59|| The Water Round
This idea is suggested by _QueenBela_. (It has been a while since someone had suggested a chapter, so sorry in advance if you didn't like it.). It is also dedicated to her
Is it just me or 'Sincerely Me' kinda fits Vincent and Cameron with Phoebe casually t h e r e.
And 'The Pitiful Children' sort of fits Alastor omg-.
Also, I asked you guys whenever I should do a 'Truth or Dare' chapter for the characters or a 'Would You Rather' chapter, a majority (actually ALL of you so far) chose 'Would You Rather'. The reason why I asked is that the last interactive chapter was fun to write (the QnA), so I decide to do a couple more. But I was thinking about a 'Who Is More Likely Chapter', I don't know... I was thinking about it.
AND GUESS WHO'S OUT OF EXAMS FOR THIS YEAR.....but is currently about to cry from Senior work. But don't worry, my last day of school is next week, so I have to balance with holiday homework and time management to publish another chapter.
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It is a sunny Friday afternoon and Phoebe is confused.
Why?
She is confused about why the town is acting strange.
The girl is currently at the mall shopping around for new notepads, notebooks and pens for her sh- I mean exam revision. While she was walking from store to store, she noticed some people staring at her and whispering among each other. At first, Phoebe didn't mind the whispering, but now it bothered her.
The Pisces female sat down on a bench and sighed. She noticed two kids giggling and talking to each other. Phoebe turned to the kids.
"Excuse me?"
The kids turned her. They gave each other worried looks before scurrying away. Phoebe was really confused.
'But I didn't do anything wrong. What's going on?' The Pisces female bit her lip and got out her phone. She unlocked it and decided to check the group chat (where everyone is invited again). 'If they won't answer, maybe my friends can explain.'
The girl sighed and looked down at her phone (Vivian made sure to give everyone back their phones) towards her (hyper) group chat which was strangely named 'Zodiac Street Sanctuary of Wild'. This made Phoebe roll her eyes.
"How typical," the girl chuckled before texting her friends.
Zodiac Street Sanctuary of Wild
PandaPhoebe: Hey guys, the town is acting weird.
TigerAlyssa: Merry New Year!
MonkeyGilbert: Merry Valentines Day ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ViviThePenguin: I-
ColinTheOstrich: Merry Halloween!
ButterflySienna: Um... Merry Thanksgiving???
LeoDaLion: HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
PeafowlLily: You guys forgot a holiday (/_-)
BeeCameron: H u h?
BeeCameron: OH RIGHT!
BeeCameron: Merry Easter!
MonkeyGilbert: Welcome to Zodiac Street Sanctuary where all animals are friendly with each other from land to air to sea, big and small.
ElephantVincent: In other words, everyone is an animal here and we made a group-chat due to it.
ElephantVincent: I meant that in the two contexts.
TigerAlyssa: >:0
ColinTheOstrich: >:0
ButterflySienna: >:0
TurtlePete: >:0
LeoDaLion: >:(
BeeCameron: :(
MouseTahlia: :((
MouseTahlia: What? I wanted to join in.
ElephantVincent: ...
MonkeyGilbert: 👋🏻👁👅👁👌🏻
WolfSkyler: That's..... gonna give me nightmares for days.
PandaPhoebe: O.....k? But something weird happened.
PandaPhoebe: The entire town is avoiding me. Like stepping away and whispering behind my back.
KangarooSabrina: Wow. Rude.
DogCarol: Do you want me and Sabrina to talk some sense into them?
GiraffeLevin: That is.... expected.
KangarooSabrina: Expected?
KangarooSabrina: ARE YOU TELLING US YOU GUYS ARE BEHIND THIS?
GiraffeLevin: No! It's something else.
KangarooSabrina: >:/
GazelleGiselle: Allow us to explain. Tomorrow is 'The Water Round'.
PandaPhoebe: The Water Round?
ZebraLizzy: Yes. Happens once a day on a specific date in November which is tomorrow. It will run in the park and around the town, that's why everyone in the town is frightened.
RhinoAlex: So basically there are 8 teams since you three arrive. Before it was 7 teams but now there is eight: red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, pink and white. There are three people in each team, completely randomised except for one team cause THEY ALWAYS WIN.
MouseTahlia: It is a water balloon fight but everyone is trying to make their team be the superb team. Oh, the teams have to wear clothing and art aprons in their colour. Oh, you can't throw water balloons at your team.
KoalaTyler: In a more simple context, your aim is to not get hit by the other team's water balloons. And you all need to make sure your teammates aren't out. The team who got all their members out first are last place. There would be a supervisor for the round, who is Ms Florence, if your team members are all out, you need to notify her.
