Fandom: Atlantis

Alita was condemned for speaking out against Queen Pasiphae in the king's court. She's sentenced to be a gladiator in the same arena where they hold the court of bulls.

Three years later, she meets Jason, Pythagoras, and Hercules who have been called to the bulls for "disrespecting" the queen's nephew. The Bull master/warden warns them about her. When Jason asks questions, he tells him how long she's been there and that she hasn't spoken since her words got her imprisoned. ("Many of my guards wonder if she even remembers how to speak.")

Jason manages to sneak up to watch one of Alita's fights and gets a suspicion that she isn't as heartless as the other prisoners think. (She only kills in self defense. Refuses to kill if they've already been beaten. Tries to convince opponents to yield. When they don't and she refuses to kill, Minos/Pasiphae has them shot down)

Jason tries to talk to her during a meal. She says nothing, but is able to communicate her distaste of the place and being forced to fight for others' entertainment. Through a series of simple questions, Jason learns her opinion on "being called to the humans." The freedom they promise at sentencing is a lie. If you're unfortunate enough to survive, you fight until you can't anymore.

When one of Jason's teammates dies tragically and they uncover a plot by the queen to have Jason killed, he convinces the bull master/warden to let Alita join their team. When they all successfully leap the bull, the king has no choice but to free her in order to honor the sanctity of the trial.

Upon their freedom, Jason invites Alita to stay with them, as she has no place to go. She agrees, after some convincing, and sleeps on the roof so she can see the sky and stars. Jason learns many things about Alita during her stay with them: she is rather stubborn, rises with the sun, is fiercely loyal, and hums to herself as she braids her hair.(something her mother did and she couldn't do while trapped in the bull court.)

She helps them escort Corinna to bear a message to Prince Therus - Ariadne's disgraced brother. She helps them escape Pasiphae's men, earning Therus' respect. Jason brings Ariadne to him and they have to convince Therus not to take her away.

Hercules seeks out the witch Circe to gain Medusa's affection, but it all goes wrong when she gets sick. Hercules goes to face Circe about a cure. Jason and the others go after him. Pythagoras is attacked by a draconic creature on the road and Alita and Jason continue to Circe's cave without him. Frustrated by Alita's presence, Circe throws a dagger into her stomach to get Jason alone to make her deal. She wants him to kill her sister in cold blood.

At first, he refuses, carrying Alita back to his friends as she bleeds out in his arms. Unable to watch his friends suffer, he goes back to Circe and agrees. Little does he know, Circe's sister is Pasiphae.

When Minos announces Ariadne's engagement to Heptarian, Jason joins the Pankration. Alita stays home, making the excuse that she's still recovering from her injuries from Circe. The contest ends in Jason's technical victory and Ariadne is able convince Minos that her and Heptarian's marriage is not blessed by the gods.

Hercules gets them hired to bring a bride price and the groom across the desert to Helios. Before they leave Pythagoras' brother, Arcas, joins them. Along the journey, they're attacked by robbers and take shelter in a temple to the Furies. Arcas summons the vengeful creatures to hunt down his father's murderer.

The furies attack Pythagoras, the one who accidentally killed their father. Alita, Jason, and Hercules try to protect him, but it isn't until Arcas forgives his brother that the creatures finally relent.

One of Hercules' old debts comes back to haunt him and Medusa is taken captive. Her ransom is a box hidden in the depths of Hades. They discover a way to travel to and from the underworld and Hercules, Jason, and Alita go under. While Pythagoras goes a wild chase to find their bodies after an accident, Alita and the others track down what turns out to be Pandora's Box and just barely escape the depths of Tartarus.

Back in the land of the living, they plot to trick Medusa's captor with a fake box. The trick works, but Medusa flees to their house and finds the box before they can reach her. She turns into a gorgon and must flee the city.

Hercules searches for a cure. He gets information about Medusa's whereabouts and, when Pythagoras doesn't find a cure, goes to see her anyway. Pythagoras, Jason, and Alita take off after him, but they get captured by robbers. They find Hercules in the cage with them when they wake up. The men release them for the hunt, giving them a short head-start before coming after them.

They get separated during the chase. Jason finds Pythagoras, but they're attacked by a group of bandits. Alita comes to their aid and takes an arrow to back. In the chaos, with Jason also hurt, Pythagoras has to choose who to save. He chooses Jason, unable to get to Alita in time anyway.

Atalanta protects Alita so she has the chance to escape to Artemis' sacred grove. Atalanta sees to her wounds and reveals what she knows about Alita's parentage. Her mother was a servant of Artemis like Atalanta and her father was one of the bandits, who renounced his ways for her mother. The robbers discovered them and attacked. They killed her mother, but her father escaped with baby Alita. Unfortunately, he was soon hunted down and killed as well, leaving Alita orphaned in Atlantis. ("You were not abandoned Alita. If I had known you were alive, I would have come for you.")

After escaping the forest, they go to find Medusa. Hercules, having overheard Pythagoras talking about the cure he's found with Atalanta, goes in alone and tries to sacrifice himself to cure Medusa. Jason stops him and discovers that he can look at Medusa without turning to stone.

Back in Atlantis, they struggle to make money and the hunger starts to get to them. Jason steals some meet that had been offered to Hecate. The consequence is becoming a werewolf. The others discover this and seek a cure. They go after him and Alita splits off to try and flank him. He tackles her, his claws digging into her shoulders, but at the sound of her voice saying his name, he regains enough control to run away. They trap him inside the temple where he took the meat from. The next day, they go in to find him. At first, Alita stays out to give him some privacy, but charges in at the sound of a battle. Jason kills a priest of Hecate. He's concerned about Alita's injury, but she waves him off and they help him home to give him the cure.

