A/n: So sorry for the late update! Gosh, I don't know when the next chapter will be updated, but it'll probably take a while :( Sorry about that!

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Griff nodded and the two began to race towards the end. They jumped off the big cliff and landed safely. Kiki smiled as she got the hang of snowboarding quickly. Griff was winning, but Kiki always came out of no where to beat Griff. Just then, Griff and Kiki heard a rumbling noise behind them and saw trees fall onto each other like dominoes. Their eyes widened as the rumbling got louder and saw that a big cloud of snow was coming towards them.

"Oh no..." Griff said as Kiki became scared. He became scared, just thinking that Kiki may get hurt, since she was a newbie and still needed some more getting used to. Mac was right; Griff really shouldn't have chosen Happiness.

We'll find out what happens in this chapter! I originally did this chapter in a fiction story I wrote for school, so bare with me please! Anyway, hope you like it!

Chapter 5: Stuck Together

The rumbling noise became louder and the snow beneath Griff began to shake. Griff continued to look at Kiki, who kept on looking back. This wasn't how Griff planned this to be. He continued to feel scared, knowing that this will probably be a memory that Kiki will always remember. She might have a phobia of snowboarding and quit. How was he going to save the two of them? Was there a secure spot nearby? So many thoughts ran through Griff's head as a nearby cliff approached them. Kiki was now behind Griff and the rumbling snow was behind her. He looked down to see the medium sized cliff. It was about twelve feet off the ground, so it was a good cliff for Kiki to jump. The cliff wasn't out in the open, so it was like a secret cliff.

Suddenly, Griff remembered something. He remembered that he had made a hole there to hide from Mac, Viggo, and the other boarders who chased him or wanted to beat him up. Nate was the only person who also knew about it.

FLASHBACK

Griff smiled as he hid in the hole. He was perfectly safe from anyone in his secret spot, and this time, that someone was Mac. Griff had dyed Mac's hair pink while he was asleep, and was being chased down Happiness. He sighed happily and watched as Mac jumped off the cliff, looking around for Griff.

"Where'd that twerp go?" Mac exclaimed angrily as he sped past the hole. From far away, Mac looked like a clown with his pink hair, making Griff proud of himself for doing it.

Griff laughed. "What a loser!" He continued laughing until he heard someone walk around nearby on the cliff. He stayed silent and waited for the person to go away. Suddenly, a face popped into the cave, startling Griff.

"AHH!" He screamed, making the person laugh. Griff blinked and looked at the face closely to see Nate's face. "NATE? How did you get here?"

Nate just chuckled. "Well, I saw you being chased down by Mac, so I used a shortcut to try and catch up to you guys to stop him. I waited behind some trees to find where you were, and I saw you swing in here."

Griff sighed in relief. "Promise me you won't tell anyone okay Nate?"

"Yeah, don't worry Grommet." Nate smiled. "I won't tell anyone."

"You better not! Or else." Griff exclaimed.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Nate said. "Just don't dye my hair pink like what you did to Mac, okay?"

Griff just smiled. "Deal." Griff and Nate did a little handshake and hung out in the cave for a while.

END FLASHBACK

Kiki then noticed that Griff began to take off his board. "What are you doing Griff?" She shouted. Griff didn't look up at her, as if he didn't hear what she had said. The rumbling noise got louder and Griff was the first to jump off the cliff, but instead of jumping, he slid down and grabbed onto a part of the cliff before falling and swung his body into a small hole in the cliff.

Kiki looked forward but didn't see Griff anywhere. "GRIFF!" She shouted.

"Don't jump off!" A voice had shouted back. "Just do what I just did!"

Confused, Kiki did what the voice had said and slid off the cliff instead of jumping and slowly began to fall. Suddenly, she felt someone grab her hands and felt her body swing into a cave. She looked up to see Griff, still holding her hands. They blushed slightly as he let go. Kiki looked around the cave. She noticed the dim lighting, but was still able to see around the small cave. A small chair, small refrigerator and a TV was in the back with a lamp. A PS2, Gamecube and an Xbox were connected to the TV, and they were connected to a small outlet on the cave wall.

Griff and Kiki heard the rumbling noise pass them and saw the snow fall off the cliff, but sealing the cave with some of the snow.

