Willa's POV…

"So… where to?" Jess asked.

"I don't know. That way, I guess."

"You know, we've been here for almost 24 hours, and none of us have thought to look for fresh water."

"Yeah. We should find that… and remember how to get there…"

"So, what do we do?"

"Walk around till we hear water flow or something, I guess. But keep your eyes open. I'll bet there's some awesome things here…" I said.

"Yeah."

We slowly pushed through the various plants and leaves, each step we took made a crunching sound.

I went to push a leaf out of my way when I saw it: a big, fat, juicy spider. It had to be the size of my thumb.

"AHHHHHH!" I freaked Jess out, who, thinking something was wrong, screamed too.

"WHAT!" she yelled.

"Sp-sp-"

"Spider? You've got to be kidding m- OH! That is a big spider!"

"Uh-huh…" I breathed.

"With fangs…"

"Y-yeah… Let's go that way…"

"Good idea…"

We continued on a different route, and soon, we heard a slight echo. It sounded like static, when your TV gets all fuzzy and makes that noise.

"What's that?"

For a second, I considered saying 'TV static', but I realized how unbelievably stupid that sounded, and that I must be extremely dehydrated and 'out of it'.

"Let's check it out." She said, and started towards the noise.

"Jess!" I ran after her.

As we got closer, it got more and more humid. The noise was almost deafening now, a roaring sound that rippled through your eardrums.

"Jess…" I slammed into her as she stopped abruptly.

"Whoa!" She cleared away a branch, and it came into view:

A waterfall. Fresh water. Twenty feet tall, and white water rushing down it. At the bottom of the waterfall, the river continued on, a very strong current tugging through the water.

"Finally! I'm so thirsty!" I ran up to the water, knelt down, and I scooped some water up in my hands, and took a big sip.

"Willa! It's filled with dirt! You have to boil it first!"

I remembered that slight fact, and gagged as I choked out the disgusting water.

"Willa?" Jess came up to me and hammered on my back.

"Uh… thanks…So, we found water… what do we do now?"

"I'm sweating. I'm going for a swim!"

"Cool!"

We both jumped in,

"COLD!"

"Y-yeah…"

She sneezed.

"L-lets get out… and-d t-then we'll g-go back and tell th-them what we f-found." I whispered, barely getting the words out. My teeth were chattering too much.

"Okay…"

We swam towards the shore, trying desperately to get out of the cold. The current was way too strong, so it took us a long time to get out. The whole time we were swimming was like torture. I already lost all feeling in my legs, and my arms were tingling. It was so cold, it hurt. And I was shivering, really bad. So was Jess. Finally, I reached the bank. I turned around and helped Jess up, then tried to get out. I fell, but she caught me before the current took me. She dragged me out.

"Th-thanks…"

"N-no problem."

"We should g-get b-back. They're probably worried."

"Y-yeah. Th-the beach is th-that way."

We got up, and slowly made our way through the jungle, remembering each step so we could come back later.

Finn's POV…

"Maybeck, where are you going?" We had been in the jungle for an hour now, pointlessly walking around, but always keeping an eye on the beach.

"Uh… That way…?"

"Why?"

"Well we have to start somewhere."

"Good point. Lead the way, then." Philby said.

We pushed through the plants, following Maybeck.

"So, uh, what are we looking for?" I said slowly.

"Just exploring." Maybeck said.

"Cool." When did Maybeck become the leader?

We kept on walking. Suddenly, Maybeck tripped over something. We all looked down.

Bones. A skeleton. With flesh still on it.

Philby screamed, and we all joined in. Next thing we knew, we were in a mad dash back to the beach. When we had put a good distance between us and the bones, we slowed down. Suddenly, Philby stopped.

"WAIT!"

We stopped dead in our tracks.

"What?"

"That!" He answered, "Over there, what is that? In the rock face!"

We all looked at the wall of rock. Sure enough, there was something there.

"A cave!" I yelled.

"Let's go see." Philby suggested.

I led the way towards the cave. We stood next to it, and looked in. The opening was about ten feet tall, ten feet wide. Sunlight shone in and we could see the back of the cave, about twenty feet back. We hesitantly stepped inside. Inside, the cave was a bit bigger than the opening, probably 20 feet by 20 feet.

"It's like a room carved into the side of the rock." Maybeck pointed out.

"Yeah… we could sleep in here!" I said.

"No more tents!"

"Yes!" Philby yelled.

"Let's go tell the others!" I started out of the cave, and Philby and Maybeck followed.

We ran back to the beach, and sat down near Charlene and Amanda.

"Are you okay?" Amanda said, as soon as she saw us.

"Fine, why?"

"We heard you scream like five-year-old girls." Charlie laughed.

"Oh… uh…" Philby was about to explain, but I cut in.

"A giant bug. With seven legs, and a stinger. A three-inch-long stinger. It landed on Phil's back."

We nodded.

