So, here's what's gonna go down from now on. Every week - or two to give myself wiggle room- y'all are gonna vote on the story that you want to be updated next. I'll post the first chapter of each, and you can go from there!
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Chapter 1-The world is ending
The World was ending. It had been for a very long time now. Joni Indigo Matthews, a twenty year old woman, had been living at home. After all, the only way to survive this world had been to stick with your family. To trust very, very few.
Living in Rural Tennessee had been easy. The sun- though now more deadly because of the insufficient protection from the atmosphere- beat down on the ground at high temperatures. But never the less, Earth's life had slowly adapted. Joni looked down at her legs. Surprisingly, she could still remember, around twelve years ago, when her legs had been a pale white color instead of the now permanent tan-glow.
Joni loved few things in life, Archery, Drawing, and Reading were part of the few. Her grandmother and parents were the next. Especially her grandmother, the woman used to tell Joni all types of stories. Sad ones, happy ones. Joni even knew some of them by heart- or at least most of one. The one about ninja's in a world that could easily have been this one if things had been a bit different.
Joni's grandmother had shown her the illustrated books that she had kept since her childhood. She showed Joni the characters once, told Joni their names, and then locked them away. Forever.
Books. Especially illustrated ones. Were now illegal. The government gave shelter, food and water to its people, and because of that the people were expected to follow the rules.
But now, Joni's grandmother was dying. It was her time... She had lived over ninety years an now it was time for her to go.
"Ms. Indigo," The nurse said quietly to Joni's grandmother,"Would you like anything else?"
"Nope," came the somehow energetic reply for a dying woman,"I'm good sugar! Thanks!"
The nurse shook her head sadly and left.
That's when Joni's grandmother turned to her kids an grandkids,"Now don't forget about everything I've taught you."
"Mom," Joni's Mother- Sakura- stated with a smile,"This was just a routine surgery. You act a if you were on-"
That's when it happened, Joni's grandmother smiled one last time at Joni, and then closed her eyes and her heart stopped.
The next seconds were crazy. Hospital staff ran in and Joni's Dad had to pull her out of the hospital room, she was screaming for her grandmother. Ten minutes later a nurse came to them in tears, saying that Joni's grandmother had died due to unforeseeable complications in her surgery that had lead to heart failure.
No one had expected it.
Joni looked out of the window and she saw fire raining down from the sky.
The world was ending. And it had come in fire.
Joni ran out of the hospital. Her parents had tried to stay with her -as they had decided to head home to get to a disaster room that would had supported them for months-But her parents had gotten separated from her in the chaos of The End.
She was the first one home. They only lived a few miles away from the small rural hospital. She looked out on the world, most of everything had started to be engulfed in flames. Her house sat in a valley near a small stream, the fire hadn't reached the home yet. She unlocked the door and headed for her room.
Her parents came in behind her,"Joni," her mother screamed,"Get into the saferoom! The fire is almost here!"
Joni nearly tripped, the fire must be moving extremely fast. She grabbed a few things from her room quickly stuffed them into her already prepacked bag - something her grandmother had told her to do a week ago. She had just done it to humor the old woman... But now...
She ran towards the basement, bust stopped at the door to her Grandmother's room. On the spur of the moment, she pushed the door open.
"Joni," Her father yelled,"Hurry! Now!"
She heard a large crash and the whole house shook,"JONI," her mother screeched. Fire. Fire had hit the house. Joni HAD to get them.
She ran to the closet and threw open the door. Easily seeing the books that her grandmother had forgotten to hide with the fake-wall. She started to put them Ito her bag.
Joni turned and saw that smoke started to fill the upstairs. Joni heard her mother scream and her father yell,"Sakura!"
She ran back towards the door, dropping and knocking over a few of the books. Flames met her and filled the hallway and the stairs. She was trapped.
She ran back and grabbed the rest of the books before she braved the flames. She could feel the flames burn her as she did her best to avoid them. She felt tears trickle out of her eyes and the smoke burned her lungs. She made it to the stairs but as she went down them- the stairs collapsed. She screamed as she fell into a closet that was below the stairs.
Joni kicked the door open and slowly and painfully made her way to the basement door. She couldn't hear her parents and only hoped that they had made it to the saferoom already.
That's when the beam from the ceiling fell on her, kicking her bag off of her arm and knocking one of the books out of the bag.
Now Joni was really trapped, she couldn't even move an inch,"HELP! Mom? Dad," she screamed and screamed as the wood and plaster on top of her started to get hotter and hotter.
No answer came and Joni started to cry. She spotted the book and reached for it. She gave a small smile when her hand touched the smoldering cover.
That was the last thing she saw before blacking out. She read the cover one more time.
Naruto. Volume 4, The Hero's Bridge.
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