radioactive alchemist
Oooh...me! Me next!
(Story).
Not my idea of what Atlantis would be like, but it sounds pretty cool nonetheless!
Hmm... My story.
Well, my story goes on in "legs" or "arcs".
The arc I'm working on now focuses on a girl named Loran who lives in basically a lower middle class family with two brothers and a lazy father who flipflips on his emotions more than Kerry. She's often the caretaker for her brothers due to her father's demanding job.
She gets a letter ("the letter"
wink informing her that she was chosen to attend the first year of this academy out in Montana. She's excited about going, but her father has misgivings and thinks its a con. Despite her father's apprehension, Loran figures she should meet with the representative anyway, and has her over for dinner- which seems to go poorly, but at the end, the representative turns out to be the school's headmistress, and she reaffirms her invitation to the academy (Olympia Academy) to Loran. Then her father comes home. He's suspicious at first, but as the headmistress, Anita Navidad, explains to him that the school will fund everything, he seems to change his position, and allows Loran to go.
For a week afterwards, Loran is waiting for plane tickets and information that Ms. Navidad said she would send. However, after one particularly stressful day with her brothers, her father calls with some good news. He got a promotion! This news is double-sided though, because with his new responsibilities, he's going to need to go into work earlier in the day, and stay longer into the night. Which means that Loran's responsbilities over her brothers would increase as well... Which means that she won't be able to go to Olympia Academy (this is my current point in the story right now.)
Now, this will go either one of two ways:
- Though her father is sympathetic to Loran, she eventually decides that "girl's gotta do it for herself", and takes the plane tickets and runs off, taking a taxi to the airport.
- Or, somehow, Ms. Navidad discovers that Loran won't be able to go to the Academy, and intervenes, mostly by accepting the brothers into the programs for youngsters, for finding alternatives to having Loran be their primary caretaker.
I'm leaning toward a mixture of both, with Loran deciding to leave, when Ms. Navidad interferes and offers the solution.
This starts a new "leg":
When Loran arrives at the Academy, she finds herself placed in a special group of small students, all of which have very different backgrounds. The students then later find that they've got a class under Ms. Navidad- world studies.
It's no typical world studies class... as they'll be travelling throughout the world to cities and locations. Not just to learn, but to uncover artifacts. The students are puzzled and a little confused about this, but Ms. Navidad will then reveal a necklace that she wears under her shirt, one that glows slightly white, and then looks at Loran- and speaks exactly what's on her mind. Afterwards, she explains that she found this crystal, and once given to her, it told her to find other crystal possessors, to help them find the crystals that they belong to- as well as grant her some psychic ability.
Of course, the majority of the students disbelieve Ms. Navidad's story, and wonder if they were wise in coming to Olympia Academy. But Ms. Navidad ends up convincing them, and they go travelling the world, looking for crystals.
And from here, a new "leg":
At about this point in time, the story switches to another person, a drug addict in the streets of New York, who finds himself in posession of another crystal. A dark crystal that allows him to manipulate people's feelings. Of course, this dark crystal also communicates with him, and tells him of the other crystals in the world. That they should be his, and that while others belong to them, that they should work for him. When that happens, he can have anything he wants.
Of course, he believes it, and begins his army.
From here, though still in the same "leg", the students are travelling throughout the world and eventually run into conflict with the dark crystal's holder, who wants to recruit some of them. A couple of the students already have their crystals, and they fight him and his cronies, but the fight ends in a draw, with the "bad guy" retreating.
This would be about the end of the book, and the next book would chronicle finding more crystals, dealing with different locales, and unlocking the secrets behind them.
