The Ripper

by IronTitan

The beginning

The night was dark, no stars twinkled, the new moon was in the sky, and clouds covered the night sky in their blanketing shade. A small team of guards were making sure the period was secure as Princess Luna walked up to where it was.
"What do thou have for us tonight captain?"

"It happened again my lady. It seems that another has fallen victim to this strange killer."
The captain of the Lunar guard escorted Princess Luna to the center of the site looking down at the cause of the commotion.

"Tis a shame, who was it this time?"

"From what intel can get it is another noble of Princess Celestia's domain this one seems to have received similar treatment to most of the others we have found. Fingers cut off, eyes gone I can assume his tongue is gone as well, and perfectly disemboweled the internal organs are still in immaculate condition. "
He walked over, and pulled the cover off of the body of a noble stallion with gray hair, and matching mustache.

"We recognize this one he is the owner of a small mining company, but why has he been a target of this killer?"

I'm not sure, but I think we'll find it where his tongue is supposed to be."
The captain looked closer, and saw that his lower jaw was pushed up higher than the upper jaw. He grabbed a glove from one of the investigators in his magic, then carefully began to pry his mouth open. Inside was a small piece of paper. He opened it, and saw three numbers, and an address. Seven, sixteen, and twenty.
The captain called a guard over to take the note, and investigate the numbers, and address.

Princess Luna looked up at the dark night sky, and thought to herself, "Who is doing this to these ponies?"
Unknown to her, or anyone else in the shadows of a nearby alleyway stood their culprit his dark blue eyes looked at them as he was smoking something before disappearing again off to knows where.

"Princess if you would like, please return to the castle, and we will deal with the situation from here."

She sighed feeling lost, and looked at the captain.
"We believe that would be wise please let us know if there are any developments in the case Captain Goldstar".
With that she used her magic to teleport back to the castle while a small team of guards went off to the address found.

Princess Luna arrived at the castle, and went to the royal eating room, instead of finding an empty table she found a box on it. She summoned some of her guards to come they came, and checked the box confirming there was no magic, or other forms of boobytraps. One of the guards walked over, and opened the box she pulled out a few sets of knives from the royal kitchen, and a note that Luna had the guard read out loud.

You look beautiful tonight as always. I love the dress. It really brings out the color of your eyes.
I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of fixing the royal knives please be careful they are very sharp.
Please have a good night, please take care.

Your loyal servant.

P.S. Please tell your guards that the south tower window is broken. It wasn't me, but someone broke in before I did thought it would be proper to let you know."

The guard touched the tip of one of the knives, the blade cut her finger very shallowly, but enough to draw some blood. Luna had the guards investigate the tower as they had the note, and knives to get checked along with the female guard who had accidentally cut herself. Luna decided she might as well go, and talk to her sister, and see what her opinion on the matter is.

She wandered around the castle a bit on her way to Celestia's, but stopped just short of the hallway to her quarters when she noticed the feeling of someone following her. She watched her every step very carefully being mindful of everything she did. She made it to her sister's room, and knocked. She was answered by her sister.
"Oh Lulu, what brings you here tonight?"

"Greetings dear sister, we would like to have a word in private. If you art to busy we can wait."

"No not at all come in tell me what's wrong".
Celestia opened her door more ushering her sister in while sticking her head outside checking the place before pulling her head in, and tending to her sister.

"What brings you here Lulu?"

"We art having a difficult time with this case. Somepony has been killing our subjects for a fortnight, and we can not figure out who they are. However tonight we got a lead, but tis confuses us as to why now art we finally getting something. Why did this pony choose to harm not just ours, but thy subjects as well."
As Luna continued to voice her concerns there was a short ruckus right outside the door, then something hitting the door with a loud thud. The two rushed outside to find a dead changeling laying on the floor with metal claws in it's throat. Luna kneeled down to look closer, but her attention was taken from the dead changeling when she heard the distinct sound of a blade cutting through flesh. She turned around, and saw a gloved hand with a needle shoved through it. She followed the hand to a masked face, and a hat on their head. She looked over, and saw a blade that came from his sleeve, and into her sister's neck, or so she thought because she watched closer, and saw that the one standing there was not her sister, but was an imposter using a glamor spell to pose as her sister.

She watched as who she thought was her sister's hair start turning into a light shade of brown, her fur turned from it's pristine white into a similar shade as their hair. Her face finally started to contort until it was revealed as a completely different mare instead of the lavender eyes she looked into a pair of brown eyes that no longer had the lavender ones she grew up with. Standing in front of her was an earth pony mare that she had once seen before in the city where she couldn't remember.
Before she could think any further she watched the blade retract back into it's owner's sleeve, before the needle was pulled out, and dropped on the ground. Luna readied her magic only for the hand to grab the door knob, and enter into it. She followed, preparing a magic bubble to capture the intruder, but didn't she watched curiously as they walked to one of the doors in her sister's room, and opened it slowly. Celestia's sleeping body fell out into their arms, they began to pull off various magic dampening rings before sticking them in his pocket, then set her on her bed. They looked over to Luna, and opened a window jumping off of the balcony into the night.
She ran over to see where they went, but saw nothing as though they had disappeared in thin air. Her attention was refocused on her sister, and ran over and she looked at the solar deity over seeing she was ok just unconscious. 

I am Jack Henricks everyone calls me Ripper. Well most of the people of this world call me something else I don't know what. As you can tell I'm obviously not from here believe it, or not I'm not even from this universe I'm from a place called earth. I didn't have much of a life really. I spent my time reading, playing games, working and watching TV. From time to time I'd play with my knives, or swords at work. I worked part time at a small metal workshop that made novelty items, and such by hand. Crap like knives, swords, axes, lunchboxes, and other things like that. My parents didn't really approve because of this rare form of heart disease I have, but didn't say much as long as I helped pay for groceries. One of my favorite hobbies was mystery cases. My favorite was Jack the Ripper. I was in awe of his skill to kill, then disappear, and never get caught. No one liked my interest in guys like him, but they didn't see the talent I saw in guys like him as true legends.

About two years ago I went trick, or treating with a few neighborhood kids as my own interpretation of The ripper himself. I wore a black hat from the late eighteen hundreds, a bandana mask, a black trenchcoat, a black business suit, and a pair of black dress shoes. I completed the look with a belt of dulled throwing knives, and short sword blades I made at work. I sharpened one in case of kidnappers, and I knew one of the kids I was taking would want me to peel their apple for them. We walked around from house to house doing nothing special until I noticed one of the kids wasn't there. I turned around, and saw one of them had dropped her jawbreaker. Her candy rolled away into the street. I didn't pay any mind. I called for to get hurry, and get back with the group she picked it up, then pulled the plastic off popping it on her mouth, but the next thing I knew I saw a car coming, and the sound of a sirens I didn't know what happened except that one second I'm running to the little girl telling the other kids go to a neighbor's porch, then a sharp pain all through my body.

Everything was fuzzy. I looked up, and saw the girl in someone's hands with a gun to her head a few cops off to the side. I looked down, and saw one of my blades snapped, and broke off inside of my gut. But the little girl started crying with what little strength I had. I reached for my only sharp knife, and threw it at the man's hand making him drop the girl, and the police came to arrest him after that everything went dark. I felt cold, I felt like I was floating before I felt a sharp burning across my body. I opened my eyes, and watched strange symbols, and marks glow a bright blue as they burned deep into my skin. It hurt, my eyes burned, and so did my head like someone took a torch, and shoved it into my head, then nothing, the pain stopped, the darkness took over me again, but just before I drifted off into the nothingness I heard a voice. I looked for the voice, and saw someone looking down at me, then the voice spoke again, "You have proven yourself worthy of my power, and knowledge be sure to use it well now go this world needs you. They need The Ripper." 

I finally drifted off, then what felt like eons I woke up in a cave disoriented, and lost. I got up shaking my head confused, and searched around the cave after regaining my bearings. I raised my hand in front of my face to see, but I saw nothing, then a headache struck me like a falling mountain, but quickly after information started to pour into my mind like the water from a river to the sea strange symbols, and words appeared, then disappeared just as fast. When it was finally over I found myself on my knees, but my hands had the same strange Mark's from what I thought was a dream. They glowed like the neon signs I used to see at bars. One more thing flashed before my eyes, and I quickly recognized it as one of the strange markings. It quickly changed as I stood up. I realized what it was, and raised a hand up, then snapped my fingers and a small blue flame appeared at my fingertip. I wanted to try, and explore the cave, so I imagined the small flickering flame becoming bigger. It moved from my fingertip to my palm, and it quickly turned into a ball of fire. Before I left something told me to put my hand to the floor, and I did the moment my hand touched it a large symbol appeared where my hand was, then grew bigger, and bigger until the entire room was filled with soft blue light, then it faded away the room once again lit by my flame.

