Forgotten Power - A KotLC and HoO crossover

Chapter 12: Reunion - Dex

A/n: So, this will be the last chapter for a week, since I'm going to a camp off the grid and electronics aren't allowed. I'll try to keep updating once I get back, but it'll be a while. So, here's the chapter I'll leave you with!

PoV: Dex

"Where are we?" Nico asked as we arrived at Rimeshire.

"Rimeshire. My home." I replied quietly, looking around to see if anyone was there.

"You live here? This place is huge!"

" Welcome to the Lost Cities. Here, my house is small. "

Carefully, we walked towards the house. My dad was probably at Slurps and Burps, my mom was maybe doing something for the Black Swan, and the triplets must've been at Foxfire, since when I opened the door, the house was empty.

Slowly, we made our way through the house. My bedroom door was open, and a few of my partially built gadgets had been broken by my siblings, leaving a mess all over the hall. I sighed before making my way to my parents room. Carefully I pushed the door open and stepped inside, Nico following close behind me. Quickly, I searched through the drawers and desks, looking for a pathfinder.

"What are you looking for?" Nico asked as I opened another drawer.

"A pathfinder. Basically, they look like a stick with a crystal on top."

" You mean like this? " Nico asked, causing me to turn. Sure enough, he held a pathfinder, but it wasn't the right one.

"Well, yeah, but this one's blue. " I explained, taking the pathfinder from him, "That means it leads to the Forbidden Cities."

" So anyone can just go back and fourth between here and where the humans live? "

"Not everyone. Just people in the nobility," I clarified, only to become confused, " That's strange... "

"What?"

" Well, neither of my parents can be in the nobility, since they're considered a 'bad match'. So neither of them should have a blue pathfinder. Unless my mom got one from the Black Swan or something... "

Nico looked at me for a few moments, "You know, I used to think humans had pretty useless rules, but this is almost another level."

" Sophie said something like that before, " I replied as I continued searching, "But, judging people by skin color and beliefs sounds pretty bad too."

" Well, you're not wrong. "

"Besides, the whole 'Matchmaking system' was invented to keep divorces from happening. I know that's a problem in the Forbidden Cities."

" Well, yeah I guess-"

"Found it!" I interrupted as I uncovered a pale yellow pathfinder. "This should take us near the hideout."

" What does the yellow mean?"

"It takes us to the neutral territories. We found a Neverseen base there a while ago, and that's where our friends are now." I grabbed on of my father's capes from a closet and put it on, sticking the blue pathfinder in one of its pockets, "Forkle gave me the yellow pathfinder in case we ever needed to go there again, and I'm the only one in our group with one, so it'd be easier to hide."

" Well it's fortunate that it wasn't one of your other friends. "

"Yeah, I don't know how else we could get there if I hadn't given it to my father to hide." I replied, turning the crystal to the right facet, "Alright, now we need to get out, before my family comes home. They can't know we were here."