Welcome to the 5th chapter of my island of Sodor remake. This will be the "unofficial" end of Ellkan's behavioral arc. I hope you enjoy it and when you are finished please review and tell me what you thought about it.
Island of Sodor Remake
Chapter 5-Ellkan's Temper
The trucks had always been obnoxious, loud, and rude. But today had been the worse in recent memory. Ellkan can attest to that. All they did was laugh, make jabs and tell jokes about him while he was around in the yard. This was his fourth day in the yard and nothing made it any better. If anything every hour it just got a lot worse. He could barely move them from one siding to another without just bashing them around. Even the other engines were getting annoyed with them.
"Quiet you lot." Guapo said backing into them fiercely at Knapford station. They had been laughing at Ellkan who was pushing them into place. Guapo was at Platform 5 while Ellkan pulled up on the other side of him looking quite angry.
"It's not use. All they do is sing stupid songs and make pointless jokes at me all day. It's enough to drive any engine mad." Ellkan said with quite a bit of venom in his voice. So far he avoided pushing the trucks through some buffers in the yard. But only barely.
"Don't worry. After the episode they put Atul through yesterday, he went to Sir Topham Hatt at the end of the day so he might be able to do something about them." The guard blew his whistle and Guapo pulled out heading towards the Vicarage Orchard to collect the fruit.
"Not very likely." Ellkan said to himself and went back to the yard, not looking forward to the rest of the day.
It was only mid-morning but to Ellkan it felt like two days' worth of work had been shoved into the span of four hours. The main yard was tidy but the songs and giggling carried through the air. To Ellkan it felt like nails on a chalkboard. He couldn't stand the trucks and the thought that all that drove them was his unhappiness. He pushed and pulled them into their proper places until the yard manager showed up.
"We need this load of trucks," he gestured to a siding nearby. "to the harbor. It needs to be on a boat for this afternoon." Ellkan sighed and coupled up behind them. He didn't have time to pull them around so he decided it would be quicker to just push the four box trucks to the harbor.
He pushed them out of the yard and through the station. Instead of taking the main line track he took the junction on the other side that headed to the harbor. It was only a five minute journey from the yard to the harbor but to Ellkan it felt like a lot longer. The cars kept egging him on and bumped him around. When he got frustrated they just giggled even more. They were pushing his buttons a lot more than he would have liked.
Soon he arrived at the harbor. There were plenty of docks where ships and boats could arrive in. There already were plenty of boats docked at the harbor, when he arrived at the harbor the manager came up to his train.
"That train is needed down at the end of the harbor. You can leave them there until after the boat leaves." Ellkan just made a noise of agreement and started pushing the train to the other end of the harbor.
The day was warm but windy and harbor workers were all over the place. Ships were all over the harbor docks. Trucks and vans were being loaded and unloaded all over the harbor. Ellkan guided his trucks to one end of the harbor and pushed them towards a dock that had two tracks with buffers at the end, one for each side of the dock for two different ships. He was just pushing them into place when they started laughing out.
"You can't push us properly." One sang out.
"You're just a weakling." Another said giggling.
"Can't even do your job properly." A third said rudely.
"You should just be sent away." The last one spoke up.
"Enough!" Ellkan yelled. Before he knew it he shoved the trucks so hard they flew forward, onto the dock and crashed through the buffers at the end.
Silence lingered for a few seconds as everyone took in what happened. The buffers were destroyed and two box trucks were in the sea, having been detached from the train. One was just leaning into the sea, being held up by the fourth truck which was partially derailed. Soon workmen quickly went over to control the situation. Ellkan just started in shock at realizing what he did.
After a half hour Nadir arrived with the Breakdown Train. He placed it on the other track on the dock since it would have the easier access to the fallen trucks. Ellkan moved off to another part of the harbor out of the way. After sometime he stopped waiting because a furious Sir Topham Hatt arrived in front of him.
"I thought that having you work in the yard might be enough to change your attitude but I see that it's done nothing for it." Sir Topham Hatt boomed at the tank engine.
"But the trucks." Ellkan replied weakly.
"You mean the trucks that you shoved into the sea because your attitude got the better of you. I was seriously considering relieving you of shunting duty but now I think we've seen just how poor of a choice that would have been." Ellkan felt even worse from that. A workman came up to the both of them.
"Sir, we've been able to get into both of the submerged trucks. None of the contents have been damaged and are able to be put onto the ship immediately." The workman said to him.
"Thank goodness for that." He turned to Ellkan. "You will go back to the sheds and come out only when you are wanted. Do I make myself clear?" He said angrily.
"Yes Sir. I'm sorry." Sir Topham Hatt didn't respond and just turned around and walked with the workman to the crash area. With that Ellkan made his way back to the sheds.
That night, all six engines on the island were in Knapford Sheds. All the others heard about Ellkan's accident at the harbor. But one major thing was that Ellkan had secluded himself at one end of the sheds while the others sat on the others. He never talked or even looked at them, he just kept to himself. The others knew he wanted to be left by himself and choose to leave him be. They had no clue what Ellkan's future was and Ellkan was just as afraid as anyone else was.
And there you have it, the end of the unofficial Ellkan's behavior arc. What will be in store for Ellkan in the future? Well you'll have to read to find out. Only reason is unofficial is because at the start I never meant for it to be an arc but it sort of turned out that way. Please review and tell me what you thought of the chapter. If you would like to DM me and talk about this story or any of my other one feel free to.