Chapter 6
The sun's heat was getting to her as she climbed higher and higher. Hours had passed since she started, but Dayna knew she couldn't stop, too much was at stake.
She was beginning to worry, all the time she had been climbing, she didn't see a single flower and hoped that the sun didn't kill them all off. She was getting tired and there were no places that she could use to relax for a few minutes.
'I can't stop now. I promised Ed and Al that I would get the flower back to them in time. I can't fail them now, I can't. Ed's life is depending on me'
Dayna now struggled as she climbed higher. Her fingers were becoming dry and raw from the mountain surface; they were also becoming weak from her hanging on in one place as she tried to find another support from time to time. Sweat poured from her face as the heat increased. Dayna was starting to become dizzy; she turned to look down to she how far she had climbed.
As she looked down, she thought that she saw something on the ground below. It was a dark figure from where she was; it could be a person or a hungry creature on the prowl. She tried not to think about it and continued to climb.
After a few more minutes of climbing, she stopped to catch her breath.
'In a few minutes, I'll keep going. I just want to catch my breath and try to relax the muscles'.
When she was ready she looked up again to see where she was and where to go, when she saw something up ahead of her. It had a bluish-white tinge to it as it swayed in the light and wind. The green stem and leaves were also vibrant in the light.
A smile came over her face. It was the flower, the 'Orchid of New Life'! It was there just a few feet ahead of her and it looked like a nice big flower too. Dayna took a deep breath and continued to climb, when she hit a problem. Just as she reached the flower, she ran out of places to grab onto, so she decided to reach with her left hand for the flower.
The tips of her fingers brushed up against the leaves and finally she managed to grab a hold of the stem and removed the flower form the ground.
As soon as she removed the orchid from the soil, a rock from under her foot crumbled into dust and she slipped. Dayna started to fall, she slapped her hands together and tried to find something to grab onto to transmute something to save her, but it didn't work. She screamed as she plummeted from the mountain!