[Matriar]

Sorry, I'm late. You know I just had to do other important things at home (...actually, what is more important than translating my boring story).

However...


Here is the next part of the chapter:

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Jennadelle arrived the tunnel which leaded through a mountain. The tunnel seemed to be very old because there had grew some plants everywhere around it already. High grass, shrubberies... almost like a little forest.
Bu now Jennadelle stopped surprisedly.
"We’re all set. I hear the trains coming!", a strange voice shouted at the end of the long tunnel.
This voice didn't own a clakker definitely. Jennadelle was sure.
It was the outlaws!
Immediately, she jumped in the high grass und hided behind them.
When she looked carefuly trough its blades she spotted a little lot of this little, frog-like outlaws. They were armed with sharp, long sables and waited for... something. They planned something.
"Good!", another outlaw said, "'Cause here they come! Get in to positions!"
The group hided behind the left side the street behind a great wall. Jennadelle saw the trailers, drived by clakkerz, coming closer to the outlaws. The clakkerz all were still unsuspecting.
"Hold it... hold it... hold it...", the outlaw said calmly to his colleagues while he focused the coming trailers, "hold it..."
Jennadelle sensed something bad.
"NOW!", the outlaw shouted loudly.
One of his group throwed the leverage immediately which sparked the dynamite on the other side the street.
It banged loudly when big rocks fell and blocked the whole street. Nobody of the clakkerz could find a way out anymore. The trailers were caged.
The outlaws were pleased with it jubilantly: "Yeah! Okay, guard the area! Make sure no one get's to the trains!"
Except for me of course, Jennadelle thought with a smirk.
She felt something mysterious in her pugnacity. There happened something in her fingers. A bit confusedly Jennadelle looked down at them.
She had let her long, sharp, black claws out her finger tips.
What...?, she confusedly thought and looked closer her claws, How did I do this?"
Jennadelle touched her finger tips carefuly.
Razor-sharp...!, she found out.
A little moment she didn't know what to think of it.
Finally she grinned: Cool!
And her tail waged feisty. That would be fun!
But before Jennadelle could attack, she saw a little, squirrel-like creature which seemed to appear from nowhere landing right in front of her hide.
This animal started to rail and to bluster loudly now.
"Hush!", Jennadelle whispered, "You snafu my whole plan, you little...!"
"Hey!Who's this over there?", an outlaw shouted, "A rodent! I hate rodents!"
He dropped from the group and ran straight to the harasser. Straight to Jennadelle's hideout.
No! That little, loud thing leads them all to me at last!, Jennadelle thought,
...nevermind, I can knock the stuffing out of them anyway.
But abruptly the outlaw got wounded by a spider and wraped in her gluey net. He lost his balance and banged on the ground. His sable was no use now. It was fallen out his hands and lay out of reach. The captive outlaw even could call his colleagues... the spider did gag his mouth with its net already.
Didn't I see this sort of spider before...?!, Jennadelle thought, then in the forest...with that... bounty hunter... oh...!
You could hear hasty, heavy steps which came closer the lying outlaw very fastly. Jennadelle went a bit deeper in the grass to hide better. And she already knew who it could be.
At this moment a big, booted man stood in front of his winded booty on the ground. And he opened his can trap.
The outlaw tried despairingly to hold fast to the ground but the suck was too strong. It just took seconds till the outlaw was baged.
Plopp!
"Hey! Who's there?", an outlaw shouted ahead.
The bounty hunter jumped in the high grass immediately where Jennadelle hided.
Jennadelle took her breath away surprised looking.
Now the big, redoubtable bounty hunter. Right now. At this awkward moment.
And when he walked some steps back to hide better he came closer to Jennadelle.
He didn't notice her yet. Although she sat on her knees close behind him...
The outlaw which spotted a glimpse of a hat-wearing stranger came closer to the place where the bounty hunter baged the outlaw before.
"Where did he go?", the outlaw asked and looked around.
Altough he stood next to the bounty hunters he couldn't see them because of the high, thick-set grass. They hided very well.

Clack-click-clack-clack-click.

