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Chapter 1

Casterwill Mansion, Venice, Italy

Lok and the gang were all resting up after their last battle with DeFoe in their respective bedrooms hoping to catch up on some sleep to prepare themselves for the next day.

Most of them were still in bed when they smelled food from the living room and every one of them grudgingly pushed themselves out of bed to go get some breakfast. However, when they arrived they had expected a chef in a white outfit cooking them breakfast, not a beautiful woman in light brown sweater humming to herself making an omelet.

She had glossy auburn hair reaching past her shoulders that had tied into a neat ponytail with a black hair tie. Dressed in a pair of black jeans she flipped the omelet easily onto a plate and turned around to find four sleepy Seekers and a flying titan flapping his wings with some difficulty. Her face had a heart shaped to it and had very little make up to enhance the already beauty that was present

She smiled gently at the group and asked, "Hungry you all?"

Lok was about to reply with a question but Dante cut him off and answered most of their questions with a couple or so words. "Oh Elizabeth. I was wondering when you were getting here." He said as he walked up to her and gave her a kiss on the lips.

He turned towards the group and introduced as she waved smiling, "Guys this is my wife Elizabeth."

As normal as this was for Dante, everyone else was having trouble keeping his or her jaws off the ground. They had never seen Dante show this kind of affection towards anyone nor did they know that Dante had a lover at home.

Lok was being Lok, which was being dumbfounded and started asking questions left and right while Elizabeth giggled at the scene in front of her. Sophie acted like a noble woman and started introducing herself while shaking Elizabeth's hand, whom she returned kindly. Cherit flew around Elizabeth's head excitedly introducing himself by doing some aerial tricks, which the latter returned with another wave and smile. Zhalia however was a different case. While she introduced herself coolly, which the latter said a kind hello, she felt something inside her break into pieces. While looking at Dante having his arm around Elizabeth, she felt a fire in her stomach kindle out as she sighed dejectedly and made her way to the table to where everyone had already seated and digging in to the feast.

"How come you've never told us you had a wife Dante?" Lok asked with a mouthful of eggs and bacon. Sophie elbowed him in the side to remind him that there was something called table manners. Sophie had eggs and pancakes while Zhalia just had toast and tea.

Dante sat down with a cup of coffee and said obviously with a cheeky smile, "Because you never asked."

Sophie, like the diligent woman she is, asked broader questions like, "How did you and Dante meet? What was he like when you met him? What made you marry him?"

Elizabeth giggled while covering her mouth with her right hand as she answered kindly, "Well I met Dante when I was an exchange student from the USA back when I was in college going to England to study for my medical degree." She put her finger up to her lips and looked up thoughtfully, "He was to sum it up …. a playboy."

Everyone sweat dropped while Dante spewed out his coffee to side. He was about to retort until his wife cut him off, "Oh don't even lie Dante. You were constantly after every girl that caught your eye and if I remembered right, I was the only one that refused you. I still remembered almost every day when I walked to and entered the coffee shop you were always there ready to say something."

"Wait if he was constantly annoying you what made you like him?" Sophie asked confused while Lok nodded agreeing and even Zhalia decided to listen closer and carefully to the story. Most women would think of Dante's behavior as one of a stalker but apparently, Elizabeth was quite different.

Elizabeth started while holding onto Dante's hand softly and said with a longing sigh, "Because every year since I was in England for my college studies he was always there. Every day for 2 years until I decided to give it a shot and go out with him. So after 3 years of dating he proposed to me on Valentine's Day. Which reminds me it's almost Valentine's Day, so our anniversary is coming up." She remarked as she touched her nose with Dante's.

She looked at their reactions which varied from shocked, happiness, and longing before continuing, "And so we had our marriage back in my home in Colorado and me and Dante agreed that it is better for us to stay apart because of his line of work and my job as a nurse. And so that's how we met."

They nodded and chatter started up again while Lok and Sophie explained how they met Dante as Zhalia excused herself to go take a call from her "relatives". She closed the door behind her to her room and went to her suitcase to retrieve the satellite phone that Klaus had given her.

"Hello Zhalia, my dear are you there?" The voice rang on the other side of the call.

"Yes father?" She asked expecting another mission for her to complete.

"Yes Zhalia, if my suspicions are correct then you are about to embark on one of the most important missions ever."

