Hey guys so this is my first fanfic so if you have any critics or compliments feel free to leave them.
OH MY GOD I just know realized i posted the same chapter twice, sorry about that...
In the Dead of night a massacre broke loose killing both human and animal alike, The golden hue of Fires, explosions, and muzzle flashes provide the only light for the bloody battle. The screams of the soon to be dead echoing throughout the hollow forest.
During this bloody massacre a lone individual wearing blue plates of armor painted with his tribes symbol, managed to escape the attack , getting bit by one of these monsters while escaping, blood pouring out of the injury as he limped away from the scene the gunshots and screams of his former comrades growing quieter the farther he ran leaving his burning home and dyeing friends behind him as he pushed through the dense vegetation.
The blood churning sounds were now long gone but his body still ached from the battle, using this moment of rare peace, he dressed his wound, wincing from the pain of applying first aid, however to the dismay of the man this peace did not last long as a rustling could be heard in the bushes making him react violently standing up and shooting at the noise illuminating the area with the flashes of his rifle, continuing until no more movement could be seen or heard.
The man loaded another magazine into his rifle starring intently into the darkness looking for any signs of danger, staying to look into the forest for a while longer but his body was calling him to rest, sitting down next to a tree , he looked into the abyss one more time, his eyes now fully adjusted, he thought he saw movement, then he saw more, this time from different directions, he stood up with what little energy he had left and examined his situation, it was what he thought, he was surrounded by these god forsaken creatures. Shouldering his rifle, he shot at the movement but just as his mag ran dry a pair of bright yellow eyes peered through the bush.
Its head turned at the man and let out a chirp, 5 other pairs of eyes poked through the bush.
His screams echoed solemnly through the forest as he became part of the cycle that fueled this place, a cycle of life and death that has never and will never be broken, but with this cycle opportunity can rise, if only your strong enough to take it.
*30 years later*
A rush of freezing water sends chills throughout this young mans body pulling him awake from his peaceful slumber.
"What was that for!" Proclaimed The man
"Don't you raise your voice at me Christopher Rockwell! I can still pull you from your trip!"
The young man hit his head as he realized he had forgotten about his trip.
"Sorry mom." Said Chris defeated
"That's better." told his mom while walking away
He rushed to get dressed and to pack his things, throwing on a black hoodie and pants with some tennis shoes, then going to the kitchen to grab a quick snack.
"Alight bye mom." Told Chris while walking towards the door.
"Your not thinking about taking your car are you?" Asked his mom with a condescending smile.
"Yeah I am why?"
"Remember how you blew the transmission out after you never changed the oil after I told you multiple times to do so?"
The young man looked up and thought (man this day could not get any worse)
"But hey don't worry I called your friend Regan to come pick you up and he should be here any time now."
Chris thanked his mother and headed to the front door opening it to feel the blasting heat of summer.
sitting on the curb with his duffle bag as he saw his friend coming.
The friends car pulled in with the music shaking the ground as he approached.
Chris threw his bags in its trunk and got in the car, hardly being able to stand the sound of the music.
"Hey do you think you could turn the music down I can hardy hear anything! I mean its a miracle your not deaf already!" yelled Chris attempting to talk over the music
"What?" Asked Regan
"Nevermind."Chuckled Chris.
Regan was an African American that played football at their school. Because of this, he was a pretty big guy with black hair and green eyes
"Well anyways, how's it going Chris, Ready to get on this flight and tour the great city of Rome" asked Chris's friend
"Hey you know it." said Chris to his ecstatic friend
"Good because I just got off the phone with Scott, Antonio, and Alice and they told me that they pulled their grades up just enough to come on this trip!" exclaimed the overjoyed friend
"You're not joking right?" Asked Chris
"Nope I'm being 100% serious" said the sportsman
"Good, here I thought I was going to have to deal with you alone." Joked Chris
Regan looked at his friend with distain but that frown turned into laughter, then a rebuttal
"Don't forget who went out of way, and is risking missing his trip to pick you up."
"That's true, thanks by the way." Told Chris
"Ah no problem figured it was the least I could do."
Silence filled the car as Chris and Regan were focused on themselves for the moment, however that changed when a certain question filled The young mans head.
"So how many people do you think are going on this trip" questioned Chris
"That's actually a funny question because I was talking to one of the Mongols and they said that a week before the sign up list will be closed off to all, a flood of 200 kids all rushed to sign in, I even heard that they had to suspend some kid trying to stab another student for skipping one space in line, so I would say about 500kids give or take."
"Wait a sec Mongol?" asked Chris
"Bro come on you have gone to the same school all your life and you have never heard about the moguls?" questioned the linemen
The only response came in the form of a simple shrug.
"Well it's fine I'll tell you anyways, So there are about six Mongols that all run one of the six major clubs of are schools. Red -sports club , Blue - Leadership , Green Drama/acting , purple -psychology ,White - Art , and last but not least Brown -agriculture/ farming club. 'Now these people might just seem like heads of clubs but let me tell you. These people have influence, The Mongols can get out of class early monitor the hallways, not have to do as much work. and they can get you sent to the principles office for breaking 'their' rules. And that's not even counting some of the things I've heard."
"Alright I get it now, thanks for explaining it." told Chris
"No problem, I always like flexing my knowledge." Chuckled Regan
"Man you know what Regan, that joke was bad."
"Yeah I know." Laughed Regan
Regan was looking over at Chris (who was scrolling through his social feed) and saw Chris stare at a picture of someone he thought he knew.
"Dude is that Ashley,(Whistle) she is Smocking hot."
Chris quickly flipped down further into his feed.
"Didn't you two use to date?" Asked Regan smiling
"Yeah we used to." told Chris scoffing.
Regan pushed the question harder now getting more curious.
"Man if I had a girl like that, I'd tap that like an oil reserve. So why did you break up ?"Asked Regan
Chris looked at Regan and reluctantly gave a response
"She had just became to bratty and rude for my liking, couple that with me... well you get the picture." Told Chris while Gritting his teeth.
"alight well if you could send me her phone number, I'd like that." Asked Regan with a grin
Chris gave Regan a death stare, which promptly shut him up and focused him on the road
The pair soon arrived at the airport. But their attention was soon taken away by a massive crowd of students all gathering in a circle a the front, but as they parked and started to walk towards it, they saw with one teacher in the middle seemingly reading off a roll call.
