
Lara rests her hand on his chest and turns him over, taking the key from his pocket. Larson falls to his knees, and lays down to the ground gasping for air, his hand reaching out to Lara for help. This resulted in Lara shooting him three times in the chest. Insistent on impeding her path, he tells her she would never shoot him because, "that's just not who you are." Lara replies, "I'm not who you think I am". Larson taunts her, betting she will not shoot him. Inside she meets Larson again, holding a key trying to stop her from continuing further. They soon dock to an island which is a remnant of Atlantis, where Natla has mining operations. Lara escapes and follows the departing Natla on a motorbike, managing to sneak onto Natla's departing boat. With Lara in a trance from watching the vision, Natla steals the Scion, and has Lara restrained by her henchmen. Natla, after releasing Atlantis' own army against itself in an attempt to bring about the seventh age, is imprisoned in a crystalline structure for a thousand years before revealing that she will return to carry out her goals. Two of the three Triumvirates, Tihocan and Qualopec, are sentencing the third one, revealed to be Natla, to banishment in Lara's vision. After assembling all three pieces, Lara's earlier vision becomes much clearer. Lara travels to Egypt, and successfully retrieves the third piece of the Scion in the Sanctuary of the Scion located in the City of Khamoon in the Valley of the Kings. After defeating the centaurs, and assembling both pieces of the Scion, Lara has a vision that reveals the location of the third and final piece of the Scion: Egypt. She defeats him, but he runs with the Scion piece in hand, only to be killed by guardian centaurs outside of the tomb. While observing the empty coffin of Tihocan, the second member of the Triumvirate, Lara is told at gun point to give up her piece of the Scion by Pierre. She then finds the second piece of Scion in the depths of a tomb located under a small cistern and a palace devoted to the Phrygian king Midas.

Francis Folly in Greece and solves four puzzles related to the gods Atlas, Damocles, Poseidon and Hephaestus in order to navigate past the Colosseum. Lara breaks into Natla's office that night and finds evidence that the next piece of the Scion is in Greece. After defeating him, Lara discovers that Natla has sent Pierre Dupont, another archaeologist, to find the next piece. Shortly after surfacing from the pool outside the tomb entrance, Lara confronts Larson, who attempts to take the Scion piece from her as Natla knew she would never part with it. Lara leaves with a piece of the three-part Scion, but notices movement from what had appeared to be a statue of Qualopec before the tomb collapses. Realizing this tomb is not uninhabited after all. She discovers that he was one of three God Kings (the Triumvirate) who ruled Atlantis before it sank according to inscriptions in the room. As she peers closely in awe, one of the beast-like creatures suddenly roars at her, before falling laboriously to the floor. Through the Lost Valley teeming with thought-to-be-extinct dinosaurs and numerous booby traps, she enters a desolate tomb, belonging to the God King Qualopec seemingly undiscovered for millennia. Lara, having searched unsuccessfully for such an artifact with her father in the past, agrees to go.įueled as much by her, and her father's, desires to find the artifact, Lara travels on commission by Natla to the icy mountains of Peru to search for it in the lost city of Vilcabamba. Lara, sitting back leisurely, leaps from her seat upon hearing this revelation. Natla reveals she has found the location of one of the three pieces that comprise the Atlantean Scion, a mystical artifact buried in the heart of an ancient city, and she wants Lara to retrieve it for her. In Calcutta 1996, Lara Croft is approached by Larson, who introduces her to Jacqueline Natla.


In 1945 New Mexico, a bomb explodes, engulfing a town and revealing a strange structure, from which a winged creature flies out.
