All Aboard!
AN: Yay! My fifth chapter, and here's were we get into the swing of things! Enjoy!
Previously:
Almost two and a quarter hours had passed when both girls woke up, feeling extremely cold, as if it was winter instead of Summer.
"What on earth?" Kat mumbled, her voice thick with sleep. Sapphire was rubbing her eyes and her arms in an effort to be warm.
"I second that." Her friend muttered, and unzipped the tent. Instantly, her hand was covered in snow. "What on earth is going on? It's snowing outside, in the middle of Summer!"
Then both girls heard the sound of a train, and looked at each other, bewildered. Crawling out of the tent, they watched in utter astonishment as an Express Train pulled up not far from where they were standing.
However, that wasn't as astonishing as what they saw written on the train : The Polar Express.
"WHAT!?" Kat yelled, her voice echoing somewhat. Sapphire glared angrily at her.
"Shut up, Kat!" She hissed quietly. Kat looked at her friend in surprise, and asked, "Why?"
"Because, it's five minutes to midnight, and most people, even children, are asleep by that time."
"Don't worry about that. Are you two coming to the North Pole?"
Both girls turned to see the conductor, same as ever, looking at them expectantly. After a moment, the two of them whooped for joy, and hopped onto the train.
With a fond, but exasperated smile, the conductor waved his lantern out the window, signalling to the driver to carry on. Meanwhile, Kat and Sapphire had grabbed the front seat, and then glanced around. There was no one else on the train, and they sat back to enjoy their ride.
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Neither Katja nor Sapphire could understand how the train was able to get from New Zealand to Australia, and then to America. Was there a special train track that connected the three parts of the world together?
Although Sapphire knew it was possible to catch a train from somewhere in Europe to somewhere in Asia, it was only because a few countries, mostly Russia, were in both parts of the world.
All this thinking was giving her a slight headache, so she stopped thinking about it, and instead, she smiled as the other kids boardered the train.
They let the Know-It-All-Boy, whose name was Luke, to sit with them, and against all odds, they got on rather well. Luke asked them questions about Greece and New Zealand, whereas they asked him questions about America.
"Have either of you been to America?" He asked, and both of them shook their heads. "Not actually been there for a holiday, but I will one day." Sapphire said, smiling to herself, just as the conductor came around, asking for their tickets.
"Tickets please," he called grandly, waving his ticket puncher around. Luke and Katja found their's relatively quickly, but Sapphire was at a loss as to where her's could be.
She then glanced down in slight frustration, and was most astonished to find her ticket half concealed by her bum.
With a laugh, she pulled out the golden ticket from it's strange hiding place, and handed it to the conductor, who had just finished punching Luke's.
"Thank you, Mam." He said, and a shower of golden circles tumbled from the ticket as he punched it. When he handed back to her, she saw a "C" at one end, and an "E" at the other.
"Look what the wise guy punched on mine," said Luke, sounding, if anything, annoyed. "L" and an "E." "What the heck is that supposed to mean?"
Sapphire shrugged, and looked at her friend's ticket which read "BE."
Then the train slowed down to pick up the last passenger; a sad, little lonely boy called Billy.
AN: There you go, yet another chapter for you, Kat. Hope you enjoy it :)