The Thousand Years War: The Trilogy

by Angel Medina

  Angel stays down stairs and heads into a restaurant/bar where he sees some cultists eating. Angel says "Hate to barge into your dinner but you forgot to invite me!" Angel cleans house with the cultists but is grabbed by one while the other grabbed a beer bottle trying to strike Angel. Angel is able to break away and the cultist ends up hitting his partner with the bottle, Angel uses the cultist's shotgun killing him. Angel says with some humor "Yo ho ho and a bottle of dumb. I'm in a bar with a bunch of drunken Satan worshippers, please lord have mercy." Angel looks for anything useful such as maps or at the least some ammo which he finds but no map. Angel goes towards the back of the bar where he sees a couple of ogres waiting for him, he shoots one of them, then grabs the other ogres head and forces it to the stove burning its face. Angel says "Hmm rat burgers with some ogre fries, sounds odd but tasty!" Angel searches the kitchen area but once again nothing useful. Then out of nowhere a moving hand with no body at all pops out of one of the cabinets which then tries to choke him, Angel tries to grab the hand which he does then he slams it to the stove at the same time burning his hand. Angel says to himself "Damn this shit burns but its better than choking to death, a random hand tries to choke me what other weird crap does this world have to offer." Angel finds nothing of interest not even a key or a map, so he heads on back to the waiting room to meet the others.

  Maria heads straight upstairs towards the upper level of the ticket area where the cultists were aiming for her at one point. Doors to the right open with ogres coming out trying to ambush Maria; Maria is able to dodge the chainsaw of one ogre which ends up cutting up his fellow ogre friend. After the first ogre gets cut in half Maria shoots the other ogre in the head with the revolver causing the ogre to fall over the wall to the floor of the ticket room. Maria heads forward to a room full of ads for a circus, church and bookstore but it's also full of zombies and cultists. With one stick of TNT left Maria lights up the TNT throws it in the room blowing every enemy into pieces. Maria sees a gate with the emblem of a moon blocking her way to what was the actual platform of the train but without the key there was no way to get to the platform. Maria sees the ad for the circus which reads "Come see the world's greatest show on earth!" Maria says to herself "Greatest show on earth huh, hopefully the animals aren't sacrificed." Then on the loudspeaker the announcer says "5 minutes until the phantom express's arrival towards the platform." Maria goes back to search for the key.

  Luis heads to the right door of the waiting room which leads him to a bookstore where many enemies await him. He starts by shooting the cultists by the cash register; he opens the register and sees there is no money. Luis says this must be the "broke bookstore" but no wonder there's isn't any business here. Just look at this place!" Luis is referring to the scenery of the bookstore which had more of a feel to that of a religion store but with references made to the devil to himself. Even the title of books such as "Satan's Dark Delight" and "Satan is great" are enough to scare or at least intimidate him a bit. Luis was looking for any maps that would lead him to the train platform. However due to the nature of the store having bookshelves and aisles he was in a prime spot to be ambushed. Luis begins to slowly kill off cultists one by one being careful about his surroundings. Then an ogre from the top of one bookshelf jumps down barely missing Luis with his chainsaw. Luis rips the chainsaw from the ogre and uses the chainsaw to cut the ogre into three pieces. Luis says in a cocky tone "How's it feel being killed by your own weapon?" Then two cultists try to push a bookshelf to crush Luis, Luis sees the bookshelf moving and jumps out of the way then kills the two cultists and says "Nice try guys but I'm too smart for that obsolete trick, you see I'm from the future, looks like clean up on aisle 3!" Luis heads to the back of the store where he eventually does find a map of the station and he's able to pinpoint the exact location of the train platform. However Luis has no idea that a key was needed to open the gate leading to the train platform. Luis heads back to the waiting room to meet the others.

