Thousands of people were running from their homes farther up on the island, but the volcano had already exploded. Ash was falling down the sky like a blizzard and lava was burning everything to the ground. It was coming closer every second and my heart was beating faster and faster, adrenaline rushing through me.
There's no way those people are going to make it. But you will. Your house is the closest to the water than any other on this mountain.
What was that? A voice… that's not my voice… Voice.. uh who are you?
Yep no reply. Typical. Didn't Fang talk about a voice in his blog? Hmm.. weird.
I knew the strange voice was right though. Half of the people were already being swallowed by ash. Kierstin snapped me out of it. "Come on we're at the water! we have to get on one of the emergency boats." On their island there was a system in case the volcano every erupted so that whoever made it to the water could get on a boat and drive it away. But this eruption was so much fiercer than anyone had ever imagined it could be. No one else was going to get to the water today.
This thought made me feel really guilty but there was absolutely nothing we could do about anyone else. We ran quickly to the boats and hopped on one. Kierstin suddenly stopped dead and started running back.
"Where are you going?!" I yelled at her horrified. "We can't help them!" Just then I saw she wasn't heading for the people but she was heading for… what is that? She ran back to me with a trail of lava close behind. She hopped into the boat her arms full of fur. 3 puppies and 4 kittens… what the hell..? "Why did you go back to grab some pets?!" i asked having to raise my voice as i turned on the motor and started out into the ocean. "Because if everyone in the world dies accept us i want some puppies and kittens! I don't want them to die out too." She explained.
Suddenly my mind was hit with the voice again.
You do realize that you two will be the only survivors? You will have to recreate the human population.
I gulped. I'm 15, i dont wanna think about that right now. It was then then i realized we were way out in sea. as i looked back the entire island where i had grown up most of my life was covered in ash… no one had escaped except us. My mind filled with dismay and grief. My dad, my friends… all of them gone. I looked at my girlfriend, holding a puppy and a kitten in each arm the other ones at her feet. She was smiling… After all this she was smiling! I was suddenly grateful for her though. Grateful i could be with someone i cared about instead of being alone on this boat.
But what if the world is gone? What if its just us? No, my instincts told me that we weren't the only living things left.
You have to find Fang's flock.