63 The Fall of Eve [Part 1]

Jason pushed past the familiar water lily gardens rife with iridescent fauna and slowed to a halt as he reached the gates of Atlantis. Scanning the scenery around him with a look of awe, the black-haired teenager clutched his beating heart and smiled brightly at the sight of the intricate stone-made buildings and large pink-shelled auditoriums that surrounded the outskirts of the mystical city.

He slowly approached the wall of water guarding the gates and parted his arms in a grandiose display, mimicking the very same motion that Nalu had done roughly a month and a half before. The calm tides whispered delicately in his ear, and Jason gazed admiringly at the beautiful blue expanse before him as the gates creaked open with a loud grunt.

"Alea," the black-haired teenager thought in the back of his mind, walking through the gates unhurriedly. "Did you ever imagine that there would be a world this beautiful under the sea?"