The yacht came to a stop at the shore of the island. Damien was the first jumped off the yacht. "Mr Kevin, you should wait for me. I am responsible for your whereabouts, please. If the organisers realise that you are nowhere to be found, they would be quite displeased with me."Damien heard Ari call at him, but that wasn't his brother at the moment. There were a lot of things going through his mind as he stood and gazed. The island was no longer what it used to be. He clutched his hand to his chest as he his legs trembled. He was going to fall on his knees, but he did all he could to hold his body up. There were no trees in sight. Not even coconut trees. Not even one. "How could they do this?"He muttered, watching in great shock. Long ago, before he crashlanded on the island with the nine BMX girls, they had landed on an inhabited island. An island clothed in greenery and beautiful sight. But now, all that was left of the island were uncompleted constructions and workers doing
There were about seven men armed with guns surrounding a building. Damien was standing aloof, a couple of distances away from the building. The building was the only completed building he had seen since he had been searching through the island. Though the building was not painted or decorated, it was sturdy and spacious. There were a couple of trees surrounding that area. It was a good thing for Damien if he needed to hide himself. "What are they guiding? The statues of red gold?"That was the only thing he could think of. It it wasn't something valuable in the building, there would be no reason for men to be surrounding the building, let alone armed men. "I can't idle around. I should be quick about it before Ari finds me again. That fool will never give up."He observed the men closely. "They are not even moving. Why would they stand still like rocks? At least move your necks or something, you fool's."He cussed from behind the tree he was hiding. As though one of the men heard
"Oh my God! Gold! Fucking gold!"Ari exclaimed. He was swept off his feet by the sight of it. He looked from one corner of the room to another, gold everywhere!He hurried to a corner and made to lift one of the ornaments."No touching, please Master Ari."Darren warned. "I'm sorry, but the best I could do for you is this. Just look around."Ari didn't look like someone who had taken an offence in what Darren had said. "This is crazy. I could never have believed that there was gold left on this earth. Thought all the golds have been discovered."Ari turned to face Darren,"This gold is strangely looking. Red in colour instead of the normal one we see everywhere."Darren smiled. "Well, the one which you call the normal ones is actually the common one. Most of them have lost their values because they have been compromised."Darren paused for a while. "You would be very surprised to find out the process that many of these privileged political figures go through to make something that
Damien followed the lady into a room. It was well furnished and spacious. There was a bed in the corner and a set of couches in another. "You can sit here while I go prepare."She said so coldly. Then she walked away. "You might as well pour yourself a glass of drink."She added before she shut the door. Damien sat there as he stared at the door for a while. "What the hell is wrong with her? Does she have feelings for Ari or what?"He realised that that wasn't his problem. He lifted his gaze and saw a bar of drinks."Man, what sort of a room is this? Has everything you could ever think of."He muttered and got up. He walked to the small bar and picked a bottle of white wine. He turned the bottle to this side and that side to read the inscriptions. "Let's hope it's tasty."He took a sip from it. He shut his eyes to savour the taste. He sniffled. "Damn, why does it taste so good?"He gulped the whole content of the glass and poured another turn. While pouring the next turn, that wa
While he walked hurriedly up the path, he was accompanied by the echoes of the crickets and the building symphonies of the idling creatures of the night. He had just one thing in mind, and he wasn't ready to compromise it. He used the zoom function, and he was standing behind one of the trees, which bordered the building surrounded by the armed men. He zoomed around the building and realised that there was no spot whatsoever that was not occupied by the armed men. He returned to where he was earlier. "Did you hear that?"He heard one of the armed men say to the other. "I thought I was seeing things, actually. Does lightning travel round a building? I thought it only flashed from the sky."The other guy explained. "I don't think you should worry about that. Nothing should surprise you around here. I mean a piece of land that has cannibals occupying it. You should know that it had some laws of nature different from our world applicable to it."There was silence again. "Those fool
LUGAL. That was the name that was given to him by the cannibals decades ago. Before he earned that name, he had to prove himself over and over again to be worthy of their respect. He had learnt a lot of things from the cannibals and had discovered that they weren't as bad as the media had always presented them. But at that moment, he was going through a lot of emotions. Watching the cannibals in pain wasn't something he could have imagined. When he had left them, he had warned them and equipped them to protect the island until his return. But then it seemed as though the equipments were nothing in the fact of a ruthless government that would do anything to get whatever they wanted. He walked closer to them. Suddenly, the door of the building was pushed open from the front door. "Oh shit."Damien couldn't guess who might be there. He hadn't even spent five minutes in the building. In short, five minutes was a short period of time for the armed men to get rid of the clones. "Who co