Circe returns to remind Jason of his deal to kill Pasiphae. Unable to let his friends suffer, he decides to go through with it. The others help him make a plan and they sneak into the palace. Jason can't go through with it. He escapes, but Pasiphae knows that someone's tried to kill her.

Jason then goes after Circe to find another way to end this. He does manage to kill her, but Ariadne is accused of leading the plot for the Queen's life and is sentenced to death by the brazen bull.

With help from the captain of the guard, they rescue Ariadne and flee to the Silver Mines among the lepers. They escape the mines and return to Atlantis to find Minos healed.

A year later, Minos has died and an exiled Pasiphae goes to war with Ariadne for Atlantis. With help on the inside, she manages to steal the Palladium, which protects Atlantis from invasion.

Jason and the others go a mission to retrieve the Palladium and return it Atlantis, turning the tide of the battle and winning out against Pasiphae.

Prince Telemon comes to win Ariadne's hand by proving himself in the Coronation games. Alita refuses to watch people fight for the entertainment of others, because she knows what it's like to be on the other end of such a practice. In the final, with the threat of Telemon killing Jason, she finally comes to hopefully be of some help.

Ariadne agrees to marry Telemon and they travel to Aegina to meet his father. They are attacked by Colchians along the way and Telemon's treachery is revealed. Alita gets separated from the others and knocked unconscious, trapped beneath a corpse. She awakes and finds her way back to the others. As they flee, they find themselves taking shelter in an ancient necropolis.

After suffering an injury, Pasiphae raises an army of the dead to kill Ariadne and her companions. Pasiphae's servant Medea is trapped with them and helps Jason reunite with his friends, but, as soon as the threat is gone, she stabs Ariadne with an enchanted dagger.

The magic of the dagger won't allow the queen to heal, so Jason and the others go to the grey sisters for information and discover they need to treat the wound with Medea's blood to heal it.

They sneak into the temple of Hecate to get it. They're attacked by blood-thirsty birds and Jason goes on alone. Jason gets captured and the others go in to help him escape. Upon their return to Atlantis, they heal Ariadne and she proposes to Jason.

To appease the nobles, they consult the gods with a blood offering. Upon the Oracle's return, she's taken by Pasiphae. Jason and the others go after her, but are too late. Pasiphae used Medusa to kill her.

Returning to Atlantis, Jason is arrested by the traitorous high priest and charged with killing the Oracle.

While imprisoned, Jason makes Alita promise to stay with Ariadne, no matter what happens. Hercules tries to rescue Jason, but gets caught too. Ariadne helps them escape, but the subterfuge gets her arrested and Pasiphae takes the throne.

After consulting the new oracle, Pasiphae seeks to manipulate her prophecy to suit her needs and seeks to make Ariadne recant her claim to the throne. Ariadne refuses and Pasiphae tortures the captain of the guard then kills him in front of Ariadne.

When that doesn't work, she drags a beaten Alita before the former Queen and tells Ariadne to recant or watch another friend die. Drawing strength from Alita and her captain's resolve, Ariadne stands firm. Pasiphae runs Alita through and has a guard drag the body away.

Medusa retakes her curse and convinces Jason to cut off her head so he can rescue Ariadne. During the rescue, he learns that Pasiphae is his mother and Ariadne tells him that Alita is dead.

With this knowledge, Jason begins to give in to the darkness inside him. Atlantean soldiers find them and Jason is injured and captured.

Pasiphae cannot bring herself to kill her son and sentences him to fight in the arena, giving him a chance to survive. To his surprise, he finds Alita imprisoned with him. Pasiphae and Medea had used their powers to save her life so as to punish her further for her crimes against Pasiphae.

Back in the arena, Alita takes to her old habits of silence and mercy, which does not please Pasiphae. She uses the girl's soft heart to punish her by watching her opponents slaughtered after she's rendered them defenseless. Alita can tell something is wrong with Jason, but can't find a time to talk with him. Jason's father finds a way into the arena and tries to get through to his son. Their combined effort helps reignite the light inside of Jason. His dad finds a way to get Jason out and Alita encourages him to go. Jason's dad dies during the rescue, but Jason has been restored and he decides to come back for Alita and one of the other prisoners who helped him.

After his escape, Pasiphae tortures Alita for information, but she remains silent. Jason, Hercules, and Pyrhagoras manage to rescue many of the prisoners, but in the midst of their escape, Pythagoras realizes that Icarus has betrayed them.

Ariadne and Jason get married and they realize that they have to kill Pasiphae if they want any hope for peace.

They capture her and Hercules deals the killing blow. They devise a plan to kill Silax as well and return to Atlantis with the general's promise of safe passage to the throne.

As they stand before the gods for their blessing, some of the soldiers attack and Pasiphae returns from the dead, resurrected by her goddess. As they escape the city, Icarus comes to their aid, helping them reach the gate.

Jason opens the doors and looks back to wave everyone through. He exchanges a reassuring smile with Alita, but a soldier appears out of an alley. She defends herself, but more come. She yells for the others to go. Before Jason can intervene one of the soldiers stabs Alita through the chest. Jason kills the men and carries Alita out of the city with them. Despite Pythagoras' efforts, she dies in Jason's arms on the trek to the forest, falling to a death almost as meaningless as she had feared to face in the arena, unable to protect her friends from even a few soldiers. They bury her in the forest near the sacred grove of Artemis before continuing on to Colchis.