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   Chapter Five
   During the next two weeks, Crystal continued working with the Uno and
Bravo, stepping up her time with them, taking over their days and making
them become dependent upon her for attention.  She had them fetching
whatever she threw, they would even walk away from a plate of biscuits and
gravy to come to her when she called them.  They would follow her and Dog
as they walked into the back door of the cabin and out the front.
   Steve had made her a training dummy, as close as he could to the ones
used in their training back in the mountains of north east Georgia.  He
didn't use his clothes, but clothes they had bought at a yard sale in town,
he had used the dummies to scare the young pups with first, hanging them
from a tree and letting them drop down as they came close to check them
out.
   He had Dog in the act too, telling him to 'kill' as he let the dummy
hang, with the legs touching the ground.  Dog went for the throat and as he
attacked, Steve dropped the rope, letting the dummy fall to the ground as
Dog tore at the leather covered throat.
   When he and Dog had worked with the dummies, he told Crystal to pretend
the dummies were attacking her and call for the pups.  The first time they
tried it, Uno and Bravo thought it was another game.
   The next time, Crystal screamed and fell to the ground pulling the dummy
down on top of her and Dog ran to her, tearing into the dummy as his pups
did the same.
   By the time they repaired the dummy the third time, all she had to do
was pretend the dummy had struck her when Steve made it swing into her as
she walked by, Uno and Bravo had the dummy down and the entire leather neck
pulled out, slinging it from side to side, fighting over it as they
'killed' the dummy.
   Each time they used the dummy as a training exercise, she would yell
'kill' when the dummy fell upon her as she walked by it.  They were soon
tearing the heads off the dummy so fast, they spent most of the time
repairing the dummy to train some more.
   "Lets try this Crystal," Steve said as he walked by Crystal and slapped
her shoulder with a loud pop.  Uno and Bravo came from the ground so fast,
he had to knock them back, they were about to take him down.  Crystal
yelled 'stop' and they came to her, wagging their tails, but still looking
at Steve and growling low in their chests as they looked back at him.
   Steve killed a young deer with his bow and hung the fresh carcass from a
rope and told Dog to 'kill'.  He leaped into the air and came down with the
deer's throat in his jaws, throwing it from side to side before Steve
stepped in and yelled 'stop'.
   They hung the deer carcass again and Crystal yelled 'kill' and pointed
to the deer hanging two feet above the ground.  That was the last time they
got to use that one, Uno and Bravo had the deer shredded by the time they
could get to them and make them stop.
   "They've gotten the taste of blood now, the next time they attack
something that bleeds, the feral dog will come out and they'll be hard to
handle, even by you.  You need to be really careful how you use that power
over them."
   "I will, I never saw that with the dogs daddy and I were training."
   "You never worked with wild dogs, you had domesticated dogs that were
raised in a pen for generations, these pups are probably fourth generation
in the wild, maybe even five generations.  They are feral dogs now, even
though we can feed them and pet them and train them to do certain things,
they're wild and when they taste blood, they revert back to their feral dog
ancestry.  Be very careful when you point and say anything that even sounds
like 'kill'.  Even though they're just a little over four months now,
they're as big as Dog was when I first got him from the obedience trainer
at six months old and started his 'basic training'."
   "You mean they will be even bigger than Dog?" Crystal asked with a
slight grin.
   "Yes, from the way they've filled out and put meat on their skinny
bodies they had when we started with them; I'd say they were going to be
over a hundred pounds, maybe even one twenty.  Dog weighs nearly a hundred
now, maybe a little over."
   "Will we be able to feed them?" she asked, then knew as soon as she
asked that they would feed themselves as Dog did most days.
   "They will follow the lead of Dog, he will have them feeding
themselves."
   "I realized that when I remembered them tearing into that deer carcass,
are you going to let them finish that?"
   "No, I'll haul it off and throw it out on the side of the road at least
a mile from here, they can kill they're own; they don't need to think it
will be brought to them.  The next time we're running or riding back in the
forest and see deer, we'll tell Dog to kill one, they'll be right in the
midst of the kill.  Once they have experienced killing their own food and
eating it on the spot, you'll never have to worry about them going hungry."
   "Steve, I love this; training them, yet letting them remain wild, will
they ever leave and go back to their wild side completely?"
   "They'll always be wild, they'll take off and be gone for a day, maybe
two, like Dog, but they'll never be too far that they can't come when they
hear you scream."
   "Can we try that, I mean, to make sure they know to come if I scream
like I'm in danger?"
   "We'll work on that one, I'm certain that will be no problem with them,
Uno and Bravo are your dogs now, even though they're still wild.  Even Dog
will do that for you, he knows you're here with me and he loves you,
because he knows I love you."
   The 4th of July, 2009 was on Saturday and on Friday afternoon, Julio and
Janelle arrived about 3:00.  Crystal was on the phone with Janelle most of
the way, as they drove up to the cabin.  They were excited about seeing
each other again and getting to spend almost a week together.  They had
talked about it, planned all the things they were going to do, then talked
about all their plans some more.
   By the time Julio and Janelle left Clarksville, Janelle was as excited
as Crystal and only wore a long tee shirt as they drove up.  The two wanted
to go running through the forest together naked with the dogs, while Steve
and Julio got the meat on the grill and visited with a few beers.
   Crystal was standing in the doorway of the cabin when she heard the beep
of the driveway alarm, she ran to stand naked in the driveway as they
pulled up in Julio's 4x4 pickup.  She and Janelle were hugging and dancing
and laughing and crying as Crystal pulled the tee shirt over Janelle's head
and threw it in the seat of the truck.
   She turned to see Uno and Bravo stalking Janelle and Julio.  For an
instant, she was afraid of her own dogs.
