by Andrew Pahel

Created on: February 24, 2010

Excerpt taken from "Legend of Atakan: Legend Retold". The book's style is through the eyes of defined characters at different times, set by the chapter.

Chapter IV. Enemies

The balcony overlooking the rest of the Atlantean capital, had already been cleaned off. The green scum was everywhere before, probably from being underwater for so long. Now Atlantis was above water, and out of the hyperbolic chamber. The city of Phalar was beginning to look like a city and less like ruins. Aerial maintenance ships flew about the city cleaning the skyscrapers off and rebuilding what collapsed. If there's one thing that's amazing about Atlantis, it's the level of technology they implement and the speed they accomplish their task. Beside me Critias stood clad in the celestial armor, Tilaos spoke of. I had already figured out Critias was the serious one, but the other knight, Timaus, he was more emotional than Critias. Critias' black armor reflected the sun's rays off his armor, as he too gazed into the distance.

"You mentioned before you have enemies," Critias recalled turning to look at me.

"Tell me about them," Critias asked me. Whats to tell? A psychotic druggie that feels no pain, a mad man who controls the strongest weapon in the world, and my father, who tried to kill me on several occasions.

"Well, there's Kruger. He's a large man about eight feet tall and very buff. He takes some kind of drugs to kill pain. We first met in the World Tournament about three years ago. He put my love in a coma and almost crushed my friend."

"What happened to him?" Critias asked me as I deliberated on how deep into the story I should delve.

"I beat him in the final round of the tournament, after being beat almost to death I achieved a serene state of mind and knocked him out. He lived and escaped, I only recently heard from him again when he tried to kill me." I took a deep sigh, those events I never wanted to remember again, the chase across Europe and Asia was not entertaining to say the least.

"So this Kruger, he is just out for vengeance then."

"No, it's deeper than that. Another enemy is a worse one, his name is Valan. He's a master of virtually every weapon none to man, not only that he possesses the most powerful weapon I've ever seen, he calls it the Scourge." I remembered all too well that day on the Scourge, spar after spar with that dreadful man. What's worse is he used the Scourge to attack an American metropolis, New York City. Even all of the American military's might couldn't

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