Huntik Fire Heart

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I do not own any of Huntik or its concepts. Nor do I own anything except the OCs in this chapter.

Chapter 2 Tower of Nostradamus

The following day in Dante's place.

"So how's the kid?" asked Zhalia.

"Well he seems to be much better." said Sophie as they walked to a room which had a lot of exercise equipment. In the room were Lok, who was now wearing light pants and a red shirt with wristbands and a cover behind his right hand, and the boy who stood there. Lok then tried to attack launching several punches all of which were dodged by the boy. Then he caught one and tilted his head.

"Is this the limit of your strength?" asked the boy.

"I'll show you. Dragonfist!" called out Lok as his right hand became covered in red energy as he tried to punch him only for the boy to catch it just the same. "That's not possible." he said with widened eyes.

"You use a force to strengthen your attack but your own energy remains untapped." said the boy before moving his hands to his left then quickly moving to the right forcing both of them to flip. The boy landed on his feet but Lok hit the floor. Then the boy bowed.

"Nice moves you've got there." said Dante.

"Thank you." said the boy.

"So care to tell us who you are and how you got to South America?" asked Dante.

"Of course." said the boy. Shortly after they were all in the living room with an elderly gentleman named LeBlanche, who was Sophie's caretaker, and a young man who looked around eighteen who had long braided hair who was Sophie's bodyguard Santiago.

"So first up who are you?" asked Dante. "I looked up information on you from the Huntik foundation but there was nothing."

"That's because you looked through the wrong company." said the boy. "My name is Shawn Garrett." he introduced himself with a bow. "As for how I wound up in your location that's a little tricky. You see I am from another earth. A parallel universe."

"Parallel universe? You mean that's real?" asked Lok.

"Yes. You see there isn't just one version of earth or many." began Shawn. "There are billions of version of earth in which every possible eventuality exists. Most refer to it as a Multiverse but I think calling it an Omniverse is more accurate."

"So then how do you know of this?" asked Zhalia. "You seem a little young to be a traveler."

"Just how old are you?" asked Sophie.

"Ten." replied Shawn.

"And what do you parents think of what you're doing?" asked Sophie.

"I wouldn't know. My father, mother, and brother have been dead since I was five." replied Shawn.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know." said Sophie.

"How would you have known if up until five minutes ago you didn't even know my name?" asked Shawn. "Anyway as I was saying I'm from a different earth and I was hired for a little sweep up operation. Basically I was to destroy something some maniac created and wanted to use for something. I went in the basically blew the place but when I was ambushed I kinda had to use his portal crystal thing to escape. I had no idea how to program a destination to it so I kinda went with it. Unfortunately I kinda took some heavy damage before escaping which is why I passed out."

"What about your powers? They didn't appear to be seeker powers." said Zhalia.

"Seeker powers?" asked Shawn. "The device you saw is something from a game in my world. The device is called a duel disk and the game is Duel Monsters. I'm kinda one of few people who are able to use the powers of my cards as weapons but only because it's my Soul Deck."

"Interesting." said Dante. "So then you have power just different than ours?"

"More or less." replied Shawn.

"Then we should try to find a way to get you home." said Sophie.

"Not happening." said Shawn. "I've already become involved in these affairs and I'm not leaving until the spiral thing is deal with." It was then they heard a beeping sound and headed into the living room. When they headed in Sophie took the TV remote and pressed a button. This caused the screen to show a man in a blue suit and the name Metz was shown on the upper right hand corner.

"Good afternoon Seekers." said the man.

"Metz? What's the news?" asked Dante.

"It's not good. Listen." began Metz before noticing the new face in the group. "Who might this be?"

"I might be a living corpse." replied Shawn.

"Don't be rude." said Sophie elbowing Shawn. "This is Shawn Garrett. We came across him during our last mission."

"I see." said Metz. "Well you may need help. Huntik Foundation Headquarters has received an emergency communication from agents at the Tower of Nostradamus."

"It must the Organization." said Dante.

"Yes. It seems they've broken in and taken out task force...well to task." said Metz before the TV just showed a program.

"Nostradamus eh." said Shawn.

"We'd better get going." said Lok.

"But no one's ever found the secret observatory, right Zhalia?" asked Sophie.

