"No way! You have to be joking!?" said Ecco, confused at what their long swim through the tunnel have brought them.

"Some tunnel the Atlantians built." replied Aqua. "I guess they wanted to show off what the city of Atlantis was."

"Yeah, it was nice though. But now… we're going to die!! There's sharks everywhere!!" screamed Coral as she panicked.

"Calm down, all of you. I got this under control. There's an exit about…two or three miles from here." said Shard as the large seahorse began to lead the way to the exit. During the swim the foursome looked at the beautiful marine life. Everywhere they looked were large amounts of coral, that glittered and sprang tiny schools of fish.

Then they noticed many tiny eyes peeking out of indents in the walls. The foursome just smiled at the golden and ruby-like colors until all of them charged out at them swimming around them, swimming in glee, since they haven't seen anything but sharks and air bubbles.

Suddenly Shard lead the group into a large dead-end, which was fortunately inhabited by a dolphin.

"Well look who's back! The crazy one!" the dolphin called out to Ecco who he could easily remember. "so what's new to you shark fighter?"

"Uh… we're looking for some friends of mine, which is also the exit to Atlantis" replied Ecco, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Well, unless you wanna swim in caverns with no air bubbles, you might want to take this shortcut." The dolphin pointed out with his beak. "by the way, who's this with you?" he asked Ecco pointing at Coral.

"Just a friend. Along with the whale, and the seahorse." Replied Ecco as he tried to hide his blush with his fins.

"Kinda fat for a seahorse. And what's with glow on him?" questioned the dolphin who was making Coral impatient.

"Auug! Tell us we're the stupid shortcut is already!!" yelled Coral who was preparing to charge at the dolphin with a very nasty face.

"J-Ju-Just jump over this ledge, and you'll be near a pair of caves. T-Take the left one, and your exit and possibly your friends will be there." Answered the dolphin who finally gave in and passed out. Floating on the surface.

"Thank you." Replied Coral who calmed down in no time, then turned to the rest of the group. "see what happens when you get to the point? You get somewhere".

"Uh-huh" said Aqua who just rolled his eyes, and was the first to leap to the new area. Coral immediately followed, then Ecco who carried Shard gently in his mouth, ignoring the screams he was making while in midair.

"Next time I want to be thrown by fatty here okay?" said Shard who was referring to Aqua, who slowly swam back and took a huge bite of the water, enclosing Shard in his mouth. "Um-uh, you kind of missed your lunch and took me instead. How about letting me out?" Said Shard, but instead Aqua made an evil look on his face and began to suck the water in his mouth. "This is not funny Aqua! Let me out! Please!!" cried Shard, but the whale just sucked faster and finally had Shard on the edge of his tongue. "Oh, I didn't want to die like this!" murmured the seahorse as he fell down Aqua's throat.

A second after the swallow, Aqua released out a massive blow of water out of his blowhole. Shard Came out screaming to his mother, and landed safely into the fins of Ecco, who was chuckling.

"Had fun?" asked Ecco. Shard just spat out the water he swallowed wrong, and just shook his head.

"We're almost there! Finally." Said Coral excited to see the Guardian. They made it into a small bay with a pillar in the middle. Ecco was looking puzzled, figuring out what was familiar about the bay.

"Hey Ecco!!"

"Dude!" yelled two recognizable voices.

A regular coral shark and a hammerhead approached the group with grins on their faces. Ecco shook fins with the hammerhead, who you could guess is Hammer.

"So what's new Ecco?" asked the hammerhead.

"We're going to see what's wrong with the Guardian. Some sort of an emergency." Answered Ecco, as he was still thinking of what made this area so familiar to him.

"Gee, that's like, a bummer" replied Crush.

"Oh, stop with! You know that gets very annoying! You not twelve anymore! Got it?" yelled an irritated Hammer.

While the rest of the group went over to one side, Ecco same over close to the waterfall, pondering.

"I wish I knew what is so familiar here. Something happened." Said Ecco talking to himself.

The other side was quiet as well, since it was awkward for seeing sharks talk with other animals without striking. Aqua, looked around and remembered something about the bay.

"Hey, do you know about the glyph that was here? It was over there by that corner of the bay." asked the whale hoping to gibe some relief to Ecco.

