Prince of Serpents

"Where is it, where is it, where is it?" screamed Amy Cahill as she searched around frantically. She and her younger brother Dan were at the Goa airport and were searching for, you guessed it, another Clue. It has been ten years since the Cahill siblings have started the Clue hunt, and both have grown immensely over the years. Amy has certainly developed...she was no longer the shy, stuttering girl ten years ago, but now she is a fully developed woman with very long copper hair that reached her lower back, her jade eyes have been converted to a lighter shade of green, and she no longer has a stuttering problem. She still hates crowds, but she has learned to cope with them for a small amount of time. Dan, on the other hand, still acts like an eleven year old, even though he is now twenty one. His dirty blonde hair has darkened to a more brown-ish color, and his jade eyes became a darker green with each passing year. He is now officially taller than his sister, and is fully developed as well. "Where in the hell is it?" screamed Amy as she still searched frantically. Dan started to shush her as other passengers started to look at them in alarm at the beautiful woman's distress.

"Don't worry Amy," Dan soothed his sister, "I'm sure it's around here somewhere." If you wanted to know what Amy was looking for, then take note that Amy's jade necklace (which was once her grandmother Grace's) is not around her neck, like it usually would be. Amy looked at her brother, now with tears in her eyes, and communicated,

Well, where could it be? I swear, if I left it in that jungle... Dan shook his head and communicated back,

No, that's impossible. You had it around your neck at that time, I'm sure of it. Amy sighed. Of course her brother was right. Dan had an amazing photographic memory, and it has always been useful ever since they had joined in searching for the Clues.

"Do you remember packing it at all or leaving it at the hotel?" Dan whispered. Amy shook her head no as tears started to fall from her eyes. Dan gave her a side-hug, quickly retracted, and whispered to her, "Hey, that necklace never seems to stay away from you for long. It'll turn up soon enough." Amy sighed and wiped the tears from her eyes carefully, without smearing her make-up. Dan smiled and asked, "You know what?"

Amy smiled too and asked her brother, "What?" Dan began chuckling a little before stating,

"I could really make a good 'Nellie' wouldn't I?" Both laughed a little then fell back into silence and sorrow. Nellie Gomez, their ex-au pair, was killed in a cave's collapsing back in Lithuania, along with Ian, Natalie, and Isabel Kabra, Alistair Oh, and Jonah Wizard and his father Broderick. The three branches: Lucian, Ekaterina, and Janus, mourned their losses, and because they were there, Amy and Dan had come to all funerals, but always had to leave early because all three branches would probably try to kill them afterwards. Soon afterwards Saladin, their Egyptian Mau, got terribly sick, and soon died. So now it was just the two of them, all alone. Eventually, the plane was ready for take-off, Amy and Dan boarded, and after a couple of hours of flight, Amy and Dan touched down from Goa to Rome.

They bought a room in a nearby hotel, got ready for bed, and slept. However, Amy did not expect to be woken up in the middle of the night...by an unwelcome hiss right beside her head.

A/N:

Okay, I know, three stories at once, it's crazy! But I happened to look up the Lithuanian folk tale on Wikipedia (awesome site for random stuff) and thought, How awesome would it be to take this...this legend...and turn it into a 39 clues format? I don't know, you tell me, but this seems like a good idea. What do you think? Review and let me know! Until then!

~storyteller221