"[Lara]A famous explorer once said…That the extraordinary is
in what we do…Not who we are. I'd finally set out to make my mark, to find
adventure. But Instead…adventure found me."
••••
(Dragon's Triangle, south of Japan)
A single ship sailed in a stormy sea, fighting desperately against the tide so as not to capsize. The sea didn't want to let this start vessel escape and violently hide the ship with waves of different sizes rocking the
ship
Two silhouette could be seen running to and fro on the upper deck of the ship trying their hardest to help keep the ship from sinking.
The roars of the raging sea below drowned out all sounds. Huge waves raise threatening up before crashing back down into the sea. Rain drops poured like from the dark clouds unrelenting. Lightning snake across the dark sky brightening up the night accompanied by the thunderous boom of thunder.
one of the figures stopped at the railing and pulled out a radio from their jacket pocket as they held on to the railing for support.
(via radio)
"Hello!"
"Naruto how's it going?!" An hoarse came out of the radio, sounding anxious.
"Not good grim, we've got a hole in the ship!" Naruto informed sounding exhausted. The wave crashed continuously unto the deck of the ship.
"What?, What about Roth!?" Naruto turned to his left when he heard Grim's question and just in time to see Roth round a corner.
"He has gone below deck. I think he is heading to Lara!" Naruto replied as another heart rendering thunder boomed in the sky.
"You should get inside as well!~" Grim advised, however,Naruto shook his head even though he can't see it.
"I would but someone's got to keep a lookout!" he shouted over the noise of the storm then he took a step forward only to slip and hit his head on the railing, he fell overboard just as the ship split in two.
"Naruto! Naruto can you hear me!?…Naruto!"
••••
(Lower Deck)
"Lara! Lara!" Roth shouted around fretfully as he ran through the slowly but surely flooded cabin of the ship. His heart beat heavily
against his chest as a sign of our anxious he was feeling.
"Lara!" He made a left turn towards her cabin only to find it flooded, fear gripped his heart as one of his greatest nightmares is slowly
becoming a reality, but as if God heard his prayers he heard a cry for help but
there was no one in sight.
The water a couple of feet in front of him bubbled for seconds before going silent prompting him to look underneath the surface of the water as he caught sight of something, he wasted no time in grabbing the drowning appendage and pulled it out of the water revealing it to be Lara herself.
Immediately her body got drawn out of the water she greedily took in a large intake of air before going on a coughing fit. Roth barely had enough time to sigh out in relief before the ship split in two separating him
from Lara.
"Lara!"
••••
Thunder boom_
Lara sat down on her bed typing away on her phone before a loud bang interrupted her. She moved her legs over the edge of the bed to get off but the ship sudden movement caused her to topple over.
She struggled up to her feet and made out the door into the hallway only to get thrown back into her cabin as water rushed in and flooded the room.
In our darkest moments…
"Help!" Her cries for help was drowned out as water completed flooded the room.
<«Gasp»
…When life flashes before us…
She struggled to push through the door but eventually lost oxygen as she began to drown.
We find something;
Something that keeps us going…
A hand grasp her own and hulled her out of the water and onto solid ground before she fell on her knees and went on a coughing fit.
"Lara!"
She looked up to see Roth on the other half of the ship motioning for her to jump with his left hand outstretched.
…Something that pushes us.
She got into a Sprint and once she got to the edge…she jumped and caught his hand, for a minute there it felt like all was well until
her grip slipped and she fell into the sea.
"Lara!"
••••
"Reyes! Alex! Come on!" Jonah called out as they ran down a hallway with Whitman not far behind them. They rounded a corridor only to come
upon a door with water on the other side.
"What now, Jonah?" Alex couldn't help but ask as the door began to bulge under the pressure of the water.
"I don't know"
"There's another escape door behind the ship" Reyes informed
"Can you take us there?" Jonah asked
"It's not like I could say no" Reyes muttered before leading them down another hallway with the others not far behind her. They made it to
another corridor where they saw Roth pull Lara out of the water.
"Roth!" Reyes called out just before the ship split in half with them and Roth on one side and Lara on the other.
"Jonah look!" Alex pointed at a figure as they fall into the raging water below.
"That's…"
"…Naruto!" Without a second thought Jonah dived after him shocking the rest of the crew.
"Did he just…" Whitman shocked sentence was interrupted as the ship began to sink.
"Lara!" They heard Roth shout as Lara fell into the stormy
sea.
"What the fuck Is going on? Where's Sam!"
"We're here!"
They all turned as one to see a soaked grim and Sam by the doorway looking worst for wear.
"The ship is sinking, we've got to abandon ship!" grim said as they walked closer to the group.
The howling wind was like the whistle of the grim reaper as it blew past them.
"Where is Lara?" Sam asked the question that has been bugging her mind ever since grin pulled her out of her flooded cabin.
"She fell overboard" Roth answered with a guilt stricken expression. He had just been a few seconds faster he could have saved her.
However, he couldn't turn back time no matter how much he wanted to.
"What?"
"Now is not the time for that, we've got to abandon ship!" Grim advised trying to be the voice of reason.
"He's right, we'll look for them later" Roth tried to calm the situation but that was impossible with the raging storm and the sinking
ship in the background.
"I don't know about you guys but I am not dying here" Alex said before jumping off board shocking everyone on deck.
Silence_
Did that just happen? Some people doubted if they had seen wrong.
"…I sure as hell didn't see that one coming"
"He has got a point though.." Sam stated as she walked towards the edge of the ship "…I am not going to stand around here and wait to sink to my doom while Lara's out there all alone. I am going to jump now, and I
suggest you all do the same."
Sam didn't wait for their replies before she jumped into the violent tide below shocking all of them. However, they quickly got over their shock as sooner or later they would have no choice but to do the same and
someone was quick to point that out.
"I'm with her…am not going to sit on my ass either" Reyes said after watching Sam take a dive into the waters below before doing the same
with the others following soon after.
"Well this sucks, If only they had listened to me" Whitman cursed then took a dive off the ship just before it got swallowed whole by the ocean signifying the end of the Endurance.