Cahills Reading Rapid Fire-Crushed
A/N I saw so many storied where the Cahills read the 39 Clues books. I noticed that no one did one for the e-books. So, I decided to do one for the Rapid Fire series, starting with my all-time favourite: CRUSHED.
Disclaimer:
Ian: What am I doing here?
Me: The disclaimer, what else? It's not like you're useful.
Ian: Excuse me, but I don't want to have my talents wasted on a story written by an American. Especially this story.
Me: Do it. Or else Mr. Buttons will suffer.
Ian: Fine, fine! Fortunately, THGFAN101 doesn't own the 39 Clues series.
Dan Cahill hated being taken away from playing video games.
Just as he was about to beat the last level of Halo 4, Amy unplugged the cord.
"What did you do that for?" he exclaimed.
"You need to do something more productive than playing video games," she answered.
"This is productive! I haven't played video games in a long time. Now that we're done with the Vespers, I need to practice my gaming skills."
"I don't know how video games will help you in life, dweeb," she told him. "Come on; help me make chocolate chip cookies."
He decided to help Amy instead of complaining. After all, he couldn't play on an empty stomach.
As soon as he walked into the kitchen, he found Amy lying on the floor, unconscious.
What on earth happened? He thought.
He looked around preparing to fight when he felt a needle sinking deep into his skin. He felt very nauseous and fatigue. Dan instantly fell on the ground. The last thing he saw as he drifted away was a brunette girl with blue eyes.
Ian Kabra was getting ready to go to the movies with Natalie.
After saving Natalie and the other hostages from the Vespers, Ian decided that he should spend more time with Natalie. He wanted her to forget the horrors she faced when she was a hostage.
He finished combing his hair and with one last look in the mirror, he went to go check on his sister.
He knocked on the door and yelled, "Natalie, are you done yet?"
"Almost, Ian!" she yelled back. "You can't rush perfection."
After ten more minutes of waiting, Ian was starting to get impatient. Just as he was about to knock on the door a second time, he heard Natalie shriek.
He stormed into the room and found Natalie lying on the floor with a needle on her arm. Standing right next to her unconscious body was girl with long wavy brown hair and blue eyes.
Ian quickly took out his gun and took aim.
"What did you do to her?" he yelled.
The girl replied by taking out a dart gun. Before Ian got the chance to shoot, the girl shot a dart in his arm. His eyes closed and all he could see was darkness.
Hamilton Holt was teaching his cousin, the famous Jonah Wizard, how to play rugby. So far, Jonah wasn't doing so well.
"You can't throw the ball forward!" he told Jonah for the tenth time.
"Sorry cuz," Jonah said. "I'm not used to these rules yet. Plus we've only been practicing for thirty minutes!"
"Okay, let's take a break," he said. He went to the cooler and offered Jonah some Gatorade. Jonah looked at it strangely.
"Don't tell me you never drank it," he said pleading.
"Of course da wiz drank it," Jonah replied. "I just don't drink it that often. I only drank it once for an advertisement. I prefer pop. You have any?"
He took the Gatorade from him and gave him a Pepsi can.
It was beautiful day in Boston, MA. They we're staying at the Cahill's mansion but decided to hang out in the park. Lucky for them, the park wasn't crowded. Hamilton didn't like it when a bunch of fan girls came out of nowhere when he hanged out with Jonah. He had enough of fan girls to last a life time a year ago, while they were on the mission to save the hostages.
"Let's go back," Jonah suggested. "Dan wanted me to verse him on some video game."
"Alright, let's go," he said packing up.
Once the two Cahills arrived in the mansion, they instantly knew that something was wrong.
"Why is the place so quiet? It's never this quiet," he said.
"You're right cuz," Jonah said agreeing. "Dan's probably trying to prank us."
They walked into the living room and saw the TV cord unplugged.
"Ok," he said. "Dan not playing video games isn't normal."
"Hello boys," an unrecognizable female voice came from behind.
Before he and Jonah could turn around they felt a needle hit their arm.
Amy woke up feeling horrible.
She was laying on the floor in a room she never seen before. She got up instantly and saw Dan. She also noticed Ian, Natalie, Jonah, and Hamilton on the floor unconscious.
