The portal opens at a new location many miles away from the middle of the pass we were stuck in.

Rainbow and Spike look around seeing the storm near the horizon line with the sun shining overhead with a halo ring around it. Once everyone is threw the portal, it quickly closes leaving them at this new location.

The radio goes off with the old man speaking. “My place is over here.” He tells them before taking off leading them threw this winter wonderland.

Rarity gets on the radio trying to speak with the old man. “Excuse me daring. But we never got your name?” She asks him hoping to get an answer. She gets her answer. “You can call me. Chris.” He answers her question.

“Well Chris, nice to meet you.” Twilight said over the radio from that response. Before hearing Danny over the radio. “Guys, I hope you know what you are doing. Because James isn’t doing too good.”

I’ve been trying to come around. I start to move my hand towards my head seeing that we are out of the pass. I grunt a little before saying something. “What happened?” I asked out loud before seeing Danny driving my car.

“James you're awake?” He answers my question with one of his own. “Yes, I’m awake and feeling like I’ve been hit by a truck.” I answer his question with my vision still bury.

I notice that we were somewhere else on the planet seeing the storm far behind. I get on the radio to see where we are. “Where the hell are we?” I ask them shocking everyone.

“You’re awake, James?” Pinky asks me with the sound of joy in her voice. “Beardly.” I answer her question. “And to answer your question, James; We’re heading towards our new friend Chris’s place.” She answers his question as the group when over a rig seeing something shock her leaving her speechless.

Everyone sees a small city that has seen better days, buildings made from brick and molder with a building in the middle of the city looking like a factory. “Chris, what is this place?” Rainbow asks him pulling up next to him. “Home.” Chris answers her question nearly shedding a tear.

He quickly rubs his eyes before reelevating his engine to keep the pressure up from the cold air around them.

They quickly made their way to the outskirts of the ruined city. “Wow, this place has surely seen better days.” Spike out loud leaving an echo throughout the city before seeing some of the buildings have suffered fire damage from the darken breaks and wood.

Twilight and the others seeing old shops and the stone roads with Danny still driving my car. “Danny, stop the car.” I tell him making him to stop in the middle of the road with us still taking up the rear. No problem for us and the group.

He pulls over I quickly open the door and quickly made my way towards one of the ruined buildings. I feel sick to my stomach and puke my guts out.

Once the deed was done and my stomach emptied of its contents remembering I didn’t eat anything this morning or threw out the day. Before feeling the storm, that is still at the pass coming this away, but it would take some time to reach me.

Danny sees me puking my guts out. “Something wrong with him?” He thought to himself, before seeing me coming back to the car.

Once climb back in still feeling like crap. “You alright?” He asks me. “Yes, I’ll be fine. Must be the mike I use for my coffee had gone bad.” I answer his question the best I can.

“It best for you to drive with me still feeling like crap.” I tell him as he hit the gas catching up with the group.

When we reach the old factory, we stopped in front of the gate with a change and padlock on it; Chris gets off and unlock the gate. After he opens the gate and everyone on the other side, he quickly gets his bike on the other side before locking it.

The wind starts to pick up sending loose snow that's on the ground to come up hitting him in the face.

“I have a warehouse to store your vehicles at. Just let me get it open.” He tells them over the radio heading towards one of the warehouse doors and quickly opens it. Leaving everyone else to enter the warehouse while when to gets the bike from where he left it next to the gate.

Inside the warehouse is pretty must empty except for an object that’s cover-up by a tarp. Once everyone is in and Chris closes the warehouse door. I open the door seeing the young pup running towards me when Fluttershy opens the door to let him out.

“It’s alright boy, calm down.” I tell him from the excitement of seeing that up and walking around. As for everyone else seeing me walking around after the blood loss. “How are you feeling James?” Applejack asks me.

“I think, I’m alright. At least I up and walking around.” I answer her question grabbing my hat from being on the dashboard. “I’m guesting, I hit my head on some sharp, causing the blood loss, and Rarity thanks for using your scarf as a make-shift bandage.” I tell them before catching my breath before finishing my train of thought. “I’m sorry about scaring you like that.” I tell Pinky.

“It was just a shock to me.” She tells me before noticing the old man.

