A few hundred years in the future, the countries of Earth have been very damaged by all the pollutions and the rising seas. So a quite large group of people went to discover new land to live on when the last part of their home disappeared underwater. But now the people have been living on islands in the middle of the ocean high up from the waves to stay safe, when something happens...
I’m turning 17 now, and it has been 12 years since my parents went missing on the ocean. My brother, Titus, who was just 6 when our parents disappeared, left to go to work this morning on the Factory Island, he is usually gone the whole week on that island, so I just stay home and do my own stuff. But today when I was in a restaurant with my friends, I heard some people say to each other that all the workers on the Factor Island have disappeared this morning. And that nobody knows how and why, so I stand up and run to their table to ask them to tell me more.
“I’m sorry, that’s all I know,” one of them say.
“But is there any way for me to get there?!” I ask.
“I don’t know...But I think that the military is sending out a rescuing ship to look for the missing people” the other one say.
“I have to get onto that ship...”I say to myself ”When does it leave?”
“I think in five minutes” the first one says and looks at his watch.
“Thank you so much...”I say and start running to the dock to be able to board the ship.
“Taylor! Where are you going?!” I hear my friends shouting behind me, but I have no time to explain now.
Exactly when I step in through the door to the ship it hoots, telling me that it’s going to leave the island soon, and I’m just one meter away from the door when it closes. I feel the ship starting to move when I run through corridors, trying to find a good hiding place. When I find a closet in a room I think is an abandoned office. I open the closet and loads of military uniforms fall on top of me. When I stand up I hear someone coming. There is no time to put the uniforms back, so I just hide under the desk. But it was a second too late. The person walks into the room and looks behind the desk where I sit with my arms around my legs.
“Who are you?” the person says.
But I’m not answering, because the man in front of me looks unusually strong, about my age but kind of thin.
“I...I...” I have no good explanation for what I’m doing here, so I just stay quiet. Thinking that it’s not everyday you find a random girl hiding on a military ship.
“Yes?” the man continues.
“Umm... I... I need a permission from you to stay on this ship.” I say.
“Why?”
“Because I want to find my brother who disappeared on the Factory Island.”
“I see...”
He stretches out his hand to help me up.
“But you will need to hide while you are on this ship” he tells me.
“Okay... Umm... Lieutenant Brook” I read from his jacket.
He leads me through corridors that forms a maze covering the whole ship until he stops in front of a door. He opens it and I see it leads to another corridor full of other doors. I’m guessing that they are bedrooms for all the soldiers going to the island.
“Here,” he says opening a door “stay in this room until we reach the island.”
“Wait, how did the factory workers disappear?” I ask him.
