Hallie Flores's Story

"Yes," Hallie said angrily. She tried to rip her shirt so she could tie it around her hand. The blood was still rushing out her cuts, and dripping itno the moddy ground. Finally she ripped her shirt leaving a large area of her tanned belly exposed. She used her other hand, and her mouth to tie the thick material around her hand. She ripped off a smaller peace and wrapped her fingers together the same way. Finally, she ripped off one more small chunk tying it around her thumb. She looked down angrily and continued to follow the footprints.

Saphire watched her as she sped up. She nodded and followed her quickly. She looked around. Trees, trees, and more trees. She had to admit, this was getting kinda boring. She looked down at the footprints. She was starting to pray a lil in her head for them to find Max very soon. She kept stumbling and tripping, but kept up with the now pissed Hallie.

Before Saphire knew it, it was sun setting. "Uhm, Hallie, I think We should stop." She said looking up at the sky. She stopped along the foot prints and took a small fruit that Tirka had carved into a small bowl. She looked around and saw that the forest ground was already looking like night. She looked down at the things she brought, which was only two of thoose fruit bowl things, that where empty and her sweat shirt which she had on and a small sharp rock. That was pretty much it.

Hallie stopped walking. "Right," She said angrily. Hallie searched for a spot to camp that would be warm and safe. Hallie walked a bit further and found a steep slope. She looked up and saw a small cave indented into the large rock. "Saphire, here." She yelled as she climbed into the cave. "This will have to do," she said mostly to herself as she laid down on the bumpy rock.

Saphire jogged towards her and the cave. She nodded and stretched as she layed down. She couldn't really sleep so she leaned on the outside of the cave and watched the outside, which made her even more uneasy. She started to wish that she was back home. How her and Sam went towards Sam's mother and how she would embrace the both of them and Sam's father would start to say that they are heros. Thinking like that though, wouldn't help Saphire and she knew it. Craving the things that will never happen was the worst.

Hallie woke up in the middle of the night. At first she completely forgot where she was, but soon she remembered everything. She pushed herself up off the ground and walked outside of the little cave. She wanted fresh air. She stared up at the night sky and all the stars. Memories flooded her mind but she pushed them away. "Now isn't the time to remember home." She said aloud to herself. She inspected the purple cloth on her hand. It was stained with her blood, but she figured she would keep it on a bit longer, just in case it was still bleeding. She stood there, in the middle of a dirt path staring breathlessly at the stars, thinking back on her life.

Saphire was half awake and half asleep when Hallie woke up. Her head was on her knees and her back was leaning against the cave. She was tired and wanted to go home to take a log hot bath before going out to eat at some expensive fancy restraunt she knows she couldn't aford. She smriked to herself as she remebers her favorite food, Cheesecake. Thats right, she soon started to plan that once they get off of this damn island, all the people she met, from Hallie, to the guy who offered them to stay on the beach and go to the CheeseCake Factory. The thought made her tummy rumbled before a thought occured. We won't make it off. We will be stuck on this island forever with thoose creepy people trying to pick us off one by one.

That thought made her shiver. She shook the depressing thought right out of her ears.

Saphire heard some comotion and got up. "Hallie, did you hear that?" She said walking out towards her. The sound faded as almost as fast as she heard it. She looked around. It was dark so she really didn't see much.

"Let's follow it." Hallie said, excitedly. She began to walk slowly, and quietly, towards the sound which had now faded. Now all she could do was guess where the sound was. Or hope whatever it was made more sound. She walked through the path careful not to touch any branches this time. Hallie walked very slowly not only to be quiet but it was very hard to see. It was very dark, and the moon and stars were the light source she had.

Saphire hesitated at first. She wanted to move AWAY from the sound. Not towards it. She remeber in the scary movies that her and Sam went to see, that the people who moved towards the sound always got killed first. Though, being alone was more scarier. She stood for a few minutes and watched as Hallie started to fade into the night before running towards her.

She catched up to her, even though it took her a while. A long while. She grabbed onto the branches that swung back as Hallie made her way. "I think we should be more caution around here. There might be someone like Jason or Freddie Croger..." She said. She knew it was way out there, but the movie always scared the shit out of her and if there was people with glowing eyes, hell, anything might happen.

She kept walking before she felt something go down her back. She stopped and turned around. She looked at the black figure on her thigh. A spider. A big one. The first reaction was like to all reactions to gross bugs. A scream. A loud one. She jumped up and down and started to pat herself down. When the spider dropped to the ground, she started to stomped it dead. She shivered at the creepies it gave her. She looked up. All she saw was darkness. "Hallie..." She said, looking around in the darkness. "Uh...oh..." She whispered.

She started to walk the oppisite direction, totally lost. "H-hello?" She spoke with some stutters before walking towards the gleaming stream. "I should stay here and head back in the morning... or try to find Hallie." She said. She was scared, hungry, tired and alone. What could possiably get worst?