"Wilder's team must have discovered something in the Organization database." replied Zhalia as Dante looked at a hologram of a building.

"I bet with my dad's clues we'll make some serious discoveries of our own." said Lok as Dante nodded while a card formed in the Holotome.

"Mission: The Seers tower. Intercept the Organization and prevent them from raiding Nostradamus Observatory." said Dante.

That night they were in a private jet with everyone except Shawn, Lok, and Cherit. Prior to during the flight they had explained the things about Seekers, Titans, and powers to Shawn so he could be prepared. Even so Sophie remained uncertain as to whether or not they should have someone so young until Lok reminded her that Metz had once told them about how Lok's father was about the same age during the time he, Metz, and Simon worked together prior to Simon taking Arachnos. After she reluctantly agreed. Zhalia hadn't seemed to have with having the kid on board but was concerned that he may be some kind of spy. Dante on the other hand saw a potential young seeker with potential as he had seen with Lok. Currently since it was night Zhalia, Sophie, and Dante were asleep while Cherit was in Lok's backpack, Shawn was bored and was walking back and forth on his hands, and Lok tried to access different things on his dad's old Holotome hoping to find something.

"You're really worried about your dad, aren't you?" asked Shawn as he flipped and landed on his feet.

"I hadn't seen my dad in ten years." replied Lok. "I know he can take care of himself and that we've got a mission but..."

"You're hoping maybe your dad can help you figure out some of what he said about you saving the Casterwills and whatnot?"

"Yeah." replied Lok.

"Don't worry. He did say not worry." said Shawn. "Right Nii-san?"

"Nii-san?" asked Lok confused.

"Sorry. I've been living in Japan the last few years." said Shawn sheepishly. "Hey what's that?"

"What?" asked Lok.

"This." said Shawn hitting some stuff on the hologram causing it to seemingly distort.

"Lok you should get some sleep while you can." said Cherit.

"It's just that my dad left me all these prophecy poem things."

"Nostradamus' lost quatrains." corrected Cherit.

"Yeah and then out of nowhere we get a mission to Nostradamus' Tower? What's going on?"

"That's a good question." said Shawn as the distorted hologram began showing Eathon.

"Dad."

"Lok listen to me." said Eathon. "To save your friends you must first find..."

"Dad I can't understand. You're breaking up. We need your help. What are we looking for?"

"Find the path to the Willblade." said Eathon. "You must find the Seers Scrying glass. It will guide you through the Quatrains."

"Dad wait. What's the Willblade?"

"The Key." replied Eathon. "The Casterwill must survive. Defeat the spiral. It's you...Lok you're the..." he said until the hologram was gone. Shortly after Zhalia went towards the back as the plane began shaking a bit.

"Team, this is your captain speaking. We may be experiencing some minor turbulence. Do not be alarmed." said Dante over the PA system.

"What's going on?" asked Sophie.

"Buckle up you three, we're under attack." replied Zhalia. At that Lok started heading towards the front.

"Pardon me." said Shawn to Zhalia. "I have something that could be of help but I need to be secured to the roof of the jet."

"For now let's let Dante and Lok take care of this. If it doesn't work we'll try your idea." replied Zhalia.

"Hai." nodded Shawn. "Let's see if this works." he said pulling up his sleeve which caused a device to materialize on half his left forearm.

"What are you doing?" asked Sophie. Shawn began hitting some keys before hitting one last one which caused a ring to form around it which extended to his body which in turn altered his clothes to a kind of jump suit which was all red but included two quivers full of what appeared to be arrows. One that was on his back and one that was on his lower back sideways. It also included a strange which had a kind of scope. "Mask on." he said causing the part of the suit that was below his neck to extend up to his neck and form a strange metallic mask which covered his mouth and nose and goggle like glasses which formed before his eyes.

"Normal missiles can't maneuver like that." said Dante. "They must have locked onto us with a power. Hit the boosters!"

"Ok." said Lok. It was then everyone felt a sudden rush of wind. When they turned they saw that the emergency door was open and Shawn wasn't in the plane. Zhalia ran towards the door and saw Shawn was on the tail one of the wings at one of the missiles. Unfortunately his feet didn't exactly stick so he was trying to just focus on the shot.

"Spider Touch!" Zhalia called out causing a blue substance to shoot onto Shawn's feet sticking him to the wing. Then he gave a thumbs up and fired the arrow which stuck to one of the missiles. Then he pulled out an arrow out of the quiver at his lower back and fired it at the same missile hitting right next to it. Then he pulled out a third arrow and fired it hitting the same arrow. When the three arrows were near each other they created a triangle of electricity. Then Shawn signaled to be pulled back so Zhalia used Spidertouch again. When he was inside his clothes returned to normal and they saw several lines on the parts of Shawn's body that weren't covered which surprised them because the lines resembled circuits.

"Hang on tight!" said Shawn as he pulled out a card. "Storm Deflector!" At that the card began glowing and a silver barrier formed around the plane. Then they felt the plane shake more than before. When they turned they saw the missiles were all falling as was the helicopter which had gone after them.

"What was that?" asked Sophie.

"The first arrow was charged with an EMP and the second had an electric amplifier." replied Shawn.

"What about the third?" asked Sophie?

"Charged with a magically charged arrow." replied Shawn. "Before now I've only used that combo once before."

"Nicely done." said Dante as the card reappeared in his Shawn's hand.

"Thanks." said Shawn before falling to his knees.

"Are you okay?" asked Lok.

"I'm fine. I guess I still haven't recovered completely from my arrival." said Shawn with a weak smile before losing consciousness and being caught by Zhalia.

"Is he okay?" asked Lok.

"He's just tired. He should be back up by the time we get to France." said Zhalia.

Sometime later the group was walking in an alleyway nearing a rather old looking building.

"Nostradamus eh." said Shawn. "I guess the old man in this world was busy." he said as they walked alongside the building to the front. Then Zhalia when and looked in the front followed by Lok.

"Up there." she said looking at a window.

"It's Peter." said Lok.

"He's gesturing to the front entrance." said Sophie. The five walked slowly to the front until Dante saw who was at the other side of the entrance.

"Wilder's guards." said Dante. "We have to take them out without raising the alarm." Lok then pulled out an amulet but Shawn pulled on his sleeve.

"Leave this to me." said Shawn as he pulled out a little metallic sphere out of his pocket.

A few seconds later

Shawn knocked on the door. The two guards turned to look at him.

"Hey kid what are you doing out so late?" asked the guy.

"I need help with something." said Shawn. "Could you tell me what this smells like?" he asked handing the small metallic sphere to the guy. The woman got close as Shawn stepped back. Then the sphere let out a green gas which knocked them both out. Once the two were out Shawn signaled to the others.

"Nice work but I hope that gas wasn't lethal." said Dante.

"It's not gas." replied Shawn. "It's something between Tuna and Cabbage casserole. I just pulled out the scent with a little device and concentrated it into this. Knocks almost anyone out in a second." he said with a smile. "Plus it has another effect."

"In any case let's get in there." said Dante as they each stepped over the unconscious guards.

"It still reeks." said Lok.

"Yeah once the smell hits you it sticks to your clothes for a long time." said Shawn as they made their way up the stairs. Before they got to the top Lok let out a raccoon like titan named Springer out.

"Peter, are you okay?" asked Lok.

"I am now." replied Peter. "I can't tell you how happy I am to see you guys."

"Not as happy as we are to see that you're alright." said Sophie.

"Peter, can you get the others to the Huntik Foundation Hospital?" asked Dante.

"Sure I can. Just leave it to me." said Peter.

"Now let's go see what the bad guys are up to." said Lok.

Once they got to the lower part they spotted two more in suits, the old man from before, the bald guy from before, and the guy in white also from before. They observed and noticed something odd.

"What is going on?" asked Zhalia.

"I have no idea." said Dante.

"Can they not see those Titans?" asked Sophie.

"No they can't." said Shawn. "There seems to be some kind of spell cloaking this place."

"How can you tell?" asked Lok.

"Let's just say my eyes see more than you imagine." replied Shawn. "Personally I'm curious about what those Titans are."

"Lok check the Holotome to see if it can explain this." said Dante.

"Holotome. Identify those three Titans." The Holotome showed a small hologram of one of the three.

