Guess what guys?!?!?! I finished typing up the first chapter!! YAYS!!! Okay, well, here it is.
Chapter 1, The Crash.
"Bye mom!" Anne called, waving as she ran to catch up with the rest of us. Anne is my best friend, she was my only friend when I moved here in first grade. We've been best friends ever since.
We live in the beautiful city of New York, New York. All of the lights, the stores, the people. It's pure heaven to me. I love it here, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I go on shopping trips regularly with Anne, my father is the big company boss of the most popular Night club in this grand city, I have billions of dollars on my finger tips.
"Alright, give your tickets and find your seats on the plane!" Called Mrs. Richards over all of our talking and laughing.
"Ready?" I turned to my right to see my boyfriend holding out his hand to me. Issac is perfect, I wouldn't want him any other way. He has eyes the color of the sky, the brightest blue I have ever seen. His hair is brown, like chocolate, but it doesn't have the same perfect shine that my chocolate hair does, I tease him about it often. His crooked smile makes me forget all thoughts on the spot, I hate it, yet I love it.
Our class is taking a trip to China, for a "cultural experience". We are going to fly to California and switch planes there in San Francisco, then going over the Pacific Ocean into foreign lands. I can't wait until we get there, I've always wanted to go to China, to see some of the festivals they have there.
"Kira!" I looked up from trying not to trip over the many bags that were littering the aisle of the plane. Anne was waving to me, pointing at two seats behind her. Mine and Issac's. We all made sure to get seats next to each other, so that we all could talk and have fun. We carefully made our way over, and I took the window seat, Issac could have it on the next plane.
"You're late." I said sardonically as I patted John's head. He glared up at me as he tried to catch his breath. Someone had slept in later then they were supposed to, and almost missed the plane.
The atmosphere in the plane is overly joyous. Everyone is exited to get there, and are all talking a little loudly. Us high school seniors get the whole back of the plane to ourselves, no teachers, no adults. Just us. The one bathroom on the plane is in the way back, in our part. Mrs. Richards said that the next plane would be just the same, but more seats.
The flight was fun, but soon it was time to switch over, and it was late at night by then. Everyone is tired and we all fell asleep quickly. I knew this was going to be a long trip in the beginning... but the only thing is...
I didn't know just how long it would truly be.
– –
I was shaken away by a large rumble.
Thunder boomed from outside of the plane, yet everyone was still quietly sleeping. The rain pounded against the metal of the plane, lightening lighting up the dark cabin. A small girl stumbled past me, trying not to fall over with the planes shaking. She was heading to the only bathroom at the back of the plane. I suddenly needed to go, too. I unbuckled the belt that held me firmly to the seat and stumbled after her, holding on to the back of the seats to keep upright.
"Hi." I smiled at her as we stood outside of the bathroom, waiting for whoever was in it to finish.
"Hi." She said back in a low voice, shaking slightly. She was playing with her fingers in a nervous motion.
"I'm Kira." I said, trying to make conversation while we waited. The thunder and lightening made everything spooky.
She looked up at me with an unsure expression, then slowly gave me a small smile. "Shelby."
I smiled back. "You're what, nine, ten years old?"
"Nine. My birthday is in a few weeks though."
I nodded and smiled, looking around. Everyone was still in dream land. I sighed, whoever was in the bathroom needs to hurry up. I really need to pee! I banged on the door with my fist, "Hurry-" My sentence was broken off when the whole plane rumbled, tipping this way and that way. Shelby and I were thrown to the floor, both letting out a yelp of surprise.
The pilot came over the loud speaker thing and told us all to get in our seats and buckle up. I grabbed Shelby's hand and pulled her to her feet, pulling her along with me. Those air bags had dropped out of the compartments, and everyone was looking around trying to get their seat belts buckled. Issac was yelling my name, along with Anne. When Anne saw me, she told Issac and he looked back at us as we finally made it to the seats.
