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"A collection of all the prompts I have submitted in Peter Lerangis' prompts on the 39 Clues official messageboard."

Disclaimer: These stories aren't called fanfictions for a reason, right?

1st prompt: Under the post "Milwaukee, your questions, and NEW writing prompt"

It's the second day of training at Marienne's Philippine mansion, and it's time for the Cahills to learn how to ride a plane. Marienne and Nellie are taking turns on the lesson, and everyone's already done except for Natalie. The lesson goes like this: each Cahill takes a turn to ride a mini-plane while being guided by Marienne or Nellie. They have to fly over three locations on the estate, namely the horse ranch, the mini-resort and the observatory. Then they would have to land safely onto the landing strip. Sounds easy?

For the Cahills, they've already gone through exploding harmonicas, terracota soldiers, mountain climbing and a deadly ski chase, but they're not so good with flying. Ian almost crash-landed in the pool while discussing horse racing statistics with Marienne (which he started), Jonah almost made Nellie fall off her seat while doing a backflip, and Dan...well, let's just say he'll be fixing the plane himself. Good thing the only things broken in the plane is a wing and the landing gear.

Now, Natalie, with her guide Marienne, are almost over the whole thing. They have already passed the observatory. Natalie was on 'Shana', a red plane with a portrait of the anime character stickered on. Also, she was on an emotion called 'scared'.
"Okay Natalie, the only thing you have to do is land this plane. Can you do it?" her assistant pilot asked while looking over on her. Natalie was almost as pale as a ghost. Maybe the fainting earlier when she saw her older brother almost crash-landing on the pool reminded her.
"Natalie? Answer me!" she shouted at her. That snapped her out of her self-induced trance. "Yeah...yes. I can do it. Better than my brother, of course."

"That's the spirit! Okay, we're approaching the landing strip. Relax and remember what I've told you. Oh, and breathe." she says.

Natalie Kabra took a deep breath and grabbed onto the controls. Surely landing a plane couldn't be THAT difficult. She leveled the plane and lowered it bit by bit. Then, she flicked the landing gear on and landed the plane as delicately as she can. Okay...you're almost there girl. You just have to park it...But then, the plane jerked back and forth as if the landing strip was as slippery as glass.
"Looks like the plane's trying to skate itself onto its parking spot," Marienne said.

"What?" Natalie said annoyingly as she tried to manuever the already out-of-control plane.

"Come on! You're a Lucian! You are fearless! No one messes with a Lucian, especially you! So get your wheel and park it!" she shouted like a military commander.

That gave Natalie the necessary courage to drive the plane out of its awkward position, and parked it safely. When Marienne took over the controls and made sure that everything's okay, Natalie was already on a chair, sipping drinks and fanning herself.
Her tutor stepped off the plane and grabbed a similar drink from Madeleine's tray. "Congratulations Natalie! You've got your aviary stuff out there!"

Natalie looked at her, feeling tired than anything in her life. "Thanks."

"About the slippery situation, the plane won't be blamed for that. Besides, I figured it would be the-"

She stopped midsentence when the other exhausted Cahills came over and gave her pats and congratulations. Ian, of course, embraced her with delight. "I thought you were going to die back there!" he said to her.

"Me too," Natalie piped. "and at least I wasn't the cause of my aviary problem." He just rolled his eyes at her. Dan just came, sulking even.
"Dan? In all your fake ninja-ness, why are you sulking?" Marienne remarks the Cahill. "Is it because Natalie did a better job than you did?"

"No! And she'll never be better than me in anything!" he argues. The others laughed.

"Yeah right Dan. You cheated on Natalie's so that she would pay-" Hamilton starts.

All eyes were on Hamilton's now. "What do you mean Ham?" Marienne asks.

"Nothing! I said nothing! Right Dan?"

"Ham!"

"Fine. I'll tell her." Dan says, looking even more gloomy. "Well, the thing is-"

"What? Did you just put oil on mylanding strip?" Natalie and Amy stared daggers at Dan. "Thank Luke that she manuevered the plane safely, or else we would have died out there!"

"Dan! Didn't I tell you to notdo something like that again? And that was worse than the horses!" Amy snapped and slapped him in the shoulder.

Natalie, in full rage, pulled out her gun and shot Dan three darts. "Hmph. Good thing I'm on a good mood today."

"What did you shot him?" Marienne asked.

"One of your tranquilizers. The Everlasting one." she said as she smiled at her brother, who laughed.

"Good. Well, let's get him to his room." Marienne ordered. Two of her butlers rushed to carry Dan back to the mansion. Then, she turned to Madeleine. "Madeleine, please call someone who could clean this landing strip up. I'm expecting a special guest to arrive any moment. Oh, and get the makeover kit while you're at it."

Peter didn't comment here because my post showed up after he commented on the prompts submitted by the others.

Btw, I got this idea from a fanfic I have already posted here in ff. Could you guess where it came from?

-fieryjunior35