Thanks guys for the great reviews! Here is chapter 3, I hope you all enjoy. Now I have a list of characters, some that ARE on the list, didn't appear in this chapter, but were in the first chapter. If that makes sense, Now please, read, and hopefully enjoy. Then once you've done that...click the review button and tell me what you think!


The survivors were all up with the sun the next morning. Each one over the initial shock, but still afraid and lost.One by one they woke from the daze and began to salvage what they could from the wreckage. Amazingly everyone worked together,in silence most of the time. Food and remaining water were set up in a tent made from tarps. Clothing and items were all returned to their owners, and many survivors had changed into fresh clothes.

One thing that hung in the back of their minds was the fact they had survived. When they spoke of one another it was always 'the other survivors'. Some still hung to the hope that help would be comming, but late afternoon brought nothing but weariness and a little more hope faded away. Jack, Kate and Charlie returned and Sayid had tried to fix the transiever. But it seemed every bit of good news, brought bad news.


Those that had come with families or friends sat in huddled groups, those who had travelled alone were sitting alone.
One such stood out, and that was a girl. 15, dressed in a wrinkled school uniform. Her hair was still tied back,and black soot covered her face. It was obvious she was trying very hard not to cry, standing alone in the middle of the destroyed plane, staring at each of the survivors in turn.
All the accents sounded alien to her and she wished for the thousandth time she wished she hadn't run away.

FLASHBACK

Jade stood at the bus stop with her bestfriend Kate. "I don't know...L.A?" She asked a smile on her face.

Kate smiled, "Yeah! It will be so cool. All you have to do is get on this bus and get on that plane"
Jade nodded, biting her bottom lip. "But why a plane in Sydney, Why not at the Brissy airport?"

Kate rolled her eyes "Because they will check there first."

Jade nodded and gulped as the bus pulled up. "Alright, I can do this."

Kate smiled again and handed her the purple backpack. "Your tickets there. Booked em' last night."

Jade took one step "Remind me again why I'm doing this?"

Kate just grinned and stepped away from the bus. Jade's pressed her face against the window, butterflies dancing in her stomach as she watched her friend dissapear as the bus drove on.

END FLASHBACk

Jade blinked back more tears. She couldn't do this. Now she was all alone, where everyone was different. Even Alexis had been American.

She trodded down the beach to the edge of the water where two blonde women were laying, one was heavily pregenant, the other lying out in a red bikini.

"You alright?" The pregenant women asked her, and Jade looked up, a huge smile on her face. "Yes, I'm alright"

The women smiled back "Claire"

Jade took her outstretched hand and shook it lightly "Jade"

Claire took in the uniform and raised an eyebrow "That's a brisbane uniform, what were you doing on a plane leaving sydney"

Jade's smile disappeared "Ah..nothing. I gotta go change" She waved, leaving Claire to discuss stomachs with the other women, Shannon.


Alexis rumaged through her bag and smiled happily when she found what she was looking for. Two unopened cans of diet coke. OF course, they weren't cold, and were shaken up, but it was there and thats all that mattered to her.

She laughed a little to herself and opened the can with a hiss.

As long as she had this, things couldn't be too bad. She smiled and swallowed it down. People had long since stopped running around like chickens with their heads chopped off. Sayid, the man she had talked to the other day, was proving to be very useful, it turned out he was a technology buff and could fix the transeiver. He was busy working on that though, Jade had disappeared all together and there was no one else she knew well enough.

A couple of people were laying out on the beach, close to the water, and Alexis was tempted to join them. She was debating getting up and going over when, yet again, someone came up to her.

The girl was either Iraqi, or Native American, had long brown hair, and was about 19 or 20. She didn't say anything, just sat down, obviously shy. Alexis smiled at her

"Alexis" She nodded, the girl smiled back,

"Aishya"

"You have a beautiful smile. What were you doing in Australia?" Alexis asked, hoping to make conversation.
Aishya looked at her and thought for a moment."I was looking for my aunt, Nadia"

Sayid looked up from the beach,his eyes on Aishya, he stared for a moment then went back to his work.

