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Virgo's Lemonade vs Aquarius's Lemonade

"It's so warm!" Cancer sat in front of the fan in the living room. Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces were trying to cool themselves off.

"Must be horrible not having air powers." Cool air swirled around Gemini.

"Hey, Gemini can you make cool air swirl around all of us?" asked Pisces.

"I can't be an air conditioner. If I use my powers to cool the entire house down, after a while it makes you tired, but I suppose I can help out a bit."

A wave of cold air danced around the room. Everyone released an "Ah" at the cool air. Then it warmed up again.

Everyone looked at Sagittarius who played with fire. "Sorry, I can't help it. Fire is just so fascinating, I love it."

"But you're warming the rest of us up," whined Taurus.

Sagittarius didn't seem to care.

"Maybe we could set up a lemonade stand and donate the money we make to charity," suggested Pisces.

Gemini's face lit up. "That's perfect! Everyone will pay to have a cold drink on a day like this!"

"Does anyone know how to make lemonade?" asked Aquarius.

Cancer smiled. "Me and Taurus do. We always make little treats for ourselves! Er... we used to before the maze. I can also bake cookies!"

"I liked making food. Interesting." Taurus furrowed her brow. "That sounds kind of familiar."

Gemini gasped. "Cancer and Taurus can make lemonade, cookies AND cheesecake squares. This is going to be the best bake sale ever! I'm so excited!"

Aquarius smiled. "I suppose all six of us could help out. If the others aren't here to help out, that's their problem."

"So, we're trusting Sagittarius to bake with us? Why?" asked Taurus.

Sagittarius made his fire disappear. "I'll help out because that way I have something to brag about to Aries and Leo. They may be fabulous, but I'm good at baking. Right Cancer?"

Everyone looked at Cancer. "That's right. He's actually good at baking, and serious when he does it too. Even though he messes with Capricorn when she bakes, he can help us. I trust him."

Aquarius nodded in approval. "Me, Pisces and Gemini can set up while Cancer, Taurus and Sagittarius bake the treats."

Taurus played with the ends of her hair. "I-I think I remember how to bake. It might come back to me once I try it."

Pisces patted her on the shoulder. "It's alright. Even if you don't remember, Sag and Cancer will help you out."

"I'll decorate the sign! Come on, chop, chop, legs go!" Gemini excitedly ran to the elevator. Everyone else started doing what they were supposed to.

***

Aries and Scorpio were sitting above the living room on the hammock floor. They made sure to be quiet, so that the zodiacs below wouldn't hear them, since the only thing that separated them was a hammock.

After the others left, Aries turned to Scorpio. "Should we interfere?"

Scorpio shook her head. "They're doing it for a good cause. We won't mess with them, but we can still have our fun."

Aries furrowed her brow. "How will we have fun without messing with them?"

"By making our own treat stand."

***

Aries, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Capricorn were on the library floor planning things out.

"But if they're happy to make their own treat stand, why challenge them by making our own?" asked Libra.

Aries shrugged. "We'll give them the money we make for their charity, but that way it will be a challenge. Us vs them."

Virgo grinned. "We're going against Aquarius you say? Could me in!" He excitedly smacked his palm on the desk.

Capricorn considered her options. "If we set ours up across town, we will attract more customers that won't see their treat stand. That way we'll earn more money, and everyone profits. Count me in."

Leo grinned. "We have Cappy, the baker of the zodiac, on our side."

Scorpio smirked. "We'll win for sure."

"So this is a competition?" asked Leo.

"When does Virgo go against Aquarius without it being a competition?" asked Libra.

"You don't get it, sweet Libby, it's not a competition. I outrank him in every way!" Virgo put his hands on his hips.

"Do you outrank him at poetry?" asked Libra.

Capricorn frowned. "They both suck at poetry."

"Actually, Aquarius learned how to become a beautiful poet so he could write love poems to Taurus," countered Libra.

Scorpio nudged Virgo. "Looks like the virgin has to step up his game."

Virgo smirked. "He may have a way with words, but I have a way with my lips." Then he pulled Scorpio in for a kiss.

