CHAPTER 28: THE 13 OR THE 12

Scorpio comes closer to Libra as she screams in crucial pain every second, Scorpio scans Libra's body with sand while Selestia and Aries is conversing, as Aries tells her there's only one way, Scorpio interrupted and announce to all Celestial and in the room with an alarming face,"All of you, the pain is growing fast, faster than before, I can sense it, she has no time left , we must prepare and be with her as she can, and write down every memories in your mind, and prepare it in the bottle of the memories", all of them were worried and concern of this madness right now, Aries now agonizes, and she faces Selestia, Selestia was distracted to Libra and she see her, having such terrible pain, she can bare to see it, Aries says to her,"princess I think we'll need your memory to put it in the bottle of memories", Selestia didn't know what Aries was talking about, then she ask her,"what is the bottle of memories for, can it save Libra? I can do it for Libra", Aries then answers with deep sighs and Deep thinking in her mind,"the bottle of memories shares the spirit the memories of her past life that she shall remember and learned of, Libra will be reborn once again in another season coming in a few months, when her stars shone bright again, she will be reborn as a celestial spirit child, and will need to be taken care of and guided rightfully, she needs to remember her old self was to focus ahead on another one, of us will be forgotten and especially you, but in the bottle of memories we can open up her mind and install them, we celestials can be born when are stars comes in the season and will be bright as day, her constellation will appear and there she go".

Selestia tells Aries with a doubt, what?" Will she be reborn? I would glad to share my fond memories with her for you but I feel like somethings wrong", as aquarius get the bottle of memories, every celestial lined up and Selestia to be absorbed by the bottle of memories, Selestia gives her memories in the bottle, and memories still stay in her mind as she can still remember Libra especially the other celestial, Libra screams with hesitation to die in her moment and tells everybody, "Guys always be becareful on who you trust and princess….. don't blame yourself for everything it was bound to happen", the celestial were alarm by such saying thinking that she will pass away in a second now, Selestia burst into tears, and yells at Libra,"you shouldn't have appeared, why did you appeared, I love how you welcomed me in the council, I love how you let me ride on the gray wolf", , she looks at eyes of everyone And continues ,"I love what all of you done for me"

All of them felt sympathy and Libra is glowing slowly and starts to fade, Scorpio do everything to stop it with his sand, but he thought to himself, "it's time to let her go, she will be reborn and her memories will return", Selestia saw it glowing as well as the others, the glow was beautiful land produce some cold air before she goes, the air pushed everybody as Libra starts to float her body, everybody felt the wind around their body, pushing them away making their hair get bad, sands whirling everywhere and around her, A gray wolf's runs in the desert going to the sand tower, Selestia heard it as her tears fell slowly, she tells to Libra as it was glowing,"your beautiful, next time I want you to be reckless and felt young too but in a good way, but , In the next life of your constellation, I hope you will be guided well and I'm happy for you that there are many celestial spirits that are here for you now", The celestial spirits glowed their eyes and especially Libra, all of them got connected, and Libra's body suddenly fades and dispose out of thin air in glowing moon dust, the celestial spirit's eyes showed that the spirit is dead and they all offered their condolences and sorrow, the gray wolves howls and all spirits in the spirit world known the news about libra as now it spreads onto the spirit world silence begins and nothing to do, the Gemini suddenly approach to Selestia and both of them spoke to her.

"Princess Selestia, Libra will be back don't worry, all of our memories of her past will be brought to her and shall guide her in her next constellation, when she appears in that sky in the darkest night with the moon, she will be reborn", Selestia speaks with tears in her eyes feeling in deep regret,"Why all of this suddenly happen?, I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have to be with you all", Selestia looks at them with teary eyes then sh continued,"all of you sacrificed your life on the line, all of you each wait for you to reborn, I shouldn't have all of that necklaces", Leo step up and tells Selestia with confidence up her front,"we sacrifice our life because we are part of Teria, we get to see all of you in that Territory and lands, we spirits spread kindness and balance to the world and especially Teria, we are all connected, if somethings wrong with Teria somethings wrong with us too, we cannot live in harmony if Teria doesn't have harmony", we keep the stars, we are in the nature, we are guarding in the sky, we defeat evil and we cannot do that without all of you, Selestia you must not worry of us".

