Since Ty hurt his head as well during his fall from the third floor of the Shawn villa, he did not manage to think clearly nor did he panic. Instead, his thoughts were unusually rationalistic. He stood there in awe, feeling like looking at a natural disaster movie as a spectator.

Shouldn’t there have been an earthquake before it though? Even just a tiny one? Or maybe he had overslept it?

He looked at the young woman, who appeared calm and omniscient. Suddenly, everything became clear to him and he got terrified.

“Help me!” The woman said with a hint of a smile on her face and that made Ty jump a bit. The boy gasped and started walking back slowly towards the entrance, not taking his eyes off her. She seemed eerily calm to him.

“Is this your work?” He glanced back at the waves coming from the distance. They weren’t so distant now. The woman’s smile vanished as she got more and more impatient.

“Help me,” she repeated, her expression stern.

“If this is your work, then you are going to kill everybody. Even me and probably yourself” Ty nervously ran his fingers through his hair. He wished that the tsunami was the woman’s work and then he could perhaps persuade her to stop. There were lives at stake now.

“Not you.” The woman smiled. She was even calmer now. “Help me!” She demanded again.

“Help you in what? I don’t understand. Could you be a little more specific about what you want? I am not going to kill anybody, I told you!”

“Kill,” the red-haired woman insisted. Ty looked around and saw people in the distance running or escaping to higher grounds. Ty’s city district was still calm and the people there have just started noticing the waves coming at them.

“Mister, we must run,” cried one of the servants. Ty did not move. He did not even budge when the weak middle-aged male servant wanted to push him aside. After a few rapid tries, he gave up. Another female servant cried out.

“Mister, get out of there!”

The water came crashing into the city. It drifted houses and cars as if they were a piece of wood carried by a small river current. It took people and animals. Everything happened so fast. Nobody could stand again such natural force.

“Help me,” the red-haired woman asked again more impatiently.

“Can you at least save my friends and servants? They’ve got nothing to do with this!” Ty pointed back at his villa, pleading.

“Help me.”

“No, save them first!” demanded the boy after seeing his pleading had no results.

“Help me.”

“No!” The wave almost reached their villa. It was gigantic. So gigantic that the teenage boy suddenly felt small and insignificant. He did not want to die young. He felt more terrified than ever before in his entire life.

“Help me,” the woman’s voice shook him out of his short trance.

“Okay, okay, I will help you but save my friends, ah –“ at that very moment, the water has finally reached them. The red-haired woman opened her arms. Still facing the boy, she shielded him from the wave and at first, it seemed to go right past them and the villa. But she couldn't hold the wave for much longer and it crashed on the boy. He was swept away by the current and hit his head on something hard pretty badly.

***

“We found him!” Buzz.

“Ty, Tyson Shawn! Do you hear me?” Buzz.

“Let him go! He might be dead already.” Buzz. Something mechanical and loud was working in the background making it difficult to hear for the boy.

“No, he is still breathing,” then someone slapped him in the face. Tyson slowly opened his eyes. Buzz. He had a terrible headache. He might have probably ingested a few gallons of water as well. He coughed up some on the floor. Damn, he hated the feeling of drowning.

“Hello Ty, good to see you alive,” a large grin appeared on the face of the closest person to him. It was hard to understand what he was saying, because of the loud noise in the background.

Blonde hair? Ty wiped his eyes.

“Zeno?”

“Yes, and not just me, all five of us are here!” he waved at everybody in the helicopter.

Helicopter? That explained the buzzing noise to him.

Ty’s friends were sitting in the machine, tired but happy, their clothes wet and dirty, together with three lifeguards. Everyone was smiling at him. One of the rescuers gave Ty a helmet with a transmitter so that he could communicate better. The lifeguards have informed the boys that they have been extremely lucky, as only their house did not get washed away by the tide so the rescuers were able to find them on the rooftop pretty quickly.

“Everything got washed away?” Ty asked in a weak voice. He wasn’t sure if people could hear him. The lifeguard nodded.

“You guys are probably the only ones who survived the tsunami without any major injuries. We are still searching for more people to rescue. But for now, don’t worry, we will take you to a safe place,” he reassured the boys.

Ty nodded back. Then, he looked out of the window. Everything was destroyed. Not a single building remained. All that beautiful white dazzling small village was swept away in such a short time.

“What about... the servants?” Ty asked with now a little louder voice. The others did not reply at first.

“We saw them running out of the house. They were all in a panic. They wanted to take us with them, but we didn’t go. At that moment, they all got washed away and we locked ourselves in the living room upstairs.” Zeno sighed. “Wasn’t the most clever thing to do, but we were scared and hangover.”

“You guys were lucky that your luxurious villa was made of strong brick” the lifeguard tried easing the tension with a joke. Everyone forced out a laugh to keep their spirits. Except for Ty. He noticed the red-haired girl, who had just appeared on the opposite seat in front of him but not the others, her eyes following even his tiniest movements attentively.

“You did not save them all,” he whispered. The others did not pay attention to him as they were busy joking and lifting up the mood.

“You only asked for your friends to be saved by the time the water has reached you, you did not ask for the others clearly enough,” she shrugged her shoulders. For some reason, Ty was able to hear her more clearly than the others. He thought it must have been his mind playing tricks with him. Eventually, he fell asleep and wished that this event was just a part of the nightmare from the previous day.