Loanna-

"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-

"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-

"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.

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Macky- I hope that you enjoy this chapter just as much as the other.

Disclaimer- I only own the characters that I've created. I wish I did own the originals but well…. Oh wait! I own the series!

Chapter 16

"Does anyone know what happened to him?" Van asked.

"No milord we found him like this." Answered the man that had come in and told him.

"Hitomi can you see?" Van looked at her.

"I don't know. It doesn't work that way." She answered. Hitomi placed her hand on Analous forehead. The room sat in silence as they waited to see. "I'm sorry I don't see anything." She whispered. 'Please be okay.'

"He'll be fine Hitomi." Van placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Milord, Milady, King Dryden and Queen Millerna have returned from their excursion."

Van and Hitomi nodded their consent for them to enter. "Van, Hitomi, Najeh is missing."

-Vanel-

"What were you doing in the woods?"

"I was just walking around."

"Where is the rebel base?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. There is no base." Vanel informed him.

"You know we do have ways of finding out."

"Why don't you just use them and get this over with?" Vanel asked with a smirk. He had ways of keeping them from finding out anything that he didn't want them to know.

"You cocky son of a……"

"You wouldn't talk to Mara like that, would you?" Vanel laughed lightly at the man's shocked face.

"How I talk to my family is none of your business." The guard was trying to think if he had talked about his daughter to one of the other guards earlier today. "You keep my family out of this."

"I wouldn't dream of bringing them in on it, especially your wife."

"You…."

"Ah, there's a lady in our midst." Vanel egged him on.

"No there…."

"What's going on in here?" A woman's voice came through the dark.

"Milady," the man bowed to her respectfully. "I'm just interrogating this prisoner."

"He's an interesting one. Fine build, strong, smart and intuitive is just what we need." She thought for a minute. "Don't injure him to bad. We can use him."

"Yes, your highness."

"What is her name?"

"None of your business." The guard muttered. It irritated him that he couldn't do anything to the very impertinent young man.

-Loanna-

A puzzled Loana followed the line of robed figures to an open cave room. A brown haired, blue eyes woman sat in what looked like a chair on the cave wall. The walls around her were as uneven as the rest of the cave walls but there stood statues of wolves bearing their teeth at any threat.

A crystal clear voice interrupted her thoughts. "Gut sun herob."

"Ho." A guard answered her.

"Now we are almost finished. We need you to go to Alexandria for information." Everyone in the room remained is silence. "You will find the library in the west side of the edge of the town. The texts are in a restricted area. You must get past this area. You leave in two hours. You." The woman pointed to Loanna. "You will be escorting a prisoner. He will help to carry any extra weight that can not be carried by the horses.

She was surprised when they dragged behind in Vanel looking really tired and beaten. 'What did they do to him?'

She watched as he pulled the rope his way and stood tall before the assembly. He said something to the guard that wasn't quite intelligible too the guard before he was pointed to the robed figure that he was supposed to go to. Following him there were a few of the people that she had seen in the prison that hadn't completely lost their spirit but from the looks of them they lacked anything but the strength to do what they are supposed to do. They weren't going to be of much help.

They each were sent to another figure and each of them were to do the same thing that Vanel was to do. Loanna shook her head wondering what it was that these people were looking for that they needed all of these extra hands. That was unless they were looking for something that was too big for thought. "You each have your own servant that you must watch over. He will carry the excess weight that you can not on your journey. I wish you luck and return to us safely." They were dismissed with a gesture.

Later that evening when all had gone to bed except for the guard that had been posted at the beginning Loanna was pretending to be securing her 'prisoner' as he was called. She didn't think that he would remain so for long. "Did you find out what your Destiny is?" He asked looking not only at her but through his minds eye trying to place where everyone was.

"Don't do that!" She looked at him. "I don't know what you are but you are going to tire yourself out if you keep up at this pace."

"Look who's talking. You can invade people's minds without giving it a second thought but it wears you out so badly that you have to go to bed afterwards. Is it worth it?" He whispered to her.

"At times it is necessary. You're just downright too confident."

"When we get through here I will train you with your gift. I have had the training required to make it. Now, did you figure out what this 'Destiny' is?" He requested once again.

"I did. They are putting Atlantis back together."

"Did you say that they were putting Atlantis back together?"

"I did. So what are you going to do about it?"

"Me!"

"Yes, you're the chosen one. You are supposed to stop this catastrophe from happening."

"I never said I wouldn't have to have help."

'There is one of the dragons that will see to pass the ancient, present, and future. He will be unknown among the people but of the legends." She whispered.

That has nothing to do with me."

"Don't you see? You are of the dragons. You are the one spoken of in the prophecy."