They heard a foot step coming to the top of the sand tower from the stairs, everyone looks at each other as if they were suspicious about who's coming, all of them stand firm waiting to see who it was, and It was now near approaching they saw its long pushed back hair with a mature aura, all of them saw it when his face is now clear, his eyes are sharp as his nose, his lips are tender, with a fair skin tone, everybody step back and Leo yelled at him with tons of gazes as sharp as a lion and his name was mentioned, Ophiuchus!!.. Why are you here? you are banned from the celestials council and gathering and especially to the spirit world, remember? You are forbidden to leave your place in the nightmare realm, do I need to tell you that?", Ophiuchus stares and gazes to Leo were burning, every celestial in the room murmured about it, and Selestia didn't know what's going on she looks at Aries and Aries was standing there with her hand covering his mouth with deep in shock as if her soul was blocked trembling in fear, Ophiuchus then say something to them, "Well I saw it, how Libra died I saw it from outside, I can still open the gate of the sand tower with permission, am i still part of the 13 celestial spirits?, Another spirit died and you are acting like that to me?", Aquarius then steps and furiously tells him, Selestia felt all the celestials aura weird and strange, all of their colors shadow changes,"As if you had a right to barge in here you were never part of the 12 and there was never a 13, you broke it, you are the one who destroyed all of us, now she is dead, you have the right comeback? You're so funny Ophiuchus, now Libra is dead and her seat of the 12 is available, you wanna take her seat and do what? just like you always do , you're always a pathetic snake celestial spirit to us!"Selestia saw all the celestial's eyes and they were all mad and pointing towards Ophiuchus, Selestia didn't know what to do.

Selestia steps in and saw how enraged all of them in the room towards Ophiuchus, spreading a negative energy, Selestia felt the chills and asks every spirit or celestial in the room with sense of responsibility and respect,"Guys all of you stop getting furious with a spirit who just came for libra", Selestia gets close on the side of Ophiuchus and faces all the celestial upfront,"I don't know about this, but someone just died and we all know we need to be respectful about others", Cancer interrupted and steps right into the shadowy corner,"Respect?, ask him about respect as if he didn't forget about it", Virgo come forward and tells the princess with great care with furious in her tone,"Princess you should not take his side, and you shouldn't get involved with that spirit, he is a traitor and a big snake to the spirit world", Selestia steps back and looks at Ophiuchus with a doubt and seeks the eye of every celestial and asks them, "why is he a traitor? What did he do to deserve all of your anger?"Ophiuchus then replied to Selestia with a formal humble voice, "Princess Selestia, I should handle this, you should step back", .

Leo tells Ophiuchus with inflamed eyes and boiling blood,"you want me to tell princess Selestia what you did?, You should do it or I shall say it to her?, You do not even the right to be here right now", Ophiuchus smirk all of them were dumbfounded by his reaction as Selestia gets suspicious aura about him, "I know I have made mistakes, but you should forgive me, it's been many years , and it's all part of the past, you know it's been long now, why can't you let me be in here, and you still didn't forgive me and look at me in the eye as a former member of the celestial country?"Leo gets close to him and says to Ophiuchus upfront in his eyes, "I think those eyes never change, your just lying, you killed many spirits in that day and It took long for them to be reborn in their natural order, we didn't saw what was coming you hid it from us, you were one of them", Selestia asks Leo quickly with bits of curiosity, "what one of them?, Tell me Leo?, And what about the spirits"Leo asks Ophiuchus with rage as Leo looks at Selestia's eyes,"do you want me to tell her?"He then looks at Ophiuchus, Ophiuchus said to Leo yes and Leo suddenly tells Selestia the story of how Ophiuchus was one of them.

"Ophiuchus as in the constellation, Ophiuchus in that sky, still alive upto today, I can't believe him, you were the strongest celestial we all knew and we look up to you, we were the 13 major celestials spirits back then, but you , we didn't understand a single thing about you, why did you do that?, betraying your own family and world exchanging us for bad spirits and killing many humans and possessing people in the world without consent and especially almost wiping us off , you team up with bad spirits in that war, you wanted to be king of the spirit world, but you didn't it was somebody else, you've destroyed balance and wreak havoc against us and Teria, many humans, witches, vampires and wolves in every part of Teria, get many diseases and their life starts to fade, all of us were gathered to that day, we were all questioned by the spirit queen in the spirit world, 13 of us were present, the queen announced to us that there is some traitor among the spirit world, we were task to find it, but we never knew that the traitor was always near to us, you pretend to find it but you always knew how to lie", Ophiuchus interrupted with a bit of laugh, Leo gets serious and Ophiuchus tells him, I didn't lie , I just didn't tell you and it was wrong for me to do so?, The queen task us, not question us", Leo asks Selestia, "I'm so mad at him princess maybe for the best we should continue this later after he is out in this sand tower", Selestia is thinking throughout her decision, and thinks the best is to mend the wounds and tells Leo to continue what he was talking about.

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