Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. If you've not seen this film, I do recommend, it was my favourite film up until I saw struck by lightning of course ;)
"Dad! It's getting louder!" Aylesha threw her arms around her dad and closed her eyes tight as if she was trying to make the sound go away.
"I know honey, just keep calm." Blaine knew the kids wouldn't be able to keep calm with the noise and the panic on everybody else's face so he just gripped them both even tighter, he tried to keep them as calm as possible but even he was worried, the sound got even louder by the second.
As Blaine searched the sky to see if he could figure out what was happening, he spotted a figure in the corner of his eyes. Kurt. He was walking back into the resorts swimming pool area and he was clearly confused, he saw everyone had paused to look in the distance but obviously wanted to back with his family.
"KURT!" Aylesha and Lucas looked up as they heard Blaine shout.
Kurt returned the eye contact and started to run towards his family but as he began to run, it became clear that he wasn't going to make it.
A huge wave of water crashed over the resort and started spilling all over the land, Blaine watched his husband run towards him a long with others who had ran in the same direction. The wave pushed agin and this time it took a lot of people with it, the water began to slide and cover the first half of the pool.
Blaine picked his kids up and jumped up out of the pool, he lowered them to the floor, held their hands and pulled them both as they ran onto the platform of the pool area.
"C'mon dad!" Lucas tugged at his dads arm as he turned around. "Dad? Why are you facing the wave? C'mon! We are gonna die." The realisation had hit the children so Blaine had to face facts too.
"Kurt, run!" Blaine screamed across the pool urging his partner to run faster.
The wave swept beneath Kurt's feet and he slept to the ground. The next push from the wave caught him up completely and he was gone.
"No." Blaine looked as though he was going to fall to the ground in despair.
"Dad! No! Come on! We have to try!" Lucas tugged at him dad even more firmly, Blaine looked into his sons eyes and nodded back, they all started to run. The wave caught more people but Blaine kept hold of his kids hands and ran through the passage way that lead to the hotel part of the resort.
More people than Blaine thought were running toward the hotel doors and everyone was cramming into the lobby. Blaine realised that they wouldn't have enough time to get in the hotel through those doors before the wave reached them so he ran a different way looking for another way in.
"My friend, help your youngsters up here!" Blaine looked up to see a man who was working in the food court at the resort at a window in the hotel, he was reaching his hands so Blaine could lift the kids up to safety.
Blaine knelt down to his daughter's level. "Listen Aylesha, there won't be enough time for us all to climb up there so you're gonna have to go on your own and stay with that man okay?"
"Daddy, I don't wanna leave you! No!" Blaine kissed his daughters head and wiped her tears, she wiped his away and then pegged her up to the window. The man got her and helped her into the room.
Blaine mouthed 'thank you' to the man and suddenly the wave caught up with them too.
"Listen. When the wave gets right at the side of us, grip my hand and take a deep breath, you ready?" Blaine opened his hand up for his son.
"Yeah."
"One. Two. Three."
They both breathed in and the wave crashed over the whole resort.
The water pushed its way around the whole of Thailand. Broken wood, branches, litter, glass, bricks, cars, trees and bodies were amongst the things being pushed around under and on top of the water. The water was flowing like a lake but ten times faster. Children could be seen clinging onto trees that had managed to stay standing and sat on planks of wood desperately trying to keep the,selves above water. With all the objects floating around and being pushed with the force of the water, it would be a miracle if people had survived. If you didn't drown, you would get injured in the water.
"AHHHH!" A head bobbed up from the water, desperately panting and out of breath. Lucas.
He got pushed around the water but tried to cling on to anything possible. The eight year old had gone from the most immature boy at the resort trying to annoy his sister and the most ungrateful by trying to avoid even being there and playing on his DS, to the most mature eight year old you could meet, he would have been grateful for any sign of his family right now and he was using his brain, logic and knowledge to keep himself alive in the space of an hour.
After being beaten by the water and the anomalous objects hitting him, Lucas finally managed to push himself onto a tree trunk that had fallen over and settled across the water. He pushed himself up and sat on the trunk like you would sit on a horse. The water kept flowing underneath the tree but Lucas just took deep breaths and tried to calm himself down.
