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An hour later after Zak had faced a snarling monster that turned into a girl, the same girl that had fallen unconscious, was beginning to wake up. She hadn't been moved or touched; for fear that whatever possessed her may return. The Saturdays stood poised to take action in the event of the monster returning or more coming to her aid.

Drew had been working into over drive while that hour had passed trying to translate the marks on her skin and the surrounding walls.

"Okay so the glowing is caused by a fine powder from a gem called 'curcium'. I haven't figured out why the chains are embedded with this gem. But on the chain there is another phrase repeating over and over. This one reads 'forever bound by the sin of the nation of your blood', now I'm not sure but it almost reads as an incantation. The characters in this room and on the chain are slightly different than the characters in the entrance, they read the same but at the same time they don't. I, I don't know. I've hit a brick wall here." Drew sighed tapping away at her personal hand held.

"Mom, I think she's starting to wake up!" Zak spoke up from behind his mother, he got up to get closer when her slim hand wrapped around his wrist.

"Hun let's hold off going near what may eat you."

"But mom she doesn't seem like she'd hurt anyone like this."

"We'll let your father decide on that."

The doc had moved a bit closer and nodded to Doyle who held up his wrist blaster and leveled it with the girl's now moving body.

She sat up slowly and rubbed her head and seemed surprised to see human limbs, in the place of fur covered ones. She didn't seem to notice the Saturdays yet, but appeared to be more interested in the burnt in characters on her skin.

Drew nodded to her husband who edged closer and got her attention.

"Excuse me, miss?"

The girl turned to him and drew her knees to her chest and presented the doc with a smile.

"Yes? What can I do for you?" A pleasant voice responded.

"You can start by explaining yourself. Like why are you here and why you attacked my son." Arms folded across his chest, feeling no threat from the small girl who stood and turned to face the family. Doyle lowered his wrist and frowned, still feeling like she could be a threat.

"My name is Azurvi Selos and I am here because I was condemned to guard the undoing of my people as punishment. Your son just disturbed one of the trip wires through the caverns. I do apologize and at the same time I wish to thank you once again. I have not been myself in ages, and it is a blessing to be released from the chains and the spell inscribed on them."

Drew cracked a smile to her husband, with a small 'I told you so' look in her eyes. Solomon tried to ignore his defeat and pressed the girl for more information.

"The 'undoing of your people' what is that exactly?"

"The well of eternity, was the center piece in the high temple of Atlantis, a place for healing, deep thought and tranquility. Unfortunately, greed coupled with a tyrant tainted the well and began to destroy us from within."

"Atlantis, I thought the city sunk after a storm." Zak piped up after hearing a name that had been thrown around a lot. Atlantis was not only on V.V. Argost's list of places to find, but his parents and the other secret scientists had argued where its ruins lay.

"Partly true, the destruction of the city is partially my fault."

"Just get on with the story will you?" Doyle quipped, feeling bored by her beating around the bush.

And so began the tale of Atlantis and its fall and disappearance from general history.

'In the golden age of Atlantis there was a great advance in our technology and the spiritual following of the people was unified. We were happy, things were managed through a council and with that council they found the well of eternity. Water straight from the deepest reservoirs in the earth, in such a pure state we found that it held healing properties when combined with the divine power of the priestesses.

My blood line has been sworn to follow the council and its high councilor, no questions, just to follow their requests. And in the golden age, that was fine and the people were happy with what we had. Unfortunately, a tyrant made a pact with a dark god called Kur and with the power that Kur granted him, he took over our nation island by island. This tyrant used creatures of terrible power, speed and strength to overthrow the council and killed off any that opposed him. He was not happy with the small space we occupied, he wanted more. He wanted the power, glory and riches that the rest of the world had to offer. My mother and I were the high priestesses at the time and with our blood being bound to the ruler of Atlantis, we could do nothing to oppose him lest we bring shame to our family name.

