It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiiiiine~
Yuri and hit the ‘next’ button on his iPod, not in the mood for that particular REM song when his plane seemed to be undergoing a bit of turbulence. Usually flying never bothered him, and more often than not he was able to sleep on a flight, or at least lose himself to his routine music or practice songs. Poland to Spain was going to be a quick one anyway, so there was no point in sleeping. Now that he could. Right now, his mind was only on Barcelona.
He had made it. It was time for all his hard work to come to fruition. Time to show the world that he had what it took, that he was the best.
A particularly rough bump made him open his eyes only to see the panicked faces of the other passengers. With his headphones on, he hadn’t heard the pilot’s announcement. An oxygen mask dangled before him, and the terrified passenger beside him was trying to fit a similar mask over the face of a small girl, sobbing into her pink teddy bear.
Yuri felt ice in his veins and his stomach dropped. He blinked and first class was gone, torn off as though a toddler had ripped a paper airplane in half. Bits of metal flying through the air. Seats, people, just gone and... spinning? Everything was spinning and grey and black, and people were screaming- Yuri was sure they had to be from their horrified faces- but all he could hear was the music in his headphones.
The skater didn’t have the presence of mind to hit the ‘next’ button, or pull the oxygen mask towards his own face. He curled into a ball in his seat, knees lifting up and arms wrapping around them as he closed his eyes and willed all of this to be a terrible nightmare.In his ears, a new song crooned on.
I wish I were in Barcelona now...
And then, everything was blackness.
When Yuri next opened his eyes, he felt a strange pull on his abdomen, and a rush of blood to his head. He saw ground below him, and a pink teddy bear with mussed fur and red stains, but no one else nearby. His headphones had stopped playing- the battery dead- and they had fallen from his ears, dangling by the cord that had plugged into the iPod.
That’s when he realized that he, too, was dangling. His seat had ripped free from the body of the plane, and he was hanging precariously upside down from half-broken branches.
“Help!” He called out, looking around desperately to try and see someone, anyone nearby, someone alive, someone who could get him out of here. He tried not to thrash, afraid any movement could send him plumetting to the ground. “Help me!”