Thread:MrTyeDye/@comment-30953185-20180610061643

I changed it, and here it is:

It was a beautiful day on the Island of Sodor. The sun was shining the sky was clear, and all the trains were running on time. Noah and the Loud Family were waiting at Knapford Station.

“Thanks, for arranging this train trip for us, Noah.” Said Lincoln.

“No problem,” Noah said “It was my pleasure”

You see, Noah had called Sir Topham Hatt a day ahead to arrange a train. And since Sir Topham Hatt considered Noah a very close friend, he was able to arrange for Thomas, and his two faithful coaches, Annie and Clarabel to take him, and his friends on trip around the Island of Sodor. Of course, the Louds were thrilled that Noah would do such a thing for them, and didn’t hesitate to come along. It took them 2 days to get there, but they did. And now, all that was left was to wait for Thomas to arrive.

“Ugh! When is this stupid train gonna get here?!” Lola yelled, impatiently. “I have things to do! Places to see! People to-”

“Be patient, honey.” Said Rita. “I’m sure it can’t be that longer.”

Just then, they heard puffing noises.

Lana gasped. “It’s him! He’s here!” She squealed with excitement.

And Thomas was indeed here. The little blue tank engine rolled into the station, with his two coaches following close behind.

“Hello!” said Thomas, smiling like the sun. “I’m Thomas!”

“We know who you are, Thomas!” Said, Lincoln. “Noah’s told us all about you.”

Thomas laughed. “Good things I hope. Hop aboard Annie and Clarabel, and we can get started.”

All of the Loud Family wasted no time getting into Annie, who groaned sadly.

“Why couldn’t we take a normal family.” She complained.

“Shut it, fool!” Hissed Thomas.

Noah noticed what Thomas just said, and was confused. He knew for a fact that Thomas would never say that to one of his coaches. But he decided it wasn’t important. Just then Thomas’s driver came up to him.

“Hey, Noah,” he said. “Guess what? You get to sit in Thomas’ cab!”

After he said that, Noah’s face lit up with excitement. “OH, HECK YES!” he said. He was just about to run to said cab, but just then…

“Wait, Noey! What about me?” Said a voice. It was Leni, the second oldest Loud child, and Noah’s girlfriend. “Noey, I wanted to sit in one of the coaches with you, and look at the scenery together.”

Noah realized, he didn’t want to leave his girlfriend hanging. But also really didn’t want to give up this once in a lifetime opportunity. So he decided to make a compromise.

“Don’t worry, Leni.” he said with reassurance. “Once we get to Ffarquhar Station, I’ll come back and sit with you, and we can spend the whole rest of the trip together. How does that sound?”

Leni thought it over for a little while and then she said “Ok, sweetie. You have fun up there.”

The two shared a quick smooch and Leni went to board Annie, while Noah ran straight for Thomas cab. The 15 year old boy was filled with nothing with joy, getting to sit inside his favorite steam engine’s cab.

“All steam ahead, Thomas!” Said Thomas’s driver.

“Sure thing” said Thomas, with a slight devilish smile on his face.

With a big toot of his whistle, Thomas puffed out out the station and on his way. For a little while everything went smooth. Thomas puffed at a steady pace and Annie and Clarabel clickety-clacked behind him. All 13 Loud members were in agreement that this was a very pleasant train ride.

But then there was trouble. Out of nowhere, for some strange reason, Thomas started to speed up, he went faster and faster. Noah started to grow concerned.

“Um, driver?” Noah said “Why are we going so fast?”

“I’m not sure.” the driver said. He called out to Thomas. “Thomas, what are you doing?!”

But Thomas didn’t reply, instead he went even faster. Inside Annie and Clarabel, the Loud Family was also growing concerned.

“Noah didn’t mention anything about this being a high-speed train.” Lynn Sr. said

“I like it!” said Lynn with excitement.

“I just hope Noey’s okay.” Leni said, scared.

In the cab, Noah was growing really worried. Thomas was going so fast he charged right up Gordon’s Hill and right back down without stopping.

The driver called out once again “Thomas, slow down.

No one could actually see this, but all of sudden Thomas’s eyes started glowing red, and he started laughing like a demon”

“I’m gonna send you all to the graveyard!” said Thomas with a demonic voice.

Everyone on the train gasped, except for Lucy who smiled.

“Wicked.” Lucy said to herself.