"I have to get to my mom!" Shelby yelled over everyones yelling. She was trying to break free from my grip on her wrist, but I simply pushed her into the seat next to Issac, sitting in the other seat. I am now glad that there was an extra seat in our row.
"There's no time. Just sit here, and once this is over you can go see her!" I helped her buckle quickly, then buckled myself in. Issac reached over the crying girl and grabbed my hand tightly, I squeezed his hand, closing my eyes tightly.
"Where were you?" He called over all of the noise.
"I had to pee!" I called back, giving him a small smile.
That's when it happened. The plane was hit by a bolt of lightening and we started spiraling through the sky. My grip on his hand tightened as I screamed along with everyone else on the plane. We pushed our hands towards Shelby, making sure she wasn't going anywhere. I could hear Anne's screams from in front of me, she sounded more petrified then the girl next to me, her head was snapping around, I found myself praying that everything was going to be okay.
This is it. We are all going to die.
The plane snapped apart upon impact. My grip on Issac's hand was forgotten as I tried to shield myself from the branches that were flying towards my face. The plane had snapped apart a few rows in front of Anne, thank god no one was in those two rows. Anne and John have the worst of the branches.
A hand grabbed my hair and pulled my head to the right, I quickly wrapped my arms around Shelby as Issac did the same to me. I could hear him grunt with every branch that hit his body, I found myself crying as I held the hysterical girl. She was flipping out, screaming, crying, hyperventilating, but more importantly, she had a death grip on me.
We came to a sudden stop, all of us lurching forward.
All was silent, no sound but the groaning of metal as the plane slowly rocked until it came to a full stop. I slowly looked up, meeting Issac's frantic eyes as he let go of me. There was a few groans from around the bent up cabin, others were alive, thats good. Very good. I almost laughed when I heard a few colorful cuss words come from Anne, I was more then happy that she was alright. Shelby was still clutching to me for dear life, while she whispered something about her mother. I felt horrible, but at least the girl is alive. Her mother would have wanted that.
I softly pushed her away from me, making sure she was alright. She had a few scrapes, but nothing to big. I nodded to Issac, who started asking her questions as he tried to unbuckle her. I scrambled out of my seat and started asking around if anyone was alright. There was a few injuries from what I could see, but it was nothing that can't heal. I was streamline relieved that everyone was alive. Everyone on this side of the plane that is. There was nothing left of the other side, the plane had totally spit apart. Anne and John joined me as I went to the edge of the plane, where it had broken off.
The forest all around us had been broken down, leaving a pathway where we had landed. I took a ragged breath and turned to face everyone that was still in the plane, trying to get out.
"Come on. Let's get off this plane."
There was a lot more injuries then I had first thought, but they still weren't that bad. I barely noticed the blood that was trickling down my forehead as I helped others off of the plane and to somewhere they could sit. A rock, fallen tree, anything that they could sit on. Shelby was glued to Issac, hiding her face when anyone other then me or him tried talking to her.
"We need to make a fire before it gets dark!" John called out to everyone. "Help get dry wood and some grass!" A few of the able people started poking around trying to find what was needed to build a fire.
"Stay close! We don't know what's out there!" I called to them, worry starting to fill the pit of my stomach. I went back to wrapping up Anne's arm, using the sleeve of my jacket. I don't need it, its fairly warm here, and there was other things in the plane I could use if I get to cold. Once I was done, I went over to where Issac was sitting with Shelby on a fallen tree. "Shelby?" She looked up at me with scared eyes, but relaxed seeing that it was only me. I'm a little surprised that she didn't hate me for not letting her go with her mom, but she probably knows that I saved her life. "I need you to help me and Issac with something, can you do that?"
She nodded her head, standing up with Issac.
"What do you need us to do?" He asked, taking hold of my hand.
I smiled at him and started pulling both of them towards the plane. "We need to see what we can use from the plane." He nodded and we all started pulling out random bags and other things, Anne came over to help.
