"We should get out of here before the sand berries us again..." Noah said.
"Wait! Maybe we should do that, wait for the sand to rise and then climb out," Dawn told them.
Noah and Scott hesitated for a moment but then agreed. Noah flung Cody over his shoulder and stood up. The sand started falling in the hole and they started climbing up. Dawn reached the top and turned around to help Noah out. "Here... Take Cody," he told her and held his arms out with Cody in them. Dawn carefully wrapped her arms around his waste and used all her strength to lift him out. She set him on the ground next to her and helped Noah out.
Scott shrieked and they both jumped. A man had jumped into the hole and started wrestling with Scott.
"Scott!" Dawn cried.
"Awe there, little lady," a man said from behind Dawn and Noah, "you have one beautiful body."
Dawn swung around to see who was talking. A tall, buff man with a bunch of tatoos smirked at her and winked. She scrunched up her face at him in digust. She turned back to Scott who was on top of the man punching him.
"And what's this? This boy dead?" The buff man asked and kicked Cody a bit.
"Hey!" Noah growled, "Don't touch him." He held Cody in his arms away from the man.
The buff guy glarred at Noah. "No one tells me what to do." He grabbed Noah by the shirt and held him in front of his face. "Especially not from scrawny brats like you." He threw Noah to the side and turned back to Cody. Dawn stood in front of him, blocking his path from Cody. "Get out of my way." He growled. Dawn shook her head and glarred at him. The buff guy grabbed her hair and lifted her off the ground. He started putting his hand up her skirt and she screamed and kicked him.
"What's going on up there!?" Scott shouted, still wrestling with the other guy.
Noah got up and tried to pry Dawn away from the buff guy. The guy growled and threw Noah away. He then put his hand down the top of Dawn's sweater. She kept kicking him but he wouldn't let go of her.
"Stop! Please!" She cried and kicked.
Noah then got up again and grabbed a stick from the ground. He ran around the buff guy and swung with all his might. The stick wacked the guy on the back of the head. He grunted and Noah ran around him again. He wrapped his arms around Dawn's waste and pulled her out of his grip. The guy fell to the ground unconscious. Noah and Dawn fell over, Noah still holding onto her.
"Are you ok?" He asked her.
She didn't say anything.
"Did he touch you?"
She nodded and wiped her eyes.
Scott then grunted and climbed up the hole, bruises on his arms and blood dripping down his face. He noticed Dawn and rushed over to them.
"What happened? Are you ok?" He asked and wrapped his arms around Dawn.
Noah stood up. "A man came and touched her in some places..." He said and pointed to the guy's body on the sand. Noah walked over to Cody, who was still unconscious. He knelt down and touched Cody's face. "Please wake up, Cody..." He whispered.
Scott and Dawn got up, his arm warpped around her, and turned to Noah. "Should we go look for the others?" Scott asked.
Noah picked up Cody and flung him over his shoulder again. "Yeah."
They started walking down the sand until they noticed a huge gap in between the two pieces of the land. The other piece was tilted downwards at a 60% angle.
"What the hell..." Noah said, "What happened?"
"Wait, look! There's Zoey, Dave, Mike and Topher," Scott said and pointed to them.
They made their way over to them and noticed they all had horrified faces.
"Woah, what happened?" Noah asked them.
Topher looked at them. "Sky and Zoey... They... Fell," he said quietly.
Zoey groaned and opened her eyes. She couldn't see anything. When she tried to get up, a burning pain shot right up her side. Then she remembered her and Sky falling down the pit. She must have broken her leg from the fall, but how was she not dead? She looked up and saw how high they had fallen from, a good 40 feet or so. She felt her forehead, it was bleeding, same with her left arm and legs.
"Sky...?" She called, her voice a bit cracky.
No answer.
"Sky?" She called again, louder.
Still no answer.
Suddenly Zoey realized that Sky might be dead. Tears filled her eyes and she looked around the darkness.
"SKY?" She shouted.
Someone coughed and Zoey looked around her. She finally managed to see the outline of Sky's body in the darkness. She coughed again and rolled over.
"Sky!" Zoey called, pulling herslef over to her.
Sky opened her eyes and looked around. "Zoey? Where are you?" She asked, her voice shaky, "I can barely see anything."
Zoey touched what felt like Sky's arm and made her way up to her face. "Right here... Are you ok?"
Sky touched her hand and sat up. "I think... I remember when we fell, my shirt got caught on one of the sharp rocks... And I think it ripped and cut into my stomach- Yep, it definitely did," Sky said, feeling her stomach, "Are you ok?"
"I think my leg is broken, but how are we still alive?" She replied.
"I don't know, but we need to let the others know we're still alive and find a way out of here."
Sky stood up and nearly fell back over. Her stomach burned with pain. "Want me to carry you?" She asked Zoey.
"Yeah... Please."
Sky bent down and wrapped one of her arms around Zoey's back and the other under her legs. She lifted her off the ground gently.
"You good?" She asked.
Zoey nodded.
"Alright then, let's go."
Sky walked with Zoey in her arms for about ten minutes until she spotted something.
"Hey, maybe we could try to climb up those vines, they look sturdy enough," Sky said.
"Ok, let's try it," Zoey replied.
Sky placed Zoey down gently beside the vines. She yanked on the vines with all her might to see if they would snap off. They didn't.
"I think it's safe enough to climb," she told Zoey.
Zoey grabbed hold of one of the vines and pulled herself up. Sky did the same. The two girls climbed up the vines slowly, Sky always stopping once in a while to see if Zoey was ok. The vines stopped about a meter from the surface. The two girls climbed onto a small ledge and looked up.
"I could climb up that rocks and pull you up," Sky told Zoey.
"Are you sure? What if you fall..." Zoey said, trying to balance on one foot.
Sky considered it for a moment but then shrugged. "It's our only way out, I've got to try." She looked up at the surface that was a meter away from them. She took a deep breath and jumped up, her arms streched out, ready to grab onto the ground. She managed to get hold of the edge and looked down at Zoey.
"Phew, ok I'll just hoist myself up and then-"
The ledge Zoey was on slid backwards a bit. Zoey grabbed onto Sky's leg for support.
"Shit, I think the rock is going to fall," Zoey said.
The ledge slipped again.
Sky quickly pulled herself up and reached down for Zoey. The hands were inches away from each other.
"Ugh! I can't reach!" Zoey cried as the rock slid more.
"Jump! Quickly!" Sky told her.
Zoey jumped and Sky grabbed her arm just as the rock slid out from underneath her and fell back into the pit. Sky pulled her up.
"Wow, are you ok?" Sky asked.
Zoey nodded.
The two girls looked at each other and burst out laughing. They didn't know what they were laughing at, but suddenly all their worries and pain seemed to go away.
"Jesus, that was something now wasn't it?" Zoey asked, still laughing.
"Yeah, I can't believe we survived that fall," Sky replied.
She got up and looked around. They were on the side of land that wasn't tilted over.
"What the hell made the land tip over in the first place? Is that even possible?" She asked.
"Well apparently it is now," Zoey replied.
"I don't see the others, I hope they're ok," Sky said, looking around.
"Me too, should we go look for them?" Zoey asked.
"Ok."
Sky kneeled down and picked up Zoey again. They walked away from the pit to find the others.
