Freezing To Death

Chapter 4: Why?

After Ally and Beth ate some frozen food. They were freezing cold. I mean, the temperature went down to -43 degrees. And if you don't think that's cold? Trust me, it is. Living in Alaska had beautiful views, yet horrible temperature. Sure the summer was nice, in the 70's but in the cold to -70's, that is just too cold. Lets resume to the story. Shall we?

It was late afternoon now and the sun came crawling back up into the sky. Some snow melted away and some stayed. The sun didn't make all the snow go away because, it is too cold. If it is too cold it won't go. Ally got sleepy and Beth decided that she shouldn't lay around and do nothing because of my stupid voice and make Ally do all of the work. She decided to go hunting. All she got was a snow hare. Beth was unsure if it was okay to eat a snow hare. "Oh well," She said to herself. Wait. Her voice. It is back! She can talk but Beth still has a sore throat. "Hey, I got dinner Ally." Beth said cheerfully. "Your voice. Its back." Ally said. This poor little bunny froze in minutes. It actually froze! They had to warm it up with fire and that is exactly what they did. Ally felt a little sick after eating it. Beth felt fine though. Ally slept unexpectedly for a long time. Beth thought it was food poisoning, but when Beth asked her why she slept so much, Ally said it was the cold that numbed her body so she fell asleep in that she couldn't move. Ally and Beth sat next to the fire to keep warm and they put their hands over the fire. Ally accidentally dozed off again and her hands went into the fire. She didn't feel a thing. Beth woke Ally up and Ally freaked out that her hands were in the fire. Beth told her "Hey it is okay..." Ally froze (not really) and looked at Beth crazy. Ally, scared, put her hands back into the fire. That made the ice on her "cold proof" gloves melt. Beth finally put her hands into the fire and felt relieved that she could actually feel the warmth of the fire. No more numb hands. No more "I can't do anything, my hands are to cold," excuses. Beth and Ally were fell asleep in the next couple of minutes. But they kept their hands in the fire overnight. Beth tossed and turned and got her hands out of the fire, while Ally, left hers in the fire. The fire burned out eventually. Ally woke up first and something told her that something was wrong with her arm. She took the jacket off and looked at her arm. Though, she was very cold without her jacket, Ally saw a little burn from the fire. "Huh!" Ally gasped. Every time she touched the burn it hurt her bone inside of her arm. It made it....numb. It even hurt to put her jacket back on. Ally eventually couldn't feel the burn because it was too cold and it got numb very quickly. Ally was now up watching for animals like last time. Beth was sound asleep. I mean, it was if she was dead. That's how quiet she was. But Ally could see that Beth was still breathing. Ally was hungry, and wanted to eat, so she headed over to the caribou and, she could see it had rotted and many animals had got into it. That kinda've scared her. She decided to go hunting and gather more food, since they had none at the moment. As she walked with the bow in her hand she heard a noise. A sound that would be something like an animal. Ally crashed to the ground to hide in case of a bear. She peaked out to see what was happening. From behind the ice, she saw a dead caribou, and Ally went to check it out to see if it was any good. No animal has eaten it yet though. Ally then saw three white wolves staring right at Ally as she was grabbing the caribou. Ally whispered, "Shoot." The wolves had a good eye on Ally and were moving toward the edge of the igloo. The wolves did not know though that someone was in that igloo, Beth. Beth was still sleeping, unknown of what was around her. As the wolves were moving, Ally tried to move away from the area and try and hide behind the ice. Ally thought "Wait, I still have my bow and arrows. " Ally was thinking that she could shoot the wolves, but that would take to long to get all three, and soon she'd be dead by the other wolves. Now Ally had to think, should I wait or should I shoot. Ally decided to wait. The wolves started to come toward Ally, but Ally was too scared to look behind the ice. She heard footsteps though. She stayed very still. But soon she was face to face with a wolf. The wolf started to to growl. Ally was so scared, she couldn't think straight. Then the other wolves got in front of her. Ally dashed, away from the ice, away from the wolves. The wolves chased her. Ally was running her fastest. She ran, and ran, and ran. "BETH!!! BETH!!! HELP ME!!!" Ally screamed for her life. She kept running and she began to come faster, but then, the unexpected happened. Apparently this whole area that they were running on was ice and Ally fell through. "NO!!! STOP IT!!! WHY ME?! I CAN'T AND I WON'T DIE!!!" Ally screamed. Ally was starting to become numb in the water. She could barely swim. Beth started heading that way. She followed the sound of Ally's voice. Beth was walking because she was too tired to run. She saw the wolves. The moment the wolves saw Beth, they whimpered and walked away. Beth then saw the hole, in which Ally had drowned in. Beth started to cry, and scream. "NO!!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!! IT'S A DREAM!!! PLEASE!!!" Beth screamed. She couldn't take it anymore and she headed to the igloo in which Ally and Beth made. Beth laid an elbow onto the igloo and started to cry over Ally's death. She couldn't believe in how much Ally has done to cheer up Beth, how much she did to keep Ally alive. Ally did most of the hunting. Ally did many other things for Beth, and now she is dead.