   "Come here babies, its alright, come to Mommy, and meet these good
people," she cooed to them in her soft voice, calling each of their names,
as they started wagging their tails and walked slowly to her, ever wary of
the two strangers standing near her.
   They came and cowed down on the ground and rolled over in submission
while she rubbed their bellies.
   "Janelle squat down here slowly and pet them, they'll let you, just move
slow and talk to them softly, their names are Uno and Bravo, talk to them,"
Crystal told her.
   Janelle squatted, not sure she even wanted to, but did as her friend
asked.  She reached out slowly, talking softly, saying their names
repeatedly, as Crystal did the same.  She scratched both pups on their
chests and rubbed their bellies as they squirmed and licked both their
hands.
   When Crystal and Janelle stood slowly, the pups stood and ran playfully
back to the porch as if waiting for them to follow.  Dog walked over to
Crystal and Janelle now, his head low to the ground, his eyes looking up,
as if he were stalking.  Crystal knew what was about to happen and she
laughed just as he raised his head and licked right up through Janelle's
smooth pussy.
   Janelle had backed up, afraid at first, and looked at Crystal as if
wondering what to do, then she yelled when Dog licked her, she was laughing
and pushing him away, then looked at Crystal.
   "Is that another of your tricks you've been training them to do?" she
asked and they all laughed.
   "He did that to me the first time we met, just so happened I was wearing
clothes.  I know to watch him now when he comes up to me; when I saw him
heading to you just now, I knew it was about to happen and so did Steve,
look over there, he's laughing his ass off."
   Steve and Julio were already drinking a beer as the two women came to
the porch.
   They were busy with their visiting and laughing and making more plans as
Steve and Julio washed and prepared the meat for the grill, they were
already planning on staying up all night if necessary to cook the meat to
perfection, just as they'd done numerous times.
   Crystal couldn't wait to show Janelle the falls and the pool, they were
getting their running shoes on and ready to go, both naked as the day they
were born, both were tall, fit, and big breasted with sexy legs and butts.
   Crystal had her hair braided and she braided Janelle's.
   "Crystal, get your knife and let Janelle put mine on, take your bow and
your extra field arrows; you never know.  Even though Dog, Uno and Bravo
are with you, I want you to be armed."
   "Sorry, I was so excited about Janelle being here I was about to forget,
I would have come back though, when I realized how naked I was, without
them."
   She got the knives and her bow and all her arrows she carries when she
runs with Steve.
   "Uno, Bravo, lets go boys," she said and they took off running toward
the falls.
   "Go with them Dog," Steve said, he caught them in mere seconds.
   "Steve, I swear, every time I come up here, I want to do this very
thing. You have it made man, you finally have a woman, hell a country girl,
that loves you and loves living back in the sticks like this.  If Janelle
and I can work out our little differences and stay together, I want to find
us a place up here like this.  Hell if she still wants to work, she can. 
I've saved everything I've ever made, waiting to find the right woman and
buy a place of my own.  This is the life I want to live, free and no one
telling me what to do or when to do it."
   "Julio, go for it man, you're what now, 40, hell man give it up and get
a place.  I know of a spread not two miles from here that's got just over a
hundred acres and a small log cabin on it.  It's been for sale for over two
years now and the market has busted on the property up here, no one wants
it."
   "No shit Steve?  Can we go take a look at it while we're here?  Man you
got me itching now, hell I put all my money in CD's when the market started
falling last year, I need to buy something like that while my money's still
good and the prices are down.  Fuck man, I'm ready to get the hell out of
the city.
   "I was raised over in New Mexico where there wasn't a tree in sight, I
need to look out and see trees like these all around, does it have a
swimming hole, or a creek at least or river.  Hell a mud hole even, I'm
ready to go now," Julio laughed and drained his beer and grabbed another
one.
   "There's two creeks on it, I talked to the woman once about it, she said
she wanted to move down with her only daughter, now that her husband was
dead.  The same river that borders my north line, borders that place on the
north side too.  Hell we could cut us a trail across the land between us
and cross when we wanted to.  Hell even better than that, we could make an
offer on the place between us.  There's not but fifty acres, but its long
and narrow, where the river cuts back this way, then bends back over to the
old woman's place."
   "Fuck Steve, shut the fuck up man, you got me ready to run over and
write a check for it," Julio laughed.
   "Hell Julio, we could get us some 4-wheelers and ride this country like
we owned the state if you and Janelle moved up here."
   "Dammit, hush now.  Shit man, if Janelle was here, I'd fuck her naked
ass right here on the ground, I'm so excited."
   "Want to paint up real quick and go find them, Crystal loves for me to
run her down and fuck her like an animal, from behind."
   "Get the fucking paint, hell man I need some relief, you got me so
fucking excited, I want to go over and see the place tomorrow, OK?"
   "Hell yes, if you don't buy it, I may buy it now, hell I got my own self
excited about it too."
   "Get back, you greedy land grabber, that's gonna be Janelle's and my
place," Julio laughed.
   They checked the meat on the grill and knew it would be morning before
they needed to even touch it again.  When they were painted in their camo
body paint, they grabbed their knives, bows and a 9mm Beretta each, and
they were off.
   They started slow, letting Julio get loose, then they picked up the pace
as they moved easily, quietly and almost like the wind shifting the leaves
of the forest as they ran.  Not intruding into the forest, but becoming a
part of it as they ran swiftly, making no sound, not even scaring the birds
up as they ran by.
   Steve knew where Crystal would take them, she loved to run the back
line, above the deep river gorge, the air was cool and fresh coming up from
the cold, tumbling white waters below.
  
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   Across the river on the north side, the same three men sat looking at
the tall naked women running along the road, they didn't see the man or the
dogs this time.
