Quantum Leap - Vol. 9 Robyn Hode Takes On The World

C013 Trust Me And Leave Everything To Me...!!!

"Hush, child...The Sheriff is here with his men-at-arms. We would better leave now...this is not the time and place for Vendetta...Let's go...!"

"But granny...I..."

"No buts...Go...NOW...!"

I took the packet of pork dumplings, took a swig of sky juice and quickly leave the area with the golf buggy that we came and I drove as quickly as possible to return it to the offscreen crew.

=*=

"There won't be training today. Go about your own task for today. No visible fires and smokes. The Sheriff of Nottingham had pasted some posters with the likeness of you, Robyn at the trading district and I'm afraid someone might leak the information on you and it will involve me and my grandchild. You know what I mean, right?"

"Yes, Elder...I've got what you mean. Do you want me to bring Matilda along too? We would be gone until the storm blew over. They might have passed this place when we are not around. Lucky for us, we were inside the Smithy's workshop...!"

"Alright...go...there's another settlement across the stream about half a days walk and only 2 hours on Cruising Along. I don't think Matilda had mastered the Cruising Along technique, so best be on your fullest alert."

"I'm sorry to hear about your sword but there's nothing I could do for you. Take your bow and arrows instead and practise while you can. sharpen the tip and make it like a barb when you have the time."

"If you go mining, you can pick those flints to make arrowheads but you need a good string. Here, take this waxed fishing line and use it to make flint arrowheads. Tie your quiver to your belt and thigh and you could deploy your arrows much faster that way."

"Hoot like an owl three times when you are close to this house so I would know it's you. Hide in the shadows, my child. Be hidden but observe your surroundings. Go with Matilda now..."

"Cutie pie, go with Robyn to the next settlement. Hurry before the Sheriff finds out about you both...!"

"Yes, Granny...stay safe. Robyn, are you still taking that piece of trash with you? What are you trying to do with it? Make them split their sides and die of laughter? Come on, dispose of it already..."

"Arch...shuddup you. I will show you later what I did to your sword because I will do to mine too...So let's get going...And keep low and keep quiet and follow my pace..."

I bade the Elder farewell and we made across the stream at it's the shallowest point and waded through before we scrambled to the other side. it took us nearly more than 5 minutes to fight the current and I faked a few slips and falls in order to drench myself in the stream.

We stayed close to the shadows of the trees, crouching from tree to tree, stopping every now and then to listen to our surroundings before we head out again, making zigzag movements through the forest, not knowing where out direction would be.

The 6 dumplings that I carried with me in the storage bag was taken out and I shared a dumpling with Matilda, who had caught a slight chill when we were crossing the river and we moved on with our wet clothes despite perspiring into it.

I saw how bad Matilda's situation was and I told her, "Look... I'm going to make fire with my hands now... Join your hands in. You won't feel burned but it'll warm you somehow... OK? We rest here for 15minutes before we head out again. Are you familiar with this terrain?"

She shook her head and her teeth were chattering. Damn...! I hope she doesn't get worse than this. Her face is damn pale right now...!

I quickly rubbed my 2 hands together and 2 small Psi Healing Energy Spheres were formed and I concentrated and the light in both spheres intensified. "Come, join your hands now. Let these Psi Healing Energy Sphere warmed you and enter your body as part of the healing process."

I explained as she slowly placed her hands on mine and I let the energy be imbued with her. Within minutes, I could see the colour returned to her cheeks and she was no more chattering or feeling cold but our clothes are still wet.

"Just close your eyes... What I'm about to do might scare you but don't worry. It won't burn you." I said and she replied with a weak OK. Soon I concentrated the pure energy around me and I called upon the Kamehameha to be infused through our bodies and dry our clothes and bodies.

The flames of the Kamehameha soon enveloped us, it was warm and fuzzy but its not a burning sensation at all as it slowly 'flame-grilled' our clothes and our bodies. Two types of energies fused together and became one form of energy.

"OFF" and the commanded flames slowly died down and it became just a flicker on my fingertips and I snapped at it and it was extinguished. I tried snapping again and it came back, flickering and dancing on the tip of my forefinger and I snapped once more and it extinguished.

Did it evolve into something new? When I had a bottleneck before, I could still summon Kamehameha in one hand to perform as a furnace to make herbal pills.

But this I could command without a single thought in my mind and I just snap my fingers and I could control a small flickering Kamehameha fire on my fingertips. It's really amazing..!

"How are you feeling right now?"

"Much better, thank you. How are you able to have such sorcery? Are you a mage? A swordsman? An archer? A farmer? You have so many main and subclasses that it's hard for me to differentiate. You are able to fix weapons too. Who are you, Robyn... Besides being known as a highway bandit?"