"Are you kidding me?" Griff exclaimed. He walked towards the snow and started trying to push it out while flinching a bit, but it wouldn't budge.

Kiki began to pound on the snow as well. "Are you saying that we're stuck in here?"

Griff sighed. "Dammit! How are we going to get out of here?"

Kiki just looked at him. "Oh...sorry...didn't mean to cuss or anything...I'm just mad..." Griff said, remembering what Mac had told him about cussing. She just smiled in response, and continued to pound on the snow.

"No way..." Kiki sighed. Griff looked at his MComm and saw that it was about 9:20. His eyes widened. Kiki saw this and her eyes widened as well. "Are you serious? 9:20? Atomika probably wants me at 10! We need to get out of here quick Griff!"

"I know, we will, just don't panic." Griff said. He began pressing buttons on his MComm and tried to contact Mac or Kaori or some of the other SSX riders. He began typing a message to Mac.

MESSAGE

Mac! It's me Griff! Dude an avalanche just started and me and Kiki are trapped in a cave 'cause the snow sealed us in! You gotta help us before 10 since Atomika wants Kiki by then! Hurry up and help us and I won't call you Mackenzie anymore!

Griff

END MESSAGE

Griff pressed the 'Send' button. He waited as the message was being sent, but something had appeared on his screen. The screen now showed 'Connection failure. Message not sent. Go to another area where connection is strong.' Griff then changed Mac's name to Kaori and tried to send it to her instead, but the same error showed.

Griff, irritated, kicked the snow wall and began pushing and pounding on it, flinching every now and then. "The connection here is too weak to send messages to anyone! Sorry, Kiki, but it looks like we're going to stay here for a while."

Kiki sighed and nodded and sat on the hard floor with Griff. He touched his left arm and flinched, pulled up his sleeve and noticed that he was bleeding a little. Griff sighed a little, and Kiki noticed.

"Oh no. Griff you're bleeding!" She exclaimed, and began to tear off a piece of her top and tied it around Griff's arm. He flinched once, but after she tied it, he felt a little better.

"Hey. Thanks Kiki." Griff said, looking at his arm. "It feels a lot better now. You didn't need to ruin your shirt for me though."

"It's okay." Kiki replied, smiling. "I got a lot more clothes than you probably think I have. I have about two tops like the one I'm wearing right now, so I can ruin it whenever I want."

The two just smiled for a while. But Griff frowned all of a sudden. Kiki also noticed this and looked at him. "Griff? What's wrong?"

Griff just looked at her and sighed. "Well I guess you'll want to go back to Japan after getting out of this hole huh? After experiencing the avalanche and all..."

Kiki shook her head. "No way. I'm not backing out just because of some stupid avalanche. I'm not a coward. And there's no way I'm walking away without even having the chance of racing against everyone else and winning passes. I can leave when I get to Peak 3 with Kaori and the others, including you."

The two just looked around. "Griff...I don't get how you can play video games in a cave! Was that outlet already there or something?" Kiki asked.

"Well, when Nate found out that I was hanging out in here, we started fixing up the place." Griff replied. "We asked Atomika if we could do this, and he gave us his permission. So we got some cable connection and got the furniture in here without anyone looking and...BAM! There it is. It's kinda shabby but when Nate comes back, we're gonna put more stuff and make this place the coolest secret spot on the mountain!"

"That's so cool!" Kiki said. "I won't tell anyone about this. Not even Kaori or Mac."

"Thanks!" Griff replied and looked at the time on his MComm. It was now 9:40. He showed this to Kiki and she sighed.

Kiki then remembered something. "Griff. I think Kaori, Mac, Psymon and Zoe and the others are going to compete in a race in a few minutes. So I guess after the race is done, they'll recognize that we're missing. They'll probably end the race at 9:50 or something."

"Well, when they do find out, we will get rescued." Griff said, also remembering something and smiled.

Kiki looked at him in confusion. "Really? How?"

"It's all about the cameras." Griff replied and smiled.

END OF CHAPTER 5

A/n: Okay. This is probably the shortest chapter yet, but I guess this is all I can do. I need to really get the whole writing spirit back, 'cause I feel like this isn't my best. I'll edit and revise stuff if you tell me in a review what you don't get. But most importantly, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

Next chapter: The Rescue

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