Free Apocalyptic Shorts by Victor Darksaber Page B

and stomping my feet rhythmically, I hear my name from the speaker. I look up and see my picture and my name on the big screen, I sigh and shoulder my backpack. I hurry and join a group of people moving towards one of the planes, as directed by the men in uniform.
    Entering the plane, I move through the aisle to the back, where there are only three empty seats. I pick the spot most convenient, lock my backpack in the overhead bin and crash into the seat under it. It’s a lot of relief for me, considering that I’ve been standing on a queue for over four hours.
    Right now in here is the first peaceful moment I’ve had in two months. I remember the life I had before the chaos, my friends, my girlfriend. When the earthquake first hit, I was in class with my girlfriend. I watched my art teacher Mrs. Bells get crushed by a building block right in front of the class. That day, we met with Harry, my best friend, and we were going to escape in his minivan when I saw Amy, also my friend, running towards us, screaming my name. We stopped for her, then she twisted her ankle. I had sprung out of the car to help her when the ground cracked open beneath the car and a pillar collapsed on top of them, crushing them into the ground, my girlfriend, my best friend and some random people we let in, just like that, they were gone and I was lucky.
    Lost in abstraction, my eyes are focused on the small screen on the back of the seat in front of me, but I’m not watching whatever the screen is showing. Something on the screen gets my attention, but by the time I’m ready to focus, the headline is gone. I’m not sure what I read, but I think I saw something about some strange energy behavior around the globe. I hear a female voice singing softly beside me, I look and there right next to me is a very pretty girl, about my age, blond, green eyes, smooth skin, and I find it hard to believe I didn’t notice her when I came in.
    “Hey,” I say, moving my mouth closer to her ear. She has a headphone on, and probably can’t hear me, or she’s just pretending not to.
    As usual, a flight attendant begins to speak through a speaker, but I don’t pay attention.
    The plane takes off, and I begin to feel dizzy. It’s my thing, I do it every time I’m in a moving vehicle, it’s my easiest remedy against motion sickness. I take a moment to look around, and then I glance at the girl beside me. I wish she doesn’t have a headphone on, so we can talk, but, it’s obvious she don’t want to be disturbed.
    I relax comfortably in the chair and close my eyes.
    I hear a very loud explosion, as if a gun was shot right beside my ears. I snap out of my sleep, panting, my face covered in sweat. For a moment, all I can hear is a very loud and intense ringing in my head. I close my eyes and try to calm myself. The small screen for my seat is off. I shake my head, trying to get my brain and ears working. I turn to the girl beside me, her headphone is now around her neck, and she looks really worried, she’s looking at me. I look around, and everyone is worried, some getting out of their seats to see something out the window. I open my mouth and breathe through it, trying to slow down my heartbeat, and then I hear the sound. It’s as if we’re flying through an asteroid storm, but we’re not in space, and of all the times I’ve been on a plane, I’ve never experienced a turbulence as intense as this, loud and deafening. I turn to the girl, she’s scared to bone and she’s almost crying.
    I look past her out the window and see something strange and unclear. I get off my seat and move closer to the window, what I see is still strange, but clearer. If this is cloud, then I’ve never seen this kind before. Bands of bright green and bright blue and bright many colors, all spinning forcibly on to one another in every direction, and they’re spinning so fast and spinning around the plane. The window cracks, I jerk back, falling, I grab on to the headrest of a