By: W Squirrel
Editor: Jessie
Rated: PG
Chapter 1
Cruises into Crashes
Everyone just arrived at the cruise ship. It was a beautiful day. The sun is shinning brightly overhead. You could feel the excitement in the air as everybody was excited and desperately waiting to get on the cruise. Russell, Scott, grabbed their suitcases out of the back of the taxi, while Travis got Damon out, and grabbed his suitcase. They all headed up the platform onto he ship.
Sarah and her son Donnie just arrived. Donnie was amazed about how big the ship was. He was just about to run off, when his mom grabbed his hand, and told him to help her with the suitcase. Amy was holding hands with her boyfriend walking on the bridge onto the ship. They had crewmember carry on her many bags.
About an hour later, they were out at sea. Russell and Scott took Travis's bag, and went to go find their room. While Travis, and his dog was left to wonder the ship. Travis stood leaning over the bow of the cruise ship, gazing down at the water being sliced by the bow. He looked up at the sky, seeing the beautiful sunset in the west, and the dark storm clouds just to the south. He could see the lightning becoming more and more visible as he knew they were heading right for it.
Travis then walked away to go see his room along with Damon following him. As Travis was walking he passed a man that looked as if he was in a bar fight. As he was passing each other the man gave Travis a salty look. Travis just passed him as if nothing happened. Once he got into the room with Scott and Russell he said, "looks like were in for a bumpy ride tonight. We're heading right for a storm." Russell, laughing says, "Oh don't worry about it, its nothing. We'll get through it." Travis looked at Scott, and sighed. He knew they were in trouble.
Sarah was really excited to go see what her room was going to look like and to see how nice it was. Donnie was running through the hallways at the ship getting very excited, and Sarah was trying to keep up with him. They walked into their room and saw a nice, beautiful room full of colors. Donnie was bouncing on the bed and was about ready to break it. Sarah laid back on her bed. She closed her eyes, and before she knew it, she was in a deep sleep.
Amy and her boyfriend Chad were taking a walk on the ship. As they were walking Amy, was talking about how she is scared that she might be fired from "Victoria Secret" because she wasn't suppose to go on the cruise. Amy was also talking to Chad about trying to connect with her mother again, and try to get along with her. Chad wasn't listening to a thing she said and just kept shaking his head into a yes. Chad walked away from Amy and went towards other women that he thought were attractive to him. Amy walked away upset and sat down on one of the chairs at the top of the ship.
Scott came out of the room. He went to go sit down at the bar to have a couple of drinks. When he got to the bar, he saw a man sitting there but not knowing who he was. He could see he was a little bit drunk already after being on the cruise for about three hours. It was 5:00 in the evening. The man got up out of his chair and starts wobbling towards Scott. Scott was about ready to knock the guy out if he was going to touch him. The man stood behind him giving a weird look to Scott. Scott turned around and said "is there a problem?" "yeah" the man replied, "why are you sitting at my bar. This is Will's bar." Scott got up and said, "What are you talking about, this bar is for everybody". Will said "not for you." Scott then walked away, because he didn't want to start any drama with anybody.
It was now 12:00 in the morning. You could start to here cracks of thunder and see the fast striking lightning bolts. People were starting to get worried. The security was trying to calm down people. Travis was sitting in his room. He knew the storm was just going to get worse. He remembered when he was in a bad thunderstorm with his mom.
Travis running holding hands with his mother racing to get out of the weather. At this time, Scott was only 13 years old crying. Russell was out at work during this event. Travis was scared for his life along with his mother. They were at their house in the middle of their 3 acres of farmland. As Scott was in the house crying, Travis was running as hard as he could, then looked back and saw his mom stuck in a huge hole in the ground. Travis racing back trying to get her out of the hole, she was stuck in a 3-foot deep hole where she couldn't move at all. Travis trying to dig her out, his mom said "No! Run Get Out!!" Travis said, " No I am not leaving you." She said, "no GET AWAY!! Get out before we risk 2 lives hurry up get GET OUT!" Travis was having a tear running down his right side of his cheek. He then ran off in side the house to call his dad. All of sudden Travis just woke up from his flash back. He sat up sweating and feeling really hot. It was then 2:00 in the morning.
The storm finally got really bad. The rain was pounding the ship with it's waves of water. The bashing of the thunder was really loud. The passengers were getting really scared at this point. The ship was leaning left and right, as the giant waves hit the ship. The captain couldn't see a thing outside. They lost their connection on the radio. The power went out on the ship. A lot of people were getting really sick because the tumbling of the waves. The people who were at the top of the ship were falling off.
The ship has been going crazy like this for about 45-minuetes, which felt like 5 hours. The ship was going really fast then it suddenly crashed into a huge rock. The ship stopped in a instant. People flew forward as if they were superman. The storm had was finally gone.
Sarah and Donnie were holding onto each other tight and trying to stay close so that they don't lose each other. Russell, Scott, Travis, and Damon were trying to find a little boat to get onto to get off the cruise. Amy, and her boyfriend were following Russell and the others because they seemed to know what they were doing.
The ship began to sink down fast. People were just jumping off and killing themselves. Due to the sharp rocks and the impact they had when they hit the water. It was about 3:23 in the morning. The ship was going down. The nice stuff inside the ship was ruined. Half the people were dead,from drowning, and other really bad injuries.
Travis running with fear, desperately trying to find something to save some peoples lives. He broke into a locked room full of blown up rafts. He went in and quickly grabbed one. Scott grabbed one too along with Russell. Travis throws it into the water along with others. Travis went to go find people to grab to save them.
As Travis is running he sees Sarah and her son Donnie. He grabs them and puts them into the raft. Scott found Amy and her boyfriend and put them onto his raft. Russell was grabbing anybody he found alive and put them onto his raft. Travis running grabbing more rafts from the room other people inside the room as well grabbing them. Travis took the last one. There were 25 rafts laying out for people to get on. The rafts could only hold about ten people. Everybody was loaded up on them and went off.
Staring back, the ship was still sinking. You could hear the faint yell of people screaming, and you can see them falling off the ship one by one. Amy crying in pain when she hurt her arm from smacking into the railing on the ship. Chad was just sitting there not caring at all, and is scared only for himself. Scott had a huge cut across his left leg. The cut was deep inside and could almost see the bone. Scott close to passing out from to much lost of blood.
Travis on his raft scared to death, but is being careful not to show it. Sarah was crying quietly, holding Donnie really tight scared to death. Travis still looking back seeing the ship on fire. Damon was all wet and tired. Will was on his raft as well. Will looking around as if nothing was happening. He had a look on his face as if it were revenge of some kind. Other people on the raft were crying in pain, and fear.
On Russell's raft, he had people who were really sick and were in a lot of pain. He was trying to calm them down by telling jokes. He made a couple people smile but, it still didn't help them as much.
With Travis, Scott, and Russell leading their rafts trying to find a place to go, Russell's watch said 5:12. With Travis leading all 25 rafts he found land about one in half hours after they left the ship. Everybody was in relief at the sight of land. Even Damon was barking out loud. Twenty minutes later they finally reach land. People kissing the ground on their hands and knees. Others just got onto land and fell asleep. Travis, Scott, and Russell, shaking their hands to each other saying, "Well, we made it to land." Scott then saying, "Now we need to find away to out of here."