An adventure to remember

Disclaimer: I do not own Tintin or any of the characters (except my OC). They all belong to Hergé.

Tintin x OC

Rating: T

Warning: long chapter

Chapter 6

Amanda woke up to a shifting warm feeling. When she saw the source to the heat all sleepiness disappeared. Looking at the other end of the boat she saw a sleeping Tintin.

'C-captain, what have you done?' Amanda said in a panicked voice. 'Tintin!' Amanda said in a high voice but not yelling.

'Oh! No need to thank me lass.' The captain said. 'I thought that the two of you looked cold.' The captain continued.

'TINTIN!' Amanda yelled and it seems to have had the effect she wished since Tintin started to wake up. 'Snowy wake up' Amanda said while shaking Snowy lightly making him wake up as well.

'Captain! What have you done?' Tintin said to the captain making Amanda look in their direction.

'Don't worry lass. I just lit a wee fire to warm the two of you up since you looked cold.' The captain said.

'In a boat!' Tintin exclaimed. 'Quick captain and Amanda, help me put it out.' Tintin said while putting water on the fire.

'What have I done?' the captain said while realising his mistake and before Tintin or Amanda could stop him he opened up a bottle of alcohol and poured it on the fire.

'No! Not that!' Tintin said but it was too late the captain had already pored the content of the bottle over the fire.

'Quick we have to jump into the water.' Tintin said.

Without hesitation Amanda jumped into the water and swam a small distance away. When she heard Tintin call for her to get back she quickly swam back to the boat to help turn it around. After helping Snowy up on the boat Amanda climbed up as well. She sat down next to Tintin while the captain sat down on his other side.

'This is a fine mess.' Tintin said after a while.

'Stupid.' The captain said.

'We are stranded here.' Tintin said-

'Selfish.' The captain said again.

'With no help of rescue' Tintin continued.

'Hopeless.' The captain said once more.

'While Sakharine and his men are halfway to Bagghar' Tintin said.

'Miserable rat' the captain said while hitting himself in the head.

'Alright you two, that's enough of that.' Amanda said. 'There's got to be a way to get us out of this mess.' Amanda continued.

'It was his fault you see.' The captain said as if he didn't hear Amanda talk. 'It was sir Francis.' The captain continued.

'What made you come to that conclusion?' Tintin asked the captain.

'He's a figurehead of great courage that hasn't existed in the family before. Why do you think I'm drinking?' the captain said. 'It's because I know that I'll never be like him.' The captain continued. 'I might as well put us out of the misery.' The captain said while preparing to jump into the sea.

'What is it Snowy?' Amanda said making Tintin look in their direction and then look ahead.

'Where is Karaboudjan registered?' Tintin asked the captain while he and Amanda noticed a small plane in the distance.

When the captain turned around he too noticed the plane.

'We're saved!' The captain exclaimed. 'It's a sign from above.' The captain said.

When the plane weren't too far away they started to fire at Tintin, Amanda, captain Haddock and Snowy. Luckily the shots didn't hit any of them.

'Slave traders! Mutants! Freshwater politicians!' the captain yelled among other things.

'Bad news we only have one bullet.' Tintin said taking out the gun he had acquired from Karaboudjan.

'What's the good news?' Amanda asked while the captain continued to yell at the plane.

'We've got one bullet.' Tintin said while he took aim at the plane.

When the plain turned around and started to fire another run of shots at them Amanda wasn't as lucky. A bullet had pierced her upper right arm. Luckily it missed any major veins but it still hurt. When the bullet hit Amanda couldn't help but yelp as the pain got obvious.

'Amanda did you get hit?' Tintin asked Amanda when he heard her yelp after the second round of bullets being fired.

'Yeah, seems like I've been hit in the arm.' Amanda said.

'I'll take a look at it as soon as we are safe in the plane. Wait here until I give the signal to come over.' Tintin said. 'Captain look after her for me.' Tintin said to the captain.

As soon as Tintin jumped into the water Amanda saw that his shot had hit the engine of the plane. It didn't take long until Tintin waved them over. With only one arm it took a little longer for Amanda to reach the plane. When she did reach it Tintin was quick to help her up.

'I'm sorry Amanda. Can you endure it until we reach land?' Tintin asked Amanda.

'I'll do my best Tintin.' Amanda said.

Without any of them noticing Captain Haddock mumbled 'young love these days'. Only Snowy seemed to notice it.

'Have you ever handled a plane before?' Amanda asked Tintin.

'Relax I interviewed a pilot once.' Tintin said. 'I more or less know what I need to do.' Tintin continued.

'Which one of them is it? More or less?' the captain asked.

'Just relax I'll have us up in the air in no time.' Tintin said while starting the plane.

After a shaky start Tintin managed to get the plane up in the air.

'Look captain, Tintin. We have caught up to them.' Amanda said when she looked out and saw Karaboudjan down below.

'Yes, yes. That's good.' The captain said as they flew over. 'Tintin do you think you can get us to our destination without going through that wall of death?' The captain said while pointing to dark thunder clouds.

'We can't turn back. Not now.' Tintin said.

For a while Amanda thought that the ride through the clouds would go smoothly. However the plane was struck by lightning making Tintin losing control for a moment. Not only did they have a thunderstorm to worry about. Shortly after entering the thunderstorm the fuel tank showed they were getting low on fuel. After a mutual agreement it was decided that the captain would climb outside to refill the tank with some alcohol they found in a first aid bag. With a little encouragement from both Tintin and Amanda the captain went outside of the plane to refill the tank.

What they didn't notice though was that the captain had drunk some of the content when Tintin was having issues controlling the plane.

'Tintin I think we have a little problem.' Amanda said when she noticed the bottle still inside of the plane. 'The captain forgot the bottle.' Amanda said to Tintin.

'What!?' Tintin said. 'But what's he doing then?' Tintin said as he saw the captain on the hood of the plane.

Whatever the captain did must have worked because the engine suddenly got all power back. Even with the power back Tintin had problems controlling the plane and thanks to the captain he couldn't see where he was going. Before any of them knew it they had crashed into a sand dune. In the crash Tintin landed on the hood and Amanda got knocked out when she hit her head. Somehow the parachute the captain was wearing got released giving him a soft landing compared to Tintin and Amanda. Seeing Tintins position the captain was quick to pull him to safety.

Amanda woke up to someone shaking her lightly while calling her name. When she got around she saw that it was Tintin.

'Thank goodness that you woke up.' Tintin said with a worried voice.

'Sorry. Was I out long?' Amanda asked.

'No not too long.' Tintin said. 'I took the liberty to wrap some of the bandages from the plane around your wound while you were knocked out.' Tintin continued. 'Hopefully it'll do until we reach Bagghar where you can have a doctor take a proper look at it. But for now it'll have to do.' Tintin finished.

'Thank you.' Amanda said while getting up. Where are we?' she asked.

'I don't know but we can't stay here.' Tintin said. 'We'll have to get moving.' He said.

For hours they walked through the desert but it eventually got a little too much. Shortly after the captain had retold some story about the mysterious Unicorn they all fainted from the heat.