I expect the title of the chapter to explain this. I wrote this in about…a short time, so it may not be perfect.

Alek and Deryn get up from the corridor floor, steady themselves, and straighten out their clothing as Newkirk rounds the corner where they had collided. He obviously has news.

"Dylan, Alek, you'll never guess what!" He yells towards them.

"What is it, Newkirk?" Deryn yells back, obviously annoyed at having her moment ruined.

"Dylan…There's…A mutiny." He manages to puff out, trying to regain his breath he lost running over there.

"What? Why?"

"Some crew members do not want to head to Japan, they want to head back to closer friendly territory for repairs, to help the Leviathan regain its full strength. Scouts in Huxley's have found that 2 German zeppelins followed us, and are blocking our way to Japan. On the captain's orders, we'll be there in a few minutes.

"So, what's the ratio? I hope most of the crew is agreeing with the captain, and help head towards Japan."

"The captain is among the minority, most of the crew wants to turn around."

"Well then Newkirk lets go help the captain!"

"I'm sorry Dylan; I thought you'd see the reasoning behind the mutiny. I'm with them, I want to go home."

"But we need to do as the captain says, he's in charge!"

"Sorry Dylan, I have orders to get rid of anybody still helping the captain." As he says this he is slowly pushing open a door that leads off the ship, onto the clouds.

"You don't need to do this; we can wait for this to blow over!"

"Nope, we can't. The clock is ticking; we'll be within range of the zeppelins in about 2 minutes. You're a resister that must be discharged. Now, is the prince with me?" Suddenly, Newkirk charges Deryn, pulling his rigging knife out and an air pistol he somehow acquired.

"Oh no you don't!" Alek yells, intercepting the charge by tackling Newkirk at knee level.

"Sorry , you gotta go, NOW."

Newkirk the knees Alek in the side ,hard. Newkirk then starts pushing Alek towards the door. Deryn realizes that Alek is losing, and rushes up. But is she fast enough?

Deryn grabs Alek's wrist, but he is already falling. She manages to steady herself, and grab Newkirk too.

"You almost killed him!" She yells, failing to keep her voice low, so it's especially high and girly.

"That's what I was trying to do!" Newkirk shoves her against the doorframe, using his superior strength to counter skill. Plus, she has one hand holding on to Alek.

"Deryn, please pull me up, the battle's…"His words are cut short as German machine gun bullets fire across their part of the ship, several of which hit Alek.

"Alek! Are you okay?" Her question is answered by the sight of three different bloody wounds across Alek."Newkirk, you're dead!"

"Deryn? What? Haha, you couldn't possibly push me off." He regrets the last few words, finding her hand across his neck, moving towards the door.

"You, you, you killed him…Now it's your turn!" Her grip on Alek's hand tightens, and Newkirk then falls past Alek, failing to grab onto him."What…Did I do?" She says, realizing that she just pushed Newkirk off of the Leviathan.

She pulls Alek up, finds the nearest medical kit, and examines his wounds. He still had a pulse, and was breathing, Thank Gosh! One bullet had glanced off his left thigh, but had only pricked an artery. She took the rigging knife, and cut off the pant leg to that point, realizing she couldn't bandage it with that in the way. This also triggered some sexual thoughts in Deryn's mind, but she postponed them for later, telling herself her little crush would get better. The second was the worst. It hit him in the chest, but far enough out to only completely shatter about 3 ribs, she guessed. It didn't seem to have punctured a lung. The final had hit his right arm, only flesh, no bone, and was easily bandaged up.

She wished he were conscious, so she would have some re assurance he would be better, she didn't just pour her heart out to him to have Newkirk get him killed! Wait a minute…Newkirk. He's gone now, she thought.

She somehow managed to pick him up(but this was to the maximum of her abilities, not being the normal male crewman) and take him to the infirmary. This part had luckily stayed with the captain.

The ship was managing to hold its own against the zeppelins, having badly crippled one of them, and still in combat with another. That's not to say the Leviathan hadn't taken damage, of course it had. Deryn was going to help as soon as she made sure Alek was going to be okay. He was still critical the doctor had said, they were going to need to land somewhere for recovery, he could probably not last all the way to Japan.

She went and worked with the bats, helped regroup scared message lizards, and what else. Eventually, the remaining zeppelin got the idea and let the Leviathan through.

When her work was done, Deryn went back to her cabin, thinking that as exhausted as she was, she should be able to fall asleep fast. Well, this didn't happen. All her teenage emotions were flared because they had one thing one minute then another the next.

She had found Alek the day after their argument, and found out that he liked her back! She had found that he trusted her, he let her hug seemed to like it, but he still seemed nervous about her, after having his parents taken away, she wondered if his feelings were in turmoil too, between great sadness at the loss of his parents, and happiness at meeting a girl he this hug was a part of the way there, eventually she could take him back home, show him Glasgow, introduce him to her family, and marry him. She wanted it to go fast, she could drop out, find a way for him to escape, and they could hide out until he became the emperor. But that wasn't the way it was playing out.

She had been interrupted by Newkirk while trying to make a move. Alek was too cautious and grief-stricken to make a move the traditional way, so she had to. But Newkirk tried to kill Alek. Now, She realized that all this thinking about Alek had started her sobbing, that Newkirk might have taken him. She REALLY didn't want to lose Alek, now that she had planned out all this for them.

All of her sobbing eventually put her to sleep, she might even get a chance to have happy thoughts in her head again, but only in her dreams.

If you don't like miraculous survival, I don't get how you're still reading/watching movies, they're everywhere. So, if you don't like it, Tough. Next chapter…I don't know! I have like a sentence written in it so far, so… it may be while:(