Emma had gotten to the other boat and was crawling into the trap door. That's when it hit me like a rock.
"She's going back for the plants!" I say to nobody. I run to the plank and get onto the other boat. I throw open the trap door. And jump into the demolished room underneath.
"Emma! GET OUT OF THERE, NOW! " I demand "The boat is sinking and the planes are coming back!! We have to get out of here!" almost on cue, the sound of bullets and screaming resumes.
Emma comes rushing out of her room with a large wooden box. It has several small sprouts pokinging out of the soil, and one large shoot of what looks like bamboo. The sugar plant.
"I couldn't leave it! We have only so many. We have to have them!" she exclaimed, as if she was talking about an endangered species.
"WE DO NOT NEED SUGAR! " I scream at her. She shrinks back. The plane noises die down and the screaming subdues.
"I wasn't talking about the sugar plant. That's sugar, These are apple saplings from those seeds you gave me, and this is a pumpkin" she says pointing at different sprouts. "We only have 6 other sprouts for apples that managed to grow," before she can finish there is screaming above us,and the whir of airplane jets. I grab her and we high tail it out of there.
Once outside we see the problem. These planes aren't bombers, and are shooting bullets faster than I can blink. One narrowly misses my ear and I snap to it as I hear it wiz past.
Emma and I run for the boat that Coral was on, she is yelling at us to run faster. Emma lets out a scream and falls down. A bullet had hit her leg. She looks fine until she looks at the wound and starts to add to the screams around us, panicking as blood trickles from her leg.
She lays there yelling and screaming. I double back and pick her up and sling her over my shoulder. She still clutched the wooden box, and as I ran soil spilled over onto the deck and onto my clothes. I don't brush it off, I don't have time.
I make it to the deck. Emma is going into shock, and is quiet but her breathing is shaky. Way too quiet. Someone starts rapping a tourniquet around her leg. People started shooting and the planes just leave. We didn't even do anything damaging, they just left.
It didn't take long for us to come to the conclusion that the royals might be scared of us. They must be. We are more than just a thorn in their side. We scared them so much they tracked us down. They took more than a few shots at us but at least 90% of us survived the attack. Maybe more, probably more. It only seemed worse than it was. We had lost more to our first storm.
A nurse pulls out the bullet from Emma's leg while she is in shock and she tosses the bullet over the side of the boat. We are already pulling supplies from the wreckage, but then we found out the sad truth as to why they left. There came an explosion from every bullet that they shot. Every. Last. One.
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An Inch Of Infinity (Short Version)
ActionIn the near future the entire world is conquered by a group of people known as Royalties, or the Royals for short. They declared war on the planet. If you were not with them, you were against them. by the end of the 21st century the world was utter...
