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Alexis groans at the pain in her head and reaches up only to find someone has bandaged it. She struggles to sit up and looks up when someone helps her.

"So you're awake then?" Melinda smirks and hands her a bottle of water.

"Thanks," Alexis says and takes a drink before looking around. "What happened?"

"Plane went down," Melinda says, stating the obvious. "You were lucky that you got knocked out. I saw everything," she says quietly.

"The others?" Alexis asks fearfully.

"Zach, Christy and one of the suits are banged up but they're OK. James' arm is broken. Professor Jones is in really bad shape, something cut into his side pretty deep...everyone else is dead."

Alexis closes her eyes as tears threaten to spill out of them and Melinda nudges her. "Hey, none of that. We have to stay strong if we're going to get out of this."

Alexis shakes her head. "You're right. We don't know how long it'll be until they'll find us. We need to figure out what to do." She stands up and almost falls over as a wave of dizziness hits her.

"Whoa," Melinda says as she catches her. "Maybe you should rest for a while."

"No. I'm OK," Alexis says and straightens up. She looks at their surroundings in confusion. They appear to be in the middle of a forest. Very little light is able to filter through the trees to the forest floor. Something doesn't feel right about this forest, everything is to quiet. There are no birds singing, no sound of crickets chirping, not even the sound of bugs scurrying through the dried leaves. She unconciously shivers at the sight of this ominous forest and glances over at Melinda.

"Scares me too," Melinda says as if reading her mind.

Zach and Christy hurry over to them. "We found a first aide kit and some other stuff we can use," Zach says and turns to look at Alexis. "Are you alright?"

"Yea."

They make they're way over to where the Professor is laying. Alexis kneels down to check on him as the other survivors gather firewood. When they return she helps Zach and the business man, who introduced himself as Nick start a fire.

"Thankfully there's a clear running stream nearby but what are we going to do for food?" Zach asks quietly.

"We hunt," Nick says pulling a lighter out of his pocket.

"But with what? We don't have any guns. And we don't have anything to make spears with. Our best bet is to look for nuts and berries," Alexis sighs.

"I don't know anything about the kinds of berries that are safe to eat," Nick says and looks up from the fire. "Do you?"

"I do," Alexis states. "Here's what we'll do: Since James' arm is broken he can watch Professor Jones. You two and Christy can work on getting us some shelter and Melinda and I will go and see if we can find any berries."

Zach looks up at her in surprise and grins. "You're always so quiet in school. Who knew that you were so bossy?"

"I'm not bossy," Alexis exclaims. "I'm just in my element. I've been going on camping trips since I could walk."

"I was just teasing. Besides its a good thing someone knows what they're doing because I sure in the heck don't." Zach stands up. "One shelter coming up. Christy," he calls and then begins gathering anything that can be used to make a shelter.

"Alexis, look at this," Melinda calls.

Alexis turns and finds Melinda kneeling down and looking at something. She walks over to her and gasps when she sees what Melinda's looking at. Laying on the ground is the broken shaft of what appears to be an arrow.

Alexis begins crawling around on the ground and brushing fallen leaves aside.

"What are you doing?" Melinda questions.

Alexis grins and holds up an arrow head. "Looking for this. Look around, maybe there's more."

Both girls begin searching through the dead leaves, hoping to find more of the tips. "Do you think we should worry about whoever made these?" Melinda asks suddenly.

"Nah, they're probably long gone," Alexis reassures her. "But it is strange that they're made of metal." She sits up and thinks about it for a minute before continuing her search. "Oh my God! Look at this," Alexis exclaims and holds up an intricately designed knife. The handle is made of a dark, reddish-brown wood. The blade is shiny as if it had recently been polished and leaves have been etched along the blade. She lightly runs her finger across the edge. "Owe. Damn its as sharp as a razor blade," she says as she presses her thumb against her jeans to stop the bleeding.

Melinda looks up and sighs. "We better start looking for more berries. It'll get dark soon."

After they finish gathering enough berries to feed everyone they return to camp. The others have finished building a shelter and have moved Professor Jones into it. The shelter's rough but it'll due to keep them dry if it rains. Alexis tells them about the arrow tip and knife they found and after eating everyone sets about making some spears so that they can hunt.

Its been two days since the crash and the group is beginning to worry that they will never be found. The good news is that Professor Jones is getting better. When they had found the first aide kit they were able to clean and stitch his wound. Alexis was stuck with that job, the others saying that she should do it since she was the only one that knew how to sew. So after cursing herself for taking home-ec and wretching twice she managed to close his wound.

Melinda and Christy are busy cooking some fish for everyone to eat when Christy screams. "Spider!" Melinda shrieks wide- eyed as both girls run away from the fire.

"I never expected you to be scared of a spider Mel," Alexis chuckles. "Just squish it."

"You squish it," Melinda says as she tosses Alexis a spear. "If you think you can."

Alexis shakes her head and starts toward the fire. "Where is..." Alexis screams as a giant spider drops to the ground in front of her. This isn't any ordinary spider, no, this spider is about six foot tall and its fangs are dripping with venom. Out of reflex Alexis swings the spear like a baseball bat and the spider shreaks in pain as it rolls across the ground. Fear and adrinalen rushes through her body as she grips the spear and strikes as hard as she can, shoving the tip of the spear into the spiders head. Blood and Alexis doesn't even want to think about what else sprays all over her causing her to gag.

Shaking with fear she walks back over to the others. "What the hell was that thing?" she shrieks.

"I think we should worry about how many more of them there are. Where are the others?" Professor Jones asks worriedly.

"They're at the stream getting water," Melinda says as she eyes the giant spider like it was going to come back to life and eat them.

Just then the guys make their way back into the camp and Professor Jones and the girls all sigh in relief.

"Holy shit!" James exclaims when he spots the spider.

"Exactly. From now on no one leaves this camp alone and without a spear," the professor says. "And I think we should take up watches at night just in case."

Once they have split up the watch duties and went their seperate ways, Alexis sits next to the Professor.

"Professor Jones, I know that in situations like this we're supposed to stay put so its easier to find us. But I think as soon as you're able to we should get out of this forest. Its been two days already and we haven't even heard a plane and what if more of those things attack us?" she whispers loudly.

Professor Jones stares into the fire as he thinks about her words and then sighs. "I agree. We can't wait on being rescued any longer, not with those monsterous things out there. Tomorrow morning we will pack anything that can be of use to us and set out to find away out of here."

Alexis nods and pokes at the fire before adding some more sticks to keep it going. She stares blankly into the fire for awhile. "Professor?" She turns to face him. "What do you think made those spiders so big?"

"I've been asking myself the same question," he sighs as he glances over at the dead spider. "You better get some sleep. Tomorrows going to be a long day."

"Yea, night Professor." Alexis grabs her blanket and lays down next to the fire and closes her eyes.