A plane, flying from Japan to Russia, was found high in the air above the ocean. The passengers, most of them reading or sleeping, were unaware of the problems the pilots had to deal with. Something was wrong, something was very wrong. The contact with the airport was lost and if they didn't get it back soon, there was a big chance there would be a disaster.
Kai Hiwatari, a Russian man of just nineteen, was staring out of the small window, his crimson eyes seeing nothing in particular. He occasionally pushed his unruly two-toned hair out of his face. Next to him was Ray Kon, his Chinese friend and previous team-mate. Ray was looking through some magazines that Kai had dropped on his lap the moment Ray muttered something about being afraid of flying. The cat-eyed boy, who was eighteen, had been flying since he was twelve or thirteen, but he was never too fond of it. Perhaps it was because of the stories the elders told that planes weren't supposed to fly, as the Gods didn't intend it. Everyday he heard a few stories about planes that would fall out of the air. He still didn't quite understand how planes could stay up and he preferred not to think about it. On the first flight with the Bladebreakers, the rest of the team had decided to get Ray away from the window and made sure he had enough things to read.
"Are we there yet?" He asked for the tenth time in half an hour.
"No," Kai muttered, annoyed. He'd rather have not had to answer Ray at all, but the other boy could get pretty stubborn in demanding answers. After a few minutes the plane started to tremble and Ray looked up, shocked. He turned to Kai, wide eyed.
"What's that?" He asked in a high, tiny voice. Kai looked at him and shrugged, then looked outside again. Then he heard the intercom screech.
"This is your captain speaking; we are having some technical difficulties. We ask you to put on your safety belt and do not worry, everything is under control." Ray looked at Kai and immediately put on his safety belt. Kai did the same, but kept looking out of the window.
"What's going on?" Ray asked again, getting scared. He stared at his hands, he was shaking. Kai looked at him.
"I don't know, just stay calm." Ray nodded and wanted to follow Kai's advice, but he couldn't, he heard other passengers around him ask questions and some started to yell that they wanted more information. Suddenly the plane trembled more violently. Screams were heard, but all Ray could do was continue to stare at his hands. After that, everything went so fast, before he really registered it, the screams died and there was a loud noise. How long the moment between falling and the actual crash was, Ray didn't know, all he knew was that the stories that were told were true… planes weren't supposed to fly.
Kai scrambled out of the plane, pulling Ray with him. He pushed Ray down against a tree and climbed back in the airplane.
"Where are you going?" Ray asked him, worried. He was sure the plane was about to explode.
"Looking for survivors," was Kai's reply; when he had pulled Ray out, he noticed the most passengers were dead, or unconscious. He knew he had to be quick to save people, as the plane could explode any minute. He looked around and saw a red-haired girl groaning softly, caught between two seats. He shifted up to her and started to help her out. When she was free, he led her outside, not saying a word. Ray slowly stood up, determined to help Kai, scared or not, but when he climbed into the plane, his eyes widened in terror. One side of the plane was crushed, and there was a huge amount of blood smeared on the floor. He wanted to throw up.
"Don't look," Kai told him. "Try getting everyone on the other side out." Ray looked at Kai and nodded; he turned to the other side of the plane and started checking pulses to see who had survived the crash. Kai did the same.
After a while, when Ray was at the back, he saw a young girl of about five years old next to who he guessed was her mother. When he felt her neck, there was the patter of a soft thud against his fingers; but moving his fingers to the woman's neck, he felt nothing. He pulled the unconscious young girl out. When he crawled back, he frowned when he saw someone stir, he had checked that girl before and she had no pulse. He moved to the girl, who looked around the same age as him, and when he felt her neck, there was a weak pulse. He tried to get her out, but she was trapped. Kai ran up to him and started to help; when she was finally free, Ray picked her up.
Ray put the girl down against a tree and started to walk back.
"Stay," Kai ordered. Ray turned to him and frowned. "It's not safe," he continued. "If we go back now, there's a chance we won't get out alive. I don't think we can save anymore people." Ray bit his lip, but when he heard a rumbling noise emerging from the plane, he picked up the unconscious girl.
"Run to the beach," Kai said. "Just run away as far as you can, I'll follow." He turned to the red haired girl. "Can you walk?" She looked at him and got up, nodding, she ignored the stabbing pain in her foot for now. "Then follow him." He pointed to Ray. She started to limp after him, wincing every time her foot hit the ground.
Ray fell down on the beach when he heard a loud bang; he turned around and winced when he saw the explosion of where the plane once was. Kai and the other girl were fast with him. Kai put the young girl down in the shade, sighing, and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Ray moved the other girl into the shade and sighed as well, looking at the redhead.
