"Samuel! Help!"

Allis voice rang out through the storm, sounding higher pitched than he had ever heard before. Samuel could see her eyes widen in fear even from across the ship. She was holding onto the wheel of the ship for dear life as the storm raged around them.

They had been sailing for days, in the direction that Lady Ianite held told Allis they must go. After convincing her brother that the exchange had actually happened and she hadn't hallucinated it, which was actually surprisngly easy since Samuel had seen Ianite once before himself, they got as many supplies as they could gather by themselves and then waited until nightfall. Lo and behold, when they went to the docks they did find a foreign ship waiting for them.

Leaving immediately, Allis was desperate to prove her worth to Ianite. She made a fatal flaw in rushing out, though, because storm clouds had soon appeared on the horizon. This could have been avoided had they just stopped somewhere along the way, but Allis was determined to make it to the island of Mianite before she dared stop anywhere. Lady Ianite needed her and she wasn't about to let anything distract her.

"Hold on, Allis. I coming!" Samuel struggled to make himself heard over the storm.

He had to move step by step, holding onto the rail the entire way, as he tried to make his way over to his sister. When he did he held onto her with one arm and the solid railing with the other. Water raged all around them, splashing into the boat from the sea and pelting down on them from the heavens. It was a brutal, terrifying rush of noise and commotion. Samuel squeezed his eyes shut tightly and sent a silent prayer to every heavenly being he could think of, while his sister stared into the heart of the clouds with a defiant expression on her face.

Allis was clearly scared of the power they possessed, but it wasn't in her nature to be cowed so easily and she bared her teeth like she was a wild animal snarling at an oncoming attacker. Despite the evident peril, she felt oddly confident. Some voice from deep within her stirred and murmured comforting thoughts in her ear. Lady Ianite wouldn't have blessed them with this ship, or even told them to go, if they were only going to die here, right? Certainly they had the luck of the Gods on their side in this battle with Mother Nature.

And it wasn't like they were clueless in this situation. Allis had studied storms day and night when the plague ravaged through Ianarea, and she had passed her knowledge onto Samuel as well. If her assumptions were correct, this storm was nothing compared to the ones that had been recorded as notorious for sinking Ianarean ships. They stood a better chance at surviving than it seemed, even with the chaos surrounding them like walls closing in.

Still, storms were something that a sailor could only hope to overcome. You had to prepare the minute you saw it, because your options would be severely limited once it was upon you. Samuel had done what he could to secure their supplies and other various things while Allis continued to steer. She also made the choice of sailing into it nearly head-on, with a goal that was more thought out than one would originally think; And it paid off greatly.

The storm stopped suddenly, almost as if with the snap of a finger. The siblings held their breath for a second and looked around to try and get their bearings. Allis had been right with her calculations, and they were now sitting within the completely calm eye of the storm. They wouldn't be in it forever, in fact the storm would been upon them in mere minutes again, but it gave them a chance to collect their thoughts and prepare a new plan of action. And even more amazingly, they could see their destination through the fast-approaching wall of rain.

Turning the ship slightly so that they were on a direct course for the Island of Mianite now, Allis prepared to delve back into the mayhem that was unavoidable. She entered the din confidently, even when the ship began to toss and turn violently again. A flicker of doubt hung at the back of her mind as she vaguely noticed that the storm seemed more vicious than it had earlier. She was about to call out to her brother, when suddenly her misgivings made themselves more known. The ship seemed to buck beneath them, thrown upwards by a large swell.

Some of their supplies broke loose and scattered about, gaining momentum as they slid across the soaked deck. The force of the fast-moving boxes was enough to splinter the rails of the ship upon impact, and Allis realized that it was only a matter of time before something broke through completely and sent their provisions straight into the ocean. Her prediction came true seconds later, only in a more horrifying manner than she could have imagined; Samuel would be going overboard with them.

Her brother had been making his way back over to her again, but he couldn't move out of the way in time when he saw another one of the boxes sliding towards him with alarming speed. It only nicked him, but it was still enough to knock him of his feet and then tumbling onto his side. Within seconds he was sliding along the deck too, and when the box broke through the railing completely, Samuel tumbled into the raging sea with it. Allis stared after him, momentarily frozen with shock.

Then she sprung into action, abandoning her grip on the wheel so that she could run over to where Samuel had disappeared. It wasn't the smartest decision, but she was too desperate to think straight. She couldn't just let the sea claim her brothers life without a fight. The wind and water still coursed around her roughly, and within inches of the gap in the railing she was sent sprawling to the ground. A heavy wave shot over the far side of the boat and it pushed her straigjt to the opening, giving her no chance to try and get to her feet again.

The rough, broken edges of the wood tore at her skin as she too was sent flying over the edge A cold chill shook through her as she plunged into the sea, and the water obscured her vision. She had no idea where her brother was, but she prayed that Lady Ianite would spare him a terrible fate. Her vision suddenly dipped out completely, and darkness folded around her like a blanket.

Her last thoughts as her conciousness faded was of her name...Capsize. She was doomed to suffer the same tragic ending as the people she was named after.

AN: Managed to get this one done faster than I thought. I have the next chapter partially typed up, but since I'm back to school tomorrow I don't know exactly when I'll have it finished. Anyway, we're fast-approaching the end of this story! :D I'm going to assume about 2-3 more chapters left to go. After this, I think I'm going to give "The Stranger's God" another go.