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Chapter 3 - Chapter 3 – Atlantis

One week later, Singapore, Alan plan to meet his parents before he takes off to Miami, where he plans to rent a boat and hire diver to explore the coordinate in the Atlantic Ocean but his parents contacted him and want to meet him in Singapore first.

Alan rarely meets his busy parents, his father is an American investment banker and his mother is a famous Japanese politician, as a mixed American-Asian Hybrid, Alan has a handsome face with rare traits, with 185 cm height, a high nose bridge, black hair with blue eyes and sweet smile makes him an attractive sight for women's.

Meeting at his parents mansion, Alan knows that his parents have already arrived,

"Hello Mom, Dad said Alan while kissing both parents cheek.

Having a dinner with his parents was an enjoyable moment for him, his father warns him that he can continue his daredevil adventure but he has to make sure to stay away from drugs and study well to finish his master degree at Harvard.

Alan knows that this is his parents bottom line and he always remind himself not to disappoint his parents.

The Next week, saying goodbye to his parents, Alan's flew to Miami International Airport, United States. He rent a car at the airport and arrive at Miami port at noon. There he met with Captain Kowalski, one of the few captains who has decent enough boats and balls that dare to travel into the Bermuda triangle. The coordinate in the scripture is almost in the middle of the Bermuda triangle, notorious for its cursed reputation that any plane or ship that fly or sail above it will fall or sink into the ocean. Alan was curious does this curse have anything to do with the remains of Atlantis continent that have sunk deep into the ocean.

Choosing a fine day when the weather is temperate and no storm warning, Alan set out with a team of 20 divers and ride "Queen of the Sea" into the Atlantic Ocean, Captain Kowalski have repeatedly warned him do not dive too deep and always stay in sight of other divers since the sea in Bermuda triangle is very volatile with sudden storm and huge waves waiting to eat a big ship alive.

The ship drift around for 3 days trying to find the exact coordinate, Alan gets frustrated, it seems in Bermuda seas, electromagnetic equipment and Compass tends to malfunction a lot.

Captain we have arrived, the old sailor that works as a navigator come to the bridge of the ship, "Lower the Anchor", Captain Kowalski shout aloud to his men to stay in their current place.

Lad, I can give you 5 days if the weather does not change, If the weather are getting worse we will immediately leave with or without you aboard. The Old captain said with a stern look, Alan can only helplessly nod since he knows how dangerous the seas in these areas are that local people even called it the Devil Sea.

The blue ocean with a majestic look come into his view when Alan and his team dive underwater, the calm sea looks nothing like the legend says. Alan feels the calm sea are waiting for him like an animal watching its prey. Alan divide his team into 4 directions so that they may cover a larger area. The search took 4 days when one of the team inform him that they may have found something. Alan excitedly gather all the diver and headed towards the mentioned place. Here the waters are so deep that he can even see a large trench so dark he cannot see how deep it was.

Right here, said one of the divers, hidden beneath the Sand there seems to be a tip of a tower buried beneath. This is it! Seeing the huge tip of a Quartz Crystal in the sand, Alan was ecstatic, according to the scripture the Atlantean technology are very advanced, they have managed to utilize the power of Crystal energy instead of fossil fuel. The Atlanteans will build a gigantic crystal tower in the middle of their city and then they will create an artificial satellite in the form of sphere and float it high above the crystal tower. The crystal tower will then beam the energy towards the sphere and the sphere will reflect the energy back to create an invisible energy dome. All their home appliance, vehicle, medical pod and other sophisticated machine can tether to the energy source as long as they stay in the crystal tower energy field.

Alan told his team to search for an entry point by digging deeper into the sand, after two day of digging while resupplying their equipment back and forth to the ship they managed to find what seems to be a circular door but there is no handle on it. They tried all means but cannot open the circular door with mysterious pattern in it. Alan almost give up when he realized that he haven't try to use the crystal tablet he brings. He holds the crystal tablet near the door and he magically vanished inside the circular door. All the diver are afraid, what in the hell just happened? Why is Alan suddenly gone missing?

Inside the Crystal tower, Alan can see the murals and engraving like in the previous place. The murals shows how the Atlantean develops their own civilization until they are technologically advanced. The Atlanteans can use different kind of crystal to treat all kinds of injuries and they can utilize the power of crystal to alter the weather in a large scale. The downfall of Atlantis began when the two biggest factions in Atlantis began to fight, The Son of Belial and the Law of one fight over their beliefs. Over time their fighting grows more intense until they allow the use of Crystal Ray Gun in war. This weapon can disintegrate materials into molecular levels that if you get shot by it you just get disintegrated on the spot. The massive war happens in almost all of the Atlantean island, Gadeiros, Amperes, Eriamon, Antokhton and eventually spread to their capital, Poseidia.

The Sons of Belial attacked Poseidia with all their might trying to conquer the Island. This final battle turned to be the destabilizing factor that end the Atlantean, the massive use of crystal ray gun makes the continental shelves unstable and eventually collides. The momentum of the impact sunk all of the Atlantean Island into the bottom of the ocean. Apparantly because the panic that ensued and people trying to escape from Atlantis as quickly as possible, many Crystal tower in their cities have not been deactivated yet. This crystal tower that sunk deep into the sea still shooting a concentrated amount of energy in a random interval to the surface. This beam of energy creates an electromagnetic wave that disrupt modern equipment. It seems this is the reason why many planes and ship sunk in the Bermuda triangle.

Haaaah, Alan let out a long sigh, all living beings will surrender in the face of time, even an ancient civilization with advanced technology can perish just like this. will our current civilization repeat this history? Will mankind bring another disaster unto themselves?

All those heavy questions float out in Alan's mind and made him realize how small he is. Toughen up Alan, remember your purpose here, you have come for the Crystal Tablet, Alan tried to calm himself. Searching around, Alan found the Crystal tower inner chamber. There he found the last piece of crystal tablet waiting for him. When he approached the pedestal, the two other crystal tablet float out from his hand attracted to the one in front of him just like a magnet. Alan feels like a miracle just happened when the Crystal tablet merge into one. The Crystal tower suddenly shakes loudly.

"What happened?'" in a panicked state Alan try to take the Crystal Tablet from the pedestal but to no avail, the tablet won't budge. Why is this happening? Suddenly Alan sees the machinery in the crystal tower moving again. The tower have been activated? Alan don't know what to do, he wants to escape but don't want to leave the crystal tablet behind. The Crystal tower put out all the remaining energy towards the pedestal and the crystal tablet in the pedestal growing brighter each second.

Sweesh, that was the last sound Alan heard when he saw the Crystal Tablet shooting a concentrated beam of light toward his chest.