Lawless

by Jai Williams

  “What’s your name?” he asked the guy as he pointed to him.

  “Olly. But I don’t go by that name anymore; I go by what Dwayne nicknamed me, which is what the crowd screams and that’s Zoom,” said Olly.

  “Zoom? Why Zoom? Are you a fan of the…” replied Ronnie.

  “No-no-no, I know what you’re about to say, and no I’m not a fan of comic books. The reason I’m called Zoom, is because I’m fuckin’ quick. I get in the arena and kill who my opponent is like that, super quick. No matter who you are, I will kill you,” replied Olly, butting in.

  “So even if it’s The Judge, you will win,” said Ronnie with a smile.

  “Ha, the um, The Judge. Man, I’ve heard about him and he don’t scare me. No one does,” replied Olly.

  Ronnie turned to Dwayne. “That guy, Olly, Zoom – whatever the fuck he wants to call himself. I want that guy to fight The Judge,” said Ronnie.

  “Okay sure. This will be an interesting fight, and you do realize if Zoom dies his brother will want revenge, and that revenge will be killing you,” replied Dwayne. A guy from the same cell as Olly stepped forward.

  “If my brother dies, which I doubt he will, then I will kill you and anyone else you care about. Got it?” said the prisoner, Ronnie responded with a nod. Dwayne asked his man behind Ronnie to open the cell and grab Olly, so he did. Dwayne looked at Ronnie. “Now you’re going to watch the fight. Why, you ask? That’s a good question and the answer is because I want you to see what you will have to do in the arena because the next fight you have, you won’t have the choice to kill my men. You will have to fight your opponent or I’ll kill one of your people,” he said with a serious look. Dwayne pushed Ronnie to Dwayne’s special seating area outside of the arena and Olly was pushed into the arena. Olly was given a sword, so he didn’t get a choice to pick a mystery weapon. Ronnie had his hands tied down to the chair he was sitting on so he couldn’t run. “This is only because I don’t trust you and that’s reasonable because of the plan you had before to escape. So, we’re back to square one and you’ll have to build up that trust again, so just think about that but not while you watch this,” said Dwayne.

  Olly was shoved into the arena where The Judge was waiting. “Wow, look at this large motherfucker. What did you do, eat your wives, ha-ha. Nah man, I’m just joking around. I can’t see if under that helmet you’re smiling, but soon I’ll see it because Zoom gonna beat ya. I’m gonna kill ya bitch,” said Olly, meanly. The Judge didn’t reply, he’s never said anything for years, probably because he’s so broken inside and doesn’t care anymore, so all he does is kill.

  Dwayne picked up his mic. “Let the fight begin,” he said, joyfully.

  Olly was quite cocky; he was thinking he could beat The Judge.

  “So, Judge, how do I plead, guilty or not guilty? I think guilty…for fucking your wife,” said Olly confidently. The Judge slammed his sword with all of his force at Olly but Olly dodged it. “Woo, that was close, ha-ha,” said Olly. Olly took a swing at the Judge but did no damage to him, only made him angrier, so Olly stepped back and felt a bit less confident about this fight. They both kept swinging and missing each other. The Judge moved slowly because of all the armour. Olly showed the people why he was called Zoom and knocked the Judge’s helmet off. The crowd roared in excitement; it was a close match and either of them could win. Dwayne was on the edge of his set; he had a worried look on his face: he didn’t want his proud possession being killed, not now, not like this. But The Judge turned the match around and kicked Olly to the ground. Olly let go of his sword and flew far from The Judge, it was a powerful kick. Olly slammed his back to the ground; he was in pain. The Judge walked up to him and gave Olly a creepy killer smile, so Olly slowly crawled over to his sword, but he wasn’t fast enough. The Judge picked up Olly’s sword so he had two swords, one in each hand. Olly sat up and looked up at where Ronnie was and he pointed to him and moved one of his thumbs across his neck, signalling that Ronnie was a dead man. The Judge pushed one of the swords through Olly’s stomach and the other sword he swung across Olly’s neck, cutting his head clean off with one swing. He ripped the sword out from Olly’s stomach and turned around with both his sword high in the air.

  The crowd cheered and screamed; they were full of joy. Some did boo because they were rooting for Olly, but majority of them were overwhelmed with the final verdict.