Hallie continued forward at a slow, silent pace. Assuming Saphire was behind her she continued. When Saphire started talking about Jason and Freddie, Hallie laughed. Remembering how many times she watched every one of those movies, and how little they scared her. She kept moving, to where she thought the sound was. She heard a girl scream from far away, and when she turned there was no Saphire. "Damn." She said as she began to walk. But at that moment she heard what sounded like people running. She turned back around and continued away from Saphire. "I will get her later." She though as she progressed through the forest.

Hallie edged forward, hearing the sounds come closer and closer. She stood outside a large, dark cave. She couldn't see inside, but she could tell people were in there, she heard voices which she didn't recognize. Slowly and silently she continued to step forward until she reached the outside of the cave. She listened to the voices. One was familiar, but she couldn't seem to figure out why, she knew she heard it before. She inched into the cave hoping the people inside couldn't see her, using the voices to mask her footsteps. Her eyes hadn't adjusted to the dark cave, all she could do was try to avoid the voices until she could figure out who the hell these people were.

Hallie hid quietly in the shadows, away from the fire that now partially lit the cave. Then she noticed why the voice was so familiar. It was Max. She breathed as silently as possible not knowing what to do. She was already in the cave, and only had a small area where the fires light did not reach due to protruding rocks in the cave. She looked back to the entrance of the cave, no way out, the fires light made it impossible to get out unseen. She stood careful not to make any noise.

Hallie took this as her chance, as the lightning struck and rain came pouring down, she slowly slipped outside the cave. For a bit she stood out in the rain letting herself get soaked, and for a minute she just wanted to sit there and let the rain fall on her. But she snapped out of it.

"Hello?" She shouted into the cave, as she stepped inside dripping wet.

Day 3/4: Midnight: Cave

Max looked around frantically for the girl he mentioned, Stephanie. "Who's Stephanie?" he asked closely looking around the cave at the shadows lining the walls. He noticed one girl raise her hand timidly. He ran over and found her bag, and searched it. "Sorry," he said for dumping out some of the contents of her bag. He found a box, and could make out a different colored cross on it. "Okay, now what to do with this." The rain began to pour harder outside and a loud clap of thunder shot down through the trees making Max jump a foot out of surprise. He looked out at the half-lighted forest outside of the cave from the lightning. As the second shot came, he could make out a figure against the light. "Fuck!" he yelled backing up.

"Hello?" said a female voice. At first he had thought it was one of the men but then quickly recognized the voice of Hallie. "Hallie!" he yelled. He would have ran over to her and greeted her bright eyed, but right now his attention was on the dying man in front of him. "Come in, sit down," he said quickly searching through the first-aid kit. "Is anyone else with you?" he asked. He hoped she'd say Saphire was with her. He had became as close as two could be for being stuck on an island for three days, and he didn't want anything to happen to her. He already knew the answer though. She would have came in with her if she was. He sighed and then began to focus on Theo again.

"Okay, I have no clue what to do," said Max. Tears were actually coming out of his eyes from exhaustion and from the overwhelming situation they were in. He ignored it and thought of what to do. "Does anybody know what to do?" he asked the others. They kept quiet. Kuroi had offered help but seemed like he had no clue either. He saw the pointed part of the arrow poking out of his chest, and decided that if they were going to pull it out, then they should take the pointed part out to make it less painful. He took out some pliers and pressed down as hard as he could until the arrow part snapped off of the wooden arrow.

He searched throught the box and took out a gauze pad, and then two more. There were plenty so he didn't have to use them wisely. "Okay uh...uh...you," he poined to Kuroi. He didn't know his name so he hoped he knew he was adressing him. "Here," he handed him the gauze pads. "When I pull this arrow out, I need you to quickly press the gauze pads against his wound on the front, ok?" He ripped Theo's shirt off, so they'd be able to patch the wound up without any interferance and readied to pull it out. "Okay on the count of three. One....two..."

((Sorry Stephanie for doing playing you for a minute, but I needed to to keep it going.))

"Saphire was with me, but we got separated." Hallie replied to Max's question. She sat down on the cold, bumpy cave floor watching the man with the arrow lodged in his back. Feeling guilty Hallie replied "I have no idea what to do." She said feeling useless. She watched in shock as the snapped the arrow and prepared gauze. Quickly she walked over to them, "I can help, just tell me what to do." Hallie said. She hated to be bossed around, but she hated feeling useless more, and hell maybe she could learn.

(s'okay. The Nerd can save ano0ther day, xD. roleplay's getting good. And we'll see what we can do about teh coffin.)

Tirka looked up when Hallie spoke about Saphire. "I'll go find her. She stood up, and grabbed her satchel. She looked in it, and started to empty out the contents, some fruit, the rest of the rabbit flesh, the green ants, and a coconut. She set all these down in a sahdy corner, and walked out.