Another spider was charged on the crossbow. The outlaw turned to the direction where this inscrutable sound came from... but he didn't see a thing.
"What the...?", he asked and tried to do some curious steps to the shrubbery.
Bumm.
But the bounty hunter did shot his spider already...!
The spider ammo wraped in its booty with its gluey, white net like the other one.
The lying and winding outlaw saw with scare how a big, strong hand shooted out the grass and pulled him at his feet back to the hideout. Now he was at the guy's mercy which owned that hand...
Jennadelle froze. She was so close to that bounty hunter that they could touch themself. And he didn't take notice of her at all? Was he that busy?
The wretched outlaw tried as good he could to grab hold of the ground. But he couldn't elude the suck of the can trap.
Plopp!
He was another captured outlaw of the bounty hunter now.
The sucking can got closed quickly and Stranger put it under his poncho.
"Hey, guys! Where are you? You mustn't hop off here now!", the residual one of the group shouted.
He ran, innocent like his forerunner, ahead to look for his chicken-hearted colleagues which had turned the corner.
"We have to guard the...", he said but then he noticed surprisedly that nobody was here anymore.
There was only an empty street with partial high grass on both sides.
Confusedly he looked around.
"Ahm...guys?!", he shouted unsurely, "Where are you?"
Nobody answered.
While Stranger looked at his next prey with his green shining eyes he saw Jennadelle sitting in his angle all of a sudden.
Now he turned to her.
Jennadelle's blood ran cold. Now he did notice her! And he stood right in front of her! What was now? What he was going to do now?
Jennadelle shyed some steps from him.
But Stranger kept calm.
Either Jennadelle's attendance didn't surprise him actually or his poker-face didn't tell it. The green of Stranger's eyes glowed through the shadow of his sun-bleached hat directly in Jennadelle's face.
And in this moment the time seemed to stop.
While the innocent outlaw still stood outside and paced around, Jennadelle waited anxiously for Stranger's response.
But it happened different from Jennadelle fears.
Stranger put in his own confident, calm way his fore-finger on his lips and indicated: Just keep calm... trust in me...
Jennadelle nodded hesitantly and still looked in his eyes unsurely.
Stranger smiled a bit... and turned to the outlaw to keep watching the outlaw.
Jennadelle had a closer look at this mysterious bounty hunter. And at once, his look seemed to awake something deep in Jennadelle. She felt it clearly in her bones. No, Stranger was much more than just a bounty hunter in this moment. Someone... particular. Special.
But it wasn't his mysterious character... or that he was the only one who used live ammo.
No.
Jennadelle just knew it. There was a forgot but significance memory in her heart... but she didn't find out what it was now.
Maybe she would, if she kept an eye on that fellow.
Yes, it had to be so.
"Guys, that's not funny!", the seeking outlaw shouted, "What if this bounty hunter comes here...! Damn, now come out your hideout already!"
Bumm.
The third time. The bounty hunter pulled him to his hideout.
And plopp he was in his can trap.
Jennadelle didn't have an idea what was going to happen now. All outlaws within the range of vision were gone. Baged by the bounty hunter. And Jennadelle? She just stood there like an idiot and didn't know what to say...
"This area is safe again.", Stranger said with his deep, calm voice and let his crossbow close. He want out the hidout. Jennadelle followed him.
"What... what was that before?", she asked unsurely.
The bounty hunter went his way quickly. First it seemed that he didn't hear Jennadelle. He paused in front of the boulder.
"What was what?", he asked calmly.
At the same time he looked for opportunities to come over the boulder. He didn't even take a look at Jennadelle.
"I meant that what you did... with the outlaws... before.", Jennadelle tried to tell.While she said that she felt asininely unknowing.
"Such as those creatures you shoted as ammo. What were that for... things?"
Stranger just seemed to ignore her again. He spotted a hanging rope next to a wall some meters ahead. The outlaws must have made it just in case for emergencies. And they needed to get over this blockage in this case. Jennadelle followed him. She didn't think whether he already know that she was his business competition or not. Anyway, he seemed not to be that dangerous...!
Stranger climped up the rope without giving Jennadelle an answer. But Jennadelle didn't give up to interfere with Stranger. Even she knew that this could be a dangerous game...
Wordlessly she climped up the rope quickly than he did and saw how Stranger just jumped off the other side.
So, he think I can make anything by himself and ignore me?, Jennadelle thought and was a bit offended, We'll see...!