Page 10 of A Stranger's Fear

bushes rumble showing three males wearing facial masks while dressed raggedy on foot holding gun arrow weapons pointed at him.

  He heard from one of them "Get off your horse or I'll shoot!"

  Jinx eyed the men and mentally spoke while waving his hands in surrender gestures towards the males "Sleep, sleep."

  He saw his order obeyed by the males shaking their heads as if they were hit with sleepiness. He felt relief as they fell collapsing onto the ground with forms still but sensed them alive.

  He heard "Beep, beep, beep."

  Jinx groaned hearing the noises making him nervous. The greenery in front of him rumbled showing a three horned towering overhead dinosaur with fanged teeth. He spied a metal collar around its neck with a jeweled object in the middle of it as the beeping noises continued loudly. He stiffened of fear hitting him recognizing the noises coming from the dinosaur's collar warning Egyptians of whenever a domesticated dinosaur was near.

  He heard Maribel whinny in terror. He got her to continue into the forest making her gallop out of sight and away from the males to spy behind him was the dinosaur giving chase with the beeping noises sounding loudly.

  He continued to feel fear hitting him as the dinosaur's beeping noises was joined by multiple beeping noises sounding all over the place all around him to him. He saw a path indicating horse back travel use. He figured that he'll take it to keep himself safe from running into dinosaurs hidden in the forest despite beeping noises heard all around.

  He felt Maribel's nervousness underneath him urged the horse to run with him nervous himself still guiding her over the path.

  He continued on hearing noises of domesticated dinosaurs roaring all around him overtaking the beeping noises that sounded like they were hungry to him. He felt nervousness hit him as he continued galloping away on Maribel.

  He thinking "Please don't let us bump into a dinosaur accidentally. Please don't have them target my ride until I'm done with her. I don't think I can stand travel through this forest without her."

  Jinx found to his fear his plea ignored as they again bumped into a dinosaur by Maribel rearing up again whinnying of terror as the path curved towards the right. He halted the horse to see a dinosaur a Rex come out of the bushes gnashing fanged teeth while wearing a metal collar around its neck.

  He urged Maribel to gallop away onto the horse path.

  He heard multiple beeping noises sounding all around him instead of dinosaur roaring noises. He felt himself nervous as he and Maribel continued to bump into dinosaurs. They always indicating that they were hungry and wanted to eat his ride by aiming their mouths towards her along with giving chase through the forest.

  He and her traveled on the path.

  He halted Maribel when he saw a large structure loomed in sight unexpectedly showing the path leading towards it seeing a metal wall with a large metal like drawbridge door that had a sign next to it.

  He heard zapping of electricity sounds behind him loudly halting dinosaurs' following progress. He looked behind him to see the familiar three horned dinosaur was still in the vicinity making steps towards him and witnessed the metal collar's jewel glow along with electricity zapping sounds heard coming from it. The gonoid backed up along with resuming stepping towards him with collar glowing again each time which would cause it to back up.

  Jinx sighed feeling himself safe for now shifted to read the sign saying "Elizabethtown.”

  Jinx sighed again seeing that he had arrived to the town and saw the drawbridge door.

  He figured was the entrance held up a hand mentally speaking "Unlock now."

  He heard a clunk along with a bang sound coming from the drawbridge that refused to budge opening.

  He heard in response "Inappropriate gonoid detected."

  Jinx groaned recognizing the voice as the computerized gatekeeper again held up his hand and mentally spoke "Unlock now."

  He again got the familiar computer voice speaking its familiar words.

  Jinx felt frustration hitting him as there were laser lights seen. The lights indicating that the gatekeeper was going to shoot him by fireballs.

  He lowered his hand and snarled out "Drat the dinosaurs for being nearby."

  He urged Maribel to a slow walk following the structure’s wall that revealed a high overhead fence while hearing humming of electricity appearing to be coming from it.

  He groaned out "I got to get inside to safety."

  He groaned of fear hitting him again figuring out that the town was shut for the night. He would be forced to stay out in the forest a target for domesticated dinosaurs and thieves. He followed the wall seeing building structures from peering through it.

