Curriculum 03: Giseisha
Rusai awoke to feel something collide against him. "Gah! What hell's goin' on!" he yelped, mainly due to surprise. That's when he happened to see Arie, unconscious. "Arie!" he yelled, showing a little bit more emotion than he would have liked. Another shockwave hit the ship, sending Rusai and Arie tumbling. Rusai managed to grab on to Arie's body, in an attempt to shield her from any more harm, before they hit yet another object. "Arie! Please tell me you're alright! Say something!" Rusai pleaded, wondering how something this out of the ordinary could've happened.
"Urgh... Wha-... uh.." she murmured from within her limp state as her eyes opened slightly. The first thing she made out to hear was a desperate cry from Rusai as he struggled to keep her from harms way. "Ru-... sai..." she whispered as she looked out towards him, her eyes clouded from the confusion.
The shock waves were beginning to come in larger numbers as the two were helplessly thrown around the room. Arie grabbed tight to Rusai, trying to get separated from him. As the fell back into a wall, Arie leg go of Rusai briefly and elbowed the wall behind her, opening the room back into the hallway. She grabbed back onto him as they were sent back into the hallway. Her speech was impaired due to the fact that she had just regained consciousness, and the doors had all been locked due to the emergency crisis.
"Ru...sai... it's up to you... to.. ugh.." she gasped as they were flung to another wall. Struggling, she again attempted to reach him. "You must... find a way to.. help..." and with that she gazed deep into his eyes once more, just as before. Hoping that he somehow knew what she was telling him.
Rusai could barely make out the words she was saying due to the utter chaos that was thrown at him in the situation. 'What can I do?' Rusai thought, trying to keep it together. He knew he couldn't get out of the room due to the doors being locked down. He then spotted a vent in the side of the wall, but he knew that Arie probably couldn't make the climb in her apparent state. He wanted to be by Arie's side, but he knew he had to do something about the situation before things really got out of hand. Right now, he was just so confused about the current event. 'I don't even know what's going on! How am I going to help?' Rusai thought. First off, he wanted to make sure that Arie was safe, but then again, there was nowhere safe on the ship to speak of at the moment. He decided to lay Arie down somewhere, but where? Rusai then spotted what he thought was the safest place that the hallway had to offer, so gently set Arie down, but for a moment he was reluctant to leave her.
"Arie...Please stay safe..." he whispered before dashing off and climbing into the vent. It was crowded in the vent, but it was the only way out of the room. Rusai crawled on, finding getting more and more difficult to breathe. 'I have to make it...' Rusai thought. After what seemed like an eternity of crawling through the maze of vents Rusai saw an opening. Overjoyed and relieved, Rusai pushed himself out of the vent to find himself in the main hall. That was when another shockwave hit the ship, Rusai clung onto the railing to try to keep from getting flung this way and that. He also saw several other unfortunate candidates go tumbling by. 'This is getting bad...' Rusai thought, as more shockwaves barraged the ship.
As Arie lay there on the floor she waited planned her escape from the room. Though it was in vein as she could now barely move, let alone get out of the room.
"Rusai, don't give up..." she said softly as the alarms began to blare while the tremors grew in size. Luckily the spot she was placed in was safer, but she could still feel the aftershock of the waves. 'If only I hadn't used it before...' she thought. 'Then maybe I could get out of here, somehow...'
Her thoughts were completely clouded and her vision was blurred, but just as she thought all of her hope was lost, the door to the observatory opened. Struggling to her feet, Arie dashed towards the doors and into the observation area. 'I barely... made it here, but... Rusai?' she thought hopelessly as the doors closed abruptly after her. Turning her gaze to the window her eyes widened in fear as what she saw shook her being.
Rusai was trying to move about in the ship, clinging onto anything he could. 'What is causing these tremors?' Rusai wondered as the shockwaves nearly sent him flying. Trying to make it out of the main hall in one piece, Rusai had to pry the doors open and found himself in another hallway. 'Why didn't I look at the map?' Rusai thought. Rusai dashed by a window and found the answer to his earlier question; a horde of Giseisha had surrounded the ship.
"Oh shit!" Rusai gasped. "There's so many of them!" Rusai was now more determined than ever to do something, because if no one did, they'd be doomed before they even reached G.O.A.