[b]Parker Slaide of the Atlantis Colony PT. 1[/b] Hide. That's the word i've lived on my whole life. When you live in a place like Atlantis Georgia, this is how you survive. This wasn't hard for me, i was the average size of a seventeen year old, so that was not an advantage. I was basically your average teen, aside from my purple eyes. The reason i can hide so well is my "short-range" teleporting ability. But seeing as i can teleport up to five miles away, that's not considered short-range, considering the average is about three yards. This is what gives me the advantage of hiding, and that's why i'm alive. In our colony we are able to summon power from something i've never seen, something strange and beautiful. But it seems to work, so I choose not to question it. Everyone in our colony of about fifty people has trained multiple abilities, some even have short-range teleport, like me, but they're distance is average. I never wanted another ability, teleport is all i need, i dabbled a bit in invisibility, but my range of teleportation lessened, and invisibility was far less important to me, so i stopped training invisibility at the amount it was, which was ten seconds, which, sometimes, is more than enough time to escape a Caballen. A Caballen is what i can best describe as a spider and a rhino, at least i think those are things, i've never seen any in Atlantis. Caballen are big, gray, fleshy masses, with four arms, and a bad temper, they're ferocious and really the only threat in Atlantis. They are quite scary, and they are everywhere, the fifty colonist have secured one tower as our own, aside from that, it's either Caballen, or my territory. Sure, the colonists are allowed in my buildings and streets, but few choose to adventure with me. The only ones who do are my best friends, Gianna Dumas, Bayli Wilkerson, and Wade Wilkins. I had quite the crush on Gianna. Which was good, because Wade seemed to like Bayli. She was beautiful. I never seemed to stop thinking about her, with her flowing brunette hair, and her snow white skin. Her skin was beautiful, she was beautiful, but she wasn't pale, she was... something else. Today it was just me and Gianna. I was definitely fine with this, seeing as some alone time might have been all i needed, i wanted to tell her how I felt, how i loved her, how i would never leave her, and that I hoped with all my heart she felt the same. "Let's go! What are you waiting for?" She had a twinkle in her eye which signified thrill, i laughed and picked her up, this was amazing, i could tell this would be a great day. I ran to the edge of the roof of the colonist's building. The wind was flying against my face, i jumped as far as i could from the edge. I was falling straight towards the street. It was coming closer. Gianna screamed and laughed as we got ever closer, she pounded my chest in a fit of fear and thrill, this made me lose breathe, I inhaled quickly, probably two yards from the ground, I closed my eyes and teleported. When I opened my eyes, Gianna's hair was wild and messy, she looked at me and laughed, blushing a little, making her white cheeks rosy. Which i found unbearable, but I wanted to wait a little longer to tell her my feelings. We walked side by side, tiptoeing so we wouldn't draw attention. We walked up the stairs of the building until we got to the roof. We walked to the edge of the building and looked down, below were about twenty Caballen in the streets. "You wanna have some fun?" She asked suspiciously. I didn't even respond, i grabbed her hand, and jumped from the roof. In midair I teleported us to the ground. Gianna immediately ran at the closest Caballen, and threw something she calls a "Midnight Dragon," it's basically a purple orb that disintegrates any in its path. She kept doing this, and i teleported onto one Caballen's back to the next's, breaking each of their necks. We had demolished all of the Caballen. I couldn't wait anymore, she was sweaty and out of breathe, but this made me want her more, "Gianna, I need to tell you something," then she responded, but not at all how I expected, she pulled me towards her and kissed me, i was blushing like, well, something that blushes a lot. She ran from me laughing and telling me to follow. I ran after her laughing, and quite happy, this meant felt the same, that she liked me to, maybe not love, but i could only hope for that. I teleported in front of her, as she kept running, she ran me over, and we were laying on the ground, we kissed for a few minutes, this filled me with a feeling of great happiness, i had never wanted anything more. Then, out of no where, she was ripped from my grasp. A rogue Caballen had picked her up. When I ran at the Caballen, it brought Gianna down on its knee, it threw her body to the side, she lay there limp, and dead. My ears began roaring as blood rushed to my head. Hide. That word seemed to not exist anymore. Kill. Murder. Revenge. I teleported right in front of it, and punched it square in the teeth, all of which fell out. I grabbed its hand, flipped over its shoulder, and pulled back its arm. It had talons about nine inches. I ripped one out, teleported in front of it, and sliced it across the neck. I teleported back to the colonist's building holding Gianna's body, i handed her to one of the doctors, ran to my room, and mourned. I grabbed a knife from the kitchen and began sharpening the talon. With every scrape was a flashback to Gianna's death. I cut an old leather jacket's sleeve from the jacket. I cut into strips, and wrapped it around the hilt. I sat and focused my teleportation on the newly made blade. I threw the knife at my pillow, and imagined a deep dark pit. The pillow disappeared, and the blade teleported back into my hand. Wade and Bayli came by to attempt to cheer me up. They knew it wouldn't work, but it was the first time I had had some fun since then. In the middle of our get-together, the building began to shake, i wasn't sure what it was. I grabbed Wade and Bayli, then teleported us to the roof. We looked up and saw enormous ships in the clouds, skinny creatures, some with two arms, some with four, fell from the sky. One with four landed right in front of me. It pulled out its swords, but I sliced it across the chest, which sent him to the bottom of the deepest ocean i could summon in my mind's eye. I could tell this blade would prove to be quite useful. But just then, another spaceship flew in, and three men dropped onto our building, "We're a Fireteam from the Last City. We're here to help."