Okay, so last time we found Tomo in a rather sticky situation, want to know what happens?...
Then read! on to the story!
Chapter 5:
The explosion caught everyone off guard. The speaker blew causing sparks and pieces of metal to fly out everywhere. The band was standing underneath the speaker when it blew, causing them to drop their instruments and scramble before they were crushed. The sparks caught a piece of the gold and red paper streamers that where strung up around the room, and they were the first things to go
The next thing that happened was the scream. I don't know who it was but it was definitely female (at least I hope it was a girl). The scream was the only thing people needed to hear to make the next thing happen
The scramble. Everyone started to head for the door in one swift frantic frenzy. People were being squished and stepped on as everyone dashed for the door. Administration yelling, the principle had fainted and the coaches had to carry him out. A couple of people tripped and stumbled down the bleachers in their attempts to make it out.
I stood still frozen in my spot not sure how to take all of this in, it wasn't until the other dance members pushed me out of the way, that my brain started to react again. I was pushed to the side and grabbed onto one of the side rails to keep my balance. The amount of fear was apparent on everyone's face as the smell of adrenaline and desperation filled the room. I looked up and watched as the streamers led the flame to the commemorative poster that the art club had done for the principle. The painting went up in seconds and the room began to be filled with smoke. Visibility began to become clouded and the only thing that could be seen was the flashing lights of the fire alarm.
I felt someone tug at my arm and I turned to see Chise
"What are you waiting for" she screamed at me "Come on" she grabbed my arm and began to drag me out of the building. When we got outside, we both started to take lungful breathes of air. I leaned on my knees for support and she fell to the ground
"Thanks" I said between gasps of breath. She lay on the ground breathless but gave me a thumbs up as a response. I outstretched my hand to her and she gladly took it, she leaned her weight on me and we both trudged to the front of the school. When we got there, on lookers had already gathered on the outside of the school to watch the commotion. I walked over to an empty shaded part of the grass and we both slumped to the ground. After catching my breath, I leaned up and looked around, faculty was busy running around to all students making sure that they were okay, other people were on their phones yelling about something but I was too far away to hear. Others were getting wrapped in the emergency blankets that teachers keep in the back of their classrooms that no one really thinks about.
The more I repeated the events over in my head, the more I couldn't comprehend what just happened. Everything that I thought ever possible to happen at MPA, the gym catching fire was never one of them. This was definitely going to be all over the news for sure. Maybe Chelia could actually get discovered from this:
"Local Superstar found at School Tragedy" I chuckled at the thought
After a while, Mr. Kingston the economics teacher, came over and checked on me and Chise. He handed us a blanket and I turned to Chise and found her asleep. I smiled and placed the blanket over her and stood up to look around. I walked over and talked to a couple of people, some where a little shaken up but a couple of others were laughing about it
"No school" a couple chanted and we laughed
I continued to walk around looking for Chelia but couldn't find her. I waked back to the entrance and saw a couple of cheerleaders huddled together. I walked over
"Hey" they looked up at me "Have you guys seen Chelia?"
The looked at each other confused "She's not with you?"
I shook my head
"She ran around looking for you after the fire started, I don't know where she is now"
Those words made my heart sink down into my stomach, I didn't hear what they said after that because I started dashing around trying to see if I could find her. I talked to a bunch of other people and they said the last time that they had seen her, she was inside looking for me. The wave of paranoia that hit almost caused me to stumble over. Different images of Chelia, hurt and injured raced through my mind.
I looked in the direction of the burning gym and my body made the first move before my mind could make a decision. I bolted through the door and was instantly hit in the face by the toxic smoke. I inhaled a bit making me gag slightly but I covered my mouth and pressed on. The room was coming down all around me as the fire demolished everything in sight, the smoke made no room for visibility
"Chelia!" I screamed in hopes that she would respond, but in the process I inhaled more smoke into my body
I choked before running into the bathrooms, first the boys, I checked every stall before running over to the girls and turning up nothing on both side. I ran back into the gym and looked around, the smoke was beginning to make my eyes water which hindered my chances of seeing even more. I hit the floor and gagged some more to the point where I thought I was going to empty my stomach on the spot. I crawled my way over to the door and just before I reached it, I heard the whining sound of wood creaking, I looked up just in time to see part of the ceiling cave in and about to fall directly on me. I admittedly pushed myself from off the ground and ran, narrowly missing the rubble falling on top of me
It took me a minute to recover from what had happened, and for me to release that my only exit had been sealed. I tried to push some of the rubble out of the way to no avail. I looked around for another escape route and saw the windows at the top of the bleachers. I knew that I couldn't fit through them but I could at least try and call for help. I carefully made my way to the top and pressed against the glass with all the strength that I could muster and managed to creak it slightly. I pressed my lips through the crack and took in as much air as I could before I belted out. I screamed for about 10 minutes straight before I realized that no one could hear me, that no one could come and help me, that I was trapped. My throat ached from the strain that I had just put my vocals cords through. The itch was unbearable but I had more pressing matter to worry about.
