The Fallen Zodiac

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

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“What did you do to them?” Jane asked Deicide.

“Whom?” Deicide turned around as he filled his cup with coffee. Jane pointed towards Chris and Harry who were taking head massage from Sakura and Jill.

“What made you think that I did something to them?” Deicide asked as he moved towards his chair.

“Since they came back from the trip all they are feeling heavy heads, and you were the only one who accompanied them all the time , what is even more suspicious is that they say you all did nothing but stay in hotel all the day. It’s hard to believe that you went all the way there just to enjoy a stay in a five star hotel.” Jane explained.

“Impressive, all your suspicion may be right. But the fact is, I did nothing to them.” Deicide replied taking a sip of coffee.

“It’s hard to believe.” Jane said.

“But it is the truth.” Deicide said, Jane looked in his eyes, Deicide did not back down either. The conflict of gaze was broken down when Andrew entered the lab.

“Here is all you had asked for.” Andrew said as Jane moved back to her squad.

“Oh, thanks.” Deicide said as he took over the disc from Andrew and inserted it in the android. The file displayed the last spotting of Zodiac sons in the descending order. “Good work.” Deicide said as he finished his cup of coffee.

“How long are you going to keep me as the errand boy?” Andrew asked.

Deicide smiled and replied, “As long as I am here.”

“There are other people who are better in the task and willing to take over.” Andrew said.

“But I like you, that’s all.” Deicide said.

“But I hate you.” Andrew replied.

“Does that matter?” Deicide asked.

“Alas, it doesn’t.” Andrew replied , Deicide smiled. Deicide took the needed information and stood up on his place.

‘Alright, everyone we are going to lay out our plan.” Deicide said. Jane and squad took their seats in the meeting hall, Andrew stood beside them.

“As I have told you earlier, our first target will be, Dionysius, the twelfth son of Zodiac household.” Deicide said.

“Why don’t we go for someone from the higher order? That will break them mentally.” Jane suggested.

“I don’t go after the target I will be unable to complete or conquer. Going for anyone in the higher order will just be our end, even if miracle happens and we are able to get any one of them, the chances of which happening is zero, that won’t break the Zodiac household. It will only exhilarate them, as far as I know them, once they will come to know that their is someone powerful they will rush out to test it. So it will be better that we would take them one after one.” Deicide said, Jane nodded.

“To begin with, we will consider the strength of enemy. Every Zodiac exceeds the human imagination in term of power and instinct.” Deicide said.

“That’s why they are called the super human race.” Harry said as he gave an uninterested expression.

“Yeah, this is the only thing that the world knows about them. But there is another fact that plays a vital role in this battle.” Deicide said.

“And what is it?” Chris asked.

“Huh, you all seem impatient. Just listen to me completely.” Deicide replied. “The fact is, all the Zodiac have sae amount of power and instinct, what make them different is they posses an individual power, each Zodiac have it’s own special power, which can be used by only him. The difference in the standings of the Zodiac is due to these powers and how they use it.” Deicide said.

“So, you are saying that each Zodiac has his own special power, apart from the enormous strength and hyper animal instinct?” Jill asked.

“Yeah. The reason that all the attacks in the past have failed against them is that no one knows about their special strength.” Deicide said.

“And what is the special power of our target?” Jane asked.

“Hallucination and paralysis. The moment Dion touches you its over, either he will show you the horrors from the past or freeze you to stone.” Deicide replied.

“What! It means the moment he touches us it is all over. Even if we consider that he is as powerful and fast as you, we have no shot against him.” Harry said.

“Yeah once he touches you, he can manipulate your brain the way he wanted.” Deicide said.

“There is no way we can avoid touching him in a head on combat.” Sakura said.

“Will you guys stop panicking? I haven’t finished yet.” Deicide said calmly.

“What is left to explain now?” Chris asked.

“Chris, Harry, Sakura, calm down, we are going to listen to him completely.” Jane said, Harry and Sakura sat down, Jill touched Chris and told him to sit down.

“Like every other individual, Dion has plenty of weakness. As I said earlier, the moment he touches you battle is good for over, Dion knows it too, so he is not good in combats, you will never face a killing blow from his side, he only focuses on touching his target, second thing, if Dion losses his efficiency, his control over others reduces significantly.” Deicide paused. “Now the question is how are we going to reduce his efficiency? First one is Jill, electricity reduces Zodiac’s efficiency, a huge voltage shock couldn’t kill us but it effects us,” Deicide paused and added, “a Zodiac. Secondly, poison, like electricity can’t kill us poison don’t kill us but drops our functioning. With all these things we are going to defeat our enemy.”

“But how do we do that?” Andrew asked, “We don’t know the location of Dionysius nor will he consume anything from us.”

“I have a plan for that.” Deicide said as he smirked.  

“South Australia will be the place where we could find him.” Deicide said.

“Sure?” Jill asked.

“Yeah, Dion needs wine to maintain his metabolic rate. The last country he was spotted in was Fiji, the country that produces a large amount of wine closet to it is Australia.” Deicide said.

“There are other major producers of wine as well, like Italy." Harry said.

“Yeah but I know him better, going on long journey is the last thing he will do . So he will surely go there .” Deicide said.

“Won’t it be too obvious?” Jane asked.

“Would you have been able to predict his next location if you did not know bout his need of wine?” Deicide asked, Jane nodded in denial, “Dion knows that as well, only the Zodiacs know about his weakness, so he won’t be expecting this.”