And the final chapter. Thank you everyone for sticking with me until the end of this! This fanfic was originally for a friend on tumblr, who wanted for Thoth/Yui fanfic and here we are, at the end of it. I hope you liked this, and that you'll enjoy the final chapter!

Thanks again and always to dragon-overlord-yuu for the beta!

Chapter 7
The Girl and the Fight

Yui walked out from the throne room, confident. The death of the King and Apollon's word had given it back to her. She had to save these people. She had put them in this situation in the first place, and now she was going to make everything right. That's the least she could do, after all.

With Melissa on her shoulders, she passed right in front of her friends, not even giving them a look. She was looking straight ahead of herself, a look of determination on her face.

"Where are you going?" Takeru asked as the little group started following her.

"After Keraunos," she simply replied, half turning around to look at them.

"Yui, that's crazy!" Balder protested. "You're going to get yourself killed!"

"I never said it was the smart thing to do. But it is the right thing." She shrugged as she walked backward.

Loki and Takeru sighed deeply as they saw this small piece of a woman walking off toward her death. "Come on, we better follow her before she hurts herself by falling off a cliff," Takeru grumbled.

They followed the linguist to a fish sculpture and watched her climb it up. What was she doing anyway? Did she really believe she would get anywhere on a fish made of rock?

"Mad," Loki whispered, "completely nuts."

"Loki, quit it already," Balder warned him, hitting him in the ribs with his elbow.

"Hey Weed, what do you think you're doing anyway?" Takeru finally asked her as the people started gathering around her.

"Stop asking questions, just follow my lead," she said as she put the king's crystal in the slot, her hand resting on the pad.

She turned the crystal a quarter, then back, like she had learned to do the day before with Thoth. The engine starting running, and the fish slowly started floating in the air, making the small group gasp in surprise.

"Wow, I'm impressed." Tsukito said with his straight face.

Thing is, he did not look impressed. But Tsukito wasn't one to display his emotions, so no one really knew what he thought about the situation.

"It's really simple! All you gotta do-" she started explaining but was cut by Takeru who had climbed behind her and was now reaching for the pad.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shut up. We get it, okay?" he said at the same time his fingers touched the glowing pad.

"No no wait, Takeru that's not a good id-" Yui started saying, but it was too late.

The vehicle started screeching as it went backward, crashing right into a wall. Takeru groaned as he started rising.

"Gently. You have to touch it gently, " Yui told him while he glared at her.

"Hey kitten! Got anything sportier?" Loki asked from the ground. "You know, like a tuna or something."

"How is this done?" one of the Atlantean guard asked Yui as she came down the fish.

"All you have to do is use the crystals. Come on, I'll show you!"

The girl ran toward a hammerhead shark-like vehicle this time, and jumped into the driver's place. She repeated the actions she had done before, showing her now growing crowd of Atlanteans.

"Half-turn right, quarter-run back. Also, always keep your hand on the pad."

The guards smiled as they look at their necklaces and ran for the vehicles. They jumped in and on them and immediately tested what Yui had showed them. Quickly, the sky was filling with all sorts of differently shaped vehicles, all based on fishes.

Yui took the lead aboard one of the hammerhead shark vehicles, Melissa still standing on her shoulders. She rose a fist in the air, encouraging her troops.

"This is it! We're going to save the prince! We're going to save Atlantis! Or at least die trying to do so!" She yelled, and the others all cheered back as they advanced toward the caves.

As they passed over the city, they could see the remaining Atlanteans waving at them and cheering, encouraging them on their perilous mission. They were probably going toward their death, for they didn't really have any actual weapons.

They passed over the lava encircling the continent, going straight toward the cave they had arrived in the day before. As they flew through the tunnels, Yui turned around to tell them what she had come up with. She had been thinking about it for quite a while now, ever since she had left the throne room. It was crazy, as she had said to the others, but it was the only thing they could possibly do in so little time.

"Okay, here's the plan..." she yelled. "We're going to come in low and fast and take them by surprise."

"Well I've got news for you, Yui!" Takeru called back.

He was riding next to Apollon, just a little behind Yui.

"Keraunos is never surprised, and he's got a lot of guns."

"Take-Take is right! It's really dangerous. Really!" Apollon added.

"Great! Well do you have any suggestions, mister?" Yui sarcastically called back.

Loki was the one to answer.