"Hey let's get a move on there calling roll! proclaimed Chris
Regan then nodded his head in affirmation. The two joged up closer to the teacher taking roll, arriving just in time to hear their names get skipped as the teacher thought they were not here .The young man then walked up almost right next to her and began talking to her.
"Sorry teach, I woke up late and my friend was kind enough to pick me up." Said Chris
"Unbelievable as a team captain of the football team I would expect more from you!" yelled an unexpected person.
"I'm sorry I was talking to the teacher, not you."
"What did you just say?, do you know who I am now [Chris] " Told the unexpected person
"Yeah you're the green mogul, but I can still tell you the same insufferable person that I know, Ashley." stated Chris. Forcing Ashley to quit her escapade when the teacher that the young man was originally talking to intervened.
(Ashly was the green mogul of the green school who had long hazel colored hair with blue eyes. But overall she can get most guys to do what she wants just because she is one of the most attractive people in the school.)
"OK,Ok students don't forget we are at a public airport so try not to make the school look bad, also Christopher and Regan you may have woken up late but that's no accuse, but alas I will still not mark you as late."
"Thank you, teach" said Reagan. After this little event Chris and Reagan began talking about what just transpired earlier while still walking through the terminal.
"Ha I see what you mean. But still she got a fat ass though." Told Regan staring
"Dude could you not." told Chris
"Yeah yeah I know you two got beef but you got to agree she looks good. Especially with tha-." Regan was cut off by a hit to the head by Chris
"Alight! Ill shut up , no need for violence." told Regan
But still I mean I get having some resentment towards her but why are to so angry at each other
"Could you please just stop asking about it." told Chris with a distained expression.
"Hm ok?" said Reagan still not understanding why he won't talk about whatever caused him to suddenly stop talking, But against his better judgment to leave it alone because he believed that he was not in the mood to talk about about it also he caught a glimpse of his face and saw one of a deep-seated anger and regret.
After walking for a while in silence , they found where all of the students that were going on the trip were and maybe a little stroke of good luck. The young man and the line saw one of their friends.
"Well well well if it isn't Regan Allard and Christopher Rockwell!"
"How's it going Scott!" Said Reagan in a grateful voice.
"Nothing much just looking sleek in my black air force ones I just bought for the trip." Told Scott while fixing his brown hair.
"Your shoes don't you mean your parents?" said Reagan
"Shush! Your the one that got that yellow car of yours!" Barked back Scot
"Gess, it's not that yellow" Mumbled Regan
Scoot begins motioning
"Hey what's up with Chris?" Asked Scott
"Um..nothing he's just.. Thinking of some things."
"O, okay well then I'll take you to the rest of us."
"Alright then let's go." proclaimed Reagan
The group of three made their way through the airport terminal going through the massive crowds of their fellow for a reason that none of them noticed no one seemed to know they were there, not even turning their heads to acknowledge them except for the occasional person glancing over their shoulders to see who bumped into them.
After walking through these people they saw just a short distance away the friends that they have walked a short distance to get to. But not long after seeing their comrades they got to them they exchanged hello before speaking.
"How's it going Antonio?" said Reagan while shaking his hand.
Antonio was a 5 foot 11 skinny young man that played WR on their football team with eyes that looked like a field of freshly mowed grass. And hair that was black at night almost to the point that if he wore all black he would not even have to cover his hair because it is so dark. Alice, on the other hand, was about 5 foot 10 inches with brown hair with eyes that are like campfire smoke
"Nothing much just talking to Alice here"
"What's up Alice" questioned Reagan
"The sky" said the girl
"Ha..ha..ha… sooo funny Alice" told Reagan in a joking tone of voice
"I know . Oh sorry Chris did not see you there, how's it going?"
"Oh um Fine" said Chris in a very detached voice.
"Um okay well if that's the case I'm going to go to the Food court, anyone want anything?" asked the girl.
Rather unfortunately for the girl and her friends the food court was closed for an in-depth clean so they had to go to the vending machines where they all had their favorite flavor of chips with some granola bars and chips. They all then proceeded to take a seat at an empty table and eat their food except for Antonio who was talking.
Although his friends were talking Chris was not very interested in their conversation, he was too busy eating and watching the news broadcast on the wall-mounted TV. But while he was watching the News he saw the headline that read "Planes go missing all though the United States today as mysterious geological storms are blamed."
Seeing this made him feel uneasy, but was unable to think about it for too long due to the intercom coming on.
"Flight 370 has begun boarding please proceed to the plane in an orderly fashion. And thank you for flying with us and enjoy your flight." told the intercom.
"Talk about timing right I mean we just got food and now we have to start boarding" yelled Antonio.
"Calm down there's food on planes you know." stated Alice
"Yeah I mean I'm hungry too but I can just fill up on peanuts and water on the plane." told Scott
"You know what, fine I guess I can just eat some airplane food'' stated Antonio
"That's the spirit, now come on let's get on the plane and get this show on the road." said Alice with pep in her voice.
The group of friends soon left the food court where they were going to eat and went to board their flight (but had to wait in line to register their tickets for the trip).After waiting for a while the bunch got near front and saw a conversation with a certain familiar face taking place.
"Hey there, I see that you have a ticket for one of the seats in the front row of the plane. There would be no way for me to get it from you would there?" asked Ashley in an almost seductive voice.
"Listen I'm sorry Ashley but I dedicated a lot of time to get this ticket and I'm not just going to give it up without some Trade?" Told A random student
"Trade? Well I think We can negotiate (;"
"How about this? You meet me in my hotel room and we can...Work out the terms of the agreement." asked the random student with a small smirk appearing on his face.
"Well I think we can work that out" Stated Ashley with a casual smile forming on her face.
Ashley got her ticket and entered the aircraft while Chris and his friends were far back in the line. When a seemingly random statement got spoken.
"God I hate people that do that" said Chris with a look of anger forming on his face.
"Hate who?" asked Antonio
Chris turned his head at Antonio seemingly shocked by him hearing him, telling him a short and simple answer.
"No one! Why? What did you hear?" Asked Chris
Antonio looked at Chris and saw his eyes were full of worry and paranoia, so in order to not make a scene he decided to tell Chris "I Thought you said something. " Then made up a excuse to walk away, avoiding the confrontation but not forgetting about it.
