Their Elemental Curse: Book 1

Chapter 34

*Beval Hernandez's POV:

I struggled and flapped my arms around, trying to stay above the water. I did not have on a life jacket, so thank God I knew how to swim. I coughed and gagged as small waves crashed on me. The storm was still present, the sky was still gray, the rain still came down, but the waves were calmer.

"Hey! Hey! Shimizu! Robin! Gaia! Help!" I cried out, coughing between words as I held on to a pole, which once belonged to the mainsail.

"Beval!" Gaia screamed as she hysterically flapped around in the water, several yards from me. Thank god, she was alive.

"Gaia, come to me, hang on to the pole!" I shouted to her.

She began swimming over and hanged on to the pole like her life depended on it, which it did.

"Come on, climb on!" I heard Kimberly say to Danny, Mohammed and Katie.

Farther away from us, I could see her helping them on to a huge piece of wall that was staying on top of the water. The wall was navy blue in color, so it had to have come from a side of the boat. It was thirty feet long and twenty feet across. Big enough for eight people to be on. Comfortably.

"Beval! Gaia! Come to us! You'll be safe on here" Katie shouted.

"You okay?" I asked Gaia, making sure she was alright before we went over.

"Yes, I think so. I'm so scared" she whimpered, sniffling as tears fell.

"It's alright. I got you, just grab on to my back, okay? I promise I won't let you go" I told her.

"O-okay," she stuttered before letting go of the pole and grabbing on my shoulders. I started swimming over to Kimberly and the others.

Right before I could reach them, Shimizu appeared out of the water, in front of the wall. He was holding on to an unconscious Robin.

"I got her!" he shouted, gasping for air.

"Shimizu, oh thank god you made it back up safely, is she okay?" Katie asked with intense concern, but with a sense of relief.

"She's unconscious. The impact of the wave might've knocked her out. I must perform CPR on her, or she will die. Make room," Shimizu stated, scared for the life of Robin. He lifted her up on to the piece of wall and laid her flat on her back. Me and Gaia climbed on to the wall.

He climbed over her and began performing CPR.

It was quiet, everyone was patient, but worrisome about if Robin was going to survive. Including me. It's rare for CPR by itself to work, but it is possible, and I was hanging on to that possibility.

"Oh Robin" Gaia whimpered before burying her face in her hands to cry. Katie held on to Gaia and cried with her.

I was trembling, and it wasn't because of the water, I was scared for my best friend.

She was like a sister to me, a sister my own age. We've been through thick and thin and I wasn't ready to lose her, not like this. Not now.

"Come on Robin, come on" Shimizu grunted, pumping Robin's chest. He proceeded to do mouth to mouth and pumped her chest again.

"Robin...please wake up" Shimizu whimpered, his voice cracking as he was about to cry. But he didn't give up, he continued pumping her chest.

That's when it happened.

Robin sat up and gagged and coughed out water from her lungs.

In intense happiness and relief, we hugged Robin. Some of us, like Gaia, Shimizu, Kimberly and Katie cried in relief.