"Yeah, don't get shot, kitten~"

They reached the cave where they had crashed two nights ago, when the fireflies had lit their camp on fire. But instead of finding nothing, a giant red balloon was anchored to the ground as they prepared to leave. Yui saw Zeus attach the metal cage in which Thoth was imprisoned. They had to hurry…

"There they are!" she yelled, pointing at their enemies.

The Atlanteans started shooting arrows toward the people on the ground as they flew over them, avoiding the gun shots. As they fought, Zeus took his opportunity, climbed on the balloon as it started leaving the ground, slowly rising toward the top of the cave. Airplanes accompanied him, but the fish vehicles were following them close by.

Seeing this, Yui couldn't help but be surprised.

"Holy smokes! You said he only had guns, Takeru!" she yelled at the boy flying under her.

"What I said was, he's never surprised, Weed!" the engineer yelled back, slightly annoyed.

"We're never going to make it out alive," Yui grumbled as she avoided being shot.

A bit further, Loki was riding his fish, avoiding as best as he could the shots that were sent his way. In an attempt to not get hit, he leaned forward, his hand touching the pad. To his surprise, the fish started to glow, and through its open mouth, a laser beam shot straight toward a parked car.

"Oh~? Quite interesting," he said as he looked to the Atlantean that was flying next to him, a smile on his face.

The man smiled back as he leaned forward, his hand pressing the same place Loki had touched. More lasers shot through the cave, much to Loki's delight.

"Okay, now things are getting good!" He turned to Balder, who was shaking his head in disapproval.

This would be useful, but in Loki's hand… very dangerous. But before he could do any significant damage, Yui arrived next to him.

"Loki, heads up! We can't let them reach the top of that shaft!"

"Got it, kitten."

While Loki was charging, Yui had to back up. Airplanes were coming her way. Turning her hammerhead shark vehicle, she flew away to a safe place. When she was finally able to lose her pursuer, she rejoined Loki.

"Loki! New plan!"

"What? I barely had time to do any damage!"

"Never mind that! You and me, we're going to be decoys! Takeru and Apollon, fly up under that thing and free the prince!"

"We're on it, fairy! We're going to do it!" Apollon replied, giving Yui a thumbs up.

As they flew toward the bottom of the balloon, Loki and Yui went up. Yui saw that Zeus was aware of their presence, which was good. The plan was working so far.

"Lieutenant!" Zeus pointed at them, and Akira aimed for them.

He started shooting at them, but the gun he was using wasn't the best for long distance shot. Switching weapons, he kept aiming at them. As Yui passed close by, Akira was going to shoot her, but Loki was quicker. With the newly found weapon on the fish vehicles, he sent a beam of light toward him, saving Yui from getting killed. The lieutenant then aimed for the boy, who grinned at him.

"Good luck catching me, pretty face~"

"Oh, don't worry, I'll get you," Akira hissed through his teeth as he shot Loki, but the man was out of range.

In the meantime, Takeru and Apollon were under the balloon, sawing the chains with the saw the doctor had brought in case someone needed to have one of their limbs cut off.

"I thought you said this thing could cut through a femur in 28 seconds!" Takeru angrily muttered as he tried to break the chains.

"Less talk, more saw, Take-Take! More saw!" Apollon replied as he held to the cage.

Takeru groaned but kept sawing. Over them, they could hear the explosions and shot being fired in every direction. People were falling to the ground, and there was no way to know if they were friends or foes, which made it incredibly terrifying.

Yui was flying close to the balloon, keeping Zeus' attention on her. The man was firing with a huge gun, and it was really incredible she hadn't been touched yet. But Zeus was now concentrating all his shots on her, which would mean she could get hit soon.

Luckily for her, Loki passed by and shot some of his lasers at the commander, hitting his wrist and making him drop the gun. He waved at the man, his usual mischievous smile on his face.

They watched him fly away, but a small flash of light from below caught Zeus' attention. He looked down from the balloon and saw Takeru sawing the chains, desperately trying to free the prince.

"Looks like somebody's working overtime," he smiled at Akira as he pointed down.

Akira nodded and walked toward the bombs attached to the balloon, liberating one and letting it fall right toward Apollon and Takeru. They had a fraction of seconds to react before it was too late.

Fortunately, the bomb hit another flying fish, the wave hitting and shaking the cage as Takeru hanged on for dear life, still sawing.

"Come on, Take-Take! Time's up! Time to go!" Apollon said as he grabbed Takeru's shirt and pulled him on his flying fish.

"Whoa –" Takeru exclaimed as he fell backward on the vehicle.

As they flew away, Yui watched them from above, her hands clasped together in front of her, like if she was praying.

