Cast Away

Chapter 19

(Dipper pov)

I groan in pain as my eyes slowly open, glancing around the unfamiliar setting. It looks like I'm back in the brig, but something about it feels different. I sit up, my thoat feeling sore and dry. I rub it, wincing slightly and realize that there is a metal collar around my neck with a chain that connects to the middle of the floor.

Bill wouldn't have done this to me, not after everything that we have been through together. But if it wasn't Bill, then who is doing this? I remember being pulled through a mirror, so whoever did this has to have been a demon like Bill and Tad. But who? And why did he take me if I don't even know who he is? None of this makes any sense to me.

I look up hearing footsteps as a man with blood red eyes and pitch black hair stands outside the cell.

"Well, it seems like sleeping beauty here has finally woken up from his little nap."

"Where am I?"

"On my ship of course. Well, it's not really mine, it's one that is being politely borrowed while the rest of the crew are forced to work it against there will. But it's the same difference."

"That isn't the same at all. What you're doing is monsterous."

"You sure have some balls to say that, considering all things."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about your pathetic species. Always saying everything different than you is a monster, talking about doing good for the planet when you're the only ones doing it any harm, starting wars with your own kind, it's very entertaining for me to watch honestly."

"At least I don't kidnap people through mirrors."

"You would if you could. It is quite fun to see the looks on their faces when they get pulled through." I scoot back as far as I can as he enters the cell. "I have to admit, I was not expecting you."

"What?"

"When I used the mirror, to see who Bill most cared about, I was expecting to see that idiot cousin of his. Maybe finish some unfinished business with him. But instead I find you. A lowly, weak human."

"I am not weak."

"Trust me you are. If I were to snap your neck right now, there would be nothing you could do to stop me."

"What the hell do you even want from me?"

"It's not what I want from you. It's what I want from Bill."

"He has done nothing wrong."

"His whole fucking existence is wrong. A powerful, superior creature should not mingle with the likes of you and create breeds like him and his fucking cousin. I have been after them for a very long time but they always seem to slip away before I get them. But this time they won't, because he won't run as long as you are stuck in my grasp."

"Go fuck yourself back to hell."

"Wow. Strong words to make up for being so stupid and weak, not surprising at all. And already been there, nothing that exciting." He grabs the chain pulling it hard, nearly choking me as I fall forward. He keeps his foot on the chain to keep me in place as he forces me on my back. Red chains wrap around both of my wrists, keeping them restrained against the floor.

"Get the fuck away from me!"

He grabs my jaw in his hand tightly, feeling his nails digging into my skin.

"You are such a foul mouthed little asshole. You really need to learn some manners when talking to those who have more authority over you. And I know just the way to engrave those memories into your pathetic head."

Without warning his nails dig into my right eye. I scream in pain, struggling harder as I everything in that eye just goes black. I feel him painfully twisting  and turning before a painful tug and I feel hot red liquid pouring down that side of my face.

"One down, one to go."

I try to turn my head away but he holds it in place as his nails dig into my left eye. My whole world goes dark and I just feel pain of him pulling and twisting my eye before he gives another hard pull.

He gets off of me and I feel the chains around my wrists disappear. I slowly raise my hands in front of my face, not able to see anything at all. It's just completely dark. I slowly feel my face, putting my hands over where my eyes should be but with horror I realize that both of my eyes are just gone.

"I have an idea for a little game." I hear him snap his fingers and feel the collar fall off of me. "If you can find your way to one of the lifeboats, then I will simply let you go. Your time starts now."

Staggering up to my feet, I put my hands out in front of me as I blindly manage to make my way out of the cell and stumble up the steps out of the brig.

I keep one hand on the wall, using the other to feel in front of me and make sure that I am not running into anything or anyone. I just have to get up to the deck. All ships keep the lifeboats on the lower right side of the deck. If I can get up there then I can get to a lifeboat and get out of here. I don't know where I would go, maybe just hope that Bill finds me wherever the waves end up taking me.

I climb up some more stairs and push open a door, falling onto my hands and knees. I feel a cold night breeze blow over me, knowing that I am so close.

Pushing myself back onto my feet, I blindly stagger over to where the lifeboats are, but when I grasp around to where they are supposed to be, my hands grab at nothing.

"No no no.....where are they?"

"I forgot to mention a little detail." My blood goes cold as I hear him behind me. "I got rid of all the lifeboats when I took over the ship. I am honestly surprised you managed to get up here at all though. You are going to be a fun one."

I cry out in pain as he grabs my hair, dragging me back through the ship. I uselessly kick as my last chance of escape is thrown out the window.