They go to the king to try and find where the crystal is, and nearly kill him in an attempt to secure the proper information.

Milo refuses to turn mercenary like the rest of them, but when he tries to stop them, Rourke kicks him down and threatens Kida. When they surface, Milo is surprised to find a mutinous crew, led by Commander Rourke, who indicate that they are all on the expedition to find and bring back the crystal, and sell it to the highest bidder. Kida takes Milo to an underwater cavern, in hopes that he will be able to decipher the carvings and drawings on the wall, and Milo discovers that the crystal he had read about in the journal isn't a battery or a treasure, it's a life force, keeping all of them alive for thousands of years. Milo, the incurable and hopeless, but adorable nerd that he is, is a little tongue-tied at first around the statuesque and dramatic Kida, but their differences make them a good pair, and she confides to him that a bright light took her mother when she was young, and that there is a life force that keeps but alive, but their culture and way of life is dying. Milo is designated to break the ice with Kida, and he and she make an arrangement to ask and answer each other's questions. Kida convinces her father not to execute them, and Rourke convinces the king to let them stay one night to refuel and restock supplies. The crew, led by the seemingly stalwart Commander Rourke, requests an audience with the King, who reminds Kida that the law requires any outsiders who find the city must be put to death. Before long, Milo and the crew find the legendary city of Atlantis, and Milo learns the girl who healed him is Princess Kida. She smiles, and runs away with her companions. One of them lifts their mask to reveal a stunning woman who pulls a crystal from around her neck, puts it to Milo's wound, presses her hand to it, and miraculously it's healed. He awakes to find a group of hunters with spears and giant, glowing masks surrounding him. One night when Milo inadvertantly begins a fire that consumes much of the team's camp, he's injured and knocked out. He joins the crew, not at all fitting in at first, the brunt of their jokes, always poring over the Shepherd's Journal to decipher the meaning behind its cryptic writings. Whitmore, a rich, eccentric friend of his late grandfather's offers him a position as the linguist on an expedition to Atlantis, the Journal already having been located, Milo finally gets his chance to prove his theories right. As a linguist and scholar, he tries to present a plan for his expedition to find the Shepherd's Journal and with it, the key to finding Atlantis, but he's laughed at by the heads of the museum. Milo is the grandson of legendary explorer Thaddeus Thatch, longs to discover the truth of Atlantis, but at first is restricted to the confines of a history museum's boiler room. Milo James Thatch is the unlilkely hero of Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).

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