Quantum Leap - Vol. 2 Exile Island (formerly Till Death Do Us Part)

C014 Hope

At the same time, I thanked the old Master and the old Sage for bestowing me with the skills I had learned in the past era back in Bamboo Village. If this is a computer game fantasy story, I would have half expected a screen to pop up in front of me and I would be able to scroll my skills attribution, assign the free points as well as monitor my health, food and drink intake. But no... This is not a computer game fantasy story or another of being a reincarnation story where one would be dead in one episode and transformed and migrated into a single body of the main character.

This is just me, Sam Mulder having the ability to travel in multi-universe from one body to another, from one era to another, as I accomplish certain endings that change history, fate and destiny. Yup... That's right...! This series embodies a one of a kind storyline that starts and ends differently but always having one girl in my life at a single period of time. This is what I had observed in the past two leaps and right now, I need to ensure that Kagome is not in the list of survivalist of this series...!

Director... Why are you giving a spoiler in the middle of the script?!

Suddenly, sounds of light footsteps could be heard over on my right side, indicating that someone was approaching fast in that direction...! My blood curled up within me as I glanced to my right, half expecting a familiar face but what greeted me was a shadowy figure darting in and out among the tree trunks and with dizzying speeds towards me. 

The shadowy figure was moving towards me at an amazing speed and was even employing the footwork of a ninja to move in that manner. There were flashes of blurry black figure among the tree trunks. Almost at dizzying speeds that left after images when it darted towards me as it reached its sides or back for its concealed weapons...!

I dropped my satchel bag to the ground immediately as it would prove to be a disadvantage for me if it dangles about during a fight. I held the sharp tip of my bamboo pole as I swung it once around at mid-level, twisting my body around in the process and once more swung the bamboo pole over my head, using the blunt end that was shaped like a cudgel before I stomped it to the ground, the sharp end pointing forward at an inclined angle.

Holding it by the blunt end this time and pointed the sharp end at almost throat level towards the approaching shadowy figure that was darting among the tree trunks, it moved with such speed and had reached for its weapons that were shaped like a sickle on a short wooden handle that had a chain and a metal ball at the end of it. 

"EAT this, you motherfucker! Do you have the f*****g hairy BALLS to face me instead?! Your MOTHER would roll inside her grave when she found out that she gave birth to a DICKLESS and brainless son...! Yeah...! She would be full of f*****g REGRET...!!! Your FATHER would have killed himself if he knew that his sperm had made you into STUPID and UGLY little WORTHLESS monster baby!!"

"You are hiding behind your assassins all these while, why don't you come out and face this 15-year-old boy and prove you are mightier than us?! Only COWARDS hide behind a microphone!!" Using psychological attacks like these might flush the fat fucker out from his hiding place as I raised my voice upwards. 

I was hoping for the PTZIR cameras have those little microphones on them to pick up the chatter. I was also hoping that my psychological attacks on his parents would also bring out some adverse results. The most important thing right now is for me to stay calm and make the other party be on his nerve-wracking end.

"Wait and see, you little dog of mine...!! I will let you know who is the MASTER and who is the SERVANT...!!! So now... Surprise... Surprise... My assassin has been deployed to your location right now... If you got the BALLS, why don't you stick around, you f*****g proud little shithead...!! Arrogance would not bring you anywhere except closer to death...!!! And my cameras would record every single last breath you make as my assassins will slowly torture you... Just wait there, boy...!!! He's coming on your way there as I speak...!!!"

The voice began its taunting again over the loudspeakers and a hit song from the '80s by a band called 'Depeche Mode' was blasting through the loudspeakers and was playing the song "Master and Servants"

"Shit... Gonna hide away from these cameras overhead but where shall I hide since the cameras are all over the place and are covering all angles." I thought to myself as I picked my bamboo pole and shouldered my satchel bag.

Flashback... 

This was the type of weapon for Kohaku used during his Yokai extermination missions in the Inuyasha series...!

I took a boxer's stance and held my bamboo pole in such a manner just like the way I used to hold my rifle with my bayonet attached during one of the practices in bayonet fighting skills.

Suddenly, the assassin let his sickle fly through the air, slicing through it perfectly like a hot blade through butter, as he ran towards me. The sickle flew in a spinning manner and was aimed at my head and I only had time to block it using the blunt end of the bamboo pole as I raised it high to block using it diagonally.

"Crack...!!!"

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Kagome was wandering in the forest when she heard Kenzo's name being mentioned through the loudspeaker. Hearing the dull boom sounded hours earlier when she came to and then she later heard that one player had been successfully snuffed, she was close to losing hope.

She too was wandering aimlessly through the forest and had no idea where she was heading and was simply hoping to find traces of life besides her own as she kept on trampling through the forest as she fought back her tears and emotions which she had succumbed to some hours before. "I HAVE TO BE TOUGH AND GO THROUGH ALL THIS EVEN WITHOUT KENZO BY MY SIDE RIGHT NOW...!"