By the time it was dark, they had already made a fire, and was adding wood to it so that it wound grow. Issac, me, Shelby, and Anne piled up all of the things that we could use in a spot on the plane, so that they wouldn't get wet if it happened to rain. Having the cargo thing under us was a very good thing, for we have a lot of things to use. One of my classmates, Katie, had found some odd looking fruit while looking for wood, so we had a pile of those to eat. She had tried it, and said it was pretty good. Another person said that they had smelt salt in the air, meaning there is water nearby, even if it is ocean water.
It seems that John has taken role as the leader, giving out commands, and yelling if they were not followed. He was the one who decided that we all sleep in the planes cabin, so that we would be safe from the rain, if it happened to rain. I think that's pretty smart, I was going to suggest it anyway. A few of us will stay up at a time, keeping watch to make sure nothing was going to hurt us while we were sleeping. A few of the more talented people made spears out of wood, we would use them for protection and for hunting.
I lent my head on Issac with Shelby on my other side, leaning on me as she slept. Issac was playing with my long chocolate hair, something he often did while he thought. I think its odd, but I really don't care. Neither of us slept, we both just sat there not saying anything. I don't like the fact that John had just assumed leadership. There should have been a vote or something. I've cause enough problems with him in the past, so I wont say anything. But if he does something that I do not think right, I will speak up, and I will win. John is controlling in everything, especially over Anne, but she's afraid to leave him. She's afraid that he will hit her again.
I sighed softly, turning my head so that my nose was touching Issac's neck, his arms tightened around me at my small movement. The movie "Lord of the Fly" comes to mind when I think about where we are right now. A few things are different, and those are, we are older, not some little kids that don't know anything, and we wont die off. For we have women, and are not all men. But theres just two parts that worry me, and thats when they kill that little boy and Piggy. I just hope no one becomes one of them. We are almost adults, we shouldn't have to resort to killing like that. We are not little children. We can survive until we are rescued, all of us. If we just work together.
Shelby started to wake up when the sun was rising. Once she was fully awake, us three traveled out to the fire, grabbing a few of those odd looking fruit to eat.
"When everyone is awake, we need to get moving." I looked across the fire at John while he talked with Mike, his best friend. "We need to get to the water."
Mike made a little face, scowling. "Katie said that its ocean water. That means we can't drink it."
"We need to get to the coast to make a fire big enough so that any plane passing by will see us. Plus, we can boil the salt away." John said.
"That wont work." I spoke up, making them both look over at me. I just stared down at the fruit that I was peeling for Shelby. "Boiling salt water does not get rid of the salt. You should know that, John. We learned about it last year in Mr. Nickerson's class. We need to find fresh water, and then boil that." I finally glanced up at them, and sure enough, John was glaring at me.
"She's right, John." Mike said, looking back at his friend. "I'll take a few people out with me and we'll go look for a river or something."
"Later, we need to move first." John grabbed hold of Mikes hand when Mike stood, holding him in place.
"What's the point?" I asked, not glaring back at him. "We don't know what's out there yet. We should stay here for a little while longer. Where we have shelter, enough food, and fire." I motioned to the plane and the fire as I said this, my brown eyes never leaving John's hazel. "We can go look for water now, and move later. It's the smartest thing to do."
John just kept on glaring at me, but nodded and let go of Mike's arm. "Kira will go with you to find water." He growled, standing and storming away.
I stood up and brushed off the back of my cargo pants and bent down to kiss Shelby's forehead then Issac's quickly before I jogged off to catch up with Mike. I would follow John's orders this one time, considering it was my idea in the first place.
"Kira, I think we should go in two groups." Mike said once I reached him and the small group that had assembled. "You take Greg, Sara, Ben, and George. You'll all go left, and look for water over that way. I'll take the others and we'll go right. Make sure you're back by the time the suns in the center of the sky."
"We're not cavemen, Mike." I smiled. "You can say noon." He rolled his eyes with a smile, then walked off with his group trailing behind him. "Let's get moving." I waved for my group to follow, and we headed off into the woods.
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The woods are quiet, only a few birds were singing their songs, the only other sound coming from us.
