It was a joyous autumn afternoon in Royal Woods, Michigan. The Loud family piled into vanzilla, heading towards the train station. When the oldest sister, Lori, came home for Fall Break from college, their parents decided it would be fun to take a trip to Chicago on a train.

Lucy, the silent poet of the family, felt uncomfortable from all the pushing and shoving inside the bustling station. At last they reached the ticket window, and Rita reached into her purse. "Oh, shoot!" She cursed. "Lynn, I can't find two of the tickets. You take the rest, and just get everyone else onboard. Lily and I will catch up."

"Alright, honey. Just be careful, now." Lynn Sr. handed the infant over to his wife and ordered the rest of his children onto the train.

"Alright!" Lincoln exclaimed in excitement. "Chicago, here we come!"

"This is gonna be awesome, dudes!" Luna agreed with him.

"Yeah! Especially since we've been train-ing for this our whole lives!" Luan joked. "Ha ha ha! Get it?" Everyone just groaned.

As the other passengers finished getting on, Lynn Sr. got a call from Rita saying that she would just have to wait and buy a ticket for the next train. The kids were upset that their mother wouldn't be with them for the train ride, but instead, they focused on meeting her in Chicago and finished loading their suitcases.

Lucy had just finished packing away her backpack and went on to take her seat next to her sister, Lynn. As she sat down, her father went on to do a headcount, and a chill ran up her spine. Normally, she would have welcomed the sensation with open arms, but this one was different. It wasn't the kind of chills that she derived comfort from, it felt foreboding; as if something was trying to warn her.

"Okay, I have a better one! How does a train eat it's food?" Luan giggled. "It choo-chews and swallows it! Ha ha ha! Get it?"

Lynn and Lucy groaned in annoyance. Lucy glanced over to see the rest of her siblings putting away their bags. Lincoln reached for the handle, but it broke off after a small tug. Lynn laughed at his expense, unaware that she was leaning over her sister.

"Hey, dudes!" Luna ran down the trains walkway with a huge grin plastered over her face. "You'll never guess what they're gonna play over the radio!" Just as she finished that sentence, Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne came echoed through the cab. "Rock on!" Luna said, doing her best British impression.

"Sigh…" Lucy said, and sat down in her seat.

At last, the train started to move forward. Most of the Loud kids cheered, only to be shushed by the other passengers. Lucy decided to pass the time by looking out the window, watching the trees pass as they went. In that moment, she felt inspiration for a new poem, and reached for her notebook and pen. But in her eagerness, she was being a bit careless and gave herself a papercut. "Ow." She exclaimed, quietly. She sucked on her thumb to ease the slight pain, when suddenly, the entire coach lurched.

The train's engine had derailed, making the coaches crash into each other. Lynn Sr. instinctively got up to make sure his kids were safe, but the coach they were on tilted over the edge of mountain. The patriarch of the Loud House lost his balance, stumbling through the window and falling to his doom.

Everyone was screaming in terror as the train was still moving forward. Leni tried to help her family, but a panicked passenger shoved her aside, making the fashionista fall onto the broken glass of the window. Lori, tearfully, helped her sister off of the broken window, only to find that the shards of glass had cut deep into her throat.

Another coach crashed into them again, causing Luan to fall over onto the floor. The other passengers took no notice of her as they crushed her underneath them. Lori took charge, ordering her siblings to head to the back of the coach and try to climb out through the window. Most of them managed to follow her, but Lisa, Lola, and Lana had been cut off when the luggage racks opened up, spilling their contents all over the youngest Louds.

Lori smashed the window open with her rhinestone purse, and proceeded to help the others climb out. The first two out were Lucy and Lincoln, then Lynn and Luna, and finally, Lori began to climb out, herself. But just as she was halfway out, the coaches crashed together again, making the oldest sister fly back inside and crush her spine from the impact.

Luna and her younger siblings held onto the coach as hard as they could. But at last, the engine stopped, making the coaches crash into each other once again. One of the brake cables snapped, flinging around the coach's cabin and slicing off Luna's jaw. The cable wrapped around Lynn's leg, dragging the sporty girl under the rails.

It was all down to Lincoln and Lucy, now. The surviving Louds steeled their nerves and jumped down the ravine. They managed to land on a softer patch of dirt, but they were now tumbling, uncontrollably, down the slope. Lucy closed her eyes, hoping that when it came it would come painlessly. But when the duo reached the bottom, she felt every part of her lower vertebrae crumble when she hit the rock.

Gathering up all of her strength, she looked over to see that her brother hadn't been so lucky. His head had hit the rocks, dead-on, killing him, instantly. Tears welled up in Lucy's eyes as she wondered why this was happening to her and her family. A splendid trip to Chicago had turned into a frightening bloodbath. The goth girl had always known death would come, but she didn't expect it when she was still only a child.

