YOU SUCK, COPPERS! WAHOOOOOOO!
The forest was thick, and extremely dark. Medli and Tetra found it nearly impossible to get themselves through. Half the time they were blinded by the pitch blackness. They had to feel around with their feet and hands where the trees and shrubs were.
Eventually they came to the lighter end of the forest. They heard the splooshing of the ocean waves splashing onto shore. But they also heard another, much louder sound.
It was the sound of crackling, sparking and ripples of heat. They could see the orange light from the openings. They knew what it was, and what had been causing the smoke. When the girls got out of the forests, they saw the ships on fire.
A couple of the ships were already mostly ash, while a couple others were still on fire; flames reaching up taller than the tallest mass. However, there was one ship that remained unharmed.
Tetra fell to her kneew in the sand, but Medli went to check it out. She laughed; it was the Stephanie again. Always the same one.
However, there was a figure standing aboard the ship, making a motion Medli could not comprehend from the distance. Pouring gasoline, perhaps?
She screamed, "HEY!"
This caught the attention of both the figure and Tetra, who stood up, and looked at who Medli had yelled at.
The person must've slipped on something in panic, because he screamed, and disapeared. A few seconds later, however, there was a splash. Tetra and Medli ran down the beach to where they could see the other side of the unharmed ship. A scrawney man was splashing about in the water.
"Get him!" Tetra exclaimed. The teens ran into the water, and swam up to him. Judging by the way the man wailed his arms around, and kicked with his legs, he must not know how to swim.
Medli and Tetra grabbed the mans arms, and dragged him to shore. He gasped and gasped as they dragged him onto the dry beach.
"Thank you, thank you!" He exclaimed to them. Tetra, in rage, smashed the man's face with her foot, knocking him out cold, and probably breaking his nose. Blood poured out from a large cut between his eyes.
"What do we do now?" Medli asked.
"Nothing!" Tetra shouted. "We have nobody! We're doomed! Game over, man! Game over!"
"Stop it!" Medli exclaimed.
"Stop it? STOP IT!" Tetra shouted some more. "THERE'S NOTHING! NOBODY! GONE! EVERYONE!"
Medli walked up to the screaming Tetra, and bitch slapped her as hard as she could. Tetra stood there for a moment, shaken.
Medli dived back into the water, and swam all the way to about halfway past the ship. The fires on the other ships still raged intensely.
A thick rope hung from the deck of the ship. Medli climbed it as hard as she could, slipping down a few times. After a few minutes, she made it to the top, and panted as she went to the plank on the starbord side. She grabbed it, and angled it to hit on low beach.
Tetra stood still for a moment, but then slowly walked up the plank that Medli set down for her.
"Can you drive this thing?" Medli asked.
"Sure," Tetra said lowly. "Where are we going, exacly?"
"Just head along the coast for now," Medli answered. "Until we think of something else. We can't stay here."
"Alright." Tetra walked up to the large wheel of the ship, but passed it, and pulled on a large, wooden lever. Medli felt the ship jerk backwards. Tetra ran to the main column, and pulled on a rope, loosening the sail restraints, letting them fall down and catch the wind.
"Wind's heading north-northeast," Tetra said. "It shouldn't be too hard to head east from here."
The ship made another lurch, this time sideways, and Tetra pulled on another lever on the opposite side of the wheel. The ship turned until Tetra stopped it at ninety degrees. Then the ship lurched forwards, and started moving.
