It had been three days since the crash—most kids were still shaking in their tent, some still waking up screaming, yelling of the bloody, burned bodies of their friends surrounding them. Only 20 had survived the crash, and only ten had followed the leader's orders to leave the Wreck. No one knew who was still alive. No one knew who would stay alive.
In the three days since the accident, not much was accomplished besides the chronic tears streaming from the now-alone students . A few of the girls were able to gather water from the river, while the boys found a fruit forest on the other side of the Wreck.
It wasn't until that third night after the plane crash that the kids were able to come to terms with their fate. The group of Watchers, sent to scan the island for a way out, returned with the gruesome news. Not only was there no way out, but all of the kids on the wrecked plane had vanished.
"Completely gone?" May squinted her eyes on the burning fire.
"Other than the smeared blood out the door? Nothing." Eric sat down on one of the rocks surrounding the fire, and looked around the camp as the other kids sat in silence.
With the limited work that had been done, the camp was set up to a decent degree. With the moon's light reflecting off of the bay before them, the small huts of tree limbs and plam tree leafs were barely visible. Formed in a U surrounding the fire, it gave off a homey feel—in a weird, remote, never-can-escape kind of way.
"So that's it? We're stuck here?"
"Looks like it." Matt was sitting next to the boy who had asked it, and looked like he was about to snap, "We'll be okay though, Carlos."
The silence continued through the night as the moon fell across the sky, and the sun began to fade into view.
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As the first one up, Monica knew she should start to get the board ready. She grabbed a sheet of paper and a pencil from her backpack, and stabbed the pencil through the paper and into a stick that stood directly out of the sand. On the top of the sheet, she sloppily wrote "TASKS", and the names and jobs of all of the survivors.
She didn't know exactly how she got to be inside of the council, but as long as she was there, she was determined to stay there.
"Aw, dammit Mon, why'd you put me on stream duty?" May rubbed her eyes and walked up towards the crooked board.
"I'm doin' it too May, calm down." She cracked a smile, and May followed along after she saw the list of people going with them, "We better head over to the meeting before we get into even more trouble with the guys."
They laughed as they made their way into the jungled, and up a slight hill to a clearing with four trees that had all fallen onto each other in a perfect square around the center. The girls took their seats as the meeting began.
"Welcome to the second Council meeting, I hope you all had a good sleep." Liam stood in the middle of the group, with his black curly hair scuffed from sleeping on the sand, "We have a lot to do today, and little time to do it. First and foremost we need to find the river...which I see the five of you seem to be in charge of." She pointed to Carlos, May, Monica, Kyle, and Matt, who all returned a devilish grin, "God save us all. As long as you all know your tasks and actually do them,"She locked eyes with Matt and May to reinforce her words, "We'll be okay. Meeting dismissed."
Liam and the others wandered back to camp, while the five of them stayed back for a bit.
"Guys, I need to go to the mountain." Carlos had passion in his eyes so bright it would have matched the level of heat of the plane while it burnt to a crisp.
"Car, that's like a two hour hike." Matt seemed to think that would have some sort of effect on him, but couldn't have been more wrong.
"I'll pack some fruit, then we'll go. Just give me ten minutes." Carlos grinned, and ran back to camp.
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The Island
FanfictionWhen the plane crashed, 35 students and one teacher died instantaneously. The rest of the students would never be the same again. After three days of peace, The Storm hits. Sending kids in every direction, no one knows what to believe. Once set in...