   "Fuck man, would you look at that?  That fucking redhead has another
cunt running with her."
   "Hell I didn't even see any pussy hair on either of them when they
rounded that bend either, I've never fucked a bald pussy before, have you?"
   "Hell no, and I reckon I've waited long enough to fuck one too, come on,
we can get across this gorge down here just a little ways; then I know
where the bluff on the other side can be walked up like door steps.  We can
get us some pussy and them ol' gals will probably pay us to come back
again."
   "You in Jr."
   "Hell you both about got me talked into it now, seeing as how them dogs
and that old tall boy's not there, lets go fuck some fresh pussy.  God what
an ass on both of them, I want some butt today, you fellers can have the
pussy."
   "You got a deal, come on while they're resting, we can be hid out around
the next bend and jump their naked asses when they start again."
   "That redhead's got her bow and they both have knives, are you sure they
can be had?" Jr.  asked, needing more convincing.
   "Fuck Jr.  get your ass up and come on, or you can just sit there and
watch us fuck them naked asses through your field glasses and jack off."
   "Here I come, wait for me."
   The three ran through the cover of the trees on the north side of the
river, excited about the prospect of getting some fresh pussy.  Especially
pussy that belonged to that ol' boy that had told them to leave his
property more than once.
   They had never liked outsiders coming up here, buying up the land and
acting like they knew about living in the forest.  Fuck, they'd been raised
right here, living off the land.  Stealing food and gas from the campers,
taking pussy too when they could.
   "Come on Jr., God Damn man, you're slower than frozen snot, you're gonna
be left out if you don't get your fat ass in gear and climb this bluff."
   "Fuck you, you're the lard ass in family."
   "I want to fuck that redhead's ass, man I bet her pussy even tastes
good."
   "You ignorant bastard, we ain't never had a pussy eater in this family
and you better not ever let Ma hear tell of you saying things like that,
she'd cut your fucking tongue out."
   "If you two don't stop with your yacking, you're gonna run our pussy
off, then I'll cut your nuts out and feed'em to them wild ass dogs, now
shut up and get over here.  I see them through the trees there, we can
sneak up on them dumb ass women and have them fucked before they even know
what's up.  Fuck, you two stay here and let me get in front, hell you two
sound like a herd of fucking buffalo coming through the fucking woods.  Now
stay here, and stay low, I'll get the drop on both of them, then you come
on in and get them pussies lathered up good."
   "Damn, just look at Jr.  run through them briars and bushes, fuck, he
stopped and took his damned clothes off and he's sneaking up on that
redhead now.  Get naked little brother, we're about to get some fresh
pussy."
   "OH FUCK, look over there behind Jr.  ain't that the big ol' wild-ass
dog we saw with them before?  Fuck, now he's stalking Jr."
   "Reckon we need to holler at him?"
   "Come on Rafe, too late to holler now, there comes them young dogs, look
at them mutherfuckers run, get over there and help Jr., that fucking big
dogs' got him down."
  
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   "Crystal, look behind us, Dog has a naked man on the ground, OH MY GOD,
he just ripped his balls off and ate them," Janelle screamed as they jumped
up and looked behind them.
   Crystal saw two more, naked, fat ass men running right at them.  She
looked over behind Dog and saw Uno and Bravo running like black panthers,
low to the ground and stretched out as they ran right at the two men.
   She pulled her bow up and reached for a field arrow; just as she nocked
the arrow and pulled it back, Uno and Bravo attacked the men.  The big men
were kicking the young dogs off with their feet and she was afraid they
would stomp her pups.
   "UNO, BRAVO, KILL," she yelled as loud as she could and the two young
curs left the ground in a leap, knocking both men backwards at the same
time.
   When the big men hit the ground on their backs, they were dead, the two
pups swallowing the last of what had been their throats.  They were in a
frenzy, tearing at the dead bodies, dragging them and pulling their arms,
legs and feet as they gnawed on them, growling and gurgling as they
swallowed chunks of flesh.
   "OH GOD Crystal, look at that man over there, Dog is stalking him again,
the man's guts are hanging out and he's trying to run with his hands over
his guts."
   "Dog, STOP," she yelled as the man stumbled across the dirt road and
fell over the edge of the gorge, landing in the rushing, white waters of
the shallow rapids fifty feet below.
   "CRYSTAL," Steve yelled as he and Julio rounded the bend in the road,
running as fast as they could, after hearing the blood curdling screams
from Crystal and the fat man that had his balls ripped out.
   Crystal and Janelle ran to them now, as they watched Uno and Bravo tear
at the flesh of the men.
   "Stop them Crystal, tell them to STOP, or they'll make a mess we can't
cover up," Steve told her.
   She ran toward them now, screaming, "UNO, BRAVO, STOP," she screamed
over and over.
   The young dogs looked up at her and wagged their tails as they ran to
her and fell to the ground at her feet, wanting to be petted.
   She knelt between them, her tears running down her face, she was scared,
but she was elated that they had killed at her command.  She had just
killed two men using a weapon she had never known before today.
   Dog walked over to the pups and they all started licking each others
mouths, necks and faces.
   "Julio, help me get these two bodies over to the edge without getting
blood everywhere, we need them to hit the water, not the sides of the
bluff," Steve said.  All four of them now grabbed the bloody, shredded
bodies and lifted them one at a time, to swing them over the side.
   They looked at the bloody scene in the dusty road and all three dogs
were lapping up the dust clotted blood.
   Steve and Julio took brushy limbs and brushed lightly in the dust,
covering their tracks.  They left the tracks at the bloody scene where the
dogs attacked and the men had fought and died.