So now the group were on there way towards the lady at the desk and Regan decided to spark up a conversation, in order to speed up the time.
"Um….hey guys and... girl I would hate to interrupt this moment for you people but I need your tickets for the flight" asked the receptionist with a smile on her face.
"Oh yeah sorry about that, here's are tickets" told Chris with a seemingly fake smile.
"Alright these check out have a good flight." exclaimed the tenet with another smile on her face.
-scene-
The group soon boarded the plane and took their seats which they were talking about where they will sit (which was Chris on the widow side, Reagan, and then Scott, Alice and Antonio were behind them) they were all ecstatic about their trip and the landmarks of Rome.)
"What are you guys excited for most on this trip?" asked Alice with obvious excitement on her face.
"Um I guess it would have to be the parties...oh and the wine!" exclaimed Scott
"For god sake we're going to Rome, not one of your house parties!" laughed Reagan
"Well she asked what I was looking forward to and I answered" replied Scott
"Fair enough but I'm assuming you're done, so I'd say that I'm looking forward to the pantheon just because of all the history in that place, but anyway what's yours Antonio?"
"I'm going to enjoy seeing the Baths of Caracalla because you know it will be hot so I can hop
in a cold bath."
"I mean I don't think you're going to be able to do that but okay."
Alice then scanned around her friends looking for who she forgot to ask before her eyes fell upon Chris who was looking at the airport terminal they used to be at.
"So Chris, what are you looking for.."
The young man responded before the girl could finish her question.
"The Colosseum because most of the ancient lives of the people that once lived there looked upon the gladiators like masters of entertainment and I kinda just find that fight for survival a fun thing to think about."
"That's an interesting point of view if i'm being honest" said Alice
"Okay so since all of us have told what we're looking forward to on this trip im going to go get some food cause im hungry y'all want some
Antonio got over 30 packets of peanuts (which he had to sneak out) he continued to eat them while the group had multiple other conversations about what there plans are about their future plans for there life was which was the basic and non sophisticated answers you would expect like "I want to make a lot of money and be famous" or the occasional "have a loving family and a good job".But then they got into a conversation about what they're going to do after this trip (since its basically this trip than summer.)
"So what are we all going to do after highschool?" asked Reagan with a smile that faded once he got finished with the question.
"Um I've committed to Clemson for my athletics so most likely I would not see any of you again sadly" said Antonio with a hidden frown.
"Yeah same story here except I was going to go to LSU"Said Reagan with distress in his voice
"What about you Chris?" asked Reagan
"Well I'm going to the university of Tennessee to play football, I'll probably major in engineering since I like just making stuff and there are some pretty good jobs you can get with that degree."
"O I didn't even think about majors and stuff like that I was just thinking about football, guess I should start thinking about that huh."
"Yeah I guess you wouldn't want to be stuck with a 9-5 dead end job like Chris's mom now would you." chimed in Scott with a joking tone that not a lot of people heard.
"Don't fucking talk about my mom like that she works hard and doesn't just sit home and get everything she wants like you!" yelled Chris which made almost everyone on the plane look at him.
"Chris don't talk to Scott like that he can't help if he has money" said Alice
"Yeah I kind of get that! He just doesn't have to be a prick to people!" that don't yelled Chris in a slightly lower voice level
"Bro where is this coming from he said one thing to you and you're just screaming at him?" asked Reagan with an interested look on his face
After Reagan asked him this he was looking around the plane thinking of what to say, but besides the people that were staring at there was really no one laughing or making fun of him. Except when his eyes fell upon the Ashley group, what the young man saw was worse in (his view) then laughter what he saw was Ashley talking to her friends while pointing towards the young man with her friends faces getting filled with disgust and anger towards Chris. Thinking of what Ashley was doing he felt a nudge by Reagan making him jolt back into the conversation and respond to Reagan.
"Ugh, its nothing I'm going to go get food."
Chris then left the group to get some food, but when he left a new conversation started up with his friends about him.
"Do y'all know what that was about?" a sked Reagan puzzled
"I have no Idea, I literally just made a joke about how his mom has a 9-5 job and he doesn't have a lot of money in a joking voice."
"Do y'all think people make fun of him at school because he doesn't have a lot of money?"
(Antonio chimes in)
"There is no way he gets bullied at school, I mean he is a star of the football team and he is one of the most popular kids in school, Right?"
"Well now that I think about it it could just be a random outburst, you know like how sometimes someone just says the wrong thing to you and you just snap." said Scott with a confident tone.
Almost everyone shook their head in agreement to Scott's question except for Alice who is unconvinced.
"Um excuse me but you all are being a bit loud so If you could quite down that would be greatly appreciated by all on the plane." asked a student
"Yeah okay we will." responded Antonio
After the dialogue with the student about their volume Chris came back and seeing that he was obviously in no mood to talk the group decided to do their own thing, rather that be playing on their phones or just eventually after a while everyone fell asleep on the plan except for a few people, But Chris awoke to a slight shake of the plane which appeared to wake anyone up besides himself, so he decided to get a soda and some food and watch plane movies.
Chris was walking by some empty seats on his way to his seat when he saw flashes of lighting through the clouds.
"That would explain the turbulence." Chris thought
He was taken off guard when he saw movement in the clouds and a quick flash of light that filled the entire inside of the plane and then after this a very low humming.
After he saw the flash of light a shake took over the plane waking up everyone on of the first people up was Reagan who asked Chris what he was doing up.
"Um nothing just looking at the storm outside."
"Wow that's a big storm" Said Reagan looking outside the window
"I know right."said Chris in response
The conversation then switched to one they had earlier.
"So Chris you never told me the story that you said you didn't want to talk about. " told Reagan
"I'm not sure what you're talking about?" answered Chris in a confused voice
"You know.. You and Ashly"
"Oh…" Chris's face drains as he realizes what he is talking about.
The conversation was then interrupted by a strike of turbulence knocking Chris over.
"What was that!" yelled Chris to Reagan out of pain
"It was probably just turbulence, now can you tell me what that story was." asked Reagan in a more assertive voice
"Why do you want to know so bad?" questioned Chris with pain still in his voice
"Why should you care why I want to know I just want to know!"
