A/N: This book has no connection to my trilogy that I just finished. I decided to write another Huntik Fanfiction though. Hope you guys enjoy. Comment and Review Please. Love ya!
Somewhere in Italy:
Zhalia and Dante walk down a small narrow walk way, holding hands with each other. They have been together for 3 years now with Zhalia approaching 25 and Dante 27. Lok and the others went on their own mission, leaving Zhalia and Dante alone for a week at most.
"What do you think we should do today?" Dante asks Zhalia as they pass a large park where children roam.
Zhalia shrugs at him as she lays her head upon his shoulder. "I think..." Zhalia stops as she notices something at the side of her eye and hears the crying of a child. "Dante!"
He looks to Zhalia then at a little baby girl, crying alone in the bushes. Zhalia walks towards the baby as she picks up the child out of the bushes. Around her neck lays an amulet glowing at Zhalia. Dante places a hand on Zhalia's shoulder before glancing at the amulet.
"Quetzalcoatl." Dante informs Zhalia. "That's a Casterwill amulet and is a very powerful titan. I wonder how a baby could bond with this type of titan?"
"I don't know but she has no name, and I don't see the parents anywhere." Zhalia replies to Dante with a concerned look on her face.
"We better take her to headquarters." Dante tells Zhalia, staring at baby. "Maybe they can help us with finding her parents."
Zhalia nods to Dante as she places the child sleeping head on her shoulder. Dante stays beside Zhalia to watch over her as well as the baby. He stares and wonders about the amulet as well. He remembers Lok giving the amulet back to the Casterwills' so how does this baby have it?
Headquarters:
"Metz!" dante yells at the entrance for their old friend. "We have a problem here that we need your expertise in!"
"What kind of problem is that?" Metz wonders as he replies to Dante walking out of his office with a cup of coffee in his hand like usually. "I don't have anymore time for solving your problems."
"You're going to love this problem." Dante chuckles at Metz as they walk towards the entrance where Zhalia is hiding. "This is our problem."
Dante points to Zhalia's back as Metz walks into the entrance. He takes a sip of his coffee and just stares at Zhalia's back before she turns around with the baby sleeping on her shoulder. Metz spits his coffee out as he steps back a few steps in shock.
"When did you and Zhalia have a baby?" Metz points to the baby. "I don't remember the announcement or the big belly involved."
Dante and Zhalia's eyes pop in shock when Metz says that to them. "She isn't ours!" They both shout in return of Metz's reaction to the baby in Zhalia's arms.
"Oh..." Metz wipes his shirt before rubbing his neck in awkwardness. "Well, I thought she was." He takes another sip of his coffee as the two stare at him in confusion.
"Sorry Metz but Zhalia and I..." Dante glances at Zhalia for a moment. "We aren't ready to have a baby just yet."
"Well," Metz claps his hands together, forgetting that he has coffee in his hands. He quickly places it down on his desk as they walk past his office. He sways up and down on his toes as he claps his hands together again. "I say you are." He whispers before walking away from them.
"What?" Zhalia replies as Dante and Zhalia both dart after him in shock.
"Come with me!" Metz tells them as he walks far ahead of them with a smirk on his face.
"What did you say Metz?" Dante asks him while Zhalia walks with the baby behind trying to figure out what Metz said back in his office. Did she really hear him correctly?
"Place the baby in here before the doctors take her to take her DNA to find the parents." Metz points to a small bed on a cart ready to be taken somewhere else. "Hopefully it won't take long t find the parents."
Zhalia places the baby in the bed while Dante chases after Metz. The baby slowly opens her eyes and looks at Zhalia with her sweet purple/green tint eyes.
"You are so beautiful." Zhalia whispers to the child as she holds onto Zhalia's finger.
The amulet continues to glow as Zhalia releases the baby's grip from her finger. Another Huntik member takes the baby to the other side of Headquarters. Zhalia watches the baby girl disappear from her eyes, feeling her heart break a little. She soon heads towards Metz's office where Dante and Metz are at waiting for Zhalia to come. She sits on the couch with Dante at her side to wait for the results of baby Jane Doe.
4 hours later:
Zhalia lays on the couch with Dante's legs as a pillow. The baby girl sleeps in Zhalia's arms while Metz stares at the couple on the couch. Dante places his elbow on the arm of the chair and lays his head on his palm, trying to take a short nap. He remembers what happened about 2 hours ago with the baby. The doctors tried to take the baby's blood but a shield appeared, causing them to be unable to take the blood. Metz was soon called down as well as Dante and Zhalia, who just tagged along. The baby girl sits on the bed waiting for Zhalia and Dante to enter the room.
