[hr][hr][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/171203/e9375f28b8abf4244bd215933d380688.png[/img][youtube]https://youtu.be/oIdPPVkkHYs[/youtube][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h2]February 15th, 2011 - 3:42 P.M.[/h2][/color][/i][/b][/center][hr] Coughing roughly Gavin spat out the mouth full of dirt and snow that had filled his mouth. His curls dripping with cold red Georgia slush as he scrambled to get on his knees. [color=f26522]"Strawberry! Christ on a crack her girl, yous okay? Says something!"[/color] he yelled as he grabbed the limp body next to his and started shaking the shit out of the equally mush covered Naval Lieutenant Commander. [color=f26522]"Thana!"[/color] he yelled in her face. She didn't seem to be breathing, her body was like a rag doll in his grip as he laid her back down and started to try to do CPR on her. Granted he didn't know what the hell he was doing. He killed people, he didn't save them. That was Ravi's job. He tried though, he had watched enough tv before the world went to shit right? Still as he blew into her mouth and then acted like a hammer on her chest she hadn't moved. From the looks of things, the curse of Ash had struck again.... [center][hr][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h3]180 seconds earlier....[/h3][/color][/i][/b][/center] [hr] [color=a187be]"Here kitty kitty kitty,"[/color] Tatiana called out. Slowly walking behind her house and following the damn orange tabby. He had been scratching at the door to her and Jack's house, meowing loudly after Jack left. Opening the door once she had crawled out of bed she looked at Schrödinger as he pawed quickly down her front steps. [color=a187be]"Come on, come inside,"[/color] she said as she stood there waiting for the cat to get his act together and come inside. Yet he wasn't having any of it. He just sat down and meowed loudly. Tatiana was about to just turn around and go back to bed but every time she tried Schrödinger came closer to her. Slipping her boots on that were by the door she cringed a bit but she managed. Working her way down the stairs to just go and pick up the damn cat and bring him in. She wouldn't get any rest with him meowing constantly. Yet, every step she took near him he took one away. If she backed up he came towards her again. Apparently this was a cat and mouse game and she was the mouse right then. Getting out of the Hordebuster Thana drew her side arm and held is low as she started to make her way over to the group. [color=fff79a]"Yes and no... Long story Wall Dick,"[/color] Ryan called out as he smirked and hopped off the hood of the truck. Him and Ash had never been on the best of terms but having Ash and the Hordebuster show up right then to him was a good thing. It gave them a bit more leverage. Lola spun around and looked at the large truck and her jaw went slack. [color=598527]"Well fuck me Mate, that is a fucking sweet piece of rolling metal!"[/color] she called out towards Ash. Ryan rolled his eyes a bit. Nothing seemed to phase this woman. "Jack! Jack! It's okay!" Froggy yelled out as he tore out from the infirmary and into the vestibule of the main building. Sid was close behind him, having come in from the medical garden to store that days harvest of medicinal herbs and such. "God damn it! Beni! Get that fucking dog under control!" Jim yelled as he landed on his ass in the armory. "Sorry man, she won't stop barking and keeps running off," Beni quickly said apologizing for the way Peaches was tearing around the place. "What the fuck!" Mike screamed as he started running out from the back of the kitchen. "Get out of here!" he yelled as he grabbed the fire extinguisher to put out a fire that only he could see. More and more through out the town people were starting to freak out. Seeing things that were not there, hearing things that couldn't be heard. The place was turning into chaos quickly. [color=f26522]"Not eat today?"[/color] Gavin asked as he stepped over towards Thana and heard a low growl. Thana shook her head, quirking a brow. [color=0072bc]"That wasn't me..."[/color] she said turning her head. [center][hr][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h3]120 seconds earlier....[/h3][/color][/i][/b][/center] [hr] Tatiana froze just outside of the Distillery as a feeling of dread took over her senses. Was she hearing things? There was low grumbling sound echoing around her. Then she hit her knees as the ground shook. This wasn't a hallucination, she wished it was. No, this was real and [i][color=ed1c24]everyone within a mile radius of Newnan[/color][/i] would feel it. Those from the west coast would know this feeling, earthquakes were common out there and this was one had to be nearing a six on the richter scale. But earthquakes didn't hit Georgia... Did they? The former ballerina had never felt one since she had been within the state yet there she was on her knees as the ground shook around her. The walls of Newnan were wobbling as if they were ripples in the water. Schrödinger meowed at her as rubble started to fall from the tops of the buildings, his fur raising on his back and his claws digging into the ground. [color=a187be]"Schrödinger, here kitty!"