Aries looked around. "Where's Leo."

Libra scanned the library with his brown eyes.  "I don't see him."

"Peek-a-boo! I see you!" Everyone got up and walked to the other end of the library. Against the giant wall-sized window, Leo set up a fort made out of books. "I got bored, so I did this."

Capricorn pulled Leo out of his fort, carefully so she didn't ruin it. "Come on. We have things to get done."

***

Cancer smiled as she carefully walked outside and set the tray of fresh cookies on the table.

Aquarius' group took the coffee table from the living room and put a table cloth over it. They nailed a sign that said Treat Booth to a piece of wood that they stuck in the ground.

"Mmmmmm, mind if I take one?" Gemini leaned forward in her chair and took a cookie without waiting for permission.

"Cheesecake squares coming up!" Taurus happily walked over with a tray of cheesecake squares.

"How was it? Baking again?" asked Aquarius.

Taurus smiled. "Cancer says I'm still good at it. At least that didn't go away."

"I'll go see if Sagittarius needs help." Pisces jumped out of his chair and ran inside.

"Where are the others? It's suspiciously quiet," Gemini narrowed her eyes and looked at the mansion behind them.

"It's suspicious whenever there's silence?" asked Taurus.

Aquarius sighed. "Taurus you should know that by now. The others are always making noise."

Taurus buried her head in her hands. "I'm sorry! I'm trying to learn about who everyone is since I have amnesia. I'm sorry that's not good enough for you!"

Aquarius eyes widened. "Oh my god. Taurus please stop crying I didn't mean it like that! I'm so so-"

"AHAHAHAHAHA you fell for it!" Taurus laughed at Aquarius.

Gemini laughed so hard she fell out of her chair.

"Nice one!" Cancer gave Taurus a high five.

Aquarius swore. "Damn it! I should of expected this."

Gemini pointed at Aquarius. "Haha look at the gullible monkey."

"Hey, I'm not gullible! She was fake crying so I freaked out. That's a normal response!"

Taurus leaned back in her chair. "He wasn't expecting it because I'm not a trickster like the others."

"Actually," added Gemini. "You trick him a lot. The others, not so much, but you're always messing with his poor head."

Cancer smirked. "When it comes to Aqua, you're almost as bad as everyone else."

"Excuse me! Awesome person coming through!" Sagittarius kicked the door open and dropped the tray of lemonade on the table.

Pisces followed him, carrying brownies and paper plates.

"Fresh lemonade! Sweeter than the sugar in my breakfast!" announced Sagittarius.

"Okay Saggi, let's let someone else do the shouting," suggested Cancer.

Sagittarius scoffed. "But no one else can shout clever things like I do!"

"Come get your lemonade! It's so fresh, it had to go live with its aunt and uncle in Bel-Air!" shouted Pisces.

"Ooh! Nice one!" Aquarius high fived Pisces.

A man who was holding hands with a little boy walked over.

"Our first customer!" squealed Taurus.

Pisces smiled. "How may we help you?"

The little boy pointed at the brownies. "Daddy can I have one of those?"

The man smiled. "Sure. We'll take two brownies and two lemonades please."

Gemini smirked. "That'll be two hundred dollars please."

"Uh..."

"Don't listen to her." Pisces glanced at Gemini who smiled innocently. "That'll be two dollars please."

The man handed Pisces the money and walked away with his food.

"Hopefully people will tell each other about our lemonade stand," said Sagittarius.

"Look, a group of kids walking by," Aquarius waved at the kids.

"There's always people walking down this street, where are they?" asked Aquarius.

"Well, today's is kind of too hot to go casually walking around the streets," replied Pisces.

"Gemini can you cool us off please?" asked Cancer.

Gemini made cool air swirl around them for a minute.

"Why do I hear music? It's a faint noise but it's there," announced Taurus.

Gemini frowned. "I can't hear anything."

"Who wants to go check it out?" asked Sagittarius.

"I will." Aquarius got up and walked over to the garage.

Cancer shrugged. "It's probably a party or something."

