8 Sun Beaten

Lights were reflected on the water as ripples shook the surface of the pond.

Cars roared past, tires thundering on the ground. A semi truck plowed through the pond and water sprayed surrounding vehicles.

The screech of tires on asphalt and panicked shouts fill the once peaceful quiet. Cars stop, people jump out of moving vehicles. A shadow looms over the ground, shrouding the slowly sinking truck.

As the massive, blazing blimp descended towards the ground, people scattered to avoid the burning monstrosity that threatened to destroy the surrounding area.

Heat pours off of it in waves and bodies drop to the ground, covering their heads in fear of the destruction. As the air leaks out in a screeching, whistling rush, fire leaps off the surface and spreads across the grass, not stopping even as it reaches the water; it licks across the waves and latches onto the truck in tendrils of smoke and flame.

The sky turns black, the air thick with smoke and ash. The blaze spreads from grass to tree, torching the once picturesque scenery. The truck burns, and the men inside are left to either the water or the inferno that waits outside.

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