slithered towards Pisces and Gemini. Taurus and Aquarius were slashing at it as hard as they could.

"Who cares?" asked Sagittarius. "You'll be alive again when we clear the game!"

"No Saggi... the dead can't get out of here. It's a rule that Ophiuchus made."

"WHAT?!?"

"Gemini! Send me up on the platform!" shouted Cancer. Gemini looked up and created a strong wind current that pushed Cancer up to the platform Virgo was standing on.

"ME TOO!" screamed Sagittarius. Gemini did the same to Sagittarius.

"Can you push the cobra back with wind?" asked Leo.

"I tried, it's too heavy," replied Gemini. Then the holes on Pisces' stomach started closing, slowly.

"The pain in my stomach... is this what child birth feels like?" asked Pisces.

"How should I know?" asked Gemini.

Cancer and Sagittarius faced Virgo.

"Aww, it's my friends. Did you guys come to ask me to personally kill you both?" asked Virgo.

"Nope!" Then Cancer pounced on Virgo. "Get the pungi out of his hands!"

Sagittarius tried to grab the pungi but a bunch of black mist swirled around him. "What? Since when can you use black mist?"

"It's the element of the dead. Cappy and Libby have this power too, they just don't know it," said Virgo who was wrestling with Moncer. Then the black mist disappeared around Sagittarius.

Moncer smirked. "That means I have it too!"

Gemini swung her mace at the cobra when it lunged at her. She knocked out one of it's fangs. The cobra was confused since Virgo no longer commanded it with the pungi.

"It's no use! We can't kill him by ourselves!" said Cancer who tried to slash Virgo with a shruiken. Virgo used his flamethrower, but Cancer made a water shield.

Sagittarius understood what must be done. Sagittarius surrounded himself with the fire. It kept growing bigger and more powerful until a giant ball of powerful fire surrounded him.

"Saggi, what are you-"

Sagittarius screamed as his muscled tore apart. He was putting every ounce of power he had into the giant ball of fire.

"Saggi stop! You'll kill yourself!" screamed Moncer.

"Cancer, you're dead. You can't leave this place. I'd rather spend the rest of my life, controlled by those stupid collars with you, than escape and get married to someone else. You're the only girl I could ever love-"

"SAGGI! NO!"

"Get out of here!" yelled Sagittarius. "GEMINI! GET CANCER AWAY FROM HERE!"

"GEMINI DON'T YOU DARE!"

"What do I do?" asked Gemini who was still healing Pisces.

"Sagittarius is going to end this battle. Don't let Cancer die again with them," said Pisces who looked up at the platform and saw the giant ball of fire. Then Gemini made a strong breeze push Cancer off, and another breeze caught her fall.

"You think you can just defeat me like that?" asked Virgo. Then black mist swirled around the ball of fire, but the mist disappeared. "WHAT?"

"This fire is too powerful for your ghost powers. That's why, it's costing me my life," said Sagittarius. His skin ripped apart. Sagittarius screamed at the top of his lungs. Then the ball of fire exploded. Everyone looked up to see the what happened. The platform was now empty. Even the pungi was broken.

Leo screamed and almost fell off the cobra as a strange feeling appeared in his body. This strange feeling appeared after Sagittarius died.

"He's weakened! Kill it!" screamed Taurus. Scorpio started climbing until she reached the cobra's head. Then she swung her axe. It's head popped off. Then Leo and Scorpio jumped off the cobra. A door to the maze appeared and opened.

"Aries! Okay she's breathing!" announced Leo.

"I'll be fine. Gemini drained out the poison," said Pisces.

"Saggi is not dead. He's just... he's hiding," said Cancer.

"Let's get her to a room before she comes out of denial," suggested Aquarius. Then Aquarius, Taurus and Cancer left.

"We'd better get going," said Scorpio.

"What about-"

"We'll take care of her," then Gemini picked Aries up. Leo sighed and kissed Aries' forehead before running away with Scorpio.

"I suppose Sagittarius wouldn't want his sacrifice to be in vain. Let's get to a room so we're not locked out during the night," said Pisces. Then Gemini, Pisces and Aries started walking out the door.

"What happened?" asked Aries. Gemini almost dropped her in surprise, but the wind currents that helped Gemini carry Aries caught her.

"We killed the cobra, but Sagittarius is dead," said Gemini.

"WHAT? Not Sag!" said Aries. "I feel like something's missing from me."

"Whenever someone of their element dies, the other two get weird feelings. Hydra never told us why," said Pisces.

Gemini sighed. "Just another reason to escape. So we can get more answers."

***

Libra was in a meadow of flowers. He came here often, whenever his body had to rest. It was sort of like a dream, but he was entirely in control of his body for once. Capricorn plucked flowers beside him. 

"What are you doing?" asked Libra.

"Making a flower crown. Want one?" asked Capricorn.

"No thanks! I'm a guy," said Libra.

Capricorn chuckled. "So Leo and Aqua can style their hair and wear sparkly pink dresses, yet you can't put some flowers on your head?"

"It's weird!"

"No Libra, you're being weird. I made it just for you!" Then Capricorn put a flower crown made out of red and blue flowers on his head.

"Well, if you made it I might as well keep it on," said Libra.

"Yay!" Then Capricorn started making another flower crown.

"Sup losers. Aww Libby looks so pretty in his cute little flower crown." Libra looked down to see Virgo leaning on him.

"How'd your boss battle go?" asked Capricorn.

"I was killed. But Ophiuchus gave me a new collar. I'm glad our friends were able to outsmart me. Well, it wasn't actually me but... you know, it was my body!"

"Did you kill anyone?" asked Libra.

"He sacrificed himself-"

"Why the hell are we surrounded by flowers? I want to go explore a volcano or something!"

"Ah. It's nice to see Sagittarius joined us," said Capricorn sarcastically before looking up to see Sagittarius.

"We can't control where we go. I don't know if Ophiuchus controls our dreams or if it's random. Yesterday we swam in the ocean," said  Libra.

"Why isn't Cancer here?" asked Sagittarius.

"She wasn't here for a while now," said Virgo.

"She broke the collar but she's still dead," said Sagittarius.

"OH!" Capricorn stopped making her flower crown. "The collars around our necks are what puts us here when our bodies are sleeping. If she broke her collar, she's basically alive."

"But she told me the dead can't escape," said Sagittarius.

"We can't. Unless someone from the outside world finds a way to hack into the system and change the rules, we'll be stuck here forever," explained Virgo.

"I'm glad we'll at least be here together," said Capricorn. Then she pushed Virgo away from him before she kissed Libra.

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