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 Seven
Plunged

Tohru looked around the room, looking for a hopeful sign of any of her friends.

"Kyo?! Shigure?! Ha'ri?!" she shouted, tears welling up in her eyes and she ran through the room, slipping slightly on some of the windows.

She kept looking, and eventually found Kyo, on his stomach, eyes closed, and unresponsive.

"Oh my God..." she said, running to Kyo's side "Please no... Please... No..."

She rolled Kyo over onto his back, his head lolling slightly. Tohru placed her head upon his chest; gentle and shallow breaths were being drawn in and out slowly.

Some lights began to flicker back to life, drowning out the emergency ones. However, some sparked and sent shots around the lighting fixtures, people unfortunate enough to be near them were zapped by the electricity, or burned. People screamed as they scrambled out of the way of danger.
Tohru began to shake Kyo "C'mon, Kyo" she muttered a couple of times, shaking him more violently.

"Please, Kyo," she whispered, lowering her head onto his chest again "Please... Wake up... I can't live without you..."

She looked back up and around the room, looking for a sign of any of the others. She spotted Shigure at the carnage of the lift that had crashed through the ballroom's wall. He was knelt down, nursing an injury; but he was also talking to someone, tears streaming down his face.

Tohru kissed Kyo's forehead "I'll be back in a minute, my love" she whispered to him, and she stood up and walked over to Shigure.
As she walked, she could feel the ship swaying slightly under her feet, it put her off her balance a little bit, as the ship's violent capsizing had forced it to become severely unstable.

"S-Shigure?" she asked, tapping Shigure's shoulder, who immediately shot around, a look of utter relief broke upon his face as he saw who it was.

"Tohru!" he gasped, about to hug her before he realised. "I'm so happy you're okay!" he added, breathlessly "Have you seen anyone else?"

"Kyo's over there" said Tohru, pointing to Kyo's lifeless body "I don't whether he's – he's..." she broke off, for as she had looked down at the second, she saw a total and utter shocking sight that coursed a wave of panic and horror through her entire body.

There. Right there. Draped in a veil of blood. Was Ritsu. He was barely recognisable. Tohru only realised by his long, copper hair. His eyes were open; staring, as if in shock. He was under the lift that had collapsed through the wall, the twisted and tangled metal lay all around him. Tohru knew there was no hope of getting him out; for he was already dead.

"Oh my God!" shouted Tohru, looking away, the urge to be sick upon her, and she keeled over on a window bracket and through up into the trough where the window was; the endless sea below it.

"I know," said Shigure, rubbing Tohru's back, as she vomited violently "I found him a couple of minutes ago. He's – he's -"

But Tohru had already known. She gasped for air as she stood back up again, hands on her knees to support herself.

"It's tragic," said Shigure, staring down at Ritsu's body "but there's nothing we can do for him... It's better for him to be gone now than suffer if he were still alive."

Tohru knew it was for the best, but to see him there. Right there. The glint of life gone in his now dead, lifeless eyes... It was horrifying to see.

"W- We'd best check up on Kyo, and see if we can find Ha'ri" suggested Shigure, helping Tohru along to Kyo, who was still laid upon the wall, near a window.

The ship, which had now stopped swaying as badly as before, let out an almighty groan, which vibrated through its very structure. People screamed once more as the lights flickered on and off again. The Poseidon had begun moving again, but this time, she began slowly plunging under the ocean. The stars which were shining brightly through the port windows had now started moving; the ship was now slipping under the waves fully, to a totally inverted position.

Tohru and Shigure, who had been walking over to Kyo had noticed this shift in balance, and had started slipping as the ship slipped through the waves once more. Everything now started shifting once more; this time to the ship's ceiling.
Rubble and other objects now began to slide straight down onto the balcony pieces, or were falling the ceiling itself.

Tohru and Shigure held on to each other tightly as the ship rolled until she was completely upside-down.

Tohru screamed as the lights once more flickered off and then on once more, and water was the only thing viewable from the windows either side of her.
She and Shigure now had to find Kyo all over again, as rubble and dead bodies littered the ceiling and the balcony.

Outside, the ships huge bottom protruded from the ocean's waves... These were the final hours of the Poseidon...

(A/N: Another long update – sorry. But now the story has almost fully started, we can move on! See you soon!)