This fanfic was written as a gift to my Huntik obssession sharing friend who appears in this story as Exiel Thyorn.
"Bubblelift." A light blue bubble flickered into existence, encasing the yellow stoned ring and lifting it from its pedestal with Dante Vale guiding it into the small chest that sat in the palm of his hand. He closed the lid on his prize with a snap before placing it into the pocket of his long coat and turning to his companions. "We need a way out. Lok, anything jumping out at you?" The blonde boy cast cobalt blue eyes around the small cavern, shaking his head.
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"Nothing." Dante nodded ruefully.
"Looks like we'll have to fight our way out." He flashed a bright smile to the midnight haired woman at his side as he raised the amulet clenched in his fist. "Caliban!" A flash of light answered his cry, illuminating him for a moment and when it faded there was an armoured, humanoid Titan wielding a sword at his side.
"Dante, we've only got Caliban, Cherit and Gareon left and we've run out of power. We need another way out." A dusty brown haired girl insisted in her clearly British voice.
"For once I agree with Sophie." Zhalia said as the lizard on her shoulder pawed at her neck, alerting her to the arrival of several suited men and woman who yelled the names of their own Titans in mangled unison.
The nearest Bonelasher tackled Caliban to the ground followed by two Redcaps. Caliban struggled beneath the larger Titan twisting until he could jam his blade into his opponents stomach and sending it back to its amulet but before he could leap back into the battle a Redcap planted its claws through his helmet, returning him instantly.
Cherit released a beam of his power at another Redcap as its claws sank through Gareon's scales and the little Titan promptly fell into Lok's arms as the Seekers began to back away. A chorus of 'Auger Frost' echoed around the cavern as the Suits fired the power at Dante's team making them all drop to their knees with identical grimace as the Suits grabbed the arms and held them still.
"Dante Vale." A heavily accented voice boomed as a moustached man emerged from the ranks of his Suits clapping. "You've done well to evade me for so long but your time on Earth has ended."
"It's not over." Defiance lanced through the man's honey coloured eyes even as he cringed at the pain speaking brought.
"The evidence lies all around you Vale: your Titans are down, your powers are drained and your spirits are mine." Rassimov allowed himself a small but victorious smile as he raised his hands. "Dar-" A loud rumble cut him off and he jerked backwards to avoid a sudden rock fall that blocked the tunnel.
A figure followed the rocks as they fell. "Featherdrop." She muttered making a graceful landing atop the rocks. The Suits dropped the Seekers and turned to her entirely missing the other figure.
"Ropetrick." The voice was male as the newcomer swung down on a rope straight into on of the Suits. "Hate to drop in." He grinned and the woman shook her head, jumping from the rocks.
"Raypulse." She sent a flash towards another Suit, a redheaded woman, who fell instantly. The three remaining Suits raised their amulets to the sky their unified cry of Sekhmet echoing as the cat warriors joined the battle. "Iscariot! Let's go!" A black knight holding two silver daggers and a phoenix emblazoned across his chest plate stepped out from the red glow emitted from the woman's amulet. He leapt into the fray taking a cat to the floor. Not to be outdone her companion made a cry of his own.
"Breaker!" The four armed, tribal bear roared picking one Sekhmet up in a crushing bear hug. An orange haired Suit stepped towards Dante's weak but recovering team, hands glowing red with Dragonfist as he stood over Zhalia.
The new female threw a hand in the fallen woman's direction. "Armour Brand." She cried swiftly followed by; "Auger Frost." And the Suit fell to the ground a thin wisp of steam rising from his body.
"Is that it?" The man muttered as Breaker returned to his amulet.
"Yup." His companion replied her own Titan returning as well. "You guys ok over there?"
"Thanks to you." Dante got to his feet shakily before helping Zhalia. To his right Lok did the same for Sophie.
"Makes a change doesn't it D?" Dante's mouth fell open in shock.
"Alice?" The woman smiled brightly, exposing a gap between her front teeth and dark green eyes glimmered as she passed a hand through her cropped black hair messing it up even further.
"That's me. And that is-"
"Exiel Thyorn." Zhalia cut her off stepping over to the broad chested, muscular man and locking her amber eyes with his aquamarine ones. Exiel tossed chocolate brown hair from his face.
"Zhalia Moon." His voice was the exact deadpan hers was as they stared at each other.
"Deserter." Zhalia hissed, her slender form seeming to radiate power as she glared up at him.
"Traitor." He replied lightly and they shared a small smile. Alice rolled her eyes towards Dante and the rest of his team but was cut off from speaking as some of the rocks forming the barricade shifted.
"Ok kiss, make up and let's go." Lok said loudly as Suits began to pour over the now smaller mound followed by Titans. Alice looked up at where she had dropped from.
"There's a small exit up there, the ledge's gone but the doors still there. Ex?" she tossed the last word over her shoulder almost as an afterthought as she dodged a few powers flying her way.
"On it." The man replied. "Ropetrick." He threw the newly recovered rope to the barely visible doorway and after checking to see if it was stable he passed it to Sophie along with a warm smile. "Ladies first." Alice placed herself beside Exiel, shielding Dante's team.
"Lend a paw. Wolf Knight!" A large blue werewolf wearing a spiked chest plate with shoulder and kneepads flew from the amulet growling and slashing at the newfound foes.
"Help him out. Wyldpride!" A deep red lion with a darker mane and dull bronze armour leapt out to stand beside Wolf Knight. Zhalia was halfway up the rope when Exiel began to climb, Alice shooting down Suits when they came too close. A stray Touchram, deflected from Rassimov's shield, struck the blue haired Seeker full in the chest and she fell from the rope. Exiel swung her way, grasping for her hand but the appendage slipped through his fingers and Zhalia continued to fall.
"Hyperstride!" Alice yelled flinging herself through the air to catch Zhalia and the rope before they both hit the ground. Below Rassimov had grown tired of the battle and delivered two crushing blows to the two Titans that blocked his way, returning them both to their amulets. Alice looked down as Suits began to swarm the rope. "Dark Fog." A thick black fog descended on the Suits and the dark haired Seeker found that she couldn't climb the rope and keep the unconscious Zhalia cradled in her arms. "Exiel. You're going to have to pull us up!"
"Hold on!" The man called back taking the rope in both hands, Dante and Lok mimicking him. There was a collective grunt as they pulled and the pair were hefted over the doorways edge, pulled to their feet and joining the run to the outside.