Here's the second chapter. It's a bit long (I think), but it's very important! XD
The seagulls could be heard, singing a relaxing symphony. Kari sat on a bench and landed her head on her lap.
"I'm not going to make it to the end of this, TK!" she said. "I'm so sick of people always telling me what to do, specially my brother."
"I understand you more than you imagine!"
A loud clapping sound attracted their attention over the other tourist's noise, something not very common.
"Old and rusty motors." T.K said.
More people were exiting their cars, moving themselves to the sights too, flashes of photos flew from various spots. TK left Kari sat on the bench and walked until the handrail, from there he could see Matt getting out of the car a making a phone call. The ferry's engines started to function. A slight and somewhat comfortable shake took the ship, from up there TK saw two officials with tablets on their hands looking to the left side of the boat. He later spotted Sora and Tai taking the stairs to meet them.
"Kari, your brother is coming…" he said, but got startled when he saw Kari's bloody hand. "What happened? Are you OK?"
"Yes, yes I am. There was a piece of wry metal and I cut myself in it. It's nothing, I'm fine." Kari pressed her finger with her hands, Tai and Sora met TK on the handrail.
"What happened to you are you OK?" Tai asked.
"Yes! It's just a cut. Do you want to beat the bench for it or something like that?"
"What's your problem are you on your period?" Tai uttered crankily to his sister's sarcasm. "Sorry, I forgot how you only like to be the innocent princess of everyone else."
"Tai, stop it. I'm serious!" Sora reprehended.
Kari got up from the bench and walked to the opposed direction, willing to get isolated from them. Even TK. The floor shook more than the normal, the distance between them and harbor was increasing to some reasonable 30 meters. Kari continued to walk wanting to get away from them; she climbed the steps to the bridge's causeway. Between other families and friends maybe she could have some rest, and the view was amazing. An official pushed her aside in a hurry and entered the ship's control room.
"Watch it…" Kari protested.
The floor shook violently, Kari slipped and fell. She put herself again, and couldn't hear the engines anymore, just seagulls tweeting angrily. A rumbling sound echoed to all the ship, right on the middle of the ship the asphalt rose itself resulting from an engine room explosion. It hit a critical point, making the cars jump and start beeping. Then, according to the laws of physics, the asphalt cracked on pieces and a crater engulfed a half dozen of cars.
"Leave the car! NOW !" Yolei screamed to her boyfriend. Ken got out of the car, and helped Mimi coming down.
"What happened!"she screamed. Both girls looked behind her as the crater started to swallow the cars.
"Fuck! I'm stuck." Davis cried form his seat. Ken entered the van again and started to help him.
"Ken! KEN!" Yolei screamed.
"He's fine let's get out of here! We'll die if we won't, come on!" Mimi pledged.
The crater filled with flames and hot metals, unfortunately people trapped on the cars could be heard while falling to the hell of the engines room. The asphalt broke even faster coming closer to them. Mimi walked to the ferry's prow, almost hiding between the chained to the floor trucks.
Davis released himself with Ken's aid, opened the door and was ready to jump when the van had its trunk sucked to the crater. Davis jumped right on time to fall on safe ground, however Ken didn't got that luck and was dragged with the car to the crater.
Kari walked out of the bow, the officials got out from the cabin and directed her to the flanks where the lifeboats would be going to be released to the water.
"TK! TK!" she screamed. She could actually see him, and Tai's hair too even though there was a crazy mess. An arm caught her back and pulled her , it was Matt.
"Don't be stupid go to the lifeboats. Get my brother and go…"
"What about the others? Mimi, and Izzy?"
"They're trapped, but they'll make it you'll see."
The crater stopped growing, but the flames didn't. Izzy grabbed a crying Yolei and took her to the left side of the boat.
"Listen to me, Yolei! Listen to me! Now we've got to get out of this okay?"
"But Ken…"
"He'll be fine, you'll see. Do see the stairs to the sights we've got to get it…" Izzy was suddenly interrupted by an explosion that shook the ground violently. The many oxygen bottles displayed on the ships wall got loose, one of them hit the ground letting its highly pressurized content to be released turning the bottle to a real missile, the same "missile" that hit Izzy on the torso killing him. Yolei's mouth couldn't even whisper a single sound, shocked she didn't realize that the oxygen bottle not only took Izzy as it hit the wall exploding. Yolei fall on the asphalt and crawled under the first floor path, the explosion put one of the trucks cabin on fire. The debris of the explosion hit the path's electrical wire, the lights of the sconces got too much energy resulting on them bursting into debris that hit Yolei right on the head.
Matt could saw the all scene, form the bow's path. He rushed to the zone of the ship contradicting the scared people flock that tried to save themselves. Davis was getting his way up to the first floor, climbing trough the truck.
"Davis!" Matt screamed. The blond guy stretched his hand which Davis grabbed. The spiky hair guy jumped the handrail and met his savior.
"Go to the other part of the bow, Tai and Sora and Kari will be there too."
"Man, I think I'll jump into the water and swim to the harbor." Davis said. Matt advised him not to, as probably the ship's debris would hit him or suck him down. However Davis wasn't listening already, he tap Matt's shoulder and followed the flock on his way out of there.
