It only took Steve a half hour to get enough of the rocks and debree away from the entrance so Ayame could get some fresh air again with Dakota's help.

"Ayame.....Are you ok?" Steve hallared in.

This time Ayame didn't answer. This time Ayame was out cold. A rock had hit her head when the cave had caved in again and it knocked her out cold. Her head was bleeding but it wasn't bleeding to bad.

"AYAME....." Steve yelled

Dakota put a hand on Steve's shoulder "Yelling's not going to help right now. It'll just make the cave cave in again and then what? You could hurt her some more."

Steve sighed. 'It's my fault she's hurt. I'm the one who fell asleep. I'm the one who quit working. It's all.....my.....fault.....' Steve thought in his head. "We need to work faster." HE said after a while.

Dakota let go of Steve's shoulder and nodded then went back to work. He was all most as deturmind as Steve to get Ayame out of the cave and out to safety.

Steve looked back in the cave and towords Ayame with worry and sadness in his eyes "Ayame....." He said quietly to himself and also to Ayame even though he knew she wouldn't hear him. He then went back to work.

"It'll be faster and easier if you worked over there....."Dakota pointed to one side of the rock wall. "And I work over there....." He pointed to the other side of the wall where he'd be working. "THen we'll work our way to the middle where we'll work together then work our way back to our own side. We'll keep doing that till we get her out of there."

Steve nodded and went over to his side of the wall just as Dakota went to his side of the wall.

To Be Continued.....