Chapter 11: Moving GPS Systems

Suddenly, Silvy wakes up with a jolt and sits quickly upright. "The navigation system!" She exclaims a bit shocked and she quickly slides out of the cabin to her dad's car. She roughly opens the door and turns the car on. A small screen in the dashboard of the car, which is set on the radio, turns on and Silvy starts to press random buttons on the touch screen. Even though she had awoken with a start, she is now more asleep than awake and doesn't really have an idea of what she is doing whatsoever. She mutters some words a bit furiously under her breath as she turns on the extended gasometer and the automatic parking system. "Come one, come on!" She says impatiently to the little screen.

Juarez wakes up when Silvy had suddenly woken up with her exclamation about a navigation system. He gets groggily up out of the wooden chair and follows Silvy outside to the car with a small yawn. "The car has a GPS?" He asks sleepily as he sees her randomly pressing buttons. "Would you like me to try?" He asks as he stretches a little.

Silvy nods and then shifts a little to make room for Juarez. "My dad said it had..." She says silently with a yawn. "Please do..." She says sleepily.

Juarez nods and leans over Silvy in the car. He pushes some buttons on the touch screen and then looks back at Silvy. "Where should I have it take us to, señorita?" He asks.

"What about to l'aéroport*?" Silvy suggest sleepily with a yawn as she curls up in the passenger seat. She feels really tired and hasn't really completely woken yet from her last small nap.

"The what?" Juarez asks confused and looks at her. "Does that mean airport or something?" He asks as he thinks it sounded a bit like airport or aeropuerto, but he isn't a hundred percent sure.

Silvy yawns again and is almost asleep. "Place with planes..." She mutters silently before falling asleep in the passenger seat.

Juarez nods. "Okay." He says and glances back at Silvy. He sees that she is already asleep and smile a little. He then messes some more with the touch screen on the navigation system and gets it on the path towards the closest airport. 'I guess this means that I get to drive this time.' He thinks with a silent laugh and softly shuts his door. Juarez starts the car and starts following the route on the GPS.

Silvy curls herself even more up in the passengers seat and gets her beak in her flippers. She softly snores a little bit.

Juarez drives towards the airport with a small, silent yawn now and then. He wonders why they couldn't have waited until morning to figure out where they were and use the GPS.

"Papa... Papa! Don't leave me! Please don't!" Silvy calls out to the closing door. Darkness and loneliness surrounds her... Accompanies her in this room. She waddles a bit away from the door and it disappears out of here sight. No walls, no door, no windows. Just nothing and the nothingness seems to close in around her. Breathing becomes harder for her. "No! Let me out! Help!"

Silvy dreams in her nightmare. She yells loudly and panicky in her sleep and starts to shake from fear.

Juarez jumps a little when Silvy starts shouting in her sleep. He looks over at her. "Shh, it's okay..." He says softly and reaches over and tentatively strokes her. "It's just a nightmare..."

Silvy calms down some from Juarez's stroking. "Don't leave me..." She mumbles in her sleep.

"I won't." Juarez says softly and strokes Silvy a little more before returning his flipper to the steering-wheel. He can see the airport coming up and touches down a little more on the gas pedal.

"You won't?" Silvy asks silently as she wakes up a little. "Promise?" She silently adds.

Juarez glances over at Silvy. "Euhm, sure...I promise." He says quietly. 'Now what the rainbow snow-cone have I gotten myself into?' He silently wonders. He then drives into the parking-lot of the airport and parks the 'borrowed' car carefully.

Silvy immediately falls Juarez around his neck and gives him a kiss on his cheek. Juarez blushes a little from Silvy's kiss on his cheek. He then gets out of the car and Silvy follows him. She looks happily around at all the planes. "Which one are we going to take?" She asks happily as she kind of skips around him.

"Hmmm..." Juarez taps his beak in thought a little as he looks the planes over for a moment. He then sees one that looks good and points towards it. "That one there." He says and starts waddling towards it.

Silvy looks at the plane and nods. "Too bad it isn't purple..." She says silently and randomly as she follows Juarez towards it and looks it over. She thinks it looks like a gray and rather boring plane.