   "Come back out here in the brush and grass and lets see if we can find
where they crossed the river, we need to find their clothes and let the
dogs tear them apart like the dummy we used Crystal."
   "Why Steve?"
   "So it will look like they were attacked by wild dogs, which they were;
if their clothes were torn off them, it will look legit, if the clothes are
still in good shape, someone will wonder why they were naked."
   "Steve, over here, Janelle, you and Crystal stay there.  Steve jump the
road, here's their clothes by the river bluff, two sets of them anyway, I
don't see the other man's clothes." Julio said.
   "Don't pick them up, take a stick and lift them, then we'll carry them
back to the attack scene and drop them, Crystal can tell the dogs to KILL
and they'll do the rest."
   "Steve, over here is where Dog ripped the other man apart, there's blood
every where.  Janelle said she saw Dog rip his balls off and eat them, then
he was holding his guts back in his fat belly as he stumbled to the gorge,"
Crystal said as she and Janelle stood next to the thicket where the man had
hidden and pulled his clothes off.
   Steve walked over and looked the scene over, they stayed back to keep
from leaving footprints in the tall grass as he looked around.
   "DOG," he yelled and his big black cur ran to him.
   He pointed to the pile of clothes, "KILL," he said and Dog shredded the
clothes into pieces as they watched.
   "Leave them here, and walk a wide circle back over to the log where you
were sitting."
   "Julio, you ready?" he asked.
   "Yeah, whenever you are."
   "Crystal, walk down the side of the road, in the short grass and tell
Uno and Bravo to kill."
   She did as he asked, and when she was close, but still in the short
grass, she called them to her and pointed to the pile of camo clothes. 
"UNO, BRAVO, KILL." She yelled in a scream and the dogs ran to the strange
smelling clothes and ripped them to shreds, dragging them through the dust
and blood, back and forth around the attack scene.
   They watched for a few more minutes and Steve told her to stop them.
   "That's enough, there'll be coyotes, wild dogs and every other varmint
here tonight.  We'll not even come back this way until about noon tomorrow,
then we'll call the sheriff's office and report what looks like a bloody
attack of wild dogs," Steve told them.
   They called their dogs and started walking back; at first, there was no
talk, then Julio spoke.
   "Janelle, I want to move up here, Steve and I want to go look at a
property just across that field back there.  He said it's owned by an old
woman that wants to sell and move away, there's a hundred acres, a small
log cabin and trees and creeks just like this place.  I hope you'll come
with me, after seeing this today, I know this is where I'm supposed to be,
are you in?" Julio asked Janelle.
   "You mean we'll be neighbors with Crystal and Steve and live here, can
we have dogs like theirs?  I am so fucking turned on and horny we may have
to lag back a ways or get nasty in front of our friends.  If you come here,
you better load my clothes and bring my ass too.  I'll get a huge fucking
settlement in my divorce and I know you've stuck money back, as stingy as
you are; we can pay cash for it.  Fuck yes, I'm in, lets go get dressed and
go see the woman now, can we?"
   "Fuck Janelle, I love this, we'll both be back home and we can run naked
and hunt naked and we'll never have to worry about anyone ever coming here
again when this gets out."
   "Steve, you think we can all load up and go see the old woman today, if
she's even home?" Julio asked, he was ready too.
   "You mean this caused you to want to live here, I was afraid when this
happened both of you would get the hell away from here," Steve said.
   "Fuck naw man, I want a place where I can have dogs like that, that will
protect my woman, just like those dogs did.  Hell man those two are just
pups and they killed those fat fuckers like they were as old as Dog.  Hell
Dog was toying with his man, those two went straight for their throats,"
Julio said as he and Janelle walked together, arms around each others
waists, hips touching.
   "We can go right now, or we can stop at the falls and cool off and still
have time to be over there before dark, hell it's not even 6:30," Steve
said as he looked at the sun in the western sky.
   "Lets stop at the falls, Crystal and I dove in and swam on the way back
here, I want to fuck Julio in that cold water, then we'll get dressed and
go," Janelle said and smiled at Crystal.
   "Steve wants some pussy too, don't you Steve," Crystal said, pulling him
to her huge titties and they all laughed.
   "No man in his right mind would say no, to you two," Steve answered.
   They dropped their weapons as they neared the pool and ran, naked,
laughing and holding hands into the deep cool water.  Steve and Crystal
swam the circle and came back out, she kissed him deep and turned to bend
over her favorite boulder on the property, a low smooth rock just lower
than her waist.  When she bends over it, her huge titties are below and her
big, sexy butt, up and spread for him to take.
   Partake he did too, as deep and hard as he could ram his swollen cock.
Crystal loved the feel of him pounding her pussy from behind with his big
cock.  He was able to make her reach her orgasms from the time he entered
her until he pulled out after filling her with his flood of semen.
   She felt someone touch her hand and opened her eyes as Janelle bent
forward over the smooth boulder beside her, Julio pounding her pussy from
behind before she even rested her huge tanned titties on the rock.
   The two women were in an animalistic frenzy not much different from the
one the wild dogs had been in.  Though they weren't out for blood, they
were out for hedonistic lust and animalistic gratification.  The two were
horny, turned on by the wild act of a brutal ending to the men who were
intent on rape, bodily harm and maybe worse, before the dogs put an end to
their worthless existence.
   The four friends washed and played and splashed in the cold water, then
gathered their weapons and ran up the smooth rock slope to the cabin. 
Steve opened his gun case on the pretext of putting his 9 mm Berettas up.
He got two boxes of shells for the two 30-30 Winchesters he had put in the
overhead gun rack in his pickup earlier when he knew Julio and Janelle were
coming.  He hurriedly opened his money stash and stuffed some bills into
his pockets, he never counted, he just grabbed a handful.