Damien missed the first blow and halted. The panther glid to a stop, using its claws as its aid.Damien stopped at the foot of a tree. The panther turned to look at him. It was snarling. But Damien could tell that the panther must not have seen it coming. But at that moment, he didn't have the Jungle Wits skill, so he couldn't possibly tell what the exact reaction of the panther was. If he did have the Jungle Wits skill, he could have used it as an advantage to himself like he used to do in the past. The panther was crouching this time. Flexing its limbs for the next possible attack. Damien closed the space between them. He was standing not too close nor distant from it. "We can all just go our way and pretend that this didn't happen in the first place. It would be good for both of us."He paused for a while. The panther was snarling. Damien could tell that it was very angry. "See, I understand that I ruined your fun. You were about to make a meal of her. But what did you think,
"What's that noise?"Damien could see the yacht in sight. He was standing at the edge of the fallen forest. He was staring at the yacht checking out if he could see any figure passing by the yacht, no matter how remotely. But a sudden group of movements coming from behind him had caught his attention. He quickly found a place to hide himself. He saw Darren and his men, strapped up and walking past his hide. They kept walking in the direction of the yacht. "What the hell is happening?"He watched as they advanced to the yacht, walking in long strides and with urgency. [Ping! Skills exchange portal opened]A window pop-up appeared in his face. [Exchange a skill with the ILLUSIVE NIGHTMARE]"Illusive nightmare?"He was trying to make a meaning of what the system had just said. [Ping! System dictionary: Illusive nightmare could be used to take away the memory of events in the mind of a person or a group of people. Events that happened later then three days cannot be subjected to the
Damien felt the scale fall of his eyes like a pair of glasses. He was on one knee, and his other knee pushed up. The position he was assuming was as though he was taking a sort of bow. When the realisation of recent events hit him, he quickly raised his head. He could feel no pain at all. He found himself in an empty white hall. The opulence and brightness of the hall was second to known. He couldn't really be sure what he had to take from this current state. But one thing that he knew for sure was the fact that he was no longer on the island. There was no part of the island that looked this way. Deep inside of him, he could feel that this hall felt like a familiar place. It was as though a remote part of him was trying so hard to reach a conclusion. Suddenly, he heard a sound behind him. It was a wheezing sound which was followed by a sequence of laboured breathing. He turned around at once. He wanted to be cautious. Though he recalled that he had beaten and defeated the Samurai
Damien's eyes popped out when he saw the Samurai. He shook his head and blinked a couple of times. He wasn't satisfied with that, so he closed his eyes for a while, then opened it again. He did that several times. He wanted to be sure that he was in his right mind and was not seeing things. There were a whole lot of things which he had just learnt just now. Things which he had been a fool believing the wrong context in the first place. Perhaps because he was overthinking things, that's why he was beginning to see things. But then he saw the Samurai smiling at him amidst the cannibals. There were so many reasons for Damien to be very surprised. As it seemed, the cannibals didn't know that the Samurai was in their midst. Damien quickly looked around the stadium. None of the people could see the Samurai, too. He was the only one seeing the Samurai!This got Damien quite confused and worried. He started to question his own sanity. He started to question the fact that whether or not al
Damien felt dumbfounded as he stared at the man who had just made the announcement. Perhaps his ears were playing some tricks on him, and he couldn't make the appropriate meaning of what the man had said. But immediately the man finished saying those words, the man fell on his knees in a heartfelt bow. In the blink of an eye, all the people in the stadium suddenly went on their knees in bows, too. Damien was so speechless that his head was blank. Why did things keep taking a different route every time he thinks he got things figured out?He tried to recall what the man had said about him. The man had addressed him with so many titles. There were so many titles he was already acquainted with, but he didn't know that quite a number of people were accessible. There were so many questions that arose in his mind. From where did this ocean of people come? He didn't remember reading in the news that people from Vegas would come to the island to celebrate the party. He didn't know what to
