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Chapter 5 : Deadly deal
For the rest of the day they hadn´t been talking to each other, and when they got to sleep Jessie was literally ´´showing him the cold shoulder´´.
Not that it really mattered to him, what she thought about him...but Cyrus knew that it wouldn´t definitely make travelling easier.
When he awoke in the middle of the night then, he also knew that it wasn´t of gnawing guilt, eating up his insides-..but because he had to satisfy a certain need in his lower area.
He tried to get up as silent as possible, on the same time watching out for the T-Rex´s tail, which would be an easy target to fall over.
Once he got of the dangerous zone, he let out a deep breath and continued walking into the woods for a few minutes.
Then he stopped, this place looked right to ´´leave´´ something.
His left hand wandered down to his trousers, when suddenly there was a knife on his throat, the cold metall pressed upon his flesh just enough that it drew a thin bloody line. A male´s voice spoke from behind into his ear :
"Don´t move if you want to live through this...See, we noticed you and your little girlfirend wandering around in the company of a - as strange as it seems - tamed T-Rex...
...I guess you get where I´m getting at...
We - me and my men - want that dinosaur, so you better find away to bring it to us, or else...did I make myself clear ?"
The man asked, putting more pressure on the knife, more blood poured out; not enough to actually note it from the distance the next morning, yet enough to be in pain.
"Yeah, absolutely.." Cyrus croaked weakly.
"Very good...so we have a deal : We expect you at the latest by tomorrow morning : From here you go about two hours in eastern direction, then you come to a place where there are lots of rocks, that´s where you got to stop, clear ?
Oh, and you better have the T-Rex with you then.."
With that he released Cyrus.
Cyrus turned around, but he didn´t see anyone, his attacker had already merged with the surrounding darkness again.
By all damned scaleys in hell, what did just happen ?! He thought, frantic.
What was he supposed to do now ?
Doin it the normal way - cheatin -won´t work this time, I´m afraid..
..means I gotta do what that heap of Brach dung says..
Which also means Jessie gotta hate ma for this, once she finds out next morning..
...but she surely will understand, saving our lives in trade for a scaley..now won´t she ?!
He told himself to satisfy his conscience, allthough again a part of him knew, that Seth was´t ´´just a scaley´´ to her.
Cyrus returned to the campsite as silent as he had gone.
Now here the hardest part just comes...Just wonderful..ma life depends on a scaley..
Trying his hardest not to make any noice, albeit his cane he advanced the sleeping dinosaur.
By the time he reached out his hand to try to wake him, he noticed that there was a large yellow eye watching him.
Questioning the T-Rex raised his head from the ground.
"Yeah, good..go on.." Cyrus told him, half whispering half gesturing with one hand.
Seth actually stood up and advanced him curious.
"Now that´s a good scaley.." Cyrus noted with a malicious grin.
Seth saw it and seemed to have second thoughts about it.
So he turned to return to his sleeping trough.
"Stop ! Stop it..!" The man hissed, grabbing the larger animal around the neck in his desperation.
"Come on, will ya ?!" He ordered, while he pulled him at his neck towards his desired direction. Unnecessary to say, that the human with only one leg had no chance against the T-Rex.
"We´re going to get you some meat, huh ?" Cyrus whispered, trying a different tactic.
"Wouldn´t that be nice, scaley ? You bastards love to hunt at night, now don´t ya ?"
Cyrus obviously had hit a weak spot with his talking about meat, since Seth was becoming more cooperative and let himself being led in the direction Cyrus wanted him to go; if he hadn´t known it better, Cyrus would have sworn that this dinosaur was up to something.
Cyrus - and with him Seth - went the way the man had told him and soon they advanced the meeting point.
From a distance they could already see the clearing, as the grass almost ´´shone´´, due to its color contrast to the night.
On the left side there where a pile of rocks, a whole field of them, if one wanted to call it like that.
It was from the rock field, that Cyrus saw smoke coming up.
It´s them, obviously.. He pondered.
Already he wanted to step out to the clearing that they could see him, when a strip of conversation flew at his ear, it was the same man that had threatened him :
"Shouldn´t be long till that limbing scum will appear..you know, like he really did believe me, that we would leave them in peace afterwards !
Speaking of ´´them´´, how comes there´s this pretty young girl beside him ?
Did he drug her or something to force her to stay near him ?
Guess there´s no other way, that somebody would want sticking around him !
...I wonder if he´s got anything worth robbing..probably not the way he looks.."
Cyrus boiled with anger, a feeling of shame and ripped down pride washing on the same time through him, making him shake with speechless rage.
Almost incapable to form the words he turned to Seth:
"If I were ya right now - I know strange thought - I would tear them apart limb by limb and devour them..or probably not, for sure they taste like shit..."
He clenched his fists to prevent himself from running over to them and doing as much harm as he could hopping on one leg.
He also bit his tongue, hot tears forming in his eyes.
Humilitation he hadn´t expected..
..hadn´t he gotten used to it after all these years ?
Apparently not...
...he was still as weak as he used to be..
The shield of sarcasm and treachery he had built up all the time, got a small crack.
The dinosaur at his side lowered his massive head, it looked as if he was either pondering about something or trying to express that he felt sorry.
"What the bloody ya doin ?!"
A very, very deep humming reached his ear - almost that deep, that he thought it was an imagination of his messed up mind.
"Ya...ya callin something !!"
His halb angry hissed question was soon answered by loud trudging of many tree high bodies behind him.
With at least the same terror as the unknowing gang at the fire, Cyrus watched how a whole pack of T-Rexes was breaking through the tree tops and going for the humans.
Out of the corner of his eye, Cyrus noticed Seth´s eyes on him.
"Ya did that, didn´t ya ?..And for sure ya expectin some kind of praise..?
Hmpf..alright, but forget it right away again : Well done."
He almost saw a satisfied grin flashing up in the non existing features of the dinosaur.
Cyrus spit on the ground - and so indirectly on the gang.
Watching them suffer and being eaten alive, with their guts flying around - as gross as the view of it was - felt extraordionaly good.
With a feeling of superiority and satisfaction, Cyrus faced this eerie place - where now and then a dying rattle was still audible - about and went back to the campsite with Seth, hoping imploringly, that Jessie hadn´t awakened for whatever reason and noticed their missing.
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