  Dwayne stood up and grabbed his mic. “Well, as always The Judge gets his victory. We’ll be back with the next fight,” he said with relief because The Judge didn’t die. Dwayne untied Ronnie from the chair and brought him back down to the cells and they stopped in front of the cell that Olly came from.

  Dwayne looked at Ronnie. “Go ahead. Tell his brother where Zoom is?” he asked, so Ronnie looked up at a guy standing at the very front of the cell.

  “He ah, he well. It was a close match but in the end your brother, he well, he lost and he’s dead. I’m sorry,” he said with fear.

  “No, you’re not sorry; my brother is dead because you picked him to fight against a guy no one has ever beaten and I knew when he left with you guys that, that was the last time I would see him. So, remember my name, which is Cruise or what the crowds like to call me, which is Killer Cruise. Remember that name, because that’s the last thing you’re going to hear before you die,” said Cruise with a vicious tone.

  “Well Cruise, I can see how upset you are and like your brother said, feelings are for pussies, so quit being a pussy,” said Dwayne.

  Ronnie was pushed back into his cell. “Now Ronnie, you’ll fight tomorrow so prep up; it’s only going to be a solo fight so you and Dean will fight alongside each other another day. Now you,” said Dwayne, pointing to one of the soldiers in the same cell as Ronnie. “What’s your name?” he asked.

  “It’s Nick,” replied Nick, accepting that it was his time to kill or be killed.

  “Well Nick, it looks like it’s your turn to fight. So, come with me,” said Dwayne. Dwayne opened the cell door and Nick nervously walked over to Dwayne. Nick got out of the cell and the door shut behind him.

  “Nick, do whatever you have to do. Kill whoever you are up against. I know that’s a horrible thing to say but some of these people in here probably deserve to die and killing them wouldn’t be a bad thing. So, please promise me you’ll be back. Please promise me,” said Captain Harris, who had complete confidence that Nick would return alive.

  “I promise,” replied Nick, who thought the same as Captain Harris.

  Nick and Dwayne left the area. Captain Harris and the others had hope that Nick would return but were they right or were they wrong? After picking a mystery weapon which ended up being a machete, Nick headed out to the arena where he would face his opponent. He was hoping it was someone who looked like they deserved to die, but instead of a man standing in the arena, there was a woman and Nick couldn’t come to terms with killing a woman so when he got into the arena and Dwayne signalled the fight to begin, Nick had to confront the woman.

  “I’m sorry but I can’t fight you. I can’t fight a woman,” he said.

  “Ha, then you’re fucked. You’re good as dead,” replied the woman.

  “Well go ahead, kill me,” replied Nick, trembling in fear.

  “Wait, why don’t you want to fight? Are you some kind of pussy? Come on, there’s no fuckin’ rules about abuse to women anymore, so don’t fight because of that. Fuck it, it’s either kill me or die, so if I was you I’d swing that blade you’ve got right at me and give zero fucks about it because we have to kill to survive in this place, newbie,” she said carelessly. Nick dropped his machete even after what the woman said. He closed his eyes and stretched his arms far apart.

  “Just do it. I don’t want live in a world where I have to kill women because that’s wrong,” he said as tears ran down his face.

  “Okay, see ya, pussy,” she replied. The woman threw the knife she had in her hand at Nick’s neck and Nick fell to the ground bleeding and coughing out blood
. He covered the ground around him in blood. “Well, that was fuckin’ shit. Oh well, this bitch is the winner,” said Dwayne in his mic with disappointment.

  Dwayne headed back to the cell area and stood in front of the cell that Ronnie was in and he gave them the sad news – well, to them it was sad news but to him it wasn’t. They teared up and felt so sad and angry.

  “Damn, damn. Nick why, why?” mumbled Captain Harris. Dwayne explained to them how it went down. “So, your boy was like what no way it’s a woman I have to fight. Nah, I ain’t doing this. So, he drops the weapon he had and with arms wide open, he was ready to die. So, the bitch throws a knife at his neck and well, you can piece together the rest. So, in the future just remember I won’t always pick a fight that has a man versus a man,” he said as he was still disappointed at the fight.