“Who are you?” I ask him I get his attention as he pushes his bike into storge. “This is Chris. Willing to help us out of that road feeling like we're getting lost.” Twilight informs me as Chris heads towards one end of the warehouse click on the lights in the warehouse and threw out the whole factory.

“So, guardian, how your head?” He asks me catching me off guard as well as everyone else. “Guardian, you mean me?” I answer his question with one of my own. “Yes, you.” He answers me with a quick response. “Alright, as far I can tell.” I tell him and he removes his jacket.

Once he removes his jacket showing that he’s wearing dark red pants and long sleeve shirt with three buttons. Also, black suspenders and black boots that look like seen better days.

I thought I saw something on his neck, but not 100% sure. “What was that?” I thought to myself feeling my head taking a deep breath. “I need some rest.” I said out loud removing the makeshift bandage feeling the bleeding has stopped.

Seeing that still wearing my sunglasses. Before noticing where Chris ran off too. “Where did he go?” I ask out loud. “I think he when this way.” Rarity answers my question pointing out a doorway to a flight of stairs hearing footsteps going up.

The place is almost like a maze even with lights on seeing dozens of machines that doesn’t look has been running for years with all the cobwebs that on them. Seeing the lights come on in what looks like an office. “He must be up there.” Rainbow said out loud pointing to the light coming on.

“Go on ahead, I’ll catch up.” I tell the others. “Where are you going?” Spike asks me getting my attention causing me to turn around with a quick response. “Going to find a rest room, with how big this place; there must be one somewhere.”

Duke and Danny wondering what going threw my mind. “We’ll make sure, he’ll be fine.” Duke tells the others with both following me to find the nearest restroom.

Twilight and the others to find a way towards the office hoping to find Chris.

Meanwhile

Chris is in the office sitting at his desk with an old photo of his wife. “Berbera, it's nearly over for me, and I’m coming home. I’ve been carrying this element for what felt like a thousand lifetimes now.” He said out loud before hearing footsteps outside.

Outside in the hallway.

Seeing the door with a window showing the light from inside the office. “Chris, you in there?” Pinky asks threw the door before trying to open it feels like it is locked from the inside. Before starting to feel cold air underneath the door.

“Chris, you alright in there?” Twilight asks still getting nothing. “Chris daring, open up please.” Rarity pleaded with him.

“No good, looks like I'll have to break it down.” Spike said out loud before running at the door, trying to bust threw. Once he hits the door it didn’t even try to budge causing him to fall back to the hardwood ground making Rainbow laugh her ass off.

Once she stops laughing long to say something. “Nice try Spike.” She tells him, before helping him up. Rarity feels the pressure change putting her hand to the door feeling nearly cold as ice before hearing something heavy being moved and the pressure changes making her to turn the nob seeing no one there.

Just an empty office with a fire going in the fireplace with the lights still on. The layout has a big desk at the far end with a wall of windows from where they saw them. The left side has the fireplace with two bookshelves on either side. On the right side has another desk with bags of a pond bags of old mail and on the wall has photos of Chris in his younger days and one photo of him with some others underneath a tree that light up one of them wearing a wedding dress, the woman is a young blond in her early 20’s; and Chris in his late 20’s with a full beard wearing a brighter red suit and boots that are shined up. The others in the photo next to them are eight older gentlemen wearing the same suit and one woman in a red dress. The last person in the photo is a tall man dressed in white and with a white beard that goes down to his knees holding a dark blue crystal and it appears to be glowing when the photo was taken.

Twilight gets a closer look at the wedding picture seeing the glowing crystal. “That must be it.” She said out loud while Rarity looks at the desk.

On the desk was a computer motor with a set of pens on the desk. The computer is an IBM from the mid 1990’s with the badge case next to the desk and CRT-V motor. The keyboard is also a badge color and it is also a mechanical in nature.

There were also a few frame photos one of them is his wife in her later years and the older man from where they first met.

As well as the people in the wedding photo holding a baby in front of their home.

The last photo was Chris riding in a sled being pulled by eight reindeer with the same sacks used for the mail.

Rarity hit some buttons on the keyboard making the motor to turn on seeing a single word on it. Password. And a box to it.