Nation by nation was either destroyed, or brought in by force to serve this mad man. My mother and I could only keep following his requests. To build crystal armor, weapons and even use our own power to destroy those that tried to oppose our country. The well had been tainted by Kur's dark power and the high emperor's thirst for glory, with the well being tainted the crystallize water we created objects on his request began to break easier. The people began turning away from the temple for its original purpose and just used it as an armory for the military.

With the world being set on fire by the tyrant, a large nation took a strike at our heart, the well itself and the madman who controlled the tainted power. Knowing that Circium can be used as a chemical to destroy us, they launched their attack on the main island. Killing many and made their way to the temple. The well water had been so badly tainted that nothing in the militaries armory worked, the high emperor called upon my mother and I and the other priestesses to use our power to defend him and the well. The emperor began sacrificing what he could to Kur begging for his life to spared, so that he could continue on with his conquest. Kur however refused to bring forth the beasts without a willing live sacrifice. With that he called upon my mother to throw herself into the well and to let Kur take her. Instead of the army that he once had, he sent one beast from the well. The beast was in a rage, and tore apart anyone that got remotely close to the well, but in time was destroyed by circium powder. It was then that I found out that my mother was the beast. When the others began falling victim of the circium, he called upon me, the last of the blood line to defend him. I was angry with this selfish man; I wanted nothing more to do with his war, with his lust for power. But my blood dictated that I had to follow his orders, no matter what I felt. With that final moment before throwing myself into the well, I made a prayer to the first god of Atlantis that my mother's life be avenged.

In my descent into the well I felt my body change, my mind began twist and I could feel that anger turn to rage and then to fury. When I emerged from the well, I took the first person nearest to me, which was the high emperor, then began to go through the hordes of invaders in my capitol. I couldn't stop; I could just hear the anger and rage in my mind with everything that had happened. I was caught finally and chained down by what you see before you. The inscription on the chains means that I had to pay for the sin of my nation and the madman that over took the council. I was to destroy what he had built up; island to island I traveled in my grotesque form, destroying all life and signs of living at all. I returned to the temple which had been leveled and slowly buried. I was hoping for a death, to join my mother, to be free from the pain and guilt. But instead I was locked to the well room, to be here to keep the well guarded from those that would use it again, to free Kur with the key from the water he tainted himself. And I have been frozen in time here, for a very long time. In the dark I remained a monster, fending off any that got close, unsure whether or not I was serving as Kur's guardian or serving the druids as my punishment." Azurvi finished her story, her chin resting on her knees.

"This key you spoke of, what is it exactly?" Doc spoke up.

"I can show you, if you would like."

"Anything would be a help to us right now."

"Please follow me, I can show you the well."

She side stepped the chain that laid across the stone bridge and led the family across the chasm and into another room where a dingy rock formation erupted from the center of the room. She stood behind the well and held her hands over the opening; a small stream of water bubbled up to her hands and floated mid air for a few seconds before hardening and forming into an inscribed shard.

"This would be the key I was talking about."

"This key is vital to be kept a secret and to be kept out of the wrong hands. I don't know if you could trust us or not, be we are trying to prevent Kur from returning ourselves." Drew said stepping forward.

"It would not matter as I can only keep the key in this form, if it is out of my hands, then it reverts back to its original form." Azurvi handed the key over to Drew who watched it melt back into water as soon as the priestess's fingers left the surface.

"So Argost would be after her, not the well, she's in danger then!" Zak suddenly spoke up, after putting 2 and 2 together. Zak's panic was met with bubbling laughter from Azurvi; she shook her head at him.

"I can fend for myself, I have for ages. It's really no problem."

"You don't understand, Argost will do whatever it takes to unlock Kur's tomb"

"And he has a pretty nasty way of dealing with those that refuse to cooperate." Doyle said grimly, remembering his narrow escape from that life.

She opened her mouth to protest with the family, she stopped after hearing a blast from another portion of the caverns.

"This is bad. We need to figure out what to do now." Doc sighed.

"I can take care of myself." Azurvi frowned and walked out of the room toward the blast, ready to take on whatever decided to invade her broken home.