Hope is Dead

Chapter twenty four

The guy's were half way down the track and already getting tried, everyone except Brock, he looked back seeing some of them stopping a bit ''No, come on we need to keep going.'' he explained and went back for them, he grabbed Craig's arm but Craig lightly pulled his arm away ''Brock it's like a hundred degrees out here we're dying.'' Brock knew what he meant, he to was sweating like crazy but he had his daughter on his mind ''We need to keep going.'' he begged looking at them, Brian looked at him before getting up ''Come on, we'll find a station soon then take a break.'' he said being sure of that statement, the other's got up while Brian walked over to Brock who thanked him quietly as they took lead.

Marcel reached up opening Luke's backpack and dug around inside ''If you find water can you share it?'' Marcel groaned and shut the bag going to Tyler's next ''If we had water don't you think we'd be sharing it Marcel?'' he asked then Luke looked back at him seeing him moving slowly while Tyler and Craig passed ''You feeling alright?'' he asked and Marcel nodded slowly ''Perfectly... fine.'' he said right before collapsing. Luke caught him and lowered him slowly ''Marcel?'' the other's turned seeing he had passed out, Evan pushed past the other's and crouched down beside him ''What happened?" he asked while Luke checked his forehead feeling his fever ''Great.'' he took his bag off and dug threw it.

The other's stood there not knowing what to do ''David.'' Lui said calmly and David looked at him ''What?" Lui then grabbed David's arm as he also fainted ''No.'' they then looked over to them as David caught him ''Lui wake up.'' Tyler looked to Craig who was looking like the other two ''We need to find shelter now.'' Brian said noticing all of them fainting, Luke looked around ''They need water.'' he said and looked around only to look at Evan who stopped himself from falling over but it didn't help, Luke reached over catching him as well ''Don't close your eyes.'' he warned and Evan nodded while Luke laid him on the tracks ''This isn't happening.'' Tyler said looking at the two who were completely out. Luke stood up and looked around at the tree's seeing it was the wrong kind.

''We need to find water now.'' he stated a plain fact ''Who's a fast runner.'' they pointed to Evan ''Second fastest?'' Brian raised his hand ''Can you run up a head and see if there's water?" he asked passing them the empty bottle's of water, Brian nodded taking them and put them in his bag, Luke looked at Craig untying the sweater from his waist while Brian ran down the tracks, Brock watched him go then looked at them ''Let's move them off the tracks.'' he said and went to Marcel helping Luke lift him off the track and to the side, David picked Lui up with his arm's under him and laid him beside Marcel in the shade, Tyler got Evan up but he could barely walk.

They sat in the shade while Brock paced ''I don't like him being alone.'' he said looking at them ''What if something happens?" Craig went over to him ''He'll be fine, he's fast remember?'' Brock nodded ''I know but Evan's fast as well and look at him.'' Craig glanced over then back at Brock ''He'll be fine, if you want I can go check on him.'' Tyler got up ''No.'' they looked back at him ''Look, if anyone's going after him it should be someone who isn't about to faint.'' Tyler said, Evan sat up seeing his vision coming in and out and looked down the tracks while they had a discussion ''Hey.'' he said mumbling almost, Luke looked over to him sitting with Marcel further in the shade since he was the first to faint ''Hey!" he said a bit louder getting the other's attention and they looked back at him, he then pointed down the tracks making them look.

There was Brian walking back in their direction, he held up two full water bottles and Brock smiled seeing him walking over, he finally made it to them and handed them a water ''Get them up.'' Brian said going to Evan helping him to his feet, David picked Lui up again and Luke got up looking at him ''Why?'' Brian looked at him ''There's a lake.'' Luke smiled and picked Marcel up the same way David picked Lui up, bridal style, they followed Brian for a little bit before he stopped and looked around seeing the lake between the trees and brought them towards it, Craig smiled and ran ahead in front of them seeing Brian look back at them with a smile and they saw the beautiful lake with a waterfall from the side of the hill coming from a stream and pouring into this lake that was clear enough to see small rocks before it got darker.