[Part one of my participation on Primeval Age current on going event Doomsday] Meet my sucho family!
The day started already weird, with the island shaking. Then the lights came to life. Jaws had never seen anything like that and neither had his children, but that was nothing but the start as with the light of the stars coming down to the island, soon came the smell of smoke. Machines of all kinds, power generators, street lights, all the leftovers from the existence of humans in the island was awakening. But they weren't in the best state anymore, some of them leaked, some of them threw sparkles at the leaves around them. It went down pretty fast, suddenly Jaws found himself coughing black smoke, their skin covered in black goo that the fire used to bridge over the water. He pushed his kids below the waves, tuck their heads under and ran. Don't look back, not yet, but they couldn't swim far with little Riptide behind them. The pup was still too small for such travels and his dad had to settle at the end for a shore that wasn't affected by the fire yet.
"We can't stop here" Muskie insisted "It will catch up with us" No response. "Dad!" Still nothing, Jaws was clueless, as he shaked the oily water off his feathers, he found himself lost, and afraid, and responsible of a bunch of kids that were just as afraid, and even more lost. He didn't know where to go, the black smoke was burning on his eyes and his throat, and making it impossible to see the silhouette of the island from where they were standing. But just as he started to think he might be seeing the end of the world, he heard his kids joking around.
"This is your fault" Foam picked on Oilslick "Dad told you not to pee in the water and look now all that goo that grew in it" She was nervous, but trying to pick on her brother to ease the energy of the moment, and it was working, as Oilslick inmediatly jumped to defend himself, "I don't do that anymore it wasn't me, it probably was you" They started throwing bites at eachother, picking on eachother and even Wetdog let out a scoff as he dragged himself out drenched in black water. "Is everybody alright" Jaws asked, receiving a series of affirmations from the kids, "We can't stop here" The little ones sighed, exhausted already. "We'll be alright" He added, at the end, in a poor attempt to cheer them up. "We know, dad" Muskie said, stepping over to grab Riptide on her mouth, so he wouldn't have to walk. The rest of them marched after her, Wetdog bumping on Foam's shoulder to cheer her up to keep walking, she tried to bite back at him and Jewel ran to catch up with her big sister. Jaws couldn't do nothing but observe for a moment, the blind trust his family had on him, or more like, on themselves, on their family. They'll get out of this. Of course they would. He smirked for a second, and ran to catch up with them. They had to leave the smoke behind.
