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 Twenty
Epilogue

In the middle of the downtown Tokyo district, a man walked into his local newsagent. He was in a charcoal suit, and had a cup of coffee in his hand. He picked up the paper on the counter.

"Mornin' Kito," he mumbled, picking up the paper, a bold, black headline stood out from the front page. "POSEIDON PERISHES DURING CRUISE. OVER 3000 DEAD"

"Wow," the man said, sipping his coffee "awful, absolutely awful, isn't it?"

"Yes," replied Kito, his bushy white eyebrows raised, almost shocked "They've done a search of the area, to see if anyone survived the sinking."

"And did they?" the man asked, inquisitively, taking another sip of his coffee.

"What do I look like?" asked Kito, almost spitting with surprise "A newsreader?! Read the paper yourself to see!"

"Fine," replied the man, folding the paper under his arm "But this one's on the house." he added, a smirk on his face, as Kito chuckled heartily as the man left the newsagents, reading the paper. On the front page was a large picture of the Poseidon at the top of the article, and nearer the bottom was one of the accident-site, where a field of debris was scattered far and wide. The man read the article:

POSEIDON PERISHES DURING CRUISE. OVER 3000 DEAD.

In an awful discovery was made last night, as the luxury cruise-liner Poseidon was struck by a rogue wave during the early hours of Monday morning and capsized, taking with it the lives of over 3000 passengers and crew.

"It's been an awful shock to us," said Poseidon designer Thomas Whently "The Poseidon was built to withstand such an event, it seems we have miscalculated and the ship capsized."

It was discovered that something was wrong when the ship failed to turn up in one of it's ports of call after Japan; Australia. It was then radio contact was tried to be established between any nearby port and the ship. When no reply was given, a search-and-rescue team was sent out immediately.

"The ship was supposed to have been built so that if such an event happened that did, an emergency GPS beacon would be sent out," proclaimed cruise line owner Preston Lee.
It turned out no message of distress was ever picked up by any ship or port within a 500-mile radius of the site.

The ship was struck by a wave of over 150ft, which engulfed the ship and forced her over herself. Rescue teams found the remains of the Poseidon, which were shocking to discover, as no bodies at all were found near the site. Bits of debris were scattered around a two-mile stretch of the accident-site.

It it not yet known what actually happened to the ship after it was capsized. All that information must be laid out and re-told by the only living survivor of this horrific story, Tohru Honda, aged 19.

She was discovered floating on a raft by the Poseidon's sister ship, the Aquarius. Miss Honda was then pulled on board, where she had been starved for several days, and extremely dehydrated.

"We were doing a routine maintenance check on the Aquarius' forward decks when the First Mate saw something on the ocean," said Aquarius captain John Freedman "it was so bizarre to see her, bobbing on the ocean like that. Never in my 15 years of being captain has this happened before.
"We pulled her aboard, and took her immediately the hospital bay. We also pulled the raft aboard. We were disturbed to see blood had been splattered not only all over the girl, but also the raft. It wasn't until we noticed to raft read MS Poseidon did we know something was wrong."

A truly tragic end to what should have been an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience for all on board. Most people were attending the ballroom dance when the wave struck. Divers are now currently going down to the ship using submersibles, they will take a mobile camera and a forensics crew as well, in order to search the wreck and see, forensically what happened to the ship after it capsized.
The only true known information about the ship we can currently give, is that the ship more than likely lasted only about 5 or 6 hours after being capsized, before she sank completely.

However, what really happened is still a mystery now, as young Tohru is currently comatose in Tokyo City Hospital. Only then after comments and the true story from Miss Honda will the world know what truly happened on that fateful voyage, and how the Poseidon sank, taking over 3000 lives with her.

We will give you more on this story as it develops."

The man tutted as he finished reading the article and walked into an office block, throwing his coffee cup into a nearby bin, and folding the newspaper under his arm.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo City Hospital, in room 178B, Tohru Honda opened her eyes for the first time in 5 days, the final moment's of Poseidon flashing before her eyes in a haze. She was ready to tell the world about what truly happened aboard the Poseidon...

(A/N: Okay! Here were are! Poseidon, all finished! It's been a great story, and I hope each of you has enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it! It's been a whirlwind of an adventure, and despite a bit of writer's block, I think I overcame that and made a decent story! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and that I can happily say Poseidon is now complete! Goodbye for now!)