CHAPTER 7
Capricorn,Taurus and Virgo had almost reached Mumbai. As their plane touched down on the runway, Capricorn saw a person in a black overcoat looking straight at them, seemingly. The next time he looked however,he was staring somewhere else and the third time,he seemed to have disappeared off the face of the Earth. Well it was not surprising because the plane had come to a halt at the end of the runway where the man was immensely difficult to spot from. The situation did not sit well with him but he tried to brush it off. It won't be the first time he had made a mistake in this department. Virgo saw him looking outside and whispered,"What's wrong?" He licked his lips and said,"Nothing much. Could be wrong."
Taurus leant in,"Look,we can't keep secrets in situations like this so I advise you to tell us what happened before the people call us weirdos."
Capricorn rolled his eyes. "You exaggerate things a bit too much,Rus. And for your information,I saw a man in an overcoat who seemed to be staring directly at us. But then when I looked again he had looked away. I mean we don't really have enough proof for this to be considered suspicious."
Virgo frowned and spoke,"True enough but this is a dangerous job. We would have to look behind our shoulders all the time now otherwise it would be the end of the us."
Capricorn sighed. The people were already leaving the plane. Virgo,who was sitting in the seat by the aisle got up and started moving towards the door. The other two exchanged glances before following her.
Pisces,Cancer and Scorpio had managed to get themselves out of the plane before the authorities came running. It was a tight squeeze however and they stopped once they were in the fresh air.
"This is ridiculous." Cancer muttered.
"Absolutely preposterous." Pisces sighed.
"Completely ludicrous." Scorpio agreed.
"I mean like seriously have they heard of subtlety?" Cancer said annoyed as Scorpio scanned the surroundings for possible threats.
"Possibly not. Or they might be a new gang." Pisces suggested.
Cancer raised an orange eyebrow,"You have got to be kidding me Pisces. Who else would know of us?"
Pisces shrugged,"It was a mere theory, nothing more. Besides who knows?"
Scorpio said,"Pisces has a point. However we don't have enough data to properly analyse the situation. Or it may be that they have started hiring people. I mean that man wasn't one of the Seven Deadly Sins,was he?" The others shook their heads. Scorpio clapped her hands. "There you have got it."
"This means that they have grown more dangerous than ever." Cancer muttered.
Pisces sighed as she looked at the blue sky.
Aquarius,Gemini and Libra's plane had landed. They had reached Peru without much hassle. They got down at the Jorge Chávez International Airport. So far so good. The task was daunting however. They had to scale the Andes undetected. Well, there's no success without hard work,is there? What they didn't notice was the subtle click of a camera behind them. Or the way that a particular person,draped head to toe in black was looking at them. They didn't.
Sagittarius,Leo and Aries were on the ship. Leo had checked it from top to bottom along with a very paranoid Aries.
The invisibility function was on and the ship smoothly cut through the waters of the sea. Sagittarius looked at the land which they had left and suddenly spotted something.
"Leo, Aries do you see what I see?" She said softly.
"Depends on the context." Leo said smoothly.
"A camera." She said,frowning and squinting to see better. The ship was moving away rapidly but the drone was still following them.
"I beg your pardon?" Aries sprang up to get a better look.
"But,the invisibility is on,"Leo said as he spotted the drone too.
"Obviously it's not as good as much as you say." Aries snapped as his eyes followed the drone.
"I think it's using echolocation." Sagittarius frowned.
"Oh,wow we have a bat after us." Aries said sarcastically.
"Seriously,Aries?" Leo said as he climbed the deck
"In my defense,it resembles a bat." Aries said, annoyed.
"Well you are not wrong there,"Sagittarius said as she climbed up after Leo.
The drone did resemble a bat. From what they could see,it was black in colour and had wings of some highly flexible material. However the one thing that set it aside from a bat was the glowing red eyes and the mouthless face. Suddenly Sagittarius realised something.
"Duck!" She called out.
They ducked just as the eyes started firing laser beams at them.
"What the hell?" Leo exclaimed, hitting the shield button on the ship.
"Hell,"Sagittarius said grimly as she watched the laser beams get blocked by Leo's shield. The drone spun around and seemed to speed up.
"Aww,crap,"Aries said as the drone came nearer and nearer.
The drone was bigger than what they had previously estimated.
"You know what this reminds me of?" Sagittarius said as she watched it in apprehension, trying to figure out it's next move.
"If you tell the "Great Game" Sagittarius then I am seriously gonna kill you,"Leo said as he too tried to do the same.
"Uh no,Leo. I was talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Sagittarius said as the drone started hovering above their ship.
"Heavens. Is it what I—,"Before Aries got to complete his sentence,however a hatch opened on the underside of the drone and a grenade fell from it. It hit their shield, dissolving it.
The agents took cover as the drone started firing at them. The shield would not work any longer and the laser beams were cutting through everything it hit.
"There goes my ship. It is going to explode any second now,thank goodness we aren't that far from land. When I say,jump,jump,"Leo muttered from his place.
Everyone held their breaths.
"JUMP!"Leo yelled.
The agents leapt from the deck, hurtling towards the sea. Just as they hit the water surface the ship exploded, raining debris everywhere.
Next day's newspaper headline,"Mysterious and unauthorised ship,found having suffered an explosion."
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