Lucy looked back up the ravine, seeing that the derailed train was now leaning towards her. Her eyes widened from terror as the coaches tumbled down the mountain, screeching from the metal digging into the rock.

Lucy screamed and closed her eyes, tight.

"Lucy? You okay, sweetie?" Lynn Sr. shook the dark girl out of her trance. The nine-year-old goth looked shocked to see that her father was alive and well. She frantically looked around her, noticing that everyone in her family was still alive. Was it possible she had just imagined it?

"Okay, I have a better one! How does a train eat it's food?" Luan giggled.

"It choo-chews and swallows it." Lucy stammered.

"Aw, I told you that one, already?" Luan sounded disappointed.

Lucy ignored her sister's despondent tone and turned to Lincoln. Before her only brother could open the compartment for his suitcase, she rushed in front of him and pulled at the handle, herself. Much to her horror, it broke just like before. "Lucy, is something wrong?" Lincoln asked.

"Hey, dudes!" Luna ran down the trains walkway, again, with the same huge grin plastered over her face; the same one Lucy saw before. "You'll never guess what they're gonna play over the radio!"

"Crazy Train…" Lucy's voice broke, just as the metal song played over the intercom.

Lucy brushed her bangs out from her face, exposing the frightened look in her eyes to the rest of her family. On impulse, Lynn took this unorthodox action as her cue to help her little sister. "Hey, roomie. What's the matter?" Everyone else gathered around the two girls, offering to help in any way they could.

"We need to get off of this train…" Lucy had now completely abandoned her signature monotone voice.

"What? Why?"

"We need to get off this train, right now!" She started to push her way past the crowd, pulling her family with her. "The train is going to derail! Everyone's going to die! We need to get off this train!"

"Hey, watch it!" Lola shoved her sister in retaliation. Unfortunately, she also accidentally elbowed her twin in the face, leading to a brawl between the two. Lori and Leni tried to break it up, but the added confusion only made it worse. At last, one of the train's inspectors came to ask the family to exit the train.

Safe to say, the Loud family was very upset over this. When the entire family was off the train, the conductor gave the signal, and the train set off.

"I thought I told you all to go ahead." Rita had just caught up with them.

"It was all Lucy's fault!" Lola accused. "She hit me!"

"Seriously? We lost our vacation in Chicago because the Duchess of Darkness lost her cool?" Lynn was equally aggravated.

"Okay, that's enough!" Rita ordered, and kneeled down next to her nine-year-old daughter. "Now, Lucy, tell us what happened."

"I-I saw it!" Lucy was still overwhelmed. "Blood was everywhere! People were dying! All of us! We need to stop that train! Everyone else is going to die!"

"Oh, please!" Lori scoffed. "Mom, Dad, don't listen to her. She's, literally, just trying to draw attention to herself. 'Ooh, it's gonna crash! It's gonna crash!' Yeah, right!"

Suddenly, a deafening explosion drew everyone's attention. A collection of horrified screams filled the station at the sight of the train coming off the rails. Some of the debris was thrown from the crash site, landing on the platform. One piece of the train managed to hit Lynn Sr. in the heart, killing him. Rita dropped to her knees, crying out for someone to help her husband.

A week had passed, and the Loud siblings found themselves in a dismal funeral home, mourning for their father. Lori and Leni tried to comfort Rita and Lily, Luan and Lisa were mingling with their father's friends, trying to occupy their minds with something else. The others just tried to help each other in any way they could.

Meanwhile, Lucy was sitting in the corner, as she usually did. But this time, it wasn't so that she could work on her poems, or to read the latest novel about vampires; it was to ponder her vision. If she told her family about it, they wouldn't believe her, but she knew it was no coincident. She had seen that everyone would die, and she thought she had saved them. But then why did her father end up dying anyway?

Lucy was shaken out of her thoughts when she sensed a presence sitting next to her. She looked up to see a tall, African American man in a neat suit. His nametag read: "William Bludworth. Coroner." The man gazed past Lucy's bangs, piercing her eyes. Lucy felt as though he was staring right into her very soul.

"Death does not like to be cheated." He said, at last.

"I… I'm sorry?" Lucy stammered.

"This guy bothering you, Luce Change?" Luna stepped up, followed by Lincoln and Lynn.

"I meant no harm." He assured them. He rose from his seat, preparing to leave, but stopped to look at them one last time. The smile on his face made the four Louds shudder. "You all… just be careful, now."

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Loud Destination

Author's note: For those of you who have seen both the Loud House and Final Destination, was it any doubt that Lucy would be the lead in this chapter?