Stigma: The Ripper

Search for the Ripper (4)

RUSTLE! RUSTLE! RUSTLE! RUSTLE! RUSTLE! RUSTLE!

               “Search that place, he might be here. Were not leaving till we find even the smallest trace of him.” One soldier said as they continue to look for ‘The Ripper’ inside a dense forest. The soldiers continue to go west and out of the greens where they still continue to look for him, unbeknownst to them, they passed by the one they are looking for inside the forest where ‘The Ripper’ hid himself up in the tallest of trees.

                “Looks like they are gone. I was wondering why I was followed so it was because of that. Leaders of the nation really are rotten. After they killed my group do they really think that I will side even one of them?” he thinks to himself as he sees the shining armors of the soldiers from a distance. TAK! he jumps off the tree and went in a different direction.

               And at the same time, the man with the eye patch is travelling along with his one and only buddy that he continues to bully because of certain things. “Damn! I would be f*****g a lot of ladies by now if I only knew!” he screams his disappointment out loud without a care in the world and as he spoke this, his assistant could only pretend not to hear him. “That ripper, I will definitely catch him and free myself from their grasp. f*****g stigmas, just because they are privilege they can do anything they want. They are all the same, stigmas are rotten to the core!”

               His assistant then covers his mouth which he immediately slaps off. “What the hell do you think you are doing?!” “But boss, if some of the stigmas hear you, hey might try to attack us. I heard some cases happened in the far east, people that talk bad about stigmas are killed and cut their heads off then stake them on spikes.” The eye patch man then slaps him even harder. “There you go again. Where the hell did you get that? Is it from those old folks that are from the east? They poisoned your mind or something?”

               Again, the assistant could not help but stay silent about what his boss had done and said. The boss still continues to curse the stigmas as they continue their journey on foot when all of the sudden they saw a man wearing all black crossing a river relatively easy. The grin on the boss’ face almost reach both sides of his ears, thinking that he could end his contract with the higher ups because of him. “We found him. What are you doing in these mountains, Ripper?”

               The boss started running towards the man and the assistant followed. “Looks like we are going to end our contract here Vargan, we are free men.” The boss mutters with a smile but the assistant is hesitant because the person they are running towards about, does not have the same aura and atmosphere around him. “The clothes are the same but his aura feels off. He doesn’t give off the same vibe that I got when I first saw him for the first time.” The assistant think to himself as he looks at ‘The Ripper’ intensely, making sure that they have the same man in front of them.

               The two are going fast but the one that is showing more enthusiasm and determination is the boss, pouring every strength he has to reach ‘The Ripper’ as fast as he could but to their surprise, the one that they are going for turned back and run away as if he saw a ghost. They can see the fear and shock on his eyes. It is then that the assistant is certain that it is not the one that they are looking for. He stopped briefly but his boss did not show any signs of stopping on his tracks. “What?” he thinks to himself.

               “You bastard! I will definitely kill you! I will kill you! You impersonating bastard!” the man with the eye patch says to himself with a furious look on his face, ready to explode and vent his anger to the one that tried to impersonate ‘The Ripper’. In no time, the man with the eyepatch caught on to the man with the same outfit as ‘The Ripper’ and then grab his neck and slam him to the boulder. “Ah! What the f**k! That hurts!” the man groan in pain as blood come running down his nose like a stream of water.

               The boss could not help but grind his teeth in anger and wants to lush out on the man but since he doesn’t even know his story, he stops himself before he can kill the guy. “What the f**k are you doing in those clothes!? Do you know what kind of trouble you might get in if other people sees you in those clothes!?” the boss then grabs his clothes and wants to punch him out of anger but is still able to control himself.

               “Please don’t hurt me. I don’t know anything. I am just a travelling man. Someone just gave me this because I was cold. I didn’t know he was being hunted down.” The man immediately takes off his black clothes and revealed his face. The assistant then arrives and sees that it really is not the same person that they saw that day. “That is not the man that we saw that day. He is not ‘The Ripper’ boss.” The boss could not help but tremble in fear and anger.

               He sat on the ground in disappointment and defeat.  “f**k! What rotten luck is this!?”  the assistant felt sorry for his boss since he knows his pain too well, too well that they both almost share the same fate. “Mr. can you tell us where the man that gave you those clothes went? We are searching for him before the other people get to him first.” The man just look at the both of them as if he finds them suspicious while wiping down the blood on his nose.

               “I don’t know where that guy went, the moment I was done changing to these clothes, he was already gone.” He said with a bit of hesitation. “But I think I know where he went, judging by the direction that he came from, he must be avoiding people from the village so he must be going to an opposite direction.” The man added. The boss then looks at him maliciously. “I think I know what to do to get my freedom today.” He said with a huge grin on his face.

               The man then felt a surge of danger coming from the boss and backed off a few steps. “Wait? What do you plan on doing? I don’t like that look on your face, hey man. Look at him, he is making some weird faces. Look!” the man wants to run away but the boss immediately grabs him before he can bring to make some space between them. “I think I know what to do now.” He said with a smile. “I don’t think I want to know what he wants to do.” He mutters to himself in the thought of him being in danger at the hands of people that he is seeing for the first time.

               “That should be more than enough to get them off my track.” The ripper mutters to himself, still uncomfortable of his new look. “Well, I guess this is better than being chased around all the time. It will be a matter of time before they find out who I am, I better change the way I look and how do things.” He said to himself as he continue west.

               An hour later, the boss and his assistant returns to the village where they are immediately greeted by the officer in charge after seeing a man wearing the same clothes that ‘The Ripper’ is wearing. “Is that him? Is that the Ripper?” the officer ask with enthusiasm. “Yeah, we found him at the river in the south.” The man with the eye patch then holds the stranger’s tightly. “Now then, please excuse me. I will have to report to my higher ups. We have a contract with them and this will terminate that contract.” He said with a huge smile on his face.