[Icarus runs toward the train. The noise of the horn screams through the corridor.]
Conductor: All aboard everyone! We will be taking off in five minutes!
[Icarus steps into one of the train cars. Inside there is a bar filled with multiple food items sitting on the counter with a bartender standing behind it all.]
Icarus:WOW!!
Shona:Woah so this is what the inside of the Autobahn looks like it's so vibrant in here.
Kai:Yeah this place is kinda nic…
[A giant carrot flavor cake takes the eyesight of Kai. The two of them have stare down. Kai slowly walks over towards the bar where the cake is sitting. He looks at the bartender.]
Kai:Umm sir how much for that cake over there?
[Kai points toward the carrot cake.]
Bartender:Oh! Everything is free here on the Autobahn!
Kai:Oh is that so.
[Kai says with a straight face.]
Kai: May I have the whole cake sir?
Bartender: Sure! Give me one sec!
[The bartender grabs the carrot cake on display places it into a bod and gives it to Kai.]
Bartender: He you go sir!
Kai: Thank you.
[Kai walks over to Shona.]
Kai: I’m going to go look for a seat in another cart.
Shona:Ok me and Icarus will be over there soon.
[Kai walks to the end of food cart. He opens the door to the other cart where there are doors on the left and right side of him stretching for the entire cart.]
Kai: Where is an empty room?
[Kai finds a room with an open door. Inside the room are two long couch cushion seats. One on each left and right side for people to sit. He closes the door behind. He sits down in proper format. His body sitting a perfect 90 degrees. He opened the box with the carrot cake in side. He looks down at the cake. Kai closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. He lets off a soft smile. He elegantly pulls the knife and fork from inside of the box. Kai elegantly rooms the scarf around his neck and folds it into a small double parallel fold. He sits down right next to him on the left side of his body. He elegantly reaches his hand grabs the napkin that also sits inside of the box. He elegantly pulls the napkin out of the box stretching his hands outward into the air while elegantly pinching the napkin with both hands. He gives the napkin and elegant shake to straighten out. Kai elegantly places the napkin under his chin like a bib.]
Kai:Mmm! The peaceful sound of the train gearing into motion! I waited a long time for this! I must savor every bite!
[Icarus kicks in the door disturbing Kai’s peace. Icarus carrying in his arms large amount of food in boxes. Icarus yells at Kai with a mouth full of food.]
Icarus:Yo Kai!!! This Place Has A Kinds Of Food!
[icarus the arm full of food onto the seat cushion. A vein grows onto Kai’s forehead from iratiation because Icarus interrupted Kai’s peace.]
Icarus:Oh! Kai What You Got There?! You Grab The Carrot Cake For Me Thanks!]
[Icarus snatches the cake out of Kai hands.]
Icarus: Thank You! I felt Like I Was Missing Something!
[Icarus brings the cake close to his mouth to eat it.]
Kai:Deep Frost!
[Icarus entire body is suddenly covered in Ice.]
Kai:That is mine and you can not have it.
[Kai stands up so he can grab his cake back from Icarus. Drip. Drip. Drip. Water begins to fall from the frozen body of Icarus. Icarus thaws himself out of the ice using his fire. Icarus comes out of the ice taking a deep breathe in and out.]
Kai:GWAK!!! ICARUS YOUR DRIPPING THE WATER ONTO THE CAKE!!!]
[The cake falls apart and becomes soggy. Icarus looks down to see the soggy cake.]
Icarus: Sorry! My bad!
[Icarus says with a smile.]
Kai:MY Cake!!!!!!!
[Kai gravel on the ground for the lost of his cake.]
Kai: why must I never be allowed to EEEEAAAATTTT!!!!
[Kai balls his fist up and yells to the heavens.]
Icarus:Well that's too bad!
[Icarus sits down in his chair with the food next to him. Shona walks in to see Kai on the floor.]
Shona:!
[Kai looks back a Shona with a sad puppy dog face as tears fall down his face.]
Kai: I...I...It’s... gone!
[Shona looks at Kai with a disgusted confused face.]
Shona: …
[Shona takes a deep breathe. She lowers her head and shakes it. Shona steps over Kai and his pool of tears.]
Icarus: Will he be ok Shona?
Shona: Yeah he will be fine. He gets like this when carrot cake is around. But Icarus I want to say thank you for paying for our tickets! I will pay you back once we get to NovacGrad!
[Icarus smiles.]
Icarus: No don’t worry about it! We are friends! And friends are supposed to do things like this for each other!
[Kai whispers to himself.]
Kai: friends to waste each other's cake!
Icarus: What was that Kai?!
[Kai mourns for the loss of his cake.]
Icarus: Oh Shona I forgot to ask you too?!
Shona:Huh?!