Like how I was going to get out of this alive
By this time, I was tired. Everything that I had gone through that day had taken its toll on me and I wanted nothing more than to drop where I was. It had become harder to breath, visible by the sharp gasp of breath that I had to take just to keep moving. I mustered the last of my strength and decided to drag myself over to the least burned area and to just wait for someone to come and find me. I grabbed the side railing and carefully made my way down, only tripping slight a couple of times. When I reached the floor, everything blurred for a second and I stumbled. The heat had taken a toll on my by now and I was beginning to become dehydrated. My ears rang as I took another step forward, the world around me continued to become hazy and before I knew it, I felt myself fall backwards and the world went black.
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I don't know how long I was out, but when I came too, I was still in the middle of the burning gym. I turned my head side to side but that only caused a splitting headache. I could feel something heavy on my body and tried to move my foot but was meet with excruciating pain. I gritted my teeth and managed to lean myself up to the point that I could see that my leg was trapped underneath one of the gyms support beams. I could also feel blood running down the side of my face. I leaned back on the ground and sighed. I concluded that I must have fainted from the heat and was crushed by some falling debris.
I was times like these when your life was supposed to flash before your eyes, right? When you're supposed let go of all your regrets so that you could live a happy afterlife. When an angel is supposed to present itself to you clothed in all white and give you a one way ticket to heaven or hell. But, I didn't get any of that (At least I don't think hell is supposed to look like my school's gym); All I had was a broken or sprained leg, or maybe both, and I deep gash on top of my forehead.
And now here you all are, the point in the story where I was before I explained to you what happened. In retrospect, the only thing that I had hoped that I did more was eat, if I had one regret, it was that I didn't get to eat more things (pretty silly right?). Actually dying isn't all that scary, it was just really painful.
…
This is it, huh. Everything that I hoped and dream of ever doing was cut short at this moment. And I wasn't even scared. I was just… alone
I could feel something wet run down the side of my face, I bent my hand up and touched the wet spot and pulled it back, I brought the wet substance to me lips and tasted it
"Hmm, salty"
I was only after a minute that I figured it out… I was crying
Salty, wet tears streamed down my face like an overflowing puddle. I knew that I was crying, but couldn't figure out why. They couldn't be tears of joy, or anger, then what could they be.
They weren't tears of sadness that was for sure
But, maybe… somewhere, deep, deep, down. I was actually afraid of dying, afraid of being alone, afraid… of everything.
My lips tightened together as a lump suddenly formed in my throat. I let out wails of dry sobs, loud screams of anguish that only the roar of the flames could hear. My already hoarse voice only seemed to make the noise that more unbearable.
"Someone! Anyone! Please, come help me!"
"I-I don't want to die!, not like this"
"Please…just…help me" I chocked out
My cries of desperation only fell on deaf ear. No one could hear me and no one was coming. The tears continued to fall, almost blinding me.
After everything I had been through, all the facade's and walls that I built up around to protect myself from my onslaught's, all the unshed tears and moments of weakness that I pushed to the sides to stay strong, none of that mattered now. All I wanted to do was to keep living, to make all my un-accomplished goals accomplished, to change myself into a better person, one that could honestly talk about his feeling instead of hiding behind a wall of humor.
A person…that could learn to love himself
That was the last thought I had, before blacking out again
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
The last time I woke up, I felt something wet wash over my face. It wasn't tears this time, but something wetter. I blinked a couple of times and shifted my eyes around to see that the flames had been extinguished and the room was covered in water.
My first thought was that I had to be dreaming, but I could actually feel the water, it had saturated my clothes to the point that they were sticking to my body. Not only had the water stopped the fire, but also managed to push some of the debris on me, covering my body completely. Maybe it was the pain talking, but I could have sworn that I had heard voice off in the distance.
I could feel my mouth moving but couldn't tell if any sound was coming out. Maybe my angel had come to whisk me off to the promise land after all. Little did I know, my angel was going to turn out to be nothing like I had expected.
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"Shit!" Laxus sneered
"Gray!" he shouted, grabbing the man attention "Come over here"
Even though Laxus didn't want to admit it, Gray was more capable of finding vitals signs on a person then he was, and what he felt on this kid, he needed a second opinion.