"Father, what's the mission?" She asked although fully knowing it was for another Amulet as she leaned against her bedroom wall.

"I do not know where you will be going but the mission is to collect Amulets of course. But not just any Amulets." He paused for a minute to let his words sink in before saying four words that shocked her.

"The Oriental Guardian Amulets."

She widened her eyes at the Amulets names.

According to legend, the Oriental Guardians were one of the strongest Amulets due to many of the artifacts possessing the strength of Legendary Titans with one of the hardest safeguards known to Seeker history. Apparently, the test was so great that even the First Seeker chose not to wield them. The philosophers of the Eastern Hemisphere forged the Amulets themselves, according to her knowledge, and the Amulets themselves were not only Rings and Amulets but also other items such as swords, bracelets, etc. The power was so great that the philosophers sealed all of the Amulets they made away in a giant chest that was lost in time.

"So the chest that contains the Guardians is in a place that I'm going to next?" She asked for clarification while pacing around her room. Although she already knew the answer to the question and was already planning her supplies inside of her head.

"If my suspicions are right then yes they will be in the area of your next mission. I trust you can handle it my dear." He answered.

"I will do as you say father and I will not fail." She said obediently but faltered as she thought of her friends. She lingered on the thought of Dante before banishing him from her mind. He had a wife so there was no need for her anymore is there.

"Good good." He said back satisfied.

As she started to hang up, she heard Klaus say something.

"Oh and Zhalia my dear."

"Yes father?" She asked, not knowing what else her father needed.

"Do come home every once in a while, it gets quite lonely here and I figured the next time you're home we could go into the woods and look at the stars like when you were a little girl." He said in a fatherly tone and she could have sworn that she heard a sigh on the other end.

Flashback start

Klaus's House

An innovation or some random junk that Klaus picked up during his free time occupied an old house situated in a suburban neighborhood with not much furniture for every available space. The wallpaper was a dull yellow and in some places was paint was peeling off slightly but it was still home to her. The house was quite small but what made it different was that Klaus managed to turn his basement into his private laboratory and in there was where the magic happened.

8-year old Zhalia was watching her father tinker with spare parts for his next invention for the Organization and she was BORED.

"Ugh fatheeeeeeeer." Zhalia moaned while resting her head atop oh her arms that was on the same table as her father's inventions. She had been watching her father work for hours and it had finally taken its toll on her. She didn't have anything else to do because being homeschooled meant that she didn't have many friends other than her father's associates that will watch over her from time to time. Even then, they didn't play with her.

"Yes Zhalia dear?" He asked patiently without looking away from his work.

"I'm boreeeeddd." She moaned.

"Well what do you want me to do about it?" He looked at Zhalia with an amused look.

"I wana do something." She sighed while banging her head on her arms.

"You know what Zhalia?" He asked her while rubbing his imaginary goatee. He could do several things actually to keep Zhalia busy while he worked but when he looked at the time, he settled on one that meant the most to him as both a father and a scientist.

"Zhalia my dear?" He asked while looking at her and catching her attention.

"Yes father?"

"After I'm done here what do you say we go for a walk?"

"A walk? But that's also boring. I wana go flying like those people on TV and I wana go to China and eat their delicious food." Zhalia said with an excited expression as she thought of doing those things.

"Ah but this isn't just any walk." He said as he finished and started cleaning up.

"It's a very special one that you've been on once." He continued as he looked at Zhalia with a loving smile that she returned with a confused look.

Flashback end

"O-f course father, next time." She said tripping over her words because she still shocked by his response.

"Good Good. Now take care of yourself and good luck." He said finally before hanging up on the phone.

She placed her phone back in her suitcase, as she was still curious from her father's request. It was unlike him to act this way, wonder what's wrong with him?

She heard Lok calling her name from the living room as she was thinking of where she would be head to find Legendary Titan Classed Amulets. Her suspicion point to any of the Eastern Countries due to its origins.

She walked in to the living room and saw the Holotome display the face of Guggenheim on the projector placed on the opposing wall. Dante and Elizabeth were on the loveseat, holding hands and exchanging stories of their adventures. Lok was standing and crossing his arms while waiting for Gugenheim to continue with the debriefing while Sophie was on the couch with the same purpose. Cherit of course was flying around the living room looking at everyone and making a comment there and there.

