Ka'Shard felt himself slowly being dragged across the ground with his feet kidding.
He felt death look him in the eye with the form of a floating, green oval.
He saw his fists land abruptly onto the trench coats and knock out all of them except, of course, except one.
Amidst the wreckage he saw the scarred man standing steadily with his arm outstretched grasping the silver pistol.
"Laddie!"
Ka'Shard heard the cry, but he focused on the green hole right in front of him. His burning eyes watered themselves like a hose in a forest fire. Ka'Shard fell backwards and saw his foot at a toe's length from the oval.
Ka'Shard's eyes widened. The oval was gone and before him stood the scarred man, smiling. He saw a foot bearing down on him. Ka'Shard attempted to move but he felt the soles sink into his skinless cheek.
Ka'Shard's squished face turned to the nearby tunnel. He saw Jack standing inanimately, watching like a gargoyle. He then saw Jack's eyes begin to droop as he began to lose his balance.
Pain surged into him and went through like a circuit into his body. The shoes were striving inwards and Ka'Shard howled in pain. He felt the pain suddenly begin to lessen. He turned his liberated head and saw the scarred man leaning over him, extending his arm.
The blue-furnished arm neared his cape. He saw his long fingers synchronizing their knuckles as they popped back and forth and the veins were popping out. The veins rose up to his wrists as he finally had the ape in his clutches.
The scarred man jerked his arm back and Ka'Shard was sitting up straight. The hand continued pulling him up until he was forced to stand on his feet.
The scarred man then unexpectedly grabbed the back of Ka'Shard's face and pulled him forward. With their eyes in confrontation, the scarred man said, "You never had a chance against Trey Jonner."
Despite the fact Ka'Shard was in a dangerous situation, he was able to manage a slight snigger. That was quickly silenced when Trey struck him with a powerful blow to the face. Another blow met Ka'Shard's twitching eye.
"This is for all the trouble you have caused. You are a nuisance, and if you continue to be one then consider this to be our friendliest confrontation."
Ka'Shard stuttered backwards as another fist knuckled his cheek.
The back of ka'Shard's head was grabbed again. He was no face-to-face with a tri-folded paper. On it was a big grey building with an enormous lawn, and was surrounded by a spiky black gate.
Trey smiled and whispered, "This is Raynul Asylum. Acres upon acres of land fit to accommodate our insance citizens. It has the highest security money can buy so people like you will be condemned from the outside world."
Ka'Shard spat at Trey's face.
Trey wiped himself with the back of his hand and continued, "Don't worry. We have hourly psychiatric treatment, 15 conveniently placed bathrooms containing golden toilets, and you also get celebrity phonebooks."
Ka'Shard remained silently and looked over at Jack. Jack had remained in the same spot this whole time. He saw him trying to mouth something. Strun? What was strun/ He then saw Jack leap to the left as a vehicle with some sort of stable skidded down the tunnel and squeakily breaked right in front of Ka'Shard and Trey.
Trey knocked Ka'Shard down with another blow and he was now being held up by 5 trenchies. He was breathing heavily as he saw Jack yelling, 'Why didn't you run?!"
Ka'Shard roared, "It's too late now!"
Jack roared out, "Don't give up, Ka'Shard. You have a life to live! Consider this asylum to be a detour! You have a life to live! Remember that! Promise you'll remember that!"
Ka'Shard felt a tear drip into his kinless cheek and sizzle lightly. He didn't answer.
Jack continued, "Don't think that I won't try to free you. I met you and I felt that you were a blessing. You have a life to live!"
Ka'Shard simply stared and wept as he was thrust into the shack of the vehicle.
The other 5 trench coats got inside the shack as Trey manned the wheel. Ka'Shard ran to the steel grating and saw jack quickly disintegrate into the night.
Ka'Shard turned around and saw the trench coats sitting on benches on both sides. Ka'Shard began to bend back when a club knocked his back.
"You're going to stand."
Ka'Shard heard Trey laugh, "You know, it's funny, you wasted your energy for nothing."
Ka'Shard growled back, "There was no reason to say that, and there's no reason to send me to an asylum."
Ka'Shard fell to the floor as he got clubbed again.
A trench coat asked, "Hey Trey, what about that guy who was yelling, that we left behind?"
Ka'Shard began to rise slowly.
