Cat the author here! Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. I've been busy with school. XD So much homework! I have to finish a short story on cultural identity, and make a collage that makes sense with the story. I also tend to write about 17 pages for a short story, so I'm probably going to be up all night. XD So.. before I bore you to death, this chapter is in Lok's point of view. I'm trying to make the story a little more comical, so don't hurt me if it's a bit corny. XD So... Enjoy this chapter!
Journal Entry 3: Lok Narration Hey! It's Lok this time! Zhalia gave me the notebook, and said something about giving it to Sophie next. So, we were backed up in the HQ by a lot of Suits, and we were starting to get a bit tired, when Den came charging in with Kaioh the Tracker and Vigilante.
"Den! Give us a hand over here!" I shouted, and he jumped over a few Suits before reaching us. He shot a few Boltflares at some Suits, and they started running off.
"Not very brave, are they?" Momo commented. I laughed, and shot a double spell : Augerfrost at two Suits, making them fly into three Suits behind them.
"Nice one, Lok!" Sophie had said, and I was a little embarrassed about it. I decided that now would be the time for some flight, and summoned Kipperin.
"Blade Call!" I also needed my sword, the Will Blade.
Flying high above a group of upgraded Suits, I shot some energy beams at them, and they started shooting at me. I was able to dodge them, but then, they started summoning Redcaps and Mindrones. Dante helped me with Touchram and Dragonfist, but we were going to need more firepower.
'Power-bonded Kipperin : Wing Slash!'
I told Kipperin to hit some Suits. Using my sword as a shield, I charged into an upgraded Suit and knocked him out. Unfortunately, that victory made me a little distracted, and I was hit by an Augerfrost from behind. Kipperin lost his focus and returned to his amulet, and since I was falling, I used Overslam to slam into a couple of Suits that were beneath me. They cushioned my fall, so I was completely fine, except for that last attack. The Augerfrost made me a little dizzy, so I started to use Everfight, but an upgraded Suit slammed into me, and I fell back, hitting the wall behind me. I managed to keep my consciousness, but I couldn't move.
"Lok! Use the Will Blade!" Sophie was shouting at me, but my arms wouldn't move. When I looked up, I could see Dante trying to help me by taking out some Suits that were coming my way. Cherit came out from my clothes and gave me an energy boost, though it allowed me to keep going, but it weakened him. I decided to put him back in the folds of my clothes, and returned to the fight.
"Lok! Are you feeling alright?"
Dante was looking at me with worried eyes.
"Well, thanks to Cherit's power boost, I feel alot better now, but I'm going to run out of energy soon! It's now or never!" I told him, and he nodded.
"Guys! We need to focus our powers on Lok's sword! If we can put enough energy in it, he may be able to unleash a shock wave!" Dante told everyone. They nodded, and the Suits tried to shoot at them, but were foiled by Sophie's Icarus Titan.
"Touchram!"
The Will Blade absorbed all the powers, and I told everyone to jump when I use the shock wave. They nodded, and I plunged the sword into the ground, unleashing a large shock wave that sent all the enemy Titans retreating to their amulets, and throwing everyone except my friends off their feet. It took a lot out of me, so I decided that I'd rest a bit. Everyone else walked over and helped me to my feet.
"Lok, that was amazing! Maybe you should try using Pendragon with that next time!"
Sophie complimented me, and I blushed a bit, embarrassed at such praise.
"Let's hurry back to Zhalia. We're definitely not ready to fight more enemies. We've got to leave before Allocco gets here."
Dante was helping me walk off, and he slowed down for Sophie and Momo to catch up. Just when we thought it was all over, the exits were sealed off, and we heard someone shout,
"Leaving so soon? The party's just started!"
We looked behind us, and saw that Allocco and another man, I think his name was Itsukami, and a bunch of upgraded Suits were surrounding us. I tried getting up, but I used up all my energy with the shockwave attack. Dante put me down and I decided to rest a bit. Before I closed my eyes, the last thing I saw was the team protectively surrounding me, and Cat's Catulus Titan helping everyone fight Allocco. Closing my eyes, my mind wandered off to chase dreams and run from nightmares... When I awoke, I was back at our HQ, in my own room. I was well-rested enough to get up, so I decided to check on everyone else. Everyone seemed fine, and very glad to see that I was awake. I looked at everyone, a little confused.
