Username;;Karmaloco
RPW Name;;Baron von Ratchet
RPW Gender;;Male
Title;; Baron(A type of lord)
Story;;The sound of the deflating air grew louder, almost unbearable. "Sir, did you hear me? We are crashing, what do I tell the crew?" my copilot asked frantically, I was too shocked to answer. Our first journey since fall and we sprang an air leak in the side of the balloon. "Tell them to continue all the can to keep us in the air!" I barked at him as he nodded and walked off, I had never had to captain a crashing air ship before. What am I doing? Am I doing well enough to save us? Questions rushed through my mind as the ground slowly became closer.
I took a deep breath and focused on getting my crew in order, "alright keep the steam flowing! It will help us stay afloat!" I shouted out as the alarms rang in the background, I'm just a baron! I only took over because my friend had trained me how to be a captain, but why was this happening? I ran out the nearest escape to see if I could see the balloon above, unfortunately I could. There was a large hole on the side of the balloon while a few crew members were frantically patch the hole. I went back into the cockpit and noticed to my dismay every gauge was flashing and more steam pouring out. I took a long inhale and grabbed the microphone near by, I knew what I had to do.
"Guys" my voice shook, "We have to abandon ship, but there aren't enough parachutes for all of us to make it out of here. I want every woman and man with a family to take first go at these chutes, that should then cover all of them." I took a sharp exhale, "The rest of us, will be going down with this ship" I cut the microphone off quickly choking down a few tears. I had never wanted anything like this to happen, never knew these ships could actually crash. I reached for the microphone once more after the ones with families had started jumping, "you have all been gre-" I was interrupted by a tap at my shoulder.
"I'll go down with you my lord" my copilot, "no, no you were supposed to jump with the others! You and your mate have recently welcomed your first pup, I can't let you!" I was shocked and almost disgusted, he chose his job and honer over his mate! "I'm not letting you go down alone sir, yes there are a few others on board but they aren't nobility, and they have chose to go down, so have I" I looked at him in shock, "but your family! What about your fam-" my sentence was cut short, interrupted by the ground.
When I awoke, I was outside the ship, bloody, but alive why was I alive? How did I survive! I looked at the ship consumed in fire, no screams came from inside, no motion, I ran to the wreckage with hope at least my copilot lived. Alas to my great disappointment I was the only one, how? How could I have lived, when others died for their baron, their lord. Why should I have lived? Why?..