Nate's POV

We approached a reasonable sized hut in the middle of the jungle, it was pretty well hidden considering all the vines and shrubbery. Charlie then pulled out a key from his pocket before unlocking the door. We were greeted by Chloe aiming a gun at us, "Nice to see you too, Chloe." I chuckled. Sam, Sully and Cassie stayed outside with Vicky. There were papers scattered over numerous tables- probably a bunch of clues and whatnot.

"Nate!" Chloe exclaimed before tossing her gun onto a table, "Long time no see." Elena leaned against the door frame as I engulfed Chloe in a hug.

"This is unacceptable." Charlie started, "She gets a hug from the famous Nathan Drake, but I don't?" I could practically feel Elena's gaze burning through the back of my head.

"You're not special enough, Cutter." Chloe teased as we pulled away. Elena then left the building and seconds later, Sully entered. He closed the door behind him.

Sully sighed, "The Mrs doesn't look happy, Nate."

"I see you've finally married Elena, Drake." Chloe smiled. A few seconds later her smile dropped as she sighed, "Aaaanddd she's jealous because we hugged."

"Ah." Sully began, "That explains why she looks angry."

"She's probably upset because I wanna take this Atlantis job." I told him.

"Well, kid you did promise that you were done with this life." Sully replied.

"Don't go soft on me, Sully. I can tell that you want to take this Atlantis job just as much I as do."

Sully let out a groan, "Yeah. I miss finding these lost cities." he began, "Sam will definitely be up for it."

"Sam?" Chloe wondered.

"My brother. Long story." I told her.

Whilst Charlie fiddled with some papers on a desk he spoke, "He's also got a fourteen year old daughter with Elena. This day has just been full of surprises."

I walked over to Charlie, "What have you got here?" I asked.

"Nate." Sully said.

I turned to look at him, "What?" he then motioned towards the door.

"Drake, go and deal with Elena. We can talk about this later. Send them all in anyways, it's almost one am." Charlie told me.

"Okay okay!" I exclaimed before leaving the building, "Hey, Sam. Wh-Where's Elena?"

Sam sighed, "Tried to stop her. She headed down that path." He pointed to a path, "Towards the shore." I nodded.

I looked down at Cassie, "Head on inside. It's pretty cold out here." Cassie, Sam and Vicky all headed inside before I walked down the indicated path. I looked up through the trees and the moon and stars were clearly visible. Not a cloud in sight. I soon reached the beach and saw Elena sitting on the sand with her legs crossed. She was looking out at the ocean, and towards Sully's broken plane, "Elena it's not safe out here. Who knows what could be lurking in this jungle. Rafe could also show up any minute now and attack."

"We both made a promise, Nate." she said as I sat next to her, "We were done with this treasure hunting life."

"You don't have to get involved, Elena. You can go into hiding whilst Charlie, Sully, Sam, Chloe and I deal with it. You and Cassie will be safe." I replied.

Elena sighed, "Why do you have to get involved?"

"Because this is what I was born to do. Treasure hunting. Following in Sir Francis Drake's footsteps!" I started, "I never wanted to give that up. But I did for you and for Cass but now... Now that Charlie has come up with something and it looks like he's got a lead... I can't turn it down."

"Nate-" I cut her off by pecking her on the lips.

"I promise. This will be the last time I do anything like this. We can drop you and Cassie off somewhere so you can be safe."

She quickly shook her head, "No, Nate! If you're going then I'm going to. I don't want to risk you getting stuck out there on your own."

"We don't have anyone who can look after Cassie and besides... They'll all have my back." I said referring to Charlie, Sully, Sam and Chloe.

"Can't Sam stay with Cassie? You can call him if we need his help but only if absolutely necessary." she suggested.

I nodded, "I'll talk to him about that, okay?" I stood up, "Come on. It's pretty cold out here, we can all talk about this in morning." I took her hand in mine as she stood up. We started to walk back to the hut.

"Thought you two had been eaten by wolves." Sully said as we entered.

"Ah, that's reassuring." I replied.

"So are we ready to get this show on the road?" Charlie questioned.

I shook my head, "Can we deal with this in the morning? Please?"

"Might be the best idea." Chloe agreed, "There are four bedrooms. Charlie and I can have one and you lot can sort the others out." Charlie and Chloe left the room through a door. There were three other doors, all presumed to lead to the bedrooms."

"Sorry, Sully. Looks like you and Sam are sharing a room." I smirked.

"As long as he stays as far away as possible from me, then I'm okay." Sully said.

Sam chuckled, "You know you love me, Sullivan."

Cassie sighed, "I'm guessing that I'm sharing a room with the dog."