"You know what fine I'll tell you the story, but you have to go get me a sprite and some peanuts okay?" negotiated Chris
"Alright fine I'll get you your stuff"
Regan came back with Chris's sprite and peanuts, after this the two of them sat down in their seats (the rest of the group woke up so they started asking questions).
"Oh hey there guys what you do up" asked Scott to Reagan and Chris
"Nothing Chris was just going to tell me the story he didn't want to talk about , if you're still okay with that Chris?"
Chris took a long moment of thought to think about the consequences if he did tell his friends about the story. But after a deep breath he decided to talk to his friends about it but just before he started a familiar person walked by his seat.
"What the hell Chris!, first you be rude and just plain mean to me then you purposely trip me." yelled Ashley
(Ashley's friends then showed up wondering what happened.)
"Ashley? Oh my god what happened to you girl?" Asked one of her friends rushing to her aid.
"This monster tripped me to try to injure me or something, And... And I think his plan worked because my leg hurts really bad." Ashley said with tears running down her face."
"It's okay Ashley I'll go get you some ice" said one of Ashley's friends "Well all go see if there's a doctor on this plane." said the rest of her friends, but with these parting words Ashley was alone and began to smirk.
"Wow you're in deep trouble, I wouldn't doubt if they told you that you can't go on the tours and just lock you in your hotel room for the whole trip." told Ashley laughing
"You realize you have no evidence right." Said Chris With a look of disgust apparent on his face
"Oh I know but sometimes to convince people all you need's a little popularity, and a nice act." Said Ashley with a clearly visible smirk on her face that changed to one of despair when her friends came back.
"Okay so we weren't able to find a doctor but we got some ice." said one of Ashley's friends
"Oh and I talked with and he said that Chris will be dealt with when we get to Rome." informed Ashley's friend
"Thank you guys. I don't know what I would do without you." Ashley said with a big smile on her face while signaling them to have a big group hug.
Ashley then got up and began to limp to her seat sitting down. But Chris who was absolutely baffled that something he didn't do got so many people of his side and on hers but as he was sulking he caught a glimpse of Ashley's face, what he saw was a smirk that she was trying to hide from her friends but was very bad at hiding from Chris (who saw it clearly).
"That is disgusting" said Scott
"Yeah..they are" responded Chris in a sorrowful with hidden anger in his voice
"Wait what?" said Scott
"Oh sorry I meant Ashley? And the whole situation surrounding her." anger started to overtake the sadness.
"Oh sorry I didn't see that I was just talking about these peanuts, one of them has a little black spot on it and it kind of just freaked me out."
"So what?"- "you just sat there and ate your food ignoring everything around you?" said Chris, anger surfacing in his voice.
"Jezz calm down I'm sorry I didn't pay attention to YOUR problem." said Scott with clear sarcasm in his voice.
"Fine, you know what? Your lucky were on a plane otherwise I would be more physical."- "and you know even if I did do anything to you I'd take a nice bet that you would just run over to your dad and tell on me like the coward you are, but its fine there is no use arguing, it would be a waste of my time" snapped back Chris
"Huh and you wonder why your dad is gone." said Scott
Chris's face turned a bright red as he began to clench his fist and get up from his seat when out of nowhere a boom filled the plane
"What was that!" yelled Chris trying to overcome a piercing high-pitched sound
"Um guys look out your window." said a student screaming to get the panicking students attention.
"What is that?" said the group almost in unison.
What the students saw was white light zooming by quickly as if looking around the plane, But before they could dwell over it, the screams of students echoed through the plane as a major BOOM of thunder louder than any before rang thought the plane.
Regan then went to the front of the plane getting people's attention to try to calm them down.
"People, people calm down, we're just going through some major turbulence so sit down and buckle your seatbelt, last thing the pilots need is people screaming while they are trying to fly, so you know just be quiet."
But just when the sportsman got finished talking, the plane shuck knocking anybody who was standing to the floor making some of them yell in pain reigniting the panic. When Reagan went back to his friends he told them to buckle up.
"Okay guys we need to buckle up. I don't want to fall over again so stay in your seats and we should be fine, wait where is Chris?"
"Um I don't know he kind of just walked off towards the front of the plane."
"Why am I always chasing after him?" thought Reagan to himself
The sportsman then walked through the crowds of panicking students to find Chris at the front of the plane with shock on his face.
"Chris we are going to get seats."
"Something isn't right." Chris whispered to Reagan
"Wait what?" the sportsman replied
"I was going to talk to the pilots when I heard them talking about how this major storm didn't appear on their radar, Then they started talking about how 'Storms this big don't just come out of nowhere, and how there communications equipment is completely fried and they cant contact anyone.
"That is weird, but let's get to our seats."
Just as the two were on there way to their seats A Screeching sound could be heard in the plain
But What they saw and felt was much worse.
When there heads turned towards the sound they saw that a lightning strike had hit the side of the plane breaking a small piece of the side out, not enough to do harm to the people in the plane but close.
However, although the group did not feel much suction they could see kids holding onto their seats to avoid being sucked towards the whole After that something rather unfortunate happened.
"Okay that not good." said Reagan with a face of hidden terror
"Um, you think!" said Chris.
"Uh, I think we should sit down in the closest open seat, you know just in case.
Chris then nodded his head and started to look for a seat when they found seats that were open in the front row
"Hey I found some!" said Chris to Reagan
"Okay let's get strapped in and prey we land safely!" the sound of the failing engines making the sound inside the plane almost defining.
Once Reagan got strapped in he looked over at Chris who was having difficulties getting his seatbelt on.
"Aye you need to get buckled up!" yelled Regan.
"Wow you think I don't know that! I think it's stuck."
"Okay I'll help" Offered the Linemen
Just as Reagan started to help he realized that The seatbelt would not lock at all. their problems were not over (as they saw an all too familiar person walk over with her group.
"Hey Chris you better get out of my seat or else!" told Ashley
"Um yeah how about no! This planes going down and you're going to have to find one just like everybody else Ashley!"
"Oh okay I see how it is." Said Ashley in a calm voice
Ashley then began to walk away and started to talk to her friends when she began walking again she turned around, and with her group attacked, pulled Chris out from the seat throwing him to the floor .But just as they got finished the hole that was previously small was now massive sucking students and teachers alike into the sky.
