Thread: Apocalypse, Please (PenandSword/Visions of Black)

Aradia and Sarafina cowered together under the sounds of the helicopter's guns, terrified at its implications and wondering who was dying. More than once, Aradia almost went back up to check on Leo, but Sarafina held her back every time. She took her gun out as people started filing downstairs, prepared to shoot anyone she didn't recognize. Unfortunately, someone snatched the gun away from her, snapping, Like you know how to use this! Dick, she snapped back, feeling bare without the protection. Everyone who'd filed down began to try and fight for room, and Aradia and Sarafina had no choice but to push themselves into a corner to avoided being crushed by the mass of bodies. That was when the engine was hit. Sarafina screamed, clutching Aradia's arm in a vicegrip. Aradia's face was white with fear, but she didn't make a sound. More people poured down the stairs, and Aradia straightened up, trying to get a view of the stairs - right as the body fell. She swallowed hard, trying not to make a sound, trying to be strong for Sarafina. Upon the command, quite a few of the crewmen raced up the stairs, doing the exact opposite - brandishing guns and attempting to fight their way free. The gunfire and the falling bodies, and the repeated command of, Out - no weapons! made who was victorious obvious enough. They won't kill us right away, Aradia said weakly, if they are ordering us out. Otherwise they would go to the door and shoot us all one by one... No one heard her aside from Sarafina. She bit her lip and began to push her way through the crowd, Sarafina letting go of her arm at last. People moved side for her once they realized she was going to the stairs. If she wants to die first, let her! someone snapped. At last, someone with a bone of chivalry went to go with her - a man her age, nineteen years old, with wavy black hair and a pale but clear complexion. His body was muscular but not overly bulky, almost with the build of a martial artist. Aradia gave him a timid smile, having to turn her head up to meet his height of six feet, and he gave back a more reassuring one. Together, the two of them stepped up the stairs into the light, making Aradia's hazel eyes and glossy and straight elbow-length black hair shine. Her height only reached 5'6. Her skin was more tanned than a few other people on the crew due to working with her family in the sun back at home. While she was a worker, her face was almost too gentle and curved, rather than pointed, for one who had been a member of the labor force. Her body was voluptuously curved with a well-defined chest and ass and a small waist, though her clothes didn't allow for it to be seen so easily. The two stood side by side as, finally, other members began to come up. A few of the girls had lighter hair, but most of them had dark hair. Very few members of the crew, male or female, had dark skin. A few other members were in their thirties or forties, the Captain's handpicked few. Half of the men had lighter hair, the other half had either black or brown hair. There were no redheads aboard. Aside from the older members, most of the crew were between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five. Sarafina was one of three seventeen-year-olds. Another boy came out with Sarafina at the very end of the line, guiding her by her arms as she kept trying to shy back below deck. The boy with her was one of the ones with somewhat lighter brown hair. His body was more muscular than the man who had come out with Aradia, but not by much, and the same height as Aradia had been. Sarafina's body wasn't as finely curved as her braver friend's, but the curves were there. Both the male's eyes and Sarafina's were bright blue, the latter's eyes wide and face open with fearful innocence and truly knowing and suspecting nothing of what was to come. Once all of the crew, or what remained of it, was out, they looked at their antagonists and waited for their judgment. Aradia spied around the deck, searching for Leo and biting her lip when she didn't see him. Leo... Let me know if I need to change anything.