Few minutes later,
"What happened to you all?!" Drake shouted.
Out of 15 guards, 2 stayed behind to guard Drake and well the remaining 13, all came back bloody, with many injuries.
"True Master, this island is filled with booby traps" A guard who was bleeding from the arm answered him.
"Traps... hehehe. You are telling me that not men but traps injured you like this?! Then why do I keep you, I might as well go install 'Traps'... I give you 2mins, I want to see the body of that lil brat in my front, dead or ALIVE!!!" Drake shouted.
""Yes, True Master" The 13 of them replied as they went into the island again.
Meanwhile, watching them all along was Ezekiel.
'Hehe...' Zeke laughed within himself and said softly, "Fools, They really are fools... Well, Drake doesn't even care if he loses a few men, so why do I care?" Zeke shaked his head.
"Well, I'm outta here" Zeke said as he stood up, but he accidentally stepped on a twig.
"True Master, someone is there" A guard beside Drake shouted.
"Well, what are you waiting for? After him" Drake said as he pushed the guards by his side away.
"Oh Shit. What dogshit luck I have" Zeke said with a smile as he ran off, clearly enjoying this charade.
Zeke finally threw his pursuers off and jumped into the river with an oxygen mask on.
He swam in the direction that Zell did.
"So..." Drake said as he looked angrily at the two guards that returned.
The guards had nothing to say as they both looked downward.
"Haha... a bunch of fools, that's what I've been using my money to raise "Drake said as he looked down at the two of them.
"They can't be on the island again. You look up the nearby places to this island"
"Yes True Master"
'You can run but you can't hide' Drake said within himself.
"True Master, we've found two places that are close to this island"
"Let's go... You and you" Drake pointed to the two guards and said,
"You'll lead a group of 5 and go to that place. The rest of you follow me, I have a nagging feeling that they are in this place" Drake said as he pointed to the other location.
"Yes, True Master"
Team B, led by the two guards went their way while, Team A led by Drake himself went to the other location.
**********
"Zell, Zell..." Zeke called out anxiously.
In the middle of the ocean, Zeke supported Zell as he swam to the nearest shore.
Ezekiel was swimming when he found Zell near a rock, unconscious with blood dripping from his head
"I'm such an idiot, how could I let a boy of 10 years who had just passed the most toughest test and was injured, swim across a big ocean" Zeke said and slapped himself hard.
On getting to the shore, Zeke performed Cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Zell.
*Cough cough*
Zell coughed out water from his mouth and opened his eyes.
"Pain" Zell uttered.
"You are feeling pain, right?"
' I can't go to an hospital, if not Drake might just search through them and find records. So what should I do?' Zeke thought.
"Wait, I know how to close up a wound... I should be able to do it by myself. I just need to get a sterile pack. I should have no problem 'borrowing' that from the pharmacy... he" Zeke said.
"Don't worry, I'll help you stitch it up. But first we need a place to stay." Zeke said.
"Who are you?" Zell asked.
"You can't recognize me?" Zeke asked but Zell has already lost consciousness again.
"So he can't recognize me, anmensia huh?
It might be for the best though"
Zeke said as he carried Zell at his back and ran off into the forest.
In the deep ends of the forest was a cottage, Zeke paused on sight of the cottage and immediately took refuge in it.
He placed Zell on the bed and left to get the sterile... minutes later, he returned with it and quickly stitched the back of Zell's head.
"What to do now?"
Zeke suddenly stops and looks towards the door, he quickly to a quick look at Zell and hide himself on the shadows.
Minutes later, a man of about 30 years and a younger woman entered in crying...
"Roy, he's gone." Jane said as she just cried, with Roy patting her on the back.
"I should have been the one instead, why did he have to block the falling tree" Jane said as she sobbed harder.
"Jane, it's ok. We've already buried Max. Let his soul rest in peace" Roy said with reddened eyes.
"But what would we say when we get back, we've been gone for over 10years now, and they saw that I was pregnant with your child, what will I say to them" Jane asked, tears running down her cheeks.
Roy hugged her and patted her back, but soon he noticed that she was no longer crying. He pulled back and asked her, "Jane, what's wrong?"
"Lo... ok" Jane stuttered as Roy looked back and then his breath stopped.
"What is he... how did he?" Roy was stunned silly.
Jane rushed towards him and saw his bandaged head, "Oh no, he's hurt" she said as she looked at her husband.
Roy saw the look in her eyes and immediately said, "No, no, no, we are not keeping him. He's not ours".
"But it looks like he has been through a lot and whoever left him here didn't seem to want him anymore." Jane argued.
"Jane darl, I know you are not yet in your right sense of mind because we just lost OUR child, but that doesn't make it right for you to pick up any Dick, Tom and Henry to be ours"
Zeke on hearing this gave Roy a dirty look from where he hid himself... Roy shivered and rubbed his arms together.
"I am in my right frame of mind, Roy. Can't you see? We just lost our child and another shows up... doesn't that tell you something?" Jane looked at Roy hopefully.
"No, it doesn't. We are not keeping this boy and that is final!". Roy raised his voice and said.
Jane looked at Roy and it was as if the dam that was once shut came open as tears flooded her eyes.
"You really want me to be humiliated by your mother, right? That I can't even keep a child safe, is that what you want? Or because I'm no longer able to have a child again? Or perhaps you are blaming me in your heart for losing Damon."
"JANE!" Roy must have realized that his voice was too loud when he saw his wife flinch, so he lowered his voice and said, "I'm sorry for raising my vcoice at you but why would you think that of me? Do you know what i risked to move into this rural area for you? All because you were depressed about the news that you won't be able to give birth again. Do you think I'm glad that I lost my only child? Do I really seem like that sort of person to you? Or is it because of this boy who showed up?" Roy looked at Jane, she stood still, quietly sobbing as Roy kept throwing questions at her.
"Fine, if nobody shows up for him in the next 3 day. Then he can stay."
Jane rushed up to Roy and hugged him, whispering into his ears, "Thank you".
"Humm..."
Jane turned to look at Zell and said, "Look, Roy... he's waking up"
"
Mmm" Roy said with disinterest.
Jane looked at him and sighed sadly.
Roy in seeing her look, put his disinterest aside and just looked at the boy in the bed.
"Are you my mom and my dad?" Zell asked.
"Yes baby, I'm your mom and this is your dad. You fell unconscious when you saved me from a falling tree but that resulted o you being hit by the tree... So your dad sutured your wounds and we waited for you to wake up.
The "Dad" who was hiding twitched his eye. This woman was good at cooking up stories.
The Dad, Roy, looked at the boy on the bed and clenched his fist tightly before saying, "Yes, that's what happened."
"Oh ok..." He looked at his "Mom" and smiled, "I'm happy that I could save you mom. You don't have to cry" He said as he help wipe off the years on her cheeks.
Zeke looked at this scene and sighed...'Well it is for the best. It is the perfect cover for Young Master right now... no Our King. I hope you grow up well. When you are of age and all the preparations are ready, I'll come back for you, my King' Zeke made a promise to himself and to Zell as he left through the window.
"Right, mom... what is my name? I can't remember." He said and laughed at the end.
"Your name?" Jane looked at Roy before turning to the boy on the bed. "Dam"