Summary: Tohru receives tickets for the luxury cruise upon the Poseidon for her birthday, along with 9 other people from the Sohma family. Midway through the cruise, the ship is fatally struck by a rogue wave, and is capsized. Now Tohru must find out where everyone else is and escape the bowels of the ship before it slips under the ocean's waves. But not everyone can survive fate. . .
Poseidon
Chapter
One
Tickets
The morning dawned beautifully and brightly, and Tohru did her usual routine about the house. It was a Saturday morning, and Tohru's birthday was only a week away. She would be 19 in less than a week, and she could count the blessings she had received during the past 3 years with the Sohma family.
She was busy hanging out the washing to dry, when Kyo came out and kissed her on the forehead.
"Morning" he yawned, as he stretched widely.
"Good morning," replied Tohru, blushing slightly "Did you have a good's night sleep?"
"Yeah, I guess," replied Kyo, closing his eyes "That damn Shigure snores a lot though, how did you put up with it?"
It had been almost a year since Tohru and Kyo had got together. A year on her birthday, to be exact, and Kyo had moved all of his belongings into her room, which they now shared together.
"We've got a surprise for you later," said Kyo, opening one eye at her.
Tohru looked at him suspiciously.
"A… A surprise? For me?" she replied placing the last item upon the washing line, and carrying the basket under her arm, which Kyo took off of her.
"Well, it is your birthday coming up soon, is it not?" said Kyo, walking back to this house, a hand in the air "A time to celebrate?"
"W-Wait, Kyo!" shouted Tohru after him, and then running to catch up "What do you mean 'a surprise'?"
"Y'know!" said Kyo, looking down at her; she had barely grown in the past year "A surprise? Something unexpected that you enjoy."
"I know what a surprise is, silly" said Tohru, as they entered the lounge of Shigure's house "What is it? A… Um… A new dress?"
"You'll never enjoy it fully if you guess it," said Kyo, going into the kitchen and placing the basket on the side. "Anyway, I'd never tell you even if you did guess right"
"Hey!" said Tohru "No fair!"
Yuki then came down the stairs, rubbing his eyes as he did, his grey hair a mess; he wasn't a morning person.
"Morning, Tohru" he said, waving a hand half-heartedly as he walked over to the fridge.
Kyo grimaced "Finally took to calling her by her real name, now?" he asked, glaring at the Rat, who was covered by the fridge door.
Yuki slammed the
fridge door, glaring back at the Cat, but he restrained himself, for
Tohru's sake. They were, after all a couple now.
Yuki just
walked out of the room, nothing spoken, not even to Tohru.
As his feet dyed away, Kyo turned back to Tohru "Now, where were we?" he asked, grinning down upon the brown-haired girl, and kissing her forehead.
"Just about to make breakfast" came a familiar voice through the kitchen doorway.
Kyo shuddered slightly and turned to see the face of the person he'd expected to see there; Shigure.
"Why can't we have any peace around here?!" Kyo shouted over at Shigure, who stood there, blinking at him, a blank look upon his face.
"Well, Tohru still is the housekeeper, as you know, Kyo," replied Shigure, resting his body upon the doorframe "And she enjoys making us breakfast, don't you, Tohru?"
Tohru had not given comment to the conversation, as her face was planted upon Kyo's chest, who had held it there the whole time.
"Mph-mmph-miph-meeph" she could only muffle through Kyo's torso.
"Why don't ya let her breathe, there, Kyo?" asked Shigure, still lent upon the door.
Kyo let go of Tohru's head "Now, what was that Tohru?" asked Shigure, a concerned look upon his face.
"I-I think it's great!" replied Tohru, raising a fist in succession.
"Well, chop-chop!" replied Shigure, gesturing a hand from Tohru to the cooker.
"You're so sexist!" shouted Kyo, letting go of Tohru, and pointing a finger at Shigure.
Shigure waved Kyo's finger away, closing his eyes in amusement "Oh, Kyo... So naïve..."
"Naïve?" asked Kyo, pondering at Shigure's words "How am I naïve?!"
"You fail to realise that a woman's place is in the kitchen, serving us men after a long, hard day's work!" said Shigure, a knowing finger in the air as he spoke.
"What?!" shouted Kyo, fuming "That is sexist beyond all measure!!!!"
"Don't knock me and my beliefs, Kyo" said Shigure, leaving the conversation, and the room, so Kyo could give no retort to the comment.
Kyo stood there, frozen in anger.
"It's okay, Kyo" said Tohru, placing his arms by his sides, and rubbing his head "I-I know what you were trying to do, and I appreciate it, but Shigure just likes to twist your arm is all..."
"Bastard..." Kyo muttered under his breath "Anyway, you want any help, or are you okay?"
"Um... I think I'm fine," said Tohru, pondering about the kitchen, and withdrawing breakfast ingredients from the fridge.
