Chapter 1 - Welcome to Atlantis
Welcome to a new experience, it will be a mid-long series, categorized under several genres, with lots of information. There is NO SEX in this chapter and the only reason any mention of minors is made just to inform as to the past of the characters. Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: If you feel susceptible to my story, the possible racist attitudes, mention of abuse either physical or mental or the fact that the main story develops from what many call a cult, my apologies, since my knowledge on cults comes from news regarding mass-suicide, abuse and other out-of-normal behaviors on various closed and possibly "religious" communities.
All names and situations are fictitious and this is a sole story created by my bored brain. Anyway, this story might have something to teach, the important piece is wanting to learn.
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Prelude
Humanity, as we knew it, is dead!! Third world war ruined it, not a single country survived from receiving nuclear bombs. Thermal-electric plants, nuclear plants, scientific investigation plants, everything, everything exploded and mother nature tried to help creating its own cleaning service.
Hurricanes, storms, twisters, our atmosphere turned into the siphon where it all mixed. Many months went through after the war and people went out of their homes and hiding bunkers but it was too late. No one survived without suffering damages to its skin and body in general.
The animals, those who survived, also suffered changes. Their mutations were mostly in appearances like growing extra horns or tits in the case of cows and other mammals. The chickens grew bigger than its previous generations and looked extra fatty, like Vietnamese pigs. Horses leg grew stronger and a calcium hump is now seen.
Regarding farming, due to the lands' new composition, every seed or root that grows there tastes sourer than its previous flavor and its color or forms changed. But somehow, with scientific assistance, they were able to keep its nutritional state.
Hundreds of years came and went and the only way to save humanity was with medical assistance. They turned themselves into guinea pigs for investigations. As of now, their body kept its human form but acquired characteristics that can only be told as nonhuman. Based on what kind of animal they appeared the most, were called as a species, divided on earth or water. But that is another story.
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What do you think of that Prelude? I'm writing a story and, although that is our new reality, I think it would be interesting for my future readers.
Back to the reason of this blog, my name is Khristian and I am a fraternal twin, my species is Acqua and I am a survivor. My wives and I decided it is time to heal from all the pain we've suffered and since part of our story is now of common knowledge we wanted to tell the other side of it through this blog page.
It's been some years since we left Atlantis but I want to introduce you to our past and later on I'll let you know our happy future. Let me begin with who I am and where my family comes from.
Kareena and I are one of three pair of twins born from Eunice. Mom is one of The Leader's (a.k.a. Andrew) 12 wives and 3 husbands. The rest of the family was composed by 30 under age siblings, many adult siblings and 12 grandkids. We were just one of many families that lived at what we now know was a cult. But back in its time, we called it Atlantis.
Who we are:
Our history indicates that those living under Atlantis were self-called Atlantians since the name came from the belief of perfection of those that lived at a previous world also called Atlantis with their perfect figures and mastering in the arts and war. Also, because we have a vast lineage of Greek/Roman blood.
We were raised believing that identical twins, triplets and others (as long as they were identical), were born to create the perfect gene or the perfect person specially if their callous gills-like (our characteristic as Acqua species) were at their chest area. Having them in the chest area was a perfect representation of a shark and its strength thus being the warrior-king of the ocean.
Those kids born alone or fraternal twins were later in life to learn that their sole function would be to serve at home, manage the farms, and other labors and NEVER to rule or earn the highest positions in our industries or our society. Although exceptions were made if the callous gills-like were at the chest area.
Papa Andrew (as we were to call The Leader) was born from a perfect embryo of identical quadruplets. He showed perfection both physically and intellectually. He believed that the perfect gene was that of a muscular sculpted body to show not only strength but also health and intelligence that had to be proven both on IQ and other cognitive tests. He was a very tall, muscular man and his callous gills were mostly at the sides of his chest, like a real shark.
For the Atlantians, our skin color was not too important but, being born from mothers with mainly white and grey skin color and hair on natural golden blond, sun kissed brown or ginger (with freckles) and a variety on eye color lineage and a long hereditary lineage of blond hair, green, blue or greyish eye color from our fathers with not even an olive skin on any of the families for the past 10 generations, well you get their idea of
perfection
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Later on, I got to discover that many in our lineage were imperfect due to eyes and hair on the darker side.
