Power Gems

Chapter 31

A vortex, a freaking vortex. I squeezed my eyes shut again in disgust, the thought of going through a vortex again made me sick to my stomach, but the spinning ever seemed to stop. I sat there holding my breath and trying not to vomit by the spinning. My world got dizzy and I had vomit right in my throat. I began to realize that it was because I was holding my breath for too long. I let out a deep breath and sucked in more breath and let it out again.

Once my lungs were full of air I began to hold my breath again. It seemed like forever and the vortex hasn't ended. I felt a deep pit in my stomach and my eye lids began to fill heavy, my grip on the handle seemed to get weaker and weaker. My whole world began to turn black, I felt like letting go of the handle and fall. Fall? where would we fall?

Suddenly I couldn't take it anymore, my grip on the handle was gone and I could feel myself falling backwards. I was falling back when I was suddenly stopped, I had enough strength to open my eyes to find that Jason had one arm on the handle and one holding me up. He looked at me a smiled weakly, I could tell that it was hurting him too.

I knew that I couldn't give up, I had to give it my all. I reached weakly to the handle with one arm. I grabbed it and pulled myself up and grabbed it with my other hand. My eye lids were still heavy but I opened them to see how the rest of my group was doing. I took one look and there faces spoke loud and clear that they too were in pain.

Suddenly something in me fired. I was the leader of this group, if anyone gets hurt it should be me. I felt something burn in my heart like suddenly that all my pain had washed away.

My hands clenched tighter against the handle and I felt a huge gush of wind coming from above, I could tell that we were going much faster now. I squeezed my shut again and put everything I got and focused my energy in the machine.   

My head was spinning and spinning until I felt like I was going to pass out, but no long after the spinning suddenly stopped. My hands immediately come off the handle and I fell to the ground exhausted, I could barley breath. My eye lids grew too heavy, I shut them and my world was engulfed in black.