Note: Here it is people, the second-to-last chapter of this story. I hope that everyone has enjoyed the story, even if there's another chapter after this one. Now, without further ado, I bring you chapter fifteen.
Chapter 15: The Nightmare Is Over
Bert, Bentley, and Annie entered the Blue Spruce Café, where they saw Ralph, Melissa, Cedric, Cyril, Mr. Knox, George, and Captain Pepper sitting at tables. Schaefer came up to them, looking concerned.
"What's wrong guys?" He asked.
"We've got terrible news!" Bentley cried.
"Did you encounter the rapist?" Cedric asked.
"Yes," Bert said, "and I tried my best when it came to fighting him! Before I could do anything else, he slapped some rag loaded with a knockout drug on my face!"
"You mean chloroform?" Ralph asked.
"What about Lisa?" George asked.
"That crazy creep took her!" Bert said, "And I couldn't even beat him in a fight!"
"You'll get another chance, Raccoon!" Cyril chuckled, "By joining the manhunt, you have the chance of finding the culprit and beating him to a pulp!"
"But remember, we need to interrogate him first!" Captain Pepper said.
"Yeah," the aardvark said, "then we can put the ice on him!"
"Well, what are we waitin' for?!" Mr. Knox stood up.
"Let's get going!" Melissa brandished her baseball bat.
"Yeah!" Bert shouted.
"Are you coming with us, Schaefer?" Cedric asked.
"We could use a karate master like you in the manhunt." Bentley said.
"Manhunts aren't really my thing, but I hope you manage to bag that creep and make him pay for all the innocent girls he has violated!" Schaefer said.
"All right, let's go!" Cyril shouted.
The group ran out of the Blue Spruce Café with their weapons in the air, closing the door behind them. They then proceeded to walk down the street.
"Your call, bandit face." Cyril looked at Bert, "Which way do you think we should go?"
"I think that we should go deeper in the woods." Bert said, "For all we know, the creep could live in an isolated area."
"Good idea!" Bentley stated.
"I'm going to call reinforcements!" Captain Pepper spoke.
"Make sure that they're armed!" Cyril said.
"We're coming, Lisa!" George shouted into the woods.
"And we'll give the monster who captured you his karma!" Melissa shouted.
Lisa lie on the couch of the rapist's place, moaning in pain. While the soreness had set in, she also felt sick to her stomach. The raccoon could tell what was happening: morning sickness. She did not want to vomit just this minute. It was bad enough for Lisa that she had been raped twice, impregnated, and then kidnapped, but now she felt the urge to throw up. She couldn't sit up, as she believed that it would make it worse. If only that was the case.
"We're coming, Lisa!" Her ears picked up George's voice.
"And we'll give the monster who captured you his karma!" Melissa's voice rang out.
Despite feeling nauseous and sore, Lisa smiled, knowing that the others were coming to her rescue. However, the rapist walked into the room, looking at his captive quizzically.
"What the hell are you smiling for?" The masked man asked.
"Nothing." Lisa lied, hoping that her captor was stupid enough to believe her.
"I heard shouting outside," the man said, "we must have visitors."
"I'm sure that they're just on a hiking trip." Lisa stated.
A gunshot was heard outside, which startled the rapist.
"They must not come in peace!" The masked man said, "I'll go deal with them, you stay here!"
"On it." Lisa moaned, feeling her nausea return. Before her captor left, a pocket knife dropped out of his back pocket. Standing up, carefully enough that her nausea didn't take over, the raccoon picked up the knife and started to cut the ropes that bound her arms. Once her arms was free, Lisa lie back down on the couch.
When he comes back, I'm going to wring his neck! Lisa thought to herself, It serves him right for what he did and for being stupid enough to drop his knife! Everyone will be happy to know that I beat up a rapist!
Out in the woods, Cyril had fired his rifle at a tree, believing that the rapist was hiding in it. However, the culprit was nowhere to be found.
"Nice try, Mr. Sneer!" Bert chuckled.
"Oh, be quiet!" Cyril snorted, "I don't see you looking for the rapist, ringtail!"
"Pop has a point, Bert." Cedric said.
Captain Pepper walked towards the group.
"Did you call your reinforcements?" Cyril asked.
"They said that they'll be here in fifteen minutes." Captain Pepper answered.
"But we don't have fifteen minutes!" George cried.
"We've got to find Lisa before it's too late!" Bentley said.
"Let's split up!" Bert said.
"Bert, are you crazy?!" Melissa shouted.
"That's never a good idea, you blazing idiot!" Cyril glared at Bert.
"I know that it's not a good idea," Bert said, "but if we split up into groups, one of our groups might be able to find where the perp is holding Lisa!"
"Should we really do this?" Annie asked.
"It looks like that it's our only option." Bentley looked down.
"Looks like it." Cyril grumbled.
"I'll go with Bentley and Annie." Bert stated, "Cedric, you should go with Ralph and Melissa."