'So she would like to see a purple plane?' Juarez thinks and glances back at Silvy. 'Sounds like my type of chica really...' He waddles a bit further towards the gray plane. "There aren't normally any purple planes in most aeropuertos, señorita." He says.

"I know..." Silvy says a bit silently as she looks around the airport. "Maybe that is why it is always so boring in these places... It just lacks color!" She says.

Juarez laughs a little. "Maybe so, chica, maybe so." He says. He then picks the lock on the plane and opens it for Silvy. "Señoritas first." He says with a small mock bow.

Silvy laughs at Juarez and then gets into the plane. "Can I try to fly it again?" She asks eagerly as she gets out a manual on plane flying. "I promise I will use this, this time!" She shows the manual happily to Juarez.

Juarez looks a bit nervously at Silvy. "Euhm...Are you going to try flying it the same way as the last one?" He asks as he gets into the plane after her.

"No... I think..." Silvy says a bit silently. "I am thinking of turning switches now..." She adds.

Juarez thinks for a moment. "Umm...Maybe for a little after I get her up in the air..." He says with a small yawn.

Silvy looks at Juarez yawning. "But you're tired!" She brings up. "You can't fly."

Juarez shakes his head. No, señorita, you are mistaken. I'm not the least bit sueño*." Juarez says and hides another yawn. He actually feels very tired, but he's still not sure about letting her fly a plane when she can't really even safely drive a car.

With cringed eyes and her flippers folded, Silvy looks a bit angrily at Juarez. "Fine." She says shortly and gets into the co-pilot seat and buckles up.

Juarez nods and gets into the pilot's seat. He switches and pushes some buttons and switches and gets the plane up into the air. He then finds the auto-pilot and puts in the coordinates for New York, New York. Juarez sits back in his seat some and immediately feels really tired and sleepy. He looks over at Silvy. She still looks kind of angry, but Juarez is starting to think that maybe letting her watch the plane as he sleeps a little is a very tempting thought.

Silvy looks angrily out of the plane window. "I never get to have any fun..." She mutters a bit angrily and she remains sitting there with folded flippers.

Juarez looks over at her. "Um, señorita, do you think you could watch the plane for a little bit?" He asks her a bit silently as he hopes that he won't regret this decision later.

Silvy looks at Juarez with a happy look and then takes the plane manual out again. "Really?" She asks happily as she already shoves Juarez out of his seat.

"Ehum, really..." Juarez mumbles as he gets into the co-pilot seat. He lays it back and looks over at Silvy. "Wake me if it starts acting weird, or if we're approaching the airport." He yawns before pulling out his sunglasses and putting them on. He is asleep again almost instantaneously.

"Yay!" Silvy says silently and she starts reading the manual. After a couple of seconds she gets bored though and takes out her laptop. She starts playing one of her favorite movies while still keeping an eye on the plane.

Juarez sleeps soundly with a small snore now and then...Though that is until his nightmare starts.

"Alejandro! No! It was, eh, just a joke! I wasn't actually going to harm Rachel! Honest!" Juarez says as he is forcefully escorted by a male, brown-eyed penguin not much larger than him.

"No, Juarez. I saw that knife and that vengeful look. You were trying to kill her." Alejandro says. "And speaking of knives, I believe that I'll be taking this." Alejandro yanks Juarez's knife from the sheath.

"NO! Not Venganza! Alejandro, por favor!" Alejandro shakes his head.

"No, I'm sorry, primo*, but this is for the best." Alejandro then puts Juarez into a prison cell and closes the door. He then turns away.

"Alejandro!" Alejandro doesn't look back and instead walks away.

Juarez, as he is curled up in the co-pilot seat, kicks and whimpers a little in his sleep. "No...No, I-I'm sorry, Alejandro! Come back!" He mutters in his sleep.

Silvy glances over at Juarez and puts her laptop away. "Honey... Everything is alright..." She says softly and soothingly and lets her non-bandaged flipper softly run over the feathers on his cheek.

Juarez turns over a little in the seat in his sleep. He rubs his beak and accidentally knocks his sunglasses so that they are now sitting crookedly on him.

