"What do you mean it wasn't your fault?"

"The earth moved!" Libby jumped back up.

"What the…" Cindy heard Jimmy yell from somewhere across the room. "There ain't any faults around here!"

"Jimmy, hurry!" Cindy yelled. "Get everyone you can out of here!" Cindy said scrambling to her feet.

"You kidding? We should get ourselves out!"

"Jim, most of them can't move themselves due to bleeding! How could you just let them all die?"

"Because… if they don't de… then I will!"

"Would you risk it for me?"

"Of course!"

"Then save as many as possible… NOW!"

"But…"

"JIMMY!!"

"Ok, ok… I'll do it." Instantly Jimmy, Cindy, Sheen, and Libby started to carry out individuals, starting with the 'kids' and those least likely to survive. The 'kids' were at the youngest fourteen so between the four of them they could only rescue two at a time. "This is useless!" Jimmy cried after Cindy and him had moved four people outside.

"The eight people outside right now don't think so."

"Still…" Cindy dragged Jimmy back inside and they carried out several more before both of them were shook to the ground, but in less than five seconds it ended again.

"You ok?" Cindy asked Jimmy after getting back up."

"For now… can we stay out here?"

"No! There's still another thirty people… and we have to tell those in the basement to get out!"

"Well… let's hurry…. Personally I don't wanna be in the house if the walls come down."

"Me ether! Thought you said there wouldn't be an earthquake?"

"Well… I was wrong… but there is still NO WAY that I can trust God."

Cindy rolled her eyes and sighed, then raced inside and downstairs telling the others, "Come on up! It's your life… or possibly could be your life! Don't take the chance for a possibility." The hundred or so people downstairs came up and all pitched in on carrying the wounded out. As Jimmy and Cindy carried the last one out Jimmy decided he needed a drink.

"Cin, be right back… I really need a drink."

"Hurry!"

"I will!" Jimmy raced inside and realized that there was no juice in the refrigerator so he'd have to go to basement to get some. The earth shook again when he got his juice and this time it didn't stop.

"Where's Jimmy… did he come back out yet?" Cindy asked the people nearest to the door.

"Haven't seen him." They answered back. Within seconds everyone was pushed to their knees and formed small prayer groups praying for the earth, Jimmy, and their safety.

"You've got to be kidding!" Jimmy started to run up the stairs as the first few steps gave way. Reaching the top stair he tried to again run outside, still holding on to his juice, but fell and couldn't get back up due to increasingly strong shakes of the earth.

"Jimmy!" Cindy called out. She was about to go inside and check on him, but Libby held her back.

"I don't wanna lose you! I need you here!"

"But… Jim doesn't believe… and he may… not live… and then…"

"Cin, I know you want to… but you jus can't! All you can do is pray." Realizing the reality of that Cindy bowed her head and joined hands with Libby and Alexa in prayer.

Inside Jimmy was trying his best to get back on his feet… but despite his best efforts he was still on the ground. At first he thought he could army crawl through to the doorway…then he remembered all the blood, and dead bodies in the living room. There's no way he could crawl over all that! He remembered that there was a door to the outside from the kitchen. He quickly started for the kitchen, as pieces from the ceiling started to tap his head. He heard plates from the kitchen cabinets fall and break, he heard the rest of the stairs give way, in one spot behind him it seemed as if the house had split into two. "Oh God… please make me leave here alive!" He cried.

The pieces falling from the ceiling got bigger and JUST as Jimmy almost reached the door a tree from the backyard fell into the house, landing right over him. Jimmy squinted his eyes tightly waiting for the inevitable. He knew that the tree would smash him… there was no escaping it. He was going to die.

  As Cindy prayed she saw the rest of the house fall to the ground. "Oh God, PLEASE let there have been some way that he made it out!" She prayed over and over again. She saw the tree hit the kitchen and not even three seconds later the whole house gave way. If he had been inside, there was not a chance that he had lived. Cindy looked around at the other houses. A few were smashed to the ground, a few standing, some torn in half. All of the neighbors were outside their homes; many screaming for loved ones that they did not know where they were.

It appeared that the GPO had gone home because no car was in sight. Some car drove by, but was shook off the road and into a tree. "Well… that's what you get for driving during an earthquake." Cindy said amusingly… yet she still feared for the person's life.   

  After another five minutes the earth stopped shaking, and there was a moment of silence before the sun turned pitch black. It was the strangest thing Cindy had ever seen… the sun still shown, and it was visible… but instead of its usual sunny yellow… it was black! "Libby, look!"

Libby looked to the sky and also saw the black sun. "Now that… that's cool! I wonder what the red moon looks like?" Slowly… and yet not so slowly… eye after eye turned to see the black sun.