I am leading the group, the only one who is not talking at all. Something doesn't feel right, though I am always uneasy when in a place that has no streets, cars, or people. But, an odd feeling wont leave me. A feeling that I definitely should not be feeling in the middle of a forest, in the middle of no where.
The feeling of being watched.
I tied my long brown hair back in a tight pony tail, letting my bangs fall around my face. My black converse made little sound, if any, on the forest floor. I let my brown eyes scan the area around us, hoping that they will not meet the eyes that are watching us. I'm hoping that those eyes are not real, that they are just my imagination going wild, that the feeling is fake. But like I said, I'm only hoping.
"Can we stop for a few minutes?" Sara's voice made me jump slightly, and I rolled my eyes when I saw her already sitting down on a rock before getting my answer.
This girl annoys me. She thinks that she can do whatever she wants, when she wants. Sara is one of the most beautiful girls in the school, and thinks that gives her the right. She's fallen head over heals for John, meaning she will stick to anything that he says, no matter what. She's the type of girl who if you piss off, she'll be the first one to tell on you, making everything bigger then it really is. She's gotten me suspended for a week once, just because I rolled my eyes and scoffed at something she said. It turned out being I slapped her across the face and yelled at her that she was wrong.
"I'm going ahead a bit." I said, starting to head out. If I was with that girl any longer, I might just end up slapping her. "Stay here until I get back."
"Sure thing." Greg sighed, laying down on the forest floor.
Their laughter died away the farther I went into the forest, happy to get away from them. I pushed branches away from my face, so that they didn't rip my dark green tank top, or open up the scab that had formed over the cut on my forehead. I walked slowly and as quietly as I could, for that feeling had gotten a lot stronger since I left the others behind.
The sound of trickling water made me pause in my step. A slow smile started forming on my lips as the sound echoed in my ears, I quickened my steps as I followed the sounds, my throat feeling more dry with each step. I came upon a small brook with good size fish swimming in it. I let out a relieved sigh as I knelt next to the water and cupped my hands in the cool liquid. The water felt overly good as it went down my throat. I took another hand full of it and rubbed it over my face, washing away the dirt that I knew was there. I smiled a little bigger and shook my head, letting the droplets fly from my skin.
I was about to take another drink when I heard a twig snap. I froze, looking at my reflection in the water that was sitting in my cupped hands. A single drop of water fell from my nose, making my reflection ripple.
The snap had come from my right, close enough for what ever made the noise to be hiding behind the closest row of trees to me. I knew it wasn't the others, because its not possible for them to be this quiet. I would have heard them long ago. Plus, they wouldn't try to be hiding from me, they would be yelling at me for not telling them about the water sooner. No noise followed the snap, I was even holding my breath so that I could hear better, though my heart was beating rapidly within my rib cage. I slowly brought the water to my lips, drinking it quietly still listening for any other sound.
There was nothing.
That ruled out any animal also. An animal would have kept walking or what ever it was doing. It wouldn't have taken notice to me, and if it did, it would be bolting out of sight before I could even move. I slowly got to my feet, stretching my arms over my head, popping my shoulder blades.
Another snap, then there was a sound of something smacking against something else.
I spun on my heal and sprinted as fast as I could back to where I left the others. I have no protection with me. What ever had made those sounds, they were now chasing after me. I risked a glance behind me once, seeing a flash of red, then pink. While I was looking behind me, I didn't see the root that thought it funny to wrap itself around my foot, pulling me down to the forest floor. I could feel blood coming down my forehead from my newly opened scab as I desperately tried to scramble to my feet. I glanced behind me one last time. My eyes locked with a pair of ocean blue ones. Brighter then I have ever seen, brighter then Issac's.
I kept running.
Okay, I know most of you are thinking "Where the hell is the Naruto gang?!?!" but, if you read carefully, they were there!!!!!! There WILL be more of them in the next chapter, aLOT more!! And, our favorite redhead too!!!!!! Please review, and tell me how you liked this chapter!! Thanks!