(http://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/joseph-fiennes.jpg)<br/><br/>Gene Leaned against the small red charter plane, that had the name Eos painted on the side, named after the Goddess of the West Wind, with his arms wrapped over his chest. He watched, through a pair of dark aviators, as the two passengers approached him. Once they were close enough he stepped forward to greet them. "Morning boys, name's Gene Mark. I'll be your pilot today. Now I don't suppose you want to spend our whole time chit chatting so why don't we grab some sky." As he spoke he went to the back of the plane and opened a hatch for their luggage.<br/><br/>Once their stuff was inside he closed the door and locked it, then he opened the door to the cockpit and climbed inside. Before sitting down he looked at both of them "Now I suppose you boys are used to the commercial flights, with the peanuts and gin-tonic. Well I'm sorry to say we don't have all that here, but if you get thirsty..." He opened a large cooler that was bolted to the ground between the two passenger seats that was filled with nothing but ice and beer and grabbed one of the cans out for himself "...feel free to help yourselves. Don't worry you'll be able to get a big juicy meal when you get to your hotel." With that he got into the pilot's seat and started up the engine.<br/><br/>The engines loud roar was a thing most people had to get used to when being inside a smaller plane like this, but for Gene the sound was like music telling him that everything was running smoothly and that this was going to be another perfect flight. He checked his controls, dials and levels, all perfect. Then he took a quick peek at his two passengers, a doctor and some sort of athlete, both nice guys but both also seemed to be more of the commercial airline sort of people, he doubted either of them had been up in a small plane before. There was a different feeling when you are up in a private ship, he thought, seeing what the captain sees and experiencing every pocket of air first hand, this was really flying. Gene had an opinion on commercial airlines, he felt that the big jets did their best to never make the passengers really feel like they were flying, apologizing for every bit of turbulence and whatnot, it was a joke. If you asked him you had to fly in a small plane if you wanted to say that you had flown.<br/><br/>All of a sudden things changed, the day got less perfect as dark clouds rolled in out of nowhere and a fog as thick as pea soup covered the ground. He was wide eyed as it happened, it was like something out of a story where the gods wanted your vessel to go down. Just then, right ahead of them he saw the first bolt of lightning and he noticed his altimeter was the first thing to go haywire, it was an electrical storm and it was right on top of them.<br/><br/>He patched into the radio that enabled him to talk to his two passengers. "Alright guys, things are about to get really bumpy. Now I want you to remember what they say about never panicking in a crisis situation because that applies double now. The first person to panic I'm kicking out of the plane." Just then the vehicle began to shake violently and all of the instruments went haywire. He had never even heard of a storm like this coming on so fast. They were going down, that was a fact. All he could do now was try to keep them alive.<br/><br/>When the engine cut out they began to drop. He pulled on the throttle to keep the nose up so that they would stay parallel to the ground, that's when he could hear the sound of the tops of trees cracking and scratching against the belly of the plane and soon they were low enough that the tops of trees were being snapped off by the nose of the plane. Before they knew it the machine impacted with a body of water and everything went black.<br/><br/>Gene couldn't have been out for more than twenty seconds but that was long enough for the cabin to be nearly half filled with water. He noticed they couldn't be in the ocean because they were sitting on the bottom of the body of water they were in, it must be some kind of deep pond surrounded by land. He went to undo his seat belt, when he found it was stuck he reached under his seat and pulled out a large knife in a leather sheath that he kept for emergencies. He cut his belt free and then quickly went to check on his two passengers.