Chapter-1-Stupid Z

The Pirruccello family was in their 2014 Nissan Altima, driving to Grand Atlantic Resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, "Are we there yet?" Rini asked.

"We still have 13 more hours until we get there, but we're stopping somewhere in Tennessee in a few hours, ok sweety."

"Ok mom," Rini sighed and poked her brother, "Hey Kyouhei? Do you want to play a game?"

The purple haired boy removed his bright blue headphones and nodded.

"We could play the license plate game," Rini suggested, Kyouhei nodded once more. As they drove along they looked at all the plates on the near bye cars.

"There's F!" Rini shouted excitedly.

"G" Kyouhei pointed to a car in front of them.

After a few minutes of playing, the siblings were stuck on the letter Z. While searching for the Z, the family got caught up in traffic. The twins looked at the cars next to them trying to find the elusive Z. They got through the traffic and were steadily driving, they were getting close to Nashville, where they were going to stay.

"Uggh! Where is that stupid Z!" Oona moaned.

Apparently Nonny and Oona were looking for the blasted Z too. They were driving through the Smoky Mountains now, the road became narrow and there were semi trucks all around. Oona kinda panicked, "Be careful Nonny,"

"It's ok, as long as I stay in the middle of my lane, and calm down a little, I don't think I need anymore distractions," Nonny replied.

Oona nodded and turned to her kids in the back, "First one to find that stupid Z gets five dollars." Oona took a crisp five dollars bill out of her purse and laid it on the console. The twins continued to look for that Z on a license plate.

"Z! Z! I found the Z!" Rini cheered in delight.

"Where is it?" Oona and Kyouhei looked out every window.

"It's on that truck," Rini pointed out her window.

Oona looked at the truck and screamed, "Nonny look out!"

The big eighteen wheeler was slowly shifting into their lane, Nonny tried blowing the car horn at it but, it just kept getting closer and closer. They had nowhere to go, there was a truck in front of them, a lot of cars behind them, and a monstrous, drop on the other side of the guard rail. As the truck got dangerously close, Oona and the kids just closed their eyes, awaiting to be squished. You could hear scraping and creaking as the truck rammed up against them and slammed them into the guard rail, suddenly the car broke through the guard rail and started its decent down the steep mountainside. They went down and down for what seemed like forever. A very large pine tree stopped them suddenly, they all lurched forward and the airbags deployed. The whole family became unconscious.

3 hours later...

Kyouhei's POV

"Kyouhei...Kyouhei, wake up," Rini was shaking me violently.

I opened my eyes to my whole family staring at me, it startled me a bit and I jumped.

"Sorry sweetheart, we didn't think you'd get up anytime soon, so I had Rini try to wake you up 'cause we need you help if your not hurt," Oona stated.

"I think I'm good," I moved around a bit and nothing hurt, "What do you need help with Mom?"

"Getting out of the car."

"What do you mean?"

"Your father and I cannot move our legs, we think there're broken," Mom was in tears now, "Your sister is fine, we just need both of your help getting out," Mom is full on crying now.

I tugged on the handle, no cigar, the window was shattered out, so I climbed out that way. I walked over to Mom's door and tried to open it, it was too bent up to open easily. I thought for a moment...ding, lightbulb...I walked to the back, opened the trunk, tossed out suitcases, beach chairs and found the crowbar Dad always keeps in there.

"Ok Mom pull the handle and I'll open the door."

She pulled the handle and I pushed the crowbar as hard as I could, the door creaked and moaned, but I just couldn't pry it open.

"Let me help Kyo," Rini ran over to help me push the crowbar. With her help we managed to pry the crushed door open and help Mom out. She hopped on one foot to a tree stump a few feet away. Now we had to open Dad's door, his side was more difficult to open, mainly because of the tree six inches away. We had to almost carry him to the stump Mom was on, he apparently broke a few bones in both legs.

"What do we do now?" Rini asked Dad.

"I have no idea."

"Well, I think I should make you guys a splint for your legs," I pondered how I could make a splint for them. I found sixteen sticks, four for each leg, put one in the front, one in the back, and one on each side, then tied it all together with Dad's long socks he packed.

"We need to find a shelter," Dad said as we felt little raindrops falling on us.

"Or build one..." I glanced to a huge log propped up against a tree a few yards away. "We can make a shelter out of that..." I pointed to the giant log. Rini and I propped up sticks against the log to make a tent like structure and covered the outside with leaves and long grasses we found. When we were done me and Rini helped Mom in and got her situated, then with all our might we helped Dad over and got him situated right. The shelter was protecting us from the now pouring rain and harsh wind, it was even big enough for all four of us to lay down in. It was pretty much dark, we all bunched up together to keep warm and dozed off.

Now this is more my speed, survival story, just a note of caution, if you do not like animals being killed and stuff like that, then do not read on any longer! And I have one question to fellow writers, HOW DO I WRITE 3000+ WORD CHAPTERS? It just seems like if I combine two chapters together it becomes kinda weird, IDK. RA out!