She tries to think what think what the password would be. Looking around the desk for any clues looking at the photos on the desk seeing the photo of the older woman from the wedding photo. Picking it turning it overseeing the frame can be open and open it seeing some writing on the back of the photo reading.

“To a loving husband. From your wife. Berbera.”

She types in the name and the screen goes black for a second, then a string of text with a list of different programs on them.

One program sticks out from the rest of the size of it under a single name. LIST.

With no mouse, she uses the arrow keys to open the program.

Once she opens it and millions of names with one or two dots next to them with the date of the last update were made was corrupted leaving it blank.

“Who is this guy?” She asks herself while Rainbow sticks her hands next to the fire.

“Strange the fire feels cold, not warm.” She said out loud putting her hands back in her pockets trying to get them warm again.

Before seeing the fireplace start to shake and filling the pressure inside the office changed like before. Rarity closes the program and logs out putting everything back the way it was.

The fireplace flames turns blue as the structure quickly begins to change hearing an elevator coming up. Once it gets there the fire goes out and the back wall all opens seeing Chris standing there.

“What are you doing here?” He asks them to see all of them standing there.

Elsewhere

I was still looking for a rest room but this place was so run down and highly doubt there would be running water. Seeing Duke and Danny following close behind helping me trying to find one.

We came to a set of double doors and turn the nob seeing that it was still unlocked which it is, and when inside with both following close behind.

The room was big with a kitchen next to it. “Looks like we found the galley.” Danny said out loud as I noticed the restroom at the other end.

I quickly make my way towards it and tells them. “Unless you want neither one of you wants to jerk me off. It is best to wait outside.” I tell them in a playful matter. “Alright James, enough with the gay jokes.” Duke tells me as I when Inside.

The restroom was a real shithole and when over to the sink and turn on the taps seeing the water is running. “Well, at less that's a good thing.” Beginning to wash my face a little bit the warm water helps, I check the back of my head feeling the cut with the nearly dried up blood. “This will be another scare after it heals. And hoping that my mind goes threw any changes from this.” I thought to myself using a rag that I carried with me to clean this cut a little better with what I got on hand.

Back in the office.

Twilight is the first to speak up. “I know this looks bad. But we had no idea where you when.” She tells him seeing Rarity next to his desk making him to walk towards his desk putting in the password, seeing nothing has changed.

“Alright, what do you want to know.” He asks them. “One, what happened here?” Rarity asks him putting her hand on his shoulder.

“Well, to answer that question it's best to start from the beginning.” He tells them before beginning his story.

Well, where to start; let’s start back when I was a baby. I don’t remember much from those days other than what they told me when they found me and something guarding the snowy mountains of central Europe.

The folks who raise me were toy makers for a local lord calling himself a king. Anyway, he liked the toys as well as the children. The deliveries to the king stopped not long after who or whatever guardian the path they normally take. He hired guards for them but they end up missing trying to reach them.

This when on while I was growing up. Once I came to age and volunteered to make the deliveries using a different path threw the mountains. With a sack full of toys and a map of the land with the best way to get threw to the nearby town. During this time, I didn’t have my bright red suit, because it was still being made at the time. So, I use what I had at the time a fur coat and hat with some warm clothes underneath.

Within moments into my journey coming across a pigpen sounding like a goose, I forget the name I gave to him. He chooses to come with me.

Anyway, once we came to the city in question. The people didn’t like me at first until one of the kids a little boy no less asks me what I’m doing here. I feel sorry for the little boy and gave him one of the toys in the sack. Soon other kids ask about the toys and give them toys as well, before long the word has spread, both good and bad.

Not long after I start giving the toys to the children of the town, that I’m in. The mayor hears this thinking this would like bad for his image with the local lord visiting only days away and banned all toys in the city and sent the guards to collect the toys that had been given out.

Rainbow interrupts the story to say something on her mind. “This guy sounds like a prick.” Making Twilight to quickly respond to that. “Rainbow.”

“She right, that guy was a prick.” Chris said out loud, before giving his attention from Twilight. “Sorry about that, please continue.” She tells him. “Right, now where was I.” He said out loud thinking where he left off. “Ah, I remember now.”