“Thomas, why are you doing this?!” Said Noah. “I thought we were friends!”

“I’m not Thomas!” Said the demon engine. “I’m Timothy!”

“WHAT?!” Said the 15-year old boy.

With that the sky went from from light blue to dark red, and the paint on the runaway trains begins to fade away revealing Annie and Clarabel to be grey evil coaches, and the paint on the engine, faded into grey paint, with number 0 painted each side tank. It was indeed, Timothy, the ghost train from Percy’s story.

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!” screamed Noah. “We’re gonna be killed by a ghost train!”

The driver tried to apply the breaks, but that didn’t work. The guard tried to apply the brakes in the 2nd coach, but that didn’t work either, the fireman even tried going out uncoupling the coaches, but even that didn’t work either. The couplings were attached really tight. When the fireman got back in, all of a sudden the two exits in Timothy closed, which meant Noah, the driver, and the fireman were all stuck in Timothy. And that meant they couldn’t go and open the doors to the coaches and let the Loud Family out. But the doors to the coaches were locked so they couldn’t get out either. Everyone was freaking out, especially Leni who was growing more and more concerned for her boyfriend.

Just then the train was heading for the viaduct. A few days ago it collapsed, and the workmen still hadn’t repaired it yet.

The driver could see where they were heading, and he knew they were doomed. He decided to call out one more time. “TIMOTHY, DON’T!! YOU’LL KILL US ALL!”

“That’s the idea!” said a demonic Timothy

And it was too late, when they reached the viaduct, Timothy’s safety valve opened letting out a loud shriek that was drowned out by the sound of the train tumbling off the viaduct and falling into the abyss.

And the train tumbling to the ground was the last thing Noah felt, before he woke up.

EPILOGUE

“Get away! Don't hurt me! Leave me alone!"

Lincoln thrashed about, struggling against the grip of what he thought was Lana's monstrous imposter. The next thing he heard, however, was the sharply whispered voice of his eldest sister.

"Lincoln, shhh! It's okay! It's only me!"

The reassuring words caused Lincoln's heart rate to decelerate, and his feelings of panic petered out. After taking a moment to stop thrashing and take some deep breaths, he cautiously opened his eyes to find himself, mercifully, out of the basement. He was back in his bed, with a worried-looking Lori looking over him at his bedside.

"Lor...Lori?"

Lori lifted her hand off his shoulder and started running her fingers through his hair. "You were just having a nightmare. A pretty bad one, from the looks of it."

Lincoln looked over at Lori, and the memory of seeing her cadaverous, zombie-like form trapped inside the glass came rushing back. As much as he tried to remind himself that none of it actually happened, in the moment it just felt so... real. So vivid. He couldn't help but feel like he was seconds away from losing her forever. With tears welling up in his eyes, he sprung out of bed and threw his arms around Lori, burying his face in her bosom.

"Shhh," whispered Lori, stroking his back. "It's okay, Lincoln. I'm here. There's nothing to be afraid of."

A minute or two passed as Lincoln embraced his big sister, taking her soothing, reassuring words to heart. Lori wasn't the cuddliest of the Loud sisters, but Lincoln could always count on her being there for him when he needed her. That said, in this specific instance it was hard to imagine how she could have been there when he needed her, which occurred to him as soon as he calmed down from the fright.

"Hold on..."

Lincoln let go of Lori and backed a bit away from her, making eye contact. He gave himself a moment to wipe his cheeks dry before posing his question. "How'd you know I was having a nightmare?"

"Oh, I overheard you whimpering while I was in the hallway."

"Okay, follow up question; what were you doing up in the middle of the night?"

Lori's eyes wandered off to the side. "Well, you're not going to believe this, but I had a nightmare too."

"You did?" asked Lincoln. "About what?"

"I-I'd rather not say," Lori said, her voice trembling just a bit. "But get this; when I woke up, I saw that Luna, Lucy, Lola and Lana had all crawled into bed with me. And when I looked over at Leni, I saw Luan, Lynn, Lisa and Lily bunking with her."

Lincoln raised a skeptical eyebrow at her. "Did everyone have a nightmare?"

"What are the odds, right?" Lori asked with a chuckle. "Anyway, we decided that we're all gonna sleep together downstairs in the living room. And I'll get up early next morning and make us all some french toast. How's that sound?"

