Trip of a Lifetime
Chapter 5: This just keeps getting better and better
The next day when the trio woke up, they decided to look and see what was in the microscope slides.
"How bad are you hurt Jack?" The girls asked with concern.
"It doesn't matter. I wouldn't never be able to live with myself if I let one of you get hurt." Jack replied. They both started to blush and giggle.
"Ok, now let's see whats so special about these microscopes." Jack told them, smiling and trying to get them to be serious again. They looked into the microscope and saw what looked like a parasite.
"Roxy I want you to see if you can find anything about this thing in the microscope." Kyrstin said, letting the girl take a look.
"Ok I'm on it." Roxy replied. She started walking around to see if she could find anything that's interesting. she came upon a black box that had a lock on it. She put it under her arm and decided to keep looking around. Roxy walked into a tent and found what looked like a dog, but the skin was corroding off of its bones.
"Jack!" the girl screamed in a shrill high pitched voice.
"Did you hear that? It sounded like Roxy was screaming for me." Jack said. Kyrstin and Jack took off and ran where they heard Roxy's voice. They ran into the tent and saw the decaying dog lying on the floor. The dog looked up with blood red eyes and growled at them. The girls got behind Jack and ran out. He pulled out his knife and got ready to fight. The dog jumped at Jack and he moved out of the way and quickly killed the dog with a stab in the head. He walked out of the tent without a small cut on the arm, though, nothing to worry about.
"Are you ok?" The girls asked as they ran to see if he was ok.
"Yea I'm fine. Don't worry I didn't even get hurt." Jack replied .
"Jack I found this." Roxy said as she showed him the black box. Jack pulled out his knife and cut the lock off. There was papers inside but they couldn't make out what they said. The only two words they could make out were parasite and water. They took the papers and microscope and figured that the parasites were in the water.
Roxy started screaming and freaking out. "We drank that water! We drank those parasites!" Kyrstin started screaming as well after that point.
"What's this?" Jack asked as he pulled out a piece of paper.
"It looks like it's about the parasites. But it's not in the same language as the other one." Kyrstin said, calming down.
"Well what language is it?" Roxy asked
"It looks like French." Jack answered.
Kyrstin grabbed the piece of paper out of his hand, grinning. "Good thing I took French class in middle school!" She read the piece of paper and told them that it said "The parasite enters the body and goes directly to the brain of it's host; though, it takes at least 18 hours. After the parasites reach the brain, if the host goes into a state of sleep or rest, the brain is more vulnerable and will take over the body. The positive symptoms include red eyes, pale skin, and night terrors."
"This is just terrific." Roxy said sarcastically. After awhile, Jack had done a quick sweep of the camp to make sure there wasn't anything else, like those dogs, laying around to harm them. Finding nothing, the three settled in for the night, but were terrified to go to sleep, fearing what they held inside their very body. it started to turn dark and they started to get tired but Jack and Kyrstin managed to stay awake. Roxy though, couldn't quite make it and fell asleep.