"Even Harry Potter had to have help." Vanel muttered to himself wishing he were home watching that movie for the hundredth time.

"Silence someone is coming."

"Having trouble with your prisoner?"

"No I was just making sure that he was secure before I went to bed." She made her point by going into her tent and blowing out her kerosene lamp.

Vanel gave a silent prayer to whoever was listening. "Please don't let anything happen to my family." Vanel's vision went white.

"What is going on?" He stood up surprised.

"You've grown tall. I saw you just before I died."

"Grandma?" He saw the apparition show before his eyes.

"Yes it is me. You were born with wings as I recall." Her voice was soft and whispery as wings did appear. "You're mother always thought that they were the most beautiful thing she had seen."

"Yes, she has always thought that." Vanel confirmed before the woman who was no longer an apparition but a touchable human form.

"I've always wondered what you would look like when you grew up. What you would be."

"But didn't you have the same gift as Okaasan?"

"No. She came back with your father because she knew I was dying. I knew of you because my mother had foreseen that Hitomi would not be of Earth for long. I was told to raise her well by your great grandma. I was told that it was most important for me to cherish what I had while I had it."

"I don't understand though. Why do you come to tell me this? Why do you show now?"

"Your father wasn't of Earth. Your father isn't aware of what he can do. You have the gifts of your father and your mother but you don't know how to use them to the full extent."

"Did you know my father?"

"I knew him for a couple of months before he had to go and tend to something. He was a handsome young man but strange and withdrawn. I could hear him pacing sometimes on the roof of the house. Do you know how many times I tried to keep him from doing that? It was a little annoying to hear the footfalls of that man up there." She paused for thought. "You look like him. He, like you and your mother are descendants of Atlantis."

"I don't understand. How are we descendants of Atlantis? Why does your voice shudder at the mere mention of it?"

"Atlantis was almost as technologically advanced as we are today. They were destroyed slowly by war and giant waves from the sea. The people were becoming even more power hungry but there was one that saw what was happening to the people he had influenced. Before he was killed in Egypt he prayed to Ra that he would find help in trying to prevent such from happening."

"Osiris? He was an Egyptian Pharaoh/god?"

"Yes he was. He went and left Isis to rule while he learned more of the people living around them. He prayed that there would be some kind of savior for these people. Combined with the power of the phoenix and the power of Zeus's Pegasus there was a man selected that bore wings at his birth. He was trained in the ways of peace and shown what could be done. Lutnas almost succeeded on his mission to bring peace but was killed at the table by an assassin. However, not before he married. His wife had his son and daughter after he died. The gift of the gods was bestowed upon these two as well and as the population grew people began to see them as gods. Some feared them and wanted them dead. They called them demons."

They were there to create peace but some forgot that. The wars intensified between people and the Atlanteans were winning because of the advanced technology. The winged people were come to be called Draconians. Your father is a direct descendant of these people. The ones that wanted to create peace."

"What about us?"

"Some of the Draconians managed to escape to earth. They became as the humans there were because they knew what could happen. The knowledge was lost but in brief reference in legends. Your great grandmother as a girl went to Gaia somehow after she found a stone on the attic floor. She returned several years according to her but to everyone else she hadn't even disappeared. However, there wasn't a single one that could explain how she wore a ring on her left hand or the fact that she was pregnant with me."

"Who was your father?"

"She wouldn't say. All she could say was that I was born with the gifts but for some reason they began to slowly disappear as I grew older. She knew the gifts still resided and that I would have one that would exceed all expectations. She would soak all of the gifts of fire and flight. You are more Draconian than most but you have your father's hot temper. You and he are a lot alike but you have to protect your mother as well as the people of Gaia. She is the key. She and Loanna must work together with powers combined. Train her for she doesn't have long before she will be tested." His grandmother was going from solid to a shimmering glow.

"Grandma, why must it always be us?" He asked to the now dark sky.

-Analous-

Analous woke up to find himself staring at his glaring mother. He groaned out loud. "What is it mother?"

"You were injured protecting that…."

"Be careful mother you speak treason of a good queen." He stopped her before she could say anything.

"Good queen? The woman is an imposter!" she kept her voice down.

"No she is not. She belongs in this spot."

"She is not of Gaia."

"In spirit she is. She is needed here and not only that Van has accepted his wife."

"Until you come to your senses I will stay away."

He waited until she was no longer in hearing range. "Good riddance mother."

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Okay I know I am kind of late with this chapter. I have some explaining to do with the next chapter but that's alright. I expect it. Things are starting to roll but I'm not sure all of what is going to happen next. For those that are familiar with the story line of Atlantis and the Draconians you will find that I have changed the story just slightly. I hope you are not offended but I really have good reason.