Stigma: The Ripper

Search for the Ripper (2)

“Did you hear what happened in the marching army from the west? I heard a single man single-handedly did that alone.”

               “What? Is the source even reliable? If that’s the case then wouldn’t the kingdom be searching for that very man?”

               “I overheard it from the soldiers that went there to look for Lord Rios but apparently they were too late. They even said that some of the enemies still have their swords sheathed. That only means that their words held truth in it.”

               “But even still, thousands of soldiers got beaten by one? The ratio does not make sense at all.”

               “I know, that is why people are starting to look for the guy. Many will want to get their hands on that man, no matter how pricy he can be. A one man army.”

               The drunkards at a certain talks about the Ripper that killed thousands of soldiers alone and is the center of rumors going around in the nearby villages and the nearest city. “Yes! Ugh! Yes! Do me harder! Give me your offspring!” one female moans out loud just as a knock came to the door and disturb their intimate moment.

               “Boss.” BAGANG! A boot came flying to the door as it only opened a bit. “You bastard! I told you not to interrupt when I am doing something like this! Its not everyday that you get to taste delicate meat like this!” a man with an eyepatch yelled at the man outside the door. “But it is important. The higher ups have told me to do everything to get your attention.”

               PLOP! PLOP! PLOP! PLOP!

               The man then clicks his tongue and push the woman to the side and slaps her bottom hard. BOOP! “KYA!” the man then walk naked towards the door and screams at the woman. “Get out! We are done here!”

               Terrified of what might happen to her, she immediately runs away while covering her private parts. The moment she passed by the man, he slaps her bottom once again but even harder this time. BOOP! “Ah! You jerk!” she raised her middle finger at him before leaving. “You better hope its that important to interrupt my f*****g precious time!” the one outside then walks inside the room while the man with an eyepatch wore his pants and lights up a cigarette.

               “Boss, the thing is that the higher ups wants you to find a certain person. You know, the man from the rumors. They were unsure of the previous rumors that surfaced since it doesn’t have any evidence backing it up but this time the evidence is greater than the previous ones.” The man puffs a huge cloud of smoke from his nose and looks at him with a dead look on his face. “So its about that man again.” He made weird movements with his mouth and licked his lips. “Do they even understand that no person had seen that man before? And they want me to look for that man? That is basically a ghost!  A needle in a haystack. Who in their f*****g mind would want to do a job like that!?”

The man then slams his cigarette on the floor and watch it burn away and then grabbing the man by his neck with immense strength that the man could not breathe and could only look at the man with the eyepatch up close. “Look here you fucker. You can tell those bastards from above to kiss my ass. I will never accept such a troublesome job with no basis on who the f**k that guy even is.” TUG!

               He then throws the man on the floor, panting and catching his breathe. “The higher ups said that this is the last job that you will have, after you complete this, you are free.” He said with a pained tone just as the man with the eyepatch is about to leave. “They said that?” the man holding his neck nod his head and hands him the letter that he got.

“Filthy bastards. Using that to make me do their bidding. f*****g pieces of shit.” He mutters while reading the letter and then crumples it. “Let’s go. We are looking for that bastard.” He said after taking up all of his belongings inside the room. “Where are we going to start looking boss?” the man with the eyepatch looks at him with disappointment. “Where else would we go to get some information about that bastard? In the west part of the kingdom of course! f*****g i***t, use your head for once! Only in that part of the kingdom will have some information about that guy, the villages and the people could have seen a lone warrior walking in the road!”

The man with the eyepatch bumped a man walking the street in a hood and screamed at the man who still continues to walk like nothing happened. “You f*****g blind!? Use your eyes! f*****g peasants.”  The one walking along with the man with the eyepatch looks at the one that his boss bumped on to with interest who then turns to a corner. “Strange, why do I feel like he is the one that we are looking for?” he said to himself when his boss immediately slap his head. “Pay attention you dimwit.”

The man then turns to the corner and found the mysterious man no more. “Yes boss.” He meekly replied. “Come and have fun with us.”          

“We will let you taste heaven.”

“We also have virgins here.”

“Please come and have fun with me.” A certain p********e grab the man’s arm as he passes by a brothel. The strange man slowly turns to the excited woman who is already in heat and thirsts for a man’s embrace but all she could find is the cold stare and expression on his face. “KYA!” she immediately let go of his arm in fear. “Wise choice.” He mutters with a cold tone as he continues to walk. The other p********e then run towards her and ask if something happened even when they are all watching her. “Nothing. I was just a bit surprised at how he looked.” She continues to shiver even when the man is already far away. The cold look on his face seeps on to her roots, planting fear on to her, permanently. “A living death.” She tells herself as she felt death surrounding her the moment she grabs his arm.

“Well, well ,well. What do we have here? A lone warrior in an alley in the middle of the day? I will keep this short. Give us all that you have and we’ll let you live with your bones in place.” The people that the strange man encountered are muggers ad local thugs in the area, a reason why no people chose to pass that alley. He then hands them his sword and a bag filled with coins. “Yeah, that’s more like it-!” BOOM!

The leader of the thugs falls to the ground with a single hit to the face, immediately dislocating his jaw. “What in the-!” the one thug that was about to pull his blade out got his arm crushed with a single hit by a knee, making it bend on the opposite direction and expose the bone out of his flesh. The other two that was about to jump on his, caught their heads and slams them together on the wall. He single handedly defeated the group with ease. A citizen saw everything that happened and immediately run to get help,  soldier then arrives at the scene and calls out to the thug leader’s name. “You’re at it again Carlo?! How many times do I have to get you out of prison-!”

The soldier is shocked to see that four of them are in desperate need of medication after suffering heavy injuries. He then tried to stop the man who is walking away from the scene and runs up to him but when they both locked eyes, the soldier froze in fear and falls on his back. “S-s-stop.” GUILP!

               The strange man continues to walk away with the soldier having no confidence in stopping him. His colleagues arrived and ask what happened. “Tell them, he might be here. That guy, the Ripper. I think he is the one responsible for this. He is here!” his colleagues then looks at the direction and saw that the strange man disappeared. They immediately reported to their higher officials.

               “Are you certain of this? There are already a few that claimed to have found ‘The Ripper’ but turned out to be fakes. I don’t want to arrest my own men this time for claiming the same thing.” Their officer said with a stern tone but then the soldier that faced the strange man walks up front. “I saw him, the cold look on his eyes. And the seemingly cold aura that envelopes him as if death is staring right at my face.” The soldier stopped talking and continues to tremble.

               “Very well, go and treat him. He must be terribly bothered.” The officer then runs out of the building and rides the carriage. “Where to?” the coacher asked. “To the nearest city. We might have ‘The Ripper’ here in our village. We need support from them to even consider negotiating with him.” Hearing those words, the carriage immediately take off to the nearest city in the east.