"All right, Yui, this is it uh. Any last words? Yeah. Yeah I really wished I had a better idea than this!" She mumbled as she started diving toward the balloon.

She drove right into one of the smaller balloon, jumping at the last minute and hanging on the ropes attached all around, her vehicle making a hole in the smaller balloon.

Seeing the balloon falling, Zeus looked to the ground and realized they were losing altitude. Uh. Just his luck. With a sigh, he looked up and toward Akira.

"We're losing altitude. Lighten up the load!" He yelled.

Akira started throwing stuff off the cabin. Barrels and luggage went tumbling down toward the ground, crashing in the middle of all the battles. Zeus approached him as the Lieutenant wiped his brows from the sweat crippling down from his forehead.

"Uhn," Akira moaned as he looked at the ground. "That's it, unless someone wants to jump."

"Lieutenants first," Zeus said as he grabbed the man from behind very easily and threw him off board.

If Akira hadn't been himself, he would have died. But being a special agent, he grabbed the railing of the balloon's cabin. As Zeus approached the edge to see if his lieutenant had died, he was greeted with Akira's foot right in his face, sending him flying to the ground with a grunt.

"You said we were in this together!" he yelled, walking toward the commander like a tiger approaching its prey.

He hit him multiple times with his foot, letting his rage do the talking as Zeus replied with simple grunts, unable to speak as his lieutenant kept kicking him.

"You promised me a percentage!"

Just when Akira's foot was going to hit Zeus again, he grabbed it with his hand, breaking Akira's balance and surprising him.

"Next time, get it in writing!" Zeus advised, a vicious smile on his face as he sent Akira flying overboard again. "Nothing personal!" he called after him as Akira fell to the ground, screaming.

Seeing this, Yui hurried and broke some of the ropes, surrounded her hands in them and jumped off from where she was hanging, her feet hitting straight in Zeus' face, sending them both overboard and under the balloon's cabin. Zeus grabbed a rope and hit Yui against the cabin, knocking the air out of her lungs. She was holding onto his shirt, and as Zeus' fingers let go of the rope, they fell to the second level of the cabin.

Zeus quickly recovered and stood up, smiling at Yui. "Well, I have to hand it to you. You're a bigger pain in the neck than I would have ever thought possible!"

Yui quickly stood up and tried to punch Zeus, but her small frame wasn't fit for combat. The man simply grabbed her fist and punched her in the face with it, right before kicking her in the guts, sending her to the ground and flying overboard again.

"I consider myself an even-tempered man! It takes a lot to get under my skin," Zeus commented.

Yui was holding onto the broken railing, which caught in the rotating helices propelling the balloon upward.

"But congratulations, you just won the solid gold kewpie doll." He crouched and looked at Yui from between the broken helices, a smile still on his face.

Yui extended her hand and grabbed the chains attaching the cage to the balloon. She hold onto there, hoping she would survive long enough to be able to free Thoth and his people.

From the ground, Akira came back to consciousness and turned around on his back, looking up at the balloon. His pretty face was distorted by pain, but he had to get revenge for what Zeus had done to him. Moaning from broken ribs, he grabbed his gun attached to his belt and aimed for the balloon still floating overhead.

"Nothing personal," he was able to mumble as he pulled the trigger and set a shot toward the balloon, sure he wouldn't miss.

Indeed, the ball of fire hit right into the bigger balloon, making it explode. Seeing this, Zeus didn't have many options left. He broke the glass window protecting an axe, took it and went back to try to kill Yui. His smile was evil and he was completely mad. Yui looked up to him, thinking fast. What was she going to do now?

She let herself fall on the cage's roof, sliding to the side and hanging onto dear life as Zeus sliced through the air with his ax.

"Getting tired, Mrs. Kusanagi?" Zeus smiled down at her, swinging his ax.

Yui moved to the side, resulting in the axe hitting straight onto the window of the cage.

"Aw, that's a darn shame, because I'm just getting warmed up!" he said, about to attack the girl again.

The linguist looked at the broken, glowing glass and had an idea. She grabbed a shard, ignoring the pain in her hand. Just in time, Zeus grabbed the collar of her shirt and pulled her up toward him, holding her in the air slightly above him, menacing her with his axe. Zeus' hand had wrapped itself around her neck, but before he could strangle her and hit her with his axe again, Yui sliced the glass shard on his arm, making him scream in pain and let her go to hold onto the painful arm.