  He paused as his eyesight traveled off his left where he saw a small hill with an identical like fence surrounding it not surrounded by the town’s fence. He felt curiosity hitting him overtaking his fear urged the horse to gallop towards the hill’s fence. Despite hearing multiple beeping noises coming from the following dinosaurs. He saw underneath the see through fence was a cemetery and recognized it with familiarity hitting him. He reached the fence seeing it was high overhead and too high for the horse to jump over it while hearing humming of electricity. He followed the fence till a box on a metal pole stand stood a Humanoid male adult arm length came into sight which he spotted a door in it indicating an entrance. He dismounted with a hand on the reins and went to the box. He opened its door to see a large metal switch in it. He pulled it down and heard the electricity humming stop while sensing the electricity had ceased.

  He turned the horse around and released the reins and slapped Maribel on the rump causing her to take off running into the forest out of sight. He hearing her whinnying in terror before hearing loud roaring noises loudly sounding happy to him. He grimaced from that figuring out what the domesticated dinosaurs were guardians of the town from hearing about it from a memory of it appearing in his mind. He figured that they had managed to get their mouths onto the horse to feed off of. Hence he hearing her terror noises and their noises of happiness to him.

  He went to the gate sliding it open and closed it behind him while spotting an identical box on a stand a same length away with a worn grass path next to it. He went to the box and opened it pulling up the switch. He again heard the sound of electricity humming through the fence.

  Sighing he walked among rows of tombstones looking worn from the weather's elements looking at the gravestones’ names eyes searching. His feet led him to a row which he entered and walked among the graves eyes aimed at the tombstones till his eyes settled on two separated from the row by the contents facing another direction.

  He walked around the gravestones till he saw the name of one read "Lizette O'Neil."

  Jinks sighed of relief hitting him feeling himself safe from harm. He walked to kneel in front of the tombstone less than an arm length away that said his Mother's name

  He smiled a small smile and spoke out loud “I have come like I said I would. I won’t leave you again.”

  He reached a hand to touch the stone jutting up from the ground in a round arch to feel the carved words on it. He sighed again as a memory of Lizette his body's Mother looking pale and sick with no hair on her head flashed in his mind.

  He shut his eyes allowing the memory to come through him.

  He remembered walking into a building in New Jack City around night time taking an elevator while feeling urged to hurry.

  Jinx pressed a button that that had wording label next to it said “Penthouse.”

  He stood in the elevator brimming with impatience while wearing a business suit and a hat covering his head and sunglasses covering his eyes. The elevator reached its floor showing a hallway with a checkered floor.

  He heard crying sounds in the distance allowed him to follow it to an open a bit doorway. He peered through to see multiple people gathered inside a room that appeared to be a sitting room from the looks of it along with noticing some had their backs to the doorway. He could he
ar the crying becoming louder from inside the room.

  Jinx felt his feet lead him away from the door to down the hallway to a door at the end that was ajar as if compelled. He peered inside putting away his sunglasses to see a massive bed with a canopy in the room and froze with fear hitting him seeing a female figure lying inside on the bed with no hair on her head. He sighed willing aside the fearful feeling as the female opened her eyes as if detecting him aimed at the doorway staring at him watching. He gently opened the door wider and walked inside shutting it behind him.

  He heard from the female in bed a raspy feminine voice speaking “Robert, you came like you promised you would.”

  He sigh recognizing his Mother’s voice despite the raspy tone and went to the bed to sit on it taking her hand in his grip to squeeze then let go. He stared at his Mother who smiled a weak smile at him.

  She signed weakly with her hands using their secret hand language due to her hearing loss “I told the others to come back when the sun rises. I didn’t want them to know of you visiting me.”

  He nodded his head towards his Mother who again signed “A pity that sicknesses of cancer can’t touch you, Robert. Oh well I had you tested and it appears your immune to the cancer sicknesses. At least I’ll be with my first love Victor again. What a reunion it’ll be when I see him.”

  Jinx sighed again softly at the name of his Mother's deceased high school sweetheart, Victor as she