Fallen Stars

Mystery Thirty-Eight

Flying Snow Bullet Train

As they follow Sofía to the Train Station. Draco, Wrath, and Regulus walk behind gazing upon all of the restaurants and new creatures.

Draco: This place-

Wrath (excited): This place is so dope! There are so many things to see.

Draco nods in agreement.

Apocalypse flies behind Draco, and Zeus (floating Eel form) walks behind Wrath.

Regulus: It is. I never made it to this district.

Draco: Huh? Which one did you go to?

Regulus: Uh. I think it was called Mid-

Sofía (ecstatic): Ah! The Midas District! Great place to be.

Regulus: Yeah, it was fun fishing there.

Wrath: Fishing? Hm… I want to go there.

Sofía: I can take you right there. After the competition.

Wrath: Wonder how long that’s gonna take.

Sofía: Maybe… around two weeks.

Wrath and Draco (shocked): Two weeks???!

Sofía: Yeah, it's a big event, slowpokes.

Draco: Well, how long will it take to get there?

Sofía: I said a quick train ride, idiot. In five minutes, our train goes fast!

Draco: Sure...

They walk for a few more minutes to the Train Station. Sign saying “Fast Pass!!.”

Draco: How much are the tickets?

Sofía: $100 Sols per creature.

Draco: The same as the entrance fee?

Sofía: Yup.

Wrath with a grimacing face sucked his teeth.

Wrath: *Tchip* That's kinda steep.

Draco: Nah, you’re paying this time, you cheapskate.

Wrath (sadden): Why??

Wrath holding up his hands, distressed, and crying tears.

Draco: You’re the one that wanted to leave this place.

Wrath gets out the $500 Sols.

Wrath: Do I have to pay for you too?

Sofía: Nope. Guides can go anywhere, free of charge.

What she says sticks to Draco.

Draco: (Hm.)

Wrath buys the tickets and they get onto the train. The train is all white, with blue windows. Red seats that can kick up for enough legroom for anyone. Draco and the rest go to their seats and relax as the train starts to take off.

Draco: Here we go.

The train slowly starts. Taking its time.

Wrath: This is the fastest train?

Sofía (mad): Quit being impatient!

Sofía quickly puts her seatbelt on. Draco, Wrath, and Regulus look at her and follow suit. While one large six-eyed creature, all gray, with long claws, and large teeth with drool coming from them. It walks around the train.

Draco: What is that?

Sofía: That’s a Gray Duggar. Pretty fierce creatures.

Holt: Man! This train is slow as shit! I was promised a fast ride! Fake News!

As it continues walking through the train, it sees Draco laughing directly at it.

All of Holt’s eyes are directed toward Draco. Draco with a dark evil smirk.

Draco: Problem?

Apocalypse is seen smiling, beginning to open its mouth.

Holt: I should be asking you that. Do you have a problem?

Holt turned its head slightly sideways, Regulus getting scared.

Regulus: (Oh no.)

As soon as it gets closer to Draco, the train takes off!!!!

Holt (surprised): What the hell?!

Holt is sent flying through the train’s windows, flying outside. All Holt sees is Draco’s smile while getting thrown outside by the train’s force.

Wrath: Yahaha.

Regulus is sitting quietly.

Regulus: ...

Sofía: I should’ve warned him.

Then, a sonic boom goes off!

Regulus jumps scared!

Regulus: Wha- What was that?

Sofía: The train. It travels at mach one.

Gain: Oh...

Sofía: We will be there soon. The El Dorado District isn’t that far.

Draco: Are all the districts close by? And how many are there?

Sofía: Yup. They’re all connected by the “Flying Snow Bullet Train.”

Wrath: That’s the name?

Sofía: Why would I say that if it wasn’t the train’s name, idiot?

Wrath raises an eyebrow.

Wrath: She must be talking to you, Draco.

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Sofía: Anyway, as for how many districts. Triton is broken down into four districts. The Religious District: Kin PikaPika. The Financial District: El Dorado. The Fishing District: Midas. Then finally, The Entertainment District: Cercatore d'oro.

Draco: (The Financial District, huh.)

Wrath: Fishing?? I want to go there the most.

Regulus: Um. Why fishing?

Wrath: It's just a quiet pass time. Especially with clear skies, I can see right into space!

Sofía: First we have to go through the Cercatore d'oro District. It's the first stop.

As they all look out of the windows, barely seeing what’s going on, but still grasping it.

Regulus: Look at that! Ice Geysers!

The geysers go off shooting ice into the sky!!!

Draco and Wrath (amazed): Whoa.

Sofía: On this side, you can see an Ice Volcano. Mt. Pichu Pichu.

They all look and see an Ice Volcano, which stands 18 thousand ft into the air. Ice spills out of it slowly, and ice is around the volcano's base. It's completely made up of light blue ice.

Draco: How is that even possible?

Wrath: Sheesh. Anything is possible on the mainland, huh?

Then the conductor comes on.

The Conductor: We are now leaving Kin PikaPika! Next up, the Cercatore d'oro district!

