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Atlantis

The Lost Empire

"... In a single day and night of misfortune,

the island of Atlantis disappeared

into the depths of the sea."

- Plato, 360 B.C.

A great, roaring tidal wave of epic proportions stampeded forward like a herd of wild elephants over the entire landscape, swallowing the small towns and villages doting the rolling countryside of the vast island. Sentries on flying machines were moving as fast as they could to both escape the destruction, and to warn their home city.

"We have to warn the city of Atlantis! The wave is fast approaching!" One of the men cried. They weaved through orange-red canyons and flew towards the city in the distance, which was home to beautiful white marble spires in the central district, with many intricate aqueducts and pathways. The beautiful city used water themes everywhere they could, and created quite a calming and wonderful effect. But the wave and a massive storm was hovering over the horizon, and many citizens where in a state of panic. The wave's massive shadow was already starting to descend upon the utopia, the wave moving fast like a monster, dark clouds accompanying it forebodingly. There was a large and particularly luminous ice blue crystal that floated above the city. As the wave grew closer, it turned crimson and shined beams of light down upon the city like search lights, as if trying to find something or someone.

The guards at the warning towers all struck the large steel bells with their mallets, and through the announcement system, the people could hear the guards telling them to head for shelters. In the central structures of the city, people were frantic and running, and among them were one young woman, a young preteen, and a small girl. A guard was ushering them on.

"Your highness, please! This way!" He told the eldest. She was fair skinned and had short, pale blonde hair like her two other siblings, and a well endowed chest. Her watery blue eyes were shining with unshed tears. Her younger brother was just as tall as she was, even though he was a few years younger, and his more childish looking face was also showing mild panic, his violet eyes darting everywhere, his hair short and slightly curly, and wearing a scarf he held dearly. It was clearly hand knit and very special to him by the way he clutched to it. The youngest sibling was clinging tightly to the boy's long robes with a death-grip. Her eyes a darker shade of purple than her brothers and they were intently fixated on him, as to never let him from her sight, and her long, straight hair flowed behind her.

Suddenly, one of the red beams lighted on the eldest, and it turned back into blue. She could not resist the call of the crystal, and turned toward it. All of the citizens of Atlantis wore a necklace with a piece of the great crystal attached to it. Her eyes started to glow the same color as the great crystal, and the crystal around her neck floated up and started to tug upwards toward the source of the light, straining against the cord that bound it to the young woman's neck. All of the search beams then came back to merge into one and shown on her, and her crystal suddenly started to glow with a radiant light. It was then that she started to float upwards along the shaft of light, towards the great crystal.

"Kat?" Her brother asked softly, in a worried voice, "Katyusha! Katyusha!" His voice got louder as she ascended higher, and their little sister started to cry and hold on to her brother tighter, as if fearing he would be next. As their sister merged with the crystal, a dome-like shield of light enveloped the central district of Atlantis, forming an impenetrable barrier all around it. The waves tore through the outer layers of the city, instantly tearing apart buildings that it hit, sending them crumbling to pieces. The boy forced his little sister to look away from the light as it swallowed their elder sister, it's light bright and blinding. Tears slid down his face as he clutched his little sister close. The whole district started to sink into the earth as the wave enveloped the shield, and the whole central district of the city sunk with bright lights and flashes of lightning. And then, just like that, there was nothing left of the city on the surface, the water subsiding into the stillness of a vast ocean.

That's the introduction for you! I hope you enjoyed! Please review! I'll love you forever. *waggles eyebrows* Tell me how I did and what you liked.