"What happened here?" Metz asks the doctors who are staying back from the child, sitting in the middle of the room by herself. "She is just a baby."
"She won't let us go near her?" One of the doctors answers Metz with a scared look on his face. "We tried everything and she won't let us go near her to draw the blood we need."
"What do you mean?" Dante wonders to the doctor as he holds Zhalia back behind him.
"She is a seeker with power, we don't even know." Another doctor answers Dante. "That amulet is what is giving her the power as of right now."
Zhalia stares at the baby girl sitting there, trying to not cry. The baby girl stares at Zhalia ad holds her hands towards Zhalia and Dante. Dante holds Zhalia back, but she feels like she needs to go to the baby. She walks past Dante's arm barricade and heads towards the baby.
"Zhalia!" Dante shouts for her attention. "Zhalia!"
Zhalia places her hand on the baby girl's head before picking her up in Zhalia's arms. Everyone watches as Zhalia rocks the baby slowly to sleep while doctors take her blood from the baby's arm. The child hasn't left Zhalia's arms since. Dante stays with Zhalia as well the while time until sleep was catching up to her. Dante sat on the couch while Zhalia lays the child next to her on the couch. Metz walks out to get a blanket as Zhalia and the baby fall asleep on Dante's lap.
"Metz..." Dante whispers to him across the room. "How do you think this baby has seeker powers?"
Metz glances at Zhalia protecting the child in her arms on the couch. He shrugs to Dante and shakes his head as he stares at the amulet still wrapped around the baby's neck.
"That amulet around the child's neck might be protecting her until she will be able to call upon the titan." Metz replies to Dante of what he thinks. "That is what I think."
"But where did she get the amulet? And why do you think Zhalia is allowed to hold her but no one else?" Dante wonders, worrying about Zhalia getting to close to the child.
"I believe that since Zhalia found the child in the park also she is like a mother figure to the child. The amulet might see Zhalia as the mother of the child." Metz tells Dante before the phone rings, waking up Zhalia and the baby. "Hello?"
Metz goes silent at that moment as the person on the other line continues talking. Zhalia sits up with the baby in her lap, trying to go back to bed. Dante watches the child, rubbing her eyes before holding onto Zhalia's hand. Metz slowly places the phone back on the table as Dante and Zhalia look at Metz.
"What was that?" Dante asks Metz with a confused look on his face.
Metz slowly rubs his eyes while talking to them, "They found the baby's parents."
"That's great!" Dante says with excitement.
Zhalia stares at Metz's face when she says, "But..."
Metz sighs when she says that to him. "But the parents are dead."
"What?" Dante stops smiling in excitement and forms a confused look on his face again. "What happened to them?"
"The Organization." Metz replies, shaking his head. "They apparently kidnapped the parents at the park and they just found the bodies in the river."
Zhalia stares at the baby girl, sleeping her arms. Dante holds on to Zhalia's free hand with anger in his grip. He wants to punch the wall at that moment but the baby would get scared.
"So..." Dante tries to calm down. "What is going to happen to the baby?" Dante asks the question that now circles around each one of their heads.
Zhalia lifts her head to Metz, that doesn't reply to Dante's question. Zhalia places her hand on the baby's hand before glancing up at Dante.
"We can take her." Zhalia states to Dante with a smile on her face.
"What?!" Dante almost jumps out of the couch while Metz laughs at Dante's reaction to the response Zhalia gave him. "What are you talking about?"
"She won't let anyone else hold her. We have the vacation days to use." Zhalia explains to Dante and Metz, but mostly Dante.
"Zhalia, this is a baby that we are talking about. A baby." Dante protests to her.
"Dante, she has no home or parents. I don't want to leave her on the streets." Zhalia answers him. "We an take care of her until Metz finds a family that she trusts or we will have the same accident we had today."
Dante stops argueing with her after that because Zhalia is right, she is always right. The baby doesnt let anyone near her except Dante or Zhalia. Dante rubs his eyes to Zhalia before nodding to her in agreement.
"Thank you." Zhalia replies to Dante with a smirk.
"Your welcome." Dante answers her before kissing the top of her forehead. "I love you so much."
"Love you too." Zhalia answers him before looking at Metz. "Do we know the baby's name?"
Metz runs through the report until landing on the very end of the document. He really quick reads the paper and spots the name that is bold and underline. The doctors made sure they could find the name for the baby girl.
"Zhataya." Metz replies to Zhalia. "Her name is Zhataya."