"Can someone fill me in here? I'm really confused. What happened back there?"
I looked at Dante, hoping for an answer.
"Well, we got help from Den and Harrison, who came after helping Zhalia outside."
He seemed to be honestly telling the truth, but I wasn't sure of whether this was a dream or not. Deciding to test the situation, I asked Dante how Cat was doing.
"Have you heard from Cat yet?"
He looked at me as if he was a little confused. That's when I decided that this had to not be the real Dante. I decided to carefully move towards the door, but when I reached for the handle, the fake Dante shot an Augerfrost at my hand, causing me to back away from the door. "Ow! What was that for?" I snapped at him, and he seemed to be looking at the others. The others nodded at him, as if they were planning something. I got myself into a fighting position and readied myself for a battle. I looked for my amulets, but they weren't with me, so I figured that these fakes had to have them stashed somewhere, so that I couldn't use them. As I prepared myself, I quickly glanced around to see where they might have stashed them. That's when I remembered that one of Dante's clocks were hollow and my amulets could have been placed there. I found it and used Bubblelift to bring it towards me, I did this quickly with one hand, watching the fakes carefully. They seemed to understand what I was about to do, and they fired a few Augerfrosts and Boltflares at me. I dodged them, and was able to grab one of my amulets. I raised it up to summon one of my Titans, but lost my guard and was hit by something.
"Deathcow!" one of the fakes shouted, and the thing that was thrown at me - it looked like a beetle of some sort - dug into my skin, and I suddenly felt weak, and I dropped my amulet.
"Looks like that thing that Klaus had invented worked like a charm. Good thing we kept the records of it to reverse engineer it." the fake Sophie was talking, and I could barely stand.
"Wha.. What's going on?" I managed to get the words out of my mouth as my energy started to be drained somehow. The fakes seemed to be smirking, and I eventually was too weak to stand and collapsed on the floor. I struggled to get to my feet, before I was picked up by the fakes and was soon being placed inside a different room.
"Where am I?" I asked them, and the fake Zhalia replied, "You're in a special room. This room is radiating a kind of force similiar to a lodestone's powers. In this room, any seeker that is not registered with the Organization will be unable to use their powers here. You and anyone trying to help you are utterly helpless in this room." 'This is bad... How will I get out of here?' I was thinking to myself at that moment. Just then, someone came in the room, and they looked familiar.
"Hey, you three! The boss wants to speak to you!" the visitor said. The fakes put me down on a table of some sort, and hurried out. The visitor waited for the fakes to leave, before coming inside and taking off their sunglasses. I knew then that it was Dante!
"Dante? Is that really you?"
Being weak made me feel a bit dizzy, so I couldn't hear or see that well.
"Yes, Lok. It's really me. Now, let's get you out of here. First, I'll try to get rid of that bug you got there."
Dante seemed to be trying to use 'Bubblelift' but because of the room's special power it wasn't working.
"Lok! Is there something about this room that makes it impossible to use powers?" Dante looked at me, while trying to help me to my feet.
"Yeah. The fakes said something about a 'lodestone-like force field' radiating from this room. The only powers allowed in here is if the Seeker is registered with the Organization."
Dante seemed to be thinking of something. Just then, several Suits came into the room. Dante quickly put on his sunglasses and the glasses made him look differently. The Suits started to speak to Dante, saying things like, 'We should start the project.' and 'Looks like the experiment is ready.'
Dante just followed along and even asked them exactly what he was supposed to do.
"The boss wanted this boy for a special top-secret project. A project involving these chokers we've been placing on some 'guinea pigs'. The boss chose some recruits including myself to help work on a new choker, specifically for Lok Lambert. Of course, what she didn't know, is the fact that I am a Huntik foundation spy!" one of the familiar Suits spoke, and then quickly took off some of the other's sunglasses, probably to see if they were anyone she knew. I could see that two of the Suits were Sophie and Zhalia, and one was just some Organization guy. Dante and the speaker took off their glasses and I could see that the speaker was Cat.
"Bubblelift!" Cat used that power to pick up a light table and drop it on the bad guy. The guy was knocked out cold, and Cat hurried over to me and took off the Deathcow bug thing with a Varslip. I instantly felt better, but still weak. "Dante.. I don't think I'll be able to go through a battle just yet." I told him, and he nodded.
"Zhalia. I need you to use power-bonded Gareon's ability to become invisible to make us 'disappear' as well as the Thoughtspectre to make it seem as though Lok is still here."
Zhalia nodded and worked her magic while we planned our escape. Thanks to the map we had of the HQ, we could easily plan out our escape route.
"Alright, let's move out!"
Dante told us to be completely quiet while we were under the ability of Gareon. The slightest sound would give off our position. So we moved quietly and softly. Being careful not to walk into anyone or anything. Soon, we reached the vents, and decided to leave through them. Looking at the map, we found a way to the outside. When we got there, it was seriously guarded, and so we got Cherit to distract them since he could lose them easily. Two guards stayed back, and Sophie quickly and efficiently knocked them out with two Kindlestrikes. Since this entire escape took some time, I was beginning to gain my strength back. We looked around for any Suits before jumping to the ground with Featherdrop, and soon started running. We
had to reach the airport to return to Venice, Italy.
"We're almost there! Ready your bracelets!" Sophie said. Cat put it on and quickly took off the Organization get-up to reveal her normal clothes underneath. Cherit returned to us as well, so I hid him in a bag that Dante provided with me. After a small break, we got to the airport and started to get on the earliest plane to Venice, when we spotted some Suits near the ticket counter. We sneaked past them to a different counter, and bought our tickets.
"That was close..." Cat sighed, and I agreed. We decided to be more careful when entering the plane. We got the first-class seats and was able to get them without any Suits in our way. I looked at Dante as I sat down. "Dante..how exactly did they make you guys fake?! Was it some kind of illusion?!" I was speaking with a shaky voice. Cat looked down at her shoes. "They dug up your past, Lok. Meaning, they went through your memories and took advantage of them, using them against you." I turned to Cat sighing. "So that's it.." Dante looked at Cat as well. "Well, we should probably get more information about this." Sophie said confidently. "Yeah.. Though there's one more thing I want to talk about. That Deathcow bug thing." I replied. Zhalia looked at me with a shocked expression. "Did you just say 'Deathcow'?!" she asked looked extremely worried. I nodded and asked her why she asked. Zhalia just softly mumbled 'Klaus'. And I understood. "Sophie! I think that bug was invented by Klaus. If the Organization could make it, then that means that they still have some files from Klaus! This could be bad for us." I told her, and she agreed. We soon arrived at our HQ in Venice, Italy.
"Dante. Are you going to go back to the council? Since our last mission is over, you don't really need to stay." I asked him, although I was secretly hoping he'd stay, since I need some more help with the bills and things like reservations for the missions.
"I'm not sure, Lok. I may have to report to the council about today's information. What we learned today must be shared with the others." he replied. I decided to take it as a 'no'.
"Alright, then. We'll call you up if we need you." I told him. Dante nodded and left for the foundation HQ.
"What should we do now, Lok?" Sophie looked at me, probably hoping for an answer.
"Well, we still have to teach Cat more powers and we nees to learn more about how the Organization got a hold of Klaus's files. For now, we should focus on teaching Cat. Sophie and Cat. Meet me at the library. I want to talk to Zhalia for a little bit." I told her, and she nodded. She went with Cat to the library and dragged Cherit with them.
"Zhalia... Are you feeling alright? It must be hard remembering Klaus, after what happened."
I cautiously approached her, not wanting to make her feel uncomfortable. She just shook her head, and replied,
"I'll be fine. Let me organize my thoughts and if I remember something important about the Deathcow, I'll let you know. You better hurry and follow Cat and Sophie. Especially Sophie. She seemed a bit upset lately."
I nodded, and decided to leave her to think, before running off to the library to catch up with the others.
Well~ It's time to give the journal to someone! Sophie's entry is next, so get ready for some intimidating big words!
Cat the author speaking~ So, Sophie's next! I wonder what she'll have to say... XD It must be full of 'intimidating big words', as Lok put it. (jk jk. I'll just use simple words that a 7th Grader ought to know. So.. no 'intimidating big words' just yet!)