Summary: Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Shigure, Haru and Momiji get the chance of a lifetime as they are whisked away on a four-day trip on The Orient Express! But all trouble breaks loose as some one is killed and a detective-type crime sweep pursues…
"A TRAIN RIDE TO REMEMBER"
CHAPTER 10
As they ran down the corridor after the man, the train was deserted, they ran past compartments, they were all empty except for one, which was compartment 75, the man stood there, the lightening lit up the room to reveal a hollow faced man, a knife ready, some one Tohru or Haru didn't know.
"This isn't what you think," he said, looking desperately at Tohru, though he knew she wouldn't believe her.
"W-w-what are you doing in our compartment?" she asked
"I needed a place to hide," he said, the knife still raised
Both Tohru and Haru stepped back as the man approached them, clutching the knife more tightly. They got so far back that they were touching the window outside their compartment, and Tohru could feel the cold run down her spine. Suddenly, the man lunged, knife up. Tohru screamed, but she didn't feel anything, instead she saw the man running down the corridor, towards the front of the train.
Haru had already started to run after the man when Tohru looked up. She ran also after Haru, and she caught up with them at the front of the train, in the smokers' car, which smelt faintly of stale tobacco smoke. The man cowered in a corner; Tohru wished he hadn't brought out Black Haru; which probably would have been the last thing he would of done.
Haru just stood their, staring at him, the train blaring out from outside the carriage door. Then the man did a daring stunt; he ran to the carriage door, pulled it open and ran onto the tender. Haru ran after him, Tohru after that.
The man stumbled on the coal; covered in soot, rain pouring down and the thunder and lightning only getting worse. When Tohru reached up on the tender, the train seemed to get more louder as though it was about to pop her eardrums. The workers on the train didn't seem to notice them on the tender, not even the fireman; when he turned round to get a shovel-full of coal. The man walked up to the edge of the tender and turned. Haru and Tohru had blocked him in.
It was very difficult to stand up as the train swayed in the storm and as it turned corners. The lightning struck again, this time further down the train; this situation was getting more and more dangerous. As the train whistle pelted their ears the man fell due to the shock and hit the fireman and the driver. They were all out-cold.
But the train remained speeding along, but the bad thing was, it was gaining more speed. Tohru and Haru dragged the man of the drivers and pulled him (with difficulty) back to the smokers' carriage, and then ran back to the speeding engine itself. Haru tried to ort out the train, while Tohru bent down and tried to wake the driver, it wasn't working. Then she found a bucket of water and poured it over the driver's head. He immediately woke up
"What's going on!" he spluttered, wiping water out of his face
"Do you wanna tell him, Tohru? I'll check on that guy," said Haru, and he went
Tohru told the story of how she and Haru found a man breaking into the train, and chased over here.
"And that's what happened" she finished
"Well," said the driver "I'll get the train Inspector to sort this out"
"Wait!" shouted Tohru "Maybe he killed Yuki!"
"What?" asked the driver "Who's Yuki?"
"Never mind," said Tohru and with that she ran off over the tender and into the smokers' carriage; where she found Haru questioning the man
"Haru, I wanna speak to you… in private" she whispered "I think that man may have… y'know killed Yuki"
"Are you sure?" he asked, looking round at the man, who was watching a rather large piece of lint float around the room "OK, lets ask him" he added
Just then the Dt. Inspector Morse came in, looking angry as shards of glass and blood down him
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