  “So, there’s another cell area where you keep the women?” asked Ronnie.

  “Yep, I have another area where I keep the women prisoners. I don’t want these men to have contact with women when I’m here. I don’t want them to have some sexy pleasure time. They only get to have sex when they deserve it and also some of the women prisoners don’t fight. I keep some of them as slaves, mostly sex slaves, and some men are also slaves. So, yeah, I don’t want no filthy prisoner fucking what I fuck, so I keep them apart but if you want to fuck each other and have anal sex or give each other some BJs then go nuts but don’t do it when I’m here because that’s fuckin’ disturbing and yuck,” said Dwayne. Dwayne picked the next fight which was between Phil who was in the cell Ronnie was in and a guy from another cell. Fights kept happening all day; the only guys who died from the group Ronnie was with, were Nick and Phil. The next morning was finally here, and Ronnie was up for the first fight of the day; however, Dwayne chose Lewis to be Ronnie’s opponent, which Ronnie felt a bit unsure about because he got to know the guy so well and the guy was truthful to him. So, it wasn’t going to be easy to kill someone he could trust but Ronnie had to choose between him living or dying and he didn’t overthink it, which is why he killed Lewis without hesitation. Ronnie felt some of his humanity go after he killed Lewis but he turned that into rage and he told himself that this is it, it’s time to do what he has to do for him and his people. He had to break and become someone that he wouldn’t even recognize. He had become a killer to kill a killer.

  Chapter Thirty-One: Now a Champion, Now a Killer

  Dwayne was impressed – actually he was more than impressed; he was ecstatic – about the results of Ronnie’s fights and the victories. Dwayne could see a future where Ronnie was a killer, a stone cold killer like himself, and he could see Ronnie soon joining his team and being more than just a prisoner. Ronnie would soon become free from those cells and feel freedom – well, the freedom that Dwayne gives his men which isn’t the kind he would like and enjoy, but Ronnie kept fighting, kept killing those he was up against in the arena, and every kill brought him closer and closer to Dwayne accepting him as no longer a person who dreamt of escaping and having hope, but as a person who thrives on killing and does whatever he needs to do to keep this world as it is. What Dwayne didn’t know, was that Ronnie was faking everything to gain Dwayne’s trust so when the time came he could murder him but the killing wasn’t fake; it was real. The killing was slowly changing Ronnie from this guy who just wanted to survive by himself without killing, to a guy who thought that killing would eventually lead to victory and freedom. Ronnie moved up in rankings through weeks and weeks of killing. It wasn’t going to be an easy one-week job to become a part of Dwayne’s team; no, it was going to take a while, but nothing slowed him down. In fact, every night Ronnie would have the same kind of dreams and in these dreams he would picture himself killing Dwayne. Sometimes, it was in his bed or in his throne and other times it was in front of all of Dwayne’s men so that Ronnie could show them what their leader deserved and what they deserved. The thought of killing Dwayne was what led Ronnie to victory in every fight he was in. It’s what sped him up in the rankings, it’s what he thought would soon give him closure but only time could tell. Captain Harris and the others weren’t ranking up as fast as Ronnie was, because Ronnie demanded to fight every day and Ronnie wanted to fight solo so he and Dean were no longer a duo and that’s because Ronnie demanded Dwayne that he wanted to go solo. Ronnie told Dwayne that Dean would slow him down. Ronnie told him that after the fight with Lewis – the fight that broke a part of him, the fight that led him down the path he was heading down and that was the fight that got rid of the gentle version of Ronnie because that version of Ronnie would’ve never survived this place and that version would have died a long time ago. There were more consequences for going down this path Ronnie was on, and the main one was that after Ronnie kills Dwayne he may never be the same or maybe he’ll become like Dwayne and that thought frightened him. Another consequence is that Ronnie will never feel whole again, as in he will never feel the same ever again and every time he would look in a mirror he would just see a killer looking back. A part of what makes him human would no longer be there, which is the part that cares. The only positive to this path Ronnie is on, is that he’ll get his revenge and he’ll rescue his people and those who deserve to be rescued. So, he’s sacrificing a part of his soul to save people but to him it doesn’t feel like he should be forgiven after what he’s done but some people would forgive him because even though killing is wrong, in a world like this, you must kill to live and save others and people would see past the hellish acts that Ronnie performed and thank him as if he was a hero. And what makes a person a hero is sacrifice and Ronnie was doing his fair share of that. It didn’t take that long till Ronnie became a champion, so he got a cell with a warm, soft bed and he got the perks that went with it, which was being able to shower, eating in the cafeteria area, having leisure time which was anything from partying to sex. So, Ronnie was close, only a few hours or days away, from being freed from the cells and becoming one of Dwayne’s men. On the first day of Ronnie being a champion, Dwayne personally greeted him to the champion life, which was what Dwayne does to all his champions so technically, Ronnie wasn’t being favoured over the others. Dwayne showed Ronnie the places that he could only go and a part of becoming a champion was that Dwayne can trust them so champions never got an escort because he trusted them enough to not try and escape. Ronnie didn’t want to escape yet; he wanted to fully become one of Dwayne’s men so he could kill Dwayne and free his people and after that happened, that would be the time he would escape but not now, because he doesn’t want to wreck how close he is to his goal.

