𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝘽𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙 [ T.Owens ]

Riders on the Storm

Riders on the Storm

THE STORIES she had read of storm chasers driving into tornados, used to seem so far-fetched. The idea that someone would be crazy enough to fight the storm seemed impossible, even for someone like her.  

Now she felt like she owed those people an apology for not believing them. Connie gripped the handle of the truck, heart racing as Kate took each corner heavily. She grunted. 

"This is batshit crazy!" Connie shouted to her, and Kate nodded. "You think?!" She shouted back. 

"Hey we both are supposed to be behind a desk, but here we are!" Connie laughed weakly, her stomach twisted into a knot seeing the dark cyclone to their left. 

Connie panted, her chest heaving up and down. She stared down the storm as if she kept her eyes on it longer it may disappear.

Her adrenaline spiked as Kate turned them into a field heading right for it, she leaned her head against the window, the cooling of the rain sending goosebumps. She closed her eyes inhaling deeply, opening them with heart rate spiking.  Her feature's stern. 

Tyler limped to the open theater door, wind and rain blowing in his face. He squinted looking out at the storm. Javi panted getting to his side and looking out. 

"Where's Kate!?" He asked, Aiden gasped holding onto the brick and catching his breath, "I can't find Connie!" He shouted. They looked out across the field, in the dust and rain, headlights of a truck shone. 

Connie's breathed her nose, inhaling and exhaling. A wheel fell from the sky next to them, she yelped as it exploded, her head hitting the window as Kate swerved. 

Her eyes traced up, mere meters away from the EF5. Kate hit the brakes hard. Connie gritted her teeth as she flung back. Kate pressed her thumb on the trigger button, a whirring barely audible over the sound of the wind. 

The truck jolted as they anchored down. Connie eyes the center console, flipping the switch's covers. She hits the button, a popping sound igniting from the outside. Watching as the iodine-filled rockets launched into the tornado. 

Her eyes widened, as it spun around with a white cloud forming on the outside. She smiled, looking at Kate, and her jaw dropped. Her heart dropped as the cyclone soon enveloped them, blocking out their view. 

"No! no!" Tyler shouted as watched in horror, panting. "Connie! Kate" He screamed out their name, the muffled voices of his friends yelling his name. 

He screamed as they pulled him back inside. Boone, Javi, and Aiden struggled to shut the doors. Tyler shivered, dripping with rainwater. His eyes are wide as his mind races in fear. 

"Tyler, we have to get all these people to the back of the theater," Javi tells him, Aiden looks to the closed door. "Come on!" He urged them. 

"We got to go, man," Boone says taking him by the shoulders, hoisting him up. Tyler limped back to the isle of the projection area, people screaming in terror as the walls boomed.