Atlantheans

Chapter II 

Mnemosyne:

               I looked at Fred while he is driving, looking at him and back to aria who is now silent, I don't know what to believe but I'm too shocked to function that I have to go and come with them, first Atlantis is real, second my mother is Gaia? the goddess of earth? what does that mean? I have no idea, my mind is so confused at everything and I don't know what to do, if this is just an elaborate prank by Fred and that is one nasty prank, pranking about a parent that I was dreaming to know. I looked back and forth and then Fred sigh.

"My name is Diaprepres, once a king of one city of Atlantis that is now, gone, Poseidon our father washed our memories where Atlantis is. now Atlanteans are searching for someone who can bring them back there, with the others who were still stuck there living under the once beautiful Atlantis. I was here because your mother saved me from dying with my brothers and asked me as the youngest of us all, she asked me to look after you." he looked at me with sadness in his eyes "the people who left Atlantis, or has been swamped up nearby the oceans of Atlantic forgot where the lost city is." he looked straight at the road "your mother asked me to be with you, to watch you and protect you to sworn to never involve you with Atlantis. and all these bullshits. but I failed, here you are now, knowing everything and here I am now, no idea where my home is."

I remain silent and not talking, I looked at aria and she is not saying any words at all. "Aria is my loyal servant, she was with me when we went out of Atlantis and together we forgot where the city is." and now I know why they are both so strange because Fred— Diaprepres is a king or even a god.

"Fre— I mean did—" he shook his head "call me Fred, I love that name, I'd rather have that." he then asked aria for a towel and he erase the colors of his tattoo that now become gold and shinning. "Fred, who is atlas?"

I saw a little tense in his body "Atlas is the ruler of all the Atlantis, my big brother. he was the most powerful of us all, but then I don't know what happened but a rumor starts coming to the city, and father punished him to carry the world unto his shoulder." then he smirks "He is basically holding your mother unto his shoulder, and then he fells in love with Gaia, I don't know anything more what happens back then because the big tragedy happens and one thing I know, Atlantis is sinking, Gaia rescuing me then here I am."

"so is atlas my father?" I asked him because I have the urge to go back now and meet my father. he shook his head "your father is a mere human, you are a Demigod syne."

a demigod, I can't be a demigod, I'm just this. for all of this time and all of my days, I never knew I am something, for years I felt like I was nothing, nothing at all. I looked outside the window and let out a heavy sigh, "is she alive?"

"When I left she is, I don't know where but—" suddenly Fred step on the breaks we almost flung out of our seats, thank gods I am wearing my seat belts and I looked at the roads.

the man from the cafe, Atlas that's what Fred calls him, is in the middle of the road, breathing heavily and wet, so wet because he came out of the ocean and now stopping our car.

"Atlas what are you doing?" Fred said then atlas looked at him and shock is in his face.

"Brother, oh brother, you were alive! I thought—"

"no brother, I didn't die from what Gadeiros did, I am still alive. Gaia saved me." Fred said then Atlast smiled and hugged him, like two well-built men and beautiful men hugging each other. like Woah syne, don't think about how beautiful and hot these two are.

"Gaia? is she there?" then looked at me inside the car and was about to get to me when Fred hold his arms and pushed him away, just far to not get into my side of the car.

"He isn't Gaia atlas, He is her son. Mnemosyne." atlas looked at me sadly, oh he really loves my mother, but maybe mom really loves my father than Atlas. "come inside the car we need to get away from here and find somewhere to go, a motel I guess, just to take a rest. we don't want Atlanteans to find Mnemosyne."

Fred drive the car as I sat in the passenger seat and aria and atlas sat beside each other at the back of the car, but aria's head is bowed down, that is because, in Atlantis, servants can't seat side by side with the king they are way above them so aria is being shy that she is seating beside a king, seating beside the same chair.

Fred parked the car in the parking of a motel, the motel is just small with broken neon sign 'Riverview motel', we all went down and Fred paid for the rooms, unfortunately there is no family room there where four of us fits so, aria and Fred will be in one of the room and atlas and me in the other, even tho I'm still confused as hell for what is going on, I keep myself calm and went to the other motel room with atlas, we are silent walking to it and inside I just sat down at my bed and put my hands into my face.

if this is just a dream I just have to wake up, I can't handle all these truths about myself, I can't imagine having a parent that is a goddess, fuck that, THE GODDESS OF EARTH. I can't handle being her son, I'm just useless ol' Mnemosyne, I can't even focus on one thing because I have autism. they can't just tell me that I am a demigod when I was as broken as shattered glass, I can't handle all this thing, I can't imagine being an orphan and unwanted to being the son of GAIA and being a demigod.

Atlas sat beside me and I looked at him, he looked into my eyes "you looked like Gaia, she has this beautiful eyes that holds a lot of sadness, and I saw it in your eyes that is why I reacted back in the cafe. I am atlas, once the king of Atlantis, now cast out and don't even know where is home."

