The dark untold
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Kyra toppled across the jagged pavement. Unaware of the bodies ramming into her, only aware of the little voice inside her head screaming, run!, as she dashed past the families crying out for the children to follow. run, Kyra, run! That voice bellowed, suddening thinking of Coach Mason howling for Kyra to quicken her pace. You don't hurry up and I'll feed you to the dogs! Unsure if that was Coach or the voice shrieking at her. Gods, she was going insane. Kyra leaped over some fallen ruins, while sidestepping an old man who was praying. For what? she didn't know. The sky was so grey, filled with so much smoke, that she couldn't tell if it was night or daytime. Wreckage of buildings were everywhere she looked, everywhere she turned. But it wasn't over, building after building kept toppling over. This earthquake was like no other earthquake she'd ever seen before, it wasn't natural. The second it has started, she knew that, felt it in her heart, as though it had called for her. Something thundered right above her head. More screams. Kyra looked up, only to find one of the many 20th story buildings has fallen. Directly above her head. She only has time to whisper a quick pray before darkness awaited her. You failed, Kyra, failed.
Aleci knew something wasn't right. He'd never been in a tsunami before, but he'd watched space, history and natural disasters documents on his grandmother's old computer to know there was to much water. Waves after waves. When it first began, grandmother had been standing outside on our balcony, the fifthtenth floor, apartment in Sydney, mini stopwatch in hand. Counting the waves. When she counted past 200 waves, Aleci stopped listening and looked at the tsunami as a gigantic one was about to wipe us out. She had shouted to him to go up to rooftop when she saw the massive wave nearing, "My time has drawn to an end, Aleci." She had said, handing him the mini stopwatch and a piece of folded paper. Run! says a voice that stays with Aleci through day and night. Running so fast, that the dead would had probably been able to hear his heartbeat. The rooftop is deserted and icy. Aleci hears screams, prays and cries. Very faint, calling to him in the distance. Even for the rooftop, he hears, But he knows that's crazy. He wouldn't be able to hear the cries of families from all the way down below. He shakes his head and laughs at himself. Apart of your imagination? Think again, Aleci. He unfolds the piece of paper. 1469. What has roots that nobody¬ . What the heck does that mean. Alecus reads it over and over. It doesn't make sense. Does it make sense now? No. But it will. Just wait, Aleci.
Kyra had no idea where she was. Only that the darkness the she saw right now, wasn't natural. It kept coming at her, chasing her. Wanting to eat her and everything in it's path...
She woke up to a shrieking screech. Ruins everywhere, buildings lit up in flames. The sky was still grey, smoke filled it up. Kyra looked around her city, New York, but there was no one in site. Where was everyone? Surely not everyone was dead. Surely someone had survived the earthquake, right?
You are alone, Kyra. All alone.
Fiy seriously constituted running towards the gigantic fire. Hard enough she already had breathing problems on a daily basis. But stuck in a massive fire, smoke everywhere a person banging into you second? Forget it. Fiy knew she was probably going to faint, she should have already fainted the minute it had started. But somehow she had lasted though it, now she thought she wouldn't last another second. Plus, if she fainted, no one would help her if the fire was coming towards her. So what was the point? Fiy, you have to fight though this, just like you always have. Damn that voice, making her think she'd actually survive though this. When everyone saw the fire roaring toward the city, they panicked. Her family, (three little sisters and older brothers, no parents since her oldest brother was 32, old enough to look after them. Her parents had died when she was ten but that was eight years ago.) had also panicked and had lost each other the second it had started. The crowds had make trying to find some in this chaos, close to impossible. The fire was already burning the buildings, along with families. Fiy ran. Having no idea where she was heading or going, just knowing she had to get out of the city. But all she could see were bodies. That's how many there were. So many in the city of the Red Desert. So many people were in her city, that her seven lived in an apartment ment a three people to live in. The fire had already burned away half city and a quarter of the people. She was so lightheaded, she couldn't think properly. So she ran straight into in building. She swear that building wasn't there a second ago. Great, now she was hallucinating. Only the building wasn't made of red bricks like the other buildings in the entire city. It was made of fire. 100% fire. She tried to turn around but¬
