A/N: Hiiiii! A carter casterwill and Aurora Nature combination. Dunno what else to say. Um. Hello. Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Neither me nor carter own Huntik
Months ago, the Foundation's number one team defeated the Blood Spiral. Now, Lok and the team are on a quest to find Eathon while Dante works on the council.
A young girl know as Carter was running threw the rain in the streets of New York. Carter had this strange sense of being followed so she ran, ran as far as she could until her poor legs gave out.
Carter fell to the ground, having no ability to run anymore as figures appeared in the rain behind her. She could feel their presence, but the rain blurred who they were. But no doubt Organization.
Carter drew her legs up to her chest and tried to control her breathing, knowing that she might have to summon a titan if necessary.
suddenly she heard various spells being fired, yells of fustration from the suits being muffled from the rain. Soon, everything went silent. She lifted her head up, out from in between her knees and surveyed her surroundings.
"what should we do with her?" heard carter. assuming that the her was herself. "the organization must be after her for a reason." 'what?! their after me?' thought carter.
The people who saved her must have noticed that carter was still there as they made their way towards her. their shoes clacking on the floor. Nervously, Carter wiped her drenched hair away from her face and peered up at her saviors. She gasped as she recognized them as... Foundation agents. Just the place she was heading in the first place. But the one that caught her eye the most was the one in the middle. His auburn hair stuck around his face, his amber eyes studied Carter with curiosity. He knelt next to her and helped her sit up. He wasn't rough, instead, he was very soft.
"What's your name?" He asked as his companions appeared by his side. One of them was a girl with stright black hair and the other was a boy with brown hair. "My name is Dante Vale. And my companions are Lyla and Jackson. I figured you could use some help."
"Thanks." Carter croaked, before nearly tipping backwards in exastion. Luckily, Dante caught her and put his hand on her back to steady her. "My name is Carter." Dante smiled at her, trying to show her some warmth and comfort, knowing getting attacked isn't fun.
"You're lucky that we were passing by." Lyla said, kneeling next to Carter as well. "Organization isn't fun to be captured by. I should know that."
"why what happened?" carter asked in curiosity
Lyla hesitated before replying "i'll tell you when the time comes" offering a small smile at carter at which she returned.
"all right guys, we should take her back to the foundation safe house." interrupted jackson. He had a firm line on his face, as if he did not like carter. Dante nodded in agreement and helped carter up. Soon they were heading towards a massive building, dante swiping this card thing infront of the door.
While on the outside, it looked like a regular skyscraper like all the others in New York, but inside, the architecture was old, but new at the same time. there weren't many people around, most likely in bed, and the receptionist kept giving the group strange looks. Dante lead us through a maze of corridors until we reached a hallway with many doors, most likely leading to rooms. lyla walked ahead and unlocked the room and they all walked through.
The room wasn't anything spectacular, it just had a bed in one corner, a closet opposite the bed, a sofa and tv and another door which probably lead to the bathroom. Before carter had time to process what was happening, a shrill voice made itself heard,
"Dante!" the owner of the voice had orange/red hair and really tiny green eyes. Dante was unfazed from thee voice and instead replied "greetings scarlet" a very small hint of annoyance in there
Sure enough, the red headed Seeker was there standing behind Dante and the others, wanting Dante's attention right now. Dante rolled his eyes in annoyance and turned to Scarlett.
"Hello, Scarlett." Lyla and Jackson chorus, as if they had practiced it before. Carter soon realized that maybe this happened alot. She knew already that Dante wasn't very fond of Scarlett. But why?
"Hi, guys!" Scarlett said enthusiastically, acting like the preppy girls from Carter's high-school. "What ya doing?" Carter looked at the woman, liking her less and less by the minute. It's like she didn't exist.
"We're taking this young miss here named Carter to a room to stay the night in." Dante said, placing his hands on Carter's shoulders.
Scarlet, looked over carter. From head to toe. Her face scrunching up like a peice of paper in the bin, long forgotten. Her minuscule eyes darted back to Dante, her face going back to a cheerful mask. Carter didn't like the way this scarlet girl looked at her. for some reason, carter got a bad vibe from her, almost as if this girl was hiding a big secret. 'Probably my imagination' thought carter.
Carter looked up at Dante, wanting to see his reaction. Sure enough, scarlet was looking at Dante like the heart eyes emoji While Dante stared blankly at her back.
" *cough cough* well, uh, thanks for dropping by but, um, shouldn't you be going home now." Proposed lyla through gritted teeth. It was obvious that lyla wanted the red headed brat gone but she still remained polite. Well as polite as you can get with this stubborn brat.
Carter started to tap her feet. Scarlett was making her uncomfortable. Sure, she had never gotten along with others well and grownup's staring at her my her feel ackward, but Scarlett was different. Maybe it was just her, but Carter didn't trust her one bit.
