Survival of the Fittest (A Gallagher Girls Fan Fiction)

Chapter 6 - The Tomb

I could not believe it.  Help was coming.  I climbed down the ladder with a huge smile on my face.  When I made it down, Zach dipped me and kissed me like the first time he kissed me.  When we made down the tower, we saw a big fuel tank.

“Maybe we can use that for a signal.” I said.

“Let’s try it.” said Zach.

It took some work but we managed to set fuel tank on fire for the signal.  The rescue plane caught sight of us and landed.  We told the pilots how we got here and that Liz has been taken - they said they’ll wait for us until we found her.  Zach and I called the guys via radio and told them that the plane was here and that we were going to continue looking for Liz.

“Just be careful.” Aunt Abby said.

“We will.” I said and hung up.

We kept walking until we found some more ruins.  There were carvings on the stone walls some of them resembled a queen and beyond them was some sort of monastery.   We were about to go in when we saw one of those men who appeared upon the roof and started throwing some fuel tanks down on us.  Then he shot a flaming arrow at one of the tanks causing an explosion.  Zach dragged me to the ground and used his body as a human shield to protect me.  Luckily, we were fine and had only a few scratches.

“Kill them!” a man yelled.  The next thing I knew something hit my head hard. I blacked out.

I woke up only to find myself hanging from the ceiling by my hands. I looked around and saw that the same thing had happened to Zach.

“You okay?” he asked me.

“Yeah, I’m fine.  Are you okay?” he nodded.

He started to swing back and forth.  He continued to do this until he was able to place his feet on the ceiling.  And then Zach pushed against the ceiling and the ropes that bound his wrist broke loose; he fell to the ground.  I did the same as him and I hit the ground very hard and Zach helped me up.  We came across a room that looked like a tomb; there was a coffin and huge statue that looked like a queen.  The inscriptions on the walls said that this tomb belonged to Himiko queen of Yamatai.

To the left of us there was a door that lead to another tunnel and we stopped to rest about half way through.  “I wonder why those men want us dead so bad.” I said.

“Who knows?” Zach said with a shrug.

“Do you think they have Liz?” I asked.

“I’m sure she’s fine.”

I didn’t believe that.  If that was the case, Liz wouldn’t have left without telling me.  After resting we started walking again and made our way outside.  Aunt Abby called us again to tell us to meet them at an old Japanese palace below the mountain Zach and I were on.  On our way down, more men started shooting at us; Zach and I took out our guns and started shooting at them.  The bad news is that we were low on ammo and I was running low on arrows so we had no choice but to run.  We ran until we made it to the edge of a cliff. Below us was an old plane that was crashed into some trees.  We had to climb into the plane wreck to get away from those men, but on the way down I slipped and fell. Luckily enough, I landed on the wreckage.  Zach made it down less then minute later and came to my aid.

“Now what are we gonna do?” I asked.

“I don’t know, but we’ll think of something.” said Zach.

Suddenly, the plane began to stir then it lurched forward and pushed Zach and I up against the window.  I landed right on top of Zach - my back against his chest.  Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse, the window that we were on started cracking more and more. I saw a parachute and I got off of Zach and grabbed it.

“Put it on.” I told Zach, giving it to him.

“Gallagher Girl – “

“Zach, don’t argue with me! Just put it on!” I interrupted.

He looked at me a little bit longer and then put the parachute on. He put his arms around me and held me tight.  Just then the window gave way and we were falling.  Zach pulled the cord and steered us through the trees.  The next thing I knew, one of the straps broke loose and Zach was trying to keep us steady; and it worked for the most part until I fell out of his grasp and landed in a tree; but I didn’t stop there, I kept falling then I landed on my stomach on one of the branches.  It hurt so bad I had the wind knocked out of me and I think I may have black for a microsecond.  And then once again, I fell to the hard ground.

“Cammie! Where are you?” Zach yelled. He then caught sight of me and ran towards me.

“Gallagher Girl, are you okay?” he asked. I coughed and gagged.

I looked down at my stomach and saw the bandage that covered my stab wound from the cave was gone.  Now I had an open wound and I was bleeding out.  The hits just keep coming.