Alexis and Aishya noticed this, but said nothing. "What about you?"

Alexis shook her head "Nothing important. So, were you on the plane alone?"

Aishya nodded "Yeah." The two smiled again, and continued talking.


Summer was enjoying her new found friendship with Bonnie.
The two had helped with the wreckage and other survivors, their camps were along side each other, and with joint effort they had managed to crack open a coconut. Bonnie seemed to never want to stop working, and Summer was almost thankful, Working kept your mind of things. When the doctor Jack, had told her she'd done enough and could rest. Bonnie had seemed anxious.
Well she had at first, then Summer had asked her about her home and Bonnie had flung into explaining rolling hills, and all the wonderful things she remembered. Summer smiled at her colourful and animated descriptions. when Bonnie asked if she was a dancer she'd nodded and gotten up to show her some dance steps.

So it was to the two girls, one copying the other's dance steps, that Boone came across. He smiled at them for a split second and called out

"What are you doing?"

Bonnie stopped immediatly, her face going red. Summer smiled "Dancing, Care to join us?" Bonnie blushed even harder. Boone looked at her for a moment "No, I have to find my sister. Thanks though." He waved and walked off. Bonnie let out another sigh of relief, and turned back to Summer.

"What was that all about?"

Bonnie smiled sheepishly "I guess, I don't..I can't talk to well...men very well"
Summer laughed.

"I can see that!"


Lanni was busy adding the finishing touches to her little home.

Her sweater was still up, but a couple of palm leaves now gave her a little more seclusion. Elli had wandered down the beach to get some food and water, and Lanni had decided to let her creativity run wild.

After all, Everytime she tried to help, they told her it was ok. Well they, was Jack. And Lanni had quickly decided she didn't like him all that much. Who died and made him King?

Elli returned with a bottle of water and some protein bars. "This is all I could get."

She handed the bottle to Lanni who accpeted it thankfully. Pressing the bottle to her lips she swallowed the cool, refreshing water, greatful to ease the pain in her throat.

"Thanks." She said handing the bottle back. Elli smiled and tossed her a protein bar. The two sat in silence, eating for a while. "Y'know, That guy over there..What's his name..Sawyer. He's got all the supplies from the plane. So I figure, we better get on his good side."

Lanni tilted her head to the side. "Shouldn't we get on Jack's good side? Seeing as he's the 'leader'" Elli smiled.

"From what I see..Sawyer ain't lisenting to him"

Elli and Lanni laughed a little before returning to their protein bars.

"I never thought I'd be hungry enough to eat one of these things." Lanni sighed.
Elli nodded "Nope"

They both burst into laughter again. Lanni was suprised at herself, usually she didn't get along so well with others this easily. But it was a welcome change. She needed all the friends she could get here.


Hannah stood up quickly

"Yes, lets do it!" Christian looked doubtful. "You heard the noise the other night. Do you even know what it was?" Hannah shook her head. "We'll know if we see it."

Christian smiled "Your crazy...Going out there alone"

Hannah shook her head "I mean yes I'm crazy, we won't be going alone."

"We won't?"

"Yeah, I'll be there with you" Hannah giggled, picking up a water bottle and taking a quick sip.

Christian sighed "Fine. I need something to do anyway"

Hannah grinned and the two slipped away from the camp.

They trekked through the trees and vines, Hannah swatted away a bug, shivering.

She hated bugs. Chrisitan giggled at the look on her face as the two went further into the forest. Suddenly they both stopped. There was a rustling in the trees.

The inched closer to each other.

"What was that"

The mechanical sounding roar echoed through the trees, and the two girls dropped to the ground in fear.

"What is it..What is it?" Christian whispered and Hannah asked the same thing.

It seemed to be getting closer.

"Run" Hannah croaked jumping up and taking off, Christian followed behind.
They were suprised at the speed they were going but had little time to think. Hannah had never been so scared in her life. The two emerged from the jungle and ran into the center of camp screaming.

The thing, whatever it was had been breathing down their necks.

