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

C015 Spoils

"Look at what you had done, Kagome!!! Now everybody is burning up the forest because of you...!!! You stupid little bitch...!!! You will get what you asked for, you stupid little snotty bitch...!!!" The electronic voice bellowed once again through the loudspeakers as Kagome shivered as she heard that she was cursed openly for the first time and moreover that bastard had used the loudspeaker to voice his mind across the jungle...!

Kagome then realized that making smoke right now is like covering the cameras from viewing and tracking the movements and all she could do was to make as many little fires for every 100 paces. She can use it as a signal and at the same time to use it as a guide that heads out towards the sea at the edge of the island. Fortunately, she was quite near the perimeter of the island, which also guides her towards the direction near the sea and beach.

However, the signs of seagull didn't exist yet during this period of time as she was too far inland than she thought. After making numerous little fires, the labour she undertook finally took a toll as thirst began to rear its ugly head. However, the Director was kind enough to materialize some low coconut trees that Kagome could easily reach out and pluck a few herself...! Hahaha...

So, as Kagome trudged on and making smoke fires along the way, she chanced upon some low coconut trees in the distant and she quickened her pace to reach them. She observed from the distance and discovered that the coconut trees bore yellowish coloured fruits and the low coconut trees were of a dwarf type.

She managed to reach up on her tiptoes and pluck a few of the overhanging coconuts. With the folding knife that she had found inside the satchel bag, she slowly and carefully bore a crude hole at the top of a coconut shell after removing its top mesocarp where the stalk was as she managed to reach the core of the fruit. She saw the functional core of the coconut and she poked a hole through it as she used her pocket knife like a skewer.

Reaching the core, she hit the inner shell a few times before the coconut juice ejected in a surprising jet stream. She turned the fruit around and the jet stream that ejected from the fruit was immediately slurped down and every single drop was drained. Once the coconut was completed drained of its juice, she flung the fruit against some rocks several times and she managed to c***k it open.

Kagome squealed in delight when she discovered the sight of the white, soft, pulpy and meaty flesh of the coconut that was so inviting the moment it cracked open. Ignoring her grubby fingers that were somehow dirtied through the process of opening a coconut, she used her folding pocket knife to slice and scrape the contents. 

She held the white, pulpy and meaty coconut flesh with her fingers and ate the contents noisily despite the likes of a civilized city girl. Fortunately for her, she remembered this survival mode after she had watched a documentary show on YouTube called "How to survive a shipwreck" How else would she know how to define a coconut tree and a palm tree as well as how to get to the contents of the delicious coconut juice and its pulpy and meaty flesh within? 

She decided to pick another coconut fruit in order to satiate her thirst and hunger first before cracking a few to remove the husk while leaving the core intact. While she was doing it, she manages to reduce the weight of her load as well as carry a supply of those shells instead of the whole fruit. In this way, she could ensure that she had a few hours of food and drink supply...! So clever, my little Kagome-chan...!!!

After feeling full and bloated at the moment, she decided to make a small fire next to her as dusk was soon approaching. She soon heard the electronic voice on the loudspeakers that announced Kenzo had managed to cut down the assassin assigned by the voice. It was congratulating Kenzo for the fact that he managed to annihilate a top tier assassin and at the same time cursing him in return for reducing the number of assassins.

"LISTEN UP YOU STUPID f*****g SMALL BOY...! YOU HAD ANNIHILATE ONE AND A HUNDRED WILL COME FORTH. WATCH YOUR f*****g BACK FROM NOW ON, YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT...!" The voice hat bellowed through the intercom suddenly sounded angry and a smile broke over Kenzo's face as he heard about it.

Kagome let a smile drawn upon her face as well as she thought of her Kenzo had not been a letdown after all. She hurriedly gathered about 3 coconut cores, stuffed it in her satchel bag and began her journey against the billowing trail of smoke.

Two steps forward, one step back... A song suddenly came into Kagome's mind as she hummed and paced 100 steps before making another small fire and rest for the night instead. After gathering ample firewood to last through the night, she huddled close to the latest smoke fire she had made as to the darkness soon enveloped her and her small fire helped to give her some warmth as well as to ward off the wild animals away from her resting area. 

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The sickle that was flying and twirling in midair and suspended with a chain was suddenly flicked back by its owner, making the sickle to be at striking distance inches away from my face, momentarily stopped in midair before it returned back deftly in the hands of the assassin like a f*****g boomerang...!!!

The chain was about 8 feet or more in length and I had no way to be close to him or her at all...!!! I am at a big disadvantaged right now. For now, I would be more on a defensive mode rather than an offensive one unless I could draw in close on the assailant and strike at it using the short bamboo pole. However, if it is one an unarmed combat mode, I think we would be equally matched after all.

*SWOOSH*

*CLANG*

The sickle flew again while the assassin moved in to encircle me and tried to expose my blind spot so that he or she could hit and hurt me using that sickle. Even though it was a crude weapon but it serves its purpose well being after being thrown back and retracted before ending in a striking pose inches from my exposed body as I tried to make futile attempts to block the incoming threat with my pathetic crude 3-foot bamboo pole.

If one looked at it, the one wielding the bamboo pole would not even be able to touch the assassin compared to a ranged type weapon that the latter wielded. Truly it was against the odds...!!