   When they dressed and put Dog in charge, they drove over to the
neighbor's house two miles away.  Steve drove his truck, with Crystal
sitting with her legs across his lap, to give Julio more room because he
had Janelle in his lap.
   They were laughing and having fun like kids, glad to be together, glad
to be back in the sticks with not a worry in the world.
   Ms.  Maudie Hanner, lived back off the road like Steve did and she also
had her some bad dogs running loose in her yard.  Hers weren't as wild,
just bad.
   She heard all the commotion when the pickup drove into her yard and went
to the door with her shotgun.
   "Alright, who air ye and what do ya want here?" she yelled from the
doorway.
   "Ms.  Maudie, it's me, Steve Randall from down the road, I talked to you
once about your place here."
   "Yeah, I remember you, hell boy come on in, did you finally get you a
wife?  Damn she sure is a pretty thing, my girl has red hair like that,
y'all c'mon on in here," she said and spat her snuff at an old dog that was
pissing on her porch.
   "We drove down to see if you still wanted to sell this place off and
move on down to your daughters," Steve said.
   "Hell yes I do, you here to make an offer?  Them damn real 'state people
sure as hell couldn't sell it fer me."
   "This is my friends, Julio and Janelle and this is my wife Crystal. 
Julio and I were over in Iraq together for a while and he's wanting to move
out here to get away from all the noise and commotion.  He said he wanted
to see you and talk about a price when I told him all about your place."
   "Julio, what do you think of this log cabin?  Me and pa built this thing
ourselves with a team of horses pulling the logs up to stack them, it's
solid as the rock she's settin on."
   "Ms.  Maudie, I love this, this is what I always dreamed of and Janelle
was raised over in southern Illinois in the back country too."
   "Well, I'll be damned, I was born and raised over there too, girl it
sure is a small world."
   "What were you asking for the whole place Ms.  Maudie, when it was
listed with the real estate companies."
   "Well, they wanted me to list it on the market for a hunert and twenty
five thousand at first, then we come back down to a hunert, and now that
they're out of my hair again and I can do what I damned well please, I'd
take 90 fer it, cash money in hunert dollar bills and leave it just like
you see it settin' here right now."
   "Boy, that's a hard bargain, but I sure hope you mean that, cause me and
Janelle want to buy it," Julio said and Ms.  Maudie jumped up and started
dancing a jig around the room.
   "Ms.  Maudie, would you sign an affidavit to that, if we gave you some
money up front, until we can get the rest to you by Tuesday?" Steve asked.
   "Hell yeah I would Steve, you done me good, bringing Julio and this good
looking Janelle up here to buy my place, how much you got to put down?"
   "I just grabbed a few dollars when we left, let me see," Steve said as
he counted the money.  "Looks like I got ten thousand here, will that do
until Julio gets the rest?"
   "Shit I reckon it'll do, hell you draw them papers up Janelle, saying
what he just said and we'll sign them.  I'll call my daughter and
granddaughter and they'll be up to get me tomorrow, hell you can move right
in if you want to, I'll give you her phone number and you just call me when
the legal papers are done and count that money out; boy my daughter is
gonna be so glad I got shed of this old place."
   Janelle took her tablet and wrote out a record of earnest money paid to
Ms.  Maudie Hanner, with intentions to buy her land for the amount they
agreed on.  She and Julio signed it just below Ms.  Maudie's signature.
   "Ms.  Maudie, there's no reason for you to hurry out of here, we can
wait until we get the money to you," Janelle told her.
   "Hon, I'd leave here walking right now if I thought I'd make it all the
way down to Clarksville, you just call that number there as soon as you can
get that lawyer to draw up the papers, its all up to date on the deed, the
real 'state folks done all that when they were so hot to sell it."
   "Then we'll call you on Tuesday, and it may take another day or two, you
never know when dealing with a lawyer," Janelle told her.
   "Hon, I got your money, I know you'll come with the rest, I ain't
worried," she said and spit in the open fireplace.
   "What about your dogs Ms.  Maudie?" Julio asked.
   "Hell, them ain't my dogs, they just took up here and I feed'em, you can
have them if you want'em.  I got to tell you though, that big ol' dog of
Steve's, done knocked one of'em up, she's in the shed back there and she'll
deliver in a week.  Watch her though, she's one of them wild ones, she come
here with her legs all chewed up bad and I just fed her and put her up to
keep the others from killin and eatin her pups when they come."
   "Janelle, Julio; you wanted some dogs, now you got a whole pack of
them," Crystal laughed.
   "Ms.  Maudie, we got some meat cooking on the grill for tomorrow, stop
by when your daughter comes after you and we'll give you a good mess of
it," Steve said.
   "Steve, you are just a good neighbor, I'll do that, my granddaughter may
be the one come though, she drives her momma's car up here all the time,
hell, she'd live up here if she could get a way back and forth to work."
   "Where does she work?" Crystal asked.
   "She's a nurse at the hospital, just got out of nurses school and went
to work.  But she's a country girl at heart and when she'd come up here in
the summer, I had a terrible time makin' her wear clothes.  Hell she'd get
up in the mornings and go running with the dogs, buck ass naked, beats all
I ever saw," Ms.  Maudie said and laughed.
   "I hope she does come up here, I love to run naked too," Crystal told
her and they laughed together.
   "Hell girl, she's got tits just like yours, her and you and Janelle
would have Julio and Steve slobbering down their chins, if you run naked
together.  Hell, I'll call her and tell her to get her ass up here and meet
you folks, she'd love you and Janelle the way you two like to cut up,"
Maudie Hanner was happy as hell now and she was ready to get going.
   "You call your daughter and grand daughter Ms.  Maudie, we'll get on out
of your way," Steve told her and they all stood to leave.