"Wimps." Charlene said, and turned back to having a conversation with Amanda, about dresses or something.

I turned to the guys.

"We can't tell them, they'll freak out!" I whispered.

They nodded.

"Hey," Amanda said, looking at us. "Did you see the girls anywhere?"

"No."

"I'm starting to get worried."

"Should we go look for them?" I asked.

"No, they're right there!" Charlene laughed. She pointed down the beach, and we could see two girls walking towards us slowly.

"GUYS! OVER HERE!" Amanda yelled, trying to flag them down.

The girls stopped suddenly, looked at each other, then ran towards us.

They got here quickly, and as they sat down, we all noticed that they were soaking wet, and shivering.

"What happened?"

"Th-the r-river. W-we…" Willa began to say, but Jess, seeing that made no sense, cut her off.

"W-we found a river. S-so we went for a s-swim. C-cold."

"Come by the fire, guys. Warm up."

"Th-thanks." They both sat in front of the fire, and Amanda gave them the blankets from the first aid kit.

"So… you found fresh water?"

Willa nodded.

"Do you remember where it is?"

"Yeah. I know how to get there." Jess answered. They had stopped shivering now.

"Can you take us?" Charlene asked.

"Can I warm up first?" Willa asked quietly.

"Sure."

"Yeah, in the meantime, we'll tell you what we found." Maybeck said braggingly.

"What?" Amanda said eagerly.

"We found… drum roll please." I joked.

"Spit it out already, Whitman." Charlene said bluntly.

"A cave. Big enough to live in, but not too big. Perfect size. It's about twenty by twenty feet.

"Really?" Willa asked excitedly.

"Yeah. We should sleep in there tonight, the wind's picking up. It'll probably storm again."

"So we better get to the stream before it storms. Willa, Jess, Amanda, and I will go get water; the rest of you will move all the supplies to the cave. Sound good?" I planned.

"Sounds good."

"Let's go, then. Find, like, a bucket from the plane's kitchen to put water in."

"The jet had a kitchen?"

"No, Maybeck, they just snapped their fingers, and food appeared in front of us!" Jess yelled sarcastically.

Maybeck grunted, and the four of us went to get buckets from the plane.

A while later, we sat in front of the stream. I stuck my hand in.

"Ooh. That's cold!" I said, taking my hand out quickly.

"Tell me about it." Willa muttered.

"Everybody, fill your buckets and start walking back to the cave." I instructed. They did as I said, amazingly.

Once everyone had some water, we began walking back.

"Oh…my…god. So… heavy…" Willa complained for, like, the 30th time.

"Yeah… I know…" Jess said.

Eventually, we made it to the cave.

"Guys…we have… water…"

Charlie rushed over to help us.

"Ow… thanks." Willa said as she took the bucket from her. Willa collapsed onto the floor, and muttered a quick "Good night." before completely falling asleep.

I chuckled slightly. "We didn't even eat lunch."

"Lunch? It's… seven o'clock!" Jess said, checking her watch. She coughed.

"And the sickness begins!" Philby said in a weird voice.

"Shut up, you're weird." Jess said.

"Hey. It's what you get for sleeping in the rain!"

She rolled her eyes.

"We should eat some dinner." Amanda suggested.

"Yeah." Maybeck got up, but tripped over the sleeping Willa.

"Ah!" Willa sat up and shrieked.

"Sorry!"

"Watch where you're going, bighead!"

"Don't lay in the middle of the cave, idiot!"

"Ugh!"

"Guys, try not to bite each other's heads off!" Jess cut in.

"Do we have any fruit left?" Amanda asked.

"Yeah. Here. Enough for everyone to have a piece." Philby began tossing people the fruit.

We all dug in.

"You know, we're pretty calm for being stuck on an island." Maybeck pointed out.

"Just wait. We'll all be freaking out by tomorrow." I said.

"Yeah. That'll be fun." Amanda sighed.

"Umm, guys it's-" a large clap of thunder cut Charlene off. She yelped at the sudden noise. "-raining."

"Well, good thing we found the cave." I said.

"Yup. Haha, look." Amanda laughed and motioned towards Jess and Willa. They were curled up, already sleeping.

"Aww…" Charlie chuckled.

"They've got a good idea. Night, guys." I layed down on a blanket, and tried to go to sleep.

"Night. I'm putting out the fire." Philby said. I don't know how he did it, but I heard a sizzle, and it got a lot darker. Suddenly, I felt a presence next to me. I opened one eye.

"Hey, you don't mind me sleeping here, do you?" Amanda asked.

"Not at all." I smiled.

Soon, I could hear the steady breathing of everyone, now I was the only one awake.

Well. We managed to get through one day fairly unharmed. Who knows what'll happen tomorrow?

And I fell asleep.

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So? Chapter three! Or… four, was it? Four, i think...

You know, all of my friends think I can't write a story for my life… Well, they'll never know, I guess. LOL!

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