Gotta love a good cliffhanger!

We all know that The Tribe gave us some good cliffhangers. Who lived, who died, who escaped--the next episode was always eagerly anticipated!

KTDA is no slouch in the cliffhanger department. We put in some extra effort when we end a season & get ready for a new one.

What follows is a great example. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it!


The Brotherhood--End Game
Post #1877

*Chyna stands in front of the tribe leaders' building. The night around her grows quiet. The shooting stops. The flares stop. After the noise of battle, the silence is deafening. She smiles when she sees Xeno coming out of the building in front of her. She glances back over her shoulder and sees Prince walk out of the alley with Bishop, hurrying to safety. To her left, Fennec moves toward her. To her right, Fay and Black Jack approach with a group of small kids. All this, in a second of absolute silence...* 

*Suddenly the road jumps up and smashes Chyna in the face. Through blood and tears, she watches the building behind Xeno come crashing down. Shards of glass fill the air--in horror she watches Fennec snatch a small boy and toss him to the sidewalk--then the ground opens beneath him! A troop of Brotherhood soldiers aim their weapons at the tribe leaders and the children--limp bodies fall--soldiers are crushed under the weight of an entire building collapsing into the street.*

*Chyna's screams are soundless. The world plunges into chaos, until only one thought remains...* (I love you.) 

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*Brena comes downstairs with Xeno. She frowns thinking about what Xeno has told her--that he loves Chyna, that he cares about what happens to Brena. She walks through the door and sees, but doesn't hear? In an instant her mind connects the dots. She knows about this complete absence of noise--she's lived through it before--Brena dives to the ground yelling at Xeno! But he doesn't hear her.*

*Noise begins to grow as the building above them heaves. Brena tries to protect herself from the bricks and glass, watching Xeno and the rest of the world disappear in fire!* 

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*Xeno walks out to the street beside Brena. His thoughts are in a mess. The battle, the evacuation, what they can do to get out of this alive... Brena, Chyna, HIS choice. Chyna his love. The memory of one moment lets him hope he can finally face tomorrow with anticipation instead of guilt--Chyna told him she loved him.* 

*Something isn't right. He looks up, sees Chyna in the street--sees a Brotherhood soldier behind her, aiming his weapon at her. He screams! A column of fire explodes up, engulfing the soldier.*

*A pelting glass rain brings agonizing slivers of pain that blot out the world.* 

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*The earth heaves and explodes down the length of Merchant Street. The concrete and pavement of the street fall away into the sewer that was the last escape route... the one the wounded took to get away from the combat zone. The strength of the explosion reaches throughout the city--collapsing buildings, heaving pavement, shattering windows. The number of injuries is catastrophic, The living have to abandon the injured and dead if they hope to survive this night!*

*On every street, in every alley and down to the beaches, kids run from the nightmare of it. A brave few look back and witness the column of flame shooting into the night sky. 

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*On a distant road, a lone figure looks towards the city and sees a mushroom cloud slowly rising into the night. The figure stops and pulls out a drink and a smoke, sitting back to watch the cloud as it blots out the moon. When the moon reappears, the figure hurries on toward Fort River.*



Who lives? Who dies? What happens next? Gotta love a good cliffhanger!

-Chyna

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