Storm Survivors: Stranded (IC)

[Freeze]

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Blackness filled Alexa's vision. For a moment, she thought she had died: she felt nothing, and the only thing she heard was a high-pitch ringing sound. What... happened? Her memories were fragmented, but she managed to piece them together... The loud crashing noise... Being separated from her family and friend... Getting into a life raft with five others she didn't even know... She remembered huge waves, and lightning, and thunder, and rain, and screaming... Then... nothing. Was this it? Was this death?

Suddenly, Alexa's body began to prickle with a pins-and-needles sensation, as if her entire body had fallen asleep and was waking up again. Her hearing began to pick up another noise... a sort of white noise. It sounded like... the ocean? She groaned and then felt a grainy sensation on her face... She then picked up her orientation: she was face down on what felt like sand. Wait a minute... sand? Did they find land? Were they in Barbados, and had she just fallen asleep on the beach? She sure hoped so.

Summoning her strength, she pushed herself up from the sand into a kneeling position, spitting some grains for her mouth and wiping it from her eyes before opening them. She was facing a beautiful light-blue ocean, with the sun high in the sky. A few feet from her was a raft in the sand... It wasn't a dream.

[TheFrontLine]

Red. A pale red, with an orange complexion. Frederick's vision was clouded by this coloration. His mind blank, entranced by the slow to-and-fro shuffling up his body. He stared at this strange sight for, to him, what seemed an eternity.
Suddenly, as he involuntarily took a breath, a liquid flooded into his mouth and nasal cavity, then quickly into his lungs. Shocked, Frederick opened his eyes, only to be blinded by the bright sunlight and salty water, and frantically waded his arms through the water.
Luckily, he was near the shore, so he had no problem pushing his upper body past the horrible situation, and into the safety of fresh air. Frederick choked, gagged, and coughed for a while, his left hand on his chest, whilst his right hand attempted to push his soaked hair to the side.
The water having left his system, he took many small, but quick, breaths and wiped his face with both hands. Returning to normalcy, he hastily crawled away from the shore towards the sandy beach, where he saw others in a similar situation.

[Aisling]

Rose was trying to spit the water out of her mouth which was coming in much faster than going out. Her backpack was weighing her down and soon she would have to give it up even though it had her laptop and camera in it. She grasped the raft tightly as she could. She opens her eyes to see everything in a cloudy grey washout look of a tired worn out jeans. Once in a while she was able to manage to actually get a decent breath of the salty air before bobbing downwards.

After what seems like hours, Rose finally felt sand under feet and she pushed herself to the shore where she laid down on the warm sands. She closed her eyes and breathed freely without any water coming into her mouth.

[Freeze]

Alexa looked around and saw others that were in a situation not much better than hers. She didn't offer to get up and help them, however. She was in a trance. She stood up slowly and did a 360 degree turn. They were on a beautiful beach and behind them was a low grassland. When her vision returned to the ocean, she took a step toward the raft. "Is everyone okay?" she called to no one in particular- just those who would be able to answer. "Are there six of us?" There were six of them on the raft, right? Yeah, that seemed right. Deep in Alexa's heart she wished Caitlyn and Justin and her parents would be marooned on a beach nearby, along with everyone else who survived the mysterious cruise sinking.

[Regendorf]

Rommy woke up face up on the beach, the waves licking at his feet, sun burning at his face and the blue blue sky stretching all around. So this is where Remus is...heh...I ran so far from death, just to find it anyway. The first impression luckily wasn't the last, in his case at least. His left hand instinctively moved to the inner pocket of his jacket, the blade was still there, then groping the inner lining he could still feel the 4 sachets of weed. Thou he was sure that he wont get to meet Remus today, he was afraid too look around, as that ship was nowhere near earth when it sank. A girls voice called out asking if they where okay or not, then asking about how many they where. The hell would he know how many they where, groaning he turned on his side to see from where the voice called out and there they where, 5 more teens. "I'm fine...and I can count," *cough* "5 people."

[Vexical]

Paviel slowly rolled on his back in the sand, hacking up water out of his chest. The raft and its crew had washed ashore upon a barren beach of sand. Ugh, where am I? He raised up in a rather unbalanced manner and dusted himself off. He examined the scene of the landing, it was a rather clean and untouched beach with low lying grasslands to the north. He glanced to the right and noticed that the beach stretched on to a jungle. Just great.



"Is everyone okay?" (Alexa)

"Never felt better." (Paviel)

[xLillyliciousx]

Lilly stared up at the blue sky, she covered half of her face with a hand so the sun wasn't that harsh to her eyes. She had been laying here for about ten minutes, trying to collect her thoughts, and what had all happen. At least her raft boat had crashed into a beach. After getting bored, she jumped up on her feet, and started to look around. She could see some bodies laying around on the beach, she wasn't sure if they were alive or dead, it didn't really matter to her. She started to walk away from the beach towards the low grassland, wanting to explore this new place that would probably be her home for a while.

After five minutes of 'exploring', she heard a faint voices in the distance, she guessed those dead bodies on the beach weren't actually dead. She started to head back towards the beach, once she got there, people were moving around, and seeing if people were alright. She walked onto the beach and stopped beside a male that was laying on the sand, telling another girl that he never felt better.

Lilly placed her hands on her hips, looking around, her bright red dreadlocks whipping around. "This place looks better than my actual backyard in Los Angeles." She stated to no one but mostly just stating a fact to herself. She started to lean back, so she cracked her back bones, than stood up straight once again. "Well, it seems like this will be our new home for probably a while. So to anyone, whom actually cares, my name is Lilly. Though you can call me Glitch or Jinx." She wanted to get the whole introduction over with. With that out of the way, she headed towards the boat since she knew there had to be a survival kit somewhere inside of it.

[Regendorf]

Too tired to be impressed by the girl that already seemed to be in her element, Rommy got up and tried to shake of some of the sand that stuck to his wet clothes. "You seem to enjoy being stranded..." he said as he worked on tiding up his suit intentionally ignoring the others actions. Taking a deep breath he said, "For those who care my name's Rommy" then turned his attention to his soggy feet. The salt will ruin them was the first thought as he contemplated his leather shoes. Then both a flash of horror and one of amusement struck him. Stranded on a island with seemingly no chance to get back, at least the cops can't find me now. The one thing he was truly happy for was the fact that when he left home, he got a pair of swimming trunks and felt even more lucky now that he had them on at the moment. So he started to take of his clothes, the only thing he needed now was a cold. folding them now would be futile so he threw them in a pile except for his jacket, which he folded carefully and put it aside.

[Freeze]

Alexa looked around and counted the number of moving people. One, two, three, four, five... Wait a minute, wasn't there a sixth one? For a terrible moment, Alexa though they had lost someone, then she realized the sixth was herself. She giggled quietly and was glad everyone was here. Since the girl that had woken up before all of them introduced herself first, along with another boy who did the same, Alexa followed their lead. "And I'm Alexa," she said to everyone, though they obviously weren't in the best of shape. She went up behind Lilly as she approached the raft to look for, well, supplies, Alexa assumed.

[Vexical]

Paviel observed as some of the survivors 'introduced' themselves. What a joke. Having emptied his shoes of sand, he proceeded to walk north. I knew this trip was a bad idea. Atleast I don't have my foster parents dragging me around anymore. He turned around, away from the gleaming sun, and examined the other survivors' motives. One seemed to be going for a swim and two others were heading for the raft. Perhaps the raft has something useful...

"Anything in there?" (Paviel)