Thursday, 19 April 2007

The Search of Their Lives

They crossed the rapids looking for him after hours of searching and scouring for tracks and clues of his whereabouts at the campsite. However, the raging river was devoid of sympathy and consumed two of their lives after one of them slipped on a rock and accidentally dragged the other one into the river. With two lives lost in the search for the missing one, they continued their journey on the other side of the river.

The search went deeper into the jungle when they stumbled upon the habitat of brightly coloured tree frogs. The curious one picked up a frog with three streaks of silvery bands on its burgundy body and some silvery spots on its legs. A few minutes later, he collapsed on the ground and was left to die by the rest of them as they were running out of light and needed to find a site to camp. With three lives lost in the search for the missing one, they continued their journey the day after.

The search party had been reduced to two members and their effort in finding the missing one was looking bleak more than ever. A few hours of trekking later, one of them was beginning to show symptoms of plant poisoning when he fell to the ground, convulsed uncontrollably and died instantly, with marks of rashes all over his body. It was assumed that he had eaten some leaves that were mistakenly identified from his guidebook. With four lives lost in the search for the missing one, he continued his journey deeper into the jungle.

After hours of walking through the dense jungle, the search had finally came to an end when he found a trail of blood leading to a clearing where a wounded body was rested against a large boulder on the river bank. The body was drenched in blood with a sizeable gunshot wound at the back of his head, and a semi-automatic in his grasp. He pulled out a note that was tucked inside the front pocket of the uniform and was shocked to discover that his Scout Leader was a man with a pervasive preference for the young ones, and had been living a life of guilt and remorse.

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