Thanks for the review craycray3! Just to show how happy I am here's chapter 3. :)
Chapter 3
Location: USA, Cahill Command Center
As the summer came, the weather turned from rainy and chilly to sunny and warm. The birds were singing all around the Cahill mansion, making it's residents listen to the slow melody all day long.
It wasn't that Ian Kabra was against animals, he just couldn't stand their voices.
The one that most irritated him sounded somehow like "Mrrrp".
It was a sign of that furry monster, he had to bear in the house.
Not only did Saladin ruin his new trousers and made him an idiot before the branch leaders, but nowadays he also kept up this tradition by jumping on him with his claws out.
Now the beast was sitting on Ian's chair in Ian's office, crawling the agent reports and top secret documents with one of his legs.
As the boy entered the room, Saladin tilted his had and followed every motion of Ian with his green eyes. He was getting ready to attack. When the boy stepped closer, the cat started blowing. There were only seconds left, before Saladin's body left the chair to throw himself at the boys face, but suddenly they heard Fiske calling from downstairs.
" Children, we must speak, immediately! "
As Ian raced down the stairs, he met Cara, Amy and Dan on the way. Hamilton, Jonah, Jake and Atticious were coming from the other part of the house, escorted by the Starling triplets. They gathered together in the hall, meeting a worried Fiske and an exhausted Nellie there.
When all of them arrived, Nellie turned on the laptop on the table starting a presentation. Pictures appeared on the screen, ancient temples on a hill, surrounded by the rainforest. Another photo was taken of a guy in strange clothes. Under the picture were letters. It was hard to read, but at the end, Dan managed to understand it.
" Oh no, Fiske, that's nor fair! How could you do this to me? How could you betray me? I thought, I could trust you! " he said. Of course, everyone in the room looked condused. "He has made an alliance with Miss Zzz, the history teacher." he explained " This is that Parachute guy from the Incas! "
" Pachacuti. " Amy corrected." He was one of the greatest rulers in the Inca history."
But before she could have continued the story, Fiske interrupted.
" Not without a reason. " he said " You could have heard rumors about a stone, that helped him travel in time. That's why the Incas could conquer so many areas from the other empires and when the conquistadors came, some of them could leave their beloved capital - Machu Picchu - in time and survive the attack."
Amy looked around. She was interested in Ian's reaction, but the handsome face of the Lucian gave nothing away. Sometimes she was wondering if she had really made a good decision with Jake. And now as she saw the Kabra with Cara…
She had to admit, that she felt sorta jealous. Would Ian call her love again? Would he offer her a shoulder to cry on, when it's needed? Definitely not.
From now, he was getting further and further from her. But Amy'll never confess, how much it hurts. At least not when all her emotions are mixed up so much.
" Personally, I have never believed this legend, but now we got some news, that are rather frightening." Fiske said, than Nellie carried on. " Last night, someone has broken into the main temple and turned to dust. Or at least our explorers couldn't find her… We have got the reasons to suppose, that this person was looking for the gem, the Fuegpiedra or FireStone in English."
" If the bad guys put their hands on it and use its magical power, I'm afraid, we are already lost." She finished.
Sinead Starling stood up from her chair. " Are you sure? It is the most irrational thing I've ever heard. I doubt that that gem does even exist. Maybe just a treasure hunter was trying to get some gold statues to sell on the black market…"
" Ah, so you think that some madmen came into the middle of a super classified Madrigal territory and started playing TempleRun for fun, right? " Hamilton asked.
Sinead's head turned a bit redder. Sometimes Hammer was behaving in a cool, hot way, but on the other hand, he couldn't deny being a Tomas. But the more time she'd spent together with him, the more she started to like him. She could only hope, that he'd forgiven her for the incident with the Vespers.
It was Jonah, who ended the discussion with making the final decision.
" Yo guys, if the gem's fake, than no prob. If it's real, than we're gonna get it and kick the butt of that megalomaniac guy. Ya can call some peeps from the family to help us too. Word?"
"Word!" The others replied.
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The closer the Shark came to Moscow, the more anxious Nataliya Ruslanova Radova became.
She wasn't sure if her decision was right. Giving that woman the opportunity to do…what? She couldn't even answer this question. According to that witch, she was about to correct the mistakes she'd made in the past, but Nataliya couldn't trust her.
So why did she help her to achieve what she wanted?
At first, because Nataliya saw the desperation and sadness in her eyes and tried to believe that she'd changed after the catasthropes she'd gone through.
But her real reason for helping was that she'd really missed her best friend. If she hadn't have Hemophilia, she would have gone on that mission herself.
If she was right…
Maybe now was her only, last chance to stop the progress – she could make the Shark fall or take it to a deserted island. She could stop the upcoming tragedy now by pressing a button.
She sighed. It was already 6:50 in the morning, 10 minutes before the helicopter supposes to arrive. The decision was yet to make.
"I'm so sorry Amy and Dan, but I'm afraid, I have no choice" she whispered as she put on her white coat and went out to the cold Russian air to wait for her new ally.