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A bright light slashed the horizon quickly followed big a loud boom, A distant explosion the cause. Suddenly the still ocean wasn’t so still anymore as many animal shaped vehicles flied over it, a very large tidal wave triggered by the explosion running close behind them. The men on the vehicles flew as fast as they could, desperately trying to reach their city before the wave reached them.
“Fool! You have condemned us all!” yelled a man dressed as a soldier on a fox shaped vehicle.
“The wave is gaining on us! We have to warn Atlantis!” responded another soldier on a bee shaped one.
But it was already too late. As the wave caught up with them all someone else desperately screamed “Too late!”
The wave finally got them, brutally overwhelming almost all of them. Only a few of the faster that luckily had already a head start, being the farthest away from the explosion; managed to run. Still the wave was quickly closing on them as well as they reached the already panicking city. Even from how far they were, they could easily see the Heart of Atlantis floating over it, the crystal shining an angry scarlet-red and shooting many lights underneath itself, as if to search for someone that caused its ire.
In the meantime, on the lookout towers at the edges of the city the sentinels were giving the alarm to everyone. “Everyone hurries up and go to the shelters! Hurry up and go to the shelters!” some kept repeating over and over while others hammered huge bells.
In the steer of the city the people were running around in fear, mothers dragging their children, man holding their wives and young helping the old, many screaming as they tried to reach the shelters as fast as they could while avoiding the various vehicles that fell from the sky. Soldier were shouting around direction to the people, desperately trying to direct them to safety.
Among those fleeing people was also the royal family of Atlantis. The former king, a short old man already bent by time, was being helped by a guard while the current king, a huge man with short white hair and a normally warm face; was holding close the small dark blue haired woman that was the queen, and their little daughter as they were trying to follow.
“This way your Highness!” called the guard helping the former king as the other members of the royal family stopped to look for the right way.
The little princess looked around in fear clutching a doll close to her chest as a red beam of light passed behind them. As soon as the guard called them over, the queen and king forcefully grabbed their little child’s hands one each, causing her to lose her doll, and started running toward the called direction.
The little princess cried out, desperately trying to get free and reach for her lost toy but her parents continued to drag her away.
After some step they both stopped and pushing the little girl in front of them, kneeling and grasping her shoulders. “Mari! Just leave it!” the queen told the child looking her straight in the eyes. “There isn’t time! We must hurry!” added her father as he patted her little head with his huge hand.
But as they were both busy talking to their child, neither of them noticed the big red beam of light slowly creeping towards them until it was already too late. As the light fell on the royal couple, both suddenly turned, raised and looked at the huge crystal in the sky above them in a trance, all the while still holding their daughter’s hands. The red light on them changed to aqua blue as their eyes lighted up with azure. Immediately all the others beam started to join the one on them, as it divided in two new beams that quickly tightened around each member of the royal couple. The tiny beams hit the crystals around their chosen’s neck, flashing white for an instant and then enlarger themselves once again. As the beams grew, both king and queen slowly started to float upward in the sky, their hold on their child’s hands slackening until the let her go, each taking a ladybug themed bracelet that was on the princess’s wrists.
“Mother! Father!” called the desperate child while trying to reach for her parent as they floated out of her small reach and into the burning white crystal.
“Mother! Father!” the child fell on the ground still crying and reaching out, tears starting to fall from her bluebell eyes as her parents were forever taken away from her.
As the royal couple was absorbed by the burning crystal up above, the rocks around it spun faster as it released its power in a big white flash. The guardian statues at the city’s edges clapped their hands together, opening the to create a protective shield of energy. As the shield rose, the vehicles still outside crashed against it, exploding, while people were left outside, desperately punching the dome of energy, hoping to save themselves from fate but doomed to wait their death as the wave lounged over them. Some hugged each other, resigned to their fate, others cried, and others kept knocking in the vain hope of saving themselves.
All the while, the little princess wept on the ground, still calling for her parents to the heavens above, hoping that the crystal would give them back.
Her grandfather ran to her, hugging the child tightly to his chest. “Close your eyes Mari and keep them shut! Don’t look my child.” He warmly told her as he pushed her face in the crook of his shoulder, holding her close and rubbing her back comfortingly, as he hid the tragedy from her innocent eyes.
He fearfully looked up at the fiery crystal and the rocks spinning around it so fast that they looked like a light blue ring. He watched with a gapping mouth and wide eyes as the dome protecting the city finally closed.
As the huge wave reached them, the shielded part of the island sank deep into the ocean and under the earth itself, the waters closing around it, erasing everything and leaving behind nothing to prove that such great people ever existed in the first place. In mere seconds Atlantis was no more and the oceans were still once again.