Wrath: Aye, we made it out.

Draco is still looking out the window.

Draco: Vega should be good.

**Meanwhile...

At The Temple**

Vega walked up the stone stairs, finally making it to the courtyard of the Coricancha Temple. At the halfway point, there are even more stairs to climb. With Enma right by his side.

Vega: *Whew* Made it this far.

The temple is huge with orange tiles at the top. The temple is colorful, with bright orange, blue, and red coloring across the roof. With red lanterns and symbols.

Vega: Hm.

Vega is impressed by all the colors and the temple itself. People walk by in awe at the sight. All the people here have red dots painted on their cheeks. Walking up, Vega sees some statues. Enma, both spikes moving, runs up to the El Cuco statue, which looks similar to it.

Enma: (Vega! I have a statue here!)

Vega is smirking but it's hidden.

Vega: (That isn’t about you, but I’ll get you one in the future.)

Enma: (Okay!)

As a group surrounding the statues, you can hear them chatting about the statues. Saying these are the zodiac statues. All twelve are lined up in a row.

A man leads a group of six people, going up to each statue. Vega follows behind Enma. Donnie is wearing a golden mask with red and blue paint, painted over it.

Donnie: And with this, we have the Twelve Zodiac statues. Each one is made of White Jade. Even though they are made of White Jade, they turn into this bronze color. Legend says it's a miracle of being around the Coricancha Temple.

The group walked up to the first statue.

Donnie: The dog of the Zodiac.

The dog statue has a serious face, with a sword going down to the ground.

Donnie: The dog is known as the sword wielder.

The group is snapping pictures.

Donnie: The most loyal one in the group. They will never abandon their friends, family, or work. Ok, next up...

The group walks to the next statue.

Donnie: The snake of the Zodiac.

The snake statue has the snake’s mouth open as if it's yelling into the air, with a hand raised. And a spear on the other hand.

Donnie: Snakes are humorous and sophisticated. In a chaotic environment, they are the eye of the storm, holding their ground and calmly thinking of solutions.

Donnie turns to his group.

Donnie (winking): But, you can’t ever trust a snake.

The crowd laughs and takes some more pictures. They keep walking. He goes by every statue, telling them about each one.

The Pig has an umbrella and a slight smile.

The Rooster is pointing at the people in the group.

The Goat is holding two fingers up with its right hand, and two fingers down with its left hand. It is vandalized with a goat pentagram branded into it.

The Horse, with its eyes closed, is pulling its tail with its right hand, and holding up a Bronze Flame in the left.

The Tiger has a Bronze Fan in its right hand as it looks down on the group.

The Dragon is laughing with a gold coin in its left hand holding it up.

The Ox has its arms crossed, looking straight down.

The Rabbit has a scripture in its hand like it's reciting it.

The Rat is snickering in statue form, with flowers over its head. Holding up one finger. It is vandalized with El Rata and Colo Colo sprayed on it.

Then he comes up to the last statue.

Donnie: And finally, here, we have the Monkey of the Zodiac.

The monkey statue has the staff in its right hand and holding up a bronze peach in its left hand.

Donnie: The prankster of the group. They’re humorous and can make anyone laugh. They are stubborn and a bit immature, but actually tolerant.

Vega (irritated): Tck. (Sounds exactly like him.)

Donnie (cheerful): Yup! He loved peaches! That’s why this statue has one.

Vega: (...)

Donnie (happy): Some people don’t know this. But, this statue has some influence from a legend.

The crowd is saying wow and taking pictures.

Donnie: The Legend of the Trickster God.

The crowd said “Oooohh!” and “Really?!”

Vega: (...!!)

Enma: (Hm?)

Enma is looking at Vega's face as if he just thought of something.

Donnie: The staff has some influence too, but we can save that story for another day! We have more things to look at! Follow me!

The group all walks behind following him to the eastern side.

Vega: That’s enough of that.

Enma: (Where are we going now?)

Vega: Somewhere.

Vega, looking forward, sees the stone hall. He walks in. Walking past the red pillars. He now enters the temple.

Vega: What the-

Vega walks in, seeing numerous Buddha statues of goldish color all across the hall.

Vega: Is this a Buddha walkway?

Enma: (Mmm.)

Vega looked further down the hall and there was nothing but Buddha statues for the whole hallway. It seems like an endless hallway.

Vega: We have a long walk, Enma.

Enma: (Ok.)

**Meanwhile...

In Cercatore d'oro

(Draco, Wrath, and Regulus’s location)**

Draco and Wrath walk off the train.

Draco: Wooo!

Draco stretches his arms. Wrath cracked his knuckles. Regulus is walking off with a smile. Apocalypse and Zeus (Hawk form) flying above them.

Wrath: Now, where to?

Sofía comes walking off the train.

Sofía: Well, the train runs every thirty minutes. So, why don’t we do something before it leaves again?

Wrath: What’s there to do?

Sofía taps her forehead.

Sofía: Uh. This is the Entertainment District. So, we have a bunch of things to do.

The gang starts walking, blue Cyclimes are sliding off of the train.

