Chapter 1: Unforgotten Nightmare

Over the darkened sky a plane in flames shot through with increasing speed, it went over buildings, houses, and lakes until it got near a forest. The pilot inside was struggling with the controls to keep it going while three passengers held on to the seats to keep them steady.

One of the passengers was a woman and as she pushed her way up to the pilot she started to yell, "What's wrong with the controls? Can't we land!?"

"I don't know but we got to get off and quick!" the pilot replied loudly as the controls burst to flames and the wires were jammed; "Danm it!" the pilot yelled again as he pushed himself away from the heat.

The woman looked back quickly at the other two passengers, who were griping to each other tightly in fear, one of them looked up to say "Mom, what are we going to do!?"

"Don't worry Scott, we are going to get out of here, now get your brother up with you and follow me; we are going to get parachutes". Scott nodded and grabbed his bother's arm but it didn't budge, "Alex, what are you..?", "Scott, I'm sorry but I'm so scared I can't move..." Alex was frozen solid and his eyes were glued to the floor, "But there is nothing to be afraid of, I'm here, your big brother, now come on! I will protect you!"

Alex's eyes looked up and he smiled in assurance before he got up and followed his brother down the plane. As they ran the plane began to tip sideways and the two boys had to grip the seats to keep moving, fortunately they got to their mother who was searching franticly in a cupboard until she found something. It was a huge parachute that looked like it was un-used, but she looked disappointed as she looked at the boys saying, "Ok, lets go back to your father we got what we needed, here take my hands!" The two boys took one hand opposite and held on to them while they made their way back to see the pilot still managing, miraculously, to keep the plane going but the controls were broken and so were some windows as the plane tipped to the side again.

"We got a parachute but it's only one, what can we do with just one? There are four of us!" the woman yelled to the pilot who turned to meet her eyes in assurance. The pilot was a young man and he was thinking quickly before he replied to her, "There is only one way, we are going to have to get the boys out first and we are going to have to try and land this plane!"

The woman stopped shaking in disbelief at what she heard but she began to nod as the man continued, "Ok, Mary strap the parachute to Scott and Scott…", Scott looked up at his father in fear and confusion, "You are going to hold on to your brother like your life depended on it okay!?" Scott's eyes never averted his father's as he replied, "But what about you and mom?" his father smiled and said, "Don't worry Scott I will be alright and so will your mother…", then his expression changed to one in pain, "Now go!"

Scott's eyes widened but finally left his father's to meet his mother's as she smiled and said, "He's right Scott, now grab your brother and hold on tight! You are strapped in and I know you can use this parachute and remember…", as Scott nodded his head franticly in fear before he met her eyes again but it made his heart drop as he saw them, there were tears in them but strangely she was still smiling as she finally said, "We love you and Alex so much, please land safely!". Scott tried to reply back but it was to late, one of the plane's fins broke off in flames and the plane itself began to fall, at the same time the man yelled, "Scott go now!"

Scott did what he was told and jumped as hard as he could with Alex locked in his arms, as they both began to fall Scott lost sight of his mother and their speed began to grow. Out of fear of dying locked in his brain Scott franticly felt for a handle before gripping it and pulling, to his relief it was released and so was the parachute which stopped their speed in time for a good landing.

Though to Scott's surprise Alex said something barely audible since his face was pressed against Scott's chest, "Thank you for protecting me…" at this Scott felt his heart throb in modesty and tried to hide his emotions by replying back, "It wasn't just me, it was dad and mom…I hope they will be okay". But as much as Scott enjoyed the warmth of his brother it was about to be lost as a metal part of the falling plane came falling down before hitting its target, the parachute.

The impact of it was so strong that it created a flaming hole in the parachutes' material before it quickly passed by and fell to the ground in a fiery crater and caused the parachute catch on fire while the boys began to fall. As Alex screamed Scott began to panic as he noticed his grip on Alex began to fail, "Alex grab my hand quick!" Scott screamed back as Alex tried but gave only his hand, Scott took it in a vice-like grip because he couldn't lose his brother, especially not when somewhere in his mind told him that he had already lost his parents.

Though Scott brushed that out his mind, he couldn't think that way, never. As they continued to fall the force of the wind grew stronger and caused Scott to lose his grip and his whole face was being pounded so violently that his eyes were getting blurry with tears while his brother struggled to hold on. But their endurance was not enough as they were forced apart from a wind gust, "Scott!", Alex cried as he held his hand out as far as he could but could not reach Scott's and lost sight of him, "Scott, please come back! No!" But before he could say anything else he fell straight onto a bush on a thick tree branch and was knocked out from the impact.

"Alex, where are you!", Scott cried back in unison and in fear as he kept falling to fast, "O God!", he continued to cry before the flattened parachute caught onto a broken tree branch. Scott opened his eyes to see if he was dead, but since he knew he was breathing he wasn't, instead he looked around to see what happened and what he realized brought him panic and fear for he was still above the ground from about 22 feet. But as he began to franticly think of a way to get down he was running out of time because the material of the burned parachute was ripping off.

But Scott heard something, it was the plane and it was falling fast until he saw the plane crash into a mountain and its remains exploded in a fiery grave. Though as Scott tried to register what just happened in all this time he fell all the way down face first onto the ground and his vision blurred until he saw no more.