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 Ten
Getting Out

The group made their way over to the upturned staircase, and began to sort out how they were going to get up, when a distressed woman came over to them with two other people.

"A-Are you going to get out of here?" she said warily, looking at Tohru

Tohru recognised her at once; it was Kari from earlier, and her parents, Chihiro and Harugi, were with her. They looked distressed and their once gleaming clothes now tattered and burned.

"Y-Yeah" replied Tohru, looking from one face to another "We're planning on going up to the disco, and then up to look for any signs of help or escape"

"Would you mind if we came along?" asked Chichiro, Kari's mother look frightened and desperate "We'll keep up as best we can"

"Sure" said Tohru, looking back on the others, all of whom seemed wary of letting others join them, but no one objected, and began their ascent of the upturned staircase.
Kyo began to climb up first, the others rushing to get up next. Kari, however, stayed behind with Tohru.

Tohru looked hesitant to say what she wanted, and Kari seemed to know Tohru wanted to say something

"Something wrong?" asked Kari, looking at Tohru, as the others in front of them scurried to get up the staircase.

"Oh... Um..." Tohru hesitated for a moment "Um... Y-Your s—sister-"

"Oh... You mean Takina?" asked Kari, Tohru nodded slowly, Kari looked down to the floor "Well, Takina... Takina... Died. After the ship capsized, me and my family got within distance of each other, and found each other pretty quickly. We... We never found her..."

"Oh, I'm so sorry" replied Tohru "If there's anything I can do-"

"No, don't worry about it" Kari said, looking back at Tohru "There's nothing anyone can do. This is something no one could change"

"You two comin'?" came Kyo's voice

Tohru and Kaei looked up, everyone else was on the balcony above them. Tohru ushered Kari in front of her "You go first" Tohru said, as Kari began to scramble up the slope; everyone above them had their hand's outstretched to get them up.

By now, others had begun to notice their escape attempt.
The unwounded began to rush over to the staircase, just as Tohru had begun to climb up.
People pushed past her, and Tohru fell back onto the ballroom's ceiling, whimpering in pain as she hit the floor.

"TOHRU!" shouted Kyo, immediately throwing himself down the slope to her rescue, as people pushed past him and up the slope.

Kyo hit the floor hard, reaching out and looking for Tohru, it was a sea of legs as people rushed past him in a desperate attempt at escape. He found Tohru on the floor, she screamed as people ran past her, trampling on her in their bid escape.

"Tohru!!" Kyo cried "Reach out and grab my hand!" he called also laid on the floor, his arm outstretched, but she was still a few feet away. It was difficult to see that much, as people were all around them, all scrambling for the same thing; hopeful freedom.

Suddenly, a loud groan erupted from the bowels of the ship. The ballroom began to vibrate violently, as the smaller light fixtures blew their bulbs, and mirrors on the sides of the balcony pillars crashed to the floor and smashed into a thousand tiny pieces, showering themselves on people below. The ballroom erupted in screams, as the cacophony of people ran past to get up the slope.

The ships vibrations worsened, and Kyo stared at Tohru, as she finally emerged from the crowd, crawling up to him.

"We need to get out of here, fast!" screamed Tohru, eventually standing up, and pulling Kyo up, too "Now!"

And with that, they both ran up the slope, Kyo pushed Tohru in front of her, supporting her as the staircase creaked underfoot. Just as Tohru got to the top of the slope, and the others grabbed her and pulled her towards them; the staircase split cleanly in two, and the crowd of people on the staircase fell to the ground.
Tohru watched in horror as Kyo's flame-red hair disappeared with the crowd.

Tohru screamed "KYO!!! NO!!!" as she ran to the edge looking down on the pile of people and rubble below.
Just then, the vibrations had caused the windows to shatter; and they began to crack and water began slowly trickling in through the cracks...

(A/N: Hello again! I hop everyone had a lovely Christmas and is looking for ward to a better 2009! I'm sorry, but this will be the last update this year. I'm not gonna promise weekly updates next year, but I'll see what I can do. As for now, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and can't wait for the next!)