Wrath: Well, what are we doing?

Then a bunch of different creatures walks off the train, and even more, are crowding the platform.

Wrath: This place is crowded.

Sofía: This is the most populated district, with around four million people living here.

Wrath and Draco: Four million?

Sofía: *Hmph* You heard me! Cercatore d'oro has four million. El Dorado has two million. Kin PikaPika has one million five hundred thousand. And Midas has five hundred thousand. Eight million total in this country.

Wrath: Yeah… I want to go to Midas now. It's probably so quiet, with clear blue skies.

Wrath is looking into the sky grinning with Regulus noticing.

Sofía: Alright! Snap out of it!

Wrath comes to his senses.

Sofía: I’ll be taking you guys to Galactic World!

Draco and Wrath look confused.

Draco: Galactic World?

Sofía: You guys never heard of Galactic World? Where are you originally from?

Draco and Wrath say “Hmm” to themselves. Regulus chimes in quickly.

Regulus (quickly): Oh! They’re from a city next to my hometown! They didn’t have a Galactic World there.

Sofía: Oh really. Well, that sucks. Let’s go there, then we can go to El Dorado.

Sofía walks down the stairs, with Draco and Wrath following.

Wrath: Whew. I thought I had to, ya know.

Wrath doing a stabbing motion with his hand. Draco looked out of the corner of his eyes.

Draco: Out in the open, huh?

Wrath (grins): Yahaha. Doesn’t matter where.

Draco looks to Regulus.

Draco: Thanks, Regulus. You came through for us.

Regulus: Yeah, no problem.

As Apocalypse flies closer to Regulus, licking him.

Regulus: Hahaha, stop!

Apocalypse and Regulus play around as they walk. They walk for a few minutes making it to the city part of Cercatore d'oro. They see so many stone skyscrapers in the city. Floating buildings all around. All with colorful windows.

Draco: So this part isn’t made of ice?

Sofía: Nope. Only Kin PikaPika is like that.

A few flying cars go by. Driving by quickly! Wrath is so excited!!!

Wrath: That’s what I want!!

Wrath has so much amazement on his face.

Regulus: A flying car?

Wrath: Just a car in general! Tired of walking everywhere!

Then they suddenly walk past a neon sign saying, “Catalina’s Brothel!”

Both Draco and Wrath’s eyes light up, and both look at each other.

Draco and Wrath (delightful): We’ll be right back!

Regulus: What?

Sofía: Wait!-

Sofía’s face is getting red. Draco and Wrath both run into the brothel.

Regulus: What is up with them? What’s a brothel?

Sofía: Those idiots. Don’t worry about it. Cover your eyes.

Apocalypse, Zeus, Regulus, and Sofía wait a couple of seconds, and Draco and Wrath are seen thrown out of the brothel. Both landed on their faces. Letting out “Ow!” and “Ouch!”

Regulus: What happened? I can’t see anything.

Sofía: You can uncover your eyes now.

Sofía walks up to them.

Sofía: What happened to you, dorks?

Draco scratches his head.

Draco: Ah…

**A few seconds earlier**

Draco and Wrath run into the brothel.

Draco (happy): Yo.

Wrath (extremely happy): Yoooooo!!

A bodyguard is sitting before the door. A very tall black bald man. Muscular with a beard.

Tom: How old are you guys?

Both Draco and Wrath cough.

Draco and Wrath: Tw-Twenty-one!

Tom looked at them sideways.

Tom: Uh-huh. Where’s your Bank Card?

Draco and Wrath (puzzled): Our what?

Tom: Yup, knew it.

He stands up and grabs them by their clothes and throws them back outside!

Tom: You all are too young for the Gold Light District.

**Present Time**

Sofía: So Tom got you guys.

Draco (infuriated): Won’t even let us have fun. What’s the point of calling it the Entertainment District?!

Wrath: Right!

They both get up frustrated, dusting themselves off.

Sofía: Forget it, let's head to Galactic World.

Draco and Wrath (pouting): Sure...

[A Few Hours Later…]

**At The Temple**

After walking for a few hours, Vega finally makes it to the end of the Buddha Walkway.

Vega: *Huff*...

Enma has its tongue hanging, as it huffs and puffs too.

Enma: (Cheer up.)

Vega and Enma continue walking when they hear swords clashing in the main sanctuary. He walks into the courtyard.

He’s surrounded by buddhas on every side. A well sits in the middle of the courtyard, with dragon handles. And above the main shrine, on the banner are two golden dragons facing each other, between the dragons, the language characters form the same thing the outside sign said, “Power.”

Vega: Power...

Then the swords clash again, and Vega hears a man yell out “OWW!” Vega notices it coming from the sanctuary and walks in. He sees a tall shadowy figure cutting down a man, his blade dripping with blood. His blade is black.

Vega: (A... black blade...?)

The masked man has rectangular-shaped pupils. He averted his eyes over to Vega. And with a cold tone.

Muppet: And, what do you want?

[Who Is This Shadowy Figure!?

And, Black Blades?!]

Mystery 38 Fin