A Mysterious Creature

My story begins the day I decided to go to my friends house. It was just another saturday filled with sleeping in, watching TV and just doing nothing. Summer vacation was upon us and I couldn’t help but find that all my plans for Summer had yet to be done. I was just sitting on my couch today, I didn’t have a computer and I had beaten my games several times over.

My phone rang, and without thinking I dug in my pocket and pulled out my phone, pausing the TV before hitting the accept button. “Yeah?” I said without thinking, my voice giving away how bored I actually was despite the intensity of the show I had been watching.

“Sammy boy, wanna come over?” I heard my friend Fred’s voice say in my ear. I thought about it for a moment before I shut the TV off.

“Sure Fred, when should I come?” I replied though in truth I didn’t really want to leave, today was a special kind of lazy day.

“Well if you come over now, we can kick some butt in Fallout 4!” I stopped the thought of the new fallout very tempting.

“Sounds great mate. I’ll be over in a little bit, see you there.” With that I hung up before getting my shoes on and heading out the door.

The trip to my friends house wouldn’t take long, he was only a couple blocks away and even though I wanted to be lazy today was still a nice day so I didn’t feel like taking my bike. I was maybe halfway there when my foot got caught on something, nearly causing me to trip. Hopping a bit to regain my balance and turned and looked at what had nearly caused me great pain. I could see something shining through the thick branches of a bush, but not much else.

Moving the bushes aside my heart nearly stopped. I stared down at was was certainly a revolver, the shining metal nearly blinded me. I thought of calling the cops, and reporting it, but...something about it called to me. I had never seen a real gun, not this close up anyways and never without a glass case to separate me from it.

My hands were trembling as I reached down and picked it up. The gun was heavy and the metal cold and I couldn’t believe that I was actually touching a weapon. I opened the chamber and saw that it was loaded. I wanted to drop it right then and there. I wasn’t stupid I didn’t want a loaded gun in my hands, but try as I might I couldn’t get my fingers to open.

It was then that I looked that I noticed that the gun was a exact replica of the Mysterious Stranger’s .44 magnum and that there was a holster for the gun on top of the bush that wasn’t there a second ago. I stopped trying to drop the gun for a moment as I picked the holster up as well and after observing the holster for a few moments I decided to strap it on and see if I could holster the gun, and what did you know I could.

“So I can holster the gun but I can’t drop it. Heh, what’s next? I find the Mysterious Stranger’s clothes? Hehe like that is ever going to happen. This gun is probably just a fluke.” I thought to myself while hoping that it really was just a fluke as I continued on my way to Fred’s. Where I arrived ten minutes later and I noticed he was sitting on the front porch.

“Hey Sam, how have you been doing? Are yah ready to play?” Fred asked with a smile.

“Yea man, but listen You’ll never guess what I found on the way over?” I said with excitement as I pointed to my hip where the gun sat.

“Woah, is that thing real? Because if it is then that is awesome.” He said and I swear I saw stars appear in his eyes.

“I have no idea. Looks pretty real to me, but shooting it doesn’t seem like that great of an idea,” I said before pausing looking around. “Especially not in this neighborhood,”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. But wouldn’t it be cool if it is? Also is it just me or does it look really familiar? Like really really familiar?” He asked with a very inquisitive brow raised.

“Looks a lot like the .44 of the Mysterious stranger doesn’t it?” I asked knowingly, waving my hand over my hip to emphasize my point.

I watched as a look of sudden realization came over his face, and before I knew it Fred was running inside. I followed him inside and saw the back end of him as he ran into his room. Before I could move to go with him a confused look on my face, I heard a crash in his room before he returned holding something.

“Your serious?” I asked in disbelief. He only nodded.

Fred held out a large brown leather trench coat, while in his other hand he held a Shady Hat. The trench coat looked old, and appeared to be covered in a thin layer of dirt and dust, while several rips and tears showed up along the front and back. Despite the apparent damage, the coat and hat were in an alright condition.

“Yes I am serious. I just remembered that a few days ago a woman gave these to me and said to give them to someone and that I would know who it is when the time came. And I guess that time is now, so what do you say put them on and lets see how you look.” Fred said while handing me the clothes and as I put them on I began to feel sick and right before I fell unconscious I could have sworn that Fred’s body flickered in and out between Miss Fortune and himself. And then all I saw was darkness and I heard the Stranger’s leaving theme.