The Hunt
“Stay tuned for the Super Oldies Hour with your host Jeremiah Johnson.”Marcus always enjoyed listening to this program. The first song started playing. He didn’t know what the singer was talking about, but whoever she was, she was singing about setting fire to the rain and it was awesome. It didn’t make sense but he liked it. He finally made it out to the main road. Although overgrown around it, the main roads were still somewhat passable. Occasionally you would cut through where a tree had... fallen but generally the SUV could handle anything thrown at it. He had climbed hills with it that most people would have trouble walking. It had an internal gyroscope that kept it from flipping in all but the worst conditions. He drove for about five miles southwest before he left the dense forest in which he had been travelling in. The place was still somewhat overgrown but it looked closer to the old civilization which had been before. He was passing house after house on this road. He kept a chart of all the houses that he had searched and he was almost positive that he had cleared all of these. He noticed that a couple of these had been damaged by falling trees. It must have been that big storm that came through last April. Besides that, almost everything was just as it was last year when he came through this area. As he headed over a small hill, he passed another small lake. As slow as he was driving, he could see the fish hitting the bugs on the top of the water. Marcus loved to fish and was kicking himself for not bringing his tackle. It was easy fishing from his own little lake because he had the protection of the canopy for most of it, but he always wanted to try some of the different places to see if he could land something new. Most places with fish in them were just teeming with them. It was hard for a place to get over fished when there weren’t any fishermen. As the road he was following drew closer to the edge of the mountain, the area became clearer and clearer. The rocky type terrain prevented vegetation from growing. From here he was getting a magnificent view of the southern valley. The valley looked peaceful and pleasant as ever. After about another mile, Marcus finally came to the spot he had been thinking of. The mountain had a small offset to the edge of the mountain that required the engineers to build a bridge across it. He hoped that nothing had happened to the bridge and that it was in good shape. Marcus stopped before crossing and got out and inspected the bridge. Everything was fine. Getting back in the SUV, he turned it around and backed the trailer on to the bridge at a perpendicular angle to the concrete barrier. He grabbed the remote to the trailer before he got out of the SUV. He looked the saber tooth over again. It truly was a magnificent animal. Magnificent but deadly. Remembering what Jocelyn had told him about the cat being larger than normal; Marcus began to speculate on what other things the scientists had genetically altered. With that, Marcus hit the buttons and the entire trailer raised vertically about two feet making it even with the top of the concrete barrier. He clicked another button and the front of the trailer closest to the SUV began to raise and tilt the trailer at about a forty-five degree angle. He raised it a few more degrees and just for a brief moment the cat and the goat held, then they began to slide slowly at first.MoreLess
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