Once the order was given to the guards and I was near a nearby schoolhouse seeing kids playing with the toy I had just given to them. One of the school teachers came to me thank bring joy to the children for the first time in their lives.

She was younger than I was only by a few years and came from another town from what she told me. When I first meet her, she was beautiful, blond tied into a ponytail, and the dress was wearing was a plaid blue color with a fur coat keeping her warm from the cold mountain air.

I grab into the sack get the last toy and give her a doll, making her smile before seeing guards coming to the school telling the children to give up their toys and telling them about the bane.

She tells me to go hiding the doll I give her into her jacket. She asks me my name and tells me her name she tells me hers before I go.

I quickly leave town as fast as I could with my little buddy following close behind. It was starting to get dark and the only path to get home was the same path years ago that guards when missing on.

The wind picks up the further we when kicking up loose snow making it hard to see. I begin to see something in the distance. Once I get close seeing a frozen body and he wasn’t alone. There must be hundreds of bodies. Remembering those stories, the others told were true and my curiosity has gotten the best of me.

I when to see what caused this. The closer to the source I got the worst it got until I hear a voice call out to me.

“Why are you here?”

I answer whoever called out to me. “I came to see why you killed these people with ice?!”

The path of ice comes out of the ground leading to a nearby mountainside.

Me and little friend made our way down the icy path before seeing a castle made of ice. Seeing a set of double doors, I rubbed up ageist it to find out felt more like glass than anything else.

The doors open seeing the inside made from some material making my footsteps echo. Then I see an old man wearing a white robe and a white hat that looks like a crown. His skin was snow white stretching out his hand seeing ice making something before becoming hard like the glass around us.

I see that it’s a weapon which is a staff and asks me one thing. “Why are you trespassing on my land?”

Unknown what might happen next, I chose my next words very carefully. “I’m just trying to get home. On the other side of the mountain.” I tell him putting my empty sack down on the floor.

Then come running towards me. My little buddy warns me making me dodge out of the way in time, making himself lose balance falling to the ground and dropping his weapon landing next to me.

I quickly picked up to defend myself as he gets up making a pair of swords out of the same material as the staff I’m currently holding.

“I know why you’re really here for.” He tells me leaving shocked at what he just said before coming at me. Making to regain my focus holding staff to block his attacks and sending fragments of ice into the air weakening the staff.

The staff breaks in two making me lose my balance from the last impact sending the old man back a few feet, before coming at me again. Quickly grabbed one of the broken ends holding it up as he jumped at me.

I close my eyes for a moment thinking it was the end. Before hearing the swords hit the ground next to me before seeing the shock on the old man's face.

He fell sideways with the end of the staff that I was holding to defend myself, is in his chest. Blood starts to come out, quickly I toke the sack and used one of the swords to cut it in half and cover the wound pulling the staff out and covered him up the best I could.

He passes out on me as tried to cover up the wound. The whole place starts to shake seeing the place starting to come apart.

My little buddy was telling me seeing glass shattering has it the ground. Once I was done and got him on my back.

We got out of there to the exit as it was falling apart, I quickly whistle. Seeing one of my reindeer friends coming towards me at the exit.

“I’m coming Commit!” I loud out to him as the place was coming down around us. The cracks were coming faster and faster making us must jump to safety sending the last of it down the mountain.

I was catching my breath. Commit came next to me making me quickly get and climb on with the old man and my little buddy.

“Come on Commit; Take us home as fast you can.” I tell him before taking off threw the snow and seeing a light behind us.

Once we got home the others see as well my mother helping the old man and getting him some help with the help of the others. I waited to see what will happen, when she came out telling me that he’ll live to make me feel a little bit better, thinking that killed a man.

I stayed with him while he sleeps until he woke up the morning still the pain in his chest, shocked to see me. “You saved me.” He tells me making grab him a drink and tell me everything.

That he’s a guardian from another world carrying one of nine elements and came here to hind from what he called the Darkness that he and the other guardians were fighting for a very long time now not knowing what started all of this, and all that he knows is after every fight the darkest gets stronger every time.

Applejack interrupts this time with a question. “What is the Darkness?”

“I ask myself that exact same question. When I first heard about them.” Chris quickly responded before continuing.

He tells me something else that there is a legend of a 10^th element, and it will come when the army of darkness comes back.

