Blackout • NH

Chapter 54

We sailed for what felt like hours. Nobody saying a word to each other.

Everyone but Liam, Niall and I fell asleep.

"Do you even have any idea if we are going in the right direction?" I ask Liam.

"I believe so. The navigator on the boat still works. According to the map, Uninhabited is north east of the Bermuda Triangle close to the mid Atlantic ridge." He explains.

"How many days do you think it'll take us to get there?" Niall asks.

"We need to go around the Bermuda triangle and head north. Don't want to put anyone else in danger because boats and planes go missing there quite often. I give it about three to five days tops." Liam explained.

"Whichever is safest. I'm just glad to be away from people." I say.

"We will need to make some rain catchers and fishing poles. And also avoid any storms we see. We have enough fuel to last us about a week." Niall said.

Everyone gets up and starts using any supplies they can to collect fresh rainwater and fish. Liam grabs his tent out of his backpack and uses his knife to cut one side of it off.

"Jodie, come help me with this." I get up to help him.

He then grabs some rope and pokes holes in all four corners of the piece and then ties the rope through each hole as I hold the piece. He then grabs it from me and climbs up the ladder and to the top of the boats cover and ties it to two of the old radio poles and suspends it from there.

"There's a small rain storm over there. It doesn't look too dangerous!" Liam said, pointing to some clouds in the distance. He gets off the roof of the boat and goes to the wheel to steer us in the direction of the clouds.

"Hopefully we get enough water to collect before our supplies run out." Harry said next to me.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"With the way things are looking, with trying to avoid storms and all..." He stops.

"Harry what's wrong?" I ask cautiously.

"I don't know but something doesn't feel right. The atmosphere is really thick and almost overpowering." He ends in almost a whisper.

"Harry, you know something. Don't you?" I ask.

He pulls me closer and leans to my ear.

"With the direction we are heading. We are all going to get killed." He whispers.

"What?" My eyes widen.

"Liam suggested that we go around the Bermuda Triangle to avoid sinking and having us all killed. So we are heading south east to a rain storm to collect some water." He said.

"I mean, I see his point." I say.

"Jodie look off into the distance." He said.

I look out and see some clouds forming over the horizon maybe 20 miles away.

"I see water, sky and some clouds. Just like Liam pointed out." I say. Confused.

"Jodie, that's not a normal formation of clouds." Harry said, a bit eerie.

"What do you mean?" I say, a bit concerned. My heart started to race.

Jodie, you've known me long enough to know that I've studied this type of stuff in college.

"The way those clouds are forming are not normal. I've never seen anything like this. Yes it looks small but I have a feeling that we are going to get killed or some of us will go missing.... Maybe even turn into a glazer." He trials off.

"There are no glazers out here though." I say confused once again.

Harry says nothing but then grabs his backpack and digs inside of it. He pulls out a small notebook journal and flips it to a certain page.

"Ever since the blackout started I've been writing down and monitoring everything. From the change in those who are infected to the simplest things like the weather. Of course there were changes in the people. But the weather had an even more drastic change." He said.

"How so?" I say, curious now.

"I can't prove this theory but if my thoughts are correct, this would be the cause of these dangerous changes to the climate." He explained.

"Remember the hurricane that came through Louisiana when we were camped near Elliot's gang." Harry asked.

"Yeah?" I question.

"That wasn't an ordinary hurricane. It didn't have one eye. But two... All hurricanes have one eye. Usually the most powerful part of the storm is in the walls of the eye while the eye remains the calmest part." He begins.

"While we were getting cover from the storm. I managed to look outside the tower at several angles and I saw one eye to the left of the tower and one to the right." He explained.

"Jodie...." He says. In almost a terrified voice.

"What?" I say. My heart beating so fast. The anxiety starting in my chest. Preparing me for what I'm about to hear.

"I think the blackout is causing the weather patterns to change and become more dangerous."