The History of Atlantis

[Callie, Princess of East Lands]

A T L A N T I S: the beginning

long ago, almost to the beginning of time, there was a land. merpeople inhabited the land. this land was underwater. this land had the most intellegent of their kind on it. this land was called atlantis.

there were jobs, inventions, schools, and buildings. there were homes and thriving businesses and more. this was the only land underwater of this size. it was inhabited by more than 500,000 merpeople. there were no threats, no such thing as evil. it was one of those dreamlands where dreams came true.

but one day, the high king, cadvan, and his family, were all kidnapped by the high kings in another land, far far away. it was no size compared to atlantis, but atlantis was captured. how was such a large and prosperous city captured?

mer-people magic. the people were put under a curse to go into an endless sleep. the buildings crumbled, businesses died, and the king and his family were put in there castle to rot. a protection spell was put over the place so no other mermaid could free the poor souls.

the city itself was gone forever.

A T L A N T I S: discovery

after 150 years of the spell, people on land were curious. there were records of a land, atlantis, that had prospered and survived. they wondered, what had happened? explorers from all over the upper world set out to find this land, none of them suceeding.

but there was one. jaques lacour, a french explorer set out one day on a 6 month long trip to find the lost city. he failed numorous times in the past, but after going through his whole life wondering and researching, he wanted to find the missing land. he wanted to find out what had happened.

in the year 2054, jaques lacour found the city of atlantis, deep under the sea.

A T L A N T I S: reborn

after jaques had found the lost city, he wanted to make it better. he wanted to bring it back to life. he and his crew of 24 men had found the old cave. they'd used their futuristic technology and swan about the ruins of the city, looking at the well preserved bodies (thanks to the protection spell) of those who's prospered and thrived in the city.

they came across the city hall, the castle of king cadvan, queen kim, and their three daughters, callie, keira and anastasia (aka anna). they found the preserved bodies, but no matter what they did, they could not wake them.

so they went to the meeting hall of the city. it was the most preserved building and the most sturdy. they found a book, sitting on the alter by itself. they read the book and found the riddle that the old kind of the far away land had left:

the people of this city sleep;
no matter how deep,
they won't wake
try as you might, but nothing will work
because i have made their futures ruined
unless you find the way of the merpeople.

3 years later, jaques had found it. he'd followed the riddle and the rest of the clues in this mysterious book.

the city was awake. he heard babies crying, the king and queen and their daughters came flying down the castle steps and thanked jaques. the city was reborn...

A T L A N T I S:rebuilt

jaques was honored by the 500,000+ citizens of atlantis. they were honored and put in the city hall wall and painted and became the best people to have ever lived.

once jaques left back to the upper world (shore) the merpeople set out to repair the city of 150+ years of damage. thanks to their intellect and magic, it was done very quickly and effectively.

it took them a little over a year to completley rebuild, but they are done now. it's the year 2060 and the atlantians are back as the most powerful and large underwater city.