Leah lives with her family in a small village. Everybody there works for Mr. Whitmore. Her parents often have meetings with 'important people' because there are 'problems'.

Based on Atlantis the lost Empire

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(This is NOT a sequel to 8500)

Hello. My name is Leah.

I'm six years old.

I live in a big house, with my mother, my father, my brothers and sister, and Dina, her sister Moira, and Appi. Dina cooks our meals. Appi works in the house. He's nice, and funny. He's in love with Dina, but he's afraid to tell her. Moira's really sweet. She looks out after me, Jenna, Rory and Nathan when Mommy and Daddy aren't home.

Rory is my twin brother, but he doesn't look like me. Jenna and Nathan are a twin too. Mom says that there were a lot of twins in her family. I've never met them. Mom says they died a long time ago.

I'm not sure where I live, but it's somewhere in America. I live in a small village, not far from a big white building with W_H_I_T_M_O_R_E__I_N_D_U_S_T_R_I_E_S on it. Every morning Mommy and Daddy go to the building, because they have meetings with important people. They work for an old man, Mr. Whitmore. He's weird. Daddy told me he collects strange things like this cup called 'the holy grail' or something like that. Sometimes he comes to our house to talk with Mom and Dad. He says he's an old friend of them. He showed me some pictures of him, my parents and their friends in countries like Iceland and Peru. My parents often go abroad. I can't come with them. They say it's too dangerous. My sister really wants to go with them too. We almost never leave the village.

She says she feels like a prisoner here. Every house has got a metal fence around it, and there's a high wall around the village with guards. I asked Mr. Whitmore why there was a wall, but he didn't want to tell me. I asked my parents the same question, but they didn't answer it too.

Then I asked Jenna. She said she didn't know, but she did know she, Nathan and our parents used to live in a big city and they moved to this place a year before I was born. Then I asked Nathan why we live here. Nathan told me it's because the grownups have a secret, and Mr. Whitmore makes them live here so they don't tell anyone and that they are safe here, because some people will try to kidnap them to make them tell it. I don't believe him.

Sammy, my best friend, says we live here so we can protect the things Mr. Whitmore collects. She told me it's our parent's job to find those things and bring them to Mr. Whitmore. Her father is a friend of my Mom and Dad. He is the village's doctor. I like him. He's nice. My parent's have some strange friends, like this creepy French guy, named 'Mole' or that crazy old man 'Cookie'. The others are ok.

Last week I heard them talk about a place called 'Atlantis', and I asked them where it was.

Mrs. Packard answered that 'Atlanta' was a city in Georgia.

I'm sure I heard them talk about a place called 'Atlantis', not 'Atlanta'.

I asked Jenna if she knew a place called 'Atlantis'.

She told me the story of the empire and its destruction, and said that Moira had told her that Mr. Whitmore had sent our parents, their friends and about 200 other people to look for it, but they didn't find it and almost everybody died on the journey.

Is that why we live here? Are people angry with Mr. Whitmore because let all those people die?

Thanks for reading! I'll try to update soon (this story+8500).