Pinky says something interrupting this time. “Strange, none of the others didn’t mention it until now.”

“Tell me, how many elements have you gotten so far?” Chris asks them, Pinky quickly answers his question. “Seven of them; Storm, Swamp, Water, City, Mountain, Desert, Forest.”

Chris takes a breath. “Leaving only me and the Lava Guardian left.” He said out loud. “Chris.” Twilight calls out to him getting attention. “What happen next?” She asks him to make him to continue with the story.

After he told me everything and let him rest. While getting ready to next trip my next trip with another sack of toys for the children, seeing the mailman with a stack of letters with one from the same school teacher I’d talk to later.

Letting me know that all the toys were burned, and guards are on alert for someone with a sack of toys. I had to change my trip to do it at night to use the darkness as cover. I wrote back to her to tell the children's parents to leave the front door unlock to let me know that there is one waiting for a toy.

While waiting for nightfall I, when to the castle remains, seeing something glowing underneath some rubble. I found a small lockbox it was made from crystal and tuff as diamonds, I tried to open it seeing that it was locked, and it won't open without a key. I see whatever inside is glowing a dark blue color.

I quickly made my way back home to give it back to the old man. To see that he was awake and gave him the lockbox and gave it back to me and tell me one thing. “Keep it safe, until it’s time.” Leaving me a little confused at the time.

I kept it safe in some place that only I know.

Once I was ready to leave and found a gift waiting for me. Once I open it showed the red suit with my mother behind me smiling at me telling me that she made it for me. I put on the suit knowing that the guards will see me if I’m not careful. I check in with the old man before I left. He gave me something to help me to hind from the guards.

The object was a crystal and he told me “To wear this and they wouldn’t know you’re even there.”

He pulls out the same object from being around his neck showing the others.

From what the old man is doing from helping me and that he’s slowly dying from our fight the first time we meet.

Not only that he was giving me some of his abilities when he was a guardian. Once I get to town, I put it seeing the guards at the front gate and just walk past them like wasn’t even there.

Once my sack was empty and quickly leave threw one of the side gates and quickly made my way home.

The next morning the mayor was pissed about the new toys and did the same thing as yesterday. The school teacher left the city and take the same path to my home.

She told me he did the same thing and rise the guard count. She also told me to tell the people to lock all doors throughout the city. That wasn’t the only thing she told me she told me the reason for this.

The old man hears this and comes outside, he gave me another ability taking some loose ground snow and making a snowball. He breathes on it and shows a picture of the terrible mayor of the city.

“YOU HAVE FAILED ME ONCE AGAIN NOT STOPPING THAT TOY MAKER!” Shouting at someone in the room. “Sir, we’ll trying our best, but this man is like a ghost.” Someone tells him.

“DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THIS MAKES ME LOOK WITH THE LORD COMING LATER THIS WEEK!” Shouting out loud making his face turn red with anger finally showing the person he was talking to, the captain of the guard and the school teacher's brother.

“Really?” Twilight asks out loud interrupting the story this time making Chris to rub his eyes from telling the story. “Sorry Chris, my brother is also the captain of the guard back home.” Twilight tells him before continuing.

I noticed the chimneys throughout the rooftops was big enough for myself and the sack I have to carry. I tell Berbera to tell the children there is more coming and I have a way to keep an eye on them.

After another night of delivering the toys to the town children and hearing the mayor's voice throughout the mountains making the old man smile hearing his voice.

Berbera quickly left town knowing that she has something to do with the toy maker. I see her running towards me this morning in tears, hearing that her brother tried anything to get what the mayor wants showing the slap marks on her face.

I toke her inside meeting the rest of the family, mother saw her face and use her makeup to cover up the bruises telling her it will take some time to heal.

I ask her to stay with us, but she turned it down before heading back to town. I stopped her before she when to far down the road and I ask her if there was anything to hind the toys to fool the guards until it was clear for the children to play with the toys.

The only thing we could come up with is the stockings that were left to hang over the fireplace to dry.

That night using the same route I’d been using with a sack full of toys, hiding from the guards and filling stockings with toys.

The next morning, the guards checked every home for toys seeing nothing, fooling them in the progress. Making the children happy seeing that their toys are not taken away to be burned.