BeeCameron: There are rules for this though. For instance, you can't do the game in school zones, work zones and even houses. The houses are like team headquarters.
DogCarol: This sounds unique. :)
CatCleo: You guys forgot about the invincibility rule!
PandaPhoebe: Invincibility rule?
ButterflySienna: It's #DA-BEST
WhaleArlen: I stg Sienna if you start another hashtag chain-
NeighImSamTheHorse: Huh?
WolfSkyler: PFFFFFT YOUR USERNAME
CatCleo: Your username is cute Sam :)
NeighImSamTheHorse: O h
DogCarol: What is this invincibility rule?
LeopardAika: Whenever you need to do something real quick or fill up spare balloons or buy some new water balloons, you have to be invincible for that moment. So you wear a light pink baby bib.
LeopardAika: Yeah. But no one would throw water balloons at you.
PandaPhoebe: This sounds fun. But what are the teams?
MouseTahlia: The teams for this year are
MouseTahlia: Team 1- Alyssa, Gilbert, Sabrina (Purple team)
Mouse Tahlia: Team 2- Lily, Colin, Sam (Orange team)
MouseTahlia: Team 3- Lizzy, Giselle, Vivian (Pink team)
MouseTahlia: Team 4- Sienna, Cleo, Levin (Red team)
MouseTahlia: Team 5- Alex, Skyler, Leo (Blue team)
MouseTahlia: Team 6- Aika, Arlen, Pete (Green team)
MouseTahlia: Team 7- Carol, Tyler, Tahlia (Yellow team)
MouseTahlia: Team 8- Vincent, Cameron, Phoebe (White team)
ViviThePenguin: Each team has a base, which is one of the houses. We will all start from the base.
MouseTahlia: Yep. Team 1 has House 5 as a base. Team 2- House 4, Team 3- House 7, Team 4- House 6, Team 5- House 1, Team 6- House 3, Team 7- House 8, while Team 8 is House 2. For this night, you are sleeping over at your bases before the Water Round starts. Got that?
MonkeyGilbert: 👁👅👁👍
WolfSkyler: I will disown you.
MonkeyGilbert: 👁n👁
PandaPhoebe: Yeah?
MouseTahlia: For this night, you are all sleeping at your bases. But we should gather the aprons, bibs and water balloons, ready for tomorrow. Let's gather into our teams. Meet me in front of the houses.
PandaPhoebe: Alright! I'll come late, but I'll be there.
Phoebe smiled and turned off her phone before stuffing it in her jacket pocket. The girl then left the mall with her head held high as she ignored the starers and whisperers as she walked past.
•.:°×═⭐ 🌟 ⭐═×°:.• (Bob, Zoe and Jay are reading a book about themselves while walking down the beach.)
[The next day]
It is 7:55 am and the teams are in their bases ready for the game to start. According to the others, when it strikes 8 am, the teams have to wear bibs until they got to their hiding spot. So far everyone is wearing aprons and clothing in their team colours with light pink baby bibs. They were also carrying a bucket each with water balloons and brought spares along the way, both in their team colours.
5 minutes past and the game began. No one threw water balloons at each other, instead, they all ran to the park where most of the round would occur.
•.:°×═⭐ 🌟═×°:.• (Bob and Zoe are having a discussion)
[LATER]
Gilbert and Sabrina are sitting on a branch in a tree. Sabrina was resting her head on Gilbert's shoulder and the couple was watching the other teams while holding onto their buckets. They also noticed Ms Florence, holding an umbrella and a clipboard, sitting down on one of the benches.
"So when do we get off to play the game," Sabrina whispered to Gilbert.
"Ater Team 6 leaves to find another team since they are nearby." Gilbert whispered, hugging the girl close to him, "It's not a good idea to face them out of your hiding place."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"When Alex said that there was one team that was an exception, they meant Team 6 which is Aika, Arlen and Pete. They are always together in these rounds and it's scary."
"But they're not scary."
"Unlike the smoke that has been villainizing our friends." Gilbert noticed Sabrina had placed a finger on his lips.
"Don't remind me," she took the finger off, "But explain to me about Team 6.'
"Ok, so Team 6 are a strong team and they always win. Pete can point out what teams are nearby, Arlen has the supply while Aika leads the entire thing. The last team I was in, which was with Cameron and Leo, we got out immediately, and I don't want that to happen."
"Oh, well you're lucky to have someone who can help you."
"Who?"
