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Lost in the Echo

A flight going to New York from Heathrow vanishes a few hours after takeoff. The passengers of flight find themselves stranded in a mystical island. They try to find a way back home. Things don't go easy for them. They undergo many circumstances which question their beliefs, questions their state of being. Or if it was alright to give up.  "Will they ever be able to come back home?" I'm writing for the first time. Hope you guys like it

Impurr_fectionist · Fantasy
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47 Chs

Survival in wild 

Arav is the Indian guy who rescued Kiara and Fiona. He is ex-Army personnel which can be seen from his calibre in rescuing and helping people. If not for him, the rest of them might have been pulling their hair out.

 Samuel is a surgeon who helped her. Lucky to have a doctor on board. Asahi is that Japanese boy who helped her. There are around 40 others who she has no idea who they are (including those who are no help but adding to woes).

There were few Korean kids or teenagers with astonishing looks and stature. Too bad, they were totally out of it. After their panicked state, they were totally clueless. 

There was a group of another young people comprising of most Americans, they were crying over a corner, hoping for help to come. 

They had no idea how to help others or themselves. Kiara was no better herself. Her leg was done for. She was on the tail part of the plane. Apart from her and Fiona, nobody survived around her. 

Few people who were running to make heads out tail were only Arav, Dr Samuel, pilot, the surviving crew, and few able-bodied people who could move around. 

Hours went by. Sun was still shining at the top of the head. Finding it strange, Arav checked his watch. 

10 pm. It should have been 10 in the night. And they were stranded on that cliffed coast for almost 10 hours. And it still was not night. Worse or for better it didn't look like the sun was going to set any time. 

"Any progress?", Arav asked the pilot who was fiddling with what looked like radio and transistor. 

"None, it's broken. And we're screwed", replied pilot with a grim look. 

"Indian?" 

 "No, Pakistani. What? You hate me now", the pilot replied in Hindi

 "Indian, Pakistani, Japanese, American, we all are stranded. I can forget our friendly neighbourhood feud for the time being. By the way, Arav Adhiraj, ex-military by the way", Arav said while extending his hands and grinning. 

"Aadil Abdelnour, Pakistani but never been there. Brought up in England"

"Leave that junk for now. Come. Let's scout the area."

"Sure, let's go" 

Arav calls upon Asahi and Ian for scouting. Four of them delves deep in the forest with some improvised weapons and daggers. They move cautiously to avoid any wild animals. 

On the way, they saw a peculiar animal which looked a bit like a rabbit with horns. Insects were abnormally huge. They found a tree which looked like it was the tallest. Arav decides to climb the tree, while the rest of them were on lookout and gathering whatever looked edible. 

After some time when he reached the top, he could see far and wide. However, this vantage point only gave him hopelessness. They were nowhere. They were in the middle of nowhere. All he could see were vast jungles, a never-ending river, a range of mountains and a few volcanoes. He could only hope for those volcanoes to be dormant. He had no wish of being charred to death. 

"krrrrahkkkk"

Arav heard a loud screeching voice, like that of a bird. He turned around. A huge condor like a bird, at least 10 times bigger than that, flying at the top of its speed, towards. 

"Shit!" 

He had no choice but to jump. And jumping from that height meant obvious death. 

"F#&k you", Arav couldn't help but swear. He jumped down to the nearest branch. By the time he could further get down, the condor like a bird flew down and dived and pulled a 20-metre long snake in one swoop with its beak. This snake was just a few inches away from him. He didn't see it there. That condor came for its dinner and flew away with it. Arav was neglected in all this as if he wasn't there, to begin with. 

He breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to descend from his climb. He thanked his lucky stars. He would rather prefer dying from a fall than be on someone's menu. 

His face was pale when he came down, he called his team back and they headed back to their campsite. As it was getting dark. After 10 more hours, the sun starts to set. They had spent 25 hours in daylight and they had spent another long night in that unknown place.