The Deadman

Chapter Three: A Deadman

I'm put onto a bus the next day handcuffed and in a prison suit. I sit in sorrow closing my eyes trying not to think about what is happening to me. Not much longer I arrive at my destination... Deadman's Wonderland. As I walk off the bus I couldn't stop myself from thinking anymore that I just began feeling so much hate for what the Red Man did to me. He killed my friends! He killed Mimi and Yamaka and I couldn't do anything to stop it.

I walk through the entrance doors and am lead to a section of the prison. They stand us all against the wall and a woman begins talking to us all. She talks about how we all live, breathe, and work by one another. She mentions how the sacks we were given could last us up to three days but only if we're clever enough. Then she begins to talk about the collars we're forced to wear.

She says,"Now a word about your collars. They're not just how we tag, track, and prog you. Once a day-"

[Crash]

I am then knocked over by a cart full of cargo. I fall to my knees and the person pushing the cart comes out from behind it and runs over to me.

He says,"Wow man I totally didn't see you there! Are you alright?"

"Yeah I think so,"I reply.

The woman takes a dark stare at the boy and says,"Hey cart boy. Return the goods and I won't slice you open.

He says,"What? No...the carts my responsibility."

She walks up to him and says,"Don't say I didn't give you the choice."

In a flash she takes her sword and cuts his chest right open. Blood sprays and splatters the ground while the boy screams in agony then falls to the ground. A different girl runs up and kneels beside the boy and says,"With all do respect wasn't that a little overkill!?"

The girl with the sword hears one of the inmates say that she was f*****g crazy. She turns to us with her heel on boys head pressing it into the floor and says,"I don't disagree but get used to it. This's life boys...your life until we see fit to cut you loose or until of course Wonderland claims you for one of its own.

As I begin working I think about Mimi and Yamakatsu again. I start to cry and think to myself...why won't anybody just kill me? All of the sudden I look up to see somebody coming down from the sky. When she lands she turns towards me and asks,"You want me to kill you? I could do it in one swing." She picks up a long metal pipe and swings it down on me me but I'm able to just dodge it. She stares at me and says,"Or not if you dodge me."

I yell back,"What!?"

She swings it at me again saying,"Silly boy."

"What the hell is wrong with you!? I don't even know who you are!" I scream out.

She throws the pipe at me and I dodge it for the what I am hoping is the last time. She stares at me smiling with white hair and suit of some sort. I stand up gathering myself trying to figure out what was happening now.

She says," That was a fit back there then huh."

"Wh- wait you calling me a liar!" I yell back.

She walks up to me and places her hand on my chest and says," This part of you doesn't want anything of wanting to do with being killed." I look her in the eyes and say,"How would you know what it wants. We've never even met." She pulls closer and replies,"Yes we have."

I whimper back,"Oh yeah... then why don't I remember you?"

"Like that really matters,"she replies,"Ganta and Shiro are the bestest of buddies!"

I open my eyes wide and say,"Wait a second... how do you know my name?"

She stands up and says,"Well if you don't want to be killed then cheer up!"

I reply,"Cheer up... what does that even mean? You know what look last I checked buddies don't try bashing each other's skulls in. Get me!"

She just stares back at me for the longest time and then says,"So... you wouldn't kill your friends... would you."

I yell back,"Of course I wouldn't! Not on your life! I would never intentionally hurt the people I care about.

We stare at each other just for a few seconds until I'm hit in the face by something.

"Ow!" I scream.

There was a group of inmates huddled around each other staring at us. I begin to recognize them... they were the other new inmates from earlier. When we were all lined up and that boy got sliced open.

"Do all mass murders get the four star treatment here,"The first guy in front says.

"Come on don't provoke the kid,"The second guy adds in.

"I'm just saying ditch digging doesn't seem like that much of a punishment," The first guy says.

"I don't know man," The third guy adds in from the back,"Kid look more like somebody's door man than a ruthless psycho."

The first guy yells at the two saying,"Huh... use your damn heads you morons. If he looked the way he did then he wouldn't have been able to ice so many people."

The first guy walks up to me and continues speaking,"Don't get any ideas about your reputation meaning jack s**t in these parts skitzoid. But hey I bet you got a hard on when I they passed your sentence. Just like when you smeared your little friends guts all over the wall!"

I look down and repeat to myself that it wasn't me. The guy turns his head and continues to speak down to me.

He says,"Did you do it because you were picked on? Did the popular chicks ignore you? Come on your secrets safe with me! What was it like killing all those kids-"

Out of nowhere Shiro pushes him over on to the ground and says,"You're a big meany! Ganta would never intentionally hurt the people he cares about."

The guy on the ground gets up and screams as he runs at her. He throws a punch but she dodges it and kicks the s**t out of him with just on strike. The second guy comes up out of nowhere and swings a shovel at the back od the head knocking her out.

The second guy says,"What in the f*****g hell is her problem? f*****g crazy-"

I instantly bounce up to my feet and sprint at the guy. I grab him trying to do something but only end up getting head butted backwards. The first guy gets back up and kicks me to the ground and they all start kicking and hitting me.

I scream,"Stop! You're hurting me!"

I cry to myself begging for this to not be the way I go. Then I hear a big explosion and look to see everything above me collapsing. The three guys start running away but I stayed. I was filled with so much fear and anger that I didn't care to move. I feel something within me start to boil and seep out of me. I can feel it... it inside me.

"I don't wanna die in here,"I scream,"I want to clear my name. And him... I want him to pay for what he has done to me, for what he has done to my friends, and for what he did to Mimi!

"I wanna live god damn it... I WANNA LIVE!"

Everything then goes blank and I see for the last split second it collapsing on me and then silence and darkness.