***

The other six zodiacs were at the park. They blasted the music and handed out food. Their treat stand contained lemonade, cheesecake, chocolate covered strawberries and fruit pie. Parents bought their children treats while they played at the playground.

"Look at it all," Aries fanned herself with the money.

Capricorn walked out of the bakery across the street holding a tray of pastries. She looked both ways and crossed the road before carefully placing the pastries on their table.

"What's the point of buying pastries only to sell them cheaper?" asked Virgo.

Capricorn shook her head. "I made them myself. Since I help out the bakery so much, they're letting me use it to bake pastries for our treat booth."

"Woah. Isn't that convenient?" asked Libra.

"I wonder how the lesser beings- I mean others are doing," said Leo.

Scorpio shrugged. "Maybe we should kick you out so you can be a "lesser being" like them."

"I'm too fabulous!" Leo struck a pose.

"Mommy why does that boy look like he's having a seizure?" asked a little boy that was holding his mom's hand.

"Don't point, it's rude." The Mom lead the boy away.

"Pfffffft!" Aries laughed at Leo.

"This is so much fun. I get to spend time with all my best friends." Virgo leaned back and put an arm around both Scorpio and Capricorn.

"I guess I'm replacing Aquarius as his bestie for today," joked Leo.

Capricorn tried to push Virgo's arm off but he kept it on her shoulder. "Let me go, I have to go back for the chocolate pastries."

"Chocolate? You can go as long as you bring one back for the lovely Scorpio," Virgo removed his arm from around Capricorn.

"Chocolate pastries sound delicious." Scorpio licked her lips.

"Need any help?" asked Libra as Capricorn walked by.

"No thanks." Capricorn sprinted back over to the bakery.

"LEO STOP! LEO I SWEAR I'LL KILL YOU!"

Leo smirked and placed Aries in the chair Capricorn just sat in. Aries tried to get away before Virgo put his arm around her. Aries glared at Leo.

"Aww, Aries is so excited to sit beside her bestie!" Leo messed up Aries' hair before serving a customer.

"Aww look at the three besties. You're all so cute," tormented Libra. Scorpio glared at him, Virgo grinned and Aries wrinkled her nose.

"Virgo?" asked Scorpio.

"Yes, my love?" Virgo smiled as he looked at his girlfriend.

"There's a spider on your face."

"WHERE?" Virgo's chair fell back and he started clawing at his face.

Aries smacked Virgo on the arm. "Got it."

Virgo picked up his glasses and fixed his chair. "You two are mean."

Then a familiar overplayed song played over the speakers. Aries and Scorpio looked at each other in fear.

"You know what? Let's choose a different song." Leo opened his phone and selected a different song to play over the speakers.

"Aww, but I wanted to sing," pouted Virgo.

"Leo, that's my favourite song," whined Libra.

"I've heard Closer too many times to count," muttered Scorpio.

"It's a good song when Virgo isn't singing it," muttered Aries.

Virgo smirked. "I know all the lyrics from memory. Ahem. Hey-"

A tray slammed down on the table hard enough to make everyone else jump. Capricorn glared at Virgo. "Do NOT sing that song." Then she handed Scorpio a chocolate pastry. "Would you like one Aries?"

Aries nodded. Capricorn gave her a pastry too.

"What about me?" asked Libra. Capricorn passed him a strawberry pastry and she gave Leo a rainbow sprinkled pastry.

"What about me?" asked Virgo.

Libra glanced at Virgo. "You're not special enough to get a pastry." Then he took a bite out of thin air. Libra looked at his hand where his strawberry pastry was a second ago.

Virgo, who snatched the pastry, grinned and took a bite out of it.

Capricorn sighed and gave Libra a new pastry.

"Is that Aquarius?" asked Leo.

"No. It's probably just a hippie that looks like him," replied Capricorn.

"No, that's definitely Aquarius," added Libra. Capricorn spun around to see the water bearer walking up to them.

"What are you guys doing?" asked Aquarius.

Libra swallowed another bite before asking, "Want a pastry?"

Leo handed Aquarius a honey glazed pastry. Aquarius thanked Leo before looking back at Capricorn. "Did you guys copy our idea?"

