JD called Lynn as he said he would, to tell her what had just happened.


He looked at his phone to see she had called him.


“Hey! What ya doin'? Ya’ll having fun?” Lynn asked.


“We were,” JD replied.


Lynn: Huh? What do you mean? What’s going on?”


JD: Lynn. We were attacked. I bet it was Luther. He sent four guys here.


Lynn: WHAT?! OH my God! Where’s Ayvah? Is she ok? 


JD: Hey, hey. She’s fine. She’s with Lanie. They are headed there now. She wasn’t harmed. Hell, she did more harm to them. She wasn’t touched at all.


Lynn: I don’t understand. Was she fighting? You had our daughter fighting those monsters!


JD: No. I did not. She turned into some light-speed spirit thing for five seconds and laid them out. I don’t know what you gave birth to, but it ain’t human. I told you that your cooch was voodoo.


Lynn: I’m so confused.


JD: Me too. There’s something else. I have Tony’s body here. He isn’t like himself, though. He looks like he’s part reptile.


Lynn: Tony? Isn’t he dead?


JD: He is now. Lanie shot him.


Lynn: JD, what the fuck is going on? Tony, your best friend who you thought was dead for years, came back to kill you, and he’s half reptile, half human, on top of our daughter being supernatural?


JD: Yep. That about sums it up.


Lynn: So you’re saying reptile people are real?


JD: Reptile people? That’s a thing? 


Lynn: My mom showed me a book by some guy named Dave or David. I forget his last name. He has a theory that there are reptilian humanoids or something that are blood-sucking and shapeshifting. Seems wayyy too out there to be accurate but, you just saw four of them. Baby, the government is after you. I don’t think this is Luther. You need to get home and bring home now!


JD: Why would the government be after me? I’m no one special.


Lynn: You constantly out their intentions and plans to the public on your large ass social media platform. You don’t think they watch that stuff?  


JD: That’s fair, but reptilian shapeshifters? I mean, I guess. The Yakub did invent white people.


Lynn: Babe, no scientist lived for 6,000 years and created white people. You don’t actually believe that, do you?


JD: Wait. How do you know about the Yakub?


Lynn: I read something about it somewhere. It was interesting. Made more sense than it should have, honestly. 


JD: Eh, but why would a black scientist be in a cave creating white folks?


Lynn: Seasoning to the world? Hahaha.


JD: That is such a bad joke, hahaha. I’m going to wrap things up here, and I’ll be home soon.


Lynn: Be careful, please, and hurry home. I miss you.


JD: I miss you more. Love you.


Lynn: Love you more.


JD grabbed the dead bodies one by one and dragged them into their cars. He saved Tony’s body last. He grabbed Tony and began putting him into the car. Tony woke and bit JD on the shoulder.


“Aghh! What the—

 JD threw him down.


Tony hissed at JD.


“Ok, this is not Tony. He just looks like him,” JD said to himself.


JD rushed the reptilian and hit him with a hard right hook, then an uppercut, followed by a left hook. He grabbed its head and performed a brutal jumping knee strike. JD felt the crunch of its nose breaking on his knee. While the shapeshifter was down on the ground, JD looked around. He saw the bats but, his eyes locked on a sledgehammer. He picked up the sledgehammer and bashed the reptile’s head with it repeatedly.


“Your weak ass ain’t getting up ever again,” JD grabbed him and placed him in the car.


He doused gasoline inside and outside of the cars and lit a match.


“Tell Satan I said go fuck himself,” JD watched as the cars along with the reptiles’ bodies burned. 


JD sat down in a nearby chair and watched the cars burn. He exhaled a sigh of relief.

After about an hour, he put out the fire with an extinguisher. 


He got in his car and headed home.


While he was driving, his phone rang. He assumed it was Lynn. When he picked up, he heard a familiar voice.


“You’ve really stepped in it now, Jerry,” said Luther on the other end of the phone.


“You send these lizard people after me and my daughter, you son of a bitch. You may as well be dead because I will find you and cut your head off, so help me God.” JD was angry but not screaming.


“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy comrade. You think I sent whatever those things are after you? Come on, I specialize in technology and hacking, not making reptilian shapeshifting clones. You think I can make people? Do I look like Yakub? That was the government, my dear old friend. You’ve pissed off the wrong people,” Luther explained.


“Over social media posts? You’re a damn liar,” JD said, still calm.


“I’m many things. Some may even call me repulsive or evil, but you’ve never known me to lie. I think it’s great that you’re spooking those idiots who are running this country into the ground. They are no better than the dumbass citizens who inhabit this land. You, Lynn, Ayvah, you’re all different. This is why I want you to join me. We want the same things, Jerry. I’ve done all I can to force you to give in and join me. I get it, though. To every yin, there must be a Yang. Good and evil and blah blah blah. I hope you know who’s good and who’s evil. I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart. Down in my heart. Down in my heart,” Luther sang in a low, eerie tone.


JD hung up the phone as Luther continued to sing.