The cavern lit up, and it was revealed to be larger than I had expected I decided to investigate knowing I had to find a exit, and that this would be my home until I am ready to find a better place. It was what you would expect of a cave empty, and the walls lined with stalagmites, and stalactites. It wasn't as damp as you would imagine though it was a little bit nippy to say the least, but it wasn't so bad I explored until I came to an opening. I followed it, finding it led to a step drop off, but there seemed to be a natural staircase that if you didn't really pay attention you'd never notice it. I looked to make sure it was safe enough I made my way down slowly watching my step on the way down I followed it all the way down until I reached the base.

I walked through clouds, and moved through many things until my feet finally touched dirt. I looked around, and noticed there were train tracks going through an open field not far from me. I walked over to check it out. I saw a large city not far from where I stood, and made my way there. When I got to the train tracks I looked, and saw a small building off in the distance, so I chose to follow the tracks over to investigate my new surroundings.

I kept on walking nonstop until the night had fallen upon the landscape, and the only light came from the moon above, and the lone lantern in the building. I walked over carefully so as to not spook anyone, but instead of seeing what I was expecting was a normal person I saw what I assumed was man by the bears. He had blonde hair, and ears like a horse. I wanted to think maybe he had a niece, or something that put those on him, but instead I saw another walking towards the place, and I clear as day saw a tail, and bat wings. Not wanting to deal with any trouble I jumped into some nearby bushes to hide. I sat, and listened, waiting for them to leave, but instead the other one was there to relieve the older one, and by the new one's voice I assumed it was a girl.

I retreated back to the cave and the daylight had already arisen. I sat on the floor of my new home, and did an inventory check finding I still had my belt of throwing knives, but instead of being blunt like I remembered they were very sharp, the short sword blades I had as well were also very sharp. I checked sleeves, and saw the custom designed spring blade arm bands were on me, and they had blades on them too. I removed everything, and saw everything that I had worn on Halloween were here, but also a few things I had been working on as prototype projects were also here like the arm blades that I designed inspired by an old game I used to play Hitman's path, and a set of arm spikes I had designed for the forearm blades that I had designed from curved blade knives. Lastly were my shoes that had been designed with blades inside of them that had been inspired by an old gangster documentary I saw once.

I slowly put everything back on, and looked around at the place, then decided I would build this place up in my own image. The cave I will now call home will be turned into the greatest hideout ever. That this world needed a Ripper, and now they have their new legendary killer.
For two years I spent my time learning how to control my abilities. I learned how to use shadows, and alleyways to help me learn, and steal in secret. I even learned that what I used in the cave was a spell that marked the place as my home, and that if I run into something that I can't carry a long distance I can teleport it there, but it can't exceed a certain size like a wagon, or carriage, but furnaces, and the such are open game.

I took whatever I needed to build my home up until I had it perfect. I made myself mostly self-sustaining. I just needed to go down for food. As I went down to the city I learned how to jump from alley to alley, and how to hide in the shadows hunting the ones that needed punishment. I watched them carefully, learning everything about my targets until one night I saw someone standing on the balcony of the castle of the city I came to learn was called Canterlot. I watched this pony who was different from the others that I also learned eventually that she was a princess. For sometime over the two years I've been here I watched over her when she sat in the gardens, or on the balcony. I felt what I thought was love for her. No matter what I did, what I could, I protected her from assassins, and many other things, but one day I heard of a rebellion to take her, and her sister down from power made me finally come out of hiding, and begin serving cold justice.

For a couple weeks I investigated, and killed, leaving breadcrumbs to the truth of the rebellion. Leading up to today where. Princess Luna, and her sister almost both got captured if I hadn't stepped in the way. When I jumped off the balcony I noticed something wrong, then I realized mid spell that the needle was filled with a sedative. Before I knew it I was blacking out again, but this time I wasn't going to die this time I have a purpose.