Destination Darkness
The sound was distorted and un-welcoming but to Kaori, it was a tiny piece of hope that rose again out of the dark clouds in her heart, she ran for it without any thought of her own safety.She needed this. It was amazing; to think that there is hope after 3 days of thinking that nothing was right and you were alone in this dreaded world.
The feeling was indescribable; all she knew was that she HAD to take this call.
She reached inside the cockpit of the plane and picked up the receiver, and screamed her lungs out.
"HELP! HELP! IM KAORI! IM STUCK OUT IN THE FOREST! FOR GODS SAKE SOMEONE HELP ME!"
It was funny, she hadn't spoken for 3 days and now that she had a reason for talking, it came gushing out like the lava out of an over-due volcano eruption.
"Hold on, hold on, calm down Miss Kaori, what's your current location?" a familiar voice replied.
"D.J Atomika?" Kaori asked, forgetting that she was stranded for awhile.
"Yeah, whaddaya want?" he asked rather cockily.
"I want you to get me out of this forest and back home!" she yelled into the receiver.
"Kaori Nishidake, I've already sent at least the entire peak 3 ski patrol, be calm and we have traced the location of where you are. Do not worry we are on our way." He calmed.
Kaori had never felt so relieved.
Maybe someone did care after all. No, just because you were getting saved does not mean that everyone cares.
If everyone cared then Hayden wouldn't have raped her Katherine would have helped her, Psymon would not always insult her and would not hit her boyfriend for standing up for her.
For 3 days and 3 nights, she didn't have any contact with anyone, no person in sight to keep her sanity.
She liked being alone. She didn't like people. People rape and abuse her; they insulted and annoyed her.
She like it better alone. It was just her and her thoughts.
Silence was heavenly. Clearing her mind to purge every single memory of the crash, of Dave, of Hayden and Katherine. Of eating mushrooms and berries. Witnessing an eagle swoop down and kill a poor mouse.
There were times where she had felt like that mouse, defenseless against a big massive eagle that symbolized fate and horrible scary mental images.
"Thank you so much," Kaori sighed happily and sat down beside the plane, just waiting for the sound of helicopter whirls surrounded her.
In Peak 3 Black station.
Elise was watching the 6 o clock news when all of a sudden they had breaking news and she sighed.
"I wonder what they have that's so good to be breaking news?" she asked herself.
"In recent reports, we have confirmed that we have someone lost in the Canadian woods and has been missing for 3 days. This someone turns out to be Kaori Nishidake, a 19 year old SSX superstar."
"MAC!" Elise screamed.
Mac came rushing in, with a hotdog in his mouth and a hamburger in his hand.
"Whafifsit?" he asked still chewing on his hotdog filled of mustard and onions.
"Its Kaori." Was all Elise said to get Mac's attention to the news.
"We have confirmed that from D.J Atomika who had radioed Dangerous Dave's plane to find out where he was and found Kaori's voice on the end of the receiver.
She told him that she was on the way to the Golden resort but ended up caught in a freak lightening storm and the plane crashed. Radio big understands that Kaori was lucky to make it out alive unlike Dave who did not make it.
We have been told that Kaori had found a lodge and stayed there for awhile for supplies but did not say why she left.
We sent the entire population of the peak 3 ski patrol to rescue her and she should be returning to big mountain in a couple of hours, this is EA BIG news, goodnight."
Mac nearly choked on his hotdog and Elise had the most worried look in her face ever.
"Shit," Elise barely managed to say.
"Kaori…" Mac breathed.
Just outside the Canadian woods…
Kaori felt so warm and secure in a warm blanket inside the helicopter and the ski patrol handed her hot chocolate.
Sure it was nice but Kaori still didn't change her mind about people caring.
She could tell that these people didn't really care about her, they were only doing what they were told to do by the boss.
If it were up to them, they would probably still save her from the forest but wouldn't give her blankets or hot chocolate.
Who was being so nice? Why did they have to announce it on the news? So the people who were watching would just go "Humph. Poor soul. Oh well, what's on the next channel?" and turn the channel to cartoons.
Kaori shook her head at the idea of people caring and turned to the window.
To anyone else the view would have been very beautiful, but to Kaori, it told her that a cruel hard decision was coming.
How was she going to confront her friends?