"I'm Ray, that's Kai." He looked her over; red, wavy hair stopped at her back, she had green eyes, somehow it made him think of the oceans in the colder lands, not as clear as the blue ones that were well-known. She wasn't that tall, probably two heads smaller than he and Kai were. Her body was hidden by warm, baggy clothes.
"Selene." The girl answered. "Is…. Is everyone dead?" She asked, biting her lip. Ray slowly nodded, he thought about the blood he saw and felt sick again. Selene looked down, then back up again, wanting to think about something else.
"Thanks for saving my life," she said to Kai. Kai simply nodded. She blinked and frowned, she at least would have expected a reply. Deciding not to push it, she pulled her sweater off, wearing a shirt under it; she walked to the ocean and put the sweater in the ocean, letting it take up the salt water. She walked back and sat down by to the girl that was lying next to Ray. "Can you sit her up a bit, Ray?" She asked him. Ray nodded and pushed the other girl up, supporting her by putting one hand in her back and his other on the back of her head. Selene put the wet sweater on the girl's head. Kai looked at this action and then decided to put the younger girl next to it and placed the other side of the sweater on the girl's head, so they would feel something cold. He then got up and sighed, he walked around a bit, feeling the anger boil within him. What the hell was he doing here? He was supposed to go to Russia, he had a funeral to attend to! Not that he really wanted to attend it, but there were a lot of things he had to take care of. A few days ago the message arrived that his grandfather had died. Ray, who was sharing an apartment with Kai, was the one to break the news, as it was told by phone. Ray had told him he was sorry, but all Kai could feel was emptiness. He was finally free… and that was odd. His last relative had died and he was finally free, but being stranded on an island didn't feel free. He kicked a tree in anger, softly growling.
Selene and Ray looked up at the same time when they heard the kicking, Selene frowned.
"What's he doing?" She asked Ray. Ray sighed and shook his head.
"Let him be," he answered, knowing quite well why Kai was angry. Selene softly nodded and looked at the two girls. The younger girl had blonde hair, wearing it in pigtails. She looked at the older girl - she was around her age, she had long brown hair. She touched the girl's neck and frowned when she felt a weak sort of energy thudding against her hands, she pulled back and looked at her hand, that glowed a soft colour of green, she shook her head and then did it again, when the same thing happened. Something stung inside her, she softly smiled; this girl had powers - probably earth.
She herself had the elemental power of the air, thus making her fly and let objects fly to her and everything that the power of air could do. No one was supposed to know however - she grew up in a small place in New Zealand. Her great-grandmother also had the power of air, her grandmother and her father did not and her mother had no powers either. When Selene was about twelve years old, she had woken up with a stinging feeling in her back. She had pulled her shirt up, and all she could see were two small things sticking out of her back. In panic she had run to her grandmother, as she was staying there at the time. Her grandmother had merely smiled and had given her the diary of her own mother, with the advice to read it and that this day was praised. She had just stared at her grandmother, muttered something about her insane family and took the diary. That night she had read through it and had found out her great-grandmother had the elemental power of air. It was very unique and it was not known in the world.
As her great-grandmother had passed away, she had to learn everything herself. She was lucky that her great-grandmother had given advice in the diary and since that day, she had kept a diary as well that she kept with her, with all things she had learned and how to do it. Selene looked up in shock when she heard a loud thump; Kai was getting more aggressive. She jumped up and walked over to him.
"Stop it!" She told him. "You're hurting yourself." He growled at her and glared, she just glared back, used to aggressive behaviour as she had three brothers. "I'm serious." She said. He just turned around and walked away. She sighed, frowning.
"Never mind him," Ray said again. "He's like that, I think you have to get used to it." He looked at Kai. "He's going to explore the island, I think." Selene nodded and sat back down.
"Do you think we're stuck here forever?" She asked. He shook his head.
"Nah, we'll find a way to get out, besides, they will search for the plane as it crashed." Selene nodded and looked at him. He had cat-like features, and when she saw some sort of tail on his back, she followed it with her eyes; she smiled, noticing it was his hair. He looked a bit feminine, but handsome, very handsome. If Kai didn't act so aggressive, she probably would have said that Kai was handsome as well.
She turned to the two unconscious girls when one of them started to stir. Ray looked at the girls and noticed the brunette was waking up. He sat down on his knees next to her and helped her up a bit, putting her head in his lap, stroking her face. Selene moved next to him.
"Can you hear me?" The girl slowly opened her eyes and blinked, she looked at him and then her gaze moved to Selene. Selene softly smiled at her when the girl nodded. "I'm Ray, that is Selene." The girl looked at them and then opened her mouth.
"Rajini," a hoarse sound came from her throat, she coughed. Selene touched Rajini's neck to feel the temperature, and feeling a shot of energy through her body again, she pulled back. Rajini hissed at the shot of energy she got from Selene, for it hurt - her eyes rolled back and then she fainted.