Silvy smiles and softly puts the glasses back on him correctly and gives him a soft kiss on his head. She then goes back to watching the plane. Some light bulbs are flickering and Silvy starts pulling Juarez's flipper to wake him up. "Juarez, Juarez!" She says. "One of those irritating light thingys is doing... Ehm..." She says as she thinks what they are doing, but can't come up with anything. "Irritating things!" She follows up quickly and pulls harder at Juarez's flipper.

"Hmf?" Juarez mumbles with a small yawn and opens his eyes. He looks groggily at Silvy from over the top of his sunglasses.

"Light bulbs! They are doing irritating things!" Silvy says really loudly and a little bit panicked. She now roughly shakes Juarez to wake him up.

Juarez looks over at the light bulbs sleepily. He sees their blinking and is up and over at them quickly. "Oh, snow-cones...This isn't bueno..." He mutters and starts flipping things. He taps the fuel gauge and mutters something else in Spanish under his breath.

"Not bueno?!" Silvy repeats a bit panicked and afraid. "What's wrong? Are we going to die?!" She shifts quickly to the copilot seat and looks panicked at the plane and Juarez.

"Well...The plane's out of fuel..." Juarez says slowly. "So...I'd suggest buckling up for a nice little crash-landing...Heh." He says as he starts pressing and switching things and pulls back on the controls.

Silvy nods and quickly buckles herself up. "So we are going to die?" She asks panicky and in tears. "I don't want to die!" She cries.

Juarez glances over at Silvy as he fights with the plane. "We aren't going to die." He says a bit annoyedly. He isn't in the mood to listen to her panicking beside him as he's already using a lot of his concentration on the plane.

"We aren't?!" Silvy says still in panic. She grabs the seat and then closes her eyes. "I don't want to die..." She says silently as she still cries.

Juarez hears Silvy and sighs a little aggravatedly. He decides to try and ignore her. Juarez continues to fight with he plane for control. He sees the ground quickly approaching and has the plane drop it's landing gear. 'This is going to be a very bumpy landing...' He thinks silently.

"I don't want to die... I don't want to die... I don't want to die..." Silvy mumbles in some sort mantra. "Please..." She continues to sit in the plane with her eyes closed and grabs the seat really tightly with her flippers.

The plane hits the ground very roughly and takes out a few trees as it does so. Juarez continues to wrestle with the controls as the plane skids across the ground. It finally comes to a stop and Juarez sits back in the pilot's seat with a small, silent, and relieved sigh. "Told you we weren't going to die..." He mutters to Silvy.

Silvy doesn't hear Juarez and continues to hold on to her seat. "I really don't want to die!" She cries.

Juarez looks at Silvy. "Señorita! The plane has stopped and you're not dead!" He says a bit loudly at her.

Silvy opens her eyes and looks at Juarez. "We aren't?" She asks a bit silently.

"Well, do you feel dead?" Juarez asks with a small yawn and a slightly amused look at her.

"I don't know... I have never been dead to know how it feels." Silvy says as she looks at Juarez. "Have you?" She asks a bit jokingly.

Juarez shrugs. "I've been close enough before to guess what it'd feel like." He says. "Though at the moment I believe I more know what sleepiness feels like." He says with another yawn and a small laugh.

Silvy gives a small laugh too. "Well, maybe you should sleep some... On a different note, do you have any idea where we are?" She asks as she looks around.

"Francia*, just outside of Paris I think." Juarez yawns and leans back in the seat. He puts his sunglasses back on from where they had fallen off from crash-landing the plane.

"Oh, c'est magnifique*!" Silvy says enthusiastically and looks happily around. "Can we stay here for a bit?" She asks happily.

"I guess..." Juarez says with a yawn as he is already half-asleep. He closes his eyes with his shades on and puts his flippers behind his head.

Silvy looks at him with a small smile and then softly gives him a kiss on his head. "Thank you for saving us..." She says softly and then goes on to looking at the radio-communicator in the plane.

Juarez smiles a little and then falls completely asleep.

Translations Spanish:

* Sueño : tired

* Primo : cousin

* Francia : France

Translations French:

* L'aéroport : the airport

* C'est magnifique : that's wonderful