Once Upon a Time in the West
A/N: Hi to all my readers! This is a story based on Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone. You don't have to have seen the movie to read the story. It's basically a retelling of it but I changed certain parts like the ending :) FYI Italics mean that it's a flashback. I don't own Once Upon a Time in the West. Please enjoy!
The train came rolling into the station. The town was small and few people got off here.
Three people, stood there waiting for him to get off. "Pink Cat" he was called. The three waiting for him, the twins and Alice, stood waiting patiently. The train pulled away as the Pink Cat stood there staring back at them.
"Why come to the middle of nowhere to just to get shot dead?" Alice said with a laugh.
"I didn't come to get shot. I came to do the shooting."
They stared at each other until the Pink Cat pulled out his gun and shot the three visitors but not before getting shot. He stood up and looked at where he got shot, in the upper arm. He wrapped the gunshot and left. He didn't seem bothered by it, since he had gotten shot before.
Ellen was returning home to her family. It had been years since she had last seen them. She had wanted to tell them all about this interesting man she met on the train. He was strange but very kind. 'I hope I'll see him again.' She thought as they lifted her down from the train. She went inside and asked for a carriage.
"Where to?" The carriage driver asked. He wore an eye patch over one of his eyes and the strap messed up his silver hair.
"Take me to Wonderland."
"Oh that farm owned by the Kurokawas. How long has it been since you've been up there?"
"I haven't been there since I was three I'm excited to see my family again."
The carriage began to move as the driver laughed. "I still don't know why your family built their farm way out there in the middle of nowhere and then there's only sand and no soil." The driver laughed again. Ellen fixed her royal blue dress and music note clip in her hair and stayed silent. "By the way, do you know why your family called that place Wonderland?"
Ellen shook her head "I don't know." They drove in silence for a while until they came upon a small rest area.
"Break time!" The man with the eye patch said jumping out of the carriage. Ellen sat there watching him walk inside. "One drink." He said and the bartender handed him a glass.
The door opened again. Ellen walked inside as everyone inside stared at her. There usually weren't many women that came there. "Hi there pretty lady." the bartender said. He was a few years older than her and like the carriage driver he had an eye patch over one of his eyes. His hair was a red and while the driver was a little rude, the bartender was very rude.
"I want a glass of water."
"Don't have drinking water. Only water we have is bathing water."
Before Ellen could answer everyone heard a sound coming from outside. Shots, pushing and grunting could be heard before in walked a man with ears like a hare. He walked over to the bar, stood next to Ellen and ordered a drink. The bartender gave him a drink. The man reached for the drink with both hands. Ellen could see that his hands were cuffed. He sipped the drink before turning to look at Ellen. He wasn't looking at her though he was looking behind her. He set the glass down and moved to someone behind her.
The soft sound of viola music could be heard coming from the corner of the room. The handcuffed man walked over to the corner of the room. He tossed a lantern over to the corner so that now everyone could see the Pink Cat sitting in the corner of the room playing a melody on his viola.
Ellen's eyes widened. It was the man from the train earlier; he said his name was Boris. He said "I guess someone should know my real name." Then he told her the story of a man who killed his sister.
"Who did this?" She asked him.
He turned to look at her and smiled "A girl as pretty as you shouldn't know the name of a man so murderous that he would kiss you then shoot you." He kissed her cheek and began to play a soft melody on his viola.
The handcuffed man walked over to the Pink Cat. "Pink Cat, Do you shoot better than you play?" Boris didn't answer and instead set down his viola in its case.
"I don't play to your satisfaction?" Boris lifted up his gun.
"Free me." The handcuffed man lifted up the chains. The Pink Cat shot the cuffs in two. The freed man took off the cuffs. Boris picked up his viola again and began playing the same tune. "Hey Pink Cat" The freed man said.
"What Elliot? Boris asked annoyed. He hated to be interrupted when he was playing.
"Learn a new song. The old tune is getting pretty worn out." Elliot finished his drink and left the rest stop.
The bartender began telling Ellen a story but she was looking over at Boris. She wanted so bad to ask him if that song had to do with his sister. The driver tapped her on the shoulder. "Ready?" She nodded her head. He left and she followed behind him. She looked back at Boris in the corner before leaving. The driver helped her into the carriage and they continued down the road.
Boris jumped down from the table he was sitting on in the corner. "Where were they going?" He asked the bartender.
"Wonderland."
Ellen's family was always kind and loving. There were many things that they loved and found pleasure in. One of these things was their family farm.
Ellen's mother had gone missing a long time ago. Her father, a man named Gowland, assumed that some criminal probably mistaken her for a threat and killed her. Ellen had two sisters named Kanade and Ako and two brothers named Pierce and Blaze. Blaze lived out east and not close to Wonderland but Pierce, Ako, Kanade and Gowland all lived at Wonderland.
The carriage had finally reached Wonderland. 'That's strange. Why is there a crowd outside?' Then she saw it. Her whole family (minus Blaze), Gowland, Kanade, Ako, and Pierce, all brutally murdered.
The driver helped her out of the carriage. She looked at her family, who she hadn't seen in years, lying dead in front of her eyes. "Who did this?"
A woman with dark purple hair came up to her "We found them here this morning."
A man with long blue hair came up to them and said "We found this piece of scarf this morning. It's obvious it belongs to Elliot."
The funeral was later that day. The driver stayed there to help Ellen. After the funeral was over he said "Sorry for your loss, miss" and went back to his carriage. The crowd slowly broke up. Ellen went inside.
The house was quiet as Ellen set her suitcase on the bed. "I'm here and my family's dead, now what?" She said out loud to the house.
"I told you to scare them off that land. Instead I have a family savagely murdered and now there some 'other' daughter that's on the land." The man said calmly sitting in his chair in his train car. Recently he had a major accident which caused him to be partially paralyzed. He could only get around on a pair of crutches. Beside that he was a strikingly handsome man. He had bright green-blue eyes and dark black hair. Beside that he was also very wealthy but he didn't care. He only cared about getting the railroad built as quickly as possible so he could see the forest before he died. He had hired an assistant to do "anything necessary to keep the railroad moving" His assistant was a hard working man.
"I did what I needed to do, Mr. Blood." The man said with his yellow eyes shining.
"Mr. Gray, I did tell you that but you left some loose ends."
Gray stood up "I'll take care of her."
"What about the Pink Cat?" Mr. Blood asked.
"I don't care what he does. I'll complete my assignment that's all that's important."