"Take out Analous and the queen. We've worked too hard and too long to get as close as we have. We got rid of that fool Allen. That's too terribly bad that he wasn't able to stand by the king's side longer. He might have actually been able to get to be regent of something had happened to Lord Van. Oh well I guess with an arrow to your chest takes care of that problem." There was a cackling in the air.

"Sir, I think that you ought to be careful. You also blocked her from returning to Gaia and yet she managed to return with an heir to the throne."

"She will be taken care of as well as her son. I will be king."

"Yes, milord."

Priestess of Passion- I'm glad you think that the story is pretty good. I have to tell you this though. You have to give these other writers a chance because some of them are just starting and it takes a lot of strength to put out what I often consider my babies. The work is out there for people to praise or to critique all the things that the writer has done wrong. I am proud of these people that are putting hearts and souls out for everyone else to see.

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Chapter 15

Loana followed the robed group through the woods toward Mt. Ida. It always seemed to have this really strange blue haze all around it that no one really could explain. Most people were afraid to even go around it. She didn't know why on that one either. She figured that she was about to find out.

She looked back at Vanel who had his hands tied in front of him. 'How does he know what I am going to tell and what I won't? He's told me twice that all that they will get out of me is my name. What right does a guy, I don't care who he is, to say what I will and won't do? How does he know what I am capable of? I haven't told any of my people and they have never caught on. It wasn't for anyone to know.'

"Hey! Watch out! Someone muttered from behind her.

"Sorry!" If she could be seen she would have turned even redder.

"At least you don't need any make up on." A voice said behind her.

"Shut up!" She hissed at him.

She heard Vanel snickering making her want to growl. She stopped all line of thoughts when they all stopped when the mountain opened to reveal a staircase leading down into the earth.

She saw more than felt Vanel trying to tell her that everything would be alright. She looked behind her to see nothing but black. She shook her head when she thought she saw a ghostlike image of his wings. She knew he would not let them out now. It would be way too dangerous.

"Take the prisoner down the left spiral stairs and leave him in the back cell." She was instructed.

She left the direction that she was told to go not sure what she was going to find. The dungeons as she would affectionately call them were crowded with people that had evidently been caught and were not fulfilling their destiny. Everyone's destiny would have been one and the same from what she could figure out. The smell in there was horrendous. The unwashed bodies were shapeless, starving, moaning forms that watched with empty eyes. Every now and then she caught the hint of some spirit left in them. Evidently they hadn't been there as long as some of the others. Young men and women were dressed alike. She wondered how many of them had been able to resist any doctrination that was to come about for them. She wondered how many had the strength to keep fighting.

"Here you are." She found the back cell isolated and empty.

"Loana, I'll be alright." His hand reached for her cheek before he kissed her lightly.

She nodded a little surprised. "I hope you're right."

"I am. Don't worry." He smiled.

"You better be." She locked the cell door with the key that had been in the lock.

Loana was haunted by what she saw as she left the dungeons. She then remembered the ghostlike wings, the feathered kiss and what he had allowed her to see when he kissed her. She was going to worry, she would be scared for him/her, and everything else that was about to go down.

"Well, it took you long enough. Did he give you some trouble?" A voice said.

"He gave me a little trouble." She answered.

"We are due for a meeting." There was a blue haze that led to another tunnel.

The tunnels led all over the place. There were detours here and there but they followed the blue haze in all cases.

Eventually they were led to an outside tunnel to what looked like a valley. What surprised her though were the beautiful buildings that were rising above the water. They in one sense looked like the buildings that were in her little village; in another sense though it was different. There was some kind of electrifying energy about it that made you want to explore but were afraid to because it seemed that it should be revered. There was little movement that you could see on the cobblestone streets where it was revealed to have the occasional heavy lid laid in some spots of the cobblestone streets. 'What is that? I've never seen anything of the like.'

"It's almost done. Isn't it magnificent?" Someone beside her asked.

"Yes, it is." She took in a breath.

"I can't believe that Atlantis will be up in but a few more buildings." Another voice said.

"Atlantis?" She whispered. "This can't happen." There was too much excitement for her to be heard but she was shocked.

Analous-

Walked through the early morning breeze and couldn't help this feeling of dread that filled him. Lady Hitomi was and had been up for a little while but she hadn't come out of her room yet. He heard a scream break the peace of the morning and drew his sword. His feet followed the sound of the scream.

"Miss, are you alright?" The shaken maiden shook her pale face at him and darted her eyes behind him.

"Who/What is it?" He asked turning around. A sword was coming toward him. The defensive block was automatic for him.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha someone laughed behind him stabbing a dagger to his back.

He blacked out seeing that the pale woman stood over him.

Hitomi-

Hitomi had stopped pacing the floors about thirty minutes ago and now sat in warm bubble bath that she had drawn. Something changed though. Everything was different. "Hitomi they are rebuilding Atlantis."

"Grandma why would they try to do that?"

"They want it's power."

"Atlantis was all but a peaceful place though. Who would resurrect it?"

"There is more to Atlantis than the machine that Dornkirk had built. That was just the beginning. They will complete it but it must be destroyed when they do."

The vision of her grandmother vanished to the grand buildings that made Atlantis the legend that it was. All that remained was a large city. It looked as if everything else had been submerged in the water with the exception of the high fortress of a wall. A pink stone showed brilliantly through the sky reflecting the suns rays all over the city. It truly was a magnificent sight. Around the stone there was an energist. Actually it looked a lot like the dragon energist that they had to get to take the throne.

"The magnificence is spellbinding but deceitful. There was much damage done by our armies. A few people were able to keep the ultimate damage and shift in power from happening. Fear ran rampant at times through the peaceful people that lived here. This placed used to be apart of Mesopotamia. This is the lost part of it but by then a lot of it had gone under at the rise of the oceans." A figure of a woman appeared beside her.

"What happens if we can't stop this?"

"Then all is lost. The Slanzer family is our last hope."

Everything was disappearing leaving water cold and Hitomi looking like a prune. She stood straight up. She wrapped her towel around her before getting to Van. "Van! Van! Where are you?"

He wasn't in the room. She knew that before she called his name a second time. "Guard, where is Lord Van?"

"Milady, he's at a meeting."

"Thank you." A few minutes later she went down to the conference room.

"Lady Hitomi we have one more test to give you." One of his advisors stood up.

"The test will have to wait. I have to speak with Van."

"That will have to wait."

She glared at the much disliked advisor. "Are you questioning me?"

"No, he's not because if he does then he will be replaced." Van stood by her.

The man grumbled something. "Milord, Analous has been found near death!" Someone came running into the room.

Okay, please don't throw anything at me!begs on my knees I know that I haven't updated since January and my list of excuses is not good enough. In the fall term I had two jobs and school. In the spring term I had one job and extra class and lots of homework. I've also been trying to finish my story We meet Again. It's almost finished.