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“Wakey! Wakey!” cried the teenage boy with a British accent. He's trying wake Gabriel by shaking him up. However, his eyes didn’t open an inch.

That boy's name is Dirk. He’s 16 years old with a blondish hair dye covering all over the top while the sides below remained the same brownish color. And with is his massive muscles, many people always thought that Dirk looks a bit older than his real age.

“Let me try,” said another teenage boy. This one’s name is Hideyoshi. Unlike Dirk, he’s a year older and currently wearing his school uniform instead of just regular clothes like a hooded jacket Dirk is wearing.

Hideyoshi got close to Gabriel’s left ear. By taking a deep breathe and forming a circle with his thumb and index finger, he whistled. The sound was too close and too loud for Gabriel’s ear to bare. In fact, it scared him out of his sleep.

“What the…” he groan. Although he’s half-asleep right now, his ear is still ringing in pain. At least the pain has ceased a few moments later.

“Finally, you’re awake,” Dirk sigh relieving his frustration.

Gabriel was looking around to see where he’s at. It looks like he in some sort of train. A very fancy train, considering the soft cushion seats lined together. Then there's a few small chandeliers hanging separately above the center row. The one thing this train doesn’t have like the normal one does is that there’s no windows.

“Where am I?” he asked.

“So, you don’t know what this place is either, huh?” Hideyoshi stated.

“W-What? Is this not the afterlife?”

“What the bloody hell are you talking about?” Dirk asked.

“This isn’t the afterlife,” Hideyoshi explained to Gabriel.

“How do you know?”

“Well, I’m certain I was walking back home from school instead of dying and boarded into this train.”

Gabriel tries to stand but then lost his balance a little after the train suddenly hit a little bump or something.

“Is the train moving?” he asked.

“What else are trains for?” said Dirk.

“It’s been moving for a while now…”

“D-Dirk,” the little girl literally cried at the corner of her seat. Her name is Emma, an eleven-year-old girl. Of course, she’s short but not as short her brownish hair.

“Emma, everything is going to be okay” Dirk comforting her.

“B-But I’m so scared. I want to go home. I want to go home…”

“Emma, please don’t cry. Your big brother is here with you. And I promise I’ll get you home no matter what. So, you need to be a strong girl until then, okay?”

“O-Okay,” she said.

“Is she okay now?” approaching a young woman. Her name is Sarah. Even as a young woman, she is very tall and a little bit muscular but not as much as Dirk’s. Her elegantly sleek black hair. To Gabriel, she is quite beautiful and quite tough all at once.

“Did you find anything Sarah?” Hideyoshi asked.

“Unfortunately, nothing at all. There are no doors, no exits, and no other way out of this train.”

“Then how are we put inside in the first place?” asked Gabriel. “If we somehow got in, then there has to be some way to get off. M-Maybe we can just wait…”

“Waiting is out of the question,” Sarah said.

“But if this really is a train, then maybe we can get off once it stops at its destination.”

“Even if the destination is at a slave auction?”

Emma began to cry again. She repeated the same quote, “I wanna go home”, as she clinches her teary face into Dirk’s chest.

“Pathetic,” Sarah scoff.

“What was that?” Dirk snapped. Sarah was silent, and it really ticked him off.

“What, shouldn’t a big brother take care of his sister whenever she cries?”

That finally crossed the line. Dirk instinctively put Emma aside for now as he was about to deliver a left hook at Sarah. Gabriel and Hideyoshi interfered.

“What the hell are you doing?” Dirk said while the two hold him down. “If she wants a bloody beating, then I’ll gladly give her one she’ll never forget!”

“This is no time to fight!” Gabriel grunted

“He’s right. We have more important matters to handle than this.”

“Indeed, you do, my young travelers,” spoke the strange voice.

Everything becomes dead silent afterwards. The violent tension that was hanging in the air has just gone out the window. Then, after a moment, a door suddenly appeared at the end of the train where Sarah used to be.

“I thought there wasn’t a door over there.” Hideyoshi commented.

“There wasn’t,” Sarah explained.

“Seems Ms. Perfect needs her eyes check,” Dirk criticized before she’s giving him an antagonizing glare. It’s as if she’s saying, “One more word out of you, and you’ll get out of this train in a body bag.”

All five of them, including Emma as she’s a little calmed now, headed towards the door. Once they’re pass through, the door shut itself and everything was shrouded into darkness in an instant, until a large chandelier shed its light. There was nothing except…a man who just appeared the same time the darkness vanishes. He’s standing at the other side of the train cargo away from the group.

“Greetings, I am the Alternate.”