"Noooo I don't want to die!" yelled a student
"I want my mommy" screamed another.
Chris, feeling the immense pressure from the hole the young man started to get pulled out but as he was on the floor and looking for something to grab he found a metal support beam under the chair.
Grabbing on to the beam he could feel his grip loosening (the suction more than ever) But just as his grip came to the point of letting go Reagan caught Chris's wrist attempting to pull him up.
"Okay Chris your going to have to pull with me, the pressure is to much and I cant to this on my own so on my count pull." Said Regan
Chris nodded his head in determination to get up.
"On my count 1...2...3!"
The two pulled as hard as they could, almost getting up but failing.
"Okay um lets give this another try this time give it everything you got!" Regan screamed , hardly loud enough over the roars of the engines
"1..2..BOOM a loud explosion came from the plane opening another gap in the plane making the pressure twice as intense!
Chrises arms were hurting badly by this point, even with Regans help it still wasn't enough making Chris lose grip and fall to the last row of seats barely hanging on by a loose piece of metal.
"Ok Chris this is your last chance, jump up and try to get my hand!"
"Alright I will,just catch me!" Chris said with the reality of the situation setting in and the realization that if he missed his hand he would no doubt fall to his death.
"1….2...3!"
Chris gave a mighty jump using all of his remaining energy making it past the first row, But missing Reagan's hand by mere inches falling into the open air while hearing his friend scream for him.
"NO NO NO- CHRIIIIIIS!"
The rushing air made his bones shiver to the core, And the speed at which he was falling was to much to even breath.
That was the last thing he saw and heard before he felt a hard pound and then being engulfed in light.
"What is this place?" Chris's head looked around and his ears heard some sort of machine that sounded like a generator. But after lisening the the machiens roar for mere seconds. object descended from the ceiling
Its voice sounded crisp and smooth making no errors only speech.
"Do you wish to live or do you embrace death." said a plumbob object light flashing from its light like a mouth.
"NO i..i don't want to die
"As primal and basic as the ovoiding of death is I will grant your request, do not waste this chance I have given you for you only get one chance" said the mysterys voice.
The white light got almost unbearably bright and the sound pierced his ears like daggers. But then it was just gone, feeling as if he just woke up from a long nap he awoke to the feeling of sand on his face and then a pain at his feet
"What the!" chris yelled in pain as it felt like several small needles were being stabed into his feet were he lay
When Chris looked down to see what was causing the pain he saw a tiny creature biting his foot causing it not to gush blood but still made him feel a decent amount of pain and draw a noticeable amount of blood.
"Get off, you lizard!" yelled chris kickin it away causing the creature to run away.
Chris gasped in pain as he touched his wound seeing how deep the bite was. Chris has been no stranger to pain (being he played football and getting hit is quite painful depending on the player) but this was a different type of pain one he was not too accustomed to feeling. But also a type of pain that he hoped he would not get accustomed to.
After realizing that it wasn't anything serious his mind began to get off his wound and on to the surrounding area. Then after looking around for a bit it hit him like a brick falling onto his head.
"Where am I?" thought chris
"WHERE AM I!" panic filling his voice as he thought of all the worst case scenarios
"How did I get here? Am I the only one here? Oh god what if i'm the only one here?
Panic turned to shock Chris looked down at his forearm(which was itching) and saw a diamond shaped object which had a glowing core.
Chris studied the object curiously and he had determined that at the moment it was better left alone as there were more pressing matters at hand, he then began to run down the shoreline screaming for other people.
"Hello!"
"Is anyone here!" the young man began to tire out as he was running for what appeared to be an hour when in reality it was only minutes. But just as he was going to stop he heard a chirp. When he looked in the sound direction he saw something
The animal looked like a turkey with white and grey feathers and a bulky head that looks kinda like an eagle's beak.
"Okay dont attack me now." said Chris to the bird with a scared face (being the only encounter he's had so far was a hostile one with the lizard.)
The bird in response did nothing but cock its head to the side like a dog when confused and it just chirped at chris.
"Alright so you're a friendly animal,nice bird.. thing." chris leaned in toward the creature and pet its head but as soon as his fingers touched its head it started to waddle away slowly
"Yeah walk away stupid bird thing." chris said laughing
The encounter with yet another new creature had taken his mind off of the problem at hand but after the bird left the only sound to be heard was the waves crashing against the shoreline of the seemingly never ending beach. However this moment of peace was abruptly ended when he realized that not only was he alone but it was also getting dark
"Oh god I'm going to die on this island alone, not being able to do the things I always wanted to do." said Chris with his eyes begging to tear up.
"No! There has got to be people in this godforsaken place, I don't care how long it takes I'm going to find people." wiping his eyes
"But it is getting dark and this sand is comfy so I think i'm going to sleep hear and continue in the morning." said chris to himself getting tired somehow
The late dusk sunlight disappeared over the horizon of the ocean as the shadow of the night overtook the island.
*SCENE*
With this came a bitter cold awaking the young man with quite a shiver.
"Oh my god how did it get so cold?"thought chris
"I have got to get warm soon,maybe a fire, yeah a nice warm big fire."
Although it was night time there was enough light to see a decent amount of space,allowing Chris to see a big smokestack!
"Please let them be there." though chris.
Chris ran as fast as he could toward the smoke tripping off twigs passing through a wooded area with an unusual amount of foliage. But he had made it to the camp seeing some of his fellow students.
"Who are you!?" said one student pointing a large branch at him.
"I'm Chris Rockwell,I'm a student like you!"said Chris, trying to implore them to calm down.
"Oh sorry about that, we're just a little freaked out." said the student
"We're?" said chris with confusion in his voice
"Yeah there are about 16 more students at my main camp and my friend here came with me"
The first student was about 6'2 with gingered colored hair and and decent build.
"So if they are there then why are you here?"
"I told them we would look for more of our classmates." said the second student
"Yeah I think I did,but anyways I'll take you to us."
Chris nodded his head and the three walked of towards their camp
"Hey I don't remember catching your all's name."asked chris to the mysteres student
"Oh yeah sorry about that, it's judas but just call me jude."
name's is Pontius." told the student
"Well alright, so jude how far is this camp?" said Chris
"Not far it's kinda just over this hill." told Jude
The three walked towards the camp and made some small talk when jude said something peculiar.
