Lawless

by Jai Williams

  “SHIT, HE’S GOING AFTER THE BOSS. SOMEONE GO AFTER HIM!” yelled the guy who saw Ronnie escape. Brad, one of the champions, ran through the door and up the stairs and chased Ronnie.

  “COME BACK HERE!” yelled Brad. Ronnie stopped, turned around and saw Brad stop a few feet away from him.

  “Brad, look man, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can help us. You can escape Dwayne’s horror,” he said, hoping that Brad would change his mind.

  “Ha-ha, no you can’t, because there’s always another monster. And one day you’ll have to accept that you will never have freedom unless you join the monster,” said Brad with a serious look.

  “What really happened to you in this world?” asked Ronnie.

  “Too much. Enough chitchat; let’s fight,” replied Brad. Brad charged at Ronnie and Ronnie saw a handgun near his feet from a dead guy so he picked it up and aimed it at Brad. Brad stopped running.

  “Well, go ahead. Pull the trigger,” said Brad, so Ronnie did but the gun was empty. Brad laughed and continued running at Ronnie. Ronnie smacked the gun across Brad’s face. He threw it away and started punching Brad. They hit back and forth. It was a bloody fight but Brad was doing more damage to Ronnie. He kicked Ronnie to the ground and he kneeled over his body and started to choke Ronnie. Ronnie was trying to pull away, but Brad was just too strong; it seemed like this was it, it was over for Ronnie but out of nowhere Brad got shot in the head and fell on top of Ronnie. Ronnie pushed Brad off him and looked up to see who saved his life and saw Finn holding a gun.

  Finn walked up to Ronnie and put his hand down to Ronnie. “Come on, get up,” he said, so Ronnie grabbed Finn’s hand and Finn helped Ronnie up. Ronnie was quite surprised that Finn saved his life because of what Finn found out before.

  “Thank you. But I thought you hated me?” asked Ronnie.

  “I still hate you but not enough to stand by and watch you die,” replied Finn. Captain Harris, Stan, Dean, Jay, Roger and a few other men walked up to them.

  “So, you killed them all, I guess,” said Ronnie.

  Captain Harris handed Ronnie a hand gun. “Not all of them. You still need to get your revenge,” he said.

  “Yeah, but where did he go?” asked Ronnie.

  “The arena,” said one of the men.

  “How do you know that?” asked Ronnie.

  “Well, when he wants to dish out his punishments to those disloyal, he kills them in the arena and I guess he headed there to probably, I don’t know, end it all. The last fight,” replied the guy.

  “Okay, let’s head there,” said Ronnie.

  Ronnie and all the men headed into the arena and in the arena Dwayne was standing there with a smile on his face and standing next to him was a large, tall armoured man, The Judge. Dwayne laughed. “Ha-ha-ha, you guys are full of surprises, as am I. So, let me introduce you to The Judge. The Judge will kill you all and afterwards I will have to fuckin’ rebuild…actually no, I will leave this place and start fresh and avoid prisoners because you can’t trust them. Judge, fuck them up,” he said, smiling and thinking that he was still going to win.

  Dean looked at Ronnie. “Get that asshole and kill him. We’ll take care of this beast,” he said, so Ronnie charged over to Dwayne and the others started to attack The Judge.

  Dwayne laughed as Ronnie was running at him. “Ha-ha, Ronnie, it’s time, I guess,” he said.

  “Yeah, it’s time for you to die,” replied Ronnie as he was running. Ronnie slammed Dwayne to the ground and rapidly punched him in the face. Dwayne pushed Ronnie off him and got up and he spat blood out of his mouth.

  “Wow, you’re a feisty one, ha-ha. But you’re a dead one,” he said with hate in his eyes.

  Captain Harris and the others were attacking and defending themselves from The Judge. It was nine against one but the one was really tough and full of aggression. The Judge swung his sword and killed one of Dwayne’s disloyal men by stabbing his sword into the guy’s head.

