Surviving the Collapse

Chapter 5

I think I messed up and it would restart anytime now but it hasn't. I felt a tight pull on my wrist and I was pulled up out if the water. As I gasped for the air, I slowly opened my eyes. It was Danny. He was sitting on the raft with his hand around my wrist holding onto me.

"I guess this was a team effort." He said smiling while pulling me onto the raft.

I looked at the time on my wrist. We were halfway there and only had 12 minutes left. If we tried hard enough, we could make it.

We paddled our way to the next island. I paddled so fast my arms started hurting more with every paddle.

There was only one minute left to be on shore. We were only a few feet away so we jumped off when the bottom of the ocean got higher.

We made it onto to shore with 10 seconds to spare. I laid down in the sand until the time was up for the next test. I was exhausted.

"Time up." the echoed voice called again.

"Finally." I said.

My surroundings changed around for the second time. This time, I was in huge field. Well we were in a huge empty field. Surprisingly.

"Start." The voice called again.

"So, I don't see what were supposed to be doing?" I said uncertain.

"Me either. I guess we have to find something." Danny said.

There was probably about 2 feet of grass. Maybe there was something that was hidden and we had to find it. The time on my wrist was already at 42 minutes counting down.

"Well than, lets get started!" I said cheerfully on the outside, tiredly on the inside.

We walked around for what seemed like hours but only 20 minutes and hadn't found a thing.

I was walking in front of Danny. He was a little off to the side of me. I couldn't see him in my peripheral vision but knew he was close by the sound of the crunching footsteps.

"Ouch!" I heard from behind me. It was Danny's voice.

I turned around.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"I tripped over this thi-" He cut himself off.

"This?" He said holding up a shovel.

"What are we supposed to do with a shovel?" I asked looking confused.

"I saw a small dirt circle back there. Lets go over there and dig and see what happens."

We walked over to the dirt circle and Danny started digging. We had 11 minutes left. I helped digging with my hands. The soil was soft and so it was easy to dig through. With only 5 minutes left, we dug faster.

"There has to be something here!" I told Danny.

"Wait! There's a hole!" Danny exclaimed.

We made the hole big enough and hopped in. There was only 2 minutes left. A tunnel was already dug. We had followed the path leading up to the end. Thirty seconds were left when we got to the end but there was a cover over the ending.

"Now what?" He asked.

"I don't know maybe we can just push it off." I said.

I pushed it but it didn't work. We only had 10 seconds. The last shot was to kick it off. I let Danny because he insisted he'd do it.

The cover bursted off and we walked through it together. There was a bright sign reading:

"Congratulations! You have passed the tests! They will only get more difficult from here..."