Stephanie waited for a reply from the others in the cave, none came and Stephanie was about to protest when two people rushed into the cave. Two guys, one with distinctly familiar purple hair... Theo was back at last, now all they needed to do was find Violet. It was then that Stephanie noticed Theo was crumpled on the floor and there was quite a lot of blood. No not Theo... he was the last person Stephanie would have expected to get hurt, he always knew how to take care of himself, yet here he was on the floor obviously in a great deal of pain.

"Where is the first aid kit?" asked the guy she didn't recognize as he shuffled around in the darkness "Whoa!" he cried as he tripped over one of the sleeping forms. Silly guy should take more care when walking around in dark places Stephanie thought as the new guy finally seemed to acknowledge the presence of other people in the cave. "Are you guys with Theo? I'm with him, so don't kill me or anything." new guy laughed and he backed away... was he serious? Of course they weren't going to kill him, not a very good joke. They hadn't turned that savage... yet. "Do any of you have a first aid kit by chance?" he asked "Because that would come in handy right now. Your friend here has an arrow in his back." An arrow in Theo's back? Theo could die... No. Stephanie pushed that thought aside, he wouldn't die. Theo was strong.

Cammen moved forward to examine Theo's injuries, he clearly had more idea about what to do than the new guy did, he'd taken control. “First aid kit?” Cammen questioned “We have nothing. First rule, work with what you have.” Wait. Cammen was wrong, there was a first aid kit. Somewhere, she'd seen Theo perform surgery with it. Cammen checked Theo's pulse and pulled out his knife “It has to come out.” No, not with the knife.. where was the first aid kit?

"S..stephanie.. S.. She has my.. bag.. The kit.. is in there.." Theo gasped before he proceeded to cough up a lot of blood, Stephanie felt faint, this was bad. Stephanie looked around the cave for the bag, she had put it down somewhere. She was momentarily distracted by the painful groans coming from Theo as he choked out "Needs to.. be removed.. bit b- by bit.. Disinf.. fectant and.. c-cauterization.." Stephanie felt tears rising up inside her, she couldn't handle this. Stephanie watched as Theo eventually slipped out of consciousness.

"Who's Stephanie?" the new guy asked desperately and Stephanie raised her hand trying to hold back the tears that were creeping up on her. The guy rushed forward and found her bag straightaway, it had been right in front of her, how could she have missed it? She was so fucking dumb even in a life threatening situation. Utterly hopeless. The guy poured out the contents of the bag, there wasn't much in there just some old fruit and the box. The box. The most important thing right now. "Sorry," he mumbled, what was he sorry for? Stephanie wondered as she let the tears finally roll down her face. She should be sorry, she was so useless. She wanted to help Theo so much but she couldn't, she didn't know how. The best thing for her to do was to sit down, bury her head in her knee's and cry, it was all she could manage. "Fuck!" Stephanie's head shot up out of her lap, there was someone else at the cave.

"Hello?" came a female voice, Stephanie's initial thought was that Violet had returned but she was wrong. This wasn't someone she recognized, but the new guy clearly did "Hallie!" he called out, just how many more survivors were there? "Come in, sit down, Is anyone else with you?" ah... so there were more. After greeting his friend the new guy returned his attention to Theo. "Okay, I have no clue what to do, Does anybody know what to do?" Cammen knew what to do, or so it would seem, he'd have to be the one to help Theo. The new guy thought for a moment and took some pliers and began to snip at the arrow sticking out of Theo's still body. He asked Kuroi for assistance and he prepared to pull the arrow out, Stephanie tried to think of something else as she covered her face with her hands. She didn't want to see this. Violet. They still needed to help her. Suddenly Stephanie was on alert again and she stood up.

"Guys, as much as Theo needs help someone else does too, We don't all need to stay here someone needs to help me find Violet" Stephanie said trying to sound like she knew what she was doing. She didn't want to leave this cave, but it had to be done.

Hallie listened intently as the girl talked about some other survivor. As much as she liked being in a group of more then two, she needed to feel a little useful before she drove herself insane. She turned towards the girl and replied,

"I'll help." She said taking one last look at the warm cave, illuminated by the soft yellow glow of the fire. She took a deep breath and knew she had to do this, as much as she didn't want to leave the cave, the safest place she has been so far, she knew it would be safer if there was another person. Hallie was not the kind of person to complain, or the type of person to do something she didn't want to do. But she most certainly was not the kind of person who would let someone who she didn't know, or who didn't put any threat to her, die.

Hallie watched as they worked quickly on the boys body. “Anyone who isn't helping, get out. Sit at the end of the cave, and don't look.” Hallie heard the man's voice say. Not wanting to see anymore blood, she silently went to the edge of the cave and looked out into the jungle. She watched as the birds flew gracefully through the air flapping their wings at a rhythmic pattern.

"Who has something we could use? Clothing?!" Max said, breaking Hallie's concentration on the birds. She looked down at her clothes, her purple shirt was already ripped and torn, the fabric stopping at her belly button. Her jeans were covered in blood. She looked at Max and shook her head.