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Chapter XIX: Drug Cartel Michael Turner

Odysseus woke to a pounding noise that he recognized as his own blood flowing through his head. "Arghhhh what happened to me?" Odysseus then reaches up and touches the back of his head. When he brings his hand down into view he sees a small amount of blood covering the tips of his fingers. Looking around he notices that he is in a jungle near the northern border of Venezuela. Recounting on what he had done the day before he comes up with that he had woken hungry and confused but a woman had helped him and fed him and cared for him as a mother cares for her child, even so did that woman care for him. He also remembered that they had talked about him being in the army and about their families. When he remembered this conversation of his family he became a little bit depressed and he said “What did I do to deserve this?!” and a voice sounded in his head “There was nothing that you could have done to prevent it, this is your fate ill fated Odysseus.”

After hearing this from the Goddess Athena, Odysseus crumpled into a heap on the ground, his head still throbbing from when the branch had fallen and struck him. After thirty minutes of lying on the ground, Odysseus started to get up.

“I might as well start moving.”

And so Odysseus starts meandering through the jungle trying to get across the border and into Mexico. After multiple hours of hiking, Odysseus comes upon a breach in the trees and halts in front of a fence that was at least 12 feet tall and as far as the eye could see. In front of him was a gate with a guard stationed there. After a while Odysseus decided to confront the man and ask what the fence was there for. And as Odysseus starts to get halfway across the open area the man at the gate yelled! “¿Qué quieres?, What do you want you poor soul?” “I’ve been searching for the border to get into Mexico.” “So you are trying to get across the border into Mexico. Why?” “So that I can get into the United States.” “And why would you want to get to the United States?” “So that I can see my family that lives in New York.” After an obscene amount of questions, the guard decided that Odysseus was able to cross the border but only on one condition. “What you want all my money so that I can cross the order without having to show my passport?!?!?” “Yep, seeing as that’s your only option you’ll have to pay me.” So without complaining any more Odysseus handed the man all of the money he had and was allowed through the gate. After the hiking for another number of hours starts going uphill and starts to notice that the air is getting dryer and that the scenery is starting to change.

“I must be in the mountains.”

No sooner had he said that, he heard the roar of a mountain lion. “Woe is me!” It had started to get dark so Odysseus started setting up camp. Odysseus had just pitched his tent when he heard the trees and bushes close by rustling. As he looked up he saw a mountain lion had leaped towards him and had its jaws gaping and its claws extended, ready to rip him to shreds!! Odysseus had no sooner lain down on his back when the mountain lion was above him with its claws just missing him by inches. He realized that he was in imminent danger and slowly, reaching for his hunting knife, drew it from its sheath and got ready for battle.

Odysseus suddenly remembered that some where he had read a book that if ever you encountered a mountain lion that you should make yourself look as big as possible and try to aim for the eyes with anything that you can get your hands on. So in accordance with the book he unzipped his jacket and opened and pulled it as wide as it would go. Even after doing this the mountain lion was still closing the gap and had an eerie glow in its eyes. Odysseus was now scarred for his life. Now he tried to make himself seem stronger than the mountain lion so he started yelling and trying to deter the mountain lion. Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! Odysseus had a pot filled with chunks of meat and then he thought to himself that if he could just get the pot that was 15 ft. away and then toss the meat to the mountain lion that he might have a chance at escaping death. Moving as slowly as he could, still holding onto his hunting knife, he made steady progress to the pot of meat.

Out of now where there was a grumbling sound, realizing that it was his own stomach Odysseus was now regretting having to get rid of the meat that was crucial for him to survive. Coming back into focus of what was going around him, Odysseus seeing that the Mountain lion had leaped at him, goes into action dropping onto his back again and then when the mountain lion was above him, Odysseus lashed out with the heels of his feet sending the mountain lion into the mountain side knocking out the mountain lion knocked unconscious. Now that the mountain lion had been knocked out, the death defying Odysseus makes his way for Guadalajara where he was going to look for a guide to get to California. In its slumber the mountain lion started to growl and Odysseus, feeling sorry for the animal got up and brought over the pot of meat and poured out the contents near the animal. After cleaning the pot in a nearby stream he then packed every thing away and then was on his way to Guadalajara.

After arriving in Guadalajara Odysseus went to the embassy and asked the staff there if they could help him get into the United States. Unfortunately for Odysseus, they were unable to help him and Odysseus was not to be deterred set out to find another means of getting into the United States. He roamed through the streets till someone tried to deal him some drugs. He convinces the dealer to bring him to the ring leader to offer to be a guard for a big transport to California. The leader agrees, and Odysseus was going to be on his way to the United States guarding a caravan of $400,000 worth of cocaine and all he had to do was to guard 7 Kilos of the cocaine and he would be on his way home. Odysseus left at 8 in the afternoon to get on the truck that was going to transport him and the cocaine to the California. Reflecting on what he had been through, he decided to go to sleep.