"Wait a minute. I've dealt with those before." said Zhalia. "They're almost impossible to hit."

"Century Triclops: Attack 10, Defense 8, Type Litho-Titan Sentinel, Size: Large, Special Abilities: Precognitive Dodge." said the Holotome.

"Precognitive Dodge?" asked Sophie.

"Yeah. They dodge your attack before you make it." said Lok.

"That could explain it." said Shawn with his eyes narrowed.

"We have to get in there before the Organization finds the scrying glass.

"You mean before they step on it." said Zhalia.

"Nostradamus wouldn't have concealed this place if there wasn't something worth hiding." said Wilder.

"We'll have to take everything to HQ for examination, sir." said the bald guy. (I can't remember his name and I'm trying to resist calling him Voldemort.) It was then Wilder noticed something on the ground. However when he approached it…

"Not so fast!" said Dante.

"Bubblelift!" called out Sophie forming a blue bubble around a small chest.

"Surprises, surprises. You're full of surprises Dante Vale." said Wilder. "Petty didn't run into my combat chopper."

"Oh we ran into it. And it ran right into the ground." said Lok.

"Well you've confused them." said Dante. After that mostly everyone looked towards someone from their own side except for Shawn who was thinking about burgers. That was until Lok used Hyperstride and jumped off which snapped Shawn out of his mind. It was then the bald guy jumped towards Zhalia and they started fighting.

"Weaken Chain!" yelled out Wilder shooting purple lightning which Dante dodged. Sophie focused her attention on the chest while Shawn figured out what to do. He then shrugged and ran towards the only guy in a black suite. The guy noticed him and got ready to punch but was surprised when Shawn jumped onto his face and elbowed him. He followed up a few more times before jumping off him.

"This must be it." said the old man as he started trying to get the bubble. It was then the girl in the black suit tackled Sophie causing the bubble to burst. Luckily Shawn went right over the old man and caught before rolling a little far from them. The old man ran after Shawn who jumped onto the wall behind him then over the old man forcing him to follow.

"Just hand that over and you won't get hurt." said the old man.

"Bunshi shindō!" called out Shawn causing his body to start seemingly shaking very quickly which allowed him to dodge attacks by the old man.

"Fight Feyone!" called out Sophie as she held out an amulet. From it appeared appeared a woman in plant clothing who held a long sword. After appearing Feyone blasted to keep back the old man.

"I got it!" called out Shawn from in between Dante and one of the large Titans.

"Good going now protect it." said Dante. The Organization noticed and the guy in black tried to run towards Shawn but was stopped by Lok.

"Dragonfist!" called out Lok as the suit tried to kick him which he caught. Then he threw the guy at the wall. "That gets easier every time I do it."

"Shadow speed!" called out the suit as he got up before speeding towards Lok and striking rapidly. However Shawn sped towards the two and rapidly bicycle kicked the suit until he hit the wall.

"Let's take out some fire power." said Lok pulling out his amulet. "Bring it on Baselaird!" he called out as he held the amulet allowing Baselaird to enter the battle. It was then Wilder pulled out an amulet of his own.

"Destroy Incubane!" called out Wilder causing a very demonic looking Titan to emerge from the amulet which had horns, goat legs, and long claws from which it fired narrow red beams towards Baselaird.

'Baselaird Total Defense.' thought Lok towards Baselaird causing him to raise his shield as he charged. During this time Sophie was taking on the female suit and the old man attacked Feyone as Baselaird slashed at Incubane before getting blasted back. "Baselaird Shooting Slash." Upon command Baselaird shot what looked like a pulse of energy from his blade as he slashed which threw Incubane into a book case. Then he took a book case and threw it at Baselaird who cut it in half.

"Now then why don't you hand that over." said the old man as he walked towards Shawn. Then Lok landed in front of him.

"Raypulse!" called out Lok shooting an orange blast from his hand. The old man dodged.

"Poison Fang!" called out the old man as some green liquid shot out of his hand and hit Lok. "Now let's see what effect that has on your Titan." he said turning to Baselaird who was about to slash Incubane but then fell to knees. Incubane saw a chance and shot at him which Baselaird countered by slashing causing the two to return to their amulets which also caused Lok pain. The old man began walking towards Lok but Dante jumped in front of Lok. It was then Wilder began charging a power which Sophie noticed.

