Petra of Atlantis

The Palacetroop city was the capital of the country. A very rich city with overwhelming riches and fortunes. People, all over the country came to this capital to seek their fortune. So the residential areas were always packed with varieties of people from here and there.

It was inside of the VIP metropolitan area, where the five star hotel named 'Star hike' was situated. The hotel was very famous for its hospitality,especially special for the business tycoons. All types of high and mighty officials across the world, would come here for a short rest in their journey to the capital.

The building consisted of twenty spacious floors and currently on the fifteenth floor, to the left side by the elevator,two young men in their late twenties came out from the elevator in a hurry. The floor felt exceptionally desolated as it was late in the midnight and not a single human being could be found outside. Those two men hurried towards the third door to the left by the lift.

They unexpectedly had spare key card of the room. With a check sound the door opened and those two went inside with the speed of lightning not forgetting to close the door behind.

It was pitch black inside,with the smell of alcohol and some other chemicals. As soon as they turned on the lights, a sense of guilty with a slight ting of pity came to their humors.

"Brother Atlan!
“Boss, Atlantis!

The two men ran towards the unconscious man lying on the bed beside whom was another figure they didn't care about.

"Seb,you go and bring some hot water first. We have to bring him to consciousness first. Hurry! And also check that woman if it's dead or something..," it was Jack who went and gave some first aid to Atlantis. He was a doctor in the army and a close friend to Atlantis. And Seb was both of their junior. A worthy young man striving his way in the army. Currently,they were assigned to a mission and working together.

"Yes!" Seb replied while checking the pulse of the woman lying unconscious on the floor.

If someone except of this two had come to this room,they would have thought about something like 'a very passionate night was going on' or something. But these two very clearly knew what was going on there and especially Jack as he heard the name Atlantis was chanting in his trance.

Atlantis was also murmuring something. But from those muddled words the name 'Petra' could be discerned easily as if this name was something holy and should not be said unorganizedly.

"Brother Atlan, you should wake up soon or else it won't be good," Jack whispered these words as he was worried about something else. He was worried about that woman waking up before Atlantis and if she heard him,it won't be good.

Seb brought all the necessary things Jack asked for and after giving some hot compress to Atlantis on his neck and forehead he asked Seb to roughly clean up the room and put that woman on the sofa from the bed. Seb done his job as instructed.

After thirty minutes or so, Atlantis regained his consciousness and was burning from a fever and splitting headache. He also had the urge to vomit. But six years of inhuman training had made him strong enough to bear all these trivialities.

After some moments he got up from his bed catching the attention of the other two men in the room.

"You two should have send her away or else I might kill this bitch,"what respect for the woman! Atlantis believed in humanity not in gender equality or equity or whatever. He said each words through gritted teeth. The sharp jaw line was pulled tight to it's extreme.

By nature, Atlantis was among the mascular handsome men. His eyes were sharp with pointy sides and blade like eyebrows. His nose bridge was straight and was proportionally angeled with his slightly pointy chin that were connected with a pair of thin faded pink colored lips. He liked to be clean in and out. Even after the years of rough and tough fighting on the Frontline, his personality was not of a ragged old soldier. Rather he was like a experienced sword,the more it used,the more sharp it became. His handsome features had made him pleasant to the eye of anyone who saw him. But this scene was when he remained calm and his usual self. As when this war maniac got enraged,no one dared to bear the consiquences alone. Except one.. however this information was not necessary now.

Seb didn't have the right to interrupt or retort or advice anything unnecessary to his senior. So it was Jack who started first," Calm down,will you? I can guess what happened here. But where did you get the chloroform from? You know you almost kill her?

"This types of rubbishes are better of dead," Atlantis didn't care about that life at all.

"Watch your words for now man. She may wake up anytime now. Let's finish today's report and give us the information you got from her." Jack tried to reason with him.

"Send her away first," and Atlantis was unmoved.

Running out of patience, Jack asked Seb to send that lady away to her place and make some reasonable excuses for Atlantis.

After all was settled, Atlantis started the report," I've recorded all the information she gave about the main base. It's here. As we were drinking,I was about to lost my conscious, I knew she would play dirty with me. She had spiked my drink,so I did the same. The report ends here."

Jack,from his experience could tell that this man in front of him won't say anymore even if the world came to an end. He had many question as where did the chemical came from and who got it for him as Atlantis was under surveillance twenty four hours a day. How had he attack her ma did she would remember this and so on. But Jack couldn't and wouldn't ask as he knew Atlantis had his own way of things.

As it was the end of his work he checked Atlantis for the last time and headed towards the door. But before he left,he said to Atlantis,"Don't be so rash and die early. You know, you have someone you want to go back to, right? "

Till now, Atlantis didn't react to any of his advice or warnings and made them past his ears. But this one sentence,'someone he want to go back to' ,he felt this was the most sensible thing Jack had ever said to him.

'That's true. He has someone for whom he has to keep himself'. Not because she needed him. But, because,he wanted to stay with her for a really long time.

"En," he replied this time.