"Mnemosyne (ME-MO-SAYN), how can you and Fred i mean Diaprepres don't have any memories of your home." I asked atlas and he just shrugs and says "I was being punished when it happens, the fall of Atlantis, my brother Gadeiros was there, spreading immorality and just spreading havoc at the Atlantis. he has all the powers he got, he got it from our brothers, When we were born we are 5 pairs of twins, I am the firstborn, Gadeiros is the second and Diaprepres is the last born. there are 10 of us kings of Atlantis, one of us has a city to rule except me, I have the whole city of Atlantis to rule, Poseidon, our father, gave us weapons with each of us contain such powers, and Gadeiros stole it. from them, mine was somewhere I don't know, Poseidon my father threw it away with no one else can ever get. but 9 of them are in the hands of Gadeiros until his slumber. he was a bad bad guy Mnemosyne, he has killed and make humans suffer, he spread such havoc that my brothers have to sacrifice their own life to stop him, he was now sleeping under the sea, nowhere to find and with my heroic brothers who died for the peace of Atlantis. and father erased the memories of whoever was thrown out of Atlantis and sank the city under the sea. I have seen Atlanteans washed up the sea and saw them here in the human lands, having the memory of the sunken city but no idea where it is."

"What happened to the weapons are they contained?" i asked atlas while taking in all of the things he said to me, I know Atlantis, I know what Plato said about it but this is the first time I'm hearing about the truth about it, I can't stop thinking if it's true or not, you can't blame me, I was just a human teenager then suddenly I'm a demigod, cut me off some slacks.

"my father hid it in all the different lands under the oceans for nowhere to find, especially the son and the evil servants and warrior Atlanteans of Gadeiros that was thrown out here seeking for their revenge. trying to find this weapon. I have encounter and fought with them. they say, to find my weapon the most powerful weapon, the trident of Atlantis, you have to collect the 9 weapons of my brothers. and that is what I'm doing, finding them because the trident will tell me where my Atlantis is." I could see extreme sadness and forlorn in his eyes. Tho, he has this beautiful blue like the sky eyes that could pierce through you, and he has this white hair that shouts KING in him. he is so beautiful. and my face turns red.

our room suddenly opens and I shook my thoughts aside and looked at who opens the door "Brother, you shouldn't have told him!" Fred was so angry "he should not know about this!"

"Why Diaprepres? WHY?" Atlas asked him with such a concern in his face

"Gaia doesn't want Mnemosyne to be involved with this," Fred said worriedly

"Why?" it is my turn to ask because I'm really confused about why my mother wouldn't want me to know all about this. why can't I know?

"there's a prophecy. I don't know what it is, but your mother told me that you can't get involve with it. there's a prophecy that the kin of Gaia will save Atlantis. that you hold the key to the Atlantis. I don't know how? or what? but that is what your mother told me, to never get you to involve." before Fred finished what he saying aria is running towards our door

"My king, there are Atlanteans outside the motel, their markings are in the color of the tattoos of king Gadeiros." aria said like she is so afraid of what the saw. Fred has this scared face on and atlas is in his trance-like pose of like strength like about to fight.

"what are they doing here?" Fred asks

"I heard that they are searching for king atlas"

we all looked at Atlas and back to Fred "we have to stay here, not to go outside, tomorrow before the sun shines we are going out of here. I know this priest in the south where he can get us in the monastery while we search for somewhere to go."

we all agreed and went to our rooms and try to sleep, I looked at Atlas in the other bed and now fallen asleep, maybe he's too tired from all that swimming in the ocean just to run after us.

I tried to sink whatever is happening to me in my brain, first of all, I wanna know is if my mother is alive, human or goddess I want to ask her why did I have to be abandoned? I want to ask her who my father is and why does he left me in that hell home, and I want to know more about Atlantis and why can't I be involved. Second I can't be the one to save Atlantis, these people, this Atlanteans can't have their faith in me, i was just a mere human, a mere depressed human who wants to know who he is and just end everything I didn't expect to be the son of a goddess and to be a savior of the city I didn't know existed until now, all I know about Atlantis is a mere metaphor from Plato's story, I just thought Atlantis is just a story and now these people are telling me it is all real.

my mind drifts off with all this on my mind and I went to sleep and woke up in a beautiful forest, a woman in the middle with the same eyes as mine.

"mother," I said, I know she is Gaia, the woman on my dreams? now I know who she is.

"My son, My Mnemosyne, I wanted to hold you for so long and I wanted to kiss those face, but I cannot my son, promise me to never go after Atlantis. The lost city must remain lost or evil will be released. don't go after Atlantis—" then I saw the forest burning, I saw these people screaming for help and these guys with black tattoos killing them and burning the whole forest. Everything is burning and in agony, then also my mother Gaia, she is burning I ran after her and held her hand but it was too hot, I still tried and scream after her,

"MOTHER! NO! NO!!"

I woke up sweating, I sat up and held my head. Atlas open the light and rushed beside my bed "are you alright Mnemosyne? I heard you screaming."

I was crying, I hugged atlas and say, "The Atlanteans with black markings. they are about to destroy Atlantis and the earth."

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HEEEEY! thank you for reading this! ill be posting next chapter in 2 days and be ready for a real action at the next chapter! 

are you ready for atlas and mnemosyne to fight the bad guys?

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love, Karina Figueras