  Meanwhile Dayvon finds himself heading to the right of where the heroes spited up. He goes up the ramp where he sees a few cultists which he blasts easily; the hall he was on was the other side of the ticket area on the top level. Although the part of the hall he was on was a bit darker than the other side. He enters a room which was a small library with a small window looking at the ticket booth; he was in the security room. Once Dayvon goes inside of the room completely the lights go dim and the door behind him closes and locks. Then the walls on both sides break and zombies go after Dayvon, he shoots the first few zombies but runs out of shells for his shotgun and there were still a decent amount of zombies surrounding him. Dayvon says "You guys want a piece of me, well here it is!" Dayvon engages in melee combat with the axe wielding zombies while avoiding their axe attacks. Dayvon aims for the head of the zombies as that's how they die and never resurrect. He would punch, kick or even rip the zombies heads out until all of them were defeated, after they are defeated the door unlocks. Dayvon opens the small cabinet and finds a key with a moon etched on it; it was the key Maria needs to open the gate. Dayvon has no idea what the key is for but heads back to the waiting room to meet the others.

  Our heroes find a train station a creepy one at that. The phantom express is due to arrive soon at the station; our heroes are unsure where the main platform is. Dayvon finds the key, Maria is able to find the location of the platform as well as Luis and Angel just has a jolly old time at the bar while grabbing a few drinks on the side. Our heroes prepare to meet each other, will our heroes get to the platform in time for the trains arrival?

  All of our heroes meet each other at the waiting room telling each other of their discoveries realizing where they need to go to catch the train our heroes head for the platform. They head to the room where the gate it, Dayvon opens the gate. After opening the gate a whole group of cultists arrive to attack the four. The four get into a gunfight with the cultists, they kept on holding back the enemy until the train arrives at the platform. The four begin to get on the train however a gargoyle comes out of nowhere and attacks Angel pushing him back onto the platform. The train is ready to pull out.

  Maria says "Come on Angel before the train pulls out!"

  Angel replies "I'm trying but this flying bastard keeps attacking me!" The train pulls out of the station.

  Angel tries to run and jump onto the train but misses the train. He looks at the gargoyle and says "You!" and starts to shoot at the flying gargoyle. The gargoyle has sharp claws and throws spikes as projectiles at his victims. He dodges the spikes and claws of the gargoyle then blasts it with the flare gun casing the wings on the gargoyle to melt. The gargoyle falls then Angel finishes him off with a shotgun blast and says, "Now to find another way out of here."

  Angel goes inside the station maintenance room but he finds more than tools inside, he finds a cave where it would lead him was a chance he would have to take. Angel goes inside the cave and begins to explore, while Maria, Dayvon and Luis were onboard the phantom express.

  Our heroes find out where to catch the train and while all of them are on the platform when the train arrives, a gargoyle attacks Angel causing him to miss the train. Angel kills the gargoyle and finds a cave which he has idea where it will lead him to. Maria, Dayvon and Luis have no idea neither where the phantom express was going to lead them. There is no way to know who is going in the right path or if any of our heroes are going in the right path. The name of the game for our heroes is simply survival.

  Chapter 18

  Phantom Express

  While Angel missed the train, Maria, Dayvon and Luis were on the train or at least on the outside when the train pulled out. The heroes have no idea where this train will lead them but they hope it will lead them to either the anti-matter ball or at least give them a clue to the location of the anti-matter ball. As out heroes were about to find out, they weren’t alone on this train neither. The heroes were about to get the ride of their lives and literally as well.

  Our heroes find them
selves outside of the train heading inside to grab a seat; to their surprise though the train was filled with cultists and zombies. Dayvon says “Get the hell off our train!” Our heroes take care of the numerous enemies inside of the train. They decide to explore the train further to see if they can gather any evidence of what the train is carrying or where it’s heading to. Our heroes’ notice that the train is moving faster than what a normal train would go. They proceeded to the next car which was a hallway filled with cultists whom they kill, doors can be seen but the doors are locked with an emblem of a sword. The sign above the locked door says “kitchen”. They then move on to the next and final car of the train which was a full blown bar area filled with cultists and other cultists in gray hoods. The guys in gray hoods were called frantics who were the high priests in their religion what ever sick thing they were worshipping. These bad guys carried Tommy guns instead of shotguns giving them more firepower and some were armed with TNT sticks to blow their enemies away. Our heroes were in stored for a good old fashioned bar shootout with these crazy men in hoods.