  The areas that Ronnie could go in freely were the showers and toilet area, the cafeteria area, the club area, the strip club rooms and sex rooms. Dwayne escorted Ronnie to the strip club room last.

  “Now it’s been weeks or months since you’ve had sex, I would assume, and the last time you were here was day one or day two you were brought here I think. I can’t remember but you know who remembers you?” asked Dwayne with a smile, a hot half naked woman walked up to Dwayne and Ronnie. “Angel. You remember Angel? The lovely, erotic and fuckable slut that you first encountered here,” said Dwayne.

  “He sure does and now that he’s a big strong champion I think that he needs to help me fix my bed,” said Angel in a sexy tone.

  “Ooh, looks like someone’s getting lucky. Okay, you two, have fun fucking,” said Dwayne. Dwayne left Ronnie and Angel.

  “So, my bed needs to be fixed and I need my big strong man to do it,” said Angel as she was rubbing her breasts sexually.

  “I um. I think…” replied Ronnie, Angel put her finger on Ronnie’s mouth to shush him.

  “Shhh. Don’t talk, just come,” she said. Angel grabbed Ronnie’s hand and pulled him forwards, and Ronnie followed her down a bunch of rooms that were covered only by curtains, the same rooms that Ronnie and Dean were shown and where they saw those two women having sex. They entered one of the rooms and Angel closed the curtains behind them to give them privacy. The room was coloured
pink with pink lighting that shined in the room and there was a large circle bed which was the only thing in the room. It was a small room but the rooms were only made for having sex. Angel turned around to Ronnie, walked up to him and pushed him gently on the bed. She climbed on top of Ronnie and she started kissing him, Ronnie pushed her head away for a second.

  “I ah, I haven’t really done this before so I’m sorry, I probably won’t satisfy you in the way you want,” he said, feeling embarrassed.

  “It doesn’t matter. I know how to deal with virgins so don’t you worry about me, just worry about yourself and since it’s your first time I’m positive you’ll be satisfied,” said Angel as she took her bra off. Angel threw her bra at the wall and she got up and stood at the bottom of the bed in front of Ronnie. She pulled her G-string off and sling-shot it at Ronnie. Ronnie pulled it off his face and dropped it next to him and looked at Angel, who was fully naked. This was the first time he had ever seen a woman naked and it was–well, there were no words to describe it. Ronnie was just surprised in a happy way; he couldn’t help but just stare at Angel’s breasts; it seems that’s what all men would look at first when it came to seeing a beautiful naked woman or not a naked woman, it doesn’t really matter except fully revealed breasts are better than covered breasts. Angel climbed back onto Ronnie.

  “We’ll make out for a bit then I’ll suck your cock; how about that?” she asked with a sexy tone. Ronnie just nodded with a smile. They started passionately kissing for a minute or so. “Do you want to take your clothes off? Sex is more fun without them,” said Angel, so Ronnie got up and as fast as he could he took his clothes off. Angel just lay back on the bed and watched as Ronnie was undressing. She got extremely excited when Ronnie pulled his underwear down and revealed his penis. Angel licked her lips. “Come here, big boy,” she said with excitement. Ronnie crawled on the bed and started kissing Angel.