"What about me?" George asked.
"It's better if you stay here, Mr. Raccoon." Captain Pepper said, "I'll make sure that your daughter is returned to you, safe and sound."
"What about you, Captain?" Bentley asked.
"I'll go with Ralph, Melissa, and Cedric." The dog answered.
"Okay," Cyril said, "let's continue the manhunt!"
A few minutes had passed and Ralph, Melissa, and Cedric were not having the best of luck in their search for Lisa.
"How do we know if Bert was right about the culprit being here?" Cedric asked.
"Bert is hardly ever right nowadays," Ralph said, "so I think that the perp could be in a different part of the Evergreen Forest."
"It doesn't help that Bert told us to split up." Melissa stated.
"Yeah, we could be killed separately!" Ralph cried.
A rain drop fell onto Cedric.
"Oh boy, is it going to rain?" The aardvark groaned.
More raindrops fell from the sky.
"Wonderful." Ralph sighed.
"Now searching for the culprit is going to be more difficult!" Melissa shouted.
All of a sudden, there was a noise from within the trees.
"What was that?" Ralph asked.
"I think that Bert was right about the rapist being here!" Cedric said.
The rapist walked out of the woods, his denim clothing and gray fabric mask concealing his identity.
"Looks like I have visitors." The masked man's eyes narrowed.
"And we're here to give you what you deserve!" Ralph tried to start the chainsaw he was holding.
"Give Lisa back to us, you bastard!" Melissa shouted.
"She's not coming back to you." The culprit coldly stated, "The girl will be my slave until the end of her days."
"Not if we stop you!" Cedric shouted.
Ralph ran towards the rapist with his chainsaw, only to get a knife run through his hand. The short raccoon cried out in pain. Before Melissa could go to her husband's aid, the masked man knocked her down. However, the raccoon wasn't going down without a fight, as she swung the bat at her attacker, hitting him in the face.
"You bitch!" The masked man shouted in pain.
"That's what you get for violating my niece and for hurting my husband!" Melissa said confidently.
"Your husband is pathetic!" The rapist laughed, "That's why I ran my knife through his hand!"
Ralph started the chainsaw and moved the blade towards his hand, slicing it off at the wrist.
"Who's laughing now?!" Ralph cried out in pain and satisfaction.
"The hell are you doing?!" The rapist screamed.
"Cedric, throw the knife at him!" Ralph shouted.
Horrified at what Ralph did to himself and eager to punish the culprit, Cedric picked up the knife and threw it at the masked man. The knife hit the rapist in his chest, but he was still standing. Melissa then hit him in the shin with her baseball bat. Cedric threw a punch at the perp, hitting him in the gut. Before any of them could hit him again, the rapist pulled the knife out of his chest and ran off. Melissa tried to run after him, but Cedric pulled her back.
"We'll get him later." Cedric said, "Let's tend to Ralph."
Ralph tied his scarf around the bloody stump where his hand once was. Melissa and Cedric came near him.
"Oh Ralph, why did you do that?" Melissa asked.
"I couldn't let that creep have his way with you, so I sliced my hand off!" Ralph said.
"It's a good thing that you used your scarf as a tourniquet." Cedric noted.
"Well, it's not like I could make one out of leaves." Ralph moaned.
"Are you going to be okay?" Cedric asked.
"I think that I should head back." Ralph said.
"What about Bert, Bentley, and Annie?" Melissa asked.
"Let's just hope that Bert is good at keeping them out of danger." Cedric said.
"Yeah." Ralph said.
Bert was walking through the forest with Bentley and Annie walking behind him. The three had heard chainsaw noises and shouting, which meant one thing: Ralph, Melissa, and Cedric found the rapist and fought him off. However, there was no confirmation that they finished the perp off. It had started to rain, which made it easy for anyone to slip in the mud.
"I've got an idea." Bert said.
"What is it?" Bentley asked.
"If the rapist were to slip and fall in the mud," Bert stated the plan, "I want us to rush him and beat him until he begs for mercy! Then, if he tries to trick us, I'll smash something over his face!"
"Good idea!" Bentley said.
Annie saw something through the woods. That something was a log cabin with little lighting on the inside.
"Guys," she said, "I found a log cabin!"
"No doubt that's where the perp is!" Bentley stated.
"But how are we going to get in without us seeing him?" Bert asked.
"I've got an idea." Bentley said.
Lisa moaned as she lie down on the couch, the soreness and nausea she felt getting worse. It was only a matter of time before someone came for her, but that wouldn't help the fact that she felt like vomiting. That was until a loud crash was heard in another part of the cabin.
"This is the last time we're doing one of your ideas!" Annie's voice rang out.
"Well, if we went through the door, the culprit would have known that we were here!" Bentley's voice said.
Bert, Bentley, and Annie came into the room, where they saw Lisa on the couch. The female raccoon smiled, tears forming in her eyes.
"I'm so glad that you came!" Lisa cried.
