A New Moon Rises Chapter Three
Atlantis
the longer I look around the more I realize who ever these people were they were very close to her own race even more confusing there was air inside the city almost like a barrier was in place to keep water out. similar symbols on the walls similar architecture similar crystals around the necks of the body's shes found along her walk, the dead body's that's the sad part of this place there's no one left alive as far as she can see they are all dead no one to tell her what happened who they were a complete dead end of sorts. This is all very confusing.
This place looks exactly the same way her planet did before the neighboring planet attacked, stone structures that the wild had completely taken over with vines climbing up the building the odd glow left from a crystal being used, the use of crystals was a common practice for us everything powered by crystals everything natural which if you ask me that is why they attacked, for the natural resources that we had managed to keep free of destruction.
Looking around I see more bodies, they all look like they're asleep but I know better I know they are dead they've simply been preserved some how. This place is wonderful other than the odd feeling I get from all the body's, what happened here? Following a path towards the middle of the city I keep my eyes open for anything I need answers I need help. I reach the center there is an extremely large building here the biggest I've ever seen since we were marooned here by our own ship. Taking a deep breath steeling myself for anything I may see inside I take my crystal off my neck and trace the lock with it and the door begins to open.
Hearing a growl I look to my left to see a white wolf perched on top of a rock, its zuul a week into us coming here he had absorbed the energy from the earth around us giving him a unique gift that not many of my kind ever have the pleasure of witnessing, he received the gift to morph into animals and the stillness and shadowy effect of the forest zuul is rarely seen unless he wants to be. Jumping down from the stone and walking up beside me I turn and walk in. what I see amazes me, its a throne room! "zuul go get kurrion, he needs to see this." I murmur. I watch as zuul sets off in a sprint to find my brother, turning I walk deeper into the building to investigate.
Looking around at the walls I see ancient markings ones I can just barely make sense out of I start to try and read it. "with the blood of royalty a crystal and a gem, the city once again will rise" the city will once again rise? What does that mean? Looking around more I see statues of sun pictures of the sun goddess looking around I see light up at the ceiling looking down I see a mirror I turn it slightly and beams of light immediately light the room pointing at a corner in the room by the throne itself. I walk over and see a small basin for blood a key hold for a crystal but this key hold has another odd shape like something was to be combined with the crystal.
Turning around to meet the clatter of my brother and zuul coming through the door I trip my crystal flying from my hand and skidding across the floor. Kurrion runs for me, helps me up "whats going on sorranna?" I hear a click and walk over to where my crystal was not bothering to answer him picking up my crystal I notice it connected with a gem, the crystal and gem becoming one I turn towards the throne then stare at my brother and butler " I THINK I can make this city rise to the surface of the ocean maybe even into the sky its self" "Sorranna" my brother warns. "look I don't care what you think I'm gonna try." cutting my hand with a knife and letting the blood drip into the basin and putting my new necklace into the slot. Suddenly the whole city starts shaking one giant earthquake and a sudden uprising movement. I smile and start to chuckle. "WHY, why would you do this? I don't think this is a good idea at all!" kurrion yelped out after the sudden up roaring movement of the city. "if we can get this city into the sky we can radio zethiria" "and what makes you think they're still there?still alive?" "nothing but I have to try this can be a new start for our entire race, a new beginning." the city breaking through the water sitting there for a moment sorranna reads the next line on the wall, walks out to the court yard starts tracing the patterns on the round sphere and the stones after doing so the statues rise into the sky walking back into the throne room putting the key in the next socket the city rises completely out of the ocean and into the sky, deciding the city was high enough I pulls the crystal out and the city stops where it is.
Feeling triumphant she turns to her companions puts her hands on her hips and smiles. Starting off at a sprint I head towards the radio that we managed to salvage from the ship three days into being stranded. " zethiria come in," pausing for an answer then continuing " zethiria please respond this is princess Sorranna turner" " sorranna this is zathiria, or at least whats left of it, where are you what happened?" "to make a long story short we crashed into an m class planets ocean found an underwater city and raised it into the sky and its perfect for housing our kind im sending the coordinates now." "we understand and are on our way, our inhabitants will be notified we will start moving people immediately" "understood" just as a white wolf and my brother come bursting in I stand up and swing around with a smile on my face "they're coming"
nuada
taking a walk to clear my mind and think about what this gem looks like and where I may find it, I come to the waters edge minding my own business trying to come up with answers when all of a sudden I feel a large tremor so large in fact that it was knocking me around I could keep a stable footing finally it knocked me down flat and then I saw it, a city? Made of rocks and crystals? Rising from the ocean? I've finally lost it I've spent to much time in exile that its finally drove me nuts. I stop to watch it for what seems like an hour but merely only five minutes then it erupts into the sky. Baffled by this I came to the conclusion that I needed to figure this out but how? How was he to get all the way up there?
