Chapter 12

Everyone screamed as the stern dropped, Tala and Brian climbed over the railings as the stern raised high into the sky.
Items within the ship could be heard crashing through walls toward the sinking bow, as Titanic made her final "headstand".
The boilers were tearing from their beds and smashing through bulkheads.
People were struggling to climb to the back of the ship as it began to rise in a vain attempt to seek a higher area away from the swirling water.
Suddenly, a giant wave washed over the deck as water filled the last remaining compartments, sweeping many overboard.

Slowly, the mammoth liner now began her final dive in an almost perpendicular position.
Her lights flickered a couple of times, then went out for good as the stern disappeared from the surface.
Screams and moans could be heard from those struggling in the frigid water. Some passengers in the lifeboats wanted to return to retrieve these poor souls but were quickly told by others that they would surely be swamped if they tried. Amazingly, some of the very same women that protested to officers on the boat deck about their husbands not being allowed to board, were the very same that protested returning to rescue those in the water.
The yells quickly faded out one by one as the victims lost consciousness and succumbed to their fate.
Two boats, one boat under the command of surviving 5th officer Harold Lowe did manage to pick up a few from the water after transferring passengers from one lifeboat to two other boats.
Another boat, under the charge of Seaman Perkis, managed to pick up three victims from the frigid water.

The survivors floated to the surface, well the ones with life jackets anyway.
Others were sucked down and drowned.
Luckily Tala and Brian both had jackets on.
Both teens were frozen but luckily they were used to this frozen water.
There was numerous bits of wood from the ship and they found a huge piece of wood.
"RETURN...THE BOATS!" an officer screamed.
"There coming, were going to be ok" Tala laughed a little.

"You don't understand, if we go back they'll swamp the boat, they'll pull us right down I'm telling ya" the crew man
"Knock it off, your scaring me" Margaret Brown said
"Alright Girls, lets go"
"Were in the middle of the North Atlantic, do you want to live or do you want to die?" Margaret looked around the boat, shocked no one except her would go and rescue other survivors.
"I don't understand you all, what's the matter with you all? Its your men out there!" She was right.
"There's plenty of room for more"
"And there will be more for one more if you don't shut the hole in your face£ the crewman said, annoyed.
She looked around one more time and sat down, acknowledging defeat...or did she?
They were roping boats together to make them more stable so a rescue could be done, but it was slow.
Tala and Brian looked around.
"Its a grave yard" Brian shivered.
"I'm frozen" Tala groaned.

The boat entered the field of bodies.
"You see any moving?" the officer asked.
"No sir, only by the current"
they shone the lights over the bodies.
"Are they dead?" a man picked one out the water.
"Yes sir"
"Careful with the oars, don't hit them...IS THERE ANYONE ALIVE OUT THERE?"
Tala heard the officer.
"OVER HERE!" he managed to shout.
"What?" Brian asked
"Boat"
"TWO ALIVE, HURRY!"
"Row to them...hurry"
Tala and Brian were picked out of the water and towels wrapped around them.
Only one boat returned out of 20, 6 were saved in total out of the frozen waters.

The boats drifted in the cold waters as dawn came, there was no evidence that Kai and Ray were saved.
The Carpathia arrived and started getting people onto her decks.
Tala and Brian were given some hot chocolate.
A man with blue hair bumped into them.
"Excuse me, have you seen these boys?" he showed them a picture of Kai and Ray.
"Kai...Ray!"
"You know them?" he asked, both nodded then shook there heads.
"No, we haven't seen them, we worried"
"I've looked everywhere and showed some pictures...thank you, my name is William Granger by the way"
"Tala"
"Brian"
"Thank you for your time"

"Excuse me, have you seen these two?" William shown the picture to one of the people they had rescued before them selves got trapped.
"Yes, they saved me, me and afew others were trapped behind a door, they opened it, we ran, I told them water was coming, I ran up the stairs and turned to see them overwhelmed by water, I think they drowned"
William found Tala and Brian to tell them how Ray and Kai died.
He sat down and said a prayer for the boys, a tear ran from his eye onto his diary where he entered the fact Ray and Kai had died most likely in each others arms.
Deep down in the cold Atlantic ocean in the wreck, there bodies lied in an embrace with each other, there faces looking at each other.
The Carpathia docked next day where survivors docked and were treated for hypothermia and other injuries.
They had got to New York but without there friends