  Ronnie and Dwayne got into an extreme bloody fight. They punched, kicked, elbowed and did all kinds of brutal hits to each other. Dwayne dodged Ronnie’s attacks. “So, your parents, huh, they were quiet, innocent people but they’re dead now,” said Dwayne, trying to get Ronnie angrier. Ronnie swung his fist and Dwayne countered it and turned Ronnie around and held his neck tight to his body. “I could hear their screams; it was just beautiful to listen to, like music to my ears. And you know, since you escaped maybe your mum or dad did too. So tell me, why didn’t you think to yourself that hey, maybe they escaped or one of them escaped? I think I should head back,” said Dwayne as he was slowly choking Ronnie to death.

  Ronnie tried to pull away. “They told me to keep running so I did,” he said as he was trying to stop Dwayne from choking him to death.

  “Ah, such a good boy, aren’t you, doing what your parents told you to do like a good little boy. But guess what? You’re not that good little boy anymore. Now you’re a killer, a stone cold killer like me,” said Dwayne.

  Ronnie pulled away from Dwayne’s grip. “No, you’re the only stone cold killer. Ahhhh,” he said.

  The Judge killed another one of Dwayne’s disloyal men but they were slowly hurting The Judge.

  Dwayne pulled out a knife but Ronnie tackled Dwayne to the ground and his knife slipped from his hands. Ronnie continued to punch Dwayne until lots of bruising occurred on Dwayne’s face, so he stopped and started choking Dwayne.

  At this moment The Judge’s helmet flew off and Stan stuck a knife into The Judge’s head and The Judge fell to the ground. They finally killed him. They were the first people ever to kill him.

  Ronnie continued choking Dwayne and he saw the knife that fell out of Dwayne’s hand so he reached over to it and grabbed it.

  “Any last words, fucker?” said Ronnie with a burning rage in his eyes.

  “Ha-ha. Fuck…you,” said Dwayne as he was still being choked with one of Ronnie’s hands. Ronnie stabbed the knife into Dwayne’s forehead and he continued stabbing. Blood splattered everywhere; Ronnie’s face, hands and clothes were covered in blood and Dwayne’s head looked completely messed up. There was a large hole in his head, you could see inside his head and his face was all bruised and cut up. Dean headed over to Ronnie and stopped him. “That’s enough. That’s enough, he’s dead. He’s finally dead. It’s over, we win,” he said, trying to calm down Ronnie.

  Ronnie dropped the knife and tears started running down his face. “I don’t feel different. This didn’t give me closure, it just…I don’t know. We’re free; that’s it, that’s all that killing Dwayne did. It just granted us our freedom. It won’t bring my parents back or anyone else back,” he said, crying.

  “I’m sorry it didn’t give you closure, but I don’t think it was ever going to. So, please don’t let this bring you down,” replied Dean.

  Ronnie wiped his tears away from his face and looked up at Dean. “Oh no. Oh God no,” he said with a worried look.

  “W-what is it?” asked Dean.

  “I didn’t ask Dwayne where he put Dave. He could have put him anywhere and my angry mind just wanted to kill him; it didn’t think for a second that I might need to get that information out of him. Oh, what have I done?” said Ronnie, as he felt so angry and guilty at himself.

  “It’s ok. We’ll find him, I promise you,” replied Dean. So, many thoughts were going through Ronnie’s mind, like first of all, where’s Dave? What happens now? Where will the survivors and he go? And more importantly, can he come back from this or will the killing change him and turn him into something worse? As for Alice, she was wondering where her grandfather and the kids were. Were they safe? Or had something horrible happened to them? These are what they will have to figure out because this isn’t the end; this is the beginning. The beginning of their new lives, the things they will face, and the things they will do will define them as either a monster like the rest of the world or a survivor, a survivor of a broken world.

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  Jai Williams, Lawless