Amy- Day Four
"Well it's official," I said to the camera as I walked along, "No more food and I have only water left. They probably thought I would die soon because I would not know how to survive. Well I'll show them up. I savef the water and I only take small sips every fifteen minutes just to keep my mouth wet. But what they didn't know was what lives out here. See this desert has many surprises. Just look right there."
I zoomed in on a scorpion. "I have food out here in this dry arid place. Even though I am an animal conservationist I am looking at the only way of eating anything. Besides one of these is nutritious, why do you think people in Japan eat this stuff? Plus most bugs are good for you. Did you know that I've come in contact with snakes that have been thought to be extinct since like the 1970's?"
I picked up the scorpion professionally around its stinger. "Well here goes nothing. Fear Factor, eat your heart out."
Resting the scorpion on my tongue I bit down on the critter and began chewing. It was crunchy yet satisfying, which made me think of the movie Lion King.
"It's not that bad, just a little bit of a bitter taste afterwards."
Finishing off my food I wiped my mouth. "The things I do to survive. Oh well. Let's keep on walking and see where we go from here." I threw down the stinger and just kept on walking.
"I don't know why I decided to do this. I should be saving… Hot damn!" I had climbed a rocky hill and saw a waterhole. "Do you see it? That's water! And I think I see people. Let's hope they like America. Dude, are those camels?"
I walked along in hopes of finally able to get out of this situation. I approached one of the camels who were drinking from the water hole and it looked at me, it saw me before the people did. They carried guns so I was on my toes.
"Excuse me!" I called getting their attention.
I saw them grab for their guns, these three men, and look at me. I instinctively raised my arms in defense still pointing my video camera at them. After a brief minute of looking me over the men lowered their guns and looked at each other.
"American?" the tallest of the three asked.
"Yes. Do you speak English?"
"That I do. What brings an American kid out here?"
"I was in Baghdad on an assignment for my local newspaper. I was taken hostage and I have been roaming the desert for four days. I don't have food and I'm running low on water."
The three looked and talked amongst themselves in Arabic. "There is a village a two hour ride from here, we're going there for trade. There is talk of American soldiers there. Maybe they can help you. Come, you can ride my camel."
Thanking the man he helped me up on the back of one of the camels and they herded the animals away from the waterhole.
Raven- at home
After Jeff, AJ and Andy left Dad stayed awake at my house staring at the pictures on my mantle piece. They seemed to timeline from left to right, from our first meeting to about a week before I left for Iraq. There were me with Matt and Jeff Hardy, some with Dad at Halloween, with me putting Andy in a headlock then the last one struck him odd. It was of me in an alligator pit with Jeff and Andy. He forgot momentarily that I had conned those two in doing something stupid and we ended up at a local Miami alligator farm.
"Either she is going to kill herself one of these days from what she loves to do or die doing what she loves. No wonder why she decided to take that Zoo job when I joined TNA."
Turning away from the mantle Dad walked to the back bedroom and fell asleep on my bed. He was out like a light when the phone rang.
"Dad! I'm coming home!" I yelled over the sound of a helicopter in the background before hanging up.