Quatre was... looking a little panicked. He had plenty of offers for some 'fun' and he tried to politely decline all offers, but some of these men were just freaking persistent. Sighing, he sent a pleading look in Heero's direction.

Less than thirty seconds later Heero was over at his table and clearing his throat.

"May I interest in an evening stroll?"

Quatre just nodded and practically fled the room with Heero and Wufei followed.

Quatre asked, "Would you like to go on deck for a little bit?"

"Sure."

It had truly been a wonderful day. There had hardly been a cloud in the sky. However the waves had been very rough. When asked, the crew would just say that there was probably a big storm a little ways away.

Well… The storm had found them.

"Hmm… Maybe we should just go back to our rooms?"

"Yeah…."

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Quatre laid in bed thinking about his cowardly retreat after dinner. He was more than a little mortified that he had to have Heero rescue him. He had just been a little overwhelmed by the whole thing. Damn being shy anyway.

So he mentally reprimanded himself and ran different scenarios of how the night SHOULD happened until he finally managed to drift off.

OF COURSE as soon as he had managed to doze off was when it happened. The Ship made a noise that no ship should ever make.

The sound of steel scraping on… something, kinda like running nails on a chalkboard. That noise, along, with the vibrations was enough to make everyone's skin crawl.

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Wufei sat on the edge of the life boat. Quatre was between Heero and himself. All three of them along with about thirty other people wore life preservers, and were being thoroughly soaked by the squall. Both Heero and Wufei were helping row the boat to… somewhere.

"This trip has been FANTASTIC so far." Wufei sarcastically bit out. His ire was being fuelled by the fact that the cruise ship seemed to be rapidly disintegrating before his eyes.

Besides Wufei muttering under his breath everyone else seemed to be in a daze.

That is, until twenty minutes later when Quatre suddenly pointed in the distance and exclaimed:

"Hey! What's THAT?!?!?"

Both Heero and Wufei looked at where Quatre was pointing. It took several seconds to understand what exactly was coming at them but when they did there was really only one thing they could say:

"OH MOTHER FUCKER!!!"

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Does it seem strange that even in the age of the colonies, that there are still islands that are unexplored in the Pacific? These islands are too small and too out of the way to be of use. So they just sit there, uncharted, untouched by men. Sad, though it may seem, even these islands deemed worthless can become a Utopia for the stranded.

And so, on one such island, something happened. Something that hadn't happened for thousands of years….

They stirred…. And it smiled.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Sorry it's so short. My brain thinks of only epic fanfics (takes up time when walking to classes, or working for 13-20 hours straight) but my brain to keyboard translator has about 50 word limit before my fiction turns to crap.

::happy dance:: I'm SO excited about writing the next chapter!!!