Illinois, United States:
"That was a long plane ride. Cab ride. Every ride we have done already." Lok complains to Jasmine as they get off the bus that they rode for like 3 hours.
Jasmine chuckles at him as she walks to a big board with maps and announcements. Lok throws himself on a wooden bench as he pulls out the holotome. He starts to pull up a map with the directions they need to reach where ever they are going.
"We really have no idea where we are going." Lok whispers to himself as he scrolls through the maps on the Holotome.
A few minutes past, Lok and Jasmine are at different ends of the bus stop. Lok staring at the holotome. He called Sophie a few hours ago to tell her what is going on. He wonders if Sophie is going to tell Zhalia and everyone. He thinks she will, but he will know that Zhalia probably forced it out of her. Lok is completely zoned out until he starts to hear Jasmine's voice enter into his eardrums.
"Lok!" Jasmine waves her hand to lead him to where she is. "Over here!"
Lok turns to spot Jasmine staying in front of a map of Illinois. He runs over to her and stops beside her with his holotome in hand. He made sure to take a picture of the tomb before they left because both him and Jasmine have no idea what they are really looking for.
"What's up?" Lok asks her, glancing at the map in front of them.
"Look!" Jasmine points to a famous statue of Abraham Lincoln.
"What about it? It is a just a statue." Lok wonders to her with no idea what she is pointing at.
"Pull up the tomb again." Jasmine orders him and waits for Lok to find a picture of the tomb. "It is one of the riddles that I want to look at."
A small picture pops up in a 3D hologram. The tomb has markings all around it with riddles and sayings. Lok stares at the same riddle that he read on the plane ride here and before he met Jasmine's mother, the Queen.
"Watch the river flow. Down the rocks and through the woods. A place where it all began. The place where you must choose who to protect. The Key will unlock the gate to the Waterfall. The Protector will die in dignity. And the blood of your enemy will drip from their veins on the stone of power. Don't ask questions. Just place a hand. The object that you fear and seek will appear before you. Just wait and see." Lok reads the temple's wall. He goes lower on the wall and continues reading, along the picture of the wall. "She will sleep in these doors until the three keys are placed. If she is not woken, she will pass away from the world like she came with no trace of her. She will slumber here until the world is ready to die."
"Not that riddle." Jasmine states to him and looks at the markings again. She reads them quickly before finding the one she wants. "That one." She points it out to Lok for him to read it aloud.
"One key is important to that part. Another part of the Earth itself. The last is the most important, but to its location. It is important to the Key herself." Lok reads the writing that Jasmine is pointing at.
"Do you understand now?" Jasmine questions him for a moment.
Lok looks back at the Statue. He glances closer to the man's hand. There he holds a tiny key that looks like it doesn't belong there. Lok understands now. The statue is important to Illinois. That is what the first clue means.
Lok tilts his head to Jasmine and stares at her smiling to Lok. "The Key is in the statue's hand."
"Yep." Jasmine giggles at him. "This is going to be fun to get from that Statue."
"You have got to be kidding me." Lok shakes his head to her.
"Let's go..." Jasmine grabs his sleeve and pulls him towards the bus.
They have about an hour until they reach Springfield, IL. They have to get to the Abraham Museum. Lok and Jasmine get to their seats as Lok feels his phone going off. He pulls it out to see that Sophie is calling him. Lok doesn't want to answer it right now because he is worried that Zhalia is in the room with her. So Lok hangs up the phone while staring out the window, waiting for the hour bus ride to end.
Italy: Dante's house
"Zhalia..." Dante whispers in fear while still out.
Sophie slowly opens her eyes to see a blurring Den and Harrison, laying beside her. She gets up, carefully from where she fell to the ground. He head begins to pound and ache with pain. She glances beside her where Zhalia should be, but is not there to her surprise.
"Zhalia?" Sophie questions as she finally gathers her strength and gets up to see that Zhalia is no longer in the house. "Zhalia!"
Den and Harrison start to gain conscious as they hear Zhalia's name being called over and over by Sophie. They open their eyes to nothing but blurred lines. They tilt their heads towards each other until they know who each other are. Sophie walks over towards Dante, laying on the ground still.
"Dante?" Sophie shakes him, trying to wake him up. She glances at Den and Harrison. "Wake Dante up."
"Okay." They reply to her simultaneously.
Sophie pulls out her phone and dials Lok's number. She knows that he is off the plane by now. She starts to worry when her call goes to voicemail. Sophie slams the phone shut and turns to find Dante waking up in a panic.
"ZHALIA!" Dante screams when Den and Harrison wake him up.
"She isn't here." Sophie informs Dante of the news.
"They took her." Dante grinds under his teeth in anger.
"Why do they want Zhalia?" Den and Harrison wonder the same question that is in all of their minds at that point.
Dante starts to remember what the man said to Zhalia and him. 'You will not have a choice. We have a new leader now. Now...' The man reached his hand out towards Zhalia and Dante. 'We will be taking the prisoner.'
"They called her a prisoner." Dante remembers that part before they captured Zhalia from his arms. Dante slams his fists on the side of the wall in anger. "What is the reason for taking Zhalia?"
"Maybe Klaus knows." Sophie says out of the blue.
"How would he know?" Den questions Sophie.
"Maybe he has someone from the inside keeping him updated to the outside world including Zhalia." Sophie replies to Den with her smart idea. "Klaus is pretty smart for an older man. He probably will as least know where she could be."
"Alright." Dante agrees with Sophie's idea. "We have to go see Klaus. But First." Dante walks over to the computer. "Call Metz."
Metz pops up in the scream, not realizing the news that he is about to hear come out of Dante's mouth. Sophie, Den, and Harrison sit in the back ground listening to Metz's voice change from happy to anger in seconds of the information hitting his ears from Dante's mouth of words.
The last thing from Metz's mouth is something that no one will forget, "We have to bring Zhalia back for everyone in the Huntik Foundation."
Dante closing the call and lowers his head to the floor. Everyone stays silent until Dante walks over to the blown up door in front of him. He walks out of the house with Sophie, Den, and Harrison following him quietly. Dante stays completely silent until he reaches Huntik Headquarters where he orders Sophie to call Lok again. No one has ever seen Dante like this and they hope they never will again.