Summary: Tohru receives tickets for the luxury cruise upon the Poseidon for her birthday, along with 9 other people from the Sohma family. Midway through the cruise, the ship is fatally struck by a rogue wave, and is capsized. Now Tohru must find out where everyone else is and escape the bowels of the ship before it slips under the ocean's waves. But not everyone can survive fate. . .
Poseidon
Chapter
Six
The Wave
The ship began to vibrate suddenly, and increasingly became more violent. Champagne glasses, plates and other small objects began to shudder and fall off of their tables, and smash upon the floor. Tohru grasped Kyo tightly, as the imminent wave drew closer, and closer. Tohru gasped, all air escaped her lungs as she stared for what she thought would be the final time into Kyo's deep red eyes, who sighed back, both of them with looks of "acceptance of death" on their faces.
The ship was jerked to port, as the wave ploughed into the starboard side of the ship, water cascading over each deck, one by one. The wave instantly smashed almost every balcony railing and cabin window. People on decks were flung like ragdolls and dragged with the wave, their screams cut of swiftly and violently. The ship creaked and groaned as it was pushed over itself by the force of the 150ft wave.
As the ship was forced over, Tohru, Kyo, Shigure, Ritsu and Hatori were thrown to the port side of the ballroom, screaming as they went, desperately trying to keep hold of each other, but were separated as each one fell. Tohru landed upon a window bracket, she felt her spine click with the force, she groaned and screamed in pain and the window groaned as water splashed into view on the other side of it.
People fell like dominos on the now uneven ground, all simultaneously. Any item not secured down flew across the room. Screams and shouts filled the ballroom as the lights flashed on and off, windows cracked and part of the balcony that circled the ballroom collapsed. People on the balcony either cascaded into the port wall, or were tossed from the starboard side to the floor below, with a sickening crunch, and rolled limply with the ships rolling motion.
On the Bridge, the Captain and crew were tossed to the port side of the room, grabbing equipment along the way to try and keep themselves upright, but the equipment either broke or collapsed as they went. The windows cracked as they gave one final scream as the windows shattered, glass was sprayed with the tidal wave of water that entered the Bridge, drowning the crew instantly.
In the disco,
Yuki, Haru and Ayame were thrown around like ragdolls, collapsing
riggings fell everywhere, chairs and tables flew across the room. The
DJ's deck began to slide across the room as well, falling with a
loud crash as it steam piled people in its path towards the port-side
wall.
Yuki grabbed Haru's hand as he fell, as a huge pile of
people cascaded down the room and onto him. Haru clung to a table as
the mass of people fell onto him and Yuki. People began to cling to
Yuki as well, and Haru couldn't hold on, and Yuki disappeared with
the people into the wall, a sickening crunch was heard, as glasses,
lights and other objects cascaded and rained upon them.
Back in the ballroom, Tohru had lost track of everyone else, fading in and out slightly, she zoomed back her vision just enough to see that an ice sculpture was deteriorating its way down to her, she screamed as she threw herself to the left. The ice sculpture smashed into the window, completely destroyed, it sent thousands of shards in all manner of directions. The ship was upside-down now, and the weight of the lifts caused them to collapse, smashing through the ballroom wall, greeted by the screams of hundreds of guests and crushing people underneath them.
Tohru was now on
the underside of the balcony, as the ship continued to circle itself,
and slowly but surely, she began to slide towards the unprotected end
of the balcony.
There was nothing she could hold on to, and she
began to gather speed as the edge of the balcony drew nearer, she
screamed as she fell off of the edge and hit a pile of chairs, which
partially cushioned her fall.
Everything was now headed towards the starboard side of the now upside-down ship. Then everything began hurtling in the opposite direction and crushed everyone once more as the ship glided to a halt on her side, the port side under water, and the starboard side above sea level, the stars glinting through the windows.
The lights flashed off and on, finally dying and the Poseidon was engrossed in complete darkness. The people who were still conscious screamed as the ship groaned and creaked, and the emergency lights flickered into life.
After a few minutes, Tohru awoke slowly, and painfully. She found herself in the rubble of chairs that had 'broken' her fall. Her legs were cut and bruised, her dress tattered, torn, and dirty. She slowly came to her senses, standing up slowly, the windows both directly underneath her, and above her: everyone and everything was on the port side of the ship, and beneath the windows lay a dark, desolate and unforgiving sea. Above her, and the collapsed balcony, the stars shone brightly through the windows.
That's when she though (and shouted aloud) "Kyo? Kyo?!"
Panic now ran through her very existence, and it seemed to have caught on with the other passengers as they shouted for their loved ones as well, and panic ran through the ballroom as though another wave had struck the ship.
Outside, the ship groaned and creaked; the Poseidon couldn't stay on her side, or above sea level forever...
(A/N: I thought I'd cut it short there. Okay, Poseidon's now officially on its way, which can only mean one thing! Outcast will begin again! Enjoy both these fics as they're updated!)