Sabrina chuckled and held the Gemini male's hand, staring into his eyes, "Me."
Gilbert smiled and stared into her eyes as well, "Oh yeah."
"Ahem," both Gilbert and Sabrina turned to find Alyssa sitting next to them. The Aries female was holding a pair of binoculars and she smirked when she saw Gilbert and Sabrina holding hands, "Rather than being smoochy-smoochy, being huggly wuggly, and just plain ADORABLE. You're making me regret being single."
Sabrina poked her tongue out, "Aww poor Alyssa is a lonely bean. She won't be kissing under the mistletoe."
"Ew. Where did you get mistletoe from?"
"Christmas is coming."
"Oh... right! Time to wear a mask for the mistletoe room."
"..."
"..."
".... Alright, ladies, Team 6 have just chased after Team 1, so now our chance to follow them." Gilbert pointed out.
Alyssa and Sabrina exchanged glances and nodded. The three zodiacs then hopped out of the tree, sneaking from bush to bush to follow Team 6. When they were near Team 6, the three were hiding in a bush.
"So how do we get them out?" Alyssa asked, "What's the plan?"
"Hm, when their back is turned, we get one of them out," Sabrina whispered. She then got out a water balloon, "Watch this."
The girl threw a purple water balloon which landed on Pete, making the male drenched. Arlen and Aika jumped in surprise and looked around. The team were all confused.
"Who threw that?" Aika whispered.
Pete heard some rustling and turned to where the sound came from..... the bush. "I think they are from there."
Arlen stepped forward towards the bush. She scanned through it for any other teams. To his (and the other two's) surprise there was no one there.
"Nothing her-" he was interrupted by something on his back soaking him. Arlen, Aika and Pete turned to find Gilbert and Sabrina standing, smirks visible on their faces, holding hands.
"Did you guys throw the water balloons?" Aika asked, stepping forward.
"I don't know, did we?" Sabrina asked. Gilbert exchanged a smile with the girl.
Aika huffed and opened her mouth to speak. But before she did so, the girl got soaked by another water balloon. Everyone turned to find Alyssa standing, looking naive.
"Oops, I tripped," the Aries girl said, batting her eyelashes in innocence.
Everyone else exchanged glances, a silence looming over them. Aika broke the silence, "Well, I don't know if we are the last team that got out or not. But good job on getting us out."
Gilbert, Sabrina and Alyssa exchanged smiles and waved goodbye to Team 6 (who had just left to notify Ms Florence). Alyssa turned to her teammates and placed her hands on her waist. "Alright guys, let's go find more teams."
"You know, let's do that, without fear this time." Sabrina agreed, running off with Alyssa and Gilbert to find other teams.
Little did they know, there was already another group watching them from a tree.
•.:°×═⭐═×°:.• (Jay is chasing after seagulls (not minding Bob and Zoe watching)
"Ehehehe." Vincent chuckled as he noticed Team 1 walking away. "Looks like Team 6 had got out first." He then got out a notepad and began writing in it, "Now there are 5 teams left."
"You know that sounded so sinister, I don't know if it is supposed to be deliberate or not," Phoebe muttered, not looking up from writing a fanfic of Vineron on her phone.
The two along with Cameron were all sitting on a branch in a tree with their buckets full of water balloons. Vincent is busy looking out for other teams and noting down the placements. Phoebe, however, is not minding the teams but she is writing another ship story. As for Cameron, well he is next to Vincent snuggling him for some apparent reason.
"Yeah Vinny that sounded sinister." Cameron agreed.
"Well that wasn't supposed to sound sinister at all," Vincent sighed. The Virgo male then turned to Cameron, blushing. "Cameron, what are you- why are you snuggling me?"
"I like snuggles."
"PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!" that was Phoebe who was laughing with tears rolling down her faces. Vincent rolled his eyes.
"Haha very funny Phoebe. I bet you want Tyler's snuggles too."
"W h y w o u l d y o u-"
"Hey, you roasted Phoebe for once," Cameron held Vincent's hand and shook it. Vincent raised an eyebrow.
"FoR oNcE?"
"yEAh."
"You two remind me of a song from this one musical Lily forced me to listen to. It includes trees which reminded me of you, Vincent." Phoebe chirped.
"Really? Well, it's true. I love trees."
"I love tree as well, especially Christmas trees. Are we going to decorate Zodiac Street with Christmas decorations."
"But that's early."
"But it's never too early for Christmas."
"I mean.... sure?"
"T h i s i s a r a n d o m c o n v e r s a t i o n b u t I ' m n o t b l a m i n g i t." Cameron laughed.
