The Monster Man - Part 1

The Monster Man - Part 1

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Bratish never thought that he will ever come to that point in his life where his original identity will get revealed. Though every one around him have an uncanny feeling about him, but they also know that he is harmless. He has never been rude to the dog that barks on him whenever he crosses it. Bratish works in a private firm in Dalhousie. He is loner and lives in a flat in South Kolkata. But that night he does not know what happened, that it culminated into such an out burst. We will come to that later. The time we are talking is much ahead of the time we are living in. Our beloved city has changed a lot and is in a state where we can easily compare the city with that of Gotham.

The lepers in the city has grown and are inhabited by criminals, though they have been forced to criminality. Due to the sudden out break of some plague most of the part of the country became a unhealthy place to live, thus there was a mass migration from the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. Though not the whole, it got divided in different parts of Uttar Pradesh and Odisha. Government was reluctant to take any proper measures.

Thus the lepers have grown and are being used as the vote bank of the state. Though the city was never in peace but the roars kept increasing day by day. The nights are no longer safe, the inhabitants of the lepers take over the city in the night. Basically these inhabitants are scavengers on street. The plague has infected the brains of the victims and those who have been recovered is suffering from a weird syndrome.

Bratish lives in a different part of the city which is well guarded from all these disturbances. He lives in a small flat with a single bedroom, a small balcony which is adorned by some plants, a small kitchen and a bathroom. Bratish loves to read different kinds of books and also has an keen interest for old romantic movies in Bengali. Normally he comes out of his office at around seven o clock in the evening, takes the same bus and returns back to his home. On the way back he will go through the rest of the daily news paper, but gets disheartened by the growing unrest in the city.

After reaching home he will first take a bath in the cold water that he stores in the morning, then he will prepare his own dinner (same dinner three chapatis and four pieces of fried brinjal), and he will have it watching some old movie. In the night he will complete a book and then go to sleep.

Bratish has got a weird look. He is seven feet tall guy, which is very uncommon among the Bengalis, a huge chunk of curly hair on his head which is comparable with a crow nest (a large one), a big face, small pair of eyes and two lobes of his skin hanging at least two inches from his skin. In short he has got the perfect look to play the selfish giant. Bratish will find very often people asking him, what are those lobes and he will make different stories every time. Bratish enjoys his ambiguity. He still remembers the day when he first came to this planet.

Though it was a life time punishment for him, but some how he fell in love with the people over here. Even the street dog near his house which will invariably bark on him whenever he will see him. Though he has got some loving neighbors, most of them are old couples. On his weekends he will spend time with them, though daily he will have very mundane food. But on the weekends he will cook exotic vegetarian dishes which learns over the internet. They will sit down in the small garden in the backyard of the co-operative housing where he lives. It was desolate ground which has again turned into a garden of paradise by our man. On the weekend they will gather for the lunch meticulously cooked by Bratish.

"Bratish when will you be marrying; you are getting old", asked Mrs. Ghosh chewing on the spinach and brinjal delicacy. "Don't worry about me Mrs. Ghosh I am fine without marriage", replied Bratish. " You don't understand after an age every body needs somebody to look after, we all are oldies. Hardly we will be living for couple of years and soon this flat will be haunted by our souls, what will happen to you then?" replied Mr. Burman.

Bratish has grin on his face. He knew for sure that he is in no situation for marrying anybody here. "I am married already." said Bratish politely. "Then where is she and why aren't you visiting her where ever she is?" inquired Mr. Bose. "But I cannot go back to her" said Bratish leaving the chair on which he was sitting. The others felt a bit uncomfortable, some also started whispering.

Bratish was looking into the bright blue sky, when Mrs. Mehra put her hand on his shoulder. Bratish turned, "We are sorry to bother you on this matter, we didn't know", said Mrs. Mehra apologetically. " Please don't apologize, it's alright, you people are concerned about me and that is really heart warming." said Bratish with a smile. "Let us not discuss these grim matters, come Bratish sit and please share what new story have you read recently, we like to hear stories from you." said Mr. Guha. Bratish comes and sit and started with his story. It was all going well in his life, but that dreadful night changed everything.

The firm where Bratish used to work deals with security personnel. Now a days the security has become an important issue in the city. Every single day there will be unrest in the city. The crime level has grown a different level. Even the police force of the city has turned in to nincompoops. Rapes have been happening in regular basis as a portion of the leper colonies are inhabited by scavengers for whom rapes are fun. Though the administration has been planning for constructing huge walls surrounding the lepers so that they cannot breach in.

These inhabitants of the leper are also allergic to the sun rays and that is why they never come out in the day time. The government has appealed to the private security firms to give support along with the state police. For past few months Bratish is not fortunate enough to go back home at the time he used to go and has to stay back at office in order to take the record of any kind of anomaly.

That day he came out of his office at around, ten o clock in the night. Though he didn't have to wait too long for the bus and it was comparatively empty. When he got inside the bus he saw a young girl sitting in one of the front seats and few men in the back seat of the bus. He settled down one of the seats. Bratish was quite tired after a long day work and he was feeling sleepy. He once thought of bringing out the news paper in his duffel bag. But then he taught what is the use, same old news. Thus he leaned his head on the rod of thye window of the bus and closed his eyes. He wake up with a sudden scream. He saw the bus is still plying, but the men who was occupying the back seat have pounced over the young girl who was sitting in the front seat and are trying to rape her. Bratish got up from her seat and came forward.

"Leave her, what all are you trying to do?" a futile plead from Bratish. "Mind your own business you meat ball" said one of the men. Bratish recognized them to be the leper guys, Due to perspiration the makeup they were wearing has came off. Bratish got really scared at this he never though of confronting them. But he cannot see a crime being committed in front of his eyes. He immediately called the police headquarter for help from his mobile. "Hello, headquarters?" Bratish couldn't finish lodging his complain there was a blow in chin and fell down on the floor of the bus.

"You really need some lesson old boy, don't you know who we are?" said the man who knocked Bratish down on the bus floor. Now Bratsih is in danger, the man picked up Bratish's phone and threw it away from the bus.

"Haven't you read in the news papers it's not that we are preying women and girls we are also preying on men, com'on boys we have got a double meal today."

The bus seems to have been hijacked by them. That is why the bus has not stopped yet. There were five men, two got hold of the girl and the rest pounced upon Bratish and started beating him and tried to tear off his clothes and pull off his pant. Bratish tried hard to fight them back but his efforts were of no use. But then suddenly a tentacle came out and pierced through the brain of one of the men, without a loss of moment two more tentacles came out piercing through the heat of the other two.

The rest who were holding the girl got sacred along with the girl, they could not believe their eyes, it was not Bratish anymore who was standing, His face has parted from where the ferocious tentacles are dangling out and the other two from his chest. Both the men left the girl and tried to run but the tentacles went straight through their body and diced them in two parts. The tentacles were still dangling out of his body, the girl kept screaming at the top her voice. Since the tentacles came out of his face, he was unable to see anything, he slowly came forward toward the girl, grabbed her by one of his tentacle. The girl struggled but her efforts turned futile, he pulled the girl near him and smelled her once, then suddenly the tentacles released her. Bratish slowly fall on the floor of the bus and became unconcious.


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