Chapter 2 : The Departure

Author's note: I do not own anything from the game Far Cry 3.

^_^ Thanks so much for the suggestions about the dialogue format. I can't believe that slipped my mind! x.x

The day of the trip had arrived. I had packed my things and met Dr. Martin at the airport. A few minutes later, two other students from the University joined us.

"Go ahead and introduce yourselves." said the professor smiling.

"Hi, I'm Stef." I said, my voice shaking from nervousness.

"Hey I'm Aaron." said one of the guys happily.

"And I'm Luke." said the other.

"Alright guys, the plan is to take a plane to an island near Rook Island because the island itself does not have an airport. We will then depart from there and take a small sailing boat to Rook Island." explained the professor.

We boarded the plane and found our seats. I finally managed to fall asleep after a few hours of getting to know the guys better. I was woken up by Luke putting his ear buds in my ear with the music blasting.

"Ouch!" I exclaimed. "That hurt, Luke."

"Well you didn't wake up when Dr. Martin and Aaron were tapping your shoulder and saying your name." he replied.

"Oh really? I'm sorry I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, I was kinda anxious about the trip." I admitted.

"Alright guys let's head off to the harbor." Dr. Martin said motioning his hand toward the rental car.

Dr. Martin drove us to the harbor while Aaron and I talked some more.

"So, Stef, you said you were gonna be a senior next semester right?" Aaron questioned.

"Yea." I answered.

"So what do you want to do with your Biology degree when you graduate?" he asked further.

"I'm not really sure. I'm taking all these pre-med classes, yet I know I don't want to be a doctor. I guess I'm just keeping the doors open for whatever I want to do." I explained.

"Yea I get what you're saying. I wanted to be a doctor when I first started, but now I want to be an environmental biologist stuff like that interests me a lot." he said.

"Yea that's pretty cool too." I said, hoping that would end the conversation. I really had trouble carrying on conversations with new people.

He couldn't talk to Luke because he was still listening to music. That made me wish I had brought my iPod too so I didn't have to carry on conversations all by myself. We finally made it to the harbor and met the sailor who would be taking us to Rook Island.

"All aboard!" yelled the sailor. "The name's Mario."

As we were getting on the boat, the weather seemed to take a turn for the worst. Strong winds whipped all around and the skies turned dark grey.

"Are you sure we should sail with the weather like this?" Luke questioned Mario.

"This is nothing weather like this happens all the time on the islands." he answered confidently.

As soon as we left the harbor I had this weird feeling in my stomach. I knew it wasn't sea sickness, I had been on ferries and boats before. I told my fears to Dr. Martin who assured me everything would be ok and that it was just my nerves. I tried to calm down, but something just didn't feel right.

"It shouldn't be too much longer till we reach Rook." Mario stated. "Just hang in there little lady."

Rain started pouring down accompanied by cracks of lightning and thunderous booms. The waves started to get larger and stronger. The boat was being rocked back and forth viciously. The island was in sight. Mario handed us life jackets and told us to hang on. I barely got my life jacket on before one giant wave crashed against the boat and tipped us all out.

Oh shit!

I went under the water briefly before coming back up. Dr. Martin and Luke swam over to me we scanned the waters for Aaron and Mario when we had the chance. We couldn't see them anywhere.

"We have to make it to the island! Luke! Stef! Maybe they'll wash up on the shore!" Dr. Martin yelled over the storm.

We held on to each other and swam as best as we could toward the shore. Mostly the waves pushed us there. We made it up on the shore and got far from the ocean.

"Come on! Let's search the shore for Aaron and the Mario!" Luke cried out.

~At Vaas' Camp (Carlos' point of view)~

"Carlos, come in!" an excited voice said over the radio.

"What's up Benjamin?" I asked.

"Me and some of the guys were over at the southeastern beach right? You're never gonna guess what we saw." he said dragging out the conversation.

"Get to the point you dumb fuck, I don't have all day!" I angrily replied.

"Geez calm down, Carlos. Just tell Vaas he's gonna want to see this." he answered back eagerly.

Thanks for reading guys! As always, let me know what you think and feel free to review or PM me for suggestions and criticism. I promise Vaas will be in the next chapter. ;)