   The four friends left Ms.  Maudie Hanners' place and drove back toward
Steve and Crystal's cabin.  They were ready to get drunk, get naked and
party at the pool all day tomorrow.
   "Turn your redneck lights on Steve," Janelle said and they all laughed.
   He reached up and flipped a toggle switch and the sun came up right in
county road 3701, with the four huge KC driving lights shining a quarter of
a mile down the road.  There were deer and coyotes and possums all turning
to look into the bright lights.
   When they neared the big cross tie that marked their property line, they
saw a vehicle come speeding out of the dirt road on Steve's property.  The
lights were off and they turned left, in the road in front of Steve's
truck, headed toward their place.
   It was a black SUV and it was going too fast to make the turn, evidently
the driver didn't see the road ended as it intersected the county road. 
The SUV slid sideways in the gravel road when they turned, the driver lost
control and slid into the road ditch on the opposite side, then he drove
with two wheels in the ditch and two wheels on the side of the road for a
long way as he kept turning his wheels to try and get back upon the road.
   Steve had been easing along slowly in fourth gear as they looked for
deer, then when the vehicle came out in front of them and slid around, he
downshifted to third and gunned it.
   "Julio, did you see the plates on that rig?"
   "I did Steve, Arizona plates, that's got to be bad news."
   "Damn Steve do you think they've been to our cabin?" Crystal asked.
   "Never know until we get there, but they wouldn't get far with the three
dogs there, Julio, grab a rifle up there, its loaded and its live under the
hammer," Steve said as he pulled the four wheel drive stick back and gunned
the big engine, spraying gravel out from under the four wide tires as they
roared up beside the SUV, the driver still trying to pull it back up into
the road.
   "Janelle, Crystal, get down in the floor, Julio, take the tires off that
son of a bitch, they have no right to be up here fucking with us," Steve
said and Julio fired three shots into the two wheels on the left side.  The
left front rim exploded; tire, rim all coming apart.  The rear tire blew
the whole sidewall out as the driver lost control and the vehicle spun
sideways.  The left hub on the steering axle dug into the gravel road,
spinning the vehicle around, rolling it over twice in slow motion, in the
county road.
   "Crystal, call 911, tell them what's happened and where we are," Steve
said as he grabbed the other 30-30 and ran to catch Julio.
   "Careful Amigo, they could be playing possum," he said as they came up
to the overturned vehicle, passenger side up, as it lay in the road, the
right front wheel spinning, and smoke coming from under the hood.
   Julio stood to the side and with his rifle butt, he busted the back
glass out, stepping back as the glass first shattered, still in place, then
when he hit again, the glass popped out with a large hole right in the
middle.  He took the rifle butt and made the hole bigger.
   "Steve you better come here," Julio said.
   "What did you find?" Steve said as he walked back to look in.
   There were two bodies, a man and a woman, the man was wearing brown
shorts and what was left of a bloody, brown, button up shirt.
   "Tell Crystal to drive the pickup closer and point the lights inside the
vehicle, turn both handheld spotlights on too, and leave the motor
running," Steve said as he looked inside the black, GMC Yukon.
   Crystal had the pickup as close as she could, pointed to get the best
light, then she and Janelle turned the spotlights on and aimed them inside
the back glass of the vehicle as well.
   "This woman is alive Julio, she's moving her mouth," Steve said.
   "Steve, I'm going to check on the driver, this wasn't a bad wreck, not
enough to cause any bad injuries," Julio said.
   "Hold up, we'll both go up there, you circle the vehicle and come around
the hood, I'll ease over this way out in the other road ditch, be careful
when you get to the windshield, he could be down against the door, just
waiting," Steve said and they made their move.
   "CRYSTAL, you and Janelle get out of the truck and leave it running, get
in the ditch way back from the vehicles," Steve yelled as he saw movement
in the SUV.
   "Julio, stay back I saw movement, don't come around the hood," Steve
yelled at Julio.
   They could hear sirens in the distance and Steve knew someone must have
been patrolling the north side of the county to get here this fast.
   Steve and Julio kept looking to see if there was anymore more movement,
the sirens getting closer and now they saw them turn onto this county road,
the red and blue lights flashing, the sirens still blaring as the two
vehicles raced toward them in the loose gravel.
   "Get back Julio, the crazy fools are driving too fast, they're going to
crash into the damned SUV," Steve yelled as the big, jacked up Ford pickup
roared in too fast, sliding sideways into the front of the overturned SUV.
   "Drop them guns, you two, drop'em or I'll shoot," the fat man yelled as
he jumped from the pickup with a semi-automatic handgun in each hand, one
pointed at Julio and one at Steve.  He stood with his feet apart, bent
forward, jerking his head back and forth from Steve and Julio.  He wore a
red baseball cap, he had his underwear on and his boots.
   "Hell man, we're the ones that put the call in for help, there's some
dead and wounded people in back and we know there's at least one still
alive in the front.  They wrecked when they came out on the road too fast.
You better get back, they may be armed," Steve yelled at the auxiliary
deputy, as a sheriff's patrol car roared up behind the big pickup now.
   The deputy ran up into the light and saw Steve.
   "Put the damned guns down Bubba, I know this man, hell he lives out
here," the deputy yelled, recognizing Steve.
   "What's going on Steve we got the 911 call and I wasn't close by so I
called Bubba, he just lives a mile or two from here."
   "We were visiting Ms.  Maudie back there and when we started back this
way, this SUV pulled out of the road on my property line and I remembered
you and the sheriff telling me about the bunch from Arizona being here in
Arkansas, hell we tried to stop them and they tried to run, my friend Julio
took their wheels off with that 30-30 and they flipped.  We know there's a
woman back there that's still alive, there's a man back there wearing the
colors of the UPS drivers, not sure if he's alive."
