super dystopia

chapter 3

Come on lucky 6 i chanted in my head, come on 6, come on 6, come on 6, i repeated over and over in my head like a mantra as i held the dice, i need these dice to make six grand and to keep on living, oh did i not mention Diego had a gun to my head?, no? well It must have slipped my mind, sorry for the inconvienience.

It's not like me being held at gunpoint is that troubling with my minor power i'm bound to get that six, if not well... there is a back up plan i thought glumly, in case you didnt notice i wasn't exactly "found" of this back up plan because it really, really, really hurts, a lot but at least i'll live... kind of.

As i was thinking this i didn't realise i still hadn't thrown the dice and as i had shook the dice for some time Diego decided i had shook them enough "quit stallin A" Diego said in his thick russian accent, Diego was a big muscluer russain gambler who i had challenged, his russain accent was thicker than syrup, what that was a horrible simile was it?, well sorry, with a pistol being pressed into my temple it's hard to think.

I once again reminded myself that getting a six wasn't a problem my power would soon kick in and i shouldn't fret about getting shot, albeit this power wasn't my only power and definately not my most powerful one but it was coming in pretty damn useful right about oh i don't know how about RIGHT NOW!

I took a deep breath to calm myself down before rolling the dice across the small cramped green table, the first die stopped almost instantly this was what i was counting on the first number was 1, now i needed a 5, come on 5, come on 5, come on 5, i repeated my new mantra over and over in my head.

The second die just kept spinning and spinning and spinning on one single corner, how lucky i thought to myself chuckling inside, i rubbed my hands together which had began to sweat, my stomach churned in anxiety and my gaze never wavered from the die, i didn't dare turn away because i didn't want to test my power i didn't know exactly how my power worked all i knew was that i couldn't control it well enough, hmm after this i'll get some practice in before i had better get home for dinner i thought but that of course depends on how long this takes then the die stopped and i realised i probablly wouldn't be home in time for dinner the die had landed on 4, not 5, 4.

Diego had a smirk as high as his ears as he chuckled darkly, i never use to believe someone could chuckle 'darkly' maybe it's one of those things you have to experience first hand.

"ah, ah, ah, ah,ah" Diego laughed like a russian vampire "close but not close enough A" but before he could finish he noticed the huge grin spreading contagiously on my face "what are you smiling at you are a dead man walking" Diego cried out in outrage, "you might want to check that number again D" i said eyeing the dice full of contentfulness while smiling my trademark goofy grin i had come to love over the years, Diego looked to the die once more expecting nothing to have changed but his eyes widened in disbelief as he cried out "that's not possible it can't have changed" as the former 4 was now a good, lucky 5.

How fortunate my power had started working just before i got my brains blown out, I smiled triumphantly "i win Diego, i believe the states were that if i lost i died if i won i got your six grand!" Diego's head snapped round to face me as his eyes narrowed "i know what i saw and that die had a 4 on it not a 5", he said unconvinced i had won fairly, of course i had cheated to win but the fact that he would think i would do somthing so low, wow he knew me well.

"i won" i pressed on "fair and square now give me my money" i shouted at him, Diego didn't like that one bit "i never and i mean NEVER LOSE! he shouted his voice rising with each syllable, he fumed on the spot for a minute before grinning evily at me, "a dead man cannot collect his winning's mr Smith" Diego said calmly and collectedly.

Uh Oh was my last thought as he alligned the pistol with my forehead and pulled the trigger...

I awoke on the hard concrete street about a block away from my house with an earsplitting

headache with the 6 grand i pick pocketed out Diego's suitcase when he was looking at the dice, i cheched my watch guessing it to be around 6:00-6:30 the time was 5:30 woah new record it only took 30 minutes to reserect.

my name is alexander neptune smith and i can't die.