Chapter 2: Sweet dreams and missions

Dante's house in Venice, present

Dante was lying in his bed, staring at the ceiling.
Suddenly he heard a silky voice in the dark.
" You can't sleep?''
He turned his head and saw Zhalia was now laying next to him.
"Zhalia what are you doing here? How did you came in?"
"I have my ways"
She moved herself so she was now lying on top him.
He noticed she was not wearing any clothes.
She whispered in his ear: "Don't you want me?" And started kissing him.
This was all he ever wanted.
He put his hands on her thighs and slowly moved up…

"Good morning Dante!"

Dante awaked with a start. It was all just a dream.

"Gugenheim dammit.."

Dante looked up at his big flatscreen tv where Gugenheims face just had appeared. He realized he was in his living room and had fallen asleep on the couch last night.

"Sorry for waking you up but I've got a new mission for you and your team"

"Is it about Eathons holotome, which we found last summer?"

"Yes the foundation has finally decoded the secret file you couldn't open. It appears to be a map"

''A map from what? "

"We think it shows a complex cave somewhere in the jungle of South- America. We don't know to what it leads, but it has to be something important, otherwise Eathon hadn't protected it so well."

"I'll call the others."

"Very Well. I'll give the holotome back to Lock as soon as possible. Good luck."

Dante was really looking forward to this mission. Not only because it would bring them another step closer to Lock's father, but also because he would see Zhalia again. He hadn't seen her in a month, and (unfortunately) he missed her so much that it hurt. He had loved to meet her but he had (unfortunately again) no idea where she was, and he didn't had the courage to call and ask her.
But now he had a good reason to call.

A few hours later

It was heavily raining when Zhalia was walking through the streets of Venice.
She didn't mind it, the rain was cool and fresh. It felt good on her skin.
Too bad her boots were less happy with this rain.
She shaked her blue hair out of her eyes and looked on her watch, she was late.

When she finally arrived at Dante's house she was all sodden.
Of course Sophie and Lock were already there.
Lock was wearing his favorite white shirt and light blue jeans.
Sophie had chosen for a light pink shirt, purple jacket and a-symmetrical skirt.
Dante looked good as always in his black shirt and grey pants.
Lock smiled when she stepped into the living room.

"Hey Zhalia! Looks like me and Sophie where here right on time"

Zhalia sighted.

"You're funny as always Lock."

Nobody failed to notice the sarcasm.

Zhalia took off her new brown jacket and noticed Dante was staring at her.
She realized her brownish tanktop was sticking to her body like her skinny jeans.
For some reason she blushed a bit and quickly looked the other way.

At that moment Cherit joined them to.

"Dante, why don't you tell Zhalia about our new mission?''

"O.. yeah… well to make a long story short; Eathons holotome is leading us to a mysterious cave in South- America."

"Sounds good."

"Great, we're leaving in a few hours."

Outside there was a thunderstorm now.
A spooky thunderbolt lighted up the room.

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I hope everybody liked the second chapter, despite my far from perfect English XD (I'm Dutch so English is not my first language)
Next chapter will take part in the past again.
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