Memories
Prologue
Atlantis, ten thousand years ago:
The wraith siege had been going on for over two decades now, but had just reached the level where the Lantians were forced back to their planet. Everything was under wraith control in the Pegasus galaxy. As the first darts started to invade the city, everyone tried to maximize the defence inside. Meanwhile, they started preparations to rescue the remaining members of the immortal royal family, prince Langsdom, his little sister, princess Alaine, and their cousin, prince Treavol. The enemy broke into the city two weeks later.
- Mylady! – said one of the maids. – You have to escape!
- Where is my brother? – asked the princess.
Her face was young and beautiful, her skin was white, eyes were brown-green, her hair was light brown, she was tall and thin. Among the Lantians, only the royal family was immortal, the princess herself was over three hundred years old.
- I don't know, but we have to go.
Alaine looked back to the throne room for one last time, and stepped into the teleporter. They got out next to the gateroom, and dialed immediately.
- Hurry up! – cried a lot of people.
- Has anybody seen the two princes? – asked somebody beside Alaine.
- Yes, they're still at the western docks – the answer came. – We can't make them come back, but if they really won't, we loose every hope we have.
- I'd like to report Mylady! – said a soldier and bowed before the girl.
- Go on.
- Most of us already went to Earth. Only a few groups remained, after they're gone also, we'll sink the city. Some soldiers and the Council will stay back for a little while.
- Do it, if it must be done.
She looked around at the fugitives. They were mainly women, children and old men.
- You have to depart – said the maid beside her.
She shooke her head and started to run toward the teleporter. She beamed herself to the western docks. There was a big fight there between the Lantian defenders and the wraith intruders. In the first line there was a tall warrior with brown hair and green-brown eyes in a ducal mantle with a lantian rifle in his hands, he was Langsdom. Beside him was a short, dark haired man with blue eyes, he was Treavol. The defenders fell back to this tiny room and tried to cover the entrance. Alaine took a gun and went to the first line. They were alone, the ascended ones didn't interfere and they didn't used there powers either. They were very aware of the warning, that if they use magic against the wraith, the place where they stand will be destroyed. Neither of them wanted Atlantis to be perished, while so many of their people were still there, trying to escape to Earth.
- Go back! – yelled Langsdom at her. – You have to go to Earth!
- I won't go without you.
- The war broke out because of us, they want you, you can't stay here. I couldn't take it to see you die.
- I can take care of myself, you know me.
- I think your brother is right Alaine, it's not safe here.
- You're also…
At that moment the doors blew up and the defenders fell to the ground. About a dozen wraith came in. One of them, as he saw the girl while getting up, went straight to her. Before that he shot her with a stun gun, so the girl lay down to the ground with a scream.
- Well well if it isn't Alaine? – laughed the wraith.
- You? – she groaned.
- Your immortal life will last a long time as food, because you cannot accept me as I am – said the wraith. – Bring the two princes, we're withdrawing from the city, we cannot stay here any longer.
The two men didn't get shot, just detained and their magic blocked by the wraith psychics. Langsdom took his sister, and they started to walk toward a wraith ship with an armed escort. When they got there, the wraith forced them to enter, and every weapon trained at them.
- What should we do with them? – asked one of them.
- We won't hurt the two of them, but send them to their own satellite inside a dart, so their own weapon will destroy them for the things they did.
- And the girl? Wasn't she meant for you as a wife?
- Yes, but she can't accept me. If she doesn't die in the detonation, she will die because of the lack of her life energy.
- Don't you dare hurt her! – hissed Langsdom, but he got a big punch for that out brake.
- And now my precious Alaine, you'll get to know the pain which is a big pleasure for me.
He attached his hand to the girl's chest, and started to drain her energy, all the while listening to her screams of pain. She looked at her brother, and saw that there were tears in his eyes. Her life energy drained a long and hard suffering awaited her, because she was immortal. The ship took off, and they could see as Atlantis raised it's shields and sank under the ocean. They knew that everyone left it and went home to Earth, where they originated from. The ones who didn't return, went to a higher level of existence, and lived on as energy beings and in doing so, became immortal. Alaine's life force continued to diminish. Her energy had been drained for an hour already. Her hair turned into grey, the first wrinkles showed up on her beautiful face, and eventually she grew old. She couldn't last more than a little time with the energy what was left for her. At that time the wraith let her go. She dropped down and this time they let Langsdom catch her.
- Now get moving to that dart – ordered the wraith.
They barely fit into it. It was programmed to take them to the last operational Lantian satellite at the edge of the solar system. The planet of Atlantis slowly faded away before their eyes. The sattelite was at a distance of a half day, meaning they could still live only that much.
- I'm afraid, brother! – whispered the girl in the ship. – I don't want to die.
- I know. I also don't want you to leave me.
- I'm tired.
- Sleep now – said Treavol and Alaine slowly went to sleep.
- I don't want to see her die – said Langsdom, fighting with his tears. – She's only three hundred years old.
- Neither do I. How could he do this to her? – He leaned over and examined her, since he was a doctor at Atlantis. – It would be a miracle if she lived till we get there.
They sat in silence for hours. Alaine's breathing and heartbeat got slower and slower. She woke up an hour before the satellite showed up.
- The end is coming – she said crying.
- No, don't say that sis, please. You are strong, you can hold on.
- No my brother, I can barely speak.
- Alaine, don't think of dying, fight for your life – said Treavol.
- For what? – she tried to laugh, but it came out as cough. – We can't hope to survive this.
- Why would you leave me, where would you go?
- I don't know. And you, why don't you ascend?
- You know that because our Valorvart blood we can't ascend.
- Still you should try maybe you'll succeed...
- We already tried, but the wraith ship won't let us, so even if we could we can't. - said Treavol.
- Don't go Alaine – Langsdom begged her. – Stay with us!
- I'm too weak, I have to go. I love you – she looked up to her brothers for the last time, and her eyes closed down.
- Noooooo!!! – her brother cried, and he embraced the old looking young girl's body. She was still alive, but hardly, just a little life left in her, so it will be the explosion that kills her, instead of the wraith. They were both weeping loudly. Slowly they saw the satellite. In two hours they got close to it. The weapons of the satellite turned on for the last time, targeted the dart, and fired. Alaine came to her senses. Langsdom straightened her and so they looked together as the missile came towards them, impacting half a minute later. There was nothing left from the dart, and the last two Lantians on the satellite never knew who were in it. After that they shut down the damaged satellite, and they sped to an unknown planet as energy beings...
Atlantis withstood the siege for years, under the ocean, but eventually everybody left it and went back to Earth. Finally the Council departed also. Because the royal family was wiped out, the Council took care of the people until Alaine, Langsdom and Treavol would be reborn on the Earth in the distant future and return to Atlantis. They will unite their people once again and bring peace and prosperity to all Lantians everywhere.