  The cultists and frantics wasted no time in attacking our heroes while saying kill them and other sentences in their native cultist language. Maria took cover in the bar area to the left while Dayvon and Luis flipped a table over to use as cover. Dayvon says “I have no idea what they are saying but even I know it must mean they want us dead!” The heroes and bad guys exchanged gunfire but no one was shot it was a stalemate for a few minutes. One of the frantics threw TNT at Maria. She sees the TNT and quickly gets away from the blast radius.

  However the blast was strong enough to destroy the bar stand that Maria was using as cover and therefore making her vulnerable to attack. Luis sees that Maria is in trouble and begins to empty his gun; he takes out a few enemies before they start to return fire. Luis says “Damn we can’t keep up like this; they have us like sitting ducks! Dayvon says “The hell with hiding I’m going after them right now!” Dayvon by accident grabs a crystal ball and starts to shoot at the bad guys. The cultists shoot at Dayvon with every bullet hitting him but to the cultists surprise Dayvon doesn’t die, go down or even bleed. Dayvon had grabbed the crystal ball of invincibly which made him invincible, Dayvon notices it as he is cover in a blue light and says “Now you guys are going to get it, I’m unstoppable!” Dayvon mops the floor with the enemy with his newly found power and makes sure that the room is clear. He asks everyone if they are ok, they respond yes to him.

  Maria finds a key with a sword etched on it meaning that they could now enter the kitchen area. Meanwhile the blue light surrounding Dayvon had dissipated; Dayvon says “Well it was good while it lasted.” The heroes back track to the door leading to the kitchen, Maria opens the door and the heroes are inside the kitchen where the meals were being prepared.

  However they notice something disturbing, a dead body on the table covered in a blanket that was decorated with a giant grey looking gargoyle. It may be a clue to who their god was or at least who their sacrifices were for.

  Angel says “These are some sick individuals!”

  Maria says “However we may have been sent here to see what life would be in the past if evil was to prevail or these people were trying evil back into the world and it’s up to us to make sure history isn’t rewritten.”

  Dayvon replies “Sounds like the alien bastards want to make sure we don’t even exist so no one can stop them at our current time period and Earth would be there’s or what ever higher evil is making all this happen.” After finding out the idea of why they were sent back in time several axe zombies approach the trio. Maria takes a frying pan and takes out the head of one of the zombies, Dayvon simply blasts the head off another zombie and Luis takes fried oil throws it at the zombie therefore burning the zombie back to the dead. Maria spots an elevator which goes up to the dining room. Once they get out of the elevator they find more frantics and ogres waiting for them, Maria shoots a chandler down taking down most of the enemy while Luis and Dayvon took care of the rest. Maria goes into the bathroom and looks in the mirror the image of the gargoyle she seen on the blanket pops up but then she looks behind and nothings there.

  Maria goes into shock and says “Whoa! It’s just me.”

  The heroes continued to investigate the conductor makes an announcement on the loudspeaker. The announcer says “The next destination of this train is “Nowhere” that’s right this train will go on forever, however we will pass several attractions such as circus to remind you of what you are going to miss. Please enjoy your ride and the rest of your life!” The trio realizes that they got to find a way to stop the train or they would be stuck inside a forever train ride hence the name “Phantom Express”.

  While Maria, Dayvon and Luis were able to board the Phantom Express their fate was no better than that of Angel’s. That’s because they were doomed to be stuck in the train that will never make another stop ever again. It would pass a few attractions, however our heroes have to be quick in stopping the train before the train goes too far. Their best chance was to get to the front of the train and derail the train or at least stop it.

  Luis says “So we’re stuck here if we can stop this train?”

  Dayvon says “That’s what it sounds like to me.”

