How long has it been since I last uploaded?? Whatever, this is the chapter when everyone has the accident on the train. Also, yes I made Naomi fall asleep on Hitsugaya's shoulders because a moment like that is so cute!! its hard to pass up!!
Train Trouble
Aizen's huge group of glowing green creatures raced their way to the moving train. They quickly flew up to it and encircled one of the small funnels of the train. Those funnels provided an opening and they quietly slipped through without anyone noticing. Soon the train engines started glowing bright red and huge sparks were coming out of the airshafts. Those monsters were nothing but misfortune.
Renji shuffled all of his necessary papers together and walked down the narrow aisles of the train, ready to have one of the workers check them. He quietly slipped by many rooms until he spotted a couple holding their papers together.
"You see, the traveling papers were blue", the female whispered to her husband. "Now they are red."
Renji quickly glanced at his papers and surely enough, everything on it was written in blue ink. He gasped and quickly ran for it back to his car just as the worker came to check the traveling papers. He dashed to his car and slammed open the sliding doors. Though he was putting a lot of force into this, it didn't wake anyone up. Lucia laid herself on one of the seats and she was fast asleep with her coat covering her. Hitsugaya was staring out of the window like usual and Naomi had accidentally fallen asleep onto his shoulders. She initially fell asleep sitting up, but the train made a sharp turn causing her to fall onto Hitsugaya. Ichigo was already awake with his papers all ready.
"Ichigo! We gotta move!" Renji frantically said and lunged for his bags. "Everything's in red!!"
"RED!!!" Ichigo exclaimed in a mixture of fear and surprise. How were they suppose to know that the traveling papers had changed.
"What? You didn't know", Hitsugaya said in a matter of fact fashion. He tauntingly held up his passport and everything on it was bright red. Ichigo and Renji just stared at his passport, feeling their pride slipping away.
"I propose we move to the baggage car", Renji suggested and shoveled more bags out of the overhead carriers.
"I propose we get off this train", Ichigo annoyingly said and threw the last bag at Renji.
Renji tucked away as many bags as he could and he quickly ran off to the baggage car. Hitsugaya gently shook Naomi to wake up after he pushed her off his shoulders. She woke up dazed and confused until Hitsugaya told her they were moving to a different car. She was a little wobbly at first so Hitsugaya was forced to help lead her away. Ichigo quickly went over to Lucia to wake her up from her peaceful nap.
"Hey! Hey! Wake up", Ichigo whispered and gently shook Lucia a little to try to wake her up.
Suddenly her hand shot up and it sucker punched Ichigo right in the nose. Once her hand made contact, Lucia woke up in surprise and quickly glanced around her to see whom she hurt. "Oh, I'm so sorry!! I thought-" She stopped her apology in mid sentence once she saw Ichigo painfully holding onto his nose and groaning the whole way through. "Oh it's you. Then that's ok then."
"We're leaving", Ichigo said and grabbed Lucia to make her stand up from her current resting position.
"Where are we going?" Lucia asked, but Ichigo promptly ignored her.
"I think you broke my nose!!" Ichigo whined out in pain as he clutched onto his precious nose even more. He grabbed his bags and ran after Hitsugaya and Naomi.
"Men are such babies", Lucia muttered under her breath and she grabbed her bags and put her jacket on since it was already getting pretty cold.
Renji slammed open the door of the baggage car and Naomi and Hitsugaya walked through. Ichigo and Lucia finally made it too and Lucia quietly closed the door behind her. Renji and Naomi clutched onto their jackets even more from the freezing cold. Hitsugaya just stood there unnoticed of the dropping temperature.
"The baggage car…" Lucia doubtfully said and Ichigo and Renji shrugged their shoulders of guilt. "There wouldn't be anything wrong with our papers now would there?"
"Of course not", Ichigo said and put on his fake smile. "It's just that we don't want to force you to mingle with all those commoners."
Yep, something's wrong with our papers, Lucia quickly realized, but she kept her mouth shut and tightened her jacket from the cold.
"I-I-It's c-c-cold here", Naomi managed to stammer out. Renji nodded his head of agreement as he shuddered even more.
"Shake a leg", Ichigo, irritated, told Renji and he sorted through all of their bags to see if they had left anything.