Icarus: I was curious and I already talk to Kai about this but how did you learn Kiyo?
Shona: Oh, it was nothing special! I know Kai grew up a thief.
[Shona and Icarus look down at Kai. Kai rolls back and forth in the lost of his cake. Icarus and Shona face tighten up with an uncomfortable expression.]
Icarus: Even if it was special, I still want to know more about you and your Affinity. I got a glimpse of it back there but I didn't understand it.
Shona: I pretty much grew up in an orphanage...
Icarus:Oh sorry to hear that!
Shona:Sorry for what?! If I didn't grow up the way I did, I would not have become the person I am today!! In some ways I am happy I look like this and grew up in that environment it made me physically and mentally strong!
[Shona looks it Icarus and opens a big smile. Icarus smiles back.]
Shona: I used to get picked on a lot by other children and even some adults. Then one day I was taught by a random man that saw me getting picked on. He taught me how to defend myself and when I got old enough he eventually taught me Kiyo...
[Icarus eyes shooting wide open was fascination. Shona lifts up her hand sticking two fingers into the air. A ball of aura floats above her finger.]
Shona: Then I developed my affinity Elemental Quiver!
Icarus:WOW!!
[Icarus stares in amazement.]
Icarus: So what does it do?!
[Shona touches the mahogany wood of the train. Sudden the ball of aura turns into a spinning ball of wood. Icarus eyes shoot up in astonishment.]
Icarus:WWWHHAAATTT!!!
Shona: I can touch any surface and turn this ball of aura into that surface. Then I can stretch this ball into an arrow.
Icarus:WWWWHHHHAAAATTTT!!! YOU HAVE AN UNLIMITED BOW AND ARROW!!!!
[Shona smiles.]
Shona: The Whole World Is My Quiver!
Icarus: So Cool!
[Shona pulls the bag off that she has attached to her waist.]
Shona: I also carry around this small bag so that I can always have materials that can be used in any situation.
Icarus:OOOO!!! What's in it?!
Shona: It's just a small piece of copper, a broken piece of glass, and a small bit of rope. I used these whenever the situation calls for it.
Icarus: You have such a cool Affinity meanwhile I have just fire.
[Icarus frowns his face. He puts one finger into the air shooting off fire.]
Shona: Be happy you have an Affinity!
Icarus: !
[Icarus grabs a white colored cake from his stash of food. He places the cake on top of his head.]
Icarus:OOOO!!! Shona shoot the cake off of my head!
Shona:WHAT?!
Icarus:Your an archer! Can you shoot the cake off of my head!!
Shona:WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT ME TO DO THAT??!!
Icarus:The real question is why not?!
[Icarus smirks and taps his head. Shona face goes blank. Meanwhile Kai is still on the floor praying for the revival of his cake.]
Shona: If you insist I will shoot an arrow at you.
Icarus:YYYEEESSS!!!
Shona:But I will use just pure aura cause we my elemental quiver is activated the pure form of aura is a lot weaker than if I combine a surface to it.
[Shona deactivates the wooden sphere. She conjures backup a sphere of aura. She takes two fingers on her right hand and touches the sphere. She extended her arm back like a bow and arrow.]
Shona: Please keep still!
Icarus:Right!
[Icarus closes his eyes. Shona takes a breathe in. Shona fires the arrow at Icarus knocking the cake to the wall behind him.]
Icarus:!
Shona: AH! Icarus now you have to clean that up!
Icarus: Why do I have to clean up?! You shot the arrow!!
Shona: You told me too!
[Icarus sticks his lips out to the side and whispers under his breath
Icarus:Well that does mean you actually do it.
[Shona punches Icarus on top of the head. Icarus begins to wipe the cake off the wall.]
Shona: What Did You Say!!
Icarus:nothing!
[Icarus continues to wipe the cake off of the wall.]
Kai:WhyamIevenliving.Isthereanythingtolivefor.EverythingthatIloveisgone.
[Kai balls up in the fidel position in the corner. He rocks back and forth while sucking his thumb.]
Icarus: So Shona how long is it going to take for us to get to NovacGrad?
Shona: Well I checked before I came into the cart it said that it was going to take us 5 to 6 days with no delay to arrive there.
Icarus: WHAT??!! 5 TO 6 DAYS!!
Shona: Why are you yelling. There people on the train.
Icarus: Oh sorry! But ugh! Shona yah mouth!
Shona:Huh?! Oh sorry!
[Shona wipes the side of her mouth.]
Icarus: But there has to be a quicker way to get there?!
[Shona unfolds the map in her hand.]
Shona: See Icarus! The Autobahn follows this route and we have to go to these stops and doing all this takes 5 to 6 days.
[Icarus points to a specific spot on the map.]