  Maria says “We need to get to the front of the train and get control of this train to stop it.” Upon their discovery in the dining room, Luis finds a key to the front of the train on one of the dead cultists. The trio backtracks to the front of the train while going they are met with resistance by the enemy. They head back outside where they are attacked by a group of gargoyles one of them grabs Maria and tries to get away. Luckily for her a well placed shot by Luis causes the gargoyle to drop Maria back onto the train. One of the other gargoyles attacks with spikes with a few hitting Dayvon but none of them strike him directly.

  The heroes had a tough time figuring out the attack pattern of the gargoyles due to the fact they were constantly flying around. They notice that the gargoyles leave themselves open to attack when they are throwing spikes and trying to attack with their claws. Noticing those patterns our heroes eventually defeat the gargoyles, while at the same time the train was passing by what looked to be a hotel. Maria says “Come on we don’t have much time!” The trio opens the door to the front of the train and then they enter.

  When our heroes head to the front of the train they see the coal is burning inside the furnace to keep the train moving. After killing off some zombies and cultists they get to the engineers room, what they find inside is disturbing. Our heroes find absolutely nothing inside the room not even an engineer, in otherwords this train was moving by itself but yet the voice of a conductor could be heard. What our heroes don’t know is that the “Phantom Express” is what it says it is a train that is moved by a paranormal force aka a ghost or phantom. Our heroes are shocked that they are being driven by that is essentially a ghost.

  Maria tries to hit the controls including the brakes but the train doesn’t do anything and it doesn’t slow down not even a little bit.

  Maria says “Oh man we gotta find another way to stop this train!”

  Dayvon spots some TNT nearby and says “Well the only other way to stop this train is to blow up the engine, must be where the coal is burning.”

  Luis replies “Why not shut off the fire the coal is burning?” Dayvon responds “We got no time that coal is going to take too long to cool off and by then we might be in the middle of no where! Which means we’re be stuck here forever we gotta take a chance now!”

  Dayvon and the others head back to the engine room; Dayvon lights up a TNT stick and throws it inside where the coal is burning. After a few seconds our heroes head back outside then the TNT explodes and the train begins to derail. Our heroes hang on to the rails on the outside of the train. After the train derails completely the heroes head through the debris of the train to what seems to be a lot or something but no one could be sure what it was.

  Once the trio realizes that the train wa
s a forever train that would never stop, they would find a way to stop the train. They finally got a first hand look at the gargoyle creatures that attacked Angel back at the platform and caused him to fall behind. Even more disturbing was that no one was driving the train and there was no conductor, it was an actual ghost calling the shots. Not wanting to find out much more Dayvon derails the train by destroying the engine forcing the train off the tracks. Our heroes get off the train to a lot and then see a sign which says “Carnival” perhaps the circus that Maria had seen on the sign back at the train station. With time being of the essence our heroes wasted no time and went towards the sign.

  One thing was for sure many zombies popped out of the ground and some ogres came down the rocky hills to attack the trio. Our heroes surrounded by the enemies make a run for it instead of dealing with the creatures. They entered the passageway to the carnival. Dayvon uses TNT to blow up the entrance blocking the persistent creatures from getting inside. A sign is shown once they are though which says “The Dark Carnival”.

  Maria says "That doesn't sound like a good name for this carnival, sounds like we're in for a freak show." Once the heroes get in they are met with a few cultists and they kill them easily. Then they see a dock area and a whole group of frantics and ogres on the other side of the dock. Dayvon uses his last TNT stick to blow up all of the enemy troops, once the enemy was taken care of the heroes moved on to the ticket booth. What they also noticed was that the water was full of piranhas.

  Luis says "Who's feeling lucky today?"

  Maria and Dayvon say in unison "Not me!"

  The trio enters the ticket booth which leads them to the carnival where zombies are awaiting them. Our heroes deal with the zombies then they see several mini games to play one is a shooting range. Maria plays the shooting range game where she wins and her prize is a life seed which enables her to take more shots from enemy fire. Dayvon plays another mini game which is to kick zombie heads into a hole.