Mmkay guys, this one is a bit short, but I need the next chapter to have some formatting that I can't do with this program and blah blah blah, I'll have the next chapter posted very very soon, maybe even later on tonight...so yah...read on...

























Chapter XIX-Blackness

























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It had been a while since we set out over the ocean, and I looked down at my gauges for the billionth time and bit my lip

"Hey, how much fuel do we have left?" I asked, not even bothering to face my crew

"We've got half a can, and that's all" the slimmer man said, holding up an obviously light can

"Put them in there" I sighed and picked up the radio

"Rafe, I'm outta fuel, what about you?"

There was some crackling before a voice emerged, "Low, real low" he sighed

"I've got about five minutes and then I'm out, I've gotta bail" I said

"No! Not over water!" Rafe said, sounding panicked

"I'm already almost out, I've got three minutes and then I'm running on fumes" I relayed

"Just hold on a few more minutes and I'll think of something" Rafe said, sounding more and more desperate by the second

I took a breath, this was it, we were going to die out here in the middle of the ocean, I would never see Leanna again, and I wouldn't come home like I promised, I searched in front of me frantically for any break in the water below us, nothing, no land, we were doomed

After a few minutes, I looked down at the gauges again, "I'm out, Rafe, running on fumes" I said quietly

"Just hold on, Danny, c'mon, stay with me!" Rafe said

"I can't, I-" I began, but was cut off by Rafe's excited voice

"Look! It's land! It's China! We're gonna make it!" he said

I looked out ahead and sure enough, through the thick clouds you could see the greenness of land below us

"Ok, Danny, we're gonna land on those rice patties, come down nice and easy" Rafe said, his voice regaining it's calm feeling

I nodded to the invisible Rafe and ran a nervous hand through my hair

"Nice and easy, you first" Rafe instructed as ours, and probably more, planes descended through the clouds and towards the earth below

As soon as we broke through the clouds and caught glimpse of the land below, Rafe noticed something, and I heard him gasp at the end of his last sentence before he clicked off his radio, he must not have realized it

"Danny! Go up! It's Jap Patrols! They're everywhere!" he demanded

I looked down and instantly spotted them on the ground

"Dammit!" I swore, but not into the radio, I was too busy pulling back on the stick as far as I could, pulling just above the trees and the hills, but not high enough to miss the trees on the other side

"Shit! I'm in trouble!" I yelled into the radio as soon as I realized what was happening, but didn't have a second more to think on it, because we dove into the trees, I felt the plane explode beneath me and a blast of heat

And Rafe's voice yelling into the radio was the last thing I heard before I sunk into infinite blackness

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Ah...and so ends the shortest chapter in history...I know that for the past few chapters people have been going 'please don't let Danny die' and I almost reconsidered the ending, but I think it's still good, and blah blah, just read the next chapter...but oh! Before that, review this chapter, because...yeah, I want you to...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE? Review? Maybe? You will? YAY!! And I promise, don't stop reading yet because the true ending hasn't even begun to unfold itself, we still have to see Leanna!



Preview for Chapter 20: Rafe has to get out of China, but the hard part isn't over yet, and neither are the surprises...