Yui took this moment to climb up the chains and escape her enemy. As she climbed, she could hear the man yelling in pain, his voice suddenly becoming a screech. Yui paid him no mind as she tried to unblock the helices. She had to hurry or they would all die. She successfully did so, and with grunt climbed onto the circle holding the chains in place. As she looked down, she could see Zeus frozen from the touch of the glass shard, not moving. A small sigh of relief left her lips as she thought everything was over. Of course, she was wrong.

"Thank heavens," she mumbled, her head dropping toward her chest.

Just as she pronounced those word, a blue hand grabbed the metal circle, surprising her. She quickly backed away, knowing that only one touch from Zeus would mean her end. As the man reached for her, Yui grabbed the metallic circle and let herself slide under it, all her weight bringing the other side up, the side where Zeus was.

Zeus looked up and the last thing he saw were the helices turning and ready to shred him. It created a dangerous explosion. Still holding tightly onto the circle despite her arms being tired and about to give away, Yui looked away from the explosion. The already weakened chains gave in and the cage and Yui dropped toward the ground. They hit it, rolling down toward a safer place. Unfortunately, Yui had only a few seconds to react, since the rest of the now burning balloon was coming straight toward her.

"Oh great," she mumbled as she pushed the cage toward the ground, hoping she would survive long enough to free Thoth.

The force of the explosion gave her the last push she needed to get far away and to a safer place. As she hit the ground next to the cage, the others joined her on their flying vehicles. As she thought they would be able to leave soon and safely, with nothing to force them to hurry, the ground cracked and started glowing red. Of course, the explosion reawakened the dormant volcano, which was about to erupt.

"The volcano… she awakes!" Anubis yelled, panicked.

"Hey, I had nothing to do with it!" Loki said, brandishing a lit dynamite stick.

"Uh, Loki… this here would be a good place not to be," Dionysus pointed out, talking about the dynamite stick as Loki hurriedly extinguished the flame.

The others started leaving, afraid of the volcano burning them alive.

"No wait! We got to get him back or the whole city will die!" Yui exclaimed as she took hold of the hook and the chains, running back toward the cage.

She put the hook in the loop for it, trying to secure it. Takeru came to help her, hurrying up as the ground cracked under their feet.

"And if we don't get out of here, we will die!" Takeru yelled back, helping her with the cage.

"It's the only way to reverse all of this!" Yui explained. "Just do it!"

Takeru threw the other hook to Loki, who tied it to his vehicle. It was now tied to the tail of the fish, and they promptly left, hanging on quickly as they rose from the ground. But of course, since things were going so well, something bad had to happen. The loop to which the hook was attached broke. Yui grumbled as she jumped to the ground, taking the chain and surrounding the cage with it as she climbed on it.

"Yui no!" Takeru called back, but it was too late.

The young woman was already ready to keep going as the ground shook beneath them.

"Go!" she yelled back to them, and Loki made the vehicles move away from the danger.

They flew through the caves, waves of magma rolling behind them as Yui flew behind the flying fish, holding tightly to the cage, hoping the chain would not break again. They broke outside after what seemed like hours. They flew toward the city, where Loki gently landed the cage to the ground on one of the highest plateau of the city.

The Atlanteans gathered around as Yui looked around for something to open the cage. One of the man handed her a spear, which she used as a lever to open the door and free Thoth.

"The fissure," Anubis started, turning toward the group, "it is about to eject its pyroclastic fury!"

"Fairy! Anubis says the walls going to blow! It's going to blow! Hurry!" Apollon passed the message on.

"I'm… trying…" Yui grunted.

Finally, the door gave in, and a ray of blue light broke through. Everyone backed away as the walls of the cage flew apart, falling to the ground a few feet away. In the middle was Thoth's glowing form, shining brightly. The markings on the ground started to take on the glow, spreading the light throughout the city. There was a loud rumbling sound coming from below, when suddenly the rocks representing the ancient kings of Atlantis broke through the ground. They surrounded Thoth, and started flying toward the sky as they spun, bringing the prince with them.

Thoth stood still during his ascension toward the sky. He started opening his arms, spreading them in a cross shape as the rocks spun quicker, blurring in together in blue lights. The prince found himself in a bubble of light, electric shocks appearing on the surface.

There was a beam of light coming from the inside of the bubble and sent straight in the water surrounding the city. Then there was another one, and another, and so on. The ground rumbled and giant statues started rising from under water. They rose proudly and made their way toward the edge of the island.