"Hey. You'll be fine." Elena assured. We all went into our bedrooms. Elena and I instantly got into the bed due to the need of warmth.


I was awoken by Sully complaining just outside the door, "I am definitely way too old for this now. Had you have asked me to find the lost city of Atlantis ten years ago I would've been one hundred percent in but now..."

"Come on, Victor!" I heard Sam exclaim.

Elena groaned, her eyes still shut, "Do they have to be so loud?" her arm was draped over my stomach. It was now extremely hot compared to the cold last night.

"By all means, you can stay here." Charlie spoke.

I sighed, "Perhaps we should get up before they decide to leave us in the middle of jungle." Elena then slowly, and reluctantly, stood up before stretching her arms. She then turned to look at me.

"You're still going to go through with this aren't you?" she asked. I nodded as I stood up.

"One more. Just one more adventure. I miss it and I'm sure that a part of you misses it too." I replied.

There was a knock at the door, "Hey, love birds!" Sam called, "Get your asses up!"

"We're coming!" I called back.

Sam joked, "Don't really need that information little brother!"

"Very funny, Sam!" Elena said as she opened the door.

"So are we finally doing this?" Chloe questioned.

I nodded, "Yeah. What leads have ya got?" Charlie and Chloe lead me over to a table.

"I found this." Charlie said as he picked up a large piece of paper.

"Must be a couple hundred years old." I said as I took it from him and unrolled it to reveal a map.

Sam stood next to me, "That's definitely a map but it doesn't lead to Atlantis. Atlantis is supposedly underwater and this map leads to a place above sea level."

"That's what confused us." Chloe admitted.

"Wh-Where did you find it?" I asked as I flattened the map out on the table.

Elena cut in, "Now hang on a minute." she began, "I thought that Atlantis had already been found in Spain."

"They thought that found it." Charlie assured, "But the truth is... Atlantis is supposed to have treasure. Lots of it, too. And the city that they found in Spain had none at all."

"Why would Atlantis have treasure? Who would've placed it there?" Elena questioned.

Sam and I answered simultaneously, "Edward Teach."

"Edward Teach?" she wondered.

"Better known as Blackbeard." Chloe told her.

Sam then said, "Wait a minute. Are we one hundred percent sure that Edward would've put his treasure in Atlantis? Surely he would've kept it on his ship."

"We suspect that his ship must've crashed near Atlantis." Charlie began, "Archaeologists found Blackbeard's ship but no treasure was found amongst the wreckage."

"And you think that Blackbeard must've stashed his gold in or near Atlantis." I added. Charlie and Chloe nodded.

Sully then strolled over towards us, "Now hang on. If archaeologists have found the ship, and you think that Atlantis is near where the ship crashed... why don't you just go to the location of the wreckage?"

"Because of this map. It's telling us to go to the desert." Chloe said.

"But what for?" I asked, "We already have a general area of where Atlantis could be. Why do we need to go to the Sahara? And Cutter, you never did say where you found this map." Elena then headed into Cassie's room, closing the door behind her.

Charlie spoke, "Well... The archaeologists may not have found any treasure. But they did find the map in a box."

"And you're telling me that no water got inside this box to tamper with the map." Sully said.

"Apparently not." Chloe replied.

"More importantly." I started, "You basically stole this map from the archaeologists."

"Well they weren't doing anything with it!" Charlie exclaimed.

Sam then added, "This has to be Teach's map. It must have something to do with Atlantis."

"We're going to the Sahara desert?" Sully asked.

"We're going to the Sahara desert." I confirmed.

"Alright then, let's go." Sam said.

I sighed, "Actually, Sam... I wanted to ask if you could erm... stay here with Cass."

"Are you serious?" he questioned.

"Yeah." I nodded, "Elena wants to come with because she's worried that I'll get stuck on my own somewhere. I'll call you if I need anything, I swear."

"It's a bit hard to get signal in the middle of the desert, brother." Sam told me.

"Look I don't want Elena to come. I don't want her to get hurt, but she insists." I responded, "It doesn't specifically have to be you, Sam. But I trust you with Cassie's life the most." I muttered.

"Maybe I should stay here, kid. I'm not as agile as I was fifteen years ago." Sully commented.

I groaned, "Okay, fine. We'll come straight back here once we've found whatever is in the desert. We'll all head out to sea together afterwards." we all agreed. I knocked on Cassie's door, "Elena! We're going to the Sahara if you're up for it!"

"Definitely." she said as she appeared.

"How are we supposed to get to the desert? Sully's plane doesn't exactly work anymore." Sam said.

Chloe then smiled, "Don't worry. Trust us on this."