She thought this to herself as she trudges along the forest and was walking through all sorts of vegetation from dense to sparse without her knowledge. All she knew that the forest was the same and there was nothing she could have picked to sustain her hunger at this moment. 

She too had woken up and found herself to be dressed in a set of digi camouflaged uniform and the thoughts of her being violated when she was unconscious was too much for her to bear. She even had wild thoughts that Kenzo would be rejecting her if he ever finds out that her pure body and soul had been ravaged and violated during her unconsciousness.

Dead leaves and twigs were in her hair and made it look like a wretched witch rather the girl next door kind of look. With stains of tears that had run down her face earlier, she looked like a cute little fluffy puppy that had lost its way and was whimpering about as it went around to look for its owner. 

The moment Kagome heard about Kenzo's name being mentioned through the loudspeaker, (am I repeating myself here?) she felt a glimmer of hope but wasn't too sure of where to locate the whereabouts of Kenzo at this moment, for she does not even have a good bearing of herself even. 

She had no idea how to place markers or even to make distinguished signs to make others aware that there is someone searching or waiting to be found throughout this God-forsaken jungle. Moreover, she had a flint and magnesium striker that could be used to light fires but she does not know how to use it yet. 

As there was still some daylight leftover in the horizons, she guessed that making smoke would be the next best thing if one needs to be located. Besides, she learnt that smoke would also be used to ward off gnats and the evening mosquitoes as well. She then gathered some tinder and kindling from the ground and make a small teepee. She also had found other thicker sticks that would be made into a roaring fire and fire was known to give one confidence during the start of this trial.

She used the flint and magnesium striker clumsily at first and a few sparks flew from it after she had struck on it successfully and it ignited the tinder and kindling. She blew lightly into the ignited tinder and the trailing smoke slowly burst into flames. She clapped her hands like a small girl as she picked a few twigs and other smaller sticks as she stacked them into a large teepee in the process. A few more blows into the fore made the fire larger than usual as the flames licked on the dry wood. Soon she had a good fire starting and this boosted her morale and also warmed her cheeks. 

A fire was quickly roaring underway and due to some green and damp wood within, it became a smoke signal instead. Judging from the smoke that trailed through the forest and since there was a bit of daytime left, she decided to move away from the smoke as she noticed that the smoke was actually heading out in the direction based on a land breeze. This occurs when the surface of the water was heated up by the sun and the draft would be coming in from the land due to the changes in temperature.

Judging from the direction of the smoke, other than letting others know of her current location as well as exposing herself to be found by assassins, she took the risk no matter how and what, ever since hearing Kenzo's name being mentioned through the loudspeaker. That voice alone gave her immense confidence to move on despite the difficulties that were set before her.

And after hearing that the voice over the loudspeaker had sent an assassin to seek Kenzo out, her heart skipped several beats and cold sweat seemed to stream down her back. "Wuwuwuwu... Please God, do not let anything happen to Kenzo...!" Kagome prayed hard in her heart as she went forward for some several hundred feet and then began to gather some more tinder and kindling. Judging from the smoke fire she had made earlier, she had walked away from it about 100 paces or so and lighted another similar smoke fire to the one she had made earlier after she had collected sufficient tinder and firewood that was strewn about on the ground.

"HEY, LITTLE GIRL...!!! Or should I call you Kagome Kuwahara...! Are you trying to smoke out the visions from my hidden cameras so that you can hide away, is it...?! HOY...!!! ARE YOU TRYING TO START A FOREST FIRE ...?!?!? Are you not scared of the Greenpeace corps running after your sorry ass...?! Hey, you little Kagome-chan... Where the hell are you going? Where are you trying to hide? What the f**k are you trying to do?! Come back to papa, little Kagome-chan... Let me hold you, touch you and give you pleasure as I pressed the buttons that will excite you and eventually asks for more...!!!"

The voice was literally spewing out lewd intentions to poor Kagome as her eyes looked wildly around her and half expecting an old fat man with a bulging stomach and balding head, his breath stinking of unwashed yellow-stained by all the cigarettes that he had smoked for the number of years, short grubby hands, clad in a short and stained unwashed underwear and a loose singlet while beckoning her to come towards him while holding out candies on one hand.

Kagome had somehow imagined that such a beast might have lived in this kind of era and she squirmed at the hideous thoughts that played in her mind as a sudden burst of goosebumps appeared on her arms. The prickly feeling made her squirmed as she squealed in disgust and ran forward once she had made another smoke fire. Kagome had successfully depicted the Director to be a horrid felon that introduces himself as a s*x offender as he went around the neighbourhood and introduces himself to the community while holding a photo ID that shows that he was indeed a s*x offender or even a paedophile. Hahahaha...!!!

Unknowingly for Kagome, those who heard the loudspeaker, had also turned into making small fires and soon a blanket of smoke covered the jungle and partly covered the visions of the PTZIR cameras. This may be both an advantage nor a disadvantage for the rest of them since the whole forest would be blanketed with smoke...!