Chapter 2 - The Fountain of Youth? (Part 1/2)

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Devlin soon woke up as he found himself laid out on top of a red linen bed dr.a.p.ed around with curtains. Through the thin curtains, he could see a seductive body taking off her clothes and withdrawing the curtains.

This seductress was a woman like no other, as her skin was fair and her hair was pinned up revealing a curvaceous figure that could stun the heavens. Her fox-like face slowly approached Devlin, causing his heart to palpitate, and her luscious lips began to interlock with his.

At first Devlin was shocked down to the core; but in the next instance he began to be suspicious as her lips which should have had a gentle touch with an intoxicating taste instead felt like coarse sandpaper with seaweed and sand combined.

Suddenly his eyes popped open to find a pale-faced Leo giving him mouth-to-mouth nearly causing him to faint once again. Leo looked over as he saw Devlin wide-eyed and stumbled back with an excited expression.

"Bro, thank god your alive. I was gonna get one of the little rascals over here to do that disgusting act but one of them is passed out in a tree and the other is knocked out with half of there body stuck in the sand."

He then walked a little further away and you could soon hear him vomiting onto the side, silently cursing Devlin for taking his "first kiss".

While Leo was preoccupied, Devlin stood up and carefully examined the place they were stranded at. It looked like a deserted island with poor vegetation and parts of sh.i.p.s scattered about everywhere as if this was a graveyard for sailors.

The island wasn't big as it seemed only about 10 or 20 miles wide roughly. The most eye catching thing was a huge cove in the center with a strange phenomenon taking place as the water was actually leading up to the top of the huge cave on the side and falling down into the deep abyss that sunk in on the edge.

Soon all the guys were conscious and looking towards the cove up ahead. Calvin's stomach grumbled as he complained

"Big Bro, we might as well go over there and check it out, and at the same time maybe stock up on food along the way. If we don't I might just end up sacrificing Dylan, which should last us at least a week."

Dylan glared at Calvin.

"I was planning on sharing these with all of us, but since my little brother is treating me as a pig on a stick than I might as well give a larger portion to my most cherished siblings."

He soon pulled out a couple of snacks that he always carries along with him out of his pockets and began dividing them between his two older brothers. Leo's eyes lit up as he was exhausted from this entire trip and grabbed a bag of ch.i.p.s and started munching down them as if this was the last food on the earth.

Calvin's jaw dropped as he instantly realized that he forgot about Dylan's hidden stash that he keeps on him at all times.

Then he started walking towards the cove to see what was so special about it that it could even cause water to go upstream. The crew saw this and started rushing behind him to catch up.

After two miles of trudging through the barren land they soon got close enough to the cove to notice that not only was the water heading upstream but there was also a few streams that would fall off the cliff and then twist and turn and go back onto the top of the cliff as if nothing ever happened.

Leo with crumbs falling out turned around and slapped Calvin and then exclaimed with a slacked jaw, "SO IT ISN'T A DREAM!"

Calvin was momentarily stunned as he realized what just occurred. "What the heck, you idiot! Your supposed to hurt yourself, not me!"

"Hmph, why would I hurt myself when I have you here to test on whether its a dream or not."

Leo retorted as he soon continued the journey towards the cove behind Devlin. Calvin had veins popping out of his forehead as he was about to charge towards Leo and give him a good kicking when he abruptly heard a detached voice from the front

"If you two don't stop messing with each other, I'm going to toss both of you into that abyss first as test subjects."

When both of them heard this, they shivered at the thought of what would take place if they continued and went back to their usual routine without a single remark. Finally they walked in cove and found a 3 mile wide hole where all the water was falling into from above and below.

Each one of their pupils narrowed as they got closer to the giant abyss with water falling down it. Even though the abyss was surprising enough, the dreadful matter of it all was that if you listened closely enough you couldn't hear a single water drop splash down at the bottom. This would mean that it was basically an endless pit into the underworld.

Devlin yelled hoping to see if anyone was around the cove or down in the abyss on one of the edges yet all he got was the echoes of his own voice in the cave. Calvin had a sly grin on his face and then without hesitation yelled out, "All in favor of pushing Leo down first say I!"

"I"

"I..."

You could the hear the echoes continuing as it sounded like 4 or 5 people were repeating it.

"That doesn't count!"

Leo roared. Calvin shrugged his shoulders.

"That's what the people want, big bro. It was fair vote hehe."

Leo was irritated to the point where he nearly was about to go over there and hang this fool over the edge till he begged for forgiveness. In the end, he cast aside that thought and could only get his revenge back by stomping on Calvin's foot nearby.

Once his foot was about to crash onto the top of Calvin's, Calvin swiped his foot to the left to dodge the incoming blow. This action caused Leo's foot to skid across the smooth stone and stumble off the edge into the chasm. His heart instantly sunk as he knew he was done for.

"We're f.u.c.k.e.d"

The next instant you could only hear the shrieks of four men as they plummeted further down to their imminent fate.