A/N So, I've decided to start the new story! Enjoy!
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'Shanna, I don't think I can do this anymore. Just-' Toby's sentence was cut short when his legs gave out under him, and he fell to the ground.
'Toby, what happened?' Shanna shouted. 'Are you okay? Oh my God!' Shanna crushed down by Toby's side, panic flowing trough her. After a short inspection, she found what was wrong with him. His leg-wound had opened again. He was losing a lot of blood. Far too much. He paled rapidly. 'Toby, we can fix this. I'll, I'll make some more bandages. You'll be fine!' She rambled, panicked.
'No Shanna. It won't be. You'll have to- argh!' Again, Toby couldn't finish his sentence. He groaned, clearly in a lot of pain. He closed his eyes.
'No! Toby! Don't leave me here! Don't you dare leave me here on my own! I need you!'
But it was too late. Toby's eyes remained closed. His breathing slowed down. Shanna closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face. He, he, he left her. He'd never return. She'd never see his beautiful smile again. Hear his cheerful voice. Never again.
'NO!'
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'Hey Gabe! I think I'm going up the mountain. You come?' Toby shouted to his friend Gabe, who was standing in the rural kitchen of the house they had rented. They had arrived here a couple of days ago, desperately needing a vacation. The average amount of sleep Toby had gotten every night for the last couple of months was about four hours. Needless to say, he was exhausted. And Gabe was only glad he could get away from his busy job for some time.
'Nah, I don't really feel like it. Are you okay with it if I stay here in the pool?' His friend shouted back. Toby couldn't help but feel a little bit disappointed, but could understand why his friend wanted to stay down in the valley. They had been pretty active the last day and Gabe probably wanted to relax. But, Toby just really wanted to film a lazyvlog up there.
'No problem man. Why should I have a problem with it if you let me have all the fun?' He replied.
'Hey!' Gabe shouted indignantly. Toby just laughed and walked out of the door. Oh man, it was great to irritate Gabe. He bought a ticket from a dark-haired girl and stepped into the cableway to the top of the mountain. 'Thank you hothothot.' Toby started to move up, leaving a confused girl in his wake. Toby looked around, enjoying the beautiful weather and surroundings. The sun shone with no cloud in the sky, and a soft wind took the worst heat away. He was on a beautiful mountain, with wild pinewoods and beautiful green fields. When he moved higher he wished that there was some less wind though, he started to get really cold. Luckily, he had had the foresight to pack a jacket. He gratefully grabbed it out of his backpack and put it on. The warmth that came with it was very much welcome. When he reached higher grounds the landscape started to change. The pinewoods slowly changed into rocks, and when he got higher, snow started to become visible.
Toby had almost reached the end of the line when he heard a loud bang. Suddenly, the whole cableway started to shake. Panicked, Toby grabbed his backpack and the nearest bar. What was going on?! The cableway continued to shake frantically for a couple of seconds, but then the cable broke. The dark cable flew through the air, in sharp contrast with the clear blue sky. Toby crunched his eyes shut when the ground flew closer at an alarming speed. So this is how he'd die. He had never imagined it like this. He'd imagined he'd grow old and die of old age, or maybe he'd have a heroic death, while saving a beautiful woman or something. Not useless and early like this. As the rocky ground flew closer, his heart pumped faster and faster. A tear formed in his closed eye. His breath got stuck in his troth. A loud bang. Overwhelming pain from his left leg. Then, nothing.
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Shanna grabbed her jacket out of her backpack when she arrived at the top of the mountain. It was a lot colder here than down in the valley. She had really needed to get out of the crowded camping she was staying at. Her friend Joy had stayed in the tent, since she wasn't feeling great and Shanna was left on her own. She'd heard that almost no-one came to this mountain and that it was one of the most silent places in the area. The government even had plans to shut the cableway down. A perfect place to be on your own.
She had walked around for a couple of minutes until she'd found the perfect place to settle down. She grabbed her sketchbook and pencils out of her backpack and started drawing the landscape around her. Grey, strange shaped rocks, sometimes covered in snow. An almost invisible path leading further up the mountainside. A completely out of place butterfly. Some birds in a v-formation in the sky. After some time, she started to get cold and stood up. Time to go somewhere else. There was almost no sound around her, except of the sound of her own breathing and her own footsteps on the ground. Even the birds had stopped whistling. Like the whole world was holding its breath, preparing for something only he knew was coming. Uneasiness overcame Shanna, but she ignored it and walked on. Just as the complete silence became almost too loud, it was interrupted by a loud bang, sounding impossibly loud in comparison to the nothingness before. Shanna screamed, startled by the sudden noise. She ran back to where she came from, trying to locate the source of the sound. When she found the source, it almost made her heart stop. 'Oh my God…'
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Joy wasn't in a beautiful setting when she heard the bang. She was staring at the dirty canvas of her and Shanna's tent, feeling tired and a bit sick. All around her were loud noises; laughing children, shouting parents, whistling birds… It didn't really help her headache that was coming on. After the loud bang, it was silent for a couple of seconds. Then, people started screaming from all around her. Even the birds made loud shrieks. She crawled out of her tent to see what was going on, and it would be an understatement to say that the sight that greeted her surprised her. People were running in all directions, panicked. Children were crying and screaming for their parents. Parents were crying and screaming for their children. Thick clouds of smoke were slowly spiraling up in the sky, above the village nearby. The village Shanna had went to some time ago, since the cableway was located there…
By the time Joy had stopped running she had arrived at the cableway. Her side felt was like it was on fire, her headache was a thousand times worse and she was panting like she'd just won the Tour de France, but she didn't care. The station was smoking like crazy. Firemen were running around everywhere, trying to extinguish the fire that was also everywhere. She tried to reach one of them, but was pushed back by a police officer. A crowd formed around the station, everyone screaming or crying in despair. But Joy didn't. All she could do was stare at the mountain the cableway was leading up to, and hoping that Shanna was alright.
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A/N The end of chapter one. So, what did you think? I decided to write this story different than 'No Memory' (if you haven't checked that out, you should, it's a smosh-story) with far more description. Hope you guys liked it! I'm probably going to update this story about twice a month, since I also have to update NM, but I'll try to write more! Please tell me what you thought, give some advice on how to write Toby, I'm really struggling with him, tell me what you'd like to see happen and all that stuff. Peace off!