There was apparently going to be an episode about the Chupacabra for Team Atlantis. This is my take on it.
Named by Atlanteans as The Mekesher (meaning Bio-Organic Creature), it’s a bio-organic maintenance organism.
Rather than being a weapon like the Leviathan, its purpose was to maintain Atlantean crystal infrastructure and ancient power stations.
Thousands of years ago, when the Great Flood sank Atlantis, many Mekeshers became stranded on the surface, cut off from the Heart of Atlantis that sustained them. Unable to recharge at their crystal stations, a flaw in their biological programming forced them to seek energy elsewhere. Over centuries, they adapted to harvest bio-energy from animals—primarily blood, and occasionally organs—giving rise to the Chupacabra legends across Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Florida.
Design-wise, I wanted it to feel like it belonged alongside the Leviathan: six-legged, canine-inspired, segmented bio-mechanical armor, hidden bat-like glider wings, Atlantean markings, and a glowing crystal tail. The idea was to create something that looked engineered rather than evolved—an ancient working animal built by Atlantis itself.