chapter 3. Castaway

After being pushed and pulled in all directions for a while I was able to break away to the surface. Able to finally take a deep breath and regain my composure. I immediately start to look around for the safety raft. Not to much avail as it was pitch dark and the category 2 storm was still going just as strong. Suddenly I heard a couple of voices yelling that I recognized.

Realizing that it's was dad and Ollie I started swimming as fast as I could. Surprisingly it took me no time to get to them and confirm that it was them. The reason for the surprise is that Logan new well that he was an astoundingly good athlete. He could easy break state and national records before gaining the system(template). Now with the system(template) he got to the raft twice if not three times as fast as before. Either way I should think about this later as I was thinking my father and Ollie(Oliver) reached out and helped me in the raft.

After I was safely in the raft my father(Robert) pulled me into his arms thanking god that I was ok as well. I turned to check on ollie he was leaning over the Side of the raft screaming for Sarah. I could do nothing for him but pull him from the side of the raft and try to calm him down. "Ollie Sarah she's gone. She's gone." When those words left my mouth he stopped thrashing around and just looked defeated.

Now that thing's in the raft calmed down slightly I noticed that the third crew member that was originally on the raft wasn't here. Seeing that i wasn't surprised, me being in this world I figured there would be a butterfly affect. I just hope for Ollie's sake that the butterfly affect doesn't influence Sarah living or dying. Though there's not much I can do to help it for all i know this is some random AU. Therefore i don't know how useful my knowledge from my past live on the Arrow-verse will be.

As I was thinking of all this I looked at my father(Robert) and swore I wouldn't let him die. But as I made that promise a whole day had passed and I had yet to sleep. My father Robert looked to me and told me to sleep but I refused and another day passed. Even with having just awakening the system and getting such a physical and mental boost I was still drained. So I looked to Ollie with a deathly stare and told him to watch dad. He agreed almost immediately but I still grabbed his arm insisting how serious I was. Finally I went to sleep.

After waking up from a full night rest I felt better than ever. I looked over and seen that dad was ok and felt a sigh of relief. Then checked on Ollie he was just sitting there barely keeping his eyes open. Are you ok Ollie I asked. "Yea I'm just tired and hungry". Alright why don't I go catch us something to eat. Ollie look at my like I was crazy we're are you going to get us food we're in the middle of the ocean. Exactly their food all around us. Ollie just looked at me with a deadpan expression. Alright look after dad just a little longer while I get us something to eat. "Alright but try and make it quick I fell like I'm going to pass out"

I dive into the water to go look for something to eat. I immediately try a use my claws but nothing happened. So I try and think back on how I first used them. I have to think of something to enrage myself. Easy f***k you Merlyn. And just like clock work my claws erected out of my hands leaving a slight bit of blood to be swept by the current. I felt a big predator coming my way perfect something I can practice on. But when I turned I saw a great white shark. F***k.

I start using my incredible strength and dexterity to maneuver around the shark. But it was relentless. Like a predator that had found it prey. But what the shark didn't know was it was the prey. As the shark try's to swim past and latch onto my left arm. I easily flip around and cut through both his back and right fin. Leaving the shark nearly incapacitated and go for the final strike and put it out of its misery. Well it would be to suspicious if I came back with a full shark I'll just cut of its back side and say I found it like this.

As I was about 5 meters from the surface I heard a loud "POW". I knew what the sound was I just didn't want to emit it .I started immediately swimming as fast as I could once again but this time without holding anything back. I got back to the raft within seconds. I was feeling light headed and nauseous. I jumped in the raft and looked at my brother holding onto our now deceased father and my heart dropped to my gut. Ollie was just holding onto him crying i pulled both of them in my arms and did the same.

The next day came and it was silent me an Ollie haven't talked except for when he told me father's last words. " there not enough rations for all of us. You both can survive this make it home. Make it better right my wrongs but you got to live through this first POW". Since then I've just been doing a lot of thinking. I thought that because I was in this world that the same events might not go down. But I guess I was the naive one to think the timeline is so mailable. To think that just because of my existence that events that happened in the original timeline won't happen again. I see now it will be harder to stop fixed points in time from happening.

If that was so flash point wouldn't have been such a big deal in the DC world. All I know is if I want to save the people closest to me in the future I'll have to figure out how to manipulate fixed points. Damn. I don't even know if that's possible. Well no point in getting worked up over it right now all I need to worry about for the next five years is surviving and getting stronger.

We drifted for several more days. We ran out of rations early on we wouldn't have survived without the extra fresh water father sacrificed himself for. Well Ollie would have died without it I've been consuming nothing but fish and fish blood for the past couple of days. But I'm not letting Ollie know because then he will wrap himself in guilt. Thought it nothing to me I guess because I have the template. And not just that I've adopted Logan's personality along with all his memories. So I was able to stay relatively calm throughout this ordeal because of his original personality. He's was a genius really in my opinion. And because of that he never really felt excitement and joy like other kids. And I grew up pretty fast I've always been mature. So I guess it just in my nature to stay calm in the worst situations. Not to say I'm perfect and don't feel emotional at times.

Ollie suddenly pushed me out of my thoughts process. when he started to scream as if it wasn't for his voice being shot that he couldn't be any louder. Land! Land! I see land Logan. I know I know. We just hugged each other and cried as we drifted slowly to a small looking island.

(Arthur notes: please comment and let me know what you like and dislike about the chapter. Also next chapter will show a lot more with the system/template with a lot more detail.)