The Hell Train sped through the air, piercing through the waddling clouds and towards it's final destination.
Inside, the air was tense.
Why?
Well of course because Winston had told them what awaited. And now, Hwaryun was explaining the situation.
"So let me get this straight-" Yuri spoke, a vein threatening to pop on her forehead.
"There's multiple warships worth two entire squadrons, three squadron commanders, multiple power individuals from the Ten great families and the Supreme Commander of the Jahad Army waiting for us at the last station?"
One could almost hear her teeth cracking.
"And all because they think that the people on this train are a threat?"
"More accurately." Hwaryun began, a measured smile on her lips. "They think the people on this Train have been 'infected' by someone." She lightly chuckled. "I believe you've fought him before, Princess."
Yuri stared at her dumbly for a moment before her eyes snapped wide in rage.
"That bastard!" She clenched her fists and slammed them into the table!
Boom!
Crack!
"If I find him again, I'll choke him to death and make him regreat ever living! He's still causing so much trouble!"
Silence~~~
"Wow." Endorsi muttered lightly. Beside her, Evan massaged his temple.
"Moving on." Hwaryun patted off some dust from her bare leg and continued.
"There's not much to worry about." She said. Her words made everyone smile and Khun looked to the man seated at the back.
"Of course. After all, we have the great 'Silent Leviathan' with us." He snickered, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Well, as long as Winston is with us, there's practically nothing to worry about." Endorsi shrugged her shoulders.
"He can just teleport us out, right? Or spirit world travelling or whatever it is called." Amon chimed from the side.
At the back, Hockey, Faker and the rest of them talked in hushed voices.
"I did hear that correctly right? Adori Jahad is at the last station right?"
"Yep."
"So why are they so calm about it? Can Winston Heath really take them on?"
"I have no idea."
"We're all gonna die." Hockney suddenly said, making them all grimace.
"Hey now. We're not going to die." Winston's voice cut in from the side. He looked to them, his face impassive and cold. "At worst, you guys will barf a bit due to not having travelled through the spirit world before."
"Spirit world?" Hockney inquired, to which Winston only shrugged his shoulders.
"It's basically an extra dimensional space, superimposed onto the tower which is simultaneously existent in the past, present and the future and in which each coordinate is superimposed onto everywhere else. Meaning, space and time are basically non existent and it exists beyond dimensionality."
"I see. I understand." Faker nodded, his face serious.
"Of course. It was so obvious." Said Boro.
Their antics made Winston chuckle before he turned back to the group and smiled.
"We'll be at the last station in less than 24 hours. I suppose it's time to get out of here, wouldn't you all agree?"
"And what about Rachel?" Endorsi asked, folding her arms below her chest.
"Well, we agreed to let her go, didn't we?" Winston held up his hands in a gesture of 'what can be done?' "So of course we will have to stay true to our words."
"Hell yeah!" Endorsi pumped up her fist, as did Zarhan, Rak, Yihwa, Prince, Miseng and Amon.
"Let's go then."
...
"It's starting, is it?" The red haired man asked. The theater light cast over his face, revealing his features. Red hair sprawled upon his head and his crimson red eyes glowed in the dim lighting. His white trenchcoat was particularly striking.
He looked to his friend who was still wearing the hoodie and eating popcorn.
"Oh yes. It is." He snickered. "You ready to go?"
The red haired man sighed. "I hate you sometimes."
"Nah, you love me."
"Hard pass."
"That's rude." The man shook his head, then, pointed to the screen.
On the screen, an image of the last station lingered. In the corner was a video of the hell train, blazing through the air.
"Go ahead. Hehe." He laughed. "Let us start the 'performance'."
...
Winston spread his arms and his spirituality wrapped around all the people present.
"Ready?" He asked.
Wangnan gulped loudly.
Then, he stepped forward.
Tap.
Shaaaaaa!
A world that seemed to contain all possible colours emerged before everyone's eyes. Their minds, trained to see the world in a 3d mesh reeled back from the influx of information.
Lights of all kinds emerged around them, going higher and higher and above even them, they could see a gray fog infinitely high up.
Winston ascended alongside them.
Just then, a felt something.
Spuuuurt!
A red light. A firefly.
What the? He narrowed his eyes.