Jack and Kate jumped up casting a quick glance at each other.

The girls stopped screaming and just stood there staring at the trees they'd just come from.

They each had several cuts and bruises, Jack noticed checking them both over. "What happened?" He asked worridly.

Christian looked up "I..I don't know"

Kate knew the fear they were feeling, at least they were lucky enough, not to see what the thing could do to people.

Hannah and Christian were told not to go into the jungle again, not without anyone else. Hannah was about to argue, she could do what she liked, but decided, she wouldn't be going back in there anyway.


Lewan had met the boys father, Michael, and an older gentlman, who went by the name Locke. Wandering over to a man with shaggy blonde highlighted hair, she stepped up to him "Standing here all alone?" She asked smiling.

The man, whom she realised was the 'Sawyer' she'd heard about, chuckled.

"Wouldn't have it any other way."

Lewan leaned against a palm tree. " Were you travelling with anyone, Mr. Sawyer?" He looked up, a strange glint in his eyes. "Maybe."

Lewan smiled again "Why were you in Australia?" He continued to smile "Might've been doing something..Can't really remember what exactly" He said in a teasing voice. Lewan could play that game.


Cloe grinned to herself happily when she saw the small white box. Lifting it out of the sand, and dusting it off, she pressed the on button. Good, it still worked. Browsing through the list, she discovered it held alot of her favourite music.

"Thank you" She whispered, plugging the ear phones into her own ears. The ipod had belonged to one of the passengers. One of the dead passengers, a fact she didn't really want to think about. The guy who'd owned it, was sitting next to her. The ipod was new, something his girlfriend had given him for his birthday, a fact which he happily told her.

FLASHBACK

Cloe tucked a strand of hair out of her face, trying to pay attention to the air hostess up front. "My girlfriend gave this to me. For my birthday, You know how expensive these things are? I love her so much"

Cloe smiled, he was only 20, three years younger then her. "Did you tell her that?"

His smile disappeared. "No, I didn't"

It was then the plane it rough turbulance, the back flying off, Cloe squeezed her eyes shut,and in a moment of panick, took the guys hand. He didn't argue. "It's ok. The pilot will make an emergency landing" He said, taking deep breaths.

"What emergancy landing! We have half a plane up here!" She shouted, reaching frantically for the oxegyn masks.

The last thing she heard before blanking out was...

"Susy, I love you"

END FLASHBACk

Cloe blinked back tears, the memory fresh in her mind. Switching to some good rock music, she tried to drown out the memory.


Shelby cried out happliy when she came across her dancing bag.In it was; her cd player, with 12 double AA batteries, two cd's, her pointe shoes, dancing outfit and a chocolate bar.
She took the chocolate bar out first. "And now, little chocolate bar, your time has come." She said dramatically, aware that a kid was watching her.

She put on quite a show, ripping the bar open and eating it.

"Don't fight it! It's your destiny." She cried.

The kid burst out laughing, and Shelby grinned, handing him part of the bar she'd saved. "Here" She said.

The kid smiled, trying very hard not to laugh again.

"I'm Walt" He said between chuckles and shoving the food in his mouth.

"Shelby at your service" She bowed.


Maggie smiled at Shelby and Walt, glad that not all the survivors were gloomy. She looked up when two girls burst from the jungle, screaming. There screams were piercing, and it seemed they were very very afraid.

Jack and Kate calmed them down and led them away. But it unsettled her. What could scare someone like that? She was going to find out. Inching closer the tent where they were talking she listened.

"I've seen what it can do..You don't want to go back out there" A female voice.

"But what is it? It was right above us" another female voice, slightly panicked.
"Look..We don't know. But.." A male voice.

"You have to tell us what it does. Or we tell the camp"

"You don't want to know"

"We need to know, If somethings out there..."

"It eats people"

Maggie shrunk away from the tent. Something was out there, that was eating people.

Kate, Jack and Charlie had gone the day before, they said nothing. How would they know it ate people? Three went, three came back. It dawned on her. The Pilot.

That thing had eaten the pilot.