Trey replied, "Cape boy is a good enough find for me. I've been waiting for him to come along."
Ka'Shard ran to the front of the stable and began pounding the barrier between him and Trey.
Trey yelled out, "Don't hurt him."
Ka'Shard turned around and softly said, "You know what? Go ahead?"
Trey yelled, "Don't"Ka'Shard sneered, "It's not gonna hurt ya."
Clubers were slowly being lfted when Trey interrupted, "Don't even thingk about it."
Ka'Shard raised his hands in the air, "It won't cost you anything."
Trey laughed, "You don't know how much you cost, do you? You don't realize that you're a gold mine. You're like a gift to me."
Ka'Shard yelled, "How do I cost you anything?! What do I cost you?!"
Trey muttered softly, "Oh, I don't know, with you it'd cost me my reputation and well…….my chance for revenge."
Ka'Shard raised his eyebrow.
The capital of Driniscule was marvelous. Buildings towered over the busy streets meeting up with the cold dayless sky. Bright lights were lit all around and seemed to create illusions of stars in the sky.
The stable skidded across a corner where the buildings seemed to lessen.
Before Ka'Shard's eyes stood, the gates of Raynul Asylum. The black, speared gates were taller than two mobile stables.
Ka'Shard stood staring as the doors of the stable opened. He suddenly jolted heard-first into the gates as a foot rested itself deep into his back.
He stepped back rubbing his head when he heard the squeak of the mighty gates opening in front of him, mocking him as they stood over. Acres upon acres of 3 foot tall grass spread around in all directions.
He felt another foot go into his back and he fell forward into the miniature jungle. His vision was covered except for small strands of sight standing between the blades of grass.
He heard rustling noise ahead of him. The blades of grass swayed to and fro and eventually passed the epidemic of movement to the grass closer to him. He felt herbal scent as the grass swoothed against his face.
He felt he had to get up but the foot remained in his back. Where was Trey? The rustling came closer and closer when he saw a yellow slitted eye appear before him. A head lunged forward at him when he felt himself being lifted from someone behing him.
It was Trey.
Trey laughed, "These snakes are what you'll have to deal with if you miraculously get out of the building."
Trey bent over and picked up a snake fearlessly. It coiled around his arm slowly like a dark green vine. Around his head was long yellow zig-zag. His scales appeared rough and crusty. Its fangs hung out of its mouth like a sabertooth tiger. It's long, pink-slit tongue slid out at about one-third of its body length.
Ka'Shard was wide-eyed as the snake glared at him menacingly. He felt a hand scoot him forward, putting him into the yellow eyes of the serpent. The serpent quickly fell to the ground as it was released from the clutches of Trey.
Ka'Shard and the trench coats continued to walk towards the building.
The building was grey and windowless. The ceiling was flat except for in the middle here it rose up pentagonally. Atop the outbreak stood a black bar, a long black bar, with an 'R' formatting out of it. The closer Ka'Shard got to the building, the more smooth the walls looked, almost like the one you might have in your room.
They finally arrived at the 5-step staircase leading to the doors. On the sides of the staircase were two carven images of Phenolanierains lashing forward.
Trey laughed, "Not all of the Phenolanierains around here are fake you know."
Trey approached the door and stood before a big hole to the side. He got out a pistol and set it to disintegration mode. It turned out he could dilate it and reduce the green oval to any side he wanted. Once he got it to the right size he began to pull the trigger. A rainbow of colors flew out of the hole in tiny particles. It seemed almost like fairy dust. Finally the dust finally stopped coming and the doors slowly opened inwards.
The trenchcoats walked in with Ka'Shard in the front. They quickly stopped at a man behind a glass window. Beneath it there was a transparent cord with dust flowing through it to a little it rose up through the grey stand underneath the glass window.
Trey stepped forward and said, "We got a newbie here."
The man asked, "Name/"Trey looked back smiling at Ka'Shard and turned back ready to speak when Ka'Shard yelled out, "The name is Ka'Shard."
A club smacked Ka'Shard in the back.
Trey then pointed through the window on the back of the man's wall. He was pointed at a black pad with a dial. The man turned around and rotated it. Trey slowly bent over to the end of the cord and began to whisper extremely quiet and muttered two words to the man. The man nodded and then Trey continued talking. 2 more words came out when all of a sudden a word came out loudly through the cord. "Horrowitz" Trey smacked his head.
