Author notes: This is inspired by the fanfic, Huntik: Treasure of the Gods. One of my goals this year is to wrte a chapter each month so hopefully i can pull it off.
Also quick question I wanted to see everyones opinion on the idea of having my own version of the comic chapter The Secret of the Flying Dutchman, replace episode 14 all work and no play? Don't worry the contents of the episode will be added to chapter 15 and 16. Just curious on everyones thoughts on this idea.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE FRANCHISE: HUNTIK SECRETS AND SEEKERS
"Someone Talking"
'Someone Thinking'
It has been a couple of days since they returned from their mission to retrieve the hammer of Thor, and they parted ways with Montehue and Tersely. Right now they were currently relaxing at Dante's place with Dante having left early to do something, Zhalia was writing something in a journal, and him and Sophie were competing to see who figures out a puzzle first. Right now, Sophie was in the lead, mainly because he couldn't seem to figure out how to work the puzzle. At that moment Dante walked through the door and quickly took off his jacket while taking a seat.
Sophie said excitedly, " Dante your back."
Lok couldn't help but add, "you've been gone almost 2 days."
"That's right we were worried," Sophie said with some anger in her voice.
"You were worried you mean maybe Dante just doesn't wanna share every last thing with you too," Zhalia said once again seeming to know how to piss Sophie off.
Cherit flew over to try and play mediator between the two girls, "come now he may have had a mission, what say you, Dante?"
"Actually, I was prepping my trip to Vienna this week," Dante said casually while shocking him and Sophie, but seemed too excite Zhalia for some reason.
Suddenly, Lok remembered something from his dad's journal, and it seemed to mention something about Vienna. However, before anyone could say anything else about possibly joining Dante on his trip, he begins speaking again, "sorry, but I'm going by myself."
This shocked not only lok but Sophie and Cherit as well
Some things have to be dealt with alone
Too bad there's been something I've been meaning to check out in Vienna
"But Dante, I thought we were a team," suddenly something caught lock is attention, and when he turned to face that he saw a mirror. Getting an idea and while Sophie's attention was focused on Dante. So he silently got back to work on his puzzle, while also listening in on the conversation. When Lok looked up, he saw that Dante had pulled out an old photo and appeared to be staring at it.
"Alright you guys win pack up," Dante said while turning around to face the team this caused Sophie to celebrate while Lok was silently finishing his puzzle. Sophie, realizing her outburst immediately tried to cover it up and turned to face lock while asking we can continue our search for your father, right L… how did you? When did you?"
Sophie stammered, when she saw that while she had been focused on trying to get Dante to let them go on the trip seeing that Lok puzzle had been finished so quickly when he had been behind the girl's progress.
Here Lok decided to be cheeky and supplied his answer, "the reflection of the pieces caught my eye."
Lok turned to face the mirror that had given him the answers to the puzzle, while Sophie could only gap in shock and mumbled, la mirror?"
"The patterns a snap to follow when when it's reversed," Lok answer seemed to cause Sophie to pout at not finishing first.
Cherit congratulated him on completing the puzzle while Dante added, "sometimes looking at a problem from the opposite and go will allow you to move forward."
With that the group headed to the airport, where they quickly got their tickets to Vienna and were on a plane there. Seeing as hell, he had some time free lock pulled out his his dad's journal wall, saying to Cherit in the seat next to him. "You know my father's journal does mention Vienna."
"Perhaps he left us a clue."
"See oh it's just an address."
"Then we have ourselves a destination."
The next day after arriving in Vienna and getting to a Huntik foundation safe house they were out in the front yard of the safe house. With Dante quickly, giving out the plans for the day.
"I'll be out most of the day on personal business so don't wait around for me."
"I'm fairly certain I can find what I'm looking for without your help," Zhalia said as she left the group and hopped in a car to take her to wherever she wanted to go.
This left just Dante, Sophie, Cherit, and Lok, soon Dante began speaking again after the taxi holding Zhalia pulled out, "I know you two can take care of yourselves. Call me if there's an emergency."
Lok couldn't help but ask, "this isn't right why is Dante giving us the cold shoulder?"
Cherit seem to agree in supplied, "yes it's odd. Dante seems a bit bothered."
"Maybe we can help."
"Help how?"
"Let's follow him and find out what's going on."
"Sounds good," with that the two quickly chased after Dante, however both were flabbergasted when they turned the corner that Dante had and they found him gone as if he just vanished, "what?!"
Lok proceeded to run further down the street that Dante had disappeared in, while he heard Sophie jump up onto one of the building's roof hopefully to get a Birdseye view and spot Dante but, "nothing, I should've known he could give us the slip just like that now what?"
Sophie said as she jumped down to meet Lok.
"Hey, why don't we check out that address I found in Dad's journal. Dante said don't wait around for me."
"I guess we have to follow his orders, right."
"Yeah," with that the two headed towards the address that was given in the book, and found it to be an old building that was a bit of a distance away, "well, it's a bit further than I thought but this is the place."
"Look up on the roof that statue it's King basilisk," Sophie said, as she pointed to the statue that was on the roof of the building.
"I've heard of that Titan it's supposed to be very powerful and have the ability to turn opponents to stone, doesn't it? "
Yes, the legend of King Basilisk tells of the great lizard imprisoned in the stone as a guardian, as Sophie was saying this he decided to get a better look at the statue and became climbing up there when Sophie shouted at him, "hey wait."
"Don't worry, I've got just a spell to make sure that I don't injure myself if I fall," he said as he kept climbing, jumping onto the balcony from the tree that he had previously been situated on.
"You know they are less conspicuous ways of doing that."
I finally got to the top and put his hand on the statues face but nothing happened, so shouting down to Sophie, "hey this is just a normal statue."
Suddenly, they heard a group of people coming, so they tried to hide thankfully the head just in time as who would show up our old friends Defoe, Grier, and what no doubt were a couple of suits accompanying them and soon the group entered the building with some of the suits staying to section off the entrance of the building before quickly making there way inside. With the coast clear Lok jumped down and used a spell in his arsenal to avoid any serious injury.
"Feather drop."
He got down safely while Sophie ran over to him, "there's no doubt the organization is after the Titan looks like we have a new mission."
"Yeah," he said as he quickly made his way to the door, which was locked so pulling out Springers amulet.
"Springer!"
Lok shouted called forth his raccoon like titan which quickly did what he does best and pretty soon the door was unlocked before returning to his amulet.
Sophie turned to walk and said, "after you."
Quickly making their way in they were soon at a vault like door that was open and surprisingly enough on the ground in front of the vault was an unconscious suit, "someone totally knocked this guy out."
"But who I don't think we're the only ones following them?"
"We'll just have to be careful," with that the two enter into the vault like section of the building which turned out to lead them into a maze like area and pretty soon after walking for a bit, the duo noticed that they were being followed however, they didn't know if it was friend or foe that was following them, so quickly preparing themselves in on the counter of three they turned around to find an empty hallway, however, that quickly changed when surprisingly Gareon appeared.
"It appears that I got the drop on you too," Zhalia's voice said from behind where they were standing and turning around, they found Zhalia walking towards them, " I think someone needs to work on their sense of direction."
"What are you doing here?"
"That's what I'd like to know," Sophie added rather angrily.
"This house and it's treasure are what I came to Vienna for guess the organization did too," Zhalia answered
What a strange coincidence."
"Now look just be.." Zhalia began before Lok interrupted to hopefully stop any arguments.
" I know how much you like disliking each other, but we need to get to the Titan before the bad guys do," Lok said with Cherit agreeing before the teen and titan began going down the passage. With Sophie and Zhalia soon following after the two.
Soon enough they found the Organization, but thankfully it appears that they haven't seen them yet, "they're following a map."
"That would explain their knowledge of the maze," Sophie whispered kneeling next to him to avoid getting spotted.
"Well, then they'll surely lead us right to the end," Cherit supplied.
"Oh yeah, and they'll surely beat us to the Titan two," but Zhalia was quick to add her own two cents.
"But if we can get that map, we'll get there first. We can't go around them, but what if we tried going over them?"
"Over?"
