Small island small hope

That feeling woke Ben up from a dead sleep.]⁰0

Marooned on a island that was no bigger than a football field a few coconut trees were around but other than that nothing, Ben had to go relieve himself so he started to walk around the island

he found a good spot pretty far from the campsite, if you can call it that, one inflatable was used as a wall to block the afternoon sun⁹⁸ and the other one was a roof, sort of.

And all the supplies were counted emergency food small portions and and can openers, flares

canvas tarps cooking utensils, pans pots, plates a metal Spit for cooking, When they got there a lot of debris from various ships littered the coastline of that island ,wood and a lots of different crates, Heim said this much debris probably means we are close to a major shipping line so ships could pass by everyday or every other day maybe just one a week, but the main thing is that Israel close a fire could attract them

so Ben's job was to gather wood and green palm leaves, after a small hill of debris was collected and put into a pile the needed an accelerant Ben was looking around and saw a familiar sight

a vodka bottle that they probably threw over the side, Ben picked it up and put it next to the pile Ben grabbed a box of wooden matchsticks and put it next to the bottle.

Ben had never been a superstitious kind of person, but he was wondering if he heard a ghost or something else.

A few days later and Ben was on the coast trying to hunt for crabs or fish anything he could find, it's not that they were low on food, in fact some of those crates had food, Ben just wanted something different than canned goods and it is a great way to waste time.

Heim and Franz made it seem like a Hawaiian vacation sitting in holes that almost resemble lawn chairs and they found a few barrels of beer,

German beer to be exact, they were just chatting away for the whole day, drinking and talking, Franz got so drunk that Ben saw him crying and carrying on about Hanz, saying his last joke,

Franz said I don't want you to die Hanz but Hanz said it's ok I'm going to heaven I can die ,Franz said how do you know that you are going to heaven, that's when Hanz said it's because now the bullet holes have made me holy , that's when Hanz had died laughing.

This went on for a few days when a familiar sound hit their ears, it was thunder Heim said it looked like it might hit in a few hours we must prepare, Heim and Franz started to dig holes with boards that were laying around, about twenty feet apart and Ben was grabbing gear and supplies to put into one hole after a Heims hole was done all the supplies were put into the hole then a inflatable was put on top to try and keep it all dry then sand was thrown on top of the inflatable so it didn't fly away the storm was getting closer and nightfall was upon them

getting harder to see and the wind started up they put the other inflatable the same way exept they put planks and boards on top so the roof wouldnt crush them and covered that one too with sand and made a little tunnel on one side

Damn Heim is smart when it comes to surviving the elements, we are protected from the rain and wind , just as the storm was about to hit Heim went back outside and grabbed the beer and cups and said to Franz, almost forgot dinner they laughed and drank into the night, as the storm raged on outside they were warm ,dry, and safe well as dry as it gets the sand was a little damp but that is to be expected, Ben just used more blankets to compensate for the dampness and drifted of to sleep.

The next morning was a rough one for Heim he had a monster of a headache, the storm outside was still raging and Ben got up to pee he crawled down the tunnel and the water had accumulated at the entrance Ben was crawling in water he poked his head out of the hole and ran to a nearby palm tree, did his business and was about to head back when over to his right he saw a piece of drift wood a little bigger than the entrance and went to grab it the second he grabbed it lightning had struck Ben, not directly more like it skimmed the water broke off into two and Ben was grazed by the lightning, still it was enough to knock him out for a while, Ben woke up in the makeshift room and looked around, Heim said your awake I was worried after you had been gone half an hour I got worried and looked for you and found you by the water holding a board and looked next to the ground was a black mark from lightning.

Ben was getting up but Heim told him to lay down, but I feel fine and I don't have any burns,

liar Heim said you have a burn mark on the right side of your head Ben felt around and didn't feel a thing, Heim was saying that I might get a scar from it but I dont feel anything except some hair that is missing, Heim looked and he was right no burns or scarring that is truly weird Franz said you must be some kind of freak or something.

Heim knew different he knew about the regenerative powers that this child possessed

that's why the fuhrer wanted him, that's why Heim needed him, Heim needed him for something else for someone that he cared about.

Good as long as you're ok go ahead and move around, oh and good idea using the board for a door, that's what you were going to do right said Heim, yeah I was till I became a human lightning rod.