   "Damn it Bubba, get back away from that vehicle, the driver may still be
alive, he could shoot your ass," the deputy yelled just as two automatic
weapons opened up, spraying bullets through the windshield, hitting the
deputy in both legs and striking Bubba in his shoulder and neck, knocking
him to the gravel.
   Julio ducked and ran around behind the patrol car and moved to meet
Steve.
   Steve opened the passenger side door on the patrol car and reached for
the mic, "Johnson County Sheriff's Patrol Unit 107 to Johnson County
Sheriff's Department, you have a deputy and a volunteer officer down on
county road 3701, west of Strawberry Loop Road, there's been gunfire and
there's still men at large, get some backup over here in a hurry," Steve
spoke loud and clear into the mic.
   "Who is this and where's the deputy?"
   "Listen to me, get backup and two ambulances here pronto, there's two
deputies down, listen to me dumb-ass, county road 3701, west of Strawberry
Loop road," Steve yelled and dropped the mic, he and Julio now ran back
toward his pickup.
   They didn't see Crystal or Janelle and were afraid they'd left them
alone too long.
   "Crystal, Janelle?" he yelled and there was no answer.
   "DOG," Steve turned, cupping his hands around his mouth and yelled as
loud as he could, he knew they weren't more than two hundred yards from his
drive, Dog would hear him, he knew he would.
   "Steve, we fucked up didn't we?  Leaving the girls, that fucking Bubba
was trying to be Barney, fucking the whole thing up."
   "I remember telling them to get out of the pickup, I'll turn it around
and see if we can see anything, some mother fucker is going to pay with his
life if they have those two girls."
   Steve jumped in his truck, turning his wheels and gunning the engine, he
backed in a circle in the gravel road, spraying gravel all over as the
truck slid around to face the opposite direction.  When the dust settled,
they saw nothing, Crystal and Janelle were nowhere in sight.
   Dog licked his hand, Uno and Bravo were beside him.
   He knelt and took Dog's head and pulled him close, looking into his
eyes. "Dog, go find Crystal,"
   He broke loose from Steve's grip and jumped in the truck seat, then
jumped to the gravel road and ran around the truck, taking off into the
road ditch, Uno and Bravo behind him.  They broke into a run, through the
tall grass and brush alongside the roadside.  The three dogs disappeared
into the darkness, neither of them making a sound.
   "Julio, grab the hand held spot lights from the box in back, I'm going
in after them," Steve said, his voice shaky, his fingers shaking, scared
for the first time in his life, scared that he may have let harm come to
Crystal.
   "I'm going in too Steve, Janelle's out there," Julio said.
   "Julio, I know you love her, but someone has to stay here, you won't be
able to control Dog and the pups if you go in, hell I don't know if I can
with the dogs knowing Crystal's out there, stay and see if you can help the
deputies and the woman in back, I'll shoot twice if I need you, come to my
gunshot," Steve said as he looked at Julio, they both were worried now.
   Julio looked up when he heard more sirens coming, and looked in the
distance to see five vehicles headed his way, he wanted them to hurry, so
he could follow Steve.  He looked back and Steve wasn't there.
   Julio heard a blood curdling scream in the woods just as the emergency
vehicles slid to a stop behind the deputies car.  He ran to them to try and
help sort out what had happened.
   He met the three EMT's as they got out, pointing to the two deputies on
the ground and telling them about the man and woman in back of the SUV.  He
was still carrying the 30-30 when Sheriff Cole came up to him.
   "Where's Steve, I see his truck there, what happened here?  Were you
with Steve when he called?" he asked.
   "I'm a friend of Steve's we were in Uno Bravo together, we're here for
the weekend, my girl friend and I.  We saw this SUV coming out of Steve's
land and we chased them; they slid in the ditch and I shot their wheels
off, then they flipped.  The deputies got here and the one called Bubba
tried to arrest Steve and I.  Your other deputy got here and Bubba started
looking in the vehicle, we had told him there was still people in there. 
They opened fire and shot your deputy and Bubba, then we started looking
for Crystal and Janelle, my girlfriend.  We had told them to leave the
pickup, Steve was afraid whoever was in there may start shooting, so he
told them to hide in the ditch.  Now we can't find them," Julio was running
his word as together as he tried to tell the sheriff what had happened.
   "Where's Steve?"
   "He yelled to Dog up at the cabin and when he got here, Steve followed
Dog and the pups into the woods back there," Julio said.
   There were three more deputies and two ambulances there now and the
whole place was lit with bright spotlights and red and blue flashing strobe
lights.  The EMT's helped the woman out of the SUV and got her onto a
gurney, she had been raped, beaten and cut all over her body with a knife.
She would live, her husband was dead, his throat cut.
   "Sheriff, I've got to go in there," Julio said.
   "Let me get some lights.  Bill; come go with me, bring the two big
lights," Sheriff Cole yelled.
   "Dave, call for more assistance, we need to get a manhunt organized if
we don't catch the men that took the two women."
   "Sheriff Cole, the woman's talking, you better get over here," the EMT
called him.
   "What is it Ms.  Larson?"
   "There's six of them, they killed Jerry when he tried to keep them from
raping me and cutting me, they wanted to know where some money was and
Jerry told them he don't know about any money.  They kept asking about a
Steve Randall and Jerry told them he would tell them where he lived if they
would let me go.  They lied and when he told them, they killed him and
brought us here.  They raped and cut me all over, I hope you kill all six
of the son of a bitches, for what they did to Jerry and me."
   "Are there more vehicles?"
   "Yes, there was one more like this one and a white car."
