Capricorn sipped from his strawberry smoothie while sitting beside Gemini's bed. He volunteered to watch Gemini today.

"It's freezing out," shivered Capricorn. "I'll close the window."

"Don't!" groaned Gemini. "She tells me not to close it."

"Who?"

"She does! It's soon going to be time for my medicine."

"I gave you your pills two hours ago. You don't get anymore for another two hours."

"No, the other medicine!"

"What other medicine? Gemini this fever is messing with your head! I don't know why Libra doesn't want you going to the hospital. She probably thinks she's a better doctor than anyone there. Her old country specializes in medicine after all."

"I need my medicine."

"I'll get you a smoothie. Want flavour do you want?"

"Medicine flavour."

"You're making me want to pour the smoothie all over your face."

"You wouldn't do that to a sick person? Would you? You can't kick a puppy that's already down and dying."

"You're NOT dying. Not even close."

"That's good."

"I'll make you a mango smoothie." Capricorn left Gemini's room to go make a smoothie. He was headed for the elevator, when he decided to listen by Gemini's door.

Two minutes later, Capricorn heard a creak. Then he heard footsteps on the floor. Capricorn quickly opened the door.

Walking towards Gemini, was someone covered head to toe in black clothing, with a mask to hide their face. She had a long pink ponytail sticking out the back of her mask. In her hands, was a glass with some kind of liquid.

"HEY! WHO ARE YOU?" shouted Capricorn.

The stranger jumped and accidentally dropped the glass. Capricorn made eye contact with the stranger's hazel eyes for a second. Then a feminine voice swore before she climbed out the window and escaped.

Capricorn ran over to the window and looked down. The stranger was gone, despite being on the fifth floor five seconds ago. He quickly closed and locked the window, before picking up his phone and calling the police.

***

The police eventually arrived, searched the area, and took the glass and a few drops of the liquid as evidence. They told Capricorn that they were going to send the liquid to some professionals who could determine what kind of liquid it was. Meanwhile, they promised to keep an eye out for this stranger with hazel eyes and long pink hair.

When the others got home, Capricorn explained everything. Now they were all in Gemini and Aquarius' room, discussing theories.

"It's obvious that liquid was making Gemini sick," explained Scorpio.

"But who was this stranger? Why would she make Gemini sick?" wondered Aries.

"We need a nickname for the stranger. What should we call her?" asked Scorpio.

Everyone looked at Pisces.

"Why are you all looking at me? I make nicknames for friends, not strangers!"

"Lets refer to her as Pinkie or something since she has pink hair," joked Capricorn.

"Was Pinkie trying to kill Gemini by making his fever worst until... or was she just trying to keep him sick?" asked Taurus.

"Wait, we're actually calling her Pinkie?" asked Capricorn. "I was joking."

Aquarius rubbed his temples. "It's not a stretch to assume that Pinkie was hired by the other zodiacs in the elemental continents. Since they're all the way over in their own countries, they'd need to get someone else to do their dirty work here. I guess Pinkie is that person."

"But... why did Pinkie only target Gemini?" asked Cancer. "If the other zodiacs hired her to get rid of us or something, she could have taken us all out."

Libra sighed. "There's just too many questions. If it was a call made by the other zodiacs, then how would they know exactly where we live? Why did they target Gemini? How did they even make Gemini sick to begin with? If taking us out was their goal, then why not take us all out? Why was it so important to keep Gemini sick?"

"Maybe Pinkie was a stalker," suggested Sagittarius with wide eyes.

"It might not have been the other zodiacs then," suggested Leo. "We can't take out the possibility, but they're all the way on the elemental continents. If they planned an attack on us, then they must have information about us. Pinkie could have been a stalker for them, but it seems like a lot of hassle to hire a stalker to specifically poison one member of the zodiac."

"Then either it wasn't them, or wiping us out isn't their ultimate goal," announced Virgo.

"Could they have targeted Gemini since he's the one doing research on the other zodiacs?" asked Gem. "The rest of us have nothing to do with them, but he's the one that hired spies to spy on them."

"But how would they know that?" Asked Pisces. "Unless we really do have a stalker."

"Okay." Scorpio stood up. Everyone's attention was on her. "We need to figure out who Pinkie is, who was behind all this, and why. Let's focus on Pinkie for now since we already basically know who was behind this."

"We didn't find out about her until recently," stated Cancer. "Is it possible that she's only been stalking us for a while?"

"No." Everyone looked at Libra. "We've had this stalker for a while. It all started when my fish died, then reappeared in the fish tank. Something very weird had happened, so naturally I became paranoid. Every now and then, I'd get the feeling I was being watched, but I didn't say anything because I dismissed it as paranoia. But now I'm sure we've had this stalker for a long time."

"But the fish thing was October or November," stated Taurus. "It's mid December now."

"So she's been on our tracks for a while then." Virgo sighed. "That's just great."

"What do we do since we have a stalker?" asked Capricorn. "Do we have to move again?"

Aquarius shook his head. "No. We just have to be careful. Besides, if we move our stalker will likely find us again anyway."

"So let me get this straight." Pisces thought back to all the information they just discussed. "Pinkie is a stalker who likely poisoned Gemini since he's researching the other zodiacs. She's been stalking us for a while, and is likely doing dirty work for the other zodiacs since they're too far away to do anything. We know that the other zodiacs are meeting us and planning something huge, and that it likely affects us. But we need to know what they're planning and why we're involved. The plan isn't to kill us because they would have done so already."

