Florida's Stories

CHAPTER 11 - The Mountain

a/n - i'm speed posting these next chapters

**Date- January 5th 2022**

~Florida POV~

Zordon teleported. He tried to, at least. He did teleport us to the bottom of Mount K2, but he tried to get us to the top but he failed.

He just couldn't teleport. He said it was because of the extreme cold, but I was skeptical because I thought it was something dangerous because of what we'd been through in the past three or so months. So we gathered all our stuff and headed up the mountain. It was really hard even at the first few steps. We had to use a picaxe to get a grip on the rock and climb up about 100 feet before there was any flat ground on the mountain, and when you have a giant pack of stuff on your back, it's even harder.

"Are we done yet?" I asked after about 15 minutes of that picaxing stuff.
"Not even close," Oklahoma said. "Y'all gonna hafta sleep here, y'know."
Zordon grunted and I nearly collapsed.
"What about Ariz? Where is he?" I asked Zordon to get my mind off the climbing.
"I left him behind in the cave because he turned into some sort of...goo monster, he was trying to catch me and it was terrifying" Zordon replied to my question.

I was horrified at the thought of Ariz being a monster.
We continued climbing up the mountain without a word until we got to the ledge, which was probably about 3 feet thick. There was snow too.

I needed a break, so I sat down on the ledge and panted until Zordon and Oklahoma helped me get moving again because Oklahoma said, "If we want that cure before February, you need to hurry up."

I immediately got back on my feet and suddenly I had this random burst of energy like a sugar rush. I started climbing faster, and by nighttime, we were about halfway up the mountain. We found a ledge that had a small cave inside, and we decided to go in there to sleep and eat.

I didn't have very much food in my backpack, but Oklahoma was the one who brought all the food.

"Zordon, how are you not absolutely freezing right now?" I asked.
"Oh, simple, I can raise my body temperature so I'm warmer," Zordon replied.
"That's c-cool," muttered Oklahoma. "I w-wish I c-could d-do that."
Oklahoma squeezed in next to Zordon and I rifled through Oklahoma's bag because he was the one that had all the food. I took out a box of cold noodles; it was better than nothing; and started eating it.

Oklahoma and Zordon grabbed sandwiches and we ate some food. We had to save some though because we needed like, 4 more days worth of food or something.

"Now that I've raised my body temperature, perhaps I may be able to teleport in the morning," Zordon informed us. "If there's a lake up here we could also catch a flounder or something."

"I don't think there's a lake up here," Oklahoma muttered. "But teleporting is a good idea." Zordon nodded and we all squeezed into the tent. We only anticipated having two people in this tent, so it was a bit too small. Zordon offered to sleep outside the tent because of his body heat thing, but we denied it because it wouldn't be fair and we were just a bit squished. It took me a long time to fall asleep, and I kept thinking about Ariz. Is he terrorizing people right now? I wondered if the entire world had the virus by this point. Ariz had probably spread it all over the globe.

**Date- January 6th 2022**

Zordon, Oklahoma, and I started back up the mountain at 7am today. We ate breakfast and then headed up the mountain once again. Climbing it was really tiring, but I tried to push through it.

I got a notification from Jersey one time when I was sitting on the ledge. Her text said, "Flori, I got control over my body for a minute and figured I'd text you. But I'm pretty sure Colo might be dead...and Montana has a really bad case of the virus. Please help..."