Atlantis is an extremely big chunk of land, probably the size of the biggest campus in USA, OSU (Ohio State University) or a state itself, and it bears several families. It is surrounded by a wall to prevent thieves from stealing our crops or animals as they have done before. Because of that and the many families with little ones running around, we have our own security guards watching over the neighborhood.
Each family has a main husband who is brother/sibling for the rest. The main husband holds the decision making as to the affairs of the house. His wives as well as his sibling (s) wives were called HIS wives and his brother/sibling (s), HIS husband (s). The main family has a big piece of property with its own land to cultivate and care for their animals. Every two families' land had to plant the same, in order to provide for the rest of the community and each family was assigned fruits and veggies to cultivate.
Every two years, the families had to prepare the land and change their fruits and veggies into different harvests so that all generations born in that land was able to learn how to plow the land and use specific fertilizers and venoms as well as know the station of the year and moon each fruit or veggie was planted.
The cowlens, chickpigs and sheephorn (name for new generation of cows, chickens and sheep) were cared by the community and their milk, eggs or slaughter tendered by a group of our own farmers. The cowlens skin and milk and the sheephorn's wool and vases made with its horns were sold as part of our businesses.
How we lived:
From the whole piece of property each family owned, (the land was divided into fathers and their sons), each main family (fathers and wives) lived at the frontal area of the land while their married sons lived at the farther back with their families. The main family house consisted of the fathers and wives and:
The single daughters or sons due to widowing, if any;
All kids of the main fathers and little kids of widowed daughters or sons.
The houses were very big. Designed as Haciendas with enough space for 40-60 persons to live comfortably (or at least our house was like that). The land itself could be considered a town. Having a market and several stores, all managed by Atlantis' residents.
All of the properties were gated and once you entered into the family's territory, several trees, bushes and statues greeted you into the U shape entrance where a huge fountain surrounded with flowers could be seen. Our house had three floors but the main house looks like a smashing, Greek-Colonial house with a porch that goes along the smaller version back houses (which gave the Hacienda look).
The outside color for our house was light blue with its borders and columns white (each family has a specific color for their houses which merged with nature's. It also served as a form of family identification for what later I knew was our DNA).
The first floor of the house consisted on: a living room, kitchen, dining room and a pool. The living room was located at the center area of the house entrance and it consisted of several L-shape modern furniture, a rug and several side tables. The ambience was completed with a higher roof that accentuated the lighting coming from its lower part and two Akoniton (aka Aconite) inspired chandeliers. It was mainly used for after dinner meetings with the families or meeting area between the fathers, wives and older daughters and sons while visiting.
The massive kitchen was at the right side of the house. It contained a walk-in fridge, a walk-in freezer, two S-Series Range 60' W (10 burners each) and two big fridges to keep accessible the snacks. The modern, PVC, black and white U-shaped cabinets contrasted with the rustic style of the house making it feel comfy and elegant.
The dining room was located on the left side of the house. The light pine wood tables formed a U and the white colored chairs made out of wood with a slender design seemed like a body's back view. All wood furniture and bedrooms were made by one of our companies.
Our house central area was an ample open space with a circular, 3 feet deep pool for the little ones, a cascade falling from it into the rectangular, 6 feet deep pool, a 10 persons jacuzzi to the left between both pools, some body figures framed on its walls, some pillars and several palms to block from direct sun rays.
Several doors gave access both to the kitchen and the dining room. The luxurious ambience was completed by chairs, lounges, day-bed lounges and two big pool lounges where many could enjoy some relaxation while in the water.
The Second floor was for the fathers, wives, widowed daughters and sons, and a dining room for each of the three fathers, wives and their kids, when invited to dinner with their father and mothers. The same set-up for all three fathers.
Although the husbands and wives of our family were also The Leader's family, he had his own house with offices to manage our companies and everything Atlantis related.
The third floor in its entirety was divided into entertainment areas and several rooms split for newborns, babies, kids 4-10, adolescents 11-15 and young adults 16-18.
Our house was designed so that the kids had an area to play and the adults had their own area to relax and chat. At the big front yard, you would see a playground area for the little and big kids and a big tree house with play area for the youngsters. Several sculptures of kids playing or carrying fruits were also found.
The back patios were the entertainment area for the adults. Bushes of roses and other flowers marked the size of the main family's land. At the backyard of the main house you could also find several chairs, lounges, trees, sculptures of Greek (obviously) men and women, busts of Greek Gods and Goddesses, fountains and, like all other houses Apollo playing the Lyre or the Keras (its design is like a horn).
