Chapter 18- Through the Jungle
The next few days were full of tension. Everyone was on edge, waiting for something bad to happen.
No one wanted to go look for Ethan, but they knew they would have to, or everyone would go crazy waiting for him to strike again.
Of course, Jack was the one who organized the search party. He selected Locke, Sayid, Alex, Michael and Kate to come with him. Sawyer's ankle was still swollen from getting it caught in the rocks when they first captured Ethan, so he stayed behind.
"Where exactly do you think he is?" Jack asked Alex well into their hike through the jungle.
"Oh my God, Jack! Don't tell me we've gone all this way following nothing! I thought you knew where you were going!"
Jack turned a brilliant shade of scarlet "Yes, I do know where we're going! I just thought you might know where the other's camp was, since you lived there for what, three years?"
"Why thank you for bringing up that painful memory, Jack. And no, I don't remember where the other's camp is. I haven't been there in ten years, they might have moved."
Kate and Michael exchanged glances.
Sayid coughed. "Um, if you two are done bickering, we found Ethan's trail."
"What?" Alex and Jack said in unison.
"His trail. Ethan left a trail behind unintentionally." Locke explained patiently.
"No, he didn't. The others don't leave a trail." Alex said, dismissing the idea with a wave of her hand.
"Then what do you call this?" Locke said triumphantly, plucking something up off the ground and showing it to Alex.
"Um, I call that a broken twig, Locke."
"Exactly! And what do you think broke that twig?"
"Vincent?" suggested Kate, pointing.
The Labrador was running towards them, covered in mud.
"Vincent, you bad dog! Go back to camp!" Michael ordered, but the dog had no intention of listening.
Vincent was barking madly, running a few yards into the jungle and running back.
Sayid was the first to understand. He started running after the dog, who gave a woof and headed further into the jungle with Sayid hot on his heels.
"What is this, a freaking 'Lassie' episode?" Jack yelled, but everyone was too busy chasing after Sayid and the dog to reply.
As he was going deeper into the trees, Sayid started to recognize the area he was in. He had seen this in his dream, the one with Alex and the cliff…
The cliff!
Sayid skidded to a stop right before the edge of the cliff, flinging his arms to stop the others from going over. Alex and Kate both ran into him, but the three men saw the danger and stopped on their own.
"Whoa! That was close!" Kate panted.
"Yeah, how did you know that was there?" Michael questioned.
"I, uh, saw it in a dream" Sayid admitted.
Alex looked up at him quickly. She was about to ask him something, when-
"Well well well, look who it is."
The group whirled around to find Ethan pointing a gun at them, a crazed smile in his face.
AN: CLIFF-HANGER! I'm writing chapter 20 as we speak, so it should be up soon! Make me happy and R&R:)