"What?" Gray said leaning over on the other side of the body
"I need you to check this kid's vitals"
Gray leaned over and placed his ear to the boy's chest and gritted his teeth
"He's not breathing!" Gray reassured Laxus's assumption
"Does that mean we're too late?" Laxus didn't want to think about that, this kid had to have some kind of pulse, anything would do at this point
Gray brought two fingers to the kid's wrist and pressed around. Things got quiet for a minute before Gray's eyes shot open
"This kids got a pulse!" he yelled making Laxus ears ring "But it's faint as fuck" he said standing up going back to help Natsu uncover more of the body
Laxus pulled the closer to his
"Come on kid, you got people out there waiting for you" he muttered "I don't know who that girl is to you, sister, girlfriend or whatever, but you can't die on her"
Laxus only ever had a couple of people in his life and knew that if he disappeared, that they would get over it eventually. He messed up his life a long time ago, but this kid had the whole world in front of him. And dammit, Laxus would do whatever it took to make sure this kid got back to it
Natsu pushed a large amount of rubble out of the way and gasped at what he say
"Aye!" he shouted grabbing both Laxus and Gray's attention
"This kid's foot is stuck under something huge" he said trying to lift it himself to no avail "Gray! Come and help me lift this thing up"
Gray ran over and the both of them gave a big tug and with their combined strength, were able to lift and toss the heavy object to the side. The foot they found underneath the object was twisted and swollen, the white skin was replaced with purple and black spots.
"Man, that's gotta hurt" Natsu said cringing at the condition of the foot
Gray didn't say anything but walked back over to Laxus and checkd the vitals again for any changes
"The kid still isn't breathing" Gray said through gritted teeth "But his pulse is a little faster"
Laxus gripped the boy tighter and looked at Gray "What now?"
Gray pondered for a minute "The smart thing now is to perform, CPR. Get him breathing again, then get him to the ambulance quick as possible"
"Not it!" Natsu said raising his hand
"Really" Gray said giving Natsu an annoyed grin
"What" Natsu whined "Lucy would never forgive me, if I kissed another person"
"You're worried about that now!"
"If it's not a big deal then why won't you do it?"
Gray didn't respond, just looked away sheepishly
"Exactly"
"It's not that I won't do it… it's just"
"Just what"
"Umm, Hey!" Gray said his face brighting up "I've got an idea, what about Laxus"
Laxus looked at the both of them like they were crazy "What about me?"
"Yeah, you can do it Laxus" Natsu egged on "You're used to putting your mouth to foreign things"
Laxus could have sworn her heard a blood vessel pop in his head. He looked down to the boy in his arms and his eyes drifted to his lips. He had to admit, this kid did have soft looking lips, even if they were covered him blood and dirt.
Laxus groaned before placing the body back on the ground, he opened the mouth carefully and stared down into the deep chasm that he was about to explore.
"Your breath better be clean" he said inching closer the kids' lips.
"I can't believe he's about to do it"
"Quick! Take a picture"
"I don't have me phone"
"Dammit! Do you think you have time—"
"Would you two, shut the hell up" Laxus screeched making Natsu and Gray cringe
This was heard enough without those two idiots, distracting him. Laxus peered down at the boy again before sighing.
He did say anything to save the kid
With his one hand, Laxus titled his head back and connected his mouth with the kids. He breathed air into the body for about 5 seconds and then started the pumping. He pumped three times before repeating the breathing process. After about 3 more times, Laxus placed his head on the kids' chest,
…Nothing
Laxus clinched his mouth before repeating the process over a couple of more time
"Come on, breath dammit!" He thought placing his ear to the boy's chest again
…
…
..Bump…
Laxus eyes widened, did he just hear?
….Bump…
…Bump…
The kid took a big breath before he started to cough and splutter
"The kids breathing" Laxus yelled
"Alright! Way to go" Gray congratulated Laxu on his job well done
"I guess all those late night pick up, payed off" Natsu joked
Laxus ignored his flamed brained friend and took the safety blanket out of his bag and carefully wrapped the boy in it before carefully cradling him in his arms. This kid was surprisingly light for someone his size
"Alright, let's get out of here" Laxus said heading for the door "I don't want to be here any longer then I have to be"
It only took them a moment to get back out to the front, the bystander population seemed to double as they were in the building. Laxus walked toward the ambulance when the girl from earlier ran up to him, or more so, the body that he was carrying
"Tomo!" she shrieked when she saw the condition he was in. She placed her head and his chest and started to sob uncontrollably. Laxus could understand how she felt, but the time that she was having her break down, as time that this kid could be getting the help he needed
"Look" he started trying to sound more compassionate then annoyed "The longer you stand here sulking, the less time this kid has to get help"
She looked at Laxus with wet surprised blue eyes. Her eyes told him that she hadn't expected to be spoken to like that, but that he was right
She reluctantly stepped to the side and someone came over and held her while Laxus carried the kid to the ambulance. When he got close, Cana ran over and gasped when she saw the body
"You guys actually found someone" she said genuinely surprised
"Yeah" Laxus grunted as he placed the body on the ambulance stretcher
Before they closed the door, Laxus spoke out
"Aye" he shouted catching the paramedics off guard "Make sure, you take care of him, alright"
They looked at each other confused before nodding at Laxus and closing the doors. The ambulance soon sped off into the distance
"You better stay alive, kid" Laxus muttered under his breath
The whole trying to describe Tomo without saying his name was really difficult, so going from boy to kid was a little sketchy because I keep wanting to say kids or boy's or whatever so sorry about that.
But they kissed!(ish), and there's more to come
So please R&R