"If you use a face mask like in a masquerade party, I would call Batgirl... Robyn and Batgirl. Hahahahaha... Alright, since you're feeling much better now, we better get going."

I picked myself up and brushed off any loose leave and grass and started to crouch from tree to tree once again. "Do you have any skills on Cruising Along? How about meditation?"

"What is Cruising Along and meditation? I am not aware of that at all," she said and it seems her strength and dexterity is good but her knowledge in the spiritual world is zit. "I will let you know all about it later when we have the time."

"Frankly I can't go on further like this. I haven't slept for the last night and luckily we ate some good food just now to buff our strength and other attributes."

"Come, piggyback on me. I will employ Cruising Along and we could move two times faster than this. You carry the equipment and I carry you on piggyback. Its faster I tell you."

"OK, but don't go around and take advantage of me when I'm on your piggyback, ok?"

I squatted and removed my pick from my back and handed it to her and she now had two picks behind her. She also held on to my wrecked sword and she hoisted herself on my back. Subconsciously, I touched her bum as I pulled her up higher and then held her wrapped legs around my waist.

"Ready...?"

"You touched my bum, you twerp...!"

I soon deployed Cruising Along as my legs pumped faster than before and it seems that I was just skimming along the surface of the ground. She soon forgot that I had touched her bum subconsciously and she was really riding on me like as if I'm a Minotaur. She was rocking back and forth and twirling my wrecked sword in the air like it was a cowboy's lasso.

"This is so much fun...! I've got to party with you and ride you like a little horsey...! Yee Haa... Andele... Andele... yeebaa... yeebaa...!"

I don't know what the f**k gibberish words that comes out from this English girl but it definitely sounded Mexican or Spanish to me.

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We didn't find any settlement but according to me, we have made somewhat a straight beeline from the Elder's thatched house right to the spot where I slowed down. "Something seems off. We better find a water source right now before it's dark."

I suggested to Matilda as I made a slight left towards the intended destination on hopes to find wisps of smoke or scent of burning wood to imply there's a settlement nearby. Even if we do not find any settlement, we hope to find a body of water and all around us right now are plains and some mountainous region on the right.

I was on Cruising Along all the time and it had been last 2 hours since we made the last stop after warming and drying our clothes. This can't be good. I've got no weapons and all I have is a crumpled out of shape sword and my iron axe and pick. fortunately, I am still able to deploy the 'Rise of the Suno if I need to.

I had to rely on my Third Eye while on Cruising Along and hope to find a place for shelter during the night. The earth was damp and it was a good time to forage for mushrooms. But I know nuts about mushroom except for those easily found in the supermarket. If we were to consume the wrong ones, it would spell disaster for both of us...!

Using my Third Eye on Cruising Along technique with Matilda piggyback on me, it was utilizing quite an amount of my Internal Chi Energy and I used the Third Eye sporadically to search for a settlement of a stream and suddenly I spotted some wild animals nearby. I slowed down and came to a complete stop.

"Why did you stop? Is there a village up ahead?" She tried peering but there's nothing in front that interests her. "Don't talk now...I spotted 3 wolves of some kind up ahead." I said while I tried to hushed her.

"Where...!? I don't see any wolves...in fact, I don't see anything of interest in front."

The moment she asked 'where' the pack of wolves in front pricked their ears and ran forward to where we are standing. I squatted and lowered her off my back and asked her to lie low on her stomach as I picked up a stick and imbued Kamehameha energy into it.

Unfortunately, we were in an upwind position and our scent gave our positions away as the pack of wolves were now racing towards is at high speeds with their tongues wagging out and literally foaming at their mouths. When they were within sight, Matilda gave a frightful shriek because the wolves were slightly smaller than the BOSS we had defeated earlier.

"Stay low! Leave this to me...trust me...!" I howled at Matilda as I kicked my heels and raced forward a few steps, leaving after images as I went for the leader of the pack. "Bring the leader down and everyone will run away...!"

Everything was in bullet time when I was nearing the first wolf and I delivered a sliding uppercut kick onto the head of the wolf and nearly injuring myself by it. The wolf's head was snapped back and I twirled around and used the imbued Kamehameha stick and whacked the jugular of the wolf. it definitely won't kill it but it sure shocked it.

After I had whacked the jugular, the wolf shook it's head/mane and charged at me and I knew to hit a 1% part of the body precisely would stop it in its tracks definitely. I kicked on my heels and was propelled forward and just as the wolf was about to bite kn me with its open jaws, I delivered a two-handed horizontal swipe with the stick from my left directly at it's about and it yelped out in pain.