"Um, yes, Scarlett." Jackson said, cutting in, "Maybe you should. You've got a long day tomorrow." Scarlett sighed, realizing he was right. Council jobs were hard. Dante knew that feeling, but he considered himself luckly tomorrow. The team was coming over and he had the day off to do whatever he wanted with them. They were his friends after all.
"Oh, and Scarlett?" Dante called as Scarlett stared to walk away, "I'm not here tomorrow, remember? I'm with my team, so please don't text me with questions. Ask someone else." Carter saw the anger in her face, but it wasn't her right to call it out.
"oh! But why don't you spend the day with me instead?" questioned scarlet, her eyes widening as far as they could in an attempt at the 'puppy dog eyes'.
carter almost fell to the ground anime style right then. 'Could this girl be any more desperate?' carter gave scarlet her best 'go away' look in attempt to get scarlet to move. "Alright scarlet! time to get moving!" lyla said rather quickly. Her face strained into a friendly smile. Lyla then started to drag/jokingly pull scarlet away.
"but-" scarlet began, a look of desperation on her face.
"No buts!" cut of lyla. As soon as lyla had dragged scarlet far enough that lyla was in front of the group she half whispered "she's really heavy." Carter broke out in a fit of giggles with dante grinning broadly. "what's so funny?" exclaimed Scarlet, her petite lips forming a pout.
"nothing." replied jackson. a small smile on his face. "now come on, you really need your beauty sleep." Carter was now full on laughing with dante letting out a few chuckles, obvious he was tryna hold it in.
"hmm, i suppose i do." said scarlet before walking of, attempting to look sexy by shaking her flat bum and flicking her hair. Carter, having finished laughing, rolled her eyes. 'can she get anymore vain?' Dante laughed abit more as his two comrades followed her, just to make sure she was actually going. Carter smiled from ear to ear wacthing the ginger Seeker turn the corner and walk away.
"Well, I'm free from her tomorrow." Dante said to the younger girl jokingly, knowing she had just as much fun as he had with the preformance. Carter smiled. Dante was being really kind to her, something she appreciated.
"Are you really going to visit your team?" Carter asked, she had used the trick of seeing someone to escape some creeps from school before. Dante only nodded in cormformation.
"Indeed I am." He said as the two of them went and sat on the bed to wait for Lyla and Jackson to come back. "And come to think of it, you remind me of them. Lok, Sophie, and Den are quite like you." Carter smiled. She never had anyone say that she was lke someone else before. He must like her as a friend, right?
"really?" asked carter. she wanted his confirmation first before she could celebrate. With her brown hair covering her eyes slightly, Carter looked at Dante hopeful.
"Yes. In fact, why don't you come and meet them tomorrow? It'll give sophie a chance to make friends with girls her age." proposed Dante, a soft smile on his face, his auburn hair in his eyes.
Carter's face showed emotions of surprise, shock and a bit of hope as she took in what Dante had said. hesitantly, Carter replied "but wouldn't i be keeping you from spending time with your team?"
"of course not. like to see that you're a considerate one. Lok and Den could learn a bit from you." said Dante, a smile played across his lips. Carter broke out into a grin, happy that she might have the chance to make friends. The way Dante kept mentioning this Lok, Den and sophie, it seemed as though he missed them. Carter dwelled on this matter for a moment before voicing her thoughts.
"You really miss them, don't you?" She asked, brushing her hair behind her ear. Dante didn't anwser. "I can tell you do. Don't try to hide it. I know you do." Dante turned and smiled at her.
"You're smart." He said, watching her kick her legs like a little kid, "I think that Sophie's gonna like you." Carter smiled again, and looked down her legs, kicking them again and again. This was different for her. No one every thought of her like that.
"So," He said, "Would you like to meet them?" Carter smiled under the mass of her brown hair. "So, I'll come by tomorrow to pick you up. I think they'll like to meet you. They've always been like that."
Carter smiled and said, "okay." Dante offered her his own smile before getting up. "you should better go and get some rest while i try and find lyla and jackson." carter nodded and followed dante to the door, waving at him as he disappeared down the hallway.
Carter walked back into the room, carefully locking it behind her. She then decided to have a little poke about the room. She started of at the bed she sitting on previously. Nothing much. Just a plain white duvet and pillow case. The living area contained a few interesting books and a telephone while the bathroom contained the basic toiletries. Finally, carter checked the closet, surprised to find an entire wardrobe her size in there. Dante must have called ahead thought carter.
she looked around the wardrobe and settled on some floral pj's. She slid the cotton fabric over her head and abdomem and crawled into bed, lifting the massive duvet over her fragile body. She welcomed the presence of sleep as her eyelids grew heavier and heavier until she was completely knocked out.
A/N: you can literally tell which bits i've written and what bits carter has written. Until next time! Adios!
-lotta love Aurora
Smile!
with all huntik and awesomeness!
-Carter Casterwill. (p.s. she didn't write this authors note but i know that's what she would've said.)