HAK- ch. 1

Falling Stars

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Space was beautifull. For a gorgeous moment, it seemed that everything was perfect, crystallized in this dark world.

The moment seemed like it would last forever, until Kohaku brushed some of her long lack hair out of her face and stared at the control panel.

Finally, she spoke"Umm… Guys? Where are the breaks on this thing?"
They both stared. One of Amaya's golden-yellow eyes twitched.

Then all chaos broke loose.

"WHO SAID THAT YOU COULD DRIVE?!" Amaya screamed, distraught
"SHUT UP! AS IF YOU COULD DO ANY BETTER! NEED I REMIND YOU ABOUT THAT ACCIDENT THAT YOU HAD WITH THE GOLF CART AND THE BRICK WALL?"
"That's a compleately different matter!"
Hisae held up her hands, trying to be the peacemaker. "We probably should figure out how to drive this thing before we crash into something."
Kohaku glared. "Shut up, Hisae! I'm trying to figure this out!"
Hisae grumbled something inaudible, although, by the sounds of it, she was not thinking pleasant thoughts.

Amaya had rolled into a ball without anyone noticing, shaking. "I don't want to die!" She cried, pulling at her short hair with her hands.

Kohaku had resorted to hitting the control panel with her hands, a look of sheer anger and frustration on her face. Something in the control panel crunched under one of her fists.

There was the sound of engines dying down.

Silence coverd the ship, as everyone seemed to be registering what just happened. The silence was slowly broken as Amaya broke into a fit of nervous laughter, rocking herself back and forth. Kohaku gave a very loud scream, red eyes wide and angry.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?" Hisae screamed, fingers twitching.

Kohaku just screamed some more, and attempted to bang whatever had broken back into place, which just ended up smashing the control panel beyond repair.

Hisae looked at Kohaku in shock. Kohaku looked back, quite obviously distressed. "Whateverjust happened, it's your fault!"
"You're the one that smashed it."
"That's not how I remember it!" Kohaku screamed, intent on blaming this whole ordeal on someone other than herself. "It's always your fault! Didn't you see her smash it, Amaya?"
Amaya didn't answer, her yellow eyes had glazed over, and she had begun whispering to herself. "It's going to be okay. It's going to be okay…" She repeated over and over again as she rocked back and forth neurotically.

Kohaku didn't seem to notice. "See! She agrees with me! It's all your fault, Hisae!"
"How on earth do you get an agreement out of that?"

Neither one of them seemed to notice that they were approaching a planet. Fast.

"You just don't want to admit that this is all your fault!"
"How is it my fault?"
"It dosen't matter, it just is!"

"Why?"
The planet was approaching.

Some sort of realization seemed to dawn on Amaya, and she fearfully pointed at the growing planet beyond the window.

The two stopped arguing to find that they were about to crash.

"We're going to die, aren't we?" Hisae asked no one in particular, not really wanting an answer anyway.

Kohaku narrowed her eyes. "This thig has got to have lifeboats or life- whatever." She tried not to notice the fact that they were accelerating. "We have to find them. Now."
Amaya seemed to come out of her shock at this point, and ran as fast as she could along the ship to find the life-whatevers. Meaning that she got there considerably after the other two had gotten there. (she was… slow)

"Hurry up! We don't have much time!"
"How do we work these things?" Amaya shouted, distressed.
"I don't know! It can't he that hard!" Kohaku shouted back, trying to get the door on hers to close, and not having much success.
"Says the person that caused this whole thing."
"Shut up Hisae!"

Hisae made a face, and disappeared into her life-whatever.

"Yeah, you'd better run!" Kohaku shouted, finally getting the door of hers to close.

All that was left was Amaya.

She stared at all of the controls, and, in an all too frequent blond moment, did what one is never supposed to do under any circumstances.
She pushed the red button.

And then she was shooting out of the ship in her life-whatever, sincerely wishing that she know what the whatever was, so that she could properly know what to call her soon to be grave as she crashed into the ocean.

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The other two, it seemed, were having a lot more trouble getting their life-whatever to deploy from the main ship, which had begun to shake badly. Finally, Kohaku managed to escape, and glided not-quite-so-gracefully into the forest below.

Hisae, on the other hand, was not quite so lucky. No matter how many times she pushed the stupid button, it just didn't want to deploy. The very core of the ship seemed to rock with the approaching planet. Frustrated, she hit her head on the control panel, and felt a small welt begin to form on her head where some odd piece of metal had struck her. Figures. Why did I just do that anyway?

The ship was shaking, and she was suddenly overwhelmed by the sense that something bad was going to happen very soon.

She was right, as the whole thing crashed into the earth merely seconds later.