The man turned around and created a yellow swirl with his hands. Scrambled letters were visible within the swirls. Ka'Shard assumed this was the man's way of entering information. The man turned back to the window and asked, "Purpose/"
Trey raised his eyebrow.
The man laughed, "I'm just kidding." He turned around and began to enter more information. He turned around again to say, "Block F17, under Dr. Gerard Fernolo, treatment begins tomorrow at sunrise, medications will be given at the desk down the hall, and then you proceed to the branding room."
Ka'Shard was horrified. "Branding room/"
The man smiled, "It's just a name. Welcome to Raynul Asylum, please enjoy your stay here." A stub came out of the cord and landed in Trey's hand.
Ka'Shard and the trenchies walked down the hall and stopped at the desk. Behind it stood a humongous nurse. He was as wide as the desk! She wore some sort of shower cap, and continually made chewing noises with her mouth. Trey handed the stub to her, and she opened a drawer. She took out 5 different kinds of medication. "This is Despacin, take it 4 times a day."
Ka'Shard asked, "What's it for/"
The woman ignored him and then lifted another medication, "This you'll have to take 4 times a day but not in combination with the Despacin."
Ka'Shard asked again, "Do you know what it's for."
The woman continued, "This one right here is only before you go to bed. This right here can be taken at any time of day, 5 doses. And here's some painkillers."
Ka'Shard asked, "What are those for/"The woman sneered, "They kill pain."
Ka'Shard sighed, "Well, I knew that. But what are the other ones for."
Trey laughed, "It's a shame that he's here really, he's almost like a child. Aren't you?" he began pinching Ka'Shards uninjured check. "Come along now."
Ka'Shard pleaded, "Please tell me what the branding room is."
Trey replied, "It's how they identify you here."
Ka'Shard asked, "How are they going to identify me?"
Trey opened the door and there stood a man holding a black bar in some sort of fireplace. He pulled it out and the end was burnt. The end was in the shape of an 'R'.
The man said, "Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit."
Ka'Shard closed his eyes as the bar got closer and closer to his face. He didn't want to look but he felt he had to. He opened his eyes and the bar remained still in front of his uninjured cheek. Floating 'R's were flying towards Ka'Shard's face and he couldn't even feel it.
Then Trey slowly stood behind the man with the brander and 'accidentally' tripped on himself and the man. The brander came right onto Ka'Shard's cheek and he howled in pain. Ka'Shard fell to the ground holding his burning face. He tossed and turned when finally the pain went away. He opened his eyes and he saw another brander. It was a lot of little tiny letters he couldn't read. They floated to his face peacefully and he was done.
The brander lifted him up and shook his hand and said, "Welcome to Raynul Asylum, please enjoy your stay. Now off to your cell."
Ka'Shard and the trench coats walked to a large room that seemed like where the patients would spend their time during the day. Ka'Shard looked all around, and nothing was right. A teensie stood shivering under a small circular table. 2 men were looking very weary and hit their heads on a table holding their medications. Another man sat stood by a medication refill window, twitching his eye. The people that worked her obviously didn't care about any of these things.
He saw them in another room through glass. They wore long white lab coats and seemed to be playing poker.
Ka'Shard was startled when a hand appeared in front of his face. He looked down and saw a little man with lowered brows say, "Welcome." Ka'Shard shuddered.
Then he saw a patient who really caught his eye. He was in a wheelchair, he didn't move at all. He resembled a frog with black and grey skin. His eyes were above his mouth and he had odd strands of hair hand down his head. He wore a black shirt with a skull on it. He had no visible legs and yet he seemed to have short and stubby, webbed feet. The frog remained inaminate. He simply stared at the lab coats deadly.
Ka'Shard finally arrived to his cell. All the cells were painted white. Trey used his pistol dust method to open the door. He shoved Ka'Shard in roughly. Ka'Shard saw a small figure in the corner. "Um, is it wise to put two insane people in one cell."
Trey replied, "Let me answer that. We are the trench coats. I need say no more." Trey and the trenchcoats continued walking.
Ka'Shard slowly walked towards the figure at the corner of the cell. He was very small.
"You're in here on technicalities aren't you?"
Ka'Shard scratched his head, "I guess."