"Ah Miss Zhalia, you're here. Good now we can begin with the debriefing." Gugenheim observed as he continued.

"Now we have news from our Seekers from the United States of America Branch of the Huntik Foundation saying that they have reported something that must not fall into the Organization's hands."

He paused to make sure he has everyone's attention before continuing,

"The Oriental Guardian Amulets."

Everyone but Lok and Elizabeth gasped or eyes widened in shock.

"Wait the orientation what Amulets?" Asked Lok confused as he looked around at everyone curiously.

"No Lok. The Oriental Guardians are one of the most powerful Amulets ever made and from legend-"

"Most of the Guardians are Legendary Class Titans with many special abilities that make other Titans look pale in comparison." Zhalia continued in Dante's place. "They were so strong that not even the First Seeker could wield them. Most Legendary Class Titans came with a condition that either the Amulet of Will was present or a ritual happens at the same time that summoning happened. If not, the summoner would be placed under a powerful curse that will kill them in just an hour."

She said which made Lok pale to the point that his skin could've given milk a run for its money. She continued while sitting on an armrest with her arms crossed,

"However, the condition for the Oriental Guardian Amulets are different than the ones for Legendary Class Titans. Instead of having the Amulet of Will or a sacrifice, they have to pass a test to see if they are worthy or not. If they are the Guardians will bond, if not." She looked at them solemnly,

"They die instantly."

Everyone grimaced at the idea while Lok just covered his mouth while turning green.

"I think I'm going to puke." That was all they heard from him as he ran outside to do what he said.

"Anyway, the Amulets were just legends and supposedly a myth just to lead the Organization astray from more known Amulets. Isn't it?" She asked curiously but in her mind, she already knew the answer.

'Ah as expected out of two of my most elite agents. Well the answer is both yes and no. It is quite true and only a selected few knew the truth. But enough of its reason of existence, our friends in the West have found a bamboo scroll lost in a museum and it was written in Old Mandarin which no one really speaks anymore but our other friends in the East managed to get it translated into this." He said as his portrait moved to the right as an unfurled scroll written in Chinese showed and then and exact copy appeared right next to it but it was in English this time.

The scroll itself was three columns of faded Chinese characters and what looks to be various Titan symbols in neat rows on the sides of the characters. At the bottom of the scroll, three symbols were present, as if the symbols were signatures signing off on the scroll. One in the middle was easily a distinguishable a Chinese dragon face. The one to the right looked to be three circles in a tri-clover but as they looked closer, they saw that they were intricate flowers resembling something Zhalia had seen one time when she was in her travels. The one to the left was hard to tell but was eventually decided as a turtle shell with an octagonal center with its vertices connecting to the ones on the outside of the shell.

Sophie, being the bookworm that she was, walked up to the English scroll and read,

To those who seek us

Keep in mind the test you must pass

For it may be your last

The ominous felling that came over the room at the words. Back when they went on trips to retrieve Amulets, they had never had the risk of death before the mission unless it's from one of them touching the cursed Amulets. Now they did have their near death experiences during the missions but this was much newer to them.

Guggenheim cleared his throat to clear the rather awkward atmosphere, "Now the reason why Miss Elizabeth is here because the scroll was actually found in her home town and you know what they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

Realization dawned upon everyone's faces as they figured out where Guggenheim's intention just as Lok wandered back in a little sick.

"Your mission is to accompany Miss Elizabeth back to her home in Colorado and scour the area for the lost Oriental Guardian Amulets."

A/N: And that's a wrap guys.

So, this is one of my very first fanfictions and I'm going to explain a bit of it before I sign off.

This will not be a Zhante fic just to clarify things. It's not like I dislike the pairing but I believe that the community needs more than just like 2 favorite set of pairings, so yeah.

The I tweaked with the Amulet lore a bit just to make the story go along a bit smoother and made some of the character's like old man Klaus a bit more fatherly than the more scientist type.

This will be a Zhalia x OC fanfic but I have not decided when I would put the actual fluff between them in the story.

Finally I need you guys help to make this story come along faster. PM me ideas, write reviews, send me advice; I'll take all of it because I want to improve myself for the better for the community.

So this is DaiNightcore signing off and keep on listening to Nightcore guys.