   "Bill, get over here, you and Julio stay close, we don't need to lose
sight of each other and make any mistakes.  We need to hurry though, if
Steve and Dog get to those men first, we'll just have pieces to pick up at
daylight," Sheriff Cole said as they walked into the low brush, on the edge
of the forest.
   "Sheriff, you don't know the half of it, if Dog gets there first, even
Steve may not get him off the men.  If Steve gets his hands on them first,
you'll be lucky to find a one alive; he's a killing machine, sheriff,"
Julio told him as they walked along the trail left in the tall grass by
Steve and the others that came this way.
   "How many men do you think was in the SUV, Julio?" Sheriff Cole asked as
they walked.
   "I think there were two in there, could have been more, just not sure.
But it sounded like two Uzi's that opened up."
   "So, with what the woman told us, there's four more besides them
somewhere out here."
   "I'm sure she would know, but we don't know that all of them are here,
they may have split up," Julio told him.
   "You're right, but the way I figure it, if they're looking for a large
amount of money or dope, they somehow lost, then I would bet they were all
up here, somewhere."
   "I agree; look, there's a broken limb and here's another one, that's
Steve, he's marking for us," Julio said.
  
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   Steve had turned his light off now, he'd heard Crystal cussing someone
for pulling her hair, they weren't far ahead of him and his eyes were
adjusting to the dark.  He had heard either Uno or Bravo growl once and
they were just ahead and to the right of him, he knew it wasn't Dog; he had
never growled at anyone or anything, he just killed.
   Steve wasn't sure how this would play out when Dog and the pups caught
up to them, Dog would do what had to be done, the pups would more than
likely just try to kill whoever had their hands on Crystal, darkness or
daylight.  He hurried now, hearing a sound like someone being slapped.
   "Get your filthy hands off her you son of a bitch, Steve will be here in
a minute and you both will die," he heard Crystal tell one of them, just a
few feet away.  He could see a light now through the thick brush and
Janelle was on the ground and there was a man over her, trying to get her
to stand up and one holding Crystal, they both carried Uzi handguns.  Steve
pulled his Beretta up and tried to get a shot through the thick brush and
vines.
   He wished there was some way Crystal would know Dog and the pups were
close by, she could yell and those two goons would die taking their next
breath.
   Steve saw the man standing over Janelle reach down grab the back of her
shirt ripping it from her, her large breasts springing out into the light.
Crystal tried to go to her and the man holding her made a mistake that cost
he and his friend their lives, he slapped Crystal across her face, knocking
her to the ground.
   Uno and Bravo were both at his throat, he was dead while still on his
feet, when he hit the ground, the entire front of his neck, from his
jawbone to his collarbone, completely gone.  Steve swung his Beretta around
and the man had Janelle between him and where the dogs were ripping his
friend apart.
   The man was trying to get his gun up and Crystal pointed to him and
yelled at Dog, "KILL HIM, DOG." In the blink of an eye, the man was knocked
backwards by a huge black shadow that flew from the darkness, knocking
Janelle down.  Dog had the man by the throat, ripping it out and swallowing
it.  He was then tearing into his body, his entrails spilling from his
belly as Janelle and Crystal scrambled backwards.
   Steve was in a dead run toward them through the brush and briars now. 
He grabbed the screaming, crying women in his arms; at first, they fought
against him in fear, then Crystal realized it was him.
   "Call them off Crystal, the deputies are here now and we need to leave
something for the coroner to clean up out here, I was hoping you would see
Dog and the pups, they were stalking the two men, and when he slapped you,
that was it."
   "Dog, Uno, Bravo; STOP, come here babies, let mama hold you and show you
how much she loves you," she sobbed and the three dogs ran to her, nearly
knocking her over with their enthusiasm, at the sound of her voice.
   "Steve, are you here?" Julio yelled.
   "Over here Julio, we have two men down; Crystal and Janelle are
alright."
   "MY GOD Steve, what happened here?" Sheriff Cole asked as he and his
deputies shined their lights around the blood splattered scene.
   Julio fell to his knees and held Janelle as she sobbed and held him
tight.
   "They slapped Crystal Sheriff, that was the last move they made, they
were dead when they hit the ground," Steve told him.
   "Deputy, call for more back up and for more ambulances, get the coroner
out here, we'll need crime scenes roped off and CID brought in ASAP, get on
it, get them out here NOW," Sheriff Cole barked as he looked around again
at the blood covered grass, vines and tree trunks, shaking his head in
disbelief.
   The deputy was on his remote transceiver, relaying the sheriff's orders
and received a call back that another patrol car was on the back property
line, next to the river and had come across another scene that looked as if
there was a wild dog attack.
   "Sheriff, did you copy that?" the deputy asked.
   "Yes, get more patrol cars out here, this has to be that mob from
Arizona, we still have four more of them out here somewhere, according to
Becky Larson before she passed out.  Call back to the office and tell them
to get the Arkansas State Police out here too."
   "Steve you and Julio get Crystal and Janelle back to your place, please
take the dogs too, we can't have them out here with all the commotion
that's going on, here take this," he said and handed him the transceiver he
had taken from his deputy.
   "You can keep in touch if need be, we may need to know more about your
place as we sort this mess out, be careful at your cabin; I would ask if
you needed a deputy, but I know better now, they'd just be in your way."
   "Julio are you and Janelle alright?" The sheriff was trying to take
inventory and assess the situation.
   His men began coming into the opening in the dense part of the forest
now, standing at the edge of the bloody sight before them; looking at each
other, wondering what had happened here, just how many dogs did it take to
rip these men up like this.
   "We're OK now Sheriff, thanks to you and all your men for responding so
quickly," Julio told him.
   
  
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