Leo shrugged and spoke between bites. "It's not a bake sale unless your friends set up a better and more successful bake sale."

Virgo smirked. "I bet ours is selling more treats than yours!"

Aquarius stared at Virgo. "Fine. It's a competition. My bake sale against yours. The losers, have to do a dare!"

Libra's eyebrows rose. "What kind of dare?"

Aquarius shrugged. "We'll decide that when we win."

Leo pulled out all the bills and started fanning himself. "I'm willing to bet we're in the lead."

Aquarius smirked. "It's not over yet." Then he walked away.

"What kind of dare should we make those SUCKERS do when we win?" asked Aries.

"I don't know. Maybe we could make them give us foot massages," suggested Scorpio.

Aries grinned at the thought of getting a foot massage.

***

Gemini gasped. "There is no way we're letting them beat us!"

"How much are they selling?" asked Sagittarius.

Aquarius rubbed his sweaty palms on his jeans. "A lot. They have music and they're set up beside the park."

Pisces furrowed his brow. "We need to attract everyone else to our treat booth. But how?"

"We need to move our treat booth somewhere else," replied Cancer.

"What do you have in mind?" asked Taurus.

Cancer looked at Sagittarius, Aquarius, then Gemini. "It will exhaust all of you, but I have an idea!"

"Ooh, I like the look on your face!" smiled Sagittarius.

"Oh. You want us to use our powers." Gemini smirked. "I think I know exactly what you want us to do."

Cancer grinned. "It's evil, but at the same time, genius!"

"What's going on?" asked Aquarius.

Cancer smirked. "You'll see. Also we need to stack up on treats because once we get there, we won't be able to make more."

Taurus nodded. "I'll make more snacks, but what else should we add to our bake sale?"

Gemini whispered the plan to Pisces.

Pisces smiled. "Cool drinks and ice cream. Also let's bring a large tent."

"What do you guys have planned?" Aquarius put his hands in his hips.

Cancer finished explaining the plan to Taurus.

Taurus laughed. "That's genius! The others will be pissed!"

"Hey, we shouldn't sabotage them!" warned Aquarius.

Pisces grinned. "We're not sabotaging them. It won't affect THEM at all."

Aquarius rose an eyebrow. "Then who will it affect?"

Cancer smirked. "Everyone else."

***

"It suddenly got to warm!" Aries drank a glass of cold lemonade.

"What's this feeling? It's like there's air fire slamming into me!" announced Libra.

"Do you mean the hot wind?" asked Capricorn.

"It can't be wind because air temperature doesn't affect me," retorted Libra.

"Libra, use your air currents to cool us down please," requested Scorpio.

"I'm trying, but I can't," replied Libra.

"How?" asked Leo.

Libra closed his eyes. "It's like there's something blocking my air powers."

"How?" asked Aries.

Virgo sighed. "Who cares, wait, where is everyone else going?"

The zodiacs looked around to see parents and children slowly leaving.

"Today is a beautiful day for the beach! There will also be cold drinks and frozen treats! Cool off with a swim, the cold water will sooth your sweaty limbs!" announced a voice.

"Wait, I know that voice!" Scorpio narrowed her eyes and saw Sagittarius and Gemini at the park.

"What are they doing here?" asked Aries.

"Trying to steel out customers I assume," replied Scorpio.

Capricorn glared. "Sagittarius and Gemini are combining their powers to make super hot heat waves. That's why Libra can't cool us down, Gemini and Aquarius likely already filled the air with their own hot wind. Clever."

"That's why I can feel the heat." Libra squinted his eyes at the two other zodiacs. "Sagittarius is using his fire powers to heat the wind, I can't feel wind but I can feel fire."

"Ugh that's so clever!" Virgo wiped the sweat off his forehead. "They likely set their stand up at the beach too."

***

The other zodiacs were all wearing swimsuits. Across the road from the beach, they set up a large patio tent with their treat booth inside. Outside, Pisces and Cancer used their powers to make water shoot out of the groups like a sprinkler while Aquarius and Gemini made cold air swirl around the tent.