After a few pathetic attempts of trying to inflict injury on me by using the same tactics by the flying and retracting sickle, I found a loophole but its worth a try and would be considered as a million to one chance. Since the chain was about 6 to 8 feet in length, the duration for it to be thrown and pulled back to the wielder would take some seconds.

Within these few seconds, the wielder would not be able to do anything as the sickle was not in his possession as well as in his control. I evaded yet another flight of the sickle towards me but this time I moved a few paces beside and advanced a few steps forward as the sickle was still in flight and had not reached its maximum length of the chain.

I whacked the chain somewhat in the middle with my bamboo pole when it was in midflight, thus making the sickle that was in the trajectory to be retracted suddenly, as the ends of the chain that were held by the assassin had turned loose and he had lost control of his weapon. 

One general rule of the thumb, if one loses the control of his weapon, he would definitely lose control of the fight and would be at a disadvantage in a fight after all. All this would be equalled to being thrown into a perilous position where the odds was now reversed.

This means that the assassin had lost control momentarily of the weapon he was happily wielding earlier. His smile disappeared beneath his mask and a look of bewilderment took over his eyes instead as he had never expected that I would be executing such a move against him.

The weapon that was supposed to be his advantage soon became the death of his, next...!

When the chain had been slammed down, the sickle in-flight flipped in the opposite direction and made a sudden comeback towards the wielder as he suddenly and subconsciously moved a few steps to his left side to avoid the deflected sickle, almost ending within striking distance between him and me.

I heard through the loudspeaker mentioning about Kagome's name and I knew that she was part of this predicament and was alive and well and doing something that had somehow raised the attention of the voice behind the loudspeaker.

"I HAVE GOT TO FIND KAGOME RIGHT AFTER I DEAL WITH THIS IDIOT...!!!!" my thoughts raced in my head as I was having a face-off with this opponent and I was anticipating to end this faceoff as soon as possible.

The assassin avoided the reflected sickle that was thwarted by me as it landed and nearly hitting him in the process as the sickle fell to the ground on his right side instead. He made a very rookie mistake by looking at the sickle instead of his opponent! A VERY ROOKIE MISTAKE BY TAKING HIS EYES OFF ME...!!!

THIS IS MY CHANCE!!!

I let out a wild yell as I transferred the bamboo pole that was originally wielded on my right to my left hand and thrust at the centre mass of the assassin's body. Fortunately, in terms of wielding a weapon, I would be ambidextrous. The same goes to playing pool or billiard where I would be able to cue it using both of my hands. 

The bamboo pole that was thrust forward with such a force made a squishy penetrating sound like the sharp edge of the bamboo pole that was pushed into a watermelon. The bamboo pole had somehow managed to penetrate into his lower sternum and this could only mean one thing...

HIS HEART!!

As I drove the bamboo pole deep into his lower sternum, I used the momentum to leap and roll forward on his side as I immediately jumped up and let go a spinning flying reverse kick on his lower back...!! The kick was precise and was directly aimed as the sudden force made the assassin's body to lean forward forcefully. 

The kick was not death threatening but only as a mean to make him off balance. He was thrown forcefully forward, and the bamboo pole that had penetrated his lower sternum, struck the ground and he was further impaled with it and the sharp end of the bamboo pole pierced from the front of his body and protruded through his back midway.

Metallic smells began to emanate through the air as blood began to spurt and flow out from the rest of his orifices. There was barely a sound nor a grunt from the moment the bamboo pole had entered through the lower sternum and out of his back...!

The body went limp and the sudden adrenaline rush made me feeling slightly weak as it slowly dissipated from my body. I lay spread-eagled on the ground and panted heavily. After I had regained the momentum, I sat up and saw the assassin's body was still in the same position. He was literally impaled at an inclined angle, bent forward and with blood oozing from the entry and exit wound as well as his mouth and nose that slowly pooled around on the ground.

"Congratulations, you little scum! You had managed to kill one of my top-tiered Assassin in a single strike...! Come over to me, and be part of the dark side...! Join me as an assassin and eliminate your group of scums whom you called friends... Muuuaaa... Haaa... Haaa... Haaa...!!!"

"f**k OFF AND DIE YOU STINKING BASTARD OF NO KNOWN MOTHER OR FATHER!!!" I screamed back at the voice that boomed across the forest as I danced a little victory dance around and showed both victory signs on both hands... So very the childish...tchick...tchick...tchick...

I rummaged through the pockets of the dead assassin and tried to sort out all the stuff that he was carrying. If it was a computer game fantasy, it would appear as if a system would announce something like, "You had gained xxx EXP and some coins. You had also gained common items, rare, legendary or epic items that you can equip blah blah blah... Hell no, this is not a computer games fantasy but it's so happening in 'real-life'.

I found the following: two candy" Snickers" bars, two chocolate muesli bar, a small half-pint bottle of water, a packet of steel guitar strings (What the hell he was carrying guitar strings for? Making music in his spare time?), an electronic tablet that needs a fingerprint ID to activate, a 20,000 mA power bank, a solar flat panel charger, some Fisherman's Friend drops (sealed and unused, of course), a USB stick light and a small 1-foot long machete that was hung by the utility belt.