"O-Okay, then," said Kyo, and he kissed her on the forehead before leaving the kitchen.
The day seemed to pass by in a glance, as it was already sunset, and everyone was sat down at the dining table, about to tuck into another of Tohru's delicious home-cooked meals. Everyone was helping themselves to Tohru's buffet-style meal when Yuki started the topic at hand.
"Tohru..." he began "We know your birthday is coming up, and well... We wanted to do something extra special for you."
Tohru looked up, startled by this sentence.
"Um... Wait!... No!" she started, but Kyo interrupted.
"Before you begin rejecting the offer, we're giving you this" Kyo said, pushing an envelope towards Tohru.
Tohru looked at it, dumbfounded for a moment, until she took it in one hand, and opened it up. Inside were ten tickets of some sort. She read the print on the top ticket, which read:
The Poseidon
"What's the Poseidon?" she asked, looking up.
"The Poseidon is a luxurious ocean liner that sails around the globe" said Yuki, helping himself to some salmon.
"A-A-A luxurious ocean liner?" asked Tohru, twitching slightly "But! Wait! These must have cost a lot of money!!! I'm sure you could have spent the money on things more important than me!" she shouted, panicking.
Only when Kyo grabbed her to calm her down, did she restrain herself.
"B-But! I-I can't accept this!" she said.
"Well, we can't take them back" said Shigure "They aren't refundable."
"Oh..." replied Tohru, looking once again at the ticket she held in her hand.
"C'mon, you've gotta pack," said Kyo, standing up.
"Why? When are we going?" she asked.
"Tomorrow," replied Kyo, grabbing Tohru's wrist and pulling her up.
Tohru gasped "Tomorrow?! I don't have enough time to pack!"
"Sure ya do" said Shigure, passing Yuki his plate, who was taking them away.
Kyo dragged
Tohru upstairs, who was still muttering wildly to herself about how
she could not possible pack within a matter of hours. Kyo took her to
her room, on the bed was a large, empty suitcase, ready for Tohru to
begin packing.
Tohru soon calmed down, and Kyo helped her.
"So, um," Tohru said, folding clothes to pack upon the bed "Who's going?"
"Well, there's me, you, Yuki, Shigure, Haru, Hatori, Ritsu, Ayame and those two friends of yours, Uo and Hana isn't it?"
"Oh, wow, sounds like fun!" said Tohru, happy at the prospect of the trip now "So, how're we getting there?"
"Well, the ship is already docked at the port; it's already about a quarter through its world cruise, hence why we got the tickets at a cheaper rate. But we board tomorrow at 10:00, and the ship leaves at about 7:00pm," said Kyo, trying his best to remember the details "You'll need your passport, so don't forget it."
"Ah, okay then" replied Tohru, going to a drawer and pulling out a box, within which was her passport.
Three hours passed when finally Tohru was ready and packed. She took her suitcase downstairs and placed it with all the others at the foot of the stairs. She passed the lounge when she noticed everyone who was going on the trip was in there. She stepped in, as everyone shouted "Surprise!"
"Wow!" said Tohru, utter surprise on her face "Thank you so much. I never really got to say thank you earlier, but I really am grateful you've done this for me..."
"Forget the speech!" shouted Uo from the back of the group.
The evening
passed quickly, as everyone was busy chatting about their exciting
new experience and adventure the next day.
Sleeping arrangements
were difficult that night, as everyone stayed over at Shigure's
house. Uo, Hana and Tohru were in Tohru's room, whilst Kyo, Haru
and Ritsu shared Kyo's old room; Shigure shared with Hatori and
Ayame (much to Aya's dismay, as he'd wanted to share with Yuki)
and Yuki was on his own, as his room was the smallest.
The morning went by smoothly, as everyone clambered onto a privately hired coach to the docks. The coach pulled up outside the dock gates and the driver helped everyone get their luggage off, before bidding them good day and a safe voyage and driving off.
Tohru looked around "Where is it?" she asked.
"It's a little out to sea, the ship is too big to fit in the docks, so a smaller boat's taking us to it" replied Shigure, reading from a little pamphlet in his hand.
They headed off
to a small white ship that read Poseidon 2 upon the hull.
Everyone guessed that this was the ship that would take them to the
Poseidon, somewhere out in the ocean.
The group scanned the
horizon, and saw before them a huge (even from the distance they were
at) black silhouette, the sun blazing from behind blocked any details
of the ship.
A guard by the Poseidon 2 asked the group aboard, after seeing their tickets, and within 20 minutes, they set off from the dockside, heading for the Poseidon, somewhere half-an-hour away, and Tohru couldn't wait for her cruise vacation to begin.
(A/N: A totally random story I've begun, and quite a long chapter to start it off XD Outcast is currently on hold for me to begin this story fully. However, don't fret as it will begin soon! Check out for the next chapter and the inevitable!)