Bentley approached his sister for a hug.
"We're going to get you out of here." The young raccoon said.
"And we're going to rip the rapist's throat out!" Bert cracked his knuckles.
"After we get you out of here, of course." Annie said.
All of a sudden, the doorknob started to turn. Alarmed, Bert, Bentley, and Annie looked around for a place to hide. Luckily, there were plenty of places they could hide in. When the door opened, the rapist walked into the room. To Lisa, it was surprising to see that he was still standing, given how he had a gash in his chest. The culprit was even holding a bloody knife, soaked in his own blood, to be exact.
"Hey." Lisa said.
"We need to leave, now!" The masked man approached her, sounding desperate.
"My friends are coming for you, aren't they?" Lisa smiled, knowing that her captor was afraid.
"You're fucking right!" The perp screamed, "Your crazy uncle even sliced off his own hand with a chainsaw!"
"Really?" The female raccoon was in disbelief.
Without warning, Lisa vomited on her captor. In response, the masked man stumbled back and shouted.
"Sorry." Lisa moaned. Don't apologize, it wasn't your fault!
"You sick little whore." The perp pulled off his mask, revealing his face. The culprit was revealed to be a skunk.
"Who are you?!" Lisa asked.
"It doesn't matter," the skunk answered, "I'm getting you out of this place!"
"You're not going anywhere!" A familiar voice shouted.
The skunk turned his head and saw Bert standing near him.
"Bert Raccoon." The skunk greeted.
"Mack Phillips," Bert glared at him, "I thought I recognized your voice the moment you came in here."
"Long time no see!" Mack laughed.
"Why did you do what you did to Lisa?!" Bert asked, ready to rip the skunk's throat out.
"Because I can." The skunk stated, "However, she turned out to be my favorite victim, and I've decided to take her back to Rhode Island with me. There aren't a lot of girls like her back in Providence, so I figured that having her as a sex slave would do nicely. After all, she is Ralph's niece."
Bert lunged at Mack, punching the taller male in the face. Before the skunk could get up, Bert threw another punch that caused him to cough up blood. Lisa watched in awe, not expecting the shorter raccoon to quickly tackle the man who raped her. However, Mack then threw Bert off of him, wrapping his hand's around the raccoon's neck. Little did he know, Bentley was behind him with a lamp. The young raccoon then smashed it on the skunk's head, knocking him out.
"Run!" Bentley told Bert and Lisa.
Bert helped Lisa to her feet, allowing her to run with him. However, Mack regained consciousness and grabbed Lisa's foot. The female raccoon was able to kick the man who was responsible for her pain and suffering in the face, but that didn't stop him. With little time to react, Bentley grabbed the bloody knife and stabbed the skunk in the shoulder. Unfortunately, Mack grabbed the little boy and threw him to the side.
"Bentley!" Bert cried.
Mack got up from the ground, but not before Annie was able to stab him in the eye with his knife. The skunk screamed in pain before sweep kicking the girl to the ground. He then struggled to put his mask back on his face until ...
BANG! BANG!
Two gunshots caused Mack to stumble backwards, with the second shot blowing off his fingers. After that, seven more gunshots took down the skunk. When Bert, Lisa, Bentley, and Annie looked up, they saw ...
"Sophia?" Bert was astonished.
"Mr. Sneer and Captain Pepper?" Lisa's eyes widened.
"When did you guys get here?" Bentley got up from the floor.
"We followed you here, Bentley, my boy!" Cyril laughed in triumph.
"Why is Sophia here?" Bert asked.
"I couldn't let anyone else suffer at the hands of that madman!" Sophia explained, "Besides, I've been practicing my sharpshooting skills!"
"Now that the culprit is down, I'll take Bentley and Annie home." Captain Pepper said as he lead the two younger raccoons out of the cabin.
"What about Bert and Lisa?" Sophia asked.
"Let's leave the ring-tailed lovebirds alone for a little bit, Sofa Girl." Cyril said as he followed Captain Pepper with Sophia, Bentley, and Annie. When they were gone, Bert approached Lisa.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
"Better, but I'm still a little sore." Lisa answered.
"Now that Mack is dead, are you going to be okay?" Bert asked.
"Honestly," Lisa sighed, "this whole thing felt like one big nightmare."
"Well, the nightmare is finally over." Bert said, "And it's something that you will never have to experience ever again."
Bert and Lisa looked at each other before sharing a kiss. The two then got up from the floor, with Lisa covering herself up with a blanket. Bert then lead Lisa out of the cabin, with her limping due to being sore. The couple were happy to finally be free of the criminal who had plagued the Evergreen Forest. The monster was finally slain.
Note: Wow, this took a while to write, but I hope that it was worth the wait. However, there's one chapter left, so the story's not over yet. This one was a bit of a doozy to write, but I managed to prowl through it. What did you guys think about this chapter? Let me know when you leave a review or give a constructive criticism. Until next time guys, peace!