Chapter 13; First in sight.

A.N

So I have been trying to make up the rest of the story a bit and I have the main story lines laid out. Even had an idea for a sequel. Not sure if that will be a thing though.

The sun shone in your face trough the little light green leaves of the tree. Slowly you woke up. Your butt felt like you had been sitting on a bench for ages. Well, depended on how you looked at it but in some way you had been. You loosened the rope around you and rolled it up. Ryan wasn't on his branch anymore and the only one you still saw in the tree was Giuseppe. You didn't really know him but apart from his bitchy Eric copying behavior he seemed quite nice. He was still asleep so as quiet as possible you moved so you could stand on the branch below you to climb down. There was no sign of anyone being on the ground either.

'Where is everyone?!' You thought getting a little worried.

You landed on your feat. You hadn't seen it when you were in the tree but all the bags were still there. Your bow around your shoulders didn't leave you anymore while you were here. The quiver you had hang on a branch closer to the ground was still there and you put it back around your shoulders again.

"You always wear that thing don't you? Never take it off for anything. Got to admit though, that shot you made with that water snake was a nice one." You suddenly heard behind you.

As fast as you could you turned around. There stood Giuseppe smiling while leaning against the tree with his arms folded.

"Thanks, I guess." You answered.

"So where is everyone? you killed them off or something?" He asked walking past you and looking around.

"I had been asking myself the same question when I woke up seconds ago."

Giuseppe saw the bags now too.

"Even that tree hugging retarded red head is gone! Hu, looks like we missed something or they left us behind." He said a bit sarcastically.

"They wouldn't leave us behind and leave the bags too! That would be the dumbest they could do." You snapped back at Giuseppe for his stupidity.

"Calm down girl! Your boyfriend will be back soon, damn! Let's just wait here for them." He said back raising his hands in defense.

He dropped himself next to the tree and put a long blade of grass in his mouth and folded his arms behind his head.

"How's your arm by the way?" He asked looking at you from the corner of his eye.

You sighed and followed him. Sitting on the ground you loosened your dirty bandage.

"I don't know. Haven't given it much thought sins we left the plane wreck actually."

Pulling of the bandage you revealed your lower arm with the wound obviously still there. It was still open and now looked like it was infected. Giuseppe shoved a little closer interested in how it looked.

"Ow, damn girl that doesn't look so good. Your gonna loos your arm if this goes on like this." He said teasing.

You pushed him away and took a good look at the open wound. It really didn't look good. How was it that you didn't feel a thing of it. Sure it had been annoying and a bit itchy from time to time and climbing hurts just like shooting the arrow but you guessed that living on a constant supply of adrenaline shots made you a little careless for your arm's wound. Carefully you poked it. Didn't really hurt as much as you expected. If Mark would be back you would ask him what to do with it.

"So your awake. Good, we took something with us. You hungry?" Ryan asked as he came up behind you out of the bushes.

You had hidden the wound back under your sleeve. Ryan would only worry and you didn't wanted him to.

"Ryan! god, you scared the hell out of me! Where have you been?" You asked as Ryan kneeled behind you and you saw Mark, Eric, Patsy and David walk up behind him.

"Mark came with the idea of looking for food when Eric kept whining about being hungry." You rolled you eyes as you could almost hear him yourself.

Mark dropped a bag with many kinds of berries in there and a couple of other things like carrots and an union.

"Nice!" Giuseppe said.

We all ate from the berries and carrots and Patsy from the union which seemed to be dug out for her specially. After that you took all the bags out of the tree with help of Patsy's monkey skills and made ready to move on.

"I wish we knew how far it was yet until we reach that stupid first wall." David complained.

"There is a way. Climbing the tree to it's highest point should do it." Mark said.

Everybody looked around at each other actually all quite curious how far to go still. Everybody ended up looking at you.

"Great! Fine I'll do it but you better be there to catch me if I fall!" You said rolling your eyes and dropping you bag to the ground.

Mark gave you a step up with his hands and you started you climb.

'Actually it wouldn't have been fair to the others if one of them had to do this too. All of the guys have been doing so much and Patsy on her own way.' You thought while climbing.

After a while you looked down and you were further then you thought.

"Look up not down! If you look down you'll get scared of heights!" Mark shouted.

"Okay!" You shouted back at him.

"This was the best idea of your life girl! Well done! Really great job!" You complained quietly to yourself.

When you finally reached something like the top, or at least high enough to look over the other tree's, you stopped.

"Okay! I'm here!" You shouted down still clinging to the three.

"Good! Look for the building and then look at the sun say which way we need to go!" Mark shouted up again.

You looked around.

'Building, building, building.... building!'

It was hard to miss seeing it also had two giant white walls around it. Between the first and the second wall was a mountain and within the second wall stood the building. You guys had gone a little off track but walked pretty straight to the inside of the island.

"Found it!" You shouted back down.

It was surprisingly close. The woods reached out a few hundred yards more and then there seemed to be a couple of hundred yards more of land with low grass until the first huge white wall. You didn't even need to look at the sun because it was pretty close. Even if you guys walked a little off track you all would make it easily.

"Are we close?" You heard Eric shout as you started your climb down.

"Yeah, just wait! I'll climb down first!" You yelled back not willing to start to explain it all up in a tree yelling down.

Halfway you felt something slippery in your hand what was supposed to be a branch. You bit your lip and actually didn't wanted to look as you had a slight idea of that it was seeing it's movements. Being brave you looked anyway removed just a couple of foot from the ground.

In your hand was a big warm smooth brown snake. He looked at you with two little golden eyes and it's little tong out of it's mouth hissing a bit. Your eyes turned big.

"Ooow shit!" You yelped before you noticed.

The snake hissed again more violent now.

"Are you okay? What is it, you stuck?" Ryan yelled up to you.

Slowly you let go of the snake and went further downwards. when you reached the ground you dropped on your feet.

"I'm fine. Apart from the big snake in the middle I feel great." You said a bit sarcastic as you wiped your clothes a bit.

"Well how far is it? Please tell me you used your eyes to see that damn thing close to us?" Eric said pushing Ryan and Mark aside so he stood before you.

"The wall is pretty close. Just a couple of hundred foot away the woods end and a flat piece of land starts full with low grass and bushes. At the end of that is the first wall. We're almost there." You said clearly making Eric very happy.

You all grabbed your own bag again and started walking. Ryan walked next to you. It had become a habit to walk next to each other.

"Well done." Ryan said to you as he patted your head.

"Thanks." You answered blushing.

A.N

Just a funny thing. A guy on the winter Olympics of 2014 said that all the Dutch people won every time because they ice-skate everything in the winter. From village to village... there isn't even enough water here to make that possible. And village? then what is Amsterdam?  the upper village? That man had such a wrong idea of how Holland looked. Funny though.