(That's what the tent looks like except a lot bigger.)

"This was genius," grinned Cancer as she handed a little girl her ice cream.

Aquarius and Sagittarius walked in the tent with a bag of ice each. Then Aquarius smacked the bag on the table before opening it and pouring the ice in the cooler. Sagittarius did the same thing.

Sagittarius closed the cooler. "There's a whole lot of people lined up."

Pisces chuckled. "Well what did your expect? With weather like this, it's no wonder everyone wants cool treats."

Aquarius borrowed a hair tie from Taurus and put his hair into a short ponytail. "How's my hair?"

"Like a hippie," replied Taurus with a smirk.

"So my hair is still better than yours? Good enough."

"Why you-" Taurus opened the cooler and slid an ice cube down Aquarius' back.

"AH! COLD! COLD! COLD!"

"Cold, enough to chill my bones~" sang Sagittarius.

"It feels like I don't know you anymore~" sang Gemini.

"I don't understand why you're so cold, to me~" sand Pisces.

All three of them sang in unison. "With every breath you breath! I see there's something going on. I don't understand why you're so cold!"

Cancer face palmed. "We can't say anything around you guys without it turning into a song."

Sagittarius chuckled. "We should have our own musical."

"It will be called... Gemini and the losers with no talent!" Gemini stood on the table and posed. People gave her funny looks.

"Gemini, you're stepping on the cookies," whispered Aquarius. Gemini jumped back and resumed serving customers with Cancer, Taurus and Pisces.

"Huh?" Pisces looked at the others.

"What's wrong?" asked Taurus.

"I felt something, like a tug on my powers," Pisces whispered the last part so quietly Taurus barely heard him.

Cancer looked at Pisces. "I felt it too."

"I'll go check it out." Sagittarius walked outside. The sprinklers stopped working. "Hey guys, there's something wrong with the-" all of the sudden a powerful blast of water hit him on the face. Sagittarius looked up but he didn't see anyone. He sighed and went back inside.

"Why are you so wet?" asked Gemini.

"Pfft!"

"Aqua stop smirking. Wet isn't a dirty word you pervert!" Taurus lightly smacked Aquarius on the arm.

"The sprinklers stopped then they started working again," replied Sagittarius.

Cancer sighed. "Who wants to bet that the others are here to see how well we're doing?"

"How well are we doing?" asked Pisces.

Cancer opened her bag. "I have a few hundred dollars alone."

Gemini smirked. "I think we may have won. Tell the others to get in here and help us out."

***

Later on, Virgo's group had blindfolds around their heads. They were each sitting on some kind of platform. They lost the bet so this was their dare.

"Alright, is time to begin!" announced Gemini. Then a breeze blew the blindfolds off team Virgo's eyes. All six of them were in one of those tanks where if you throw a ball and hit the target, the person on the platform gets dunked in the freezing water.

(The tank was like this except bigger and it had six platforms to sit on instead of one)

"Woah. Every time I saw one of these, it only had one person sitting up here, not six," announced Leo.

"Uh, there's a long line of people," said Libra.

"Wait! My hearing aid!" screamed Capricorn.

"It's not on your ear," reassured Aries.

"They must of took it off for you," said Scorpio.

"Listen up everyone!" Moncer had a microphone. "THESE LOSERS ARE GETTING DUNKED! WOOOOOO!" The crowd cheered. "WHEN YOU THROW A BALL, ONE OF THESE LOSERS WILL PLUMMET INTO FREEZING COLD WATER! ARE YOU READY?"

"NO!" screamed everyone on Virgo's team.

"YES!" screamed Virgo.

"GREAT! HERE'S OUR FIRST PLAYER!"

A little boy gave Moncer some money and in exchange, she gave him three balls. The little boy missed the first time, but his second ball hit the target.

Virgo's team waited in anticipation, wondering if they'd get dunked. Then the platform under Libra dropped, plummeting him into the water. Libra quickly climbed out of the water that had ice cubes floating around, and sat back on his platform.

Moncer smirked and handed three balls to the next kid. This was going to be a long and cold day for team Virgo.

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