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Prologue & Chapter 1

Prologue & Chapter 1

Prologue

Clank..Bang...Clank the constant sound of hammers hitting steel rang through the room. I went to pick up another sheet of pig steel to place on the boiler of the new model that we were putting together, when I heard the yard whistle go off.

“Hey Drew! We got some guests here on a field trip mind filling them in on the place?!?”

I turned around to see my boss an older gentleman that has been running the place for 20 years.Standing next to him was a group of 5 kids and a teacher. Placing down the sheet I was caring I walked over.

“Sure boss. Hi and welcome to the repair yard of the station.” Wave to the kids and the teacher turned to speak to the kids in a different language.

*Ah foreigners not to common to see them here all the way in Ohio, they’re here for a field trip must be rich.”

I motion to the boss in an asking manner and he grins.

“Yes they are not from around here they are from Japan and their parents along with their school allowed them to pick a location for a field trip and for some reason we got pick as the destination.”

Puzzled but not really caring I turn to look at the kids to get an idea of what is going on , 3 boys and 2 girls all dressed in similar clothes.

*Well guess the boss is getting paid a little more than usual since we never give tours of the place*

“So what do you all want to know about the place?” Directing my question at the kids as i walk back over to one of the trains at the workstation, an older model from WW1 that we were fixing and preparing for display at a museum.

The teacher asked some generic questions varying  from how long a repair would take to the maintenance of one of the units for a regular work service.After about a half hour of questions everyone at work beside me and the field trip left and we walked to the back of the station to where their bus was waiting for them.

 Stepping around the side of the bus to see them off I suddenly heard a screeching noise and the sound of a pin dropping.Looking at the bus the world seemed to slow down as the bus exploded into thousands of peices.In this period of time I looked to the field trip and saw a circle form under them and pull them away.

*Ok looks like this is it*

With that last though i was hit by the deprie and thrown through a window onto the train we were working on and pierced to the engine. As the world fades to black I see a outline of the trainyard glow.   

Chapter 1

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~Drip…...Drip…~

   As I slowly wake up I glance around and see darkness, not just no light and you still see the outline of things but I can’t even see my own fingers 2 inches away from my face darkness.

*Ok what the hell is this and why am I still alive*

  Reaching for my chest I suddenly notice that I don’t have any sensation at all in my body.

  *Shit am I paralyzed did the shrapnel go and break my spine!*

Starting to panic now

 *O man, O god this is nuts who leaves a person paralyzed in a dark room if only there was some light to look around with*

With that thought a multicolored light began to flicker into existence in front of me.

*This looks familiar…….*

Taking in my surroundings in the light I notice I have a large pipe surrounding me that is welded to a gear the side of a car on the floor at the edge of it is another set of gears that lead to a lever this is all in a circular room with a metal door on the end.

*Is this a round house’s turntable ?*

For those who don’t know a turntable is a large piece of machinery used to rotate trains on their tracks to face the way the came from they are also placed in roundhouses to turn them for storage and holding more than one train for service.

*Wait a minute where is this light coming from and how did it turn on?!?*

Regaining my thoughts (you thought I was gonna say it didn’t you) I try to turn around but light follows me and I notice that I can see in a 360 sight line

  *Ok the lights coming from me….. can I even look at myself?*

We ever I look at myself the light would blind me and not let me look anywhere near me.

   *Can’t see myself alright but what of outside the room can’t leave it but can I look outside side.?*

Thinking those words my vision is dragged through the ceiling to  above the turntable. Looking above I see pure stone forming a large room over a building in front of me.A building with 5 large double doors with space for rails leads to the turntable my vision floats over.

*So there’s the roundhouse looks like the one from work is missing a few doors but the size of it is massive.*

 Looking away from the roundhouse I see the tracks lead to a loading dock and train station. The dock had room to load 3 cargo cars at the same time while the station could load about 5 passenger cars.

*So a fully functional train yard in a cave in who knows where…..*

Looking passed the station my vision follows the tracks to a wall. Just a flat wall with the tracks leading into it no rubble telling me there was a landslide just solid rock.Seeing no way passed this I go back to the roundhouse to look around.

*What’s this here?*

Looking at the center door I see a note nailed to it.

Dear Soul,

Due to some mishaps on the citizens of this world you were sucked into a summoning ritual by accident.Unfortunately your body was damaged beyond repair and we were only able to salvage your soul, because of that we had to pull the surrounding area into the summoning.Your soul was then used to “hold’ this place together so the summoning could complete. For our mishap we will be giving you an early ability while your guardian is prepared please you it to help your self thrive in your new life.

Signed,Oros,God of Chaos

*So what's this ability? And what did he mean by guardian*

With that thought a blue box appears

Special ability acquired: Summon Golem

*Ok so I can summon golems now? So i just think of it again?*

Doing just that the ground in front of the roundhouse began to swell till a statue standing 10 feet tall. The color was plain but the body was formed like a cone with a larger upper torso than lower and hands the size of excavator scoops on the small head housed 2 gem like eyes and in the middle of them was a silhouette of a train in a rainbow color pattern.

Thinking back on the end of the line that I had found passed the train station and how getting out of here would be pain, The golem began to move there without commands and started to scoop the wall apart in a straight line.

*Welp guess that works I wonder what else is in this place?*

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