ADILAGES
DAHLIA 3

Moving as quickly as possible, Jin Himawari again possessed the ice crystal necklace on Gilang's chest. Quickly the young man's body was wrapped in a kind of blue and green alloy-colored membrane. Like Jonggrang, Himawari's body adapts its appearance to its size and physical features, as well as its “inang” intelligence and knowledge.

As a result, appeared the figure of a super swordsman who seemed to be dressed all covered from hair to the soles of the feet. The combination of blue and light green patterns on the costume looks very harmonious. Combined with a mask that covers the face and almost disguises the eyes, the figure of this mighty man is like an alien from outer space.

“Haha, with a new body, it is impossible for anyone to match me, Hima!” Proving his words, Hima covered the ear piece in her mask and snapped a deep energy. With “help” Gilang, he does not need to waste too much true energy anymore. As a result, Julia's violin became chaotic, and the girl bounced, hitting the wall of Jonggrang Temple.

“Uugh..” Julia groans, enduring unbearable pain in her back. Watch out, kink! Jonggrang's warning was a bit late, but Julia very quickly twitched from the icy bursts from Hima's palm, the result of her kung-funya training.

“Wah, nimble girl, check out what you are!” Hima continued to scatter the opponent by shooting ice from his palm over and over again. Julia looked evasive. What power, one shot hit his body, plus one more.

Again the girl hit the ground. Without the armor and protective prana of Jonggrang, he would have been killed. Although not until frozen, Julia pain penetrated the bone.

Rise, Julia! Hold his attack with the magic shield! Play these tones! Benak Julia quickly record “new song”, although disturbed by the sight of Hima who is gathering energy in plain sight.

“Your heir sucks, Jonggrang! You must be the first to perish! Feel my new ultimate, Absolute Freeze Point!” Hima exclaimed as she ran as fast as lightning, it was only necessary to put a fist on the opponent's body to finish the coach.

Though aware this was a development of a style that imprisoned his soul for centuries, Jonggrang said nothing. Even when Julia's violin brought up the Gema Shield Tone prana shield, which was like a real body armor, Jonggrang still did not react in the slightest. Hima's fist hit the prana shield, making a sound like a hammer hitting a steel shield.

“Hahaha! Fend off with defense? Fool, this is how I got through it!” As he said, Hima sucked the second palm that formed a claw. Prana espun flows like a giant claw, ready to be clenched to grip and crumble the opponent's body.

But suddenly, Julia's sound wave shield also widened, rounded, even wrapping around the girl's body like a turtle shell protective field. Although not as hard and strong as a one-way prana shield, this field is able to dampen most attacks. Only a portion of the cold prana that infiltrated the terrain and whack Julia's body. The ice prana claw keeps pressing like a hand squeezing an orange.

Once again, new tones flashed in the violinist's mind. Then, Julia suddenly changed her song and rhythm, counterattacking with seven razor-sharp prana arrays towards Hima. That is the ultimate direct attack magic of Roro Jonggrang's legacy, Rain Tone Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rainbow.

Hima surprised. His position that was too close was impossible to avoid. Forced, he shifted his claws and fists brushed off the seven-colored array of the rainbow. The collision of two kinds of prana exploded violently near Hima's body, plus three arrays of prana that slammed into his body made the human-jin's body float uncontrollably to hit the cave wall. This was the first time in centuries of his life, Jin Himawari was humiliated this badly.

Dark with wrath, Hima forced herself to gather energy. Though his “inang” body is already very weak and injured. Crazy, does Hima want to die with Jonggrang, Gilang and Julia?

“Takkat I let!” Suddenly Hima spoke to herself. Julia recognizes the voice as the voice of the original owner of Hima's new figure, Gilang Kandaka. Hima's body started convulsing.

“Free, Cross!” sergeant Hima. “Toh the result is the same. Your body will explode, in vain you are holding me!”

Realizing this situation, Gilang shouted, “Run, Julia! Save yourself!”

The words of the young man published tears that slid from behind Julia's mask. The girl then shouted back, “No! Not without you, Gilang! Let me help!”

“Do not!” exclamation Gilang. “Hima's strength is currently uncontrollable! I don't know how long I can hold it! Tell Leony that I went far away, let him find a girlfriend just now!”

“You can ask Leony to break up, but what about me?” sambar Julia's. “I really like you, Gilang! Please don't be so selfish!”

Before Gilang could refute, came one voice from another man. “Let me help you, Gilang! It is my duty, Bandung Bondowoso to stop the madness of Himawari!” As a result, through her inner eyes, Julia saw the shadow of Gilang with her pencak silat moves and Bandung with her Ice Tread to the figure of Jin Himawari, all of it happened in one body.

Moments later, Gilang and Bandung seemed to withstand the attack with their respective spirit power, the body shape of their tribe so it looked strange, like gelatin overlaid by a pot.

Lothawat! They're hard to put Himawari down! I have to help them, but what's the sense? Julia sat down, her face paled in dismay.

Think of the most beautiful song you can play, Julia. Jonggrang's answer flashed for a moment.

Whatchu mean?

The song you like the most, the one you like the most. Play, raise your opponent's most beautiful mementos!

Julia did not fully understand Jonggrang's message, but she still decided to comply. So, he swiped his violin, playing the song he memorized the most and liked, Ludwig von Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Those beautiful classical tones were soon creeping in, filling this battleground.

The three souls in Gilang's body begin to be affected and slow down the movement. Bandung Bondowoso and Gilang looked lulled, their faces became very bright as if they were meeting their true love. On the contrary, Himawari also seemed to relax his pressure, the cruel expression on his face changed into flabbergasted, astonished.

Shortly thereafter, Himawari's voