With darkness falling and a storm fast approaching Sam guided the yacht toward a nearby cove which they had passed by when they circled the island. The cove would give the yacht the most protection from the storm which was already beginning to lash the palm trees which lined the sandy shoreline and caused the ship to rock back and forth. Once they entered the cove the waves didn’t hit as hard, but it was still causing the ship to rock back and forth.
“Drop the anchors.” ordered Sam as two anchors where dropped one in the front of the ship better known as the bow and a smaller one from the rear of the ship or the stern.
“Damn…look at that rain.” Said Mike as the nine of them gathered in the main galley of the ship.
“One of the worse storms I have ever seen.” stated Sam as he walked down the stairs from the upper deck where the controls for the ship was. “Like I said…I wouldn’t have wanted to attempt to sail through this.”
“I can see that.” Stated his girlfriend Taylor as she pointed outside the cove where massive white top waves lashed the shore. The cove had a slight S shape entrees which protected them from the water.
“I don’t like being this close to shore like I said this screams horror movie to me.” Stated Nate
“No arguments there.” Confirmed Rose as she stood beside him. “An unknown…uncharted island and a storm suddenly appears?”
“Storms form all the time and we are a good 30 yards from shore in the middle of a cove which is 40 plus feet deep, we will be fine for a day.” Stated Sam
“And the sudden appearance of an island?” counted Kelly as her chocolate brown skin and jet-black curly hair made her stand out a bit. If that didn’t her no nonsense and blunt personality would have done it. “How do you fucking explain that?”
“I can’t.” admitted Sam “And my satellite phone isn’t working, must be the storm.”
That news got everyone worried, even as lightning flashes illuminated the sea and surrounding land.
“We still have the radio and I have done a radio check…we are good.” Reassured Sam
“Well…why don’t we eat and hang out for a bit.” Offered Amanda as she brought forth some freshly cooked orange chicken and rice from the kitchen and placed it down on the table. Amanda was an amazing cook and sitting down enjoying some food and some drinks, beer or wine got everyone mind off the storm which had lightened a bit but was still howling outside.
“Get some sleep everyone, Sam and I will take the first watch.” Reassured Taylor, that was the system they had whenever they weren’t at a dock each couple would take turns on watch, two hours each. Amanda being the only single person onboard enjoyed the privilege of not having to do a watch.
The boat rocked and rolled but after a long day at sea, everyone aside from Taylor and Sam went to sleep. It was just past 2am when a knock at the door awoke Rose and Nate from their sleep.
“You two are up.” Stated a tried Stacy as the two of them got out of bed. Not really wanting to go padding around the ship in underwear both of them slipped back into their bathing suits. Nate into his black and orange swim trunks and Rose into her pink/red bikini, she did wrap a towel around her waste like normal before they left their cabin. They had been wearing them almost none stop since starting this vacation. Together they went to the wheelhouse above the main galley. Sitting in the captain’s chair waiting on them was Mike, his girlfriend Stacy who had woken them up was up there as well. The storm had passed for the most part but lightning still lights up the sky in the distance.
“So anything interesting happen?” inquired Nate with a yawn
“No…” said Mike, like Nate he was in his swim deep forest green trunks
“Well I think I saw a dolphin.” Stated Stacy as she sat in a chair in her own golden bikini but like Rose she had a towel around her waist, as she closed her book. “Heard a tale splash the surface, other than that, no.”
“So a calm night.” Stated Rose “Well go get some sleep, we will wake Kelly and Kenny in two hours and then in the morning we can head out of here and back on our…”
She never got a chance to finish as suddenly their was a blinding flash of light causing all four of them to cover their eyes. When it cleared everything seamed normal, the lights had gone out and the pilot house was dark.
“What was that?” inquired Nate as he blinked multiple times, he like everyone else was seeing stars.
“I don’t know.” Said Rose as she reached for the intercom button to call Sam up, however the control panel was dark…same with everything else. “Someone hit the lights!”
“I am…they aren’t turning on!” yelled Mike as the sound of footsteps could be heard as Sam came pounding up the stairs, he was dressed in only his boxers, but no one cared.
“What happened?” inquired Sam
“No idea…there was a flash of light an now nothing is powering up.” Said Nate as he stepped aside to let Sam take the captain’s chair. He tried restarting the engines…nothing, he tried the emergency backup nothing.
“Someone get their cell phone I need a light.” ordered Sam as Stacy pulled her phone only to see it was dead. One by one everyone pulled their phones and they had all died, they had no power of any kind.
“Guys…where did the storm go?” inquired Nate as Rose like everyone else looked around, the sky was clear of all clouds and above them they saw thousands of stars. It was breathtakingly beautiful but then Sam spoke up.
“The stars are different.” stated Sam as everyone else looked up, while none of them had been out on the water as much as Sam they couldn’t see the big dipper or any star group she knew. By now everyone had gathered in the pilot house looking up at the sky and the calm sea and peaceful but dark island.
“What did you say Nate…” stated Kenny as he looked toward Nate. “This sounds like the start of a horror movie…I think we just started the second act.”
“Isn’t the second act when the monster shows up?” inquired Kelly as Kenny gulped before nodding his head.