This explains the locket Nemo had in the last chapter. The basic idea for Nemo's history is from Jules Verne, I just added details. It's kinda depressing, so you know.
Mina and Tom woke up in the ship's infirmary the next morning. The bullet wound in Mina's arm had completely healed. Tom had a bump on his head but it was nothing major. The League spent whatever time they had between healing and trying to deduce the other group's next location.
A few weeks after the battle passed and there was still no clue to where the group may be. It was as though they had disappeared off the face to the Earth.
Nemo paced around his study as the clock nearby toned for three in the morning. He was getting more anxious every day. He had begun to pay more attention to the finding their new enemy than anything else. Until now, only he had been able to perform such a feat. If they had their own… The very thought made him shudder.
His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. He looked to see Tom in his day clothes, which looked as though they had slept in. His head had gotten better, though there was still a slight bump on the back of his head.
"Ah, Tom," Nemo greeted, "is there anything wrong?"
"Not really," Tom answered as he leaned against the door, "but I was wondering what the story is behind that locket of yours."
Nemo's ears seemed to perk up slightly to this question. He sat down in his desk chair without looking at Tom. He carefully took the locket from around his neck and gazed at it longingly. Then, he turned slowly to face Tom. After thinking over the matter, he clutched the locket firmly in his hand.
"It's hard to believe how long ago it was," Nemo started. "Do you remember the rebellion of India against England?"
"Yeah," Tom confirmed. "It was in newspapers all over the world."
"I was one of the rebellion's generals," Nemo admitted. "At that time, I was known by another name, one respected in high society."
"I had a wife and two beautiful children," Nemo continued. "They were the most valuable treasure I had."
"I had come home from battling one day," Nemo growl as he recalled the memory, "and found the door had been broken open. I ran inside and found the nightmare that awaited me. A group of scoundrels had barraged into my house and prey upon the innocent people inside.
"I immediately ran into my children's bedroom. Puddles of blood lay on the floor. In the middle of the room lay this," Nemo motioned slightly to the locket in his hand, "with a broken chain."
"It was my wife's. She never took it off." He opened the locket. Inside were two portraits, the left one was of a young boy while the other was of a girl a few years younger. "These were my children."
"Blood flooded the floor; most of the servants had been slaughtered. This was the only trace I could find of my family," Nemo proceeded in a depressed tone, in such a way that Tom had thought that his presence in the room had been forgotten. "I assumed the worst…still do."
"I took whoever had survived, built the Nautilus," Nemo finished, looking up at Tom, "and never looked back."
Tom stood in the door and stared back at the broken man before him. He never thought that a man like Nemo would have had something so sad in his history. The moment in the room seemed to hang in the air of the room.
The moment ended when one of the sailors appeared in the door. It was very clear that he had run the whole way.
"Captain," the man was panting, "we have a problem."
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Nemo and Tom were joined by the rest of the League in the bridge of the Nautilus. They were all looked as though they had quickly thrown on whatever clothes they could find: Mina was wearing a silk robe over her sleepwear, Jekyll's shirt and pants were in folds and creases from getting dressed quickly, and Skinner had simply thrown his coat over himself as he left his room. Some of Nemo's sailors were looking at the radar.
"Whot seems to be the problem," Skinner asked.
"The radar has picked up something behind us," Tom responded, "and it's closing in fast."
"Any idea what it could be," Mina inquired.
"It's metal, underwater, and about the size of a small whale," Nemo returned. "What else could it be but that other group?"
"They can travel underwater," Jekyll concluded. "It explains why we couldn't find out where they were."
"They will be upon us within the half-hour," Nemo calculated.
"Then, we don't have time to just stand around," Mina concluded. "We should be getting ready for when they arrive"
"Let's get started," Tom agreed. He half ran to the door. Before he could grab the knob, it turned and the door opened. In the door way stood a woman in a rainbow dress.
"Hi," she spoke in happy tone, which switched to being disappointed before the greeting stopped bouncing off the walls. "Wait, you're not an exit."
With that, the woman slammed the door shut.
I'd like to thank awesomeness50 and Drakena the Destroyer for reviewing. I'd like to give both of you copies of Nemo's locket.