Hellride

Just a simple game

Today
I stood in my dad's throne room, I'd been told there was a new resident who needed my 'treatment'. He strolled in with servants behind him holding what looked to be a pirate on the floor "this one just won't break, why don't you and him take a little trip?" I waved for the men to follow me the 'Hellride' where I assigned him to a cabin with someone else in. I laid the cards out in front of them and assigned mr happy to the room signing 'don't kill the pirate, just toy with them' before heading to the front of the train to grab a load of weapons before heading to the compartment next to the pirate's.

I cracked a whip on the table between the two men, they knew only one of them would leave this room alive. I spread the cards and folded my hands behind my back watching them play, the special thing on this train was that it was nearly impossible to kill someone. I drove a chainsaw into the loser's chest then let them continue. I would hurt the one who lost as a way of telling them to try harder if they wanted to survive this train ride. I watched the same man lose again and again, he was down to only six fingers since I was 'forced' to remove four of them, the table they played upon was covered in blood from where I knocked his head in a few times, the number on the boxes next to them went down with every hit I landed.

"P-please ms happy, I don't wanna die like this! It's just a stupid train ride! Just let us go!" He's the one who chose to get on this train in the first place, I pulled up my pistol and put a bullet in his head tiredly as we pulled up to the stop, I helped the survivor up and opened the door for him before slipping out myself dragging the body behind me to find the pirate, he looked like had hadn't won for a while. I threw the corpse onto the floor then the pirate into a cavern area before examining his condition.

"Why do you bring people here?" My eyes glanced at her, she'd ridden in a 'special' compartment of the train where all my games were easier. She hadn't figured out that I was mute yet "I see the regret in your eyes, you don't want to hurt people" I slammed her against the wall by her neck and opened my mouth so she could see where my father had replaced my ripped-out tongue with a forked one, I died when a group of kids from school attacked me in the bathroom cutting out my tongue because I could sing and ripped off half my face because I was decently pretty, i bled out there on the floor. No ambulance or help came.

Horror filled her eyes as she became to shake beneath my grip so I dropped her to the floor and strolled away "that's why your down here? Someone killed you?" All I did was show her my tongue, I can't even tell her the story so I don't know where she got that story from. The walk back to the train showed that people were afraid of me and 'the Happies' as I called them, due to the masks we wear being smiley ones except mine, we just got called 'Ms Happy' or 'Mr Happy' in the compartments, that's the last we here from some of them.

I'd also been called 'Conductor' and 'Queen of the Happies' because I was normally telling them what do to and who to take from the streets...yes, we do that. I boarded the train with my next players. The ride back was short but there was a lot of blood to clean off the tables, I signed to a Happy as he walked by 'tell the janitor he has an extra hour today' and removed myself from the vehicle. I thought about visiting my tongue in pan's shop but then I realised I didn't have the energy to do so. I tried to slip past my father's throne room but he heard me coming "did he win?" I shrugged before signing 'eventually'. A smile tugged at his lips.

"I didn't like you being on that train today, he could've hurt you like those kids did" I swallowed before continuing with my hands 'I didn't personally attend his table but I did toss him in his cell. He didn't look good' his hands cupped my cheeks, I'd removed my mask when I left the train "thank you for doing that, I really must get someone else to do it" I smiled before pointing towards my bedroom gesturing that I was tired and wanted to turn in. He kissed my forehead and stepped aside letting me go.

I changed, showered and slipped under the covers drifting into a dreamless sleep