"Yes. That conversation is random and amazing." a voice snickered. Cameron, Vincent and Phoebe looked down to find Gilbert, Sabrina and Alyssa, wearing baby bibs. "So amazing, we're not going to get you out."
"Were you eavesdropping our completely random conversation?" Vincent asked, getting his water balloon ready. "Also I don't trust that."
"Well, we heard laughter so we had to check it out. We also heard the announcement and can we team up?"
"Is that allowed?" Phoebe asked.
"Yes, for some reason. But once the teamed up team reaches the end, they have to split up." Vincent answered.
"Yes. But being a team together sounds amazing. So let's do it." Cameron agreed. Phoebe nodded in agreement. The two then turned to Vincent.
"Sure, why not?"
"And we'll name it 'Cameron and the UnImportant People'." Cameron smiled.
"WAIT..... WHAT?!?!"
Gilbert, Sabrina and Alyssa chuckled and gestured Vincent, Phoebe and Cameron to join them wearing baby bibs. The three did so, and they all walked around the park with baby bibs.
"Now what were we talking about again?" Phoebe asked.
"Christmas decorations!" Cameron answered shaking Vincent's hand. "What if we buy an inflatable snowman that glows in the dark? We can plop it in front of House 2."
"I mean, it sounds good." Vincent nodded, looking down at his notepad. Sabrina noticed the notepad and smiled.
"Team 7 got out. Then Team 2."
"Alright, thanks."
•.:°×═⭐ 🌟═×°:.• (Bob and Zoe are looking for Jay)
[VERY SOON CAUSE THE AUTHOR IS LAZY, OOF]
Time passed and a total of five teams got out; first being Team 6, then Team 7, then Team 2, Team 5 and finally Team 3. The only teams remaining (which is obvious) was Team 1, Team 4 and Team 8.
Currently, the three teams were facing each other, not wearing bibs and -uh oh, Levin got soaked by Alyssa's water balloon. And - Sienna got out as well, oh god you guys.
Now it is Cleo Vs 'Cameron and the Unimportant People'.
Vincent bit his lip, "So how are we going to do this?"
"It's six against one, so we would have a chance of winning." Alyssa puffed her chest out in pride.
"Yeah, but Cleo is skilled. We've seen her dodge the other teams. Just don't try to talk it ou-"
"What's that? Talk it out?" Gilbert perked up
"I said DON'T talk it out."
"Hey, Cleo! How about you don't throw that water balloon at us-"
SPLASH!
Gilbert looked down to find himself soaked by Cleo's water balloon. Cleo crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.
"Looks like your negotiating idea didn't work." the Capricorn female smiled. She later got soaked by Sabrina's water balloon.
"And you should of have defended yourself." the Scorpio female replied, put her hands on her hips.
Cleo sighed loudly. She then smiled at the others and walked off, dragging Gilbert with her to join the other teams (who are speculating). Phoebe turned to her team.
"We did it guys, we won!" Phoebe cheered, jumping up and down.
"Not necessarily..." a female's voice pointed out. Everyone turned to find Ms Florence standing with the other teams, holding onto her umbrella. "There are still two teams remaining." The teacher then pointed to the two teams, "You guys."
"The sad part about two teams working together, they have to be separated eventually," Cameron explained.
"Oh.... oh no."
"Well, we know who is going to be the winner," Alyssa smirked, getting out a water balloon and turned to Vincent. The Aries female threw the balloon.
"NO!" Cameron yelled, jumping in front of Vincent.
SPLASH!
"NO!" Vincent screamed. Cameron had just got drenched.
Cameron smiled and turned to Vincent, "I have to tell you something."
"Go ahead."
"I.... I like you!"
Vincent gasped.
Phoebe gasped.
Sabrina gasped.
The teams that got out gasped.
Ms Florence gasped.
The town gasped.
The author gasped.
"Why are we all g a s p i n g?" Alyssa asked. She ended up getting soaked by a water balloon from Vincent.
"Win for us please." Cameron's eyes teared up.
"I will," Vincent whispered also tearing up.
"Now I must go."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"You two Earth signs make something like a water balloon round turn into a soap opera," Sabrina muttered watching as Leo and Alex drag the Capricorn male away. (I mean, she isn't wrong-)
"S h u s h." Vincent and Cameron hissed.
"..... Anyways," Sabrina got out a purple water balloon, "It's two against one and I am winning for my team."
"We'll see about that," Phoebe argued back as she and Vincent got out a water balloon each.
At the same time, the three zodiacs threw their water balloons. But it resulted in one person getting soaked...
It was Sabrina, who got soaked by Phoebe's water balloon. Vincent's water balloon missed and so did Sabrina's (since Phoebe and Vincent both dodged out of the way.
Sabrina crossed her arms and her lips stretched to a smile, "Congratulations, you guys. You won."
"We won?" Phoebe asked. The Pisces female then did a gasp before cheering with Vincent, "WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!"
"YAY! 'CAMERON AND TWO OF THE UNIMPORTANT PEOPLE' WON!" Cameron cheered.
"Cameron and the Unimportant People? What do you mean by that?" Skyler, who was next to Cameron, asked as he crossed his arms. Cameron whistled in response and skipped over to Vincent and Phoebe to avoid answering the question.
"Congratulations Vincent, Cameron and Phoebe," Ms Florence smiled as she put away her umbrella, "Now would you guys want to know the placements?"
The zodiacs nodded back in response. Ms Florence smiled and showed the 24 teenagers the results:
1st place!: Team 8
2nd place!: Team 1
3rd place!: Team 4
4th place!: Team 3
5th place: Team 5
6th place: Team 2
7th place: Team 7
8th place: Team 6
"And since Team 8 won, they get to pick the punishment for Teams 5, 2, 7 and 6." Lizzy explained.
"Why?" Sabrina asked.
"Well, I am not sure if this makes sense or not, but the first four teams are safe from the winning team's punishment. The last four teams, however, get to do whatever the winning team wants them to do."
Vincent, Cameron and Phoebe huddled together and whispered among themselves about an idea. They then whispered their idea to Teams 1, 4 and 3. Thankfully the other 3 teams agreed.
"Well we have already decided on what the losing teams should do," Phoebe smirked, "But we need to buy some shirts."
The losing teams gulped.
•.:°×═⭐═×°:.• (Bob is super curious now)
[SOON]
"Now this is just lovely," Giselle smile to herself as she Lizzy, Vivian, Sienna, Cleo, Levin, Gilbert, Sabrina, Alyssa, Cameron, Vincent and Phoebe walked down the shore of the beach together. "Spending our time together walking down the shore."
"Uggggghhhhh.... my feet hurt!" Phoebe whined, "I need help!"
The Pisces female paused in her tracks and clapped her hand. Tyler came running to her, wearing a pink t-shirt with purple sparkly words saying 'I AM AN AMAZING HELPER!'. The Taurus male sighed.
"What is it now?"
"Piggyback."
Tyler sighed and turned around, "All aboard."
Phoebe hopped onto Tyler's back and cheered as she got her piggyback on Tyler (who was running around the beach). The other winning teammates laughed as they watched Tybee spend time together.
"How long are we going to carry your bags for?" a male's voice whined from behind them. The winning team turned to find Arlen along with the other losing team members carrying the winning teams' beach bags. Like Tyler, they wore the same t-shirt as him. So far Arlen is carrying Giselle's beach bag.
"Until our special reward is over," Giselle smirked. She hid a giggle when Arlen did a slightly irritated groan.
"But this job sucks!" Leo complained.
"Well tough luck. You'll win another round," Lizzy shrugged.
"Will there be another round next year?" Sienna wondered aloud.
"Depends." Lizzy replied, "If we decide to have a gap year then, yes. If we are all separated due to university and stuff, then maybe not."
"Don't remind us," Cleo frowned, "When you guys leave for university and stuff, me and Sam would be alone at school."
"Yeah, but let's not think about that right now." Gilbert pointed out. He then clasped his hands together, "Instead, let's go buy some surfboards!"
There was the sound of beach bags being thrown onto the sand. The winning teams turned to find the losing teams running away. With a sigh, the winning team picked up their bags (Sabrina made sure to pick up Phoebe's sinch the Pisces female is too busy having her p i g g y b a c k ).
"You aren't serious, aren't you Gilbert?" Levin asked with wide eyes.
"I was only joking," Gilbert laughed, "Let's get some snacks instead."
"Thank goodness you said you were joking," Vincent laughed, "I don't want to imagine what would happen if we brought the surfboards."
"But I'll buy a surfboard for myself!"
"Gilbert, how about no."
"Fine."
"Gilbert's idea is a magnificent idea, but let's buy some snacks for the losing teams as well." Lizzy agreed, "After we inform the idea to Phoebe."
"Yeah, it's better if we do that first." Giselle agreed before she and the other zodiacs walked off to inform Phoebe.
There is one thing the zodiacs had during the Water Round, they had a lot of fun (even when helping others).
But little do they know, something is coming back to stir up their fun...
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