The official took Kari's arm and pushed against the lifeboat, there was no time to manners at all. Kari couldn't see her brother nor do her friends behind her, the official ask her to enter the boat.
"No, wait!" she said.
T.K helped Sora as she fell on the floor pushed by the flock, the three got almost overboard while resting against the wall.
"Maybe you should jump! Are you okay Sora?" Tai suggested.
"Yeah! Maybe we can, but what about the others!" TK remembered. Tai looked to him with a concerned look, but it was clearly that his eyes had no longer hope on them.
The truck next to Mimi was bursting into flames, she was alone right there in the middle of those huge trucks. She could see nobody; she could only hear the flames and death's melody all over the place. Until a familiar voice cried for her! She finally made it to the prow and saw Matt on the first floor.
"Come quickly!" he asked afflicted. Mimi ran as she could to him. "Wait, I'll lift you up!" The truck near her started to move with the ships prominent sinking. Matt's hand wrapped Mimi's forearm, the ship suddenly moved and the truck fell sideways on Mimi's direction. Luckily, Matt lifted her right on time.
"Thank you!" Mimi mumbled.
Kari dodged the people that rushed to the lifeboats and the official. Finally she made eye contact with T.K. Even in the middle of the rush she could see him smile. She saw as her lover warned Sora and Tai about her, the three didn't lose time and got ready to meet her. The machine room exploded and the ferry quaked violently. The handrail broke taking parts of the first floor's pavement with it. Kari prowled back scared; T.K's hand reached her on a second. He hugged her firmly on that moment. The ship's stern started to flood and the ferryboat moving like another Titanic. The two couples fell on the ground and got hold on pavement crakes.
Matt and Mimi slide trough the pavement. Mimi's hand grabbed the handrail, while Matt kept on sliding. The blond guy couldn't hold himself to anything at all, and consequently he ended up beating with his head on a wall. His body kept on sliding until being engulfed by the water.
"Mimi! MIMI! Mimi's on the other part." Sora screamed to her folks. They look to see an afflicted Mimi waving to them. Another voice cried for their estranged friend, they looked to the steel bow with the bridge cabin, and there it was Davis trying to back.
Mimi's handrail cracked suddenly and the brunette couldn't do nothing but to fall. Her friends saw as she fell hit the cars. The ship's stern kept on sinking causing and even more accentuated degree.
"We got to get out of here!" Tai said. Davis on the bow started to walk calmly to their friends.
"Where's my brother? Where is Matt?" TK asked himself. "Has he died?" "Please, no…"
Mimi woke up, pain all over her body. She couldn't move at all, her leg was trapped inside a car's window and her body was paralyzed. She could see Davis trying to arrive to the other part of the ferry boat, she saw more people have the same fate that she did. The enraged sound of water told its presence.
"Help…" she cried. The burning truck's chain was severely damaged. The next happening was predictable but nobody on the boat wanted to believe. The chain let go of the floor and the burning truck fell hitting the bridge cabin and falling over the cars, smashing Mimi and other people. Davis almost fell of the bow with the knock, Kari saw him and hopelessly stretched her hand, he wasn't far away, but the pavement fell into pieces and Davis fell to the his watery grave.
The ship was practically vertical, the next truck got also loose and fell hitting the bow. Tjis time, the ferry's bridge was destroyed. The left wall of the ship could take the explosion and cracked, making the first floor to fall over the crater. Sora was violently shaken and the pavement above her smashed into pieces. The red haired girl only had time to look to her fiancé before being impaled by the steel bars inside the concrete. Tai broken for what he saw, looked instinctively to Kari. His last love on the boat, she was looking to him too embraced by T.K.
"C'mon Kari. Move grab that crack and jump to the water."
"Sora, is gone! My brother…" she cried.
"Forget him. JUMP!"
"No! Tai, TAI!" she screamed. Her big brother was still petrified but started to descend trough the pavement until them. The last truck's chain finally could handle anymore the weight, with a whipping sound it released.
"Forget Tai, I also forgot Matt!" T.K screamed to her. Kari looked upon her boyfriend as truck swept the pavement lying around. The chain almost hit Tai by centimeters; however it didn't miss T.K and hit the blonde's torso dragging his upper body. Kari's face got a splash of his blood, she felt Tai's hand on her shoulder.
"Jump, Kari! JUMP!"
The truck hit the last cars resulting on a last explosion. The same explosion whose flames flew on their direction. Kari did jump into the water, the last thing she heard was her brother screaming in pain.
Underwater the brunette girl felt what looked like a gust of wind sweeping her body. She put her head out of water only to see the ferry's prow falling into her direction.
_O_O_O_
Kari gasped the air, really stressed out. Her eyes were crying, and her heart bumping almost bursting out. She couldn't calm down looking around her she started to realize that was nothing but some kind of dream.
"What's wrong? Kari what's going on?" –T.K asked.
"Nothing…I just…I went through something really crazy!"
"What?"
The clapping sound was heard. Many tourists stopped their business to look for its source.
"Old and…" TK said.
"Rusty motors!" – Kari completed.
"Whow, good one. You really read my thoughts." – he said standing up and walking to the handrail. Kari could see that everything was going on just like on the premonition. Her eyes examined the bench and she found a little bit of wry metal.
"T.K, T.K! T.K! We've got to get out of here."