[/color] she yelled as she stumbled to her feet and did as best she could to chase the cat as it took off towards the distillery. Medic fell on his rear end in Franklins mini armory, Lyon grabbing onto the counter to keep his balance. "What the fuck is happening?" Medic yelled as Lyon grabbed him by the collar and started dragging him out of the room. "We've got to get out of here!" the Frenchman yelled. It was the last time Medic heard Lyons voice as the ceiling crashed in on the mans head and ended his life on this earth. What happened to Medic, one can't be sure, we still can't find him. Lola's knees bent slightly to keep her balance as she spun around. It wasn't hitting them as hard as it was Newnan but she felt it and it made her stomach do a flip. Ryan gulped slightly as he turned and looked over towards Beatrice, this wasn't good and the intensity of what was happening was only growing. The vision before Chloe just smirked. [color=fff79a]"See you shortly,"[/color] Ryan said before he was gone and the vibrations increased dramatically, causing the pull of the trigger and Chloe to do exactly what she threatened to do. Her body dropping to the ground as her brains splattered out on the wall behind her. Her body dropping like a lead weight in the ocean. Victor grabbed Jack with the help of Sid and proceeded to drag him towards the door, shoving him outside as the world began to tumble down around them. A billowing of clouds rising from the debris. What happened to Froggy, no one call tell. There is no time to search the rubble as Newnan crumbles around them. The vision Jack had been seeing is no longer there but what is before his eyes is even worse than he could have ever imagined. Sids lifeless face dripping from blood and covered with dust from the rubble stared blankly from between the cracks of the rubble that had crushed his body. [center][hr][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h3]60 seconds earlier....[/h3][/color][/i][/b][img]https://31.media.tumblr.com/3f5f5bca1fb4a97cf24a1c0b8caa54d0/tumblr_mj4amfhtQZ1r2acrxo2_500.gif[/img][/center] [hr] In the Southwest corner of Newnan the ground opened up and everything above it fell into a chasm below. Fissures cracked in the ground and spread out like glass shattering. What was going on? Well it was a common thing in South Georgia but something that didn't happen often this far north, yet it was not unheard of. Lime Sinks. They could give away at any minute, causing the ground to collapse and take everything that was sitting on the surface with it. Thana knew the feeling, Albany had the huge lime sink on third avenue over by Phoebe. After the flood of '94, it wasn't uncommon for parts of the city to open up and just swallow a building of three in the process. [color=0072bc]"Oh shit..."[/color] she muttered as she looked over towards James, she knew he would know the feeling as well. One didn't have to live on the west coast before to know this feeling. Anyone that grew up near Albany knew it wasn't always a seismic shift that caused this type of quaking. Years of a town sitting on top of lime, wearing down by the flow of water thanks to the high water table. The recent snow, contracting the ground and now it expanding. It had burst long unused gas pipes. That was why people were losing their shit. That was why the ground was quaking. That was why the town of Newnan was now falling. Yet the damage wasn't done yet. All over Newnan the breaking of the ground did help clear out a lot of the low lying unscented gas that was causing the hallucinations but they were far favorable to the buildings currently being swallowed up by Mother Earth. Buildings were crumbling, people were screaming trying to run but where to? So many exits were cut off! The wall was falling around Newnan as more and more cracks in the earth opened up and swallowed what was there. Tatiana ran after Schrödinger, her knees buckling with each step she took, and scooped the cat up. Inside the Distillery the stills were getting shook to high heaven. It was a recipe for booze normally, right then it was a recipe for disaster. As she grabbed the cat by the back of the Distillery, it all came to a head. She heard the hissing, spotted the smoke starting to billow up from inside. Turning on her heels she started to run with everything she had but was it enough? Was she fast enough? We may never know. All we do know is suddenly there was a atomic like explosion from within the building and a mushroom cloud of Virginian booze that broke up from the building and into the atmosphere. Mike tore over towards Kris and Tiffany trying to get to them as the Mess Hall split down the center. He got to Kris but he shouldn't have. As the ground opened up beneath them and the ceiling came crashing down from above. Kris and Mike were gone. Tiffany had just barely escaped the falling from above. The force sending her back on the floor and across the room. She was injured, bruised and battered but she was alive. Those in the armory were not so lucky. The building didn't split, it was simply engulfed. Beni, Jim, and poor Peaches were swallowed beneath a metric ton of rubble and devoured as ammunition and the small store of explosives went kaboom.... Fire broke out from between the pieces of crumbled concrete. If there is a god, if he is merciful they died in the fall instead of being trapped beneath and burned alive... Guy jumped from the wall and onto the ground but with everything falling no one could tell if he made it or not. The graveyard was nearly surrounded by open parts of ground spanning over ten feet wide and three times as deep. Meg, Amelia, and Ray were alive, still being shook as the collapse of Newnan continued but there was a way out for them. To the east, the wall had fallen but the spread of the ground opening was not way. Towards the North, the South, and The West - nothing. There was no way to get back into Newnan. [center][hr][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h3]20 seconds earlier....[/h3][/color][/i][/b][/center] [hr] While the world crumbled down around the citizens of Newnan it didn't mean that those meeting for the first time were left unscathed. Newnan itself got a large chunk of the devastation and while the ground opened up for a bit to the north and to the east... To the south and to the west is continued for over a mile. It continuing like cracks in the ice on a pond. [color=598527]"Mother Dick!"