"Dante!" she called out charging at Wilder before trying to strike him. This was unsuccessful because Wilder grabbed Sophie's wrist and lifted her.

"No kid is gonna get in my way." said Wilder. "Augerfrost!" he called out blasting Sophie back forcing Shawn to catch her which didn't go well since she was a bit taller than him and toppled over on him.

"Shadow Knife!" called out the bald guy as he fired several dark energy knives at Zhalia forcing her to make a barrier which made her stumble back forcing Dante to help her. At that those who were still standing from the Organization began getting closer to them. Then the bald guy and Wilder smirked as they approached. Lok and Dante then looked to each other, then back, and then back to each other before smirking.

"Shadow Knife!" called out both the bald guy and Wilder as the group ducked causing the spell to hit the Titan behind them. This in turned activated the three.

"They're laughing. They've lost it." said Wilder just before all of them got were grabbed by the Triclops Titans. Then they all started blasting trying to hit whatever had gotten them but were unable to do so. "What is this?"

"He who dares invade my sanctuary will be forever doomed. It's written right there, above the door." said Lok.

"But why can we see those Titans? We invaded the room too, didn't we?" asked Zhalia.

"Not true. Nostradamus was a Casterwill Seer. He would've wanted to us to help." said Sophie.

"Then there's the fact that they probably broke the seal." said Shawn. "In my experience something usually comes out which makes whoever opened it and anyone near see things or not see things or even worse. Still can't stop remembering that week I spent trapped as a cat." It was then he noticed the others were looking at him. "Sorry I got lost in thought." he said as the Titans threw the bad guys out the window. "Wow. That seemed kinda cliché." he said as he handed the small chest to Sophie who placed it on a table.

"Nostradamus wasn't fooling around." said Zhalia.

"This must be the scrying glass." said Sophie.

"But why would Nostradamus make it so obvious? He didn't even try to hide it." asked Lok.

"He didn't have to." said Dante. "He knew the Organization would break in here and he knew his traps would blind them to his secrets." he explained as Sophie opened the chest revealing a glass which had a golden ring around it. "This is it. Nostradamus' scrying glass. Fascinating."

"Let's just hope it can point us in the right direction." said Sophie.

"There's only one way to find out." said Cherit.

"Lok project the Quatrains from your father's Holotome on the wall." instructed Dante. Lok did as he was told.

"What's next?" asked Zhalia.

"I guess we have a look." said Lok as Sophie handed him the Scrying glass. Then he placed it in front of his eye.

"Anything?" asked Shawn.

"Nothing." said Lok.

"Try standing with the moon light there." said Zhalia. Lok moved and then saw something.

"Whoa. Now it's like a kaleidoscope." said Lok.

"A kaleidoscope? Try turning." said Sophie. Lok did and became surprised.

"Hey. There's just one Quatrain." said Lok.

"What does it say?" asked Cherit.

"On the island of kings to the north, burning lamps call the dragon's breath. A sword saves the future Queen but the red eye will shine on the world. That's not much help. What does it mean?"

"Just think for a second." said Sophie. "In Nostradamus' day main land Europe was pretty much the known world."

"That would make the island to the north, England." said Zhalia.

"Wait a minute. The dragon was the symbol of King Arthur." said Sophie. "So King Arthur's island?"

"You mean Avalon?" asked Lok.

"That's gonna be worth checking out. Arthur, Casterwill, Dragons. Looks like we're getting somewhere." said Dante.

"Lok, you're going to wanna see this." said Cherit.

"Whoa." said Lok as he went to the chest.

"Looks like Nostradamus did predict today's events. Exactly." said Dante as he looked at the inside of the chest as did the others.

"At least he seems friendly." said Cherit.

"It's in old French." said Sophie. "It says good luck Lok."

"Are you okay?" asked Sophie noticing Shawn looked distant.

"Yeah. Sorry I was just remembering something." said Shawn with a smile. 'What is this feeling? It's like someone's calling out to me.' he thought to himself not noticing a strange energy in the sky.


Author's note

I hope you enjoyed this and I hope it came out better than I think. I've been figuring things out with Shawn given certain details about him.