Hello everyone! Yeah...I should probably say something about my two-month-long disappearance, but I'm not going to for the sake of you all probably having heard the excuses before. So...I'm going to start the chapter now. Enjoy :)
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Chapter 3- A Different Perspective
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep, 'cause everything is never as it seems. -Owl City, Fireflies
?'s POV
"All passengers; please take your seats and buckle your seats. We will be taking off shortly."
That's what I heard and took as background noise as I shove my suitcase, glaring with the however-many-others behind me as some girl up front decides to take her sweet time finding her seat. I shift my weight and shove her in the shoulder- not enough to make her fall over, of course. That would only be wasting more time. When she finally realizes that she can't wait forever, I move forward and fall into my seat, which was thankfully closer to the front.
Lugging my suitcase underneath the chair of the person in front of me, I decide to take a look around and figure out exactly what this plane looks like. I have to admit, it wasn't half bad. The place was light-colored and the seats were a deep green. Almost the exact shade of my hair, I think to myself, raising an eyebrow at the similarity. People of all sizes and colors and their Pokemon filled the seats, and soon the previously spacious area was taken up and the only things worth noticing were the large windows and tidbits of random peoples' conversations. You can't help what you hear, right? As long as no one talked to me, I would be perfectly fine.
I take a look at my own Pokemon, safely tucked away in his own Pokeball. It's a Swampert, recently evolved. Together, we came onto this flight to get to Kanto easier, since none of us could stand flying for very long.
Some time passes, and I end up spacing out for half the time before I finally take out a book and flip to where I was last. More time passes and before I know it, the plane takes a turn and I hear a loud scrape, kind of like nails on a chalkboard when you think about it, but a little lower, and we dive for the ground, air seeming to pull the passengers in the back from their seats.
Are we really there already? What happened to the back?
Of course, I was wrong about arriving. One look out the window and I find a smoking and half functioning wing, and the ground and cities coming up to meet us. In a few seconds, we bypass the Kanto region entirely and blue overtook my field of vision. Whipping my head back, I see the rear of the plane now has a gaping hole in it, which I'm 99.99% sure wasn't there when we took off. In that short time, we nose-dived the water. And that's when panic hit an all-time high. You could probably hear our shouts and cries from the mainland, not like they could do anything to help us at this rate. And yet, I wonder why the crew isn't doing anything. Hmm…
In any case, I leap out of my seat and immediately get swept up in the crowd of people trying to make a desperate escape- some even trying to break the windows open. Idiots. Can't they see we're in the water? I finally reach the back of the plane and, taking a big breath, I dive in, just barely managing to catch a glimpse of the girl I saw earlier.
Nathan's POV
Land. That is the one thing I could think of as I swim towards the ever growing mass in the distance. I don't notice the people giving up and disappearing into the water, or the few that follow me and keep a steady pace, though I probably really should have. I feel the faint burning in my arms and legs as I swim, taking a breath every so often and with it, a pain in my lungs. Right now, I want to get to that island. Once that's done, then and only then can I figure out what to do next.
I don't know how long it's been, but by the time my feet meet underwater sand and I can breathe easier, the sun has already run most of its course and red and orange paint the sky. I wonder if the others made it, I think as I turn around. Sure enough, there were others that had followed my lead from start to finish; one with blue hair, one with green hair, one with purple hair, and the last with pink hair…that girl I met. Adia.
Running back into the suddenly freezing water, I help them up one-by-one. First the guy with green hair, who vehemently shakes his head and climbs up on his own.
Well, nice to meet you too…
Next is the girl with purple hair. I vaguely remember seeing her before…oh yeah! She was that girl who's luggage I found on the plane. Nicolette…I think? Whatever, introductions can come later, I think as I pull her onto dry sand. She points to the blunette previously swimming behind her, who I now notice is having difficulty moving her arms. She must be tired. Once she is safe and out of the water, I look around for Adia, noticing that she had made it up on her own.
We all take a few moments to rest and catch our breath, leaving us sprawled out in various locations on the shore. I try to collect my thoughts and figure out what we should do next. We're Arceus-knows-how-far away from any other land, and I'm guessing our technology won't be of much help, whether it got lost in the plane crash or got destroyed by water damage.
Taking a glance at the sky, I try to find out what time it is, but judging from the twilight replacing the sun, I'd say we should probably find some shelter first.
"So…" I mutter awkwardly. Can you blame me? None of us knew each other very well, and the only reason why we're here is because of a freak plane accident.
"We need to find shelter," the green-headed boy says, a dead expression on his face as he pushes himself off the ground, the girls following his movements.
Everyone, including me, turns their heads when they hear the high-pitched female voice coming from the silver-streaked girl. "Right…shelter…in the dark, creepy woods. This is going to be a blast."
Ta da! The following is a first for me: I actually made an outline for a story. Specifically this one. Now I actually know how I'm going to plan chapters, which hopefully equals faster updates. I've also noticed, on this story and NTH(Nothing to Hide, my Warriors story) have been getting less and less views as the story goes on. If you like what you're reading, spread the word! And with that...
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-Dream