Naomi's eyes wandered through the baggage car until she laid eyes on a shadow taped onto the wall. She slowly and carefully walked over there to see Kon half dead on the wall. "Kon?" Naomi said in curiosity and she released Kon's taped chains of the wall.
Suddenly a glint could be seen in Kon's eyes. "ONEE-CHAAN!!!!!" Kon screamed out and leapt for Naomi's unprotected spots.
Naomi screamed out in fear, covered her chest, and she quickly hid behind any box for protection. Lucia, Ichigo, and Renji's attention quickly turned towards the frightened girl. She shut her eyes tight and expected Kon to hit the wooden box with a hard thump, but instead she heard a piece of metal hitting the wooden box. She peered out from behind the box to see Hitsugaya's sword drawn out and threatening Kon's soft plushie body.
"You want me to get the other arm", Hitsugaya dangerously said and drew his sword even closer to Kon. Nervously, Kon shook his head no and Hitsugaya slid his sword back into its guard.
Though unknown to everyone else, a green door in the baggage car was glowing bright green, signaling something really bad. The green monsters wrapped themselves around the connecting chains of the two cars and squeezed it as tight as possible. Suddenly the car shook with violent force and the entire backside had blown off disconnecting the front with the rest of the train. Naomi gasped in surprise as she was thrown to the floor. On the other hand, Lucia and Ichigo landed in a very interesting way on each other.
"What was that!?" Ichigo exclaimed. Both Renji and Hitsugaya picked Naomi up off the floor.
"I don't know, but there goes the dining car", Renji said in tears as he watched his favorite part of the train disappear into the woods.
"Get off of me!!" Lucia exclaimed as Ichigo crushed her even more. Ichigo had fallen face front right onto her stomach and a suitcase was blocking him from advancing.
"I'm trying!!" Ichigo yelled back at her and he flung the suitcase away from himself. He quickly stood up and Lucia gratefully got out of Ichigo's weight crushing her to death.
"Ichigo!!" Hitsugaya yelled to him and peered out of a small window. "Somebody exploded our engines."
"What!?" Ichigo exclaimed and ran over to the window Hitsugaya was peering out of. He knocked away the box that was in front of the door and peered through as well. Sure enough, the engine was on fire and huge billowing clouds of smoke were coming out of the flames at the front of the train. Ichigo slammed open the door and threw his coat into Hitsugaya's arms.
"Something's not right, I'll go and check it out", Ichigo said and he jumped up to the top of the cars. He dashed in lightning speed through the top of the cars and landed in engine room. Everything was up in flames there and the speed and pressure were increasing faster than ever. "Anyone here?" Ichigo screamed out and just then, an explosion happened right in front of him.
"We're going way too fast", Naomi exclaimed and she gripped onto Lucia more from the unsteadiness of the train. Lucia tried her best to maintain hers and Naomi's balance though it was getting more and more difficult.
Suddenly Ichigo jumped from the top of the car before them and he landed right in front of Lucia, scaring her to pieces. "Nobody's driving this train", Ichigo exclaimed and he quickly ran inside the baggage car. "We're going to have to jump!!" He directed her and he pushed open a sliding door on the side of that car.
"Did you say jump!!!?" Lucia screamed out in fear and followed Ichigo. "After you!" Lucia said and she offered a 1,000-foot drop under the train tracks.
"Let's hope Naomi doesn't create an avalanche", Hitsugaya mumbled under his breath, which Naomi easily heard. In retaliation, she conked him in the head with her suitcase in a fit of anger. Luckily, Hitsugaya managed to dodge it in time.
"Fine, then we'll cut our car", Ichigo said and unbeknownst to him, the green creatures were listening to every word he said. They quickly flew over to the connecting parts of the two cars and froze it to the core.
Ichigo ran over to the intersection and he quickly noticed the frozen parts. "Come on! I need a wrench, an ax, anything!!!"
Renji dug through a kit of tools and took out a small hammer. "Here!" He yelled back and handed the hammer to Ichigo.
Ichigo took the hammer and he struck the frozen metal with a couple of strikes. Each one made a deafening clang, but each failed to break through. Sparks were flying everywhere as Ichigo continued hitting the frozen intersection. After ten or so whacks, the hammer finally gave out and it broke. Hitsugaya quickly handed Ichigo his sword, but that too proved unsuccessful. (A/N: But the sword didn't break)
"Onee-san!!" Kon yelled out for Lucia's attention and he pointed to the cart of explosives that he was standing on. Lucia grinned a little and she quietly closed the box she was looking inside.
