The Colour Of Blood

We meet some new friends... Who try to kill us.

Coco

The plane begins to descend, but unnaturally. I've been on a few planes, but they've never descended like this. Instead of slowly diving, it is moving steadily downwards, tilting vertically. Arik's backpack, which was on the floor, slides downwards towards the cockpit. He lunges for it, then slips and also slides down. He's not the only one. Cloudy and I start to lose our balance, and she slips. I manage to grab her wrist, so I try (unsuccessfully) to pull her back to her feet. Instead, her weight pulls me down, and we both slide down. We land in a pile against the cockpit door. I pull myself up and turn to Cloudy. She is lying on top of Arik. She gets up unsteadily, blushing. Giving Arik my best death glare, I pull her away from him. Suddenly, Josh races out of the cockpit, screaming.

''We're doomed! Abortion! Abortion!''

''Why are you yelling abortion?'' I ask sternly.

''We need to abort the plane!'' He shrieks.

''Okay... Abortion isn't really appropriate. It sound like you're asking somebody to kill your unborn child.''

''What?'' Josh stares at me like I'm the insane one.

''Whatever.'' I snap. ''Let's find out what's happening and try to stop it.''

''Okay...'' Cloudy says. ''But first, I have a question.''

''What is it?'' I ask.

''Who's piloting the plane?'' Cloudy asks nervously.

''Oh no! Josh, you idiot!'' I hit his head lightly.

''Sorry!'' He scurries back into the cockpit.

"He looked completely unfazed by you calling him an idiot." Arik noted.

"I call him an idiot a lot." I say.

"Yet you still let him fly the plane." Cloudy chimes.

I drag myself over to the window already bored of this conversation; but I could see nothing... wait. Is that someone down there? Yes, now I can see a girl on the shore line of France. Squinting my eyes I see that the girl has bright purple hair.

The plane was now quite close to the ground... Too close. Then the plane levels out just meters from the ground. The same voice that had earlier said we would land now said in a harsher tone, "Alright everybody out... NOW!"

We all climb out and I see the girl with purple hair now much closer; I can now see her eyes match her hair colour. She swats an invisible fly with her hand and our jet flies out into the middle of the ocean.

"Hey!" Josh begins to yell, "That was my plane!"

"You were a terrible pilot, you would have crashed any way." The purple haired girl says while staring at Arik.

Arik sees the girls glare and calmly says "Why would you do that? Who ... who are you?"

"My name is Amethyst, as for my methods my sister Ruby could sense great power on that jet we had to - how do you say... pull you down." She says calmly.

"Amethyst as in the purple gem?" Cloudy asks.

"It's a quartz actually, but yes." Amethyst replies, "What are your names?"

We each tell her our names and why we are here and she replies back without glancing away from Arik for a millisecond, "If you are looking for your sister, Fawn was it? Anyway, my Sister Ruby, the one who told me to shoot your plane down, runs a gang of yellow bloods in Germany. I bet they could help."

"How will we get there since somebody," I glare at Amethyst then continue, "shot our plane into the water?"

"Hey!" Arik smiles, "Anyone up for a dragon ride?"

''You can do that?'' I ask, shocked.

''Yup.'' He smirks. He begins to grow, leathery wings sprouting from between his shoulder blades and his nose elongating into a snout, with smoke curling from his nostrils. Eventually, there is no trace of Arik left. In his place stands a magnificent, blood red dragon.

''Whoa.'' I look at him, impressed.

''Ooh, can I stroke it?'' Josh asks eagerly, walking towards Arik like he's in a trance.

''Uh... no.'' Arik stepped back. We can hear his voice, but his lips don't move. It seems to emanate from him. ''Oh, by the way, can you say my name into this nametag?'' He asks, gesturing with his head to a nametag on his chest.

''Okay...' Cloudy says slowly. I walk up to it and speak into it.

''If lost, please return to Coco and Cloudy Pullman.''

''Very funny.'' Arik rolls his eyes. ''Now, we must head off to Germany.'' He says bravely. Cloudy covers her mouth, stifling a laugh, and he looks at her. ''what's so funny?'' He asks, sounding slightly hurt.

''You sound like some strange action hero.'' She chuckles. Then she imitates him pretty well: ''Let us head to Germany!''

''Let us head to Germany!'' Arik changes into Cloudy and imitates her perfectly.

''Stop fooling around guys.'' Amethyst tells them.

''Hmm, I like this girl.'' I smile slightly.

''Shut up.'' Amethyst replies.