They we're in an average sized windowless room. The walls were painted a bright blue color and the floor was tiled with marble tiles. There are six wooden chairs around a large wooden table in the center of the room. A gigantic chandelier was on the ceiling over the table. A 40" flat screen TV was on the wall.
She got up and started shaking Dan, "Dan, DAN! Wake up!"
"You can't defeat me, I'm the ninja master," Dan mumbled in his sleep.
"DAN!"
"What?" he asked opening his eyes. "What's so important that you have to interrupt my amazing dream?"
"We've been kidnapped dweeb," she replied, "along with Ian, Natalie, Jonah, and Hamilton."
"The Cobras are here!" he said getting up. "Great, now I'm stuck with Princess Cobra and Lover Boy."
"Don't you care that we've been kidnapped?" she said getting annoyed. Leave it to her brother to act this way in this situation.
"Of course, I care," Dan said. "We need to get out of here." He inspected the entire room searching for a way out. Meanwhile, Amy woke up everyone else.
Once everyone woke up, they all sat in the wooden chairs.
"These seats are horrible, and the décor as well!" Natalie shrieked. "This place needs remodeling."
"We're not all sitting here to talk about the room, Nat," Dan said sitting down in the seat next to Amy. "We're here to discuss a plan to get out of here."
"Don't call me Nat, Daniel," Natalie told him. "I can't stand sitting in a room with peasants."
"We're richer than you!" Dan exclaimed. "You're the real peasants!"
"At least, I don't have the mind of a three year old," Natalie said.
"You little-"
"Can you guys please stop arguing for once?" Amy asked interrupting them. The two stopped arguing. "Now let's all tell how we got captured."
Each of the Cahills told their story. All they had in common was a brunette girl with blue eyes.
"One thing we know for sure," Ian said. "She loves using dart guns."
"Reminds me of Nat," Dan mumbled.
"So," Ian continued ignoring Dan's remark. "I think that she's a Lucian."
"No dibs Sherlock," Dan said.
"Dan!" Amy scolded. "Do you mind?"
Dan sent her look that said, Sorry for interrupting your boyfriend. Amy simply ignored him.
"As I was saying before I got rudely interrupted by Daniel," Ian said. "We need to come up with a strategic plan. It's difficult to outsmart a Lucian."
"Ok," Hamilton said. "So we wait until she walks into the room?"
Suddenly, all four TV screens flickered to life. On screen was the same girl that attacked her.
"Hello Cahills," she said. "Welcome to my humble place. I'm Arianna."
"Nice to meet ya," Jonah said. "Now, can you get us out of here? I have a concert to prepare for."
"I'm sorry, I can't let you out of here. Fiske wanted me to-"
"So Fiske is part of this?" Dan said. "That traitor."
"Dan! I'm pretty sure we're safe is she's working for Fiske," Amy said.
"You're correct Amy," Arianna said. "Fiske wants you to bond."
Everyone groaned. Fiske getting the Cahills to bond was starting to get annoying. Nothing good ever happens when Cahills are at a reunion.
"And this time," Arianna continued, "it'll work. You're all going to be taking turns to read some top-secret information. Amy, can you please go to the closet and take out six Kindles."
Amy did as she was told and handed each person a kindle.
"Now, open it. And click the story titled, Crushed."
Everyone did as they were told.
"Yes! We're reading a story about Ian! You're awesome!" Dan told her.
"Why thank you Dan," she smiled.
"Wait a minute," Ian said. "I refuse to let anyone read something about me. Why don't we read the other stories first?"
"Because," Arianna replied, "Crushed is one of my favourites. And if you refuse, then Mr. Buttons will get it."
"You're bluffing," he said.
Arianna walked away and came back seconds later with Mr. Buttons. "Now do you think I'm bluffing? Also, Alistair's dog, Buffy is staying with me. I'm pretty sure he'd like to play with you."
Amy, Dan, and Natalie started laughing while Hamilton and Jonah looked confused.
"Wait, what's wrong with Alistair's dog?" Hamilton asked.
"It's a long story. It happened while we were in South Korea," Natalie said.
"Okay, we'll read this stupid story," Ian said giving in.
"Good," Arianna said. "Ian I want you to start reading."
Ian turned to page one and started to read.
I'll continue later! Please review and/or constructive criticism!