Ichigo rapidly ran through his last screwdriver. "There gotta be something better than this!!!" He exclaimed in frustration just as Lucia arrived to him with a lit explosive dynamite in her hand. "That'll work", Ichigo said surprised with what Lucia was able to get. He grabbed the dynamite and stuck it into the icy metal parts. He grabbed for Lucia and dragged her behind a tall wall of baggage. Renji had grabbed for Kon and Hitsugaya and Naomi hid behind a different stack of luggage. Ichigo unconsciously held Lucia tight and close to him, an action Renji and Hitsugaya quickly took note of.
"What did they teach you in those orphanages?" Ichigo mumbled out in confusion and he ducked his and Lucia's heads just as the explosion went off. The front of the car was blown apart and it easily disconnected with the burning engine ahead. Everyone peeked out over their walls of safety and sighed in relief that they were safe from the engine. Renji quickly ran over to the brakes and twisted them to try to stop while Ichigo went and put out a nearby fire.
"Uhh Ichigo…" Renji mumbled out and he showed Ichigo the broken off wheel of the brakes. Ichigo groaned in frustration and messaged his temples to get everything straight in his head.
"Don't worry. We go plenty of track so we'll just coast to a stop", Ichigo faintly suggested and just as he said that, the bridge of a valley they were suppose to cross blew apart its middle section leaving less than a couple of hundred feet of track left before a 500 meter drop.
Everyone gasped once they saw that the bridge was blown apart. "You were saying?" Lucia asked Ichigo in doubt.
"I got an idea, Renji. Give me a hand!!" Ichigo exclaimed and he grabbed for some chains with a hook at the end. He clutched onto the bottom bars at the back of their car and steadied himself out of their car. Just as he was doing that, the car tipped over causing Renji to fall over and land on Hitsugaya. "Hand me the chain", Ichigo said and he reached out for the chain, which Lucia took and slowly let it descend onto Ichigo's hand. "Not you!!" Ichigo snapped at her.
"Renji's busy at the moment", Lucia said and Ichigo reluctantly and quickly gave in.
He grabbed the chain from Lucia and hooked part of it to the bottom of their car. As he was working, sparks from the car's wheels were flying everywhere and the car itself was starting to break apart. A piece of metal rattled through the bottom of the car and it narrowly missed Ichigo by an inch. But that piece of metal startled Ichigo enough to lose his grip on the bars. Just as he was about to fall, another hand reached out and grabbed his hand with a firm grip. Ichigo's face soon met within a couple of centimeters of Lucia's face and a loud clang brought their attention to a tree. The piece of metal that was about to hit Ichigo, hit a tree instead and it caused that tree to fall down from its trunk.
"I'll think that could have been you", Lucia exasperatedly said and she pulled Ichigo back into their car.
Ichigo caught his breath a little and smoothed out his clothes from dust and ash. "If we live through this, remind me to thank you", he said addressing to Lucia.
Lucia shrugged and together they threw the rest of the chain out. It's hook quickly caught onto the train tracks but the train had way too much momentum to have a simple hook and chain stop it. Soon the tracks itself were forcefully ripped from the ground and it caused the car to tip over to the side. Renji was thrown off of Hitsugaya and Lucia landed on Ichigo when she was thrown back. Naomi quickly caught Hitsugaya from falling back any further as she kept a tight grip on a handle that happened to be installed into the wall.
Knowing that all they could do was jump, everyone sprung into action. Renji collected as many bags as he could and Kon while Ichigo and Lucia got their bags. Naomi and Hitsugaya quickly prepared themselves. "Well this is our stop", Lucia yelled out and she jumped out followed by Ichigo and Renji. Hitsugaya and Naomi jumped out a couple of seconds afterwards. Luckily the snow around them cushioned their fall as the train sped through the tracks and into its death at the bottom of the valley.
"I hate trains. Remind me never get on a train again", Ichigo said irked that their form of transportation was gone. Renji and Lucia agreed while Hitsugaya and Naomi were trying to figure out which way to go to get to Seireitei. Unknown to all of them, someone was watching this entire event the whole time from beginning to end.
I hate trains too. I'm going to have to take a train soon everyday once I get into high school. That is going to be so sad for me…
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