The firefly passed before him, malevolent crimson shinsu wrapped all around it.
And then-
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
BOOOOM!
Crash!
All of them fell back onto the floor of the hell train.
"What the hell?!" Endorsi yelled as she was thrown back onto the metal floor. Her eyes travelled through the group, looking g to find Winston.
"Wait..." She again scanned the group.
"Where's Winston?"
...
Huuuuu~
Winston breathed out. His body floated silently in the spirit world, surrounded by crimson on all sides - twisting and churning and billowing as if it possessed a life of it's own.
He narrowed his eyes, observing the substance.
He could feel the strange properties of this shinsu.
The shinsu is blocking off all access from not only the spirit world but also the astral world. It forcibly ejected out everyone else. I was able to stay because of my beyonder powers. He extended his hand, feeling his way through the amorphous red fluid. In many respects, it felt as if he was moving his hand through blood.
I haven't lost contact with my avatars, but they cannot enter this space... wait. Just then, his eyes widened in realization. Fuck.
The entire floor had been sealed. No avatar could go in and no avatar could go out.
And that meant their escape route had been cut.
That's the last ditch effort huh... but so long as my avatars are still alive, I won't die. What's the end goal here? Is it to get Bam out of the equation?
But as long as the hell train doesn't get to the last station, we're pretty much set.
I just need to stop the train and steer it towards the inner tower and enter the regular zone.
Racking his head for some time, Winston could not get to a decision. Who among the Ten family heads can seal an entire floor? He thought. And then arrived at a solution. There were only two.
The first was none other than Po Bidau Gustang, one of the strongest wave controllers in the tower.
And the second was Tu Perie Tperie, the first light bearer.
Of course, none of them, he felt, could perfectly isolate him like so.
In that case, who was the perpetrator?
Winston's mind instantly thought of an answer.
And as he did, a exasperated feeling began to rise in his chest.
He looked out into the real world, where the hell train was supposed to be. And the discovery did not please him in the slightest.
"No rest for the wicked." He clicked his tongue and leapt out of the spirit world.
...
"Guah! Guuuhhh!" Theolis sprawled over on the ground, gripping his chest. His blood red hair seemed to grow longer and the red in his eyes looked as if it would leap out of his chest.
The shinsu around him began to rise, turning crimson like the brightest fire and enveloped him whole.
"Get into the- guh! Tower, they said. It'll be... fun they said." He squeezed out between his groans. "Fuck you, Samuel..."
Blood seemed out from his nostrils and eyes and drowned out his consciousness.
The last thought he could form was simple.
'Damn that dwarf.'
And so, his spirit spilled away into nothing.
Boom!
It was as if a switch had been flipped.
Whoosh!
Shaaa!
An ocean of red began to bloom from his body, covering the entire compartment he was in. The shinsu swirled around like a maelstrom, emerging from a single compartment of the train and expanding till it ate away at the others!
Whooooooo!
Shaaaa!
"What the fuck!" White yelled as the shinsu came out of nowhere. His sword appeared in his hand and in a single moment, he had already slashed hundreds of times!
Whooooosh!
"Damn it!" Alas, he could not stop the spread.
Whiiiiiiiiirl!
Shaaaa!
"What is this thing!?" Yura yelled as she banged away at the door, confusion filling her mind.
The red shinsu crawled into the room, enveloping them both in just a few moments!
"Why doesn't this damn ticket work!" Rachel yelled, squeezing the ticket in her hands.
Whooosh!
"Damn this! Which red turtle is making this!?" Rak was enveloped.
"Bong bong!" Endorsi could not escape.
"Princess!" Evan was enveloped.
"It must be that dammed bastard!" Yuri too.
In the matter of a few minutes, the entire train was swallowed whole.
And silence.
The shinsu receded back, becoming smaller and smaller until nothing could be seen.
...
...
...
"Hey." Himmel fidgeted with his eyepatch as he sat in the control room of the last station. He kept looking at the screen, seeming extremely bored.
"How long are we gonna keep sitting like this?"
"The hell train is set to arrive in less than 24 hours." Garnac yawned beside him.
"Just persevere until then. We will get to see some action real soon."
