hey there heartbreakerninja here with a new story just for you merry christmas. im not to sure of this story yet tell me if you like it. if the review are good i'll continue with it. untill then

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*Huntik safe house: somewhere in Italy*

Dante and the team had just returned from their semi vacation at Lok's childhood home. All were pretty tired from the long flight back to the Huntik's safe house they were living in at the time. As they all flopped down on the furniture in the large living room Dante noticed that they had a message from Guggenhiem to video call him immediately when they got back.

"I wonder what so urgent that we have to call back as soon as we step in the door." Lok said after Dante played the message.

"Guess we'll find out soon enough." Dante said as he typed in Guggenhiem's number into the Huntik's video chat feed.

"Ah Dante I'm glad you got my message how was your vacation? Restful I hope." Guggenhiem said as the others sat down in front of the screen.

"Well it was restful as it could have gotten with our luck but we'll get into that later. What is the urgent new you have for us?" Dante asked.

"Straight to business I see" Guggenhiem said with a chuckle. "Very well then; you all remember the ring that belonged to Joan of Arc that you recovered in the French catacombs correct?" Guggenhiem continued.

The Huntik team all nodded as they remembered their experience with the cursed ring.

"Well you all should be pleased to know that you were right about there being a titan inside. It seems that Joan of Arc had a very powerful friend on her side after all." He said grinning ear to ear.

"That's so cool; so what kind of titan is it?" Lok asked barely containing the excitement in his voice.

"Well that's the hard part about this whole thing, we don't know. Every time someone tries to bond with it the blasted thing pushes them away with the same message." Guggenhiem said shaking his head in frustration.

"What's the message it tells everyone." Sophie asked intrigued by the stubborn titan. "It must be a very powerful titan to be able to push everyone away and still talk to them directly."

"When everyone who's tried, myself included, to bond with it they are told that it's looking for a partner that is most like its original partner. But we can't tell if it means Joan of Arc or the one who gave her the ring." Guggenhiem explained.

"Well that's all very interesting in all but what does that have to do with us exactly?" Zhalia asked annoyed and a bit confused at where this was all leading to.

"Well I wanted to see if you or one of your teammates would be able to bond with it. That is if you guys feel up to it. I don't want anyone to get hurt because of a single titan." Guggenhiem said worriedly.

"Well I'm up for it sounds like an exciting challenge, what about you Lok." Sophie asked looking over at Lok who was sprawled out in an overstuffed white leather recliner.

"Umm sure it should be interesting." Lok said he was a little apprehensive about what Guggenhiem seemed to be leaving out about the ring but he couldn't put his finger on it exactly. Maybe he was just imaging it.

"I guess that's a yes then; so when do you want us to pick up the ring?" Dante asked Guggenhiem while grinning at his enthusiastic young teammates.

"Well actually if you'll look in the lock box on the shelf under the TV you'll see it's already there." Guggenhiem said will an embarrassed chuckle.

"Guess you already perceived our answer ahead of time." Dante said ask he went to retrieve the ring.

He opened a sliding lock box door on the shelf under the large TV. Inside sat a small wooden box 6inches long and 3inches high and 3inches wide. The only decoration on it was of a swan carved into the top. Dante turned around and returned to where he had been sitting before; on an identically overly stuffed white sofa to the chair Lok was seated in. he sat the box down on the table in front of him and opened the box. The others leaned closer to get a look at the once cursed ring.

The pearl white ring sat on a cushion of red velvet that filled the inside of the box. To anyone who didn't know what it was it looked just like any other old ring.

"Well I guess I'll go first." Dante said as he picked up the ring. He began to slide it on to his finger when he was stopped. Not by anyone in the room but the ring itself was fighting against him. Dante's face began to look strained as he tried to bond with the ring. Soon the pressure became too much and Dante went flying across the room landing upside down against the wall behind the coach he had just been seated in. The coach had been pushed back and was now lying on its back. Dante sat himself up right and shook himself like a wet dog. The ring itself, amazingly, landed right back into the box.

"Okay so that wasn't the best experience with an unbounded titan I've ever had, but you were right about it talking to you Guggenhiem, but it's starting to sound annoyed." Dante said as he sat the coach back up right and sat down again.

"So who wants to be next?" Dante said with a smirk.

"I think I'll go next" Sophie said bravely as she stood and picked up the ring. "Maybe since I'm a female and Joan of Arc was female as well, I'll have better luck." She concluded as she studied the ring.

"That could be an interesting theory." Guggenhiem stated.

"Well here we go." Sophie said as she too began to put on the ring; but just as had happened with Dante she was stopped by the ring. Only this time Sophie couldn't hold out as long as Dante. She ended up flying with the ring in hand into Lok who was still seated in the overstuffed chair; dropping the ring into his lap.

"Oops sorry Lok guess I wasn't it either. You ok?" She asked as she turned to look at Lok.

"Ya I'm good just got the wind knocked out of me." Lok said with a laugh. While Sophie was turned toward Lok his eyes started to glow a shade of blue like when he was invoking a titan but it disappeared as soon as Zhalia snatched the ring up off his lap.

"Guess it's my turn to see if it likes me better or not." Zhalia said as she began to put on the ring. But just as with Dante and Sophie the ring stopped her and began to push back till she ended up flying into Dante with such force she caused the coach to overturn again.

"Well that was fun." Zhalia said as she shook her head and began to get up off of Dante, blushing all the while.

They soon untangled themselves, righted the coach and seated themselves once again.

"Lok why don't you give it a try." Sophie said eager to see why his eyes had reacted the way they had to the ring.

"I don't know it might not like me anymore the you guys." Lok said with self doubt.

"Give it a try lad you never know till you do." Cherit, who had been quietly watching the show, said as he flew over onto Lok's shoulder.

"Ok I'll give it a shot." Lok said as Dante tossed him the ring to him from where it had fallen on the table after it had rejected Zhalia.

"Well here goes nothing." Lok said as he to began to try on the ring. At first it seemed like the ring would reject him as well, but then Lok began to glow blue green and the ring slipped the rest of the way onto his finger. With that Lok released the breath he had been holding.

And then all hell broke loose and then some.