Army of the Damned

VOLUME 9 BONUS CHAPTER PART 2

The Fortress City of Cróga is in absolute disarray. Though Merchant carriages and trucks continually go back and forth through its multiple layers of walls. The main city had multiple arches of fire. Smoke stacks everywhere as screams and fighting could be heard in certain areas of the city. Though the majority of the settlement was still at peace, the breaking of the chain has started as a train arrives into its Grand Station. The newly built station was already littered with destroyed objects and thrown water paint over its intricate walls and the classical interior that had no cent spared in spending for the design.

On Top of the inner city walls, an armored train decked with cannons aimed down on the Downtown area circles around like an Eagle waiting for a chance to strike. With its armored plated steamer with the huge seal of the Royal Crown on it slowly rolls its way as it switches into a siding that enters into the inner city's tramway. Inside its first car, Elizabeth and Alana are preparing with their Knights to exit out. The Tram's Warehouse then rumbles as its unused set of tracks are suddenly shaken with intensity as the several thousand tons of cannons and rail cars slide into the busy garage. The workers, a mixture of Humans and Elves, look in awe of the stylish Royal locomotive. Its exhaust nearly hit the dangling ceiling lights of the workshop as it slowed down.

Operating the Trams warehouse doors, a human man rushes to press the button. Sliding it open as it reveals the chaos inside the walled off city. People were rioting in the open morning as everyone looted freely and openly as the Lords soldiers and police officers tried to control the scene with the local militia. But due to their small numbers, they are only able to control certain sections of the junctions while the Royal Armored Train rumbles its way through the inner city. Pushing away cars and carriages as gun ports opened fire on people throwing bottles of alcohol with lit rugs on them. Attempting to burn the train down.

"Captain sir. We're nearing the Cathedral grounds."

"Alright. Prepare the cannons, load High Explosives. Autocannons, armor piercing. I do not want this train to derail here. Lady Minuit."

The well dressed officer with a huge hat and a white feather on it faces the Vampire with her own Knights inside the cramped interior of the car behind the Tender. Though it was pleasantly decorated with extensive detailing on its walls. The small size didn't help with the two bulky Knights of the Minuits.

"It will work. We must wait for the Air Corps and the High Elves."

"I don't know about the Elves, Marquise... I've never seen those pointy eared idiots care about anything but themselves."

"Not this time. Things are changing and even the High Elves aren't immune to this Captain. I look forward to seeing this thing at work."

"If you can even see us! Ahahahah! We shall be shelling these pissants a kilometer away. I do hope the outer city guards control the scene there so that we may be able to aid you in battle."

Blowing its whistle, the Royal Armored Train punches through the barricades and obstacles left by rioting people. Many of them Commoners fight each other as those in groups pile books and statues of the Church of Bahamut on the rails. Burning them and letting the locomotive finish the job. Soon after, the Battle Train, having nineteen cars with the last four ones being an armored passenger car for the gigantic railway cannon it has for the last car and multiple plated boxcars for ammo and maintenance. Zooming past the cobblestone streets of the city, the view of the Church of Bahamut's Holy Cathedral's Gothic towers came into sight. With smokestacks of black fire surrounding it.

The nearer they got to it, the more intense the fighting got. With people now in chainmail and wielding shortswords slashing each other in the alleyways and sidewalks as seemingly more organized groups are staying silent in the shadows, watching over the fighting.