"Abby, Abby, wake up", Jackson said.
Eric and Melissa placed wet bandanas on her forehead, she was burning up!
Abby then woke up, drenched with sweat.
"I could've sworn I heard Jory calling my name", Abby said.
"It was probably just us, Abby", Melissa said sheepishly. "We kept on calling your name and you wouldn't wake up, you were actually beginning to scare us", she said.
"It'll be okay.. just go back to sleep", Jackson told Abby.
"They are out there, though.. I know they are", Abby shouted.
The sunrise was so beautiful coming up over the ocean. It was a brand new day and anything could happen.
"Well Abby heard some people so let's get going", Eric said. "It's probably about 4 in the morning so no time could be better.
Everybody got up, ate a banana and headed out into the jungle.
Hours and hours past until they all seen something.
It looked like a person. Someone who had been through, alot.
"Ian", Abby asked?
"Help, I need help over here", he said without looking at her.
Eric, Melissa, Jackson, and Abby ran for it. They ran as fast as they could.
"It's Ian", Melissa said excitedly!
"Captain Russell.. he..he fell off of the cliff an-and me and Jory tried to save him, but he's gone, how will we make it now", the boy frantically asked.
"Where's Jory", Jackson asked.
"He fell off and.. and Jory's standing down there on a ledge.. it's about to break, I know it is", Ian said.
"How can we help", Melissa said.
"Go and get some rope Mel", Jackson told her.
"Okay", she said.
"Stay calm Jory, just stay calm", Jackson said.
"How can she stay calm, that ledge is about to fall all the way down there", Eric said.
"Mel will be back shortly", Jackson told Jory, ignoring Eric.
"Ahhhhh, HELP ME", Jory shouted!
"Here guys, it's the best I could do", Melissa said running towards them.
"Grab hold of this Jory", Jackson screamed.
"You can do this Jory, I mean you are Jory Twist. You've been out here in the jungle for what now, 3.. no 4 weeks?! This should be a piece of cake". Jory thought to herself.
"I can't, it's--", but she didn't finish.
The rope broke a loose and Jory went flying down.. down the waterfall and into the water.
"NOOOOOOOOO", Ian shouted.
Melissa began crying. Jackson went and pulled her in for a hug. She laid her head on his chest. Ian went to his knees and began sobbing softly. Eric kneeled
beside him.
"There was nothing we could do, man", Eric told him.
Ian said nothing. Instead he pushed Eric away and walked under a tree and sat down. He began crying now, not sobbing but crying.
"Wait do you mean Captain Russell is de.. dead too", Melissa asked.
"Yes. And it's all my fault", Ian shouted!
"No it's not, you couldn't save them.. it would've been impossible", Jackson said trying to comfort the poor guy.
"We're going to miss you Jory and Captain Russell", Jackson said quietly.
"We sure are", Abby cried!
Everyone was sobbing now. After everything they'd been through, it seemed so impossible to head back to camp. But anything was possible, right?
"We should head back to camp", Melissa said.
"Let's go", Ian said trying to push the hurt and the guilt away.
"I loved them so much, they were just like my family.. Jory my sister and Captain Russell, well he was like a dad.. my goofy dad", he thought.
