The Banes' Background and the City of Atlantis

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{Day One of the RP storyline}


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June 4, 2004. A brown haired female sits on a beach, pausing from her swimming so that she can catch her breath. It had been a nice swim, but she was trying to increase her swimming abilities. ...I will get there this week. nothing will get in my way...

Matt sat down on the warm sand after running his daily round on the beach. He wore his bathing shorts, and had a towel in his hand, just the same as always. It was the same every day. A quiet run on the beach all by himself, followed by a warm bath and then lying in the sun and let it dry him. He spotted a young woman on the beach today, but didn't mind her much. He jumped into the waves and started swimming outwards

She raises her brown eyes to see a man on the beach. ...kinda cute, you have to admit... She pauses before wondering why he's here. ...certainly not going for the same goal as I am....

Matt swam a little further out before he stopped and took multiple deep breaths, before diving deep into the ocean. He had found an underground cave down there. One could breath fresh air and it was located somewhere under the island(we're on an island, right?). He had his own secret storage there, four cans of nonalcoholic cider and some snacks. You could enter the cave from the island to, but that was way harder. he sat there for about ten minutes before going back up to the surface

June sees the man surface, her brows knit closely together. ...how deep did he dive, perchance? if it is deep enough, I could use a partner when going to Atlantis... She tries to bring up her courage as she sees the man coming closer to the shore. ...do I have the guts to even ask him about it? if only Augustine was here, he'd boldly ask. but if he was here, I wouldn't be....

Matt swam in to the shore and laid down on the sand near the water. The sun was just as warm as always and the sand was just as good to lie down on as always.

...very good looking and well built as well but do I have the courage to even ask him about his diving?... She sighs and stands up, stretching her arms over her head. ..I'm definitely going, but should I ask him to go with? do I dare?...

"Don't be shy, I already know your here." Matt smiled with his eyes closed. "I haven't seen you here before though. What's your name?"

The brunette freezes before lowering her arms, "June Banes is my name, sir." She steps a bit closer, cautiously, before saying, "I've been around here for the last few days and I haven't seen you around, either. How is that possible if we've both come here daily?"

"Nice to meet you June, My name is Matt MacCeehan." Matt stood up. "And to answer your question, I guess we're here at different times" Matt smiled.

She comes down the beach and approaches him, extending her hand. "Nice to meet you too, Matt."

Matt grabs her hand and shake it before letting go. "What do you do out here anyways?" he asked lookin at the sea.

She stretches before saying nonchalantly, "Oh, I'm just trying to build up my swimming endurance. I'm going on a trip soon that requires a lot of swimming, a lot of diving. I figured that I would build up my swimming first since swimming is the main part of diving."

"Swimming and diving? Sounds fun" Matt laughed. "Why? THere's got to be a reason for all this?"

"Oh, just looking for something to break the spell I'm in. I'd like to be my own person, for once," she says, sitting down in the sand. She smiles before saying, "I'd like to be seperate from my siblings."

Matt's interrest for the girl suddenly rose a lot. "Spell? Separate from siblings? Tell me more, please"

She raises an eyebrow before saying, "Why should I tell you? We only just met... However, if you're insistant, I could tell you...."

"Could tell me...?" Matt said looking deep into the girls eyes.

June sighs and, looking out to the sea, starts telling the story. "It may sound weird but I was not born as a normal human would. I was actually hatched. My parents laid thirteen eggs, my siblings and me."

Matt smiled, as he thought she was jokin, but when he saw her serious face he knew that she wasn't

"No, seriously! I was hatched though I am a human. I think my mother was part bird or something, though, to make sense of the whole egg thing..."

"That doesn't really make this whole story make any more sense... but go on, I won't interrupt again." Matt said, smiling

She smiles before continuing, "Anyways, thirteen children. We all hatched except one. My parents had a sense of humor so they named us after the twelve months of the year, or at least had our names based around the months' names. LIke I'm June and a few of my siblings are Augustine, Febril, and Demitri. Mother knew that the thirteenth one would be a boy so she still named him, Yeander because there wasn't another month."

"And here I've been thinking I was special because of my speed..." Matt shook his head. "Oh well, you sure have an interresting story right there. I hope to see you later, I've got to go eat dinner. I'm starving." Matt smiled as he picked up his towel and his shirt.

"There's more..." she says, averting her eyes, "No one has seen any of us in the same place at the same time in years. That's where the spell comes in...."

Matt dropped his towel and his shirt again. "Oh there's more? My stomach can wait, I'm really interrested!" Matt said as he sat down on the sand again.

She turns her eyes down the beach, away from him. "Somehow, Mother decided to keep Yeander around, though we all assumed he was dead. We were about five when Noreen, the eleventh youngest child, accidentally bumped Yeander's egg. We were all in the same room when the egg cracked. We called out for Mother when we saw the egg starting to hatch. She didn't come in time and soon, since it was in the month of May, we were all gone except May. We didn't know what was going on, but we found out that Yeander hand fully hatched, creating one being that has twelve forms."

matt looked at her with shocking eyes. "Is there more?"

June turns her brown eyes to him and says, "The reason that we're never around in the same room is because we are all combined into one being, Yeander, who changes from month to month so that we all can get out in the world. We come out when it is the month that our Mother named us after."

""So.. your not going to stay here for very long then? I mean, it's the third of June now, and there's thirty days in June month, so your gonna be around for 27 days?"

"It's the fourth of June, Matt. And I'll be around until midnight of the night between the last day of this month and the first day of next month. Then Julius will be around."

"Sad." Matt said and stood up.

"But I have something to do while I'm around. One thing that may catch your attention: Atlantis."

"Atlantis? What about it?"

She smiles, standing up, and starts to wade into the clear blue water, "What if I told you that I may have a chance to split up from Yeander by going on a trip?"

"That'd be great! I'd help you. But is that possible?" Matt stood up beside her.

"Atlantis may be the key, and I know where it is," she says, touching the water that is at her waist.

Matt ran out to her "But. Isn't that far under the water?"

"Yeh, that's why I am working on trying to get my swimming ability up to par. If I can swim to the underwater nation, I have a propeller to get farther. I can at least swim with the propeller."

"Do you have a boat to get out to the spot?" Matt asked.

The brunette turns to him, "Do I look like an idiot? Of course I have a boat because it is about six miles from shore. I'm not swimming six miles before diving down."

"Well..." Matt laughed. "And you have enough oxygen for the dive?"

"Of course. I'm not dumb enough to go diving down without oxygen to breath. The tanks are a bit large, but they connect to the propeller and are not dependant on the swimmer. As for the pressure from the depth, that's taken care of as well, through the diving outfit. I had four specially made, two for me or my sisters and two for a companion or my brothers."

"Companion? Does that mean I can't help?" Matt said, disappointed

"A companion that I don't have, yet."

"Oh" Matt smiled. "And how can I be that companion?" Matt asked

"Just tell me if you're up to it, and you can be. I'd love the company," she says with a smile.

"So would I" Smiled Matt. "I'm in!" He reached out his hand

With one hand, she holds up a thumbs-up sign. With the other, she takes his hand and says, "Well, then. How deep can you dive?"

"Deep enough" Matt smiled. "Time for me to get dinner. I'll see you here tomorrow at the same time? Maybe we can do some dives? I've got some cool stuff to show you" Matt smiled and winked as he took his towel and his shirt and walked away