No one really knew what they were, or what they were doing. It was very strange, but also very impressive to see. Fireballs shot from the mountains, hitting the statues right in the head, demolishing them, but nothing stopped them. They kept moving toward the edge, like they had a special purpose.

As the magma rose and more explosions happened in the mountains, the statues stood at the edge, and clasped their hands together. When they parted, their arms placed like if they were on a cross, a force field spread across the air, covering the island in a protective bubble as the wave of lava rose higher and started hitting the island.

Yui stared at the sky as the lava covered the protective bubble. It was simply amazing and incredible. How was it even possible! It defied anything they had known.

The magma solidified. How would they get out now, if they were stuck under hard rock? But Yui barely had time to worry. Before she could even put into word how she felt, the blue lights that had spread on the ground when they had freed Thoth extended to the walls of rocks, breaking through it in a pattern alike to the Atlanteans' drawings. The solid rock broke into pieces and fell apart all around the island.

The force field disappeared as the last bits of rock fell with a loud rumbling sound. The statues stayed in their positions, acting like the guardians of the city. There was a long moment of silence, where no one even dared breathe.

Yui turned around as a ray of light appeared, coming from the Heart of the Atlantis still hovering above the ground. She looked up and saw Thoth floating toward the ground ever so gently. He was not glowing anymore, apparently liberated from the spirit of the Heart. Yui ran toward the place where the light touched the ground, since that would also be where Thoth would fall. She waited for him to descend completely and caught him in her arms when he did. He was unconscious, his face calm and serene.

The light disappeared as soon as Thoth touched Yui. He exhaled as he relaxed into her arms. Yui fell to her knees, still holding him as he slowly came back to his senses. His eyes fluttered open, and his gaze slowly rose to look into Yui's eyes. He slowly backed away, surprised.

"Yui?" he smiled gently, like he couldn't believe it.

Yui was unable to reply, just smiling. She was so relieved he was alive! She had done it. She saved him, and all of Atlantis. She hadn't failed the now deceased King.

As Thoth gain back all his senses, he lost his smile and looked down at his hand. He opened it, and found a small bracelet was there. He smiled sadly as he brought the bracelet closer to his face. The prince closed his fingers around the small bracelet.

"Mathim," he whispered, closing his eyes.

When he opened them again, he looked at Yui and wrapped his arms around her, hugging, burying his face in her neck. Yui hugged him back, extremely glad he was alright. They stayed immobile for a long time, simply enjoying each other's presence.

After a while, Yui cracked an eye open, and what she saw behind Thoth's shoulders astounded her. The city looked so different and so beautiful. She made Thoth turn around and look. His smile widened as they got to their feet and walked toward the edge of the plateau.

As they looked at the city, the rest of the crew joined them, standing next to each other as they looked at the city. The water was flowing again in between the statues, which stood at the edge of the continent.

Thoth subtly extended his hand toward Yui, gently lacing his fingers with hers. Yui looked up and smiled at him as he leaned down and pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead. They stared at the city, savoring their victory.

After a good night of rest, the remaining crew that originally left America to find the lost Empire of Atlantis was preparing themselves to leave. Thoth and Yui watched as the others were charging one of the flying vehicles, which looked like a dolphin shaped place than anything else. They were leaving with tons of gold and jewelleries as a thank you from the Atlanteans.

Loki and the others were standing in front of Yui and Thoth. Loki bowed in front of the prince as he put around his neck one of the crystals.

"Atlantis will honor your names forever," he said. "I only wish there was more we could do for you." Thoth admitted as Yui giggled behind him.

"Eh, you know. Thanks anyway, but I think we're good!" Loki smiled as he looked back at all the gold.

"They'll take you as far as the surface," Yui told them.

"We are really going to miss you, Weed," Takeru admitted with a shy smile.

Yui hugged him, not even bothering on correcting him about her nickname. She was going to miss them too, of course, but her place was here, with the Atlanteans. That's where she was going to be useful. And, of course, she wanted to stay and get to know Thoth better than she already did.

"You know," Loki started as he approached her for his own hug, "I'm going to reopen the flower shop, and I'm going to think of you guys every single day. Monday through Friday, 9 to 5… Saturday until 2... And I think I'm going to take Sunday off… what do you think, Kitten?"

"I think it's wonderful," Yui laughed as Loki left, mumbling to himself about his new flower shop.

"I'm not so good at making speeches, but I want you to have this," Dionysus said as he approached Yui, handing her a bottle of wine. "It's the wine from the whole trip. I mean, the one we didn't drink."

"Thank you, Dionysus," Yui smiled at him.

