Life in the East (Season 5, Slugterra Fanfiction)

Chapter 11 - The Ride to Peach Blossom Spring

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They were now prepared, prepared to fight the Emperor with the help of 2 blasters who can perform a fusion shot, 2 former protectors with decades of experience, and other protectors from another set of caverns. Together, they knew every trick in the book! Whether its a Crystalyd coming from beneath, or Icicle Rain like Flower and Alyssa did in the fight for Serenity.

The only thing was.. the ride was about another 2 hours. The train has to circle back around caverns to pick up certain shipments and Under-Lords. 

Their Mecha's were in the parking carriage, it was compulsory for them to be there. They had been careful and anything that could expose them were with them, in a bag in case the Mecha's were searched.

They all sat in a food carriage, they only sat there for the tables. However all Pronto found from searching, all food present are decades old. That didn't stop him from eating it all though. 

The group sat in one of those tables that curve to fit for people next to the window, giving them a clear view of their current location.

The grass is brown, that means we're in Smudge Vapor now.

Smudge Vapor had no landmarks, the only unique thing about it was the fact its grass has a specialty of being dull. 

"We should arrive at Bloodstone City Station, Smudge Vapor in a few minutes, from there we have go to Vacua, Gelium, and then the final cavern itself, Peach Blossom Spring. Serenity is the 5th stop, so we're about half way through the stations. I believe the reason we have to circle back is because the order of stations got messed up during its construction." Ayule said to them.

Their occupation in a carriage was good timing, nobody else wanted to be near them, viewed them as strange for some odd reason. Maybe the way they talked, maybe the way they worked? Whatever, as long as they can discuss their plans without the chance of being caught, they would be fine.

"Now arriving at Bloodstone City" A speaker boomed.

The train slowed the second those words were announced, the outside of the windows were blurry leaving the site of Smudge Vapor unrecognized for a bit. Junjie and Alyssa couldn't wait to see Smudge Vapor again! The lovely slugs, people, environment and it the place they had learned Slug-Fu. It was going to be amazing to see it again-

Accept it was different. 20 years is a long time. When the train stopped the cavern's true nature was finally showing.

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Outside the window was nothing but horrible things, the complete opposite of the way it was before The Emperor. All they could see was labour. Chained up slavery, mining nonstop with whips, whipped for entertainment, those horrid things. The group all stared outside, watching the atrocities, either disgusted or horrified. 

Maybe Bloodstone was the name of the city as a reference to how much blood is shed.

It was diverse, in slaves. No matter race, your a slave. 

Junjie was a different story, he was both, mixed. He was horrified of the things that happened while he was gone, and disgusted his fall effected the lives of these people in the worst way possible.

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This is disgusting. This is exactly why we ran from Yangdi and abandoned China, so we wouldn't be slaves. We might as well have left the gates open to allow him to find us.