Capricorn nodded. "That's assuming our theories are correct. I think they are though."

"Maybe Gemini could tell us something when he wakes up," suggested Gem. "Like how he got sick in the first place."

Aquarius pulled a note out of his pocket. "We still have this note written in a foreign language that we have no idea what it says. Maybe it's a clue."

Leo handed the note to Aries. "You speak a lot of languages. Do you understand what it says?"

Aries picked up the note and read it. "Nope. I don't even recognize the alphabet."

"I was working on a plan to get our kingdoms back with Scorpio," announced Taurus. "But we've stopped since making a move now would lead to disaster. Especially since they're unpredictable and have that plan."

"Then what do we do?" asked Cancer.

"Is there anything that we can do besides watch our backs, try to find out who Pinkie is and wait to see what the other zodiacs are up to?" asked Libra.

"I'll give it some thought," promised Scorpio. "When I think of something, I'll let you guys know." Then she got up and left.

"There's nothing we can do for now, so we have no choice but to wait and see what happens," said Capricorn.

Sagittarius sighed. "I don't like that idea, but it really is the only choice we have. Let's just hope the police figure out who Pinkie is."

***

Gemini was asleep. He was happily dreaming about candy land until he heard a voice.

"Gemini..."

Gemini stopped swimming in a lake filled with pink lemonade and looked around. Nobody was there.

"I don't have very long."

All of the sudden Gemini got pulled from candy land, and into space.

"Where am I?" asked Gemini.

Suddenly a girl appeared in front of him. She looked just like him, but with a few different facial features, and her hair was a blueish silver.

"You look familiar."

The girl sighed. "Yes, I've met you before. You'll wake up soon and I don't have very long."

"Who are you?"

"They call me Gina. I'm the "alternate Gemini" along with Pie and everyone else."

"But you're dead."

"Precisely why I can only contact you through your dreams."

"How did you die?"

"Were almost out of time and I have more important things to tell you."

"Then out with it!"

Gina rolled her eyes. "I've been trying to contact you for a while now. I only got through to you now because your mind was weakened by that poison."

"Poison?"

"Yes. Someone was feeding you a poison that weakened your mind and made you sick. She did it since you were getting closer and closer to the truth."

"So you won't be able to contact me again after this?"

"I don't know. I think it will be easier for now on because making contact for the first time is supposed to be the hardest."

"Can you answer some questions now? I need to know who you are, how you died, what the other zodiacs are up to, why Gem pretends not to care about you when she's actually devastated by your death, and who poisoned me."

"We're out of time. I'll try to contact you again when he's not watching me."

"When WHO isn't watching?"

"King Cepheus. Now that I'm dead, I'm prohibited from influencing life on earth. Otherwise I won't be a dead constellation in the sky, he'll kill me for good."

"Then-"

"I've left a note in-"

Suddenly Gina disappeared.

***

Before going to sleep, Libra took Gemini's temperature. It was finally getting lower at a constant rate.  

She sighed in relief. Then she screamed when Gemini suddenly opened his eyes.

"DON'T MURDER ME!" Aquarius shot up from his bed. "Oh, it's just Libra. I heard a scream and I thought Pinkie came back to kill us."

"I screamed because Gemini woke up."

Gemini tried to sit up.

"Woah! Lie back down. You're getting better but you probably shouldn't get up just yet," warned Libra.

"I have to tell Scorpio something!"

Libra furrowed her eyebrows. "Why?"

"I'm not telling everyone. The only other person that could find this information useful is Scorpio. I don't want anyone else to know because there's someone in particular that I can't tell just yet, so it's easier if everyone else doesn't know."

"How important is this information? And how did you get information? You've been sleeping all day!"

"Libra! Can you take me to Scorpio or not?"

Libra sighed. "Come on. But if she gets mad at us for waking her up, you're taking the blame."

***

Libra brought Gemini to Scorpio's room. He was still feeling weak so he held onto Libra for support as he walked.

A minute later, a door opened and Scorpio popped out. "What do you want?"

"Gemini has information he wants to share with you," said Libra.

Gemini gently pushed Libra away. "I think I can stand up on my own now. My head's still spinning, but I won't be long. I'll manage to get back to my room when I'm done."

"Alright. Scorpio make sure he gets back to his room alright," then Libra left.

Scorpio crossed her arms. "What is it?"

"I saw the dead Gemini in my dream."

This piqued Scorpio's interest. "And?"

"I was poisoned because I was getting closer to the truth. King Cepheus is watching Gina. She can only contact me when she can do so secretly because dead constellations aren't allowed to influence what happens on earth. She told me she left a hint somewhere, but she disappeared before she told me where."

Scorpio processed the information. "I wonder what kind of hint it is. Anyway, it doesn't matter. You'll just have to wait for her to contact you again, and tell me immediately if she does."

"Alright. I'm telling you since I know you can keep a secret, and I don't want Gem to find out about this. Also because I'm hoping that if I get more information from Gina, you'll help me figure out what it all means."

"I know. I'm already doing research of my own and trying to figure out what the other zodiacs are up to. It's especially useful to know that the other zodiacs are definitely behind your poisoning and that they've hired someone to do their dirty work."

"Yeah. I'm getting tired, can you help me up to my room?"

"I suppose." Then Scorpio helped Gemini back to his room.