We Are Here Now
Chapter 1:
"I'm coming back for you."
"I know."
They both never taking their eyes of eachother.
That where the last words they spoke to eachother with pure love and compassion in their eyes.
Julia watched Barbie walk away into the darknes of the tunnel. She knows somehow he would come back for her. He always does. Her heart falls more and more apart as he walks furter into the darknes that is in front of her. Not able to see him now. Maybe the last time she ever will see him. She tries not to think of it, but the tears are visable in her eyes.
That's when Junior came into the cave, the tunnel, stuck on the other side of the crevasse that lays before them.
"What happened?"he asked Julia. "Barbie went ahead. He'll come back for us and we'll figure a way out to cross." Does Julia say to give positive news to Junior but also to herself because she needs that right now.
Julia and Junior where standing at the crevasse, trying to stand strong on the shaking ground. Wave after wave of earthquakes. "Thank you Junior. You didn't had to." Junior looked over at Julia "He has to be done with hurting people." And he looks over at the other side of the abyss with a frown on his face. Knowing he will die here. Die in the darknes.
That's when they see a butterfly, a monarch butterfly fly pass them. Towards the tunnel where the others walked to earlier. Julia just looks at it, begging for survival and to get Barbie and the others safe out of Chester's Mill, out of the cave. Wanting to see Barbie's face for one last time.
That's when they hear a horrible noice, like a cave in, seeing a bright light right after. A bright light in the distance of the cave. It is far away, but it gives enough light. They just look at it, thinking this maybe will be the end. Please let Barbie be okay, please let everybody out, let everybody be safe. She can't, will not think they will die there and that she and Junior will die here.
She is scared. Of course she is. She doesn't know if she will die here. She is scared she will never see Barbie again. And the thought of never seing him makes her heart break.
Take a leap of fate. That's what everyone needs right now and so does she.
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He placed his hand on the same spot as the monarch butterfly was on earlier. He didn't expected that the rock wall would light up, light spreading across the rock wall like lightning. Like a window with cracks in it.
"How did you…" Joe asks Barbie. "I have no idea." Is all what he can say while looking at the wall, that breaks down in front of him, all of them. "What's that noice?" Hunters says terrified.
The rock wall crumbles down, light appears, bright light. Everyone looks at it. Terrified, mesmerized.
That's when he and everybody else see Melanie, all soaked wet in the light. "Melanie?" "Follow me. Were going home."
Barbie had the huge desire to go to Julia right now, try to get her across the crevasse so that they would be together once again. He will come back for her. He will. He will not give up on that, on her. He loves her to much. I'll come back for you.
Now he has to make sure he get's Joe, Norrie and everybody else out. Of course he is scared. He doesn't know what will happen when he and all the other residents of Chester's Mill will go thought this, towards the light. He is scared he will die, but the thing he is the most scared of is to never see Julia again.
They trust him, lead them out of Chester's Mill to where ever they are going and where ever they are going to end up to.
"Okay let's go before the cave will fall down on us. I promise nothing will happen." Yells Barbie to the crowd. Everyone looks at him. Not knowing what to do, to do what he says they should do.
"Come on. Joe, Norrie, Carolyn go in the front, the others go behind them. Sam do you wanna go through it with me when everybody else is through?" "Fine by me as long as I will get out. This dome makes me insane."
Joe and Norrie took each others hand, holding each other sternly. "See you on the other side of this thing." Says Carolyn to Barbie while stepping into the light. It is just like animals, when one goes first the rest will follow and that happens now too.
One by one do they go into the light. To whatever is out there. "Together than." Says Sam. And that's what they did. Walking into the light, to what Melanie called home.
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Everything is blurry before they see sunlight, hearing birds, feeling air blowing through their hair, fresh air in their lungs.
Both Sam and Barbie open their eyes. Standing before the crowd of people. Barbie walks forwards, pushing himself through the crowd of people that are standing in front of him.
When he enters the outside he sees it. Zenith, but soldiers Block their way.
"I wanna talk to the person who is in charge." Barbie says while walking a little bit more forward. Stepping out as the leader of the crowd.
"We don't give information. Follow us. You guys will get a place to stay for the night." Says the soldier, looking at Barbie and then at the whole crowd and back at him once again.
He doesn't trust this soldier at all, but they have nowhere to go. At least the other's don't. He looks around and sees the obelix. He has his appartment, but he isn't going to leave the people of Chester's Mill on their own here.
So everybody goes with the soldiers, being brought to the place where they can stay for the night. Not knowing what the place will be. But sure that it will not be a comfortable hotel.
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After what seems like minutes the light disappears and the shaking starts again. This time even harder then it did before.
A horrible noice, rocks and walls falling down, breaking from the walls. A They try to stay steady on the ground, but it is almost impossible. The shaking is to hard for them to stand up, especially Julia. She really is in pain, because of her injured leg.
The cave is collapsing with them in it. Julia is standing on the wall as far as possible from the crevasse so she will not fall in it. Because she sure is, if she falls down in there, she will definitely die.
Junior was closer to the crevasse, holding himself up with using the wall. "Junior above you!"
He looks up and sees the ceiling of the cave crack and he runs towards the back of the cave immediatley. Shieling himself from the falling concrete. Julia does the same, covering her head with her arms.
The sounds was like falling concrete onto another one, horrible noice that makes your eardumbs hurt. Dust floats the cave, unable to breathe without a single problem. They both have a hard time breathing and couching the dust out of their airways.
The shaking stopped right after everything fell down. They looked up at the ceiling, revealing a large hole. "Look." Junior points at the crevasse. It is accesible now.
He walks forward, towards the bridge that just created itself. Julia follows him. She wanted to get out of the fishbowl, archieved that, but now she's stuck here.
Junior takes the first step. Than the other one. He puts his hand behind him for Julia. She accepts it. He saved her life just minutes ago so he would not let her fall in this crevasse.
She took his hand and steps her feet on the bridge of rock. "Thanks."When they got to the middle of the bridge of rock, they looked at each other for a second and gave a sprint to the other side.
"We are on the other side. Lucky us." Julia says while looking back. "Do you think my father is dead out there?" "Maybe… I don't know. We should keep moving to follow the others."
She takes the lead now. That's when they get by the two tunnels. "How are we supposed to know which tunnel they used." Juniors says frustrated.
"Any suggestions?" She looks over at Junior. "Don't you have a lucifer like in the cement factory to see where the air is floating towards so that we can find the way out?"
He looks over at her, waiting for a response. "No. And I don't think that would have helped us if we got one. The dome has it's own agenda on how to do things."
"Great. The dome can not even give us a sign about which tunnel we need to use." Junior walks towards the left tunnel. "See you later I go take this one." He is frustrated and annoyed. She hears that in his voice.
"Are you sure you want to take that one?" "Yes!" Julia knows staying together is better than splitting up so she follows him into the left tunnel. Both not knowing the others had gone right.
They walked until they both where in a haze. The portal that would bring them somewhere else.