A quivering smile appeared on Lincoln's face. "Sounds great."

Lori took Lincoln by the hand, helped him up off of his bed, and led him out of his room with her arm around his shoulder. As they walked, Lincoln wrapped his arm around her waist, keeping her snuggled close to him. Once they got downstairs, he saw his other nine sisters cuddled together under a sea of blankets - the twins on the easy chair, and everyone else on the couch. Lincoln was greeted with a sleepy wave from some of the sisters who hadn't already gone back to sleep. He was taken aback, however, when one sister wriggled herself out of the cuddle puddle, stood up, stumbled over and gave him a hug.

Lynn.

The young athlete squeezed him tight, muttering incoherently and pressing her face into his shoulder. Lincoln was a bit confused, but decided not to object once he felt a couple of stray tears trickling down his back. He let her drag him back to the couch, and the two of them claimed a spot on the right side, with her spooning him.

"I love you, Lincoln," she whispered, pecking him on the cheek. "Don't ever forget that."

With those parting words, the two of them drifted back off to sleep, reassured that even after the torment they were sent through, they still had each other in the end.

Meanwhile, after Noah had woke up, he looked around. He was in his bed and everything around him seemed normal. Noah was relieved, of course, but at the same time felt very shaky. He wanted to go to his parents, but he figured this wasn't really a parents issue and he felt like the people he was going to see would understand better. So he gathered his things, got his shoes on, grabbed his scooter and headed over to the Loud House. When he got there, he opened the front door to see the Loud siblings sleeping in the living room.

“Huh.” Said Noah to himself. “That's weird. Oh well. I’ll just roll with it.” And then he spoke in a loud enough voice so his friends could hear them, but not so loud that it woke everyone up. “Uh, guys? Guys? Guys!

Then the LKs woke up to see their best friend looking at them.

“Oh, hey Noey.” Said Leni, a little drowsy. “What are you doing here?

“Hey guys.” Said Noah nervously. “You’re probably not going to believe what happened.”

“Let me guess.” Said Lincoln. “You had a nightmare?”

“Uh, yeah.” Said Noah. “How did you know?”

“We’ve all experienced a nightmare tonight.” Lori explained. “It's the reason we're sleeping down here.”

“You wanna tell us what it was about?” Lynn asked.

“Uh, I don't know. It was scary.” Answered Noah “You guys were there, and then you, you… Oh I can't even bring myself to go on!”

He ran up to hug his best friends and they returned it with all the love they could give him.

“Shhhh. It's okay.” Comforted Lori. “Your best friends are all here for you.”

“No matter what.” Finished Lincoln.

The twelve kids let go of each other.

“Tell you what.” Said Lori. “Why don't you sleep with us?”

“Really?!” Said Noah, excitedly.

“Course, dude” said Luna reassuringly.

“And early tomorrow morning, I’m gonna get up and make us all some french toast.” Said Lori. “Sound good?”

Noah nodded.

“Come on, Noey.” Said Leni. You're sleeping with me.

Noah quietly squealed. He then ran to the couch and squeezed his way right next to Leni. She kissed him twice on his cheeks and another two times on his lips. Noah snuggled in close to her and soon, he and the LKs were fast asleep. Little did they know that Rita and Lynn Sr were watching them from their room.

“Awwww.” said Rita. “They look so cute and innocent when they're all asleep together.”

“Yeah.” Said Lynn Sr. “Kinda like us. Eh, sweetie?”

“Yeah sure.” Said Rita. “Now let's get back to bed.”

“Sure thing, honey” Said Lynn Sr. “You’ll comfort me if I have any nightmares, right?”

“Of course I will.” Said Rita.

And with that the two parents went into their room and closed the door.

And that concludes our venture into the Nightmare House.

As we've seen, a nightmare is a creature with near-limitless potential. Without the boundaries of reality in place, it can subject its victim to any torment imaginable, no matter how improbable, illogical or unfathomable. But I say near limitless, because there is one thing that a nightmare cannot do, and that is last forever. It can place you in the most hopeless, inescapably perilous position conceivable, and you'll still wake up just as safe and sound as you were before you went to sleep.

So tonight, if you find yourself dreading what haunting visions may await you when you lay yourself to sleep, remember this; eventually, you will wake up.

But maybe lay off the deep dish Hawaiian pizza if you want to stay on the safe side.

THE END

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