They hugged briefly, and Dionysus left, giving his place to someone else. They all wanted to bid Yui farewell, after all.

Balder approached her, and shook her hand. "It's been a pleasure working with you, Yui. Thor had every right to think you were ready for this. He would have been extremely proud of you, just as I am."

"Thank you for giving me this wonderful chance, Balder."

"Sorry it became complicated. I hope you will come see me every once in a while."

"I will definitely try."

They hugged and Balder left to join Loki, who was fooling around with some gold pieces.

Yui looked at the crew, when suddenly, Anubis appeared in her sight. He spread his arms open, like he wanted a hug, but a strange smell made Yui think twice about it.

"Anubis!" she giggled, trying not to take in too much air. "Anubis, wow, hey… well… Good-bye, Anubis!" She smiled, gently tapping the top of his head like he was a dog.

"Are you sure you want to stay, Fairy? Really sure?" Apollon worried. "There's a hero's welcome waiting for the woman who discovered Atlantis!"

"I don't think the world needs another hero. Besides, as I was saying earlier, I hear there is an opening down here for an expert in gibberish."

Thoth was now standing next to her, his arm resting around her shoulders. It looked just like another lovey-dovey touch, but the message was clear. He was not letting Yui go, at least, not before a few years. And not without him.

"Well then, take good care of yourself, Fairy. Take care of yourself!" Apollon said as he extended his hand toward her.

"Yeah, you too Apollon." Yui closed in the distance and took his hand.

Instead of simply shaking it, Apollon pulled her into a bear hug. Yui couldn't help but giggle. She hugged him back. They parted and Yui walked back to where Thoth was still standing, looking at the others as they walked toward the ship.

"Come guys! Let's take on last picture in front of the fish!" the doctor cheered.

They all walked toward it, sitting down or standing in the piles of golds. Yui and Thoth stood behind, while Loki and Balder stood to the right. In the middle, there was Dionysus, Tsukito and Apollon, and on the left, Takeru and Anubis. One of the Atlantean guards took place behind the camera.

"Say: Gochk!" he said.

"Gochk!" everyone said at the same time, smiling at the camera.

After that, they hugged one last time and the rest of the crew left back toward the surface. Yui and Thoth looked at the plane leaving.

"God, I'm glad they're gone," Thoth sighed once the vehicle left.

"Oh come on, they're not that bad," Yui laughed as she gently hit him in the ribs with her elbows.

"No. But now, I can take all your time, and no one will disturb us," he smiled mischievously as he leaned down and pressed a kiss to Yui lips.

"Oh, but we have a lot to do before that, Mister."

"As long as I'm with you, I don't care."

Melissa climbed on Yui's shoulder, meowing to get some attention. Yui smiled as she took Thoth's hand. They walked together back to the city, thinking about what their next step was going to be.

Weeks have passed since everything had started. Yui was adapting to the traditions of the Atlanteans perfectly well. She was frequenting Thoth, who had taken his father's place on the throne and now acted as the King of the Atlanteans. He had been courting the young woman for a while now, and had recently asked her to marry him. The ceremony would happen fairly soon, in between Thoth's work on bringing back the old traditions of Atlantis and Yui translating the story of these peoples.

But before any of that, they had an important mission to accomplish, which they had been working on for a long time. They had picked a rock and had carved it to resemble the previous King. Everyone had gathered on the plateau, where a few weeks ago they had made their last stand, while Yui finished carving the rock.

When the last details were finished, she stepped back and looked at her work. She was wearing Atlanteans clothes, which belonged to the previous Queen. Thoth was standing next to her, looking serious. But his eyes showed his sorrows and nervousness. He took a step forward and pressed the tip of his crystal to the rock, which became illuminated by the blue light.

They took a few steps back as the rock started hovering over the ground and rising toward the heavens, where the Heart of Atlantis was.

As it rose into the air, Thoth grabbed Yui's arm, forcing her to follow him. He took a path all too familiar to the both of them, the same path they had taken when they had their little chat on the first day Yui had arrived. They climbed the path leading to the top of the guardian statue, Thoth taking the lead. They reached the top and looked to the rock joining the other ancestors, holding hands.

Yes, a new age for the Atlantis was now starting. They were safe from letting their culture dying. Now, the only place to go was forward, toward finding out their culture and the old ways of their people.

Truly, this had been a once in a lifetime chance, and Yui was glad she had been part of this whole expedition. She silently thanked Thor as she looked up to the sky.

Finally, she had found where she belonged.