"This place is just super weird. I mean we wake up on an island with no sense of where we are or how we got here but not only that we have these weird chip things."
The young man really had not thought much of the implant besides when he woke up and felt it. But now many questions began to flood his head as he started to think more and more, causing him to zone out and stare at it,but not only that whenever he would look up for however quick it was pontius was just staring at him which made him feel rather uncomfortable while walking.
"Chris!" jude shook Chris, breaking his trance.
"Oh sorry kinda was just focused on this thing."said Chris, showing jude his arm.
"Well okay just wanted to say that we are about there so you know, make a good impression." said Judas with a sincere voice.
"Well alright thanks for telling me in advance" said the young man with a fake smile (as his mind was still on the object embedded in his arm.)
The three once more continued to walk for about another 15 minutes cresting a hill, reaching their destination.
"People look who I brought back!" said jude with a noticeable amount of accomplishment in his voice.
Chris looked around the camp and heard mostly everyone say something like hey or what up. However there were a noticeable amount of people just staring at him like some sort of foreign creature but then he was interrupted by a question from one of the female students.
"I don't think we caught your name."asked the student clearly speaking for the little group.
"Oh yeah I guess that's kinda important." said Chris laughing but quickly stopping when he realized no one found it funny and they were just staring at him.
Chris cleared his throat and then proceed to tell him his name
"It's Chris rockwell."said Chris with a pensive tone of voice .
The group of girls that just so happen to have pontius in it started to whisper amongst themselves.
"Aye you're the right side defensive end right?" asked one of the guys which Chris had identified as the guy that traded his seat with ashley.
"Um yup that's me." said the young man
"That's why you look familiar huh." said the male student pensifly
Chris looked around for a place to sit down and go to sleep (as if you remember he awoke in the middle of the night due to the cold). But the only suitable place was behind a rock a little bit away from the campfire, his back was to the students almost isolating himself but still he was in distance to feel the heat of the campfire making him feel tired and his eyes to grow weary. Making him fall asleep with an empty stomach and mixed emotions about the group.
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The feeling of hard sand and light mist on his face made waking up hard but yet relaxed. But eventually he got up to feel his stomach empty,but his mind was taken off of that when he got up and saw the view of the ocean sitting down with his back to his rock embracing the beauty.
"Man If I was on vacation this would be a very relaxing view." chris thought
You see Chris woke up well before everyone else and because of this he decided to just sit down and look at the view for a while until the others woke up. While he was doing this an animal that looked just like the plump turkey from earlier appeared from seemingly nowhere and walked up to him tilting its head curiously,this time instead of being intrigued he just put out his hand and petted it. That was when he had a sudden revelation.
"Hey I know what you are, you're a dodo I remember seeing you in a documentary I watched the other day, wait? you are supposed to be extinct…..Chris thought for a minute
"So is this place undiscovered and is the last place for your kind?"Chris said to the bird, then chirped back in response seemingly confirming his hypothesis, setting his mind at ease.
The dodo suddenly ran away as he saw someone coming up.
The person who startled the dodo was no one else but judas.
Or so he thought until both of their attentions were Taken aback by the sound of people X clamoring joy and talking amongst each other in joust expression.
Once he turned to the other to see what was happening he saw a group of girls huddled around someone and guys staring in disbelief.
Chris, intrigued by the sudden event that was taking place, walked over to the others and had to jump in the air to get a glimpse of the person's face.
Trying to figure out who it is he goes over to one of the guys to ask if they knew who it was.(the young man not being able to see the person.)
"Know! I practically could identify who it is just off of the smell of her faded perfume." said the student (whose eyes were closed and head was tilted up taking one long sniff of the air.)
"Um…..okaaaaaaaay, you still havent told me who it is." said chris
The man looked at chris with a disappointed face
"Dude are you stupid or something?, thats ashley Simms the goddess of the school, the one that has everyone wanting to clean her pipes (if you know what I mean)
The student winks at Chris with a sly grin.
"Why should we care? She is an awful person, someone just needs to teach her a lesson." The young man says to the man
"I'm just going to pretend like I didn't hear that." The student walks away from Chris with his arms crossed and talking under his breath.
The young man's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden statement.
"Hello everyone may I have your attention please!Although the arrival of the green schools very own Ashley is nice we have to look to the future in this weird place because we don't know how long we will be here and if anyone will find us so I believe that we need to go get some more food, because I don't know about you all but I don't feel like starving to death."
"So that's why I am assembling a group of volunteers to help forage for food, so who's in? Said judas
After a long silence and everyone avoiding eye contact with the boy he decided to take matters into his own hands.
"Well okay since no one want to volunteer. It's going to be Chad,Steve,jhonny,Chris, and me."
"Wait a sec, why should I go? It's not like we're not going to find anything." said chad
"Well alright chad if you think we are not going to find anything why don't you just stay here?"
"I don't want to go either!" Told johnny with a very childish attitude
Judas getting angry spoke once more
"Do you guys realize what this is? We have no food and no fresh water. We WILL die if we don't look for food and water, I realize as I say this we really have no idea what we're looking for but we will find something out. I mean it's better than just sitting here and waiting to die so ple.."jude was cut off by a familiar person eager to help.
The group began to look amongst themselves moved by his speech
"I'll volunteer!." proclaimed ashley
All of Ashley's friends immediately surrounded her trying to get her not to go (for they thought she would get hurt.)
The girl pushed through her friends with a slight resolve to get up to judge.
"I volunteer." spoke ashly in a lower voice speaking directly to judes.
Jude looked down at Ashley with a small grin forming on his face.
"I changed my mind and I want to go now!" yelled chad
"Same here please let me go!" pleaded jhonny to jude
Judas took a moment to think about the twos pledges but ultimately decided on letting the two come.
"All Right well if no one has anything else to say I think we should get going before it gets dark
There were many goodbyes said and promises made to come back in one piece, but once it was all said and done they headed out towards the great unknown.
Walking through the group came upon a big patch of vegetation, which upon further investigation were berry bushes!
"Thank god i'm so hungry!"said chad
The group looked over to see Chad picking a nice black one to eat but it was frankly slapped out of his hand by chris.
