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Here's chapter 8. And if I don't post another chapter before the 22nd, I just want you all to know that I'm going to the beach with my family for the week of the 23rd, which means no internet. I'll try to get another chapter up before that, but we'll see how busy it gets around here.

Enjoy chapter 8!

Disclaimer: I don't own TSL or anything associated with TSL or Disney channel. And I know Hawaii doesn't really have snakes (like they say on the websites I've visited for historical information) but for the purposes of this adventure and of my imagination, we're going to disregard that fact and pretend that Hawaii does, indeed, have snakes.

Chapter 8

Zack was lying on his stomach, peering into the hole that his brother had just fallen into. How had they both not seen it?

"Lousy time for the sun not to be shining!" Zack yelled loudly, looking up at the sky as if his voice could move the clouds from blocking the sunlight.

He looked back into the hole, squinting his eyes. "Cody! Buddy! Talk to me!" Zack yelled, lowering his head into the hole in hopes of hearing something. "Please!" he added, the "please" sounding more like a strangled moan. Suddenly, he heard movement from below.

"Cody? Can you hear me? Can you move? Anything?" Zack asked loudly, slightly making out his brother's outline on the floor of the hole.

"Zack..." Came a harsh whisper. Zack's heart skipped.

"I'm right here, buddy! Right here," Zack said, waving his arm around, hoping Cody could see him. "Are you hurt?"

"I don't...I don't think so," came a muffled voice. "Ugh.." Zack, finally making out Cody's figure, saw him sit up.

"I'm gonna find a way to get you out of there, ok?" Zack said, his voice a little high pitched as a wave of panic began to settle in his body. How the heck was he gonna get Cody out of there?

Zack stood up and ran his hands through his hair, looking around. There had to be something around here that he could use to get Cody out of that hole. He turned around and saw a long, thick tree branch that had snapped off of the tree next to it. He ran over and grabbed the branch, then he quickly rushed back to the hole.

"Cody! Do you think you would be able to climb?" Zack called to his brother.

He saw Cody look up and squint his eyes. "I think so," he said, getting to his feet and brushing the dirt off his back. Zack lowered the branch into the hole and Cody grabbed onto it. He began pulling himself up the branch, bracing his feet on the dirt wall, while Zack also held tightly onto the branch. After a minute of struggling, Cody fell back down.

"Zack, I can't climb up with this backpack on, it's too heavy! Let me put it on the log and you pull it up first!" Cody called up to Zack.

"Ok!" Zack said, pulling up the branch with the backpack. He threw bag behind him and, once again, lowered the branch down into the hole.

"I've got you, Cody, just keep climbing!" Zack called, feeling his feet slip a little. He braced his foot against a small boulder and held onto the branch as tight as he could. A few minutes later, Cody had pulled his arms up over the opening, causing Zack to drop the branch and grab onto his brother's hands, pulling him up and out. Once out of the hole, Cody dropped to the floor, panting. Zack threw his arms around Cody and said, "You scared the crap out of me when you screamed like that." Cody huffed.

"I got the crap scared out of me when I fell," he said, hugging Zack tightly. Zack broke away and looked at the hole.

"So why didn't we see that there?" he asked, twisting his lips in confusion.

"It was probably an abandoned bear trap. Or at least, a trap for a large animal. It was probably covered in leaves and branches to make it look like the ground," Cody said, wiping the sweaty hair out of his face.

Zack turned to Cody and said, "I thought people only did that on TV?"

"Actually, it was a pretty common practice, back in the day..." Cody trailed off and Zack noticed his eyes get wide.

"What? What's wrong?" Zack asked, looking his brother over, thinking Cody was hurt.

"Sn...sna...sss..." Cody stuttered, beginning to shake slightly, pointing behind Zack. Zack shook his head, furrowing his brow, and turned around. Suddenly, his eyes grew as wide as Cody's, watching a very large snake slither on top of Cody's backpack, while staring menacingly at them.

"Cody," Zack said, placing his hand on Cody's chest and pushing him slowly backwards. "I think we need to go."

"What about the backpack?" Cody whispered, never taking his eyes off the snake, which was sticking it's tongue out at them.

"Forget the backpack, Cody, it's not worth it. I don't know what kind of snake that is, but it's big, fat, and nasty looking, and I'm not taking any chances," Zack said, turning towards Cody. "And I'm not letting you, either," he added, noticing the daring look in Cody's eyes. Cody looked at Zack and sighed.

They started backing away slowly, again, when Zack's foot slipped on a damp patch of grass, sending him flying to the ground. Letting out a yelp, he grabbed onto Cody, and the two went tumbling down a hill.

"Ouch," Zack said when they landed at the bottom. He sat up and looked at his bleeding arm.

"Thanks for grabbing me, Zack," Cody said sarcastically, also sitting up and rubbing his arms.

"Sorry," Zack said sheepishly. He looked at his brother, who was brusied and bleeding, and felt even worse.

"I didn't mean to..." he said, but stopped mid sentence after noticing a small stream trickling past his feet.

"Didn't mean to what?" Cody asked, wiping his dirty hands on his equally dirty shirt.

"Cody, there's some water here..a stream of water. Look, it's flowing that way," Zack said, pointing to his left.

Cody knelt down and looked at the water.

"Maybe we're getting closer to the beach," Zack said, silencing himself when Cody put a finger in the air. Zack saw the look of concentration on his face.

"What is it?" he asked, looking around to try and figure out what Cody was listening so intently to.

"I think I hear rushing water," Cody said, his face lighting up. Zack stood still and listened hard. Then he noticed the sound of water, as well, and he turned to Cody. The two looked at each other for a second, then took off running toward the sound.

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Hope you enjoyed the chapter. It's not my favorite, and definately not the best, but it works. The next chapter is going to focus on Carey and Detective Mason, again, on their search.

Let me know what you think!