The Renegades

Chapter 4: The mask.

In the year 19XX, a famous theater in the France was about to be open, They had actors from all countries, one of them were a japanese one called Takeda, it were his first day acting outside japan, The play would start in a few hours so the actors should be prepared to soon act on stage.
The first play were a success, it were a good start to something that were beggining, every month they featured a different play and always the tickets sold out, it were years of glory and success, but the worst day of Takeda were coming.
The young and humble boy were acting in a play, that play were about a young knight that wanted to prove to everyone that he was able to face a dragon, The fire was simulated by harmless sparks that the dragon Spit, but in the middle of the play occured an error on the effects and the dragon spat real fire, the fire hit Takeda's face that screamed in pain with his hands covering his face he fell on floor crying in pain and screaming, soon some actors took him off the stage and took him to a hospital.
The doctor healed the wounds but his face weren't the same anymore, his face was disfigured and Takeda could not afford plastic surgery, After this incident the theater had to close.
Takeda was now 18 and since that incident, he spent his whole life hiding his face with a paper bag, he decided visit the closed theatre to see what remained of the place, he entered the theater by the underpass that only the actors knew about it, now he were inside the theatre that was completely destroyed and Musty, The stage looked like it could collapse at any moment.
He were walking around the theater when he saw something that caught his attention, beneath the rubble was a box with something inside, he ran in the box direction and removed the debris from the box and opened it, inside the box had some theatre masks, but the one he liked the most was one made of iron still intact, he took that mask and wore it, the mask were perfect for him.
He coudn't stay there any longer because he heard a police siren, the officers check daily to see if there is no one there because it is a restricted area and Takeda didn't wanted any trouble, he went out by the underpass but it were too late, he got caught by the police.
He got arrested for stealing and trespassing, the mask were taken away from him, and everyone could see his burned face.
Every single day in the prison was like hell, everyone mocked him because of his disfigurated face.
- "Hey! Look who's here! The japanese Freddy Krueger!"
He did not reacted to it.
- "Aww? The fire burned your tongue too?"
- "No... I just don't want to spend my words with someone ridiculous as you."
- "WHAT DID YOU SAID YOU JAPANSESE SCUM?"
- "You heard well! Oh my bad! I forgot that I don't speak the scum's language!"
He lifted his fist to punch his face but suddenly he fell on the floor cold, Takeda's hands had blood on it, he had shoved his long nails on the guy's neck.
- "I think putting blades on my nails weren't a bad idea... Who's next?"
Everyone were shaking, they could not approach him because of the fear.
- "Now, bring my mask back, or everyone will have a closer look at my nails..!"
Everyone went looking for the mask, exactly 30 minutes later they got the mask and gave back to Takeda that put on the mask right away, he wasn't planning to stay any longer in that prison, he already got what he wanted.
The night came, while all the prisoners were sleeping, he hid himself from the cops outside his cell.
To clean his way he stealthily killed the guards in the prison one by one, until he finnaly left it.
Now that he escaped, Takeda didn't had any goal in life, until he saw somewhere a man forcefully taking a woman to a dark alley and taping her mouth with his hands, it was clear what was going to happen there so Takeda went there.
- "Hey you! Take your dirty hands off this woman..!"
- "Nobody called you here! Fuck off!"
- "You're playing the worst role in this play! Time to end your act!"
- "Bullshit!" He ran towards Takeda and tried to kill him with a switchblade.
But the young man were faster, he jumped over the man and shoved his nails on The man's neck killing him, the woman was now crying.
- "Thank you! You saved my life! How should i reward you?"
- "There's no need... I just did what i think it's right."
- "What's your name?"
- "..." He left the place.
Takeda now had a goal in his life, the life got more challenging, he had to run from the police and save people at the same time, he was known as "masque de fer" all over the France, for some people he was a hero but unlike normal heroes, "Masque de fer" doesn't gives bad guys to the police, he kills them.
Because of his methods a lot of people thinks that he is a villain, but it doesn't matters to Takeda, all he wanted was find a goal in life after the incident in the theater, and he found it... Kinda, it wasn't what he wanted, but he believes that he's doing the right thing, and that's what matters for him.
In his conviction, he's playing the greatest role in the life's theater.