"Stop! Don't eat that we don't know if there poisonous." said chris
"Only one way to find out." Chad
Chad then picked all the berries from the bush and ate all of them except for the black ones because he has a bad feeling about them mostly because of what Chris said.
"I feel just fine,so I guess they are not poisonous."
"Bro if you're not gonna eat those black ones i'll eat 'em." told johnny with eagerness in his voice
Johnny scooped all of the black berries into his hand and ate them in one mouthful.
"Man these things are super sweet I could eat plenty mo...morre"
Johnny fell to the ground of the forest making the group panic thinking that all the berries are poisonous.
"Chris, do you think they're deadly?"
Chris looked at him pensively not knowing why he decided to drag him into the panic. But nonetheless the young man squatted down to study the student on the ground
"I don't believe so. Mainly because he only collapsed after eating that black berry so I'd say don't eat those, but Johnny appears to be fine because he has a slowed heartbeat, his breathing is slowed, and his body had no reaction to the berry other than just falling to the ground. So I would say he was just knocked out by the berry." told chris
"Woah…..How did you know that?" asked chad
" In school I uh.. wanted to be a doctor if the whole NFL thing didn't work out, you know?"
"So I took a lot of allelectives regarding being a doctor, I also volunteered at local hospitals trying to get my credits to where I would be accepted into their programs."
When Chris looked up at Chad he saw him bobbing his head in seemingly confused by the explanation. So the young man decided to dumb it down for him.
"I'm smart." said Chris with a smile over how stupid he was
"Well alright now that johnny decided to go full retard and eat those berries, so we should get back to camp then come back out here and get some of those non black berrys that won't knock you out." said jude jokingly
The group agreed with his proposal and started to head back to camp (not before picking the berries from the nearby bushes.)
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The group came out of the forest and reached their camp, to be asked multiple questions, questions like.
"Is Johnny dead?","Did you find food?", "Could I get some food."
This annoyed Jude so he spoke up.
"People please we will answer all your questions just calm down. If you want to ask a question just raise your hand and I'll call on you." told jude
The students began to calm down, and started to raise their hands not only that they started to form a circle around jude and company.
A student that had caught judes eye was about 5'6 had blonde hair and eyes like a waterfall
"Yes you in the front,what's your name and your question." Said jude (calling on the previously mentioned student.)
"My name is Brooklyn and I was just wondering what happened to the passed out kid?"
"Well to answer your question he is going to be fine but to go into more detail there's a person you should talk to." judas stated to the group, finishing his statement with a motion for chris to start speaking
"Well to put it sim…." Chris was interrupted by Ashley who began to tell the students what Chris had told the 5 of them earlier!
"Jhonny, who is the kid passed out if you didn't know, was knocked out by a black berry. You may be asking yourself how do I know this?" stated ashley
Chris began to think that she was about to give him some credit but those thoughts were soon taken away by her talking.
"Well I have studied immensely in the medical field and always wanted to be a doctor so I took my fingers like this and pressed it against his um...shoulder! And felt a slowed pulse, I then took a look at his chest seeing his breathing slowed so I concluded that whatever is in those black berries knocked him out or in a coma I still don't know." told ashley
People began to raise their hands to ask ashley more questions
Ashley pointed to one of the students to answer his question.
"Okay so there are bushes that grow blackberries but we can't eat them because they knock us out, even though at my house i'll eat a blackberry and it's just a sweet treet." asked a male student
"Well you got the info right but I think you're thinking about the wrong berry(he he) It's not actually the blackberry it's just a black colored berry, so yeah just don't eat them and you will be fine." told ashly with a smile.
The students smiled at the news that one of their fellow classmates was going to be fine. But still had questions that needed answered.
"So did you find any food while you were out?"questioned a student
Chad jumped in and answered the question.
"Yeah! We got all sorts of berries but guess what I got?"asked chad
Every student looked at him, but when he pulled it out everyone looked away except for Chris and a few other people.
What they saw was Chad pulling out what Chris identified as a dodo with its head twisted 360 degrees and had its tongue out and blood pouring from its mouth. This disgustment soon turned into excitement from them realizing they now have meat and berries making the night to become quite a feast.
A group of students took the bird and began to (very crudely) skin the bird with a crude stone knife a student had made, and cook up all of its meat.
The scene was straight out of the lord of the flies for most everyone had long sticks or thick branches they used as clubs and were jumping around the fire in a circle celebrating the only that they cooped up all of it the pile that was made on the ground.
But instead of joining them Chris decided to go to his rock and watch the sunset over the water and fiddleing with the weird object in his wrist. Letting his mind wonder about the many unanswered questions still in his head like, "how did I get here?" "where are my friends?" "How am I going to drink if those barbarians dont stop drinking the water they boil?" Laughed cris to himself
But when he was just about to get up to get some food jude walked over to him and handed him a handful of berries and a piece of the dodo meat.
"Bro ashley is hag, I mean when we went into the forest she did nothing, and just watched as YOU diagnosed johnny,then she claimed that she was the one to see what was wrong with him taking all the credit from you." told jude in an muffled angry voice
"Yeah but what ya gonna do about it" said Chris in a monotone voice his voice like sandpaper as he talks.
"I honestly have no idea but i'll figure it out" told judas with a look of determination on his face.
Judas then went off to talk to the other students leaving Chris to his thoughts. One thought that kept nagging at Chris was that the object in his forearm did not bother him at all,almost making him forget about it, that is until he rolled up his hoodie sleeves revealing the mysterious object.
After thoroughly examining the object Chris (not being tired) thought about talking to his fellow students and getting to know them a little better but most of the people there were Ashley's friends and he felt shiverers up his spin as he thought back to the way they looked at him when he first got there. So he decided it would be better for him to try to go to sleep by his rock and not eat the meat because something in his head told him not to.
Unfortunately for Chris it was a freezing cold night chilling him to his core, so out of necessity he walked over to the campfire to get some warth and some sleep.
"Well who do we have here?" said a male student
"I think it's that kid that went out to gather berries but didn't come back with any." laughed another male student
Chris looked at the two but soon looked away not wanting to deal with him.
"Silent type aye." said a new student having a canadian accent
"Dude shut up I don't want to listen to your accent right now."
A frown formed on the canadian students face but turned into a smile after a couple of seconds speaking afterwards.
