CHAPTER 4
The next day they woke up hungry and thirsty. Leonard and Jimmy's last meal was lunch the day before, Spock's was dinner the day before yesterday.
Since they didn't know if the berries and fruit around them were poisonous or not so they went to look for water.
"There has to be water here somewhere for all these plants to grow," said Jimmy.
The trio was walking away from the site of the animal Spock had rendered unconscious yesterday to further the distance and to search for water.
After an hour of searching Leonard and Jimmy were ready to give up and rest when Spock closed his eyes and knitted his eyebrows together in concentration and then snapped his eyes open, composed his face as if he hadn't drawn his eyebrows together and started walking again.
"Hey Spock! Let's give it a rest," Jimmy yelled.
"Did you find something?" asked Leonard.
"Can you not hear the water?" asked Spock in return.
"What do you mean?"
"Come follow me."
Leonard and Jimmy sighed and got up and caught up with Spock who was leading them to a clearing and up ahead one hundred meters they saw a twinkling silver thread going across the center of the clearing and the ends disappearing on either end into the forest.
"Water!" yelled Leonard.
Jimmy and Leonard were about to run into the clearing when Spock said, "We must stay near the trees."
"Why?" asked Jim, "C'mon, we found water."
"We do not want to expose ourselves to danger, stay near the trees, we shall get there in good time."
Leonard and Jimmy saw the logic in this so they followed Spock's directions.
Just like Spock said, they got to the stream in good time. Spock could not believe that Jimmy and Leonard couldn't hear the stream flowing till they were much closer, thus Spock concluded Terrans must have weak hearing.
Leonard and Jimmy rushed to the stream and started drinking the clean water, Spock watched to make sure the surrounding area was safe.
After a while Jimmy and Leonard started splashing water at each other and laughed. Spock was concerned by this for on Vulcan water was a precious resource so he had never observed a water fight before. Leonard and Jimmy had a momentary truce to remove their shirts and jeans pants, placed them on a bush. They then jumped into the stream and continued their water fight.
"C'mon Spock, joi-," started Jimmy until he received a mouth full of water from Leonard.
Spock was concerned at first when Jimmy coughed and sputtered, but when he smiled and slapped some water back at Leonard he saw that Jimmy was all right and they were just playing, intending no harm to each other. He declined Jimmy's offer and went to the northern end of the stream to drink clean water that had not been disturbed by the swimming and playing of the two humans.