"Mayday! Mayday! This is Yamada Airlines Flight 217! We have lost power and are swiftly losing altitude! If anyone can hear us, our coordinates are-!"

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For two and a half hours the flight had gone normally. No turbulence, no weather. A clear, beautiful day above the Pacific. Bored children misbehaving and some college kids caught trying to join the mile high club, but nothing drastic. It had been business as usual. Then...

A jolt rocked the airliner, accompanied by the smell of ozone and the sensation of static in the cabin. Outside the sky had become pitch black, punctuated by the occasional jagged crack of lightning. The "fasten seatbelt" signals flashed on as oxygen masks dropped for each passenger. A voice came over the loudspeakers, sounding as calm as possible despite the circumstances.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Please remain calm, fasten your seatbelts, and put your oxygen masks on. We are attempting to make an emergency landing."

A second, harder impact hit the plane, sending bags, trays, and cups flying. Children cried, their parents trying to calm them down. Prayers in different languages to different gods could be heard in the air.

And yet, through all of it, Yoshinaga felt a kind of serenity. Like she no longer had to worry anymore. No guilt, no worry, no nothing. Soon she'd be relieved of everything. She breathed slowly, taking her glasses off and slipping them into the case in her jacket before closing her eyes. Sorry, Mom. Sorry, Dad. Seems I won't meet you at the airport after all.

She felt the plane tipping backwards before something struck her in the face. The last thought that went through her head was a semblance of thankfulness that she wouldn't feel anything when the plane went down.

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When Yoshinaga came to, everything hurt. Bones, joints, muscles, everything, however nothing felt broken. Maybe a bruise or a sprain here or there, though. Well that means I didn't bite it in the crash, she thought. Koi opened her eyes... or, rather, eye. Her left eye refused to open, and a quick probing with her fingertips told her that it was swollen shut from whatever had hit her.

The next thing that Koi felt was the air: hot and sticky, like back in Guam, but magnified. The pilots must have managed to get land on an island or something. The odds of that happening seemed astronomically low, and yet, it had happened. Yoshinaga unbuckled herself and slowly stood up. The movement made her head throb.

Her throat was dry and scratchy but she did her best to make herself heard, speaking English as clearly as she could. "Hello? Is anyone there?"

Jostled from her sleep as the plane was struck by the bolt, Chiharu sat up in her chair. Short black hair disheveled, Auburn brown eyes searched the cabin around her. The mask fell to her face before she could really gather what was happening. The words emergency landing sent a cold jolt through her spine, as she pulled the mask on.

Wasn't there just water below them, a bottomless ocean how could a plane land on that... She was panicking, she didn't want to die... She hadn't bored this plane realizing that it would take her to the feet of the reaper. Her breath quickened and she held the yellow cup to her mouth pressing it against her face.

When the plane was struck again, though the dream haunting sound of the metal creaking before giving way and the plane broke in half. Chiharu felt her stomach turn dizzyingly, as she watched the front half of the plane fall away. She felt their momentum increase, and she knew this was the end...

"I'm sorry mother, I'm sorry. I just wanted to get away for the week, Forgive me." She prayed, hoping her mother would forgive her for taking this secret trip. She started to apologize to her father, certain death changes your views on grudges... When a piece of falling luggage slammed into her chest, she felt the air in her lungs leave all at once... and could barely focus on their now violent decent towards the ground.

Ground... Ground, was that land... an Island. The rapid decent and inablity to restart her breathing caused the word to swirl together, maybe the plane was spinning. Before she passed out, the last thing she remembered... was the sudden halting of all motion, as the plane slammed into the ground.

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She woke with a sharp intake of air, as if after the hours she had been unconscious her brain remembered how to breathe. It took a few seconds for her brain to catch up and her eyes fluttered open. Auburn darting from one thing to another... Then the pain settled in. Everything was sore, and ached... The air was hot, and humid. They hadn't made it far into their flight.

She pulled the buckle of her seatbelt, even though her body protested with pain. She stood, her hair clinging to her face she pushed it off, to get a better look around her. She wished immediately that she hadn't... and counted herself lucky that an entire body pain seemed to be the only thing wrong with her. She stumbled to the edge of the plane, where it had split open and emptied her stomach over the edge.

She wiped her lips with the back of her hand, and focused her eyes out on the beach. Bits of plane, and she was sure passenger littered it as far as she could see, in either direction.

'Hello!? is Anyone there?' A person, she turned to look back into the plane. "I am here!" She called, standing up. She was short for her age, always had been... inheriting her mother's frame.. but her father's appearance. Inside she was relieved to not be the only one who had survived... the plane wasn't filled with success stories, Chiharu was thankful it was just some over weight luggage that had struck her chest...

"Are you injured badly?" She called to the woman who was standing in the aisle of the plane.

Yoshinaga glanced around. The seats were suspiciously empty, as if everyone else had left in a big hurry... well, empty except for a few people with their heads at unnatural angles. She moved towards the voice. "I can't see out of one eye and I feel like I was used as a chew toy by the world's largest dog," she replied, "but I'm alive. Doesn't feel like anything's broken, anyways." Her vision was adjusting to the relative darkness of the cabin. It was another young woman, perhaps a few years younger than Koi.

"You okay? Where is everyone?" Yoshinaga was beginning to think more clearly now. She was processing all the information she could process at the moment.

She had been on a flight from Guam to Japan.

There had been turbulence, almost out of the blue.

Everything went dark.

Something knocked her out.

The plane had crashed somewhere, and now there weren't any other living people around. Just her and this other woman.