"O okay soourry for buthering you uil be qeuit."told the canadian student.
"Anyways so why do you think you're better than us? Huh!" The first males student's voice became angereired as Chris refused to answer him.
"You don't want the answer to that question." Stated Chris in a cold unfeeling voice, his eyes staring at the fire.
"Oh but I do or do you think your mom is going to come out hear and grab you by the ear and beat you with her sandals."said the student laughing
After this he nudged chris with the tip of his shoe
"I really don't know where you got that from but I don't, I also did gather berries I just gave them to chad to put down because I was going to address you guys before that bitch ashly lied and told you all that she found out what was wrong with johnny, But hey by the way I was the one that made sure that the berry hadn't killed him. So yeah know that I think about it I DO think i'm better than you and most of your friends because last time I checked the only things you have done is sit here and beg for us to go find you food." exclaimed chris with anger in his voice
"Why you little…" Said the first student punching Chris square in the head.
The pain from the punch made Chris's head immediately spin, even through this he stood up and raised his fist's to fight the pain slowly fading as he got up.
"Lets see what you got football star." antagonizing chris
Chris ran towards Carl tackling him to the ground and getting multiple good punches in while he was down. Making the student yell.
"You're going to die now!" yelled Carl getting off the ground and shoving Chris off of him.
A crowd now began to gather all eager to watch the brawl between carl and chris
The student began slowly approaching Chris with his hands up getting ready to punch. Chris seeing this ducked out of pure instinct as the hammer of a fist came towards his head this gave chris just enough time to punch the side of the kids knee but carl seeing this he kneed chris right at his head making his nose bleed and him to stumbled back and hit the back of his head on a small rock pointing out of the sand.
Having an obvious size advantage carl stood on the leg of Chris making him yell in pain.
"GAHHHHHH! For god sake stop!" screamed Chris at carl.
A person hidden in the shadows heard Chris's plea for help and began to run towards him kicking Carl right in his back causing him to stop attacking Chris and go towards his newest target.
"Jude?" Chris thought as he watched him attack the student.
"Where did you learn to fight like that little man?" said Carl to jude.
"You know I would spend hours a day training for a fight like this." said jude with a smile on his face.
"Woo really?"Said carl in awe
"Nope you just really bad." exclaimed jude with a prevalent smirk on his face making carl angry
Carl charged at jude but missed when he jucked to the right making Carl fall to the sand giveing jude enough time to pin him to the ground and start punching his face.
Chris smiled thinking of how the student got what he deserved but found it weird that jude didn't stop hitting Carl even though he was already knocked out and his face was bleeding.
After everyone realized the damage being done to Carl, the group of people pulled jude off of him tending to Carl's wounds. And leaving the ladder to his own devices.
"Hey man, how are you holding up?"asked Jude to Chris
The young man looked at Judas with a grin and began standing up to meet his eyes.
"I've been through worse." Told Chris with a laugh
"Well I'm glad to hear that I wouldn't want you to die on me now would I!" Exclaimed Jude with a smile punching Chris's arm jokingly
making Chris flinch in pain.
"Hey man do you have any more berries or water,eating makes me feel alot better for some reason." said Chris a bit of the topic.
"Um yeah I have some berries but the water is being boiled in this portable pot thing that a student had in their pocket so you'll have to go drink some strait from the pot and speaking you just got in a fight with one of the more liked people in this place id say wait for the people to go to sleep then get it but that would take a long time and Id bet your tired. ." told judas while handing Chris his remaining berries.
Chris thanked Jude, then proceeded to scolp down the berries, eating them in a few mere seconds.
The two talked for awhile until both of them got too tired to continue and went to for chris It was quite difficult to fall asleep as his injuries hurt plus he could still hear the students that were talking at the fire, but one thing caught his attention when as he was about to fall asleep he heard his name being mentioned in the students conversation.
"Dude that Chris kid is just awful I mean we give him a share of the food and water and all he gives us in return are constant conflicts!" told a student.
"You know I kinda agree with you Steve he has not really done anything for the group besides go out for that food run but from what I heard, and he didn't even come back with any so what has he really done?" asked another student. Who Chris identified as pontius.
"See thats what im saying I mean I'm sure he's a nice guy because I haven't talked to him but still he has got to do something for this group besides just be another mouth to feed."stated steve.
While Steve finished talking a female voice joined the conversation.
"So do you boys have a plan or no?"Asked the student
The male students' eyes widened at the sudden appearance of Ashley.
"We don't have a plan but its not like we can just kick him out."Said Steve while stuttering
"Why not?"asked Ashley.
"Although he doesn't do much, he is still one of us and we can't just kick him out it would be like killing him."
"What do you mean he's one of us? All he does is eat our food and drink our water plus how is he one of us if he sleeps away from everybody and doesn't talk to any of us unless pushed!" exclaimed Ashley.
looks of agreement were rare with the group but still there, the rest thinking about what to say next.
"What do you propose Ashley?" Asked Steve in a low serious voice.
"I say we k-"
"Steve are we really thinking about this?" Asked a concerned Pontius
The only answer he got was a hand signal to shut up.
"Anyways as I was saying, I say we kill him."
Shocked faces were illuminated by the campfire, Easily making them visible.
"Ashley we cant just kill him, its wrong!" Proclaimed a angry Steve.
"Lower your voice and let me talk." commanded Ashley
Ashley looked at the campfire for a moment, her face clearly visible while she thought.
"Have you ever seen those movies where the hero's have a chance to kill the killer but don't and end up being slaughtered by the very thing they let live?" Questioned Ashly
Um yeah? What are you suggesting that Chris will come back and kill us all if we just let him go?"
Instead of answering with words Ashley gave a slow node while she stocked the fire with a stick the embers flying in the air like firefly's. Steve rubbing his head and giving a response.
"Okay how about we all think about this and give are finale answer tomorrow." Proclaimed Steve to be followed by the nodes of his piers.
"Don't wait to long or You might be next." told Ashley throwing her stick in the fire.
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When the fires died and the students slept, they had little idea of a cloaked man sighlently stalking them from the shadows. Wrighting furiously in a roughly made journal.
"New arrivals seem to be okay so far, have not meet real resistance yet(further scouting recommended)"
END OF CHAPTER 1-