Leah is surrounded by guards, lies and walls The world through the eyes of a six year old girl.

Based on Atlantis the lost Empire

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Everything's property of Disney. ( except the things I made up)

Sorry it took so long, but it's longer than my previous chapters.


This morning, I went to see Sammy and told her we weren't moving now.

She was happy I was staying for now, but also sad because we're going to move someday.

I'm sad too. We are best friends. I don't want to lose her.

I'm going to miss this place. My friends, my house, my school…

Maybe I can talk to my parents, let them know I don't want to move.

I never wanted to move, just to be able to leave this place, see the world.

If being able to leave the village means losing all the people I love, then I prefer being locked up here.

This place is all I know, for years it has been almost my entire world, and I liked it that way. The few times we left our village, made me curious about the rest off the world, behind the wall.

Like the time we went to the zoo ( some guards came with us, of course). We saw all those strange animals, from all those strange countries, and it made me want to see more.

I still want to see more, but I'm scared every time I leave this place, since the day the guards had to remove the 'important people' from our house. And when guards come with you every time you have to leave our village, or even have to go close to the wall, there must be something dangerous out there…

Here, I always felt safe.

Maybe we aren't moving at all.

Maybe it's just another lie.

What did Mom mean with lies?

Something like 'I didn't eat the cookies, it was the cat'(that was really dumb of Rory, we don't have a cat) or something serious like 'I didn't kill that guy'?

Why all these secrets? What can be so dangerous we need walls, guards and lies to protect us?

Back home, I found Dina and Moira yelling at each other in something half Italian/ half English.

Dina was really angry Moira had told us about Atlantis. She knows she can't talk about it.

Dina asked her why she did it.

Moira answered that she hadn't told us everything, and whispered something in Dina 's ear. More secrets.

Then she said that we have the right to know.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

Mom and Dad, from Italy.

Dina told them what Moira had done. Then she said something in Italian, before turning to me. Mom wanted to talk to me. Luckily she wasn't angry with me. She just said she didn't want me to waste my time with a fairytale, like they had done. She told me they would be home in a couple off days. I asked her if it was true we were going to move. She said they were thinking about it., but nothing was sure.

Then I heard a strange voice in the background. Mom said she had to go now, and we would talk when she's back home.

I was glad Mom wasn't angry.

This was my chance.

I begged Dina to tell me more about Atlantis. At first she refused to do so. She said she was the cook, it was not her job to tell me stories, and she had to make supper now. She promised me to tell the rest of the story in the evening.

The day passed, and it became time for our bedtime story. I sat down on Rory's bed, as Dina and Moira entered the room. Moira always tells us our bedtime story in here, and when she's finished I go to my room. Jenna and Nathan can stay up for another hour.

Ok, I'll tell you about Atlantis, but then, straight to bed.

This story isn't really appropriate for small children, but if you really want to hear it…

Don't come to me if you get nightmares, ok?

You shouldn't be afraid. Remember, it's just a story, it's not true. Atlantis is just a fairytale.

I don't know how people like Mr. Whitmore could ever believe it existed…

A long time before you were born, Mr. Whitmore sent out an expedition to find Atlantis. Nobody is sure if they ever found it, but there are a lot of rumors they did, but only a part of the empire, mainly the capital city had survived the flood. They say there even would have been living Atlanteans.

Their king didn't want the explorers in his city, so they could only stay for one night.

While they were in the city, the old king died, some people say he was killed by one of the explorers, because he wanted to steal their power source, a kind of magic crystal, but the others stopped him and he died.

One of the explorers fell in love with the Atlantean princess and didn't want to leave. When his friends left, he stayed in Atlantis and married the princess, who had now become the queen of Atlantis , and he became the king.

The other explorers agreed to keep Atlantis a secret until they were ready to let the outside world know they existed.

The king and queen were good to their people. Eventually they let Atlantis rise to the surface again because they wanted to share the Atlantean knowledge with the world.

Not everybody was happy with the king, because he was an outsider, not an Atlantean. One man, a noble from an ancient aristocratic family named Mestor (after one of the first kings of Atlantis), thought he should have been king, and started making an army to take over the empire. He hated the queen, because she had refused to marry him. He had been proposing to her since they were teenagers, and every time her answer had been NO, followed by some insults.

Because he had power and a big influence on the city, he got a lot of followers. Many of them didn't want to betray their king and queen, but they had no choice. If they didn't cooperate, they would be killed.

For years, they worked in secret, making plans to take over control…

The one day, they attacked. They went to the palace, the guards tried to stop them, but there were too many of them. A lot of the royal guards were on Mestor's side.

Eventually, they managed to capture the Atlantean royal family.

They banned them from their empire. No one ever heard from them again. Some people said Mestor had them killed.

He wanted Atlantis to be hidden again, but he didn't have the power to let it sink to the bottom of the ocean again. So he ordered the leaders of the other countries of the world to tell Atlantis never existed, and to make sure no one ever went to the city again. If they didn't do so, Atlantis would attack them. Everybody feared the powers of their great crystal, their energy source; so they let the people believe the messages that Atlantis was real had been jokes, misinformation by the Germans. That's why today, that is if you believe the rumors of course, almost everybody believes Atlantis is gibberish, and others are afraid to ever speak about it.

The truth? Well, Atlantis is just a myth, even Mr. Whitmore sees that now. The expedition, to find Atlantis is the biggest mistake he ever made, and he doesn't want anybody to repeat it.

After the failed expedition we decided to hide all the books about Atlantis and never speak of it again, so nobody of us would ever go look for it again.

The news of the failed expedition quickly spread across the world, and today people are still shocked by the fact that 200 people died because of a fairytale.

You had your story: now, straight to bed!

I waked up because the phone rang again. I got out of my bed. Dina was talking to Mom. She said it's possible Daddy will be home tomorrow evening, because he fell down the stairs and they aren't sure, but he might have broken his leg. She and uncle Normy will return in three days .

Poor Daddy. I hope he's all right.

I remember Nathan had a lot of pain when he broke his foot.

He was playing soccer with his friends and he fell down.

Dina sent me back to bed. It was 5 o'clock in the morning.


Thanks for reading

I'll try to update soon

I know you are probably thinking: What? Why didn't the crystal do something?, Kid and Milo can't be dead! or something like that, but I'll explain everything in my following chapters.