Pain soon kicked in and Lucas noticed the slash on his leg. He had several cuts all over his body but he mentally blocked the pain out as he thought of all the people who weren't in his position and were still drowning.
"Help?"
Lucas turned his neck and looked behind him to see a little boy with blonde hair sat on top of a box that had washed up next to the tree. He was holding his hand up for Lucas to help him.
"When I pull your arm, push up from the box okay? We need to help each other here."
"Okay." The boy smiled and followed Lucas' instructions.
Lucas pulled the boy up. Both boys making the same sound, "urgh."
Both boys sat on the trunk like a horse again and began to talk.
"Where you on holiday here?" Lucas recognised the boys accent and couldn't help notice the scratches on the boys body from the water, they both looked similar with the slits in their skin.
"Yeah, my dad brings me here from Canada each year because I have family round here. I'm Jack by the way." The little boy held his hand out for Lucas to shake.
"I'm Lucas. I come from Ohio originally but I live in LA now, I was here on holiday too." Lucas returned the hand shake.
"How old are you?" Jack squinted his eyes.
"I'm eight. How about you?"
"I'm seven." Both boys looked around, it was quite awkward but both the boys eyes lit up as they realised the same thing.
Obviously shops would have been washed up too so all the groceries would be getting pushed around in the waves. A can of cola got washed up at the side of the tree trunk. Both boys were facing each other so one of them would have to go backwards to retrieve it and they couldn't risk jumping back into the water again.
"I've got an idea. You shuffle back carefully and the trunk gets narrower, you can reach it from there, when you get it, put the can down your shorts so you don't drop it or lose grip and then shuffle back."
Jack agreed and started to shuffle back, the moment was intense as they both got more scared but finally, Jack had made it and managed to wedge the can between the waist band of his shorts and his stomach. Jack made his way back and started to get more confident the closer he got. Both boys started to smile as they realised they would be safe for a while and had something to fill them up for the time being.
Jack smiled even more as he got back to his original spot and as any seven year old would do, he began to wiggle, "everyday I'm shuffling!"
Both boys laughed but Lucas saw Jack nearly slip and helped him to steady. "Be careful, pass me the can Jack, I'll open it for you."
Both boys shared the can and were thankful for the cold liquid entering their bodies as they took a gasp.
The water seemed to slow down more and more as time went by.
"Now the water has calmed down, I think we should jump to the next thing we can use as a raft or boat or just something we will be able to balance on, we need to get to somewhere where we can sleep, get help or stand a chance of finding our families." Lucas' intelligence shined through. He knew this plan could mean danger but it could also mean seeing his family again.
"Is that a mattress?" Jack noticed it being pushed around the water.
"Yeah, it would be comfy but or weight would just make it sink." Lucas searched for something else.
"THAT THERE! We can jump on to that wooden plank, it's big enough and we will both be able to fit on it with out weighing it down because its the right size and shape, I can just tell, wanna risk it? The water isn't travelling that fast anymore." Lucas raised an eyebrow.
"It's worth a try!" Both boys shifted so they were sat in a position to be able to jump in the water.
"Have you ever played Super Mario?"
"Yeah, I love that game!" Jack's face lit up.
"Okay, he has to jump doesn't he?"
"Yeah, he can jump high, so can sonic!"
"That is what we are going to have to do on the count of three, okay?"
"Okay."
Both boys held hands so they didn't lose each other when they jumped.
The raft Lucas had seen got pushed closer to them and he began to count just like his dad had done with him before entering the water.
"One. Two. Three. JUMP!" They both slid off the trunk and landed directly on the raft they aimed for, they stumbled keeping balanced but they managed to lay down on the wood and keep a tight grip.
"YES!" The boys smiled and high fived.
Both of them put their hands in the water to push the water, their hands acting as oars.
After fifteen minutes of paddling, they came to the last of the water, they swam to the grassy shore and started to walk. The land obviously still had a covering of water but not too much so they walked on.
"Lets see where this takes us to." Lucas began trudging through the water.
"Hopefully to our families." Jack followed behind.
