Ep 5. Derailed

That next morning we awoke to a pretty peaceful morning.

“ hmm, welp maybe it’s scared of us since we are on its tail.” Amb teases poking my arm, her smiles already bright even tho she just awoke. While I need about 30 cups of coffee to even think about getting ing out of bed. I sit up and scratch at my eyes , “ so it is some sorta rip in time, and its strongest at night? How can we close it… “ I ponder , it feels like me something way above my abilities at the moment, perhaps we should give up for now and eventually come back.

My thought were stopped by her raking her nails along my head annoyed I haven paid attention to her. She mumbles before going and making herself breakfast, I go out the room and can smell the soot in the air, it passed in the night. Somehow it didn’t get us, I can feel it in the air that it wanted to . I sit on a small old rocker recliner on the porch and stare out into the empty corn fields. See the tracks , how do we stop it ?

Perhaps …. The way to stop any train.. derail it , I rush up to the edge of rails. How old and destroyed they already are just a sledgehammer will do.

I take Amb into town to see if one is available in the convenience stores, there wasn’t so we went to another town . We found one but this town, was strange itself, similar to tallonwood . Too similar..

We get back to the tracks and start to smash the wood and metal away, for how rusted and rotten they caved pretty easily. We also prepare some holy trinkets. Holy water and crosses and such just in case.

As we cut away the tumorous tracks , I seen that old man watching us. The one from The convention store , he watched with his false eye.

I walked up” I know it looks bad but we have our reasons…” he fell to his knees, before slowly decaying to ash in front of us.

“ oh my, he must of really like this railroad?” Amb say with minimal concern. She continued vandalizing the tracks.

That night we both wait for the train to approach when we notice now we are surrounded by the entire town, watching us with unreadable expressions like mannequins.

Before

They all charge like wild untamed beasts, heat sealing us like a toddler to a bull dog. Of course Amb took this as a challenge and fought back with no remorse or care, they did attack first. She grinned menacingly. Going from normal everyday men and woman, to horrible burned bodies , attendants of the train . They clawed and bowed , their form a mere mimic of humanityty. Which they had lost millions of years before.

I try to take then fast while she takes her time savoring it. She clearly has all the screws loose rattling around us her head, but I can’t help but blush a little at the pure sadistic joy she gets at attacking monsters.

“ psycho .” I say as she gives a proud grin trilling her blood drench hair in her fingers” ain’t my problem, they tried to hurt my hubby…” she makes duck lips cutely, even tho she has just

Done some hanies things. But now the train slowly approaches, coming up to the broken area of tract. It sides off its burned charred metal body slides along the ground with loud brass crackings.

It falls to its side, before twisting over, rolling.

Up and now riding rounding the ground like any other vehicle. The flames within it burst forth like a fountain of rage.

“WHAT?”

I ask to the void to simply be ignored as the train now stalked us, ready to charge and take us to its unhappy home. Amb use the holy watered and read out many verses from the Bible sounding like a proper priest other than how she looks like the farthest thing From holy herself, I aim the cross in its direction. The best swerves and falls over rolling some, it rose back to its large thin wheels.

It slows it down some but it keeps chase, now time to figure out a way to close the gate way, it is fire based…. Ther is also a large lake nearby?

We lead the burning beast along the very flammable forest, till with the holy iteams we push it along .

“ come on big guy, run me over ,” Amb says teasingly still not taking the very wall of faces along its creaked up side , the millions of souls lost to the inferno. They screamed for help long abandoned them , the metal chips away showing more of the hell it is truly, how far removed from this world it resides .

We finally am able to corner it and push the molten metal buck into the water, a large smoke cloud, blood red burns from the water.

Is it dead? Is it just sleeping? Well the town basically lost all its members so it’s fine.

“ yo love, since we did good I say we need a reward for being badasses, with fat asses.” She grinned at her awful joke I just side eyed her who went back home since the job was done for now.

The town, was burning, falling away to ruin. It’s over right? I leave the town and go on to find more adventures. But the next morning the pretty big city I was in has reverted… back to tallonwood. It had its residents back including its two new neighbors. Me and Amb who embraced it swiftly. I simply am not happy about this, I try to find anyway out but now it’s a looping town.

“ yea! I was needing something new !” She says with way to much enthusiasm . She sees the old man once again, alive once more . He doesn’t seem to remember what has past.

Welp seems we are a bit stuck, and this time I see it, the face. Skeletor in nature, deep red and cracked, blood shot eyes. My own death, what I’ve ran From for so long…. Luckily my gem means I can’t die. So it disappears. I am a man not alive, not truly. I fell down a long flight get of stairs and broke my neck! But now i remember.

“ I’ve always been in this town…. Ever since I died the first time a couple years ago, similar to the others I simply forgot but this time. I didn’t, Amb never forget she just enjoy the insanity of the loop. Welp fuck , guess time to see what new nightmare this town conjures up.

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