The mayor sees the kids playing with their toys outside his office making him very angry calling his captain for any leads on the toy maker. He has a lead about a forgotten path threw the mountain that was used years ago, and a home there of old toy makers.

Berbera was listening in and rust out of town to warn me what was about to happen. But with a storm coming that same day. It wasn’t until it has gotten dark seeing everyone there as well as the old man walking around.

I already left to make another delivery into town. Unknow to her seeing her brother with some guards to arrest everyone there even her sister.

I walk into a trap getting myself arrested seeing sad faces on the children as I was taken to jail.

The next morning with everyone I know arrested hearing something outside someone coming to find out it was the lord that the mayor was getting ready for.

Later on, that day hearing something else the people of the town is marching towards city hall where the mayor and the local lord are, chanting “FREE THE TOY MAKER!”

The Lord asks the mayor of the meaning of this and the story of arresting some toy makers and asks to speak to me and the rest of my family including Berbera, and the Guardian.

We told our side of the story of helping the children. After hearing our side, he let us go and told the mayor and the captain to don’t go after him anymore.

I gave him one of the toys which is a yo-yo and follow us to the angry mob and tell them that the banned-on toys is lifted and he pardon the toy maker and his friends for the mayor's pride.

Spike interrupted this time. “Guesting both the captain and the mayor didn’t take the news too well?” He asks Chris. “No, they didn’t.” He answers him before continuing

The lord was shot in the back by the captain of guards killing him and blaming us making us to flee the city I called out to my reindeer friends. All of us get on to get back home and begin to pack up what can.

I when to grab the lockbox. We could hear guards coming up the mountain. The old man used the last of his strength to make two ice mounters while we got on the sled. With the reindeer hitch up ready to pull us.

We were waiting on the old man he was moving the fast he could go before a bullet hit him making him fall to the ground. I quickly jump off to get him up carrying him to the sled throwing him on before jumping in as another round of bullets hit the sled, spooking the reindeer and pulling us uncontrollably towards a cliff.

The old man hands me a bag of power and tells me to throw it at them.

I throw it at the two leading reindeer sending shingling dust on all of them. We see the cliff quickly coming up knowing it was over for us. But it wasn’t the next thing we know that we were flying.

The guards see us flying standing there in stock with both the mayor and the captain. The mayor grabs one of the guns from the guards and aims it at me. The captain stops him missing and fires into the air above them.

Berbera checks the old man seeing that he’s hurt badly this time. We found somewhere to land, seeing the old man knowing that it was the end for him grabbing the key from around his neck and grabbing the lockbox. Unlocking shows what he’s been guarding all this time, a crystal that’s glowing dark blue and he told me something I’ll never forget.

“There can be only one guardian and that has to be you, Chris.”

I look over at Berbera and ask her to marry me right there and then. She said yes.

We got married underneath a pine tree using some of the crystals that the old man made.

After we kissed, he was finally able to give me the element making me its new Guardian.

The last thing he did was open a portal to his home before seeing his body turn to snow letting the wind carry them away.

“That's so sad.” Rarity said out loud trying to hold some tears.

“Yes, it was.” Chris said out loud trying to hold back his tears as well.

“Come to find out years later that there was a kid’s movie of what happened making it kid-friendly from what really happened. I believe the studio name called was Ranking Base or something along those lines.” Chris finishes his train of thought before continuing.

The portal leads right here and begins to build a new home. Years pass and a group of elves hears about a new guardian and ask to stay. They help me make toys after they train by the older toy makers. They were great at turning the workshop into a factory with a town around it.

Back home the story of a giving toy maker spread around the world giving me a new name of Santa Claus.

Then there was one day that changes everything both here and on Earth. The Darkness I was told all those years ago attack me during one of delivery on Christmas eve. They were around me making having to flee leaving many children behind and those nukes that have been stockpiling for a long time goes off days later knowing that the Darkness has something to do with this.

It toke it toll on me.

“When did it happen?” Twilight asks him. “Somewhere in the 2020’s or the 2030’s, when it happened.” He answers her questions before continuing

Berbera passes away not long after that, leaving me alone. Then the Darkness found me attacking my home killing elves, and burning homes and shops.

