Apocalypse
2
Cody landed hard on his back. He groaned loudly and touched the ground with his hand. It felt like… sand. He opened his eyes and saw sand everywhere. No cactuses, just sand. The sky was black with clouds. No hint of the blue sky. Cody sat up and looked around for his friends. Nowhere in sight. He stood slowly. Where the he- A string of lightning shot down from the sky, hitting sand ten yards away from the teen. The sand exploded into the air and landed on the ground with a soft ting. "Zack!" he shouted. "Bailey! Woody! Marcus! Where are you guys?!" He called for ten minutes as it began to rain. That's odd. This is a desert, right?
Suddenly a voice called out his name. "Cody!" Bailey?
"Bailey! Where are you?!"
"Over here!" she called. He turned at the sound of her voice.
"Keep talking, Bailey!"
"Alright! What the heck is going on?!" Cody followed the voice.
"I don't know! I think it has something to do with that lightning that struck the ship!"
"Well, duh!" Cody soon found her and ran to her. "Cody!" She ran to him. She launched herself into his arms, only to get a questioning look from Cody, making both blush. "So, uh… Have you seen Marcus, Zack, or Woody?"
"No," Cody replied, trying to avoid eye contact with Bailey. Bailey grabbed her cell phone from her pocket.
"Shoot. No service. You?"
Cody checked his pockets. "No." They both shut their phones.
"Well… what do we do now?"
"The only thing we can do."
"And what's that?"
"This. Zack! Woody! Marcus!" Cody screamed. Cody looked at Bailey and then something caught his eye. A figure behind Bailey climbing up one of the sand hills. A person! "Sir!" He didn't hear. He was too far away. But just barely in sight. "C'mon." Cody grabbed Bailey's hand and they sprinted to the dot, but when they came closer, it was clear that this was indeed a human being. "Sir!" He heard. He looked up. "Sir!" They finally reached him. He ran to them and they soon were both looking straight in the eye at each other. The man had brown hair. Torn shirt. Torn jeans. Blue eyes. A face that was overall handsome.
"I'm Nathan. And you are?"
"Cody, and this is-"
"That your girlfriend?" His eyes sparkled as he looked at Bailey.
"No… Just my friend. Her name is Bailey." All were silent until Cody asked, "How'd you get here?"
"Oh, I believe that's something to be kept to myself." Cody gave him a questioning look. "I mean, it's a long story." Nathan's phone rang. What the heck? I thought we didn't have service? "Nathan." There was a pause until he said, "No, I- Norma, I- Norma… Norma! Fine! Be that way!" Nathan shut his phone.
"I thought we didn't have service. Cody and I checked our phones and they didn't-"
"Of course we do! What do you think this is, a desert?"
"Yeah…"
"You know, Cody, I think we should go-"
"Oh, you're welcome to stay with me! I've only got one tent, so you, Cody, can sleep with me, and Bailey can sleep outsi-"
"No! I want Cody to stay with me." Both looked at her. "What? I don't like the dark."
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Zack looked at his phone. No service. Crap. He glanced at the ocean sea. He glanced at his feet, sand covering the cracks in his toes. "Marcus! Woody! Cody! Bailey! Where are you?!" he screamed, standing up. Silence except for the chopping waves hitting the shore. Wha the heck was happening? One second, lightning is four feet from the ship, and the next second, he was dropping from the sky, hitting the water. He'd seen the shore and swam. Now here he was, screaming his friend's names, knowing that they were not around. Maybe this is just a dr-
His phone chirped. What the hell? There was no service! He looked at the Caller ID. 'RESTRICTED', it said. He answered. "Hello?"
"You better run, Zack. I'm coming. Coming fast. Only one rule here: Don't talk unless I say so. Call me anything. Call me Bastard, I don't care. I'm coming for your brother too. Be ready. I'm coming fast. If you survive this obstacle I'll be sending you, then I'll call you again, but don't you dare call me. Do so, and I'll blow up your whiny little butt. Why am I doing this, you ask? I do this to everyone who enter Guhters, my land. You wanna know how many people I killed? 2012. And you're next. Have a nice swim." A chuckle, then the line went dead. Zack glanced up, and saw a huge tsunami heading right towards him.