Cherry Visits Atlantis: The Lost Empire

chapter 5

The others who had them soon had their own tail fins.

"Okay, whoever dragged Atticus down is going to be sushi when the others come back." Drell narrowed his eyes.

"Agreed," said Lionel. "Now to fan out and find him!"

Everyone then swam off together to go look for Atticus since he mysteriously vanished.

"Not enough Milo is missing...now Atticus is, too..." Lionel grumbled as he looked around.

Atticus grunted as he brought to a hiding place.

"Do you think it could be him?" A male voice asked.

"It's hard to say, but it's possible... I might have to ask Kashekim to make sure, but he has his mother's eyes..." A female voice replied.

"What's going on?" Atticus glared before looking to see who took him. "Why did you take me, and-" he then paused as he saw a black-haired and brown-eyed merman and a brown-haired and purple-eyed mermaid before yelping at them.

"Shh... It's alright..." The mermaid told him, trying to calm him down.

"Atticus! Where are ya?" shouted Lionel before glancing to the side. "Hey, what'cha doin' down there? And who are those guys?"

"Why did you take my friend?!" Cherry glared.

"I'm sorry, I should explain!" The merman replied. "He's our grandson!"

"Wait... WHAAAAAAAAAAA?" Lionel and Cherry asked in shock.

"Your grandson?" Atticus asked. "You mean you're... You're my..."

"Grandparents, yes," The mermaid replied. "Our friend Kashekim said this would happen. We had to meet you when we could."

"Grandparents...?" Atticus asked. "I don't have any grandparents..."

"That you've met," The merman clarified. "He told us of a prophecy that you and some friends would come from the future in an adventure, and with that knowledge, we just had to meet you. We're your mother Emily and Aunt Athena's parents. My name is Duncan."

"And I'm Atlanta." The mermaid added.

"Welll...nice to meet you," Lionel replied. "This is Cherry Butler, Atticus' best friend/sister figure; his girlfriend Mo Brown; and I'm Lionel Schwartz, friend to your grandson and brother figure."

"I see..." Atlanta realized. "You must be the ones Kashekim had also foreseen."

"So you know about our adventures?" Atticus asked.

"Oh, yes," Duncan nodded. "Kashekim knows just about everything. He's a very good friend of ours as we're both from Atlantis."

"So... If you're from Atlantis..." Atticus's eyes widened. "That means I'm part Atlantean! ...I'm not sure how I feel about that."

"At this point, we're used to this kind of thing." Lionel shrugged.

"That's pretty cool though for you, Atticus," Cherry said to her childhood best friend. "Did you guys have to kidnap him though?"

"We're sorry about that," Atlanta replied. "We had to meet him somehow."

"Fair enough," Atticus shrugged. "I guess I see where I got my sense of adventure though," he then smiled softly. "It'd be nice to hear stories about my Aunt Athena though... Mom gets pretty emotional whenever she talks about her sister."

"I guess that could be cool," replied Lionel. "But we need to find Milo."

"Milo, huh?" Duncan asked. "A friend of yours we take it."