Until it was over leaving nothing left. My aging slowed down thanks to the element and the way time works here is different than on Earth.

50 years have passed until I found you stuck in that pass.

“And to make a long story short.” Chris finishes his train of thought before hearing the word. “Too Late.” From everyone at once in the room.

“Came in here to grab this.” Grabbing the same lockbox from the story and putting it on his deck. Grabbing the key from around his neck unlocking it and opening it showing the others making all the other elements glow in their pockets making them pull it out.

Before noticing that there are two missing and ask them. “Where are the other Guardians?” Chris asks them.

“James, when to find a restroom; guesting to get myself clean up a little.” AJ answers his question.

Elsewhere

I was busy trying to clean this cut with what I got on hand. “This must have a first aid kit or a doctor's office with the supplies to cover this up before it could fester.” I thought to myself before turning off the water before joining Duke and Danny waiting outside.

You alright James?” Danny asks me. “I will once I get something to cover it up.” I answer him

“There must be a first aid kit in the kitchen.” Duke tells me as leaves to check. “Don’t take too long while me and Danny will see if they're a doctor's office.” I let him know while he searches for it. “Just don’t get lost you two.” He tells us threw the kitchen door while we were leaving.

While trying to locate the doctor I noticed that the element starts to glow making me to pull it out of my coat pocket.

Back in the kitchen, Duke's element also starts to glow as well wondering what’s going on before seeing a kit on the wall that’s bolted to the wall.

He goes over to it and opens it to see it is empty. “Damn.” He said out loud leaving the kitchen to find James and his brother.

Meanwhile

I and Danny walking down one many hallways trying to find the doctor's office, when something came to my mind. “Danny, something been bugging my mind ever scent you and your brother came to race during the three years of racing?” I ask him.

“Yes, James it’s about our last name; isn’t it?” He asks me a question of own. “Yes, it is.” I responded with a deep breath.

“Well, we are brothers with the same father, just different mothers. Frank was a few years older than me. He was given Dad’s last name, as for me I given my mother’s last name. We didn’t meet each other until one day outside of Sydney. I was out of work at the time looking for anything and Frank was working at an auto shop where I have gotten an interview at. I came in on an interview and the owner thought I was someone else that already working for him, until Frank came in to tell him something I can’t remember, giving him a shock on his face with us standing next to each other. I thought I didn’t get the job from the shock. It turns out I got the job on the spot. Me and Frank catch up finding out that we were raised by our mothers not knowing our father. Because Dad was a soldier in the U.S. Army and was sent back to the states from Frank heard from his mother.” He tells me the story making me raise more questions.

“Is that why you two came to the States?” I ask him. “Both yes, and no. Yes, to find our father, and no, because we both wanted to open our own shop in the States. Trying to move and get started was a mess for us. It token some time to get things going the way we wanted and started a small racing them with us the only drivers to start when we heard about the new race series coming from Florida, and you know the rest from there.” He tells me answering part of my question.

“Did you ever find him?” I ask him to make him to take a deep breath before answering. “Yes, we did. He died in a car crash, and he was drunk.” He tells me. “Sorry about that.” I quickly responded to that.

“It's not your fault, he was thrown out of the army, and he didn’t take it too well.” He tells me as Duke found.

“What were you two talking about?” He asks us. “James, ask about our last name and I told him the story about that and our dad.” Danny answers him.

“We never know him other from the stories our moms told us.” Duke tells me.

“I got curious. Is all.” I tell them still looking around for a doctor’s office.

“If you’re still looking for a doctor’s office?” Duke asks me to make me turn towards him. “Because I think I found it.” He tells me leading both of us going down a hallway that we haven’t checked yet.

The door has a red cross on a window on the wooden door. The door was locked making to get something from my pocket.

Grabbing a set of lock picks and beginning to pick at the lock slowly open it.

Here is the 54^th chapter in the story so far.

I wanted to reach this part around Christmas of last year. Just writer's block got in the way and other things I don't want to get into right now.

Yes, I have taken the story from Santa Claus coming to town and tweaked it a little. making the reference that Chris made.

The next part is coming as fast as possible, as long the writer's block doesn't come back.

That is all for now.
This is James Cribb.
Signing Out.