VICTORIOUS: TRIP FROM HELL
CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5; the gang are now ready to try White Water Rafting, surely nothing can go wrong here.
Boris Yeltsin: Yup, just shows, never judge someone by what you see, huh.
Jeremy Shane: Here we go, enjoy.
Now onto the story.
Disclaimer: Victorious belongs to Dan Schnieder.
It was the fourth day of the group's holiday, Jade was still in hospital but was making a quick recovery. The group were now heading to the next activity they were eager to try, White Water Rafting. As before once they were suited up the person in charge gave them a briefing, however his speech was more serious.
"Okay listen carefully, this is probably the most dangerous activity we have here, because we have no control over the water. Now there are six grades of difficulty in White Water Rafting, Grade one is very basic, requires a little manuvering to get around the rough patches, Grade two also has rough patches and few rocks, requires basic paddle skill. Grade three is where we get the white-water small waves, a few small drops, requires some experience, Grade four has medium sized waves, rocks and a few considerable drops, that requires experience in white-water, for Grade five you need advanced white-water experience, large waves, large rocks and hazards and a few large drops. Grade six is a death-trap, you're only gonna get through grade six white-water through sheer luck or extreme skill, understand".
He paused letting his words sink in, he then nodded and continued.
"Now we're lucky here as we don't get any Grade six white-water, the highest we get is Grade five. Judging from what I can see and the skills that you're likely to have, you should avoid Grade white-water, stick to anything between Grade one and Grade four. If you do end up Grade five white-water, just stay calm and concentrate, if you think you can't handle it, signal to me, I'll be on my own raft with some of the other supervisors, and I'll come over and guide to calmer okay".
They all nodded, prepared for the activity, so, with the owners' approval they headed for their raft, there were another two groups of teens taking part too, soon all four rafts, the three groups and the supervisors were out, from the launch area they were automatically in Grade one white-water.
The group continued to enjoy the rigorous efforts of the rafting. One of the other rafts had accidentally capsized, but had quickly been righted and the group on board were back, looking rather pleased with the fact they had already fallen in, that was part of the thrill no doubt. About an hour into the activity, halfway to the end they came across and unavoidable patch of Grade five white-water. The group that had capsized felt the risk too great and, with the supervisors permission they opted to carry their raft, on shore, past the currents. The supervisor explained that this was perfectly acceptable and that nine out of every ten groups preferred this method. The other group decided to risk it and got halfway across with out any trouble, then they started to veer off course and had to paddle furiously to get back on course. They made it across with difficulty but they were overjoyed with the fact they had made it. Andre looked back at the others.
"What do you think?"
The rest of them all agreed to go for it and they paddled through into the surge. Andre was at the front of the raft, Beck was at the back so they controlled most of the steering while the others focused more on moving the raft forward. They began to paddle through the surging water fighting to stay on course.
"Beck, we're going too far right!"
"Got it!"
Due to their struggled to stay in control none of them noticed the collection of rocks nearby before it was too late.
"Heads up!"
They desperately tried to steer away from the rocks however they bumped into them several times, rocking the raft. Then they slammed into the largest rock there and the raft lurched, the group struggled to hold on, the raft didn't capsize but Tori was thrown overboard into the churning water, panicking Andre.
"Tori!"
Andre tried to help her but Cat held him back.
"Don't, you'll get swept under too".
Before Andre could protest the supervisors in their raft paddled over and began to push the raft containing the group through the Grade five water, the head supervisor called out to them.
"Just hold on, the currents are strong but they go straight through, she'll be swept down into the Grade three water just ahead, we can save her then!"
Sure enough, when they arrived at the Grade three white-water they spotted Tori floating, unconscious. Andre quickly pulled her back onto the raft and then, with the supervisors, they headed onto shore. The other groups had seen what had happened and were back on shore too. Once on shore one of the supervisors ran to call for the paramedics, Andre laid Tori on the ground and then, they noticed something.
"She's not breathing!"
It took Andre only a second to make up his mind.
Before any of the others could think or even make a move to do so Andre began performing CPR on Tori, the others watched desperately. The supervisors returned and one tried to help Andre.
"I've got it, I'm fine".
He stepped back and Andre continued to work. Finally the ambulance arrived, just as the paramedics were getting out Tori suddenly coughed up a mouthful of water. After coughing up more water Tori finally noticed Andre kneeling over her and smiled.
"Hey".
"It's okay, it's okay now".
Tori nodded and soon the gang were on their way back to the hospital, this time due to Tori's near drowning.
End of chapter, wouldn't you know it, Tori ends up nearly drowing. Next up the gang wait for Tori and Jade to recover. hope you enjoyed this chapter, read and review please.