Here Lok pulled out Kipperin's Amulet, " if you two can cause a distraction, Cherit and I will take care of the rest. Raise me up Kipperin."
Soon the moth like titan appeared and quickly wrapped around Lok, while Sophie and Zhalia fired a shot each at the two closest suits knocking them out and attracting the attention of the organization's group. Luckily the girls had summoned Sabriel and Kilthane respectively and after a bit of fighting the girls retreated. Soon Defoe sent the bulk of the group after them leaving an opening for Lok to get the map before quickly leaving and meeting up with the girls who had thankfully lost their pursuers.
After letting Sophie see the map she surprisingly pulled out what she called a Cypherdex, that looked like a blue holotome, which she used to scan the map that they had been able to steal from Defoe.
With that Sophie began speaking to it, "Cypherdex show us the labyrinth."
"Sorry my lady map scan, corrupt display impossible," it replied shocking Sophie.
"Now what."
"So much for the superior Casterwill Cypherdex," Zhalia making a dig at Sophie.
"No wait there's a mystic laminate that's blocking the scanning," Sophie said scanning the paper with her hand before using break spell to reveal the map.
"That explains why Defoe didn't scan it himself."
"All right Cypherdex scan it again," Sophie said again and this time a layout of the labyrinth was shown floating above the Cypherdex along with pinpointing where the amulet they were trying to get was located, " I guess that's our goal. We go down here 30 m and hang a right."
"Cool let's not waste any time," lok said as they got up and began following the path towards their goal.
"It'll be forever and a day before those suits, find us I say, right Lok."
"Yeah, they don't have a map so we're in the clear," unfortunately it looks like he spoke too soon as around the corner a redcap and minedrone were lurking, no doubt summoned by some suits, and they began the attack sending Sophie flying to the floor while blasting Cherit at the same time. Seeing as how there was some room he pulled out arawn's amulet and was about to bring him out unfortunately.
"Raypulse!"
A blast hit Lok's raised arm causing him to drop Arawn's amulet, thankfully the blast only bruised his arm. It didn't deal any lasting damage. He turned to see where his amulet went and found that it was put into a bag held by Grier.
When he turned around he was slammed to the floor, courtesy of Kreutalks tail, and behind the flying manta ray titan walked over Defoe who began mocking, "I hope the map was as useful to you as it was to me, fools I was the one who coated the map in stop scan shellac, after scanning it myself of course a brilliant trap."
With that the organization used sorrowbound on our amulets and shoved the amulets into the same bag that Arawn's was in. After which we were ensnared in rope with the redcap keeping a hold of Cherit so their only active titan wouldn't get away.
"Seeing as how you won't be causing any problems I have a Titan to claim,"
Soon we were forced to follow the group to where the king basilisk titan was being held, thankfully their seemed to be some sort of test required in order to get the amulet so Defoe pointed at two of his suits and barked out orders, " you too it's time for the final act draw the curtain."
"Yes, sir!"
The two grunts ran over to the curtain concealing the face of a statue, and soon it was revealed. Unfortunately, one of the suits was stupid enough to look at the statue and as punishment was turned to stone quickly.
"Oh my how tragic guess we need some more guinea pigs," Defoes words seemed to scare the Suits following him, "luckily the Huntik Foundation has been kind enough to donate a few. Our little fly boy and the Casterwill brat go first. You do love puzzles no?"
Lok decided to play it, smart and not say anything about that, and soon they were forced to where the curtain was. They heard Defoes mocking in the background.
"Hurry children."
"Only the one who looked up was turned to stone," Sophie said.
"Yeah, I bet the head is where he looked," Lok replied nervously about the possibility of turning to stone.
"In the legend of the basilisk, the creature turned to victims to stone with its gaze."
"Maybe we can look at the problem in reverse remember when I solved the puzzle with the mirror," at Lok's words Sophie got an idea and began rummaging around in her pocket.
"A mirror that's it this thick black curtain, absorbs light, and blocks the trap."
"But a mirror is the opposite it reflects light."
"So it should turn the trap on itself."
"Where are we going to get a mirror in this underground maze?"
Here Sophie smiled as she pulled out a make up mirror while saying, "it may be small, but it reflects."