"Auuuuh!" He groaned and leaned onto the control panel. "But we've been sitting here for two damn days. What's the point? Won't the warships see the train before we do?"
"I don't have an answer for that." Garnac scratched his head, slouching in his chair.
"This is just way too draining." Himmel groaned again. Absently, he scanned the screens again.
A few heartbeats passed.
Slowly, his eyes began to widen.
"Um.." He took a hold of his half-brother's arm and shook him lightly.
"Hey."
He shook harder.
"What?"
"Look."
He shook harder still.
"Look at what?"
"Look!" At this point, he was shaking him back and forth on his chair.
"Look at what?!"
"That!"
Garnac looked at the screen he was pointing to.
On the screen, a whirlpool of blood rose, forming a portal. And from within it came a large mechanical marvel, hundreds of meters long.
Silence descended into the room.
Until there wasn't-
"The hell train is here!"
"Why did it appear so randomly!?"
"I don't know!"
"You said there was time!"
"Do I look like a trusted adult!?"
Without wasting anymore time, Garnac slammed the emergency alarm button and Himmel went for the broadcast.
HOoOoOoOoOoOo~
"Attention all forces! The hell train is here! I repeat, the hell train is here!"
...
Before the wide glass windows stood a towering albino male. His eyes were blood red and he stood dressed in a dark suit.
His face supported a wide grin as he looked at the whirlpool.
HoOoOoOoOoOo~~!!!
The alarm began to blaze and the sirens roared.
"Attention all forces! The hell train is here! I repeat, the hell train is here!"
Samuel inhaled deeply.
"It has begun." He said. Slowly, he opened his arms and spread them wide. "Winston Heath-" He continued.
...
On the mothership, Adori Jahad watched with quiet intrigue as the hell train emerged outside the station.
"Wasn't expecting this." She muttered, clenching her blade.
"-This is my stand..."
A man walked along the roof of the station, donning a coat and and clear cut blonde hair. Atop his forehead, a blue fire began to burn.
"We meet again, Winston Heath."
"And in more ways than one, this is yours as well."
Slowly, more commanders began to descend from their ships.
The captains of the first squadron flew down from the mothership, each donning their battle armors and weapons. The high ranking officials of the Khun, Arie and Ha family also took notice.
"I have put everything I have into this. And I'll make sure you have to put everything into it as well."
As the hell train fully emerged, a man slowly walked out from behind the train.
He had deep red hair and was dressed in tattered clothing.
"You have done such a wonderful job, Theolis. Of all his descendents, you were one of the few that managed to survive till now." Samuel said with smiling eyes. Then, his gaze drifted beyond the last station and towards the distant horizons.
There, he could faintly see the silhouette of a mechanical behemoth stirring.
"Hehehe... hahahahaha!"
The mothership's control room opened up, its glass dome splitting into two. Adori Jahad stepped out into the open, for the first time in a long while before such an extravagant audience.
"Surround the train. Draw them out."
Upon her order, hundreds of rankers and high rankers began to surround the hell train. It was already stopped, and so, there was no need to stop it like they had planned to.
The red haired male went up to meet the princess. No one stopped them. They knew who this was. The white dwarf had told them of his inside agent.
And as everyone surrounded the train, a gap appeared in the space above it.
"Man... trouble just keeps on appearing."
Tap!
A man stepped out from the void. He was dressed in a white linen shirt and a tail coat. He wore black pants and leather boots and on his head was a halved top hat.
Worms seemed to spread out from his hands, forming into an illusory cane.
With a smirk, Winston bowed.
"My... quire the audience today."
He looked up, meeting the eyes of the Supreme Commander of Jahad forces.
A breeze fluttered through his clothes as he slammed the butt of his cane on top of the train.
"I hope you don't disappoint me... Winston."
"Let's begin... shall we?"
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A/N: Hello dear readers. The second volume is nearing it's end and also the entire fanfic as a whole.
Now, I understand a lot of you want me to make fanfictions on things like One Piece, Shadow Slave and LoTM.
There is just one problem. I've never read One Piece or Shadow Slave in my life. And LoTM? That will take way too long to make a good plot out of and way way way too long to actually write it out.
And so, I've chosen chainsaw man as I feel like there aren't many of them. We need to step up webnovel's game people. We need more chainsawman stories!
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