[/color] Lola screamed as she half way ducked when the explosion went off in Newnan and the mushroom cloud billowed up above the tree line. She was still trying to keep her footing as the ground began to shake even more where they all were. Grabbing Thalia by the back of her collar she jerked her back and onto the ground with her. [color=598527]"Jet!"[/color] she yelled as she did and the two ended up back over by the tank. Ryans head snapped around as the trees started to toppled towards Newnan. [color=fff79a]"Oh shit..."[/color] was all he was able to get out before he sprinted towards Beatrice and shoved her out of the way. The ground opening up beneath him and where Bea had just been standing. Ryan was gone and his body would be able to be seen in the rubble of the open chasm below, snapped and broken, and no more. Gavin tackled Thana as the ground around them started to splinter, sending the two of them into the ditch and snow bank off near where he had just recently walked up from. If he hadn't, she would have have had the same fate as James, who sadly had perished as Ryan did. Exiled or not, it didn't matter. The Black Neck had met the very fate he figured he was going to that morning when he turned himself into Ash. Exile hadn't saved him, it had only delayed things... The funeral home was shaking, boards coming off the windows on the main floor, the upper floor windows shattering from the movement. Yet all things considering it was in far better condition than the buildings that were just a few blocks south. The worst of it had hit Newnan Proper. Riley, Niesha, and Ravi were alive, even if the event had caused Chloe to pull a trigger she might not have but either way it didn't matter now. It didn't really matter for any of them. So many were dead. So many were missing. And while the cloud of gas had cleared out enough to breath really again, it was still there and who knew how long it would. The buildings were still crumbling, the fires were spreading. And all of this was getting the attention of walkers for miles around. There was no going back and to stay would mean certain death. Newnan had fallen and only a select few survived. There were ones missing but they are only listed as such because their bodies cannot be found yet with all the destruction, that isn't surprising. [center][hr][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h3]Back To Now...[/h3][/color][/i][/b][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/020ba928-7cf3-4d29-bcb5-ed0af165b97b.gif[/img][/center] [hr] There was a sharp gasp and Thana sat straight up, looking around frantically as Gavin fell back onto his rear end. [color=f26522]"Oh sweet Jesus, thank you God!"[/color] Gavin spat out as he leaned forward and grabbed Thana by the shoulders and pulled her in for a bear hug from hell. He was shaking like a leaf even though the ground was settling and the quaking was ceasing. Thana sat there stunned before pushing him off of her and jumping to her feet, rushing over but she felt Gavin grab her again from behind and thankfully he did so because she nearly went head long right into the very crack in the earth that had just stolen the lives of James and Ryan. [color=f26522]"Whoa girl!"[/color] he yelled as they stumbled back. Thana was looking around frantically. [color=0072bc]"ASH!!!"[/color] she screamed, her eyes looking for the Hordebuster and seeing it was still there. [color=f26522]"Everyone okay?"[/color] Gavin bellowed as he wrapped an arm around Thana and slowly started to show her the way around the cracks in the ground. The group was now split with the way the ground cut through them. Ash was by himself over with the Hordebuster but the rest that were still breathing with the truck and the tank. [color=0072bc]"Ash!"[/color] Thana yelled again as Lola coughed and rolled onto her back. [color=598527]"What the fuck was that..."[/color] the Kiwi muttered as she stared up at the sky. [color=598527]"Jet, ya dead?"[/color] she said in a cough. [color=598527]"Gramps, you still kicking?"[/color] [color=f26522]"Bea, you breathing?"[/color] Gavin asked as he let go of Thana and knelt down by the woman offering her a hand. Thana was pushing her hair out of her face as she slowly approached the open spot which had swallowed Ryan and James and her lips thinned. [color=0072bc]"Rest in peace James Grady..."[/color] she said quietly before her eyes darted back up and towards the Hordebuster. [color=0072bc]"Answer me right now Ashton Holloway! You answer me right now! That's an order soldier!"[/color] [center][hr][hr][b][i][color=ed1c24][h3]Elsewhere....[/h3][/color][/i][/b][/center] [hr] [color=lightgray]"Now Alena, remember. As much as we would love to take a few back to Adamm this is run to find supplies. The winter left us scarce and we just can afford another mouth to feed. Not that we would but you get the idea. We have orders, so we follow what the Father says,"[/color] Nathan said as he took long strides along the edge of the shopping center. His light eyes were covered by his sunglasses and even if they weren't they would have showed no emotion. Not even when the ground shook just in the slightest. His brow did arch, wondering what it was. Looking over as a mushroom cloud could be seen miles off in the distance a Machiavellian like smile came to his lips. [color=lightgray]"Always play the long game darling, things pay off in the end,"[/color] he said with a cruel laugh. Then something caught his eye. [color=lightgray]"Allo, allo, allo... What is this?"[/color] he said as he pulled his rifle up and looked through the scope. Spotting Faith a couple of hundred yards in front of them. [color=lightgray]"Well we aren't supposed to bring anyone back but that doesn't mean we cannot have a bit of sport. It has been so long since we tracked someone and had a little fun. Alena, time to wheel this one in. Shall we go introduce ourselves?"[/color] he said as he lowered his riffle and smirked, motioning for her to lead the way.