It was morning. Damien was lying in bed. His eyes slowly opened. He shut them and then opened them again. He felt a certain change in his body. He felt very light and refreshed. He felt like a newborn baby. He tried to recall what had happened before he fell asleep. The last memory that raced through his mind was when he was bitting at a nipple as he felt his body go into a state of shock. He recalled that he felt relieved after a flood of juice poured from the cap of his D. He smiled at the memory. He had never felt that better in a while."They were like Jada into five places." He muttered. Suddenly, something occurred to him. He sat up at once. He sniffed for a while. "Why is there no smell? Why does everywhere smell like nothing happened at all?" He became suddenly alert. He picked up his phone and checked. 12P.M."Oh shit." He jumped off the bed. It was 12 pm! Why was he still in bed? He shouldn't be in bed at this time of the day. "Today is the party! I shouldn't be her
Damien didn't react in a weird way. It's been a while since he had sex. Whenever he felt horny he would jerk off occasionally. It wouldn't be a bad idea if he just let himself go for this one time. After all, he would need his head clear for what he wants to do tomorrow. The five ladies rubbed their warm body on him, but he couldn't feel much because he was still putting on clothes. It was warm bodies to his hard suit. "Come with us." The ladies urged. One lady held the left arm, another the right arm, two at the front and one at the back. For a sheer second, he almost mistook the ladies for bodyguards instead of workers. He used the palmprint, and the door was pushed open. He was led straight to the room. With just one finger, he was pushed into the king-sized comfy bed. "Just relax, cutie. You don't have to do anything. Just stay relaxed." One of the ladies said. He wasn't planning to struggle with them in the first place. There were a whole lot of ways to have fun, but he had
About an hour later, Damien was sitting in the adorned chair in the meeting hall. It was time for the meeting. There were distinguished men settled at the table with him. The men looked quite excited to see him. He, on the other hand, was worried about a number of things. ONLY IF I HAD THE MAP, ONLY IF I DO. He couldn't help but ponder this over and over again. "If you will, Mr Kevin. We will start the meeting now." A man said, leaning forward to the mic. Damien nodded at the man. He looked at each corner of the table. There was a generous number of men present. But he wasn't interested in counting them. "Forgive us for not asking about your experience while coming to the island. I know that you are a wealthy man who loves to travel a lot. You must have seen a lot of things, yet it would be lovely to know what your experience was." The man said, smiling at Damien. Looking at as many faces as he could, Damien could tell that the men were pleased with him. They were acting like d
Damien couldn't think of what to say. What was stunning was the fact that the men were right there!!! How did they find him? Did they put a tail on him to track him in case he left his suite?Damien didn't really know what to make of this. But what was more important was the fact that he had just been discovered by the organisers. "It's you, Mr Kevin." One of the men stepped forward. Damien didn't find any reason to hold back anymore. He closed the pace. "What are you doing here, though? We thought that you would be in your suite?" Another man asked. Damien knew that he couldn't tell them the truth. And even if he wanted to tell them a lie, he would have to be quite sophisticated with it. "Well, I was just curious about all of this. When I was escorted by that lad, I didn't have the opportunity to look around. The lad was quite impatient with his duty. I guess the beauty of this space could not keep me in one place. Hence, I came looking around." Damien defended. He wasn't sure
No matter how hard Damien thought about this, it didn't make any sense to him. He was trying so hard to recall the last time that he visited the island. The last time he was here was when he was with Ari. How many months has it been that he was gone from this island to bring such a drastic and mouth-watering change?If Vegas was a country founded on the concept of magical realism, he wouldn't have had to worry much. If Vegas had the spiritual roots like the Nether realm where places could be transformed in the blink of an eye. Where virtual locations could be created and made to replace the old scenes. If those were the cases, Damien wouldn't have been this alarmed. He wasn't only shocked by these changes. He was crushed by awe. He couldn't see through the window of the car. The glasses were tinted. He didn't make a fuss about it. Not long after, the car came to a stop. The young man stepped out to get the door for him. The young man was different from the driver. The man got the
[Ping! Restoring system's activities.][Ping! Yacht-driving skill was exchanged with Map function.]Damien stared at the notifications pop-up of the system that was hanging in the air right in front of his eyes. He didn't know what to feel in precise. "The map function?" He quizzed. The map function was equally as important as the ZOOM function. He knew this, so it was quite hard for him to choose the perfect relation to this. What he had in mind while coming to the island this early was to first locate the cannibals before going to join the organisers of the party events. He didn't think that would be anyway possible anymore. How was he supposed to find them now that he didn't have the map of the system?He sighed. "Such a useless bitch!" He grunted, taking the window down. When he raised his head, he saw a set of few ladies standing at the opening of the island. He squinted his eyes to be sure whether or not he would be able to make a mental judgement of who the ladies were.