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Chapter 20 - 'A YOUNG BOY'S DREAM'{20}

🏢 Scene 1: The Other Area 51

A desert base, deeper than the last.

This Area 51 is quieter. Older. Wrong.

Armored doors grind open as Nkumkani's group steps inside — Monkey tense, Chinelo silent, Aino scanning everything.

Soldiers raise weapons… then lower them.

Commander:"If you're here to stop what we unleashed…you're late. But welcome."

Holograms flicker to life:

Failed Brands

Monster Womb containment breaches

Entire floors sealed permanently

Monkey:"You humans really love building graves underground."

No one laughs.

đź§  Scene 2: Nefima in Samael's Mind

Far away, Samael drops to one knee.

His breath fogs.

A voice coils into his thoughts — soft, ancient, patient.

Nefima:"You hear the dead, Samael…but you've never let them answer back."

Visions flood him:

Endless armies

A throne of bone

The Coin of the Undead glowing in his hand

Samael (shaking):"Get out of my head."

Nefima smiles from the rift.

Nefima:"I'm not inside.I'm inviting you."

🚉 Scene 3: The Magical Station

Park Go-hwan, Kane Kato, Tiago, and Elijah Venture enter a forgotten magical transit station — runes carved into the walls, dust untouched for centuries.

The doors slam shut.

The lights die.

Then—

A train horn.

Impossible. Ancient. Echoing.

Tracks materialize out of thin air.

A train appears — floating, glowing, stitched together by sigils and rust.

Kane:"Tell me that's not real."

The train doors open.

A conductor with no face gestures inside.

The station locks itself.

🎪 Scene 4: Jablonski Jesteer – Origin

A memory fractures the episode.

A small town.

A seven-year-old boy with messy hair and painted cheeks performs in front of kids who don't laugh.

He trips. They mock him.

He tries again. Louder. Bigger.

Nothing.

That night, alone in his room, he whispers:

Young Jablonski:"I just want everyone to laugh."

Reality warps.

The walls stretch like rubber.

A balloon floats without air.

The boy laughs.

Too hard.

Narrator:Imagination answered him…without mercy.

The world never laughed again.

📜 Scene 5: The Dye Scroll Hunt

Elsewhere, Dreadmoore, Lucifer, and Shatterhowl tear through a ruined archive.

Shatterhowl kicks open a door.

Shatterhowl:"I FOUND IT—SIXTY-SEVEN!!!!!!!!!!"

Lucifer turns.

Slaps him.

Hard.

Lucifer:"That's not a number system.That's a scream."

Dreadmoore exhales slowly.

Dreadmoore:"Focus."

The lights flicker.

The laughter echoes again — distant, warped.

The archive walls begin bleeding ink.

🌊 Scene 6: Ignatius and the Water Spirit

Ignatius stands knee-deep in the frost land's river.

The water spirit rises — silent, beautiful, terrifying.

Ignatius raises flame.

The spirit tilts its head.

The water grabs him.

Drags him under.

The fire dies instantly.

Darkness swallows him as voices whisper from below.

Water Spirit (echoing):"Fire learns humility here."

Bubbles rise.

Then nothing.

🚨 Scene 7: The Train Moves

Back at the station, the train starts moving — even though no one boarded.

The walls stretch.

Time distorts.

Park Go-hwan pounds on the door.

Park:"This station isn't a place—it's a trap."

The conductor turns its head.

No face.

Just a symbol.

A Brand.

🌑 Closing Narration

Narrator:The military digs deeper.Witches whisper louder.Laughter rewrites reality.And ancient roads awaken.

Narrator:Some trains were never meant to stop.And some passengers were never meant to arrive.

The horn sounds again.

The magical train disappeaRS.

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