Rebecca and Robyn

The sky was clear not a visible cloud for miles in any direction, there was a large palm tree casting shade on the spot where Rebecca had clambered out of the warm Indian ocean and passed out after the three mile swim she and the other two had no choice but do. Her flight had ran into difficulty and the pilot had radioed the position he felt the plane would be in after he ditched it best to his calculations. All it was suppose to have been was a medium haul flight from the mainland to an popular tourist resort but no one on board nor the pilot, co pilot or navigator had known or heard reports of the volcano that had spewed ash into their flight path. Ground control had tried to reach them but a solar flare had caused chaos with communications all morning. Mega fine particles of volcanic ash and dust had disintegrated the blades in the engines sending the mid size aircraft to a certain watery grave.
Only 10 of the 80 passengers and 8 air crew had survived. Rebecca was one of the fortunate survivors, she and the two others had used floatation vest tied together to help them swim for the island that had been seen from the air just before the incident got out of hand and the plane went down.
She rolled over to see the other two survivors just beginning to awaken as she had done a few moments earlier. All three just sat up or hunched up on their elbows and looked at each other without saying a word but they knew that it was a look of gratitude for the team work that had enabled them to get this far.
They turned their heads in different directions to view and access their surroundings with each summarising the situation that faced them all.
“Shelter” was all the co pilot said. “ Water and food” expressed the other stewardess and finally Rebecca said “ Where are we?” which flagged perplexed frowns from all of the three. Slowly they all got to their feet and continued to scan their surroundings looking for other survivors or signs of civilization anything that would signal comfort and not certain hardship for an unknown period in time.
“ I am sure by now the airport will have organised a search and rescue mission so hopefully it we won’t be on this piece of rock for any length of time.” Larry stated as he kicked up some sand trying to kick at a small shiny stone which he noticed at that moment there where loads of these shiny stones laying all over the beach and they all were different colours “Are you shitting me!!!! “ he exclaimed “ Tell me I am not seeing what I think I am seeing laying under our feet girls!!” “Emeralds !!!! Loads of emeralds!!!” “ Oh my God!!!” Robyn cried “ Are you serious…? We’ve just swam millions of miles through probably shark infested waters after getting out of a sinking aircraft that should have never went down and all you can think of is precious little rocks…!!!!” “IDIOT..!!!!”
Whilst they were off in their worlds Rebecca had walked just to the edge of the jungle and looked through the trees to see if she could see any possible sign of civilised life “ Hey you two stop bickering and come over here!!!” “ What is that in there” pointing to a canvass cover camouflaging something. “ Someone had to have put it there right…?” “But who?” asked Robyn as she reached Rebecca and saw what she was pointing at. Larry was knelt down filling his pockets with the precious stones showing little to no interest in what the women had just discovered. “Larry, we’re going to investigate” Shouted Rebecca but Larry paid no attention as he examined one of the larger pieces he had picked up. His thoughts were of how his life was going to change when they were finally rescued. Already he, in his mind had swapped his small 2 bed flat for a mansion with every toy he ever wanted in a home and not to mention the sport cars he would buy out right in cold cash. He was miles away in thought and never heard or saw the gang of pirates approaching from behind him down the beach but they had saw him and now they sneaked up silently their footsteps muffled by the sand.
“Robyn look at this “ Rebecca motioned pointing to the cave behind the camouflaged cover. “ it must go on for miles deep into the side of the mountain and look, there are lights….working lights!!” “Shall we explore…?” she asked. Robyn had always been one for adventure and didn’t hesitate to agree. Both women entered behind the cover and slowly started following the path lit up by the lights. “Should we tell Larry where we are going?” asked Robyn as she passed Rebecca taking the lead. “ Nah, he is happy filling his pockets, I am sure once he realise we have gone he will follow our footsteps” said Rebecca.
Just as Larry stood up the first pirate to reach him drew his gun and pointed at Larry as he stepped in front of him “ Why ya steal me jewels, mon?” Larry’s face went ashen as he stuttered trying to find some salutation and fitting answer to this dreadlocked bandit pointing a sub machine gun in his gut.