"It's at least something we can use even if it's small," Lok said so with that they walked over to the curtain, with Sophie getting the makeup mirror in position while Lok would move the curtain.
"Whatever you do, don't open your eyes," with that the initiated their plan with them, both closing their eyes. Suddenly they began to hear, rock crumbling. So Lok took a peek and found the statue collapsing to reveal a new chamber. However, while they were distracted Defoe and a suit came and grabbed the two, with Defoe grabbing Lok around his neck
"Now that you've done my dirty work, we can pick up where we left off," Defoe said, suddenly Lok saw that behind Defoe, Dante had just arrived
"Did I forget to say that this was all part of Dante's plan," Lok said as Dante silently approached the unaware Organization members.
"I'll make you pay for trying such a simple lie and think it'll work on me."
"If he's lying, then why am I right behind you?"
Obviously, seeing Dante scared Defoe, who tried to use lock as a sort of human shield fortunately, Dante had some in sewing before hand who knocked out the vile of poison that he was gonna use , along with that each got the bag holding their sorrow bonded Titans away from default
"Emerge, Kreultalks."
"Time to clean house Caliban," with that both Defoe and Dante had summoned their titans but behind Dante Grier was ready.
"Suppress him, Breaker."
Soon the room exploded into an all out rumble with Lok, taking on one of the suits along with the mindrone.
"No good we can't fight them without our Titans."
"Defoe dropped his bag over there," Cherit said while pointing at where the bag had dropped but found the area to be empty.
"It's gone!"
Suddenly one of the suits fired off a raypulse at them with Sophie blocking with a Honorguard, however as the two spells were clashing Gareon appeared with the satchel containing our amulets with it. Looks like the tide was about to change.
"Turn the table, Sabriel."
"Now take them down Gawain, an Arawn the hunter."
Sabriel swiftly took down the redcap while at the same time Arawn shot down the mindrone. So with that they began dealing with the suits Sophie and himself quickly dispatching two of the. While he knew where Dante was handling Grief, Lok couldn't tell where Zhalia had run off to. Suddenly as Gawain and Sabriel had been charging at Kreultalks it blasted them back with its acid, before the two downed titans were swiftly taken down by Garghoul. With that Sophie summoned a winged humanoid like titan she called Icarus to give them some aerial support, but was swiftly blasted back to its amulet by kreutalks while garghoul proceeded to tear apart Arawn. Soon Defoe backed by his two titans was advancing on them.
"Good now I have you all right where I..""wait," Zhalia interrupted Defoe looking slightly winded, "you still have to deal with me!"
"She's bluffing look at her. She failed to bond with the Titan. Grier!" Defoe said, with that Breaker was sent at Zhalia
"I wouldn't be so sure make them tremble king basilisk!" With that Zhalia summoned a large reptilian like Titan that was quick to turn breaker to stone which shattered and sent the bear to its amulet.
"Man, did you see that?"
"Impossible!"
"You wouldn't want to end up like this lawn jockey now would you? You have two options, a turn tail and hope I don't send him after you or b the pedestal in the other room gets a lovely new statue." At Zhalia's words King Basilisks eyes glowed clearly wanting to turn Defoe to stone.
This caused the organization to walk away with their tail between their legs with Defoe muttering, "until we meet next time Dante Vale I will think only of your destruction."
With the enemy gone, Zhalia called back King basilisk back to its amulet. Sophie asked Zhalia, " why did you let them go?"
"She didn't have a choice," Dante defended which caused Zhalia to smile before stumbling slightly obviously drained from both bonding and summoning a powerful titan. With that they quickly returned to the entrance of the cave where Lok saw on the ground was a key that he recognized from his dad's journal so he picked it up.
After getting back to the safe house, walk was looking at it with cherit on the dining room table, " this key was in Dad's journal. Why did the organization have it?"
"Can't be sure perhaps they were both after the same treasure," Cherit said and that still left Lok with question that still remained unanswered. Seeing as how it was late and the impromptu mission had been a success they decided to call it for a night.
Authors notes-Hello everyone I really hope that you enjoyed the newest chapter. See you all next time when the next chapter is posted.
