The Prince Journals
One for all,
and all for one
by Cal Alfrenzo,
with commentary by Lia Atlanto
Monday, 11th January, New Continent of Atlantis
It was all Lia's bright idea. I mean, she thinks that I should write a journal to record my findings and of my particular city. She suggests that she could be my editor and maybe I could even publish this "book". Does she think I want to be like the girl in The Princess Diaries?
Although Lia is strongly against The Princess Diaries (she is a tomboy, and does not approve people writing about their private life, like their undergarments' sizes, however fictional, in a published book), she thinks that I have a creative mind and should be encouraged to have my freedom of speech.
So here I am. At the new Continent, Atlantis. Here is what you should know:
Atlantis is a real land. Long, long ago, it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, due to a tsunami generated by this great seismic earthquake caused by a giant volcano eruption, not due to the Ice Age (like being trapped in a giant iceberg beneath the ocean). Atlanteans, being very advanced, like they already invented gun powder, had some scientist made a rudimentary gadget that makes oxygen from underwater green plants, and using electric eels to provide electricity for light bulbs (some guy invented it way before Thomas Alva Edison did) to grow crops and all that. It's like this truly beautiful Garden of Eden, with flowers and birds. Atlantean scientists had made a protective, waterproof sphere that surrounded Atlantis not unlike the ozone layer surrounds the earth. Sometimes there may be a leak or two, but it wasn't very serious.
Atlantis is very big, like about 5 to 10 million square kilometers, or the size of Libya and Asia put together. It's a wonder it lays hidden below a large oceanic surface for like, thousands of years!
Atlanteans are way advanced than even America. They would have built a spaceship into space, had not they been trapped under the ocean for so long. They dared not leave the protective bubble encasing their city, protecting against freak waves and sharks, so they had to build land automobiles. They made batteries from the kinetic energy caused by waves and movements of giant sea monsters, or electricity from electric eels. Their vehicles are charged by the many light bulbs, kinda like solar energy.
At least twelve million people existed in Atlantis. There is not a great many people, as Atlanteans love animals and are mostly vegetarians (well, mostly, except for eating chickens and turkeys, they don't have any seafood) and most of the land are used for agriculture and research for improved technology.
In 1970, Atlantis did emerge from the ocean. Granted, only for a night, because it was because of millenniums of stored energy enabling this heavy, gargantuan continent to rise, so that people can see the rest of the world, two Atlanteans escaped. They are the Crowned Prince of Atlantis and his pregnant wife. They were sick of having tons of ocean above them, and the Prince had made a raft out of some logs and amazingly, they reached America. Edgar Cayce may have a problem to the accuracy of his prophecy that Atlantis was due to rise one or two years before, but it rose, after all. That Prince was my Grandfather. My father was born after they reached America, and they all settled down in New York. In the year 1990, my dad met my mom and married her. He did not tell her about Atlantis. And then later, I was born.
So that's my life story. I would never had know I'm the next Crown Prince of Atlantis if:
my dad hadn't died,
Atlantis hadn't risen again.