SEVEN: Cursed Souls

CHAPTER 21: SIN OF LUST

"You seem so eager to let that man die?!" the person that looks like Ryder asks.

"I am not! Why am I here again? And why do you keep popping in my dream?"

"I have been always in here. I told you, I am you!"

"If you are me, why must you ask my own thoughts? Shouldn't you know yourself?"

"I am you but I also am not. You are also me but you also are not."

"Which only means that you are a separate entity, why must you present as I am"

"You'll know soon, but I know well that there is anger within you at this moment."

***

The next day.

Ryder was still baffled about what the entity in his dreams is telling him when Assassin fetched him for his mission.

"Where's the envelope? It's going to be hard this time," Assassin said.

Ryder gave the envelope to Assassin and like last time, he placed it into another envelope to hide the pink envelope that smells like vanilla where "SIN OF LUST" was written.

"You have to put this at this alley," Assassin said, showing a picture and its address.

"Why? Would that person see it?"

"Of course. He loves being at that alley!"

***

5PM near the alley that Assassin mentioned.

"Help! Please don't do this to me!" a lady shouts while Neil is holding a knife against her waist.

"Just walk in to that alley and shut up or else I'll stab you with this!" Neil threatens the lady.

"Please, if it is money you want then I'll give it to you. I'll give my phone, anything you want just don't hurt me please!" she begged in horror while feeling the sharp knife that could easily pierce through her skin if she does the wrong move.

"Anything, huh?" He grabbed her butt. The lady's eyes grew wide but she could not move, and there seems to be no one near so she has to be careful. "Turn right and go in to that alley!"

"Y-Yes," the lady said, afraid.

The lady just followed Neil's command due to fear. She walked right to the dark alley.

"Get your shirt off, show me your--" Neil looked at her chest, biting his lower lip.

"Why does he look like an animal, ready to bite on his food?" the lady thought.

"Please not my--" she said then covered her chest with her arms.

Neil placed the knife close to her neck.

The woman couldn't do anything so she slowly used her left hand to strip her clothes down while she sneaks her right hand to grab soil. Neil on the other hand pulled down his pants, his private part popped erect.

***

"Assassin! Wouldn't you stop him from doing something to her? And what are these dogs for?" Ryder asked.

"Those dogs haven't eaten for a long time which makes them both feral and rabid. Don't worry about the girl, surely she can escape"

***

"Please don't do this to me! Here's my phone! My money, take this! Take it all!" the lady said, also throwing the envelope she was able to grab.

"I don't need your money! I don't need your phone! I want you!" Neil told the lady then licked her ear. He looked at the things the lady threw. "This phone is useless, your money is useless. And this," he picked the envelope. "What is this?" he asked confused when he saw his name written behind it. "Stay there! Why is my name written here?!"

He tore the envelope, unfolded a paper inside it and threw it to the woman after reading it. "What is this?!"

The woman picked the envelope and read its contents too.

Neil Ramirez

Sin of Lust

45 Alley H, Canus Street, Hari, Lilim, Corazon

A wild animal that is hungered by natural desires. Yours is too much and it must end. Feral in the day and night, always seeking satisfaction. You have been an animal in bed and from your desire, evil fed. You'll be torn to pieces by animals that barks in the day and howls in the night, just like you and your wicked desires.

Death be upon you!

"What f*ckery is this? Anyway let's continue!"

The lady threw sand to Neil's eyes and kicked his private part, picked her phone and started to run to the other end of the alley.

"I need to think fast! I must escape! What? It's a dead end?! " the lady thought when she reached the end.

***

Ryder and Assassin were inside one of the buildings. Ryder keeps thinking where he saw that man when they witness him and the lady passing by where they are hiding. They are peeking through a hole.

"They are running, pull the door, let those hungry dogs out!" Assassin commanded.

That is when Ryder remembered something. "He was the accomplice of that man. He is the one that escaped after raping Jamila!" Ryder thought while his eyes suddenly turned all dark.

"I'll open the door!" Ryder said smiling uncannily. Assassin and the other members may not see him but his voice and the way he spoke sent them chills.

The other members hiding across Ryder and Assassin pushed a barricade so the dogs won't go the other way. Ryder laughed creepily while he was pulling the door to let the dogs out, as if he is out of his mind.

***

"You b*tch! I can't see!" Neil yelled, trying to wipe the sand in his eye, and zip his pants but it won't close, he got a bit of his testicles stuck.

"He shouldn't catch me, it's a dead end I must climb!" The lady thought while trying to find her way out.

"DO YOU THINK YOU CAN ESCAPE?!" He started scratching the wall and whistling.

A dog barfed behind him, he heard them running fast so he also started running but he stepped on his pants which tore the skin that was stuck to his zipper.

"WHAT SHIT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!" he yelled. He looked behind him to be startled by what he saw, not a time could he react as his body froze when he saw the thin yet large dogs running towards him, their mouths wide open. Before he could even turn away to run, a dog jumped and bit his private part, tearing it away as it smelled the blood which was dripping from it.

"Ahhh help me! What on earth--?!" He fell to the ground because more dogs jumped on him and bit him in different parts of his body, biting bone deep and ripping not only his skin, but also his muscles. "I am sorry! Help me please!" Neil thought as he wails from every part of him getting torn but no one came to his rescue.

The woman who was just able to climb the wall saw Neil's fate. "That's how it feels to be molested," she wiped a tear "to be sexually harassed. Its like animals are biting through your skin which not only leaves you a scar but also takes a piece of you and your life, your dignity!" she smiled then jumped to the other side of the wall.

***

Back at Reaper's lair.

"Non (Anonymous), he is awakened!" Assassin said

"Very well, at least he can now protect himself. The other members are afraid of him because of this reason, I trust you as my right hand, Assassin. You must protect him until he is ready," Anonymous told Assassin.

***

During the day that Neil was killed.

"Why am I here again?" Ryder thought.

"I am only helping. Bringing sinners' death is..." the person that looks like Ryder sighed, "your fate, Ryder!" he added, his eyes are dark and he casts smoke.

"Bringing their death is my fate?"

END OF PART I: DUSK