Icarus: Why don't we get off here and walk through here to get to NovacGrad a lot faster.
[An eerie feeling tingles through Shona.]
Icarus: It would be a lot quicker if we just walk through the Florian Abyss…
[Icarus slowly tilts his head up to see a scared look on Shona’s face.]
Icarus:Shona?!
[He tilts his head to the left to see Kai giving him a mean stare. Icarus jumps back from confusion.]
Icarus: Are you guys ok?!
Kai: The Florian Abyss?
Icarus: Is there something wrong with what I said?! What?!
Kai: You don't know about the Florian Abyss?!
[Shona takes a deep breathe in.]
Shona: You shouldn’t know what it is considering where your from.
Icarus: What is the Florian Abyss?
Kai: The Florian Abyss is a place where everyone is told not to pass through. They say avoid this place at all cost.
Icarus: Why is that?
Shona: I will just tell you the story of the Florian Abyss. This story of the Florian Abyss. The Florian Abyss a canyon with giant stone mountain walls on each side. The entire canyon is filled with mist surrounding it. BUT what makes this abyss dangerous is the guy that sits inside of the abyss nicknamed the Necromancer with his army of the dead.
[Icarus mouth drops.]
Icarus: Huh!
The History of the Florian Abyss
20 Years Ago
[A young surgeon in the middle of an operation trying to save a dying patient.]
Mark: NURSE!! QUICK GRAB ME THE SCALPEL!! I DROPPED THIS ONE!! QUICK!!! QUICK!!! THE PATIENT HEART RATE IS SLOWING DOWN!!
[The nurse runs to look for a new scalpel.]
Mark: WAIT WHAT!! WHAT!! WHY IS THE BLOOD BEING REJECTED!!
[Mark grabs the bag of blood that’s hanging. He focuses his eyes to read the type of blood.]
Mark: OK THIS IS O-POSITIVE!!! WHY IS THE BLOOD BEING REJECTED!!
[Mark scrambles to find the clipboard with the patients information on it. Meanwhile the heart monitor if beginning to beep slower and slower.]
Mark:Damnit! Where is that thing?!
[Mark spots a small wooden board stick out from under a stack of papers.]
Mark:There It Is!!
[Mark quickly grabs the clipboard. He flips through the paper to find blood type.]
Mark: Come On! Come On! Please Don’t Tell Me It Not O-Positive!
[Mark finds the blood type of the patient.]
Mark:HUH!!!? HE A-NEGATIVE!!! DAMNIT!!!!
[Mark’s vision dashes away from the clipboard to look at the nurse.]
Mark: NNUURSEE!! I NEED A-Negative or O-Negative blood!!! STAT!!!!
[The heart rate of the patient begins to dwindle away.]
Mark: Shit!! His Heart Isn’t Pumping Blood!!
Nurse: Doctor I Have The Blood!!
[The nurse tries to hand Mark a bag of O-Negative blood.]
Mark: Good!! Thank You!
[Mark grabs the blood and hooks it up to the IV stand. The siren of the machine rings. The heart of the patient has stopped.]
Mark:OH NO!!! HIS HEART STOPPED!!
Nurse: OH NO!!! IS HE DEAD!!
Mark:NOT IF I CAN HELP IT!!
[Mark rolls up his sleeves. He sticks his hand inside the chest cavity and reaches under the rib cage. He grips the patient's heart.]
Mark: I'm going to have to pump this myself.
[Mark clinches the heart. He begins to squeeze and release the heart in an attempt to pump the blood. He squeeze and squeeze to force the blood through. The heart monitor silent.]
Mark: COME ON!! COME ON!! COME ON!! DON'T DIE ON ME PLEASE!!
[Mark gets teary eyed, still trying to manually pump the blood. Suddenly a beep comes from the heart monitor.]
Mark:IS IT WORKING??!!
[A joyful smile comes across Mark’s face.]
Mark:Heh!Heh! I think I got it!!
[A loud screeching noise echoes through the room. The heart monitor couldnt detect anything.]
Mark:HUH.
[Mark lets out a big sign. His face grew sour with sadness. He slowly takes his hand from around the heart and from under the chest cavity. He talks a step back gazes upon the lifeless body. He takes a big swallow of his spit.]
Mark:Oh No!
[His gag reflex kicks in. His cheeks puff up.]
Mark: N...Nurse I got to go to the bathroom!
[Mark swiftly runs towards the door, The door boldly slams against the wall from the amount of force Mark put into pushing it. He runs down the hallway slouched over and holding his stomach. As he makes his way down a perpendicular hallway he come to the crossroads of the hallways. As he is crossing the intersection he slowly turns his head and a family.]
Mark:*Is that them?! Is that's James’s family?! They are crying!

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