"Yeah, it's over here." Answered Crush as quickly swam over and uncovered huge amounts of algae and seaweed to discover a diamond-shaped object. "give me fin here"

Aqua nodded and pulled out the glyph, which shook the rocks everywhere.

"It's just a tremble. It's nothing to worry about." said Aqua trying keep everything at ease. Coral a tad concerned about Ecco being alone turned around and noticed a pair of giant red eyes peeking out of the cave of the waterfall. Suddenly the eyes started moving and began to approach Ecco. A large mouth, bigger than Aqua's, and much more full of teeth was very close to bite him!

"Ecco! Behind you!!" screamed Coral as the giant creature came out, fully revealing what it was.

"Hello" said the beast, with a giant smirk.

Ecco wasn't afraid of this large creature, which was a great white. He remembered this one with no doubt. He fought this shark to grab the Power of Vigor power stone from his mouth. Then he defeated him with the power he was given. "so you came back. What for this time?" the shark asked.

"I came here to get back to Atlantis. There's a special entrance here that I could use to get there." Ecco looked at the bloodthirsty expression on the sharks face. He knew what that look was for. "please. I don't want to fight you. Not this time anyway." Ecco said trying to reach for his friends. But was blocked by the shark.

"Oh I get it. You can't trust me cause I'm a shark." The great white said, swimming around Ecco, and taking a massive bite near Ecco, who endured the move. The shark just laughed. "I know the gate to get in. The answer lies inside of my mouth. You want it…yes?" asked the shark. Ecco nodded, which then the shark moved right to his face, staring into his eyes. "We'll…fight for it then."

"Fine!" Ecco said, beginning to charge.

The shark dodge the attack, and begin swimming patiently ready to attack his prey. Ecco swam to the other side near the waterfall. He discovered something that was sticking out of the ground. He rubbed the sand of the lump and discovered a power of Vigor!

"Alright dolphin ditz! Time to show you how I improved from the last meeting we had!"

"We'll I improved too, and I also have…this!" Ecco pulls out the Vigor power from the ground and thrusts it into is body. He could feel the power of ten killer whales inside of him. He immediately charged at his foe, and this time with his speed increased, he rams right into the sharks skull, causing him to lose his vision and started losing consciousness.

"Fine you little cheat! Two could play at this game! Let's see what happens to you if I devour one of your friends!" said the shark aiming himself towards the frightened Coral.

"Leave her alone you creep!" yells Aqua as he pounds the gills of the shark, saving Coral.

"Where were you? I needed a little help over there." Asked Ecco upset to where was Aqua.

"I was seeing what was wrong with a glyph. We need to get there now! The Guardian is weakening!" replied Aqua.

"I'll finish this fight, it's almost over" said Ecco as he took one last hit at the shark's head, releasing a tiny stream of blood from his teeth, and another glyph-like object. The shark just moaned, and past out. "I thought he was much harder than last time."

"That's' because we kept bashing his head. You kept on hitting his stomach from the first time." Replied the killer whale. "anyways, lets see what this glyph does."

Ecco blasted this sonar at the glyph, and it was still active.

Ecco! I'm glad I can hear your sonar again. There's not much time. My power is weakening, and there's a great streak of danger in our future. I've noticed you brought some of your most closest friends to help you on this journey. I do indeed sense great dangers where you be needed by stealth and strength. My power is growing more thin by the second. I will use my last bit of my power and open the gate. Before I create the gate, is their anyone else you would like to bring?

Ecco looked at the two sharks. Hammer immediately swam forward with a big grin.

"I'll go Ecco, you could use my eyesight" Hammer said. Ecco just nodded, while Coral and Shard just laugh. Crush just stared at his friend and just smiled.

Very well. The…gate will be…open………now.

The glyph fired a beautiful white light that revealed the city of Atlantis, and it was beginning to fade in color.

Hurry! Power……fading…fast…

It was flickering its color, and the gate was fading.

"I believe the old gem wants us to go. Like… right now!" said the impatient seahorse. They swam as fast as they could into the gate. Ecco, and the rest of his friends soon disappeared into the gate. The power of the glyph died down, and the gate disappeared. Crush stared at glyph with a sad look, knowing what could happen to his friends.

"Good luck dudes."