Author's Note: Thank's for all of the reviews! I am actually am having so much fun writing this story. I have a lot of new ideas now! Tell me what you think about this chapter. I wasn't quite sure how to make Ian survive, and I'm thinking that the way he did survive is a little hopeful but you can tell me how you feel about it! By the way I have a question. Do you think I should make the chapters longer? Because I could, but I probably wouldn't post new chapters up as soon. Let me know! Thanks for reading!
Dan's POV
Dan listened to Ian and Amy's conversation over his headset and felt like he was about to puke. He and Natalie had tried to reach them, but Dan and Amy's trainer had broken the connection. When Shelley had said that Amy was going to die, Dan had attacked.
He had been training in Kung Fu, and Dan felt ready to unleash his ninja awesomeness... Or maybe not. When Dan went to kick her, he accidentally tripped over his jacket, which was in the middle of the aisle. In the process he also knocked Natalie over.
"You idiot!" She screeched. Dan quickly scrambled up.
"You can't do this!" He yelled at Shelley. Shelley smiled wickedly.
"Already have. Now to get rid of you two."
Dan could feel his eyes fill with tears. Amy was in the air with no parachute. She was going to die. He thought back to all the Saturday mornings when Amy had woken him up early. He had whined then, saying that ninjas woke up when they felt like it. Amy had retaliated saying that if he were really a true ninja, he would already know to do a back flip.
They had trained for hours every day and to make it worse, they still went to school. You would think that if you had the ingredients to becoming the most powerful person in the world floating in your head, you wouldn't have to go to school, but Amy didn't agree with Dan.
They probably wouldn't have been skydiving if it hadn't been Thanksgiving Break. Amy hated to miss school, and Dan really couldn't figure out what you could miss about school, but that was just Amy. And he was glad that she had made him wake up every morning.
Dan ran up to Shelley and lifted a leg to kick her. Dan didn't think that even a dumb ninja would have done what he did. When Dan swung up his leg to kick Shelley, she grabbed his leg and twisted it. This made Dan get off-balance, and he fell on his face to his surprise. Before Dan could get back up Shelley grabbed him and started to move him to the open plane door. Dan tried his best to escape, but Shelley's grip on him was too tight.
Then her grip slackened two steps away from the door- and Shelley fell to the floor.
Dan turned around, stunned. Natalie was standing over Shelley studying her fingernails as though nothing had happened. "What did I do?" Dan asked confused. Natalie looked up from her fingernails and glared at him.
"Do you honestly think you did anything? You tripped over your own jacket! If I hadn't decided to intervene you would probably have been spiraling through the air to your death. In fact, I feel like you should be on your knees thanking me." Natalie said, finishing with a triumphant smirk.
Dan couldn't help but laugh sarcastically. "Yeah, sure. You still owe me and Amy like one thousand lives. And I would never thank a Cobra for anything!" Natalie eyes narrowed at Dan.
"If it hadn't been for these," She lifted up her perfectly manicured hand and needles popped up from underneath each fingernail, "You would be dead."
"What's with Lucians and poison fingernails? You know, I even bet Ian has them. I wouldn't be surprised if he did." Dan said. Natalie rolled her eyes and started to walk toward the controls.
"Daniel, your sister and my brother are about four minutes from hitting the ground and dying. So stop being stupid!"
Dan then realized that the Cobra was right. "We have to save them!" He said, running to the radio controls. He put on the headphones and yelled, "Amy, Amy! Are you okay?!" He received no answer to his question. But he did hear Ian and Amy. He heard Ian say,
"Amy, I'm a Lucian. I know what I'm doing."
Typical. Cobras were always trying to rub everything in. He swore he could actually feel Ian Cobra's evil smirk through the headphones... Natalie grabbed the headphones from Dan and put them on. "Hey!" said Dan, trying to grab them back.
She quickly ran to the other side, Dan hot on her heels. All of a sudden she stopped, almost making Dan fall again. Her face went from surprise, shock, and then pure disgust. "Ian! Stop this nonsense! Stop or I'll tell Mummy!" Her face was scrunched up in anger and she looked ready to stab someone with those nails. She must have been desperate to mention Isabel even after Ian and Natalie had disowned her...
Dan grabbed the headset from Natalie's head and listened. At first he didn't hear anything, but then he could barely make out something that made him feel sick. "Amy what do you think you're doing?! I thought you hated that two double crossing snake!" Dan yelled, his words intended for Amy. Dan turned to face Natalie, his face matching her expression exactly.
"Are they-" Dan swallowed. He could barely get the words out of his mouth. "Are they… kissing?"
Ian's POV
Ian had to act quickly if he wanted to survive. Being a Kabra, he had been trained by the very best Lucians. Not best, Ian thought- The most evil.
But being a Lucian had given him access to the best of everything. One year ago, one of the Kabra's agents had broken into an Ekaterina stronghold and stolen everything they could. One of the items the agent had taken was a small pack. When Isabel had seen the pack she had given it to Ian. She had probably thought it was useless, but on Ian's close inspection he found that it was a small parachute. The Ekaterinas had found a way to make a stronger, thinner material so you could fit a full chute into a smaller pack. It was ingenious, and when Ian had found out the use of the pack, he'd always made sure to have it with him when he was in the air.
He had craftily put the pack underneath his other chute that very morning. He was glad he did it.
Ian pulled his chute and felt it open. A sly smirk appeared on his face. Amy was probably crushed at that very moment... Ian hadn't told her that he had an extra pack. He hadn't felt like she needed to know. Besides, he had gotten to steal a kiss.
Although the kiss with Amy had been unexpected, it had been pleasant. Very pleasant. Ian knew he still had feelings for Amy Cahill- he just wasn't sure what they meant.
Amy Cahill. The stuttering, red-faced shy girl. Amy Cahill, the modest, sweet, thoughtful girl. Amy Cahill…
Ian looked down and realized he was about to land on the ground. He swiftly got into position. He then thought of something that made his smirk even bigger;
It sure paid to be Ian Kabra.
