Chapter 1-Landing in London
Amy sighed, she felt like she was reliving the 39 clues again, with Dan her 12 year-old ninja-obsessed brother with his face pressed up against the window of the airplane on one side of her, and their au-pair/guardian Nellie, nodding her spiky black and white hair in time with her iPod which was at brain damaging levels on her other.
She wished they could have gotten to fly in 'Maggie' the Madrigral private plane instead, but Uncle Fiske told them to stay as inconspicuous as possible when they were given the case.
The point was to shadow the Vespers, but without being shadowed themselves which could lead to trouble; Amy remembered when she and Dan first got the case. The day had started off so peaceful…
Flashback:
Amy was dangling upside-down six feet off the ground in front of a bomb. It was part of the training routine, and she had to defuse it as fast as possible. Suddenly, Mozart started playing, she sighed and reached into the pocket of her raven black training suit and pulled out a shiny metallic green phone and balanced it on top of the bomb putting it on speaker phone.
"Hello?" The calm voice of Fiske Cahill spoke through the speaker of the phone. "Hello Amy. How are you?" Amy smiled she adored Fiske; he was a lot quieter than his sister and her grandmother Grace, but he had the sensible and calm air around him. This was great in Dan and her hectic Cahill life. He continued "Do you have any time? I need to talk to you and Dan about something.
We've got a new lead on our...friends." Amy rolled her eyes, great another case. She had almost died numerous times in the last one they were given."
However, she still replied cheerily, "Hey Uncle Fiske, I'm good, do I have any time?" she looked at the timer for the bomb. "Yeah, I have exactly a minute and twenty-five seconds." She paused listening to Fiske telling her about the case. Then replied quickly eyeing the timer-she had 45 more seconds- she needed to end the call.
"Ok, a new lead on the Vespers great? I'll be there in a few." With that she disconnected the call and looked back at the wires on the bomb. She muttered to herself trying to remember what her trainer had taught her, "Right…Roses are red, Violets are blue, and you're as sweet as sugar that's why I love you.
She cut the yellow wire and the timer stopped at 0:05. Light flooded into the room; she sighed in relief and unhooked herself off of the rope landing quietly with her feet firmly on the ground. She then made her way towards the door her trainer Max was holding open. "Amy you didn't improve at all! In fact you did worse by twenty seconds, what happened?"
Amy let out a loud sigh "I know and I'm so sorry Max It's just…Well, Fiske called me on a new lead on the Vespers."
Max nodded understanding what she had to do, but Amy continued,
"He said to meet him in his office with Dan."
Max smiled chuckling slightly, "Ok then go now."
As soon as Max said this Amy thanked Max gracefully then hugged him tightly. She took off in a sprint towards Fiske's office.
(End of flashback)
After yet another agonizing hour the airplane finally skidded to a stop and the mellow voice of a flight attendant, spoke through the speakers announcing to plane, "Good Evening passengers, and welcome to Heathrow Airport, it is currently 6:14PM and cloudy."
There were groans from everywhere on the plane, which were probably heard by flight attendant who added, "However, the clouds are thought to move away by tomorrow. Thank you for flying on Jet Blue."
When they finally got off the plane they went to get their bags, while they were waiting Dan wanted to go explore or in other words attack oblivious people with his 'skilled' ninja moves, but wasn't allowed, so instead much to Dan's dismay Amy started reading a brochure she had found to him.
"Did you know that Heathrow airport is one of the busiest in the world with a plane landing or leaving every 30 seconds?" She looked at the picture of buildings in the brochure and gasped, poking Dan's shoulder to show him the interesting architectural aspects to London's buildings (none in Dan's point of view).
She started off again on her on little fact train. "Did you kno…" Dan stopped her by grabbing the brochure "Can I see that?"
Amy's eyes widened in surprise, "Sure! I didn't know you would be so interested." Amy said happily.
"I'm not." Dan admitted and started ripping up the brochure, Amy gasped like he had ripped her leg off instead.
"I just thought it would be great for making spit wads." Amy looked disgusted then happy again, "That's Ok, I can get another one!" she ran off and Dan groaned. Suddenly someone grabbed him from behind and punched him in the stomach.
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