We got to Italy in the mountain mera and I had to a little down and she looks amazed at what she's seeing. And actually liking people.

"I'm starting to think you actually like these surface dwellers" i said to her.

"It would be wrong to judge a place I've never seen before" she said.

"I'll be right back." I went to see someone who would give directions and told me it was on a hill. "We'll apparently it's just right ip on the hill a big old castle."

"And I just learned something interesting" she shows me a book "Pinocchio. You risked our lives based on what you read in a children's book?"

"It's a book how about that?" I chucked "I got it from the movie." We go up the hil to see many thing and what we're searching for "what did the recordings say again!"

"Journey beyond the edge of the world in the hidden sea look in the bottle for the charted path only in the hand of a true king can he truly see." Mera said.

I gave it some thought and took the bottle and looked inside it and was amazed. And mera looked too.

"What was the last line"  I asked.

"only in the hand of a true king can he truly see." Mera said.

Then I looked at the statues "Marcus Agrippa. He was a great general but he wasn't a king. Neither was scoprio."

"How do you know all this?" Mera asked.

"My pops he made sure I knew my history. None of these guys were king except this guy Romulus first king of Rome" i put the bottle on his and and took a look and pointed the way. "There it is that's our heading"

Mera looks and was happy we did it she hugs me as I hugged back.

"That's not bad for an imbecile, huh."

"Not bad at all now let's get go—"

She didn't finish when someone shot at us and we saw some Atlantisn and some who's not familiar.

"loathsomeness awaits and dreams in the deep,and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men." Then he fired and shot at me making me fly and fall.

I was in pain as he walks up to me "who the hell are you?"

"Maybe this will jog your memory" he shows his knife and fought me as i blocked him.

For a while I realized who he was "your the guy from the sun"

"That's right" he stabs me making me groan "but now I have atlantian steel. Call me black manta. You owe me blood"

"How did you find me?"

"Your friend has people who like to keep tabs on her." He starts to attack me and for a while stabs me "I'll show you the same mercy you showed my father and gut you like the fish you are I grabbed something to block him from shooting at me and threw it at him. As he was defeated

"Ebony!" Mera runs to me and catches me.

"Mera, they're tracking you" I told her before I blacked out.