Cartoon's Journey into Atlantis Prologue part 1: Thomas in Atlantis

The sun rises over a clear tropical beach, but it is littered with debris, parts of a boat, seaweed, driftwood sticks, shells and exoskeletons of mollusks and crustaceans, and dead birds and fish. Among the debris is a human body washed up on the beach.

He had a Hawaiian style yellow and green shirt with palm trees and blue swim trunks, he had black hair, glasses, and wearing croc sandals, he was around 18-20 years old, clutching to him was a notebook as he lay face down groaning and unconscious as the narrator spoke was actually him.

"Yup that's me, Thomas Tran." As he narrated in thoughts. "You're probably wondering what happened are you? You see a couple of days agoMe and my friends were on Mr. Krabs Boat, the S.S. Cheapskate as a party boat thing in the Atlantic Ocean. Until a big storm came followed by massive waves, and a whirlpool. Then the ship broke apart and I was separated from everyone and here I am washed up on the beach. On a deserted island."

Soon a rustle came from the Bushlands. A group of strangers came, they had spears, had tiki-like masks, and were very quick and agile. They came Scavenging anything that was washed up to use or something to eat from shells of clams, mussels, and cockles to dead fish and birds. They stopped when they saw the body, they tapped me with their sticks to see if I'm alive or not. Then they heard a groan from me as I started to get up and they ran off.

Soon as I slowly woke up and rose up to my feet and I saw those strange figures running away, I don't know if they were friendly or not, maybe they could help me as I ran after them. "Wait! Come Back! Stop! You can help me!" As Thomas shouted as he chased them. "Wait! Wait! Who are you people?!"

Soon I quickly follow them through the Bushlands, Open Woodlands, Uplands, and Alpine Environments. They were quite and fast running as I had to catch up to them, but then I tripped and came tumbling down a cliff and landed hard on the ground, luckily I didn't die from fall, but I was knocked out as my eyes were closed from the impact.

Then several minutes passed as I heard voices that sounded like a strange unknown language dialect as they were talking about me. As I slowly opened my eyes I saw tiki-like masked

strangers. I panicked a bit, what are these guys going to do with him? I was unable to scream or freak out and run not knowing what to do. One of them strangers came closer, seeing a cut on my right side of my chest. That must've happened during the fall. I groaned in pain, that crash has really hurt him and to make matters worse, there's blood on his fingers. Then the stranger uncovered it's mask, It was a tannish woman around my age with blue streaks on her face and hair which was white. "Huh?" as he groaned in pain. " What?"

As I was bleeding around the chest, the woman looks at the cut slowly then held out some sort of crystal hanging round his neck like a necklace, having it touch the chest on Thomas' cut, pressing her hand on it and making him cringe a bit. My wound was healed it seems the powers of the crystal healed me. As I sighed in relief as I glances at her who smiles at me. Then they leave, but I wasn't done with them, perhaps they were friendly they could help me what is this island, find my friends, and get us back home. "Whoa! Wait! Stop! Come back!" I shouted as I got up and chased after them. "Where are you going?! Who are you?!"

Soon I stopped at the edge of a grassland plain and the creatures that roam this place where out of this world. There were strange birds one looked like an emu and one hasd acasuq on its head like a hornill. A herd of Antelope-like creatures with two horns near its snout running from a predator with a saber teeth while a behemoth creature that had a tail of a giant anteater, two short horns on its head, and a trunk like a tapir with birds on its back. A herd of antelope like creatures grazing while a land crocodilian lumbers about, But the strangest creatures were the ones that walked past were tall and bigger like giraffes, But had tusks that pointed downward like fangs and trunks like an elephant causing me to say. "What is this place?"

But I saw a city in the center of this island. In my thoughts, I'm saved as there is a cviilzation on this island. Perhaps I could call for help and get help from these people. Some parrots fly by me and to my surprise land on a dead carcass and were pulling the meat flesh off the body. It seems these parrots have taken role of scavengers like the vultures, I wasn't too surprised as

I knew Kea parrots from New Zealand would eat one squawked an alarm call alerting the others to fly off and the other creatures nearby to run off including the predators. I realized the parrots were warning of a greater threat, but what?

The tiki mased people appeared from behind with their spears, Now I knew why they ran off. "Easy! Back! I know one of you helped me! I have no weapons" As I explained by emptying my pockets, "See! I'm no threat!" The lead person which was the woman start speaking in aforeign language "What? Wait?" He asked, until I realized that she is speaking in an Atlantean Langauge as I decided to speak it back , Although I'm a bit rusty. Then it translates to a conversation as the woman took off her mask, then it changes languages, First French, Swahili

Spanish. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Finnish, and Russian. I learned that these people speak and knew these different languages as I speaked. It could be a root dialect like in the Bible story, "The Tower of Babel" on which one time the people talked just one language and wanted to construct a tower to Heaven, God stopped this by giving the people different languages so they can't understand each other. Thus stopping the Construction of the tower and that's why Today, People speak different languages depending on where they live and came from because they originated from those countries,Maybe they could speak English?

"Hello, My name is Thomas Tran." I Said. "I come in peace, I was washed up here on your island ,now separated from my friends after a storm and I need to find them." Then the woman spoke, "Greetings, Thomas tran, welcome to our home." I realized my theory was correct, but where I am now maybe they could help and answered back . "So tell me what is the place?" "This is our island, and home to the city of Atlantis." As she answered to me and I was surprised I was on the island of Atlantis. "Wait? This island is Atlantis?" "Yes, Come you must meet my parents" The woman spoke and took my hand, as I was joined by the group as they walked to the city.

During the walk to the city, I explained the story to this woman. "So you arrived here because of yesterday's storm, got separate from your friends on their boat and washed up on our beach." She Said. " Yes and I believe if I washed up here on this island, chances are my friends must of washed up here to." He explained. "I have to find them who knows what they're into or facing on this island." As the woman responded back. "Well, this island is much more bigger than you think? It's an Island chain".

I realized she was right, this is a big island for a small person like me, I need a lot of help I could get from the Atlanteans if they agree with me, I just hope my friends are okay.

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