As Kymani and Jonathan were scavenging the cruise ship, the others stayed back to try to get a shelter at the spot they saw, getting branches, sticks, and anything else helpful. "Do you think they'll come back?" Clayden asked James, "I don't know, they're putting themselves in a death sentence, I'd be surprised if they come back unscathed," James responded as he arranged sticks in a way that looked like a fire pit. "We need something to start a fire," James said looking for dry grass to fill it with, Toby was trying to find the strength to muster out some kind of sound. Despite his efforts, he was unable to speak, "Hey man don't worry your throat will heal then you can finally speak," Clayden said to try to cheer Toby up. Toby just looked at Clayden and gave him a small smile, "James! Where'd you go?" Clayden yelled looking around for James who couldn't be found.
While Toby and Clayden were at the camp, unknowingly James wandered off too far in search of dry grass getting lost in that process. *Damn must have gone too far* he thought to himself trying to find his way back, as he tried finding his way he saw a stream of water, when he tried some it was fresh and clean. *We can use this as our drinking water, this is an awesome find!* He thought to himself as he drank his fill of the water. He ran in the direction he thought was the camp but went more inland, it was a darker scary forest that looked unnatural from the green lively shrubbery from the beach. *I might have just gone the wrong way, maybe I yell out to the others?* he thought to himself. As he was about to yell out he heard a strange humming from behind him, when he looked he didn't see anything but he heard movement. His instinct kicked in as he went to hide behind a bush, out from the shadows was a humanoid creature with no distinct face and a body of all black, it was walking around weirdly and then stopped. James was hidden so he didn't think that it would see him. The thing started looking around but when it looked in James' direction it stopped.
James felt its cold eyeless stares,*I thought I was hidden* he thought to himself as the humanoid creature started moving, towards him. Suddenly James was filled with fear wanting to run but his legs wouldn't move, as it got closer and closer, James finally mustered the courage to move but by this time it was standing over him. He looked up at it and it didn't turn its head down, it just stood there looking off into the distance, then it started moving away continuing its weird little walk as a breath of relief fled from James. When the creature was out of sight James ran in a random direction, and to his surprise, it led him back to the other 2. "Dude where have you been?" Clayden concerningly asked running over to him, "you've been gone for 2 hours!" he said following up. "No I haven't it's only been 20 minutes," James said in response he looked at Toby who shook his head disagreeing with James, James looked at the camp and saw a makeshift shelter with sticks and leaves. "You guys did this yourselves?" he asked and both of them shook their heads yes, "Guys I'm sorry I just got lost," he said looking down, "Hey man keep your head up, it's alright, we just got a little worried," Clayden said patting James on his shoulder.
"Oh yeah, I found a stream of water that we can drink from!" James said excitedly, he waved his hands telling the others to follow him, as they got closer to the stream James got more excited as he felt this would be a big help to their survival. When they arrived at the place of the stream, it was gone. "What? It was right here I swear!" James said running around trying to find it, "Dude it's ok but we kind of need a water source," Clayden said to James, he felt that James was going a little crazy in response to being trapped on the island. Toby sighed hard and started walking back to camp in defeat, "No it's gotta be here, gotta be," James yelled not wanting to let them down again. "Dude, give up there's a stream here, just go back to camp and maybe don't wonder you're obviously seeing things," Clayden said but this only enraged James more "I know what I saw," he muttered as he watched them walk away in disbelief. *I want to believe him, but I just can't see there being a stream that disappears* Clayden thought to himself so he didn't feel guilty for not believing his friend.
*That monster, it was that thing, wasn't it? That thing did something* James thought as he fell to his knees and punched the sand in anger. James walked back to his face in defeat, they were unable to find things for a fire so they sat there, Toby was building a sandcastle to pass the time as they waited for Kymani and Jonathan to get back. "Hey I'm sorry if I kinda sounded like an asshole back there," Clayden said to James, "Nah man it's alright maybe I just forgot where the stream was," James said justifying the reason he failed them. "What do you think the others are doing on the cruise ship?" Clayden asked James, "Who knows, knowing Jonathan he probably found his gaming setup and is playing Rust, and Kymani is probably poking a dead body with a stick," James said, "Nah I'd think that they are picking up the bodies and playing how far can we toss this with them," Clayden said laughing to himself. *Jonathan is probably being stupid and Kymani is probably also being stupid* Toby thought to himself as he finished his sandcastle and kicked it down for fun.