The figure turned around and revealed himself to be a Teensie. His eyes however, were brown and he was the first Teensie Ka'Shard had seen with a full head of black hair that sunk over his face.
The Teensie continued, "Yeah, ever since the trenchies came, it's all been technicalities. Sure, some of us, including me, are truly insane but a third of the patients here don't even belong."
Ka'Shard asked, "What do you know about the trenchies?"
The teensie replied softly, "Let's just say they were fighting for a good cause once. But they've become obsessed. The best way to describe them is "power-hungry vigilantes."
Ka'Shard scratched his head, "I don't know what that means."
The teensie answered, "They take the law into their own hands in order to achieve a goal. Now they make laws and control the government. The crime rate has upped by about 500%, you'll be thrown in a jail or an asylum for anything. Phenolanierains are roaming the streets. You need to get a warrant in order to leave the house, and you better have a frickin' good reason. It may look like the streets are busy, but it's just a bunch of lightning fast undercover trenchy cars. Whenever the trenchies need something like food or fabulous furnishing they'll raid houses and such. There's more but I'm tired."
Ka'Shard asked, "How do you know all this, you don't seem insane?"
The Teensie answered, "Oh, I'm insane, physically and mentally. You'll see me insane in due time. Right now I'm only insane mentally. I was thrown in before the time of the trenchies. The name is Fuinto."
Ka'Shard questioned, "What do you mean by physical insanity and mental insanity?"
Fuinto laughed, "This is just an old man's definition I'm about to tell you. Physical insanity is insanity of the brain. Mental insanity is insanity of the soul."
Ka'Shard raised his eyebrow.
Fuinto continued, "Physical insanity is why they throw you in asylums if you're not on a technicality. Things like inability to associate with other beings and fear of cotton. Mental insanity is when you fight with your soul. It's thinking too much about why things are the way they are, or wondering if you have a soul, asking yourself if you're just a dead spirit or a lively spirit. I don't know if that made any sense to you."
Ka'Shard walked over to the bunk bed and heard Fuinto say, "I get the top." Ka'Shard plopped down onto the surprisingly hard bed. It felt like concrete. This place was starting to anger him indeed. On another corner of the room he noticed a golden toilet. So it was true. He got off the bed and looked around, below the bed was a book. This must be a celebrity phonebook.
Ka'Shard saw a shadow pass by and a paper flew through the bars of the cell.
Fuinto was now on the top bed peering over. "Looks like you've got a piece of Raynul Writing courtesy of Trey Jonner. I advise you not to read it, it helps no one."
Ka'Shard bent over and picked it up. He sat down on his bed and began reading. He surprisingly had no trouble reading.
J. D. McGrennar angrily tossed his sign into the garbage can. He and his fellow protestors had failed to cause even the slightest persuasion with the government. The group was getting cranky, talks of an uproar to end the oppression were brooding. The protestors grew restless as the nighttime continued. 5 protestors began to walk one way, and the rest got on public transportation.
J.D. McGrennar had no money left, so he set out to walk on his own. Rain poured hard down into the ground, and J.D. ran back to retrieve his sign from the waste disposal unit and lifted it over his head.
He walked slowly and decided to take a shortcut. He turned at a very thin alley way. He heard footsteps behind him. He turned back and saw a shadow shoot by. He continued walking down the alley way. He saw a brick wall in front of him with a few outbreaks. As he got closer he heard the footsteps again. He turned around and saw nothing.
He put one foot on a loose brick and tossed away his sign to free his hands. He grabbed a brick above him, and he heard more footsteps. He turned around yet again and saw nothing. He lifted his second leg to another brick and continued climbing. The rain stopped. J.D. grabbed another brick and heard the haunting footsteps yet again. Sweat began to pour down his face.
He turned around and saw nothing. He almost reached the top of the wall when he heard the footsteps again. The footsteps sank into his mind and drove him mad. He turned around and saw 2 eyes behind him. One of the bricks he was holding slid out and he fell to the ground. He thought he was stuck. The wall served as a barrier between him and the shadow. He had nowhere to go. He backed up against the wall and little did he know he was going to be attacked from behind.
Something hit the back of the wall and all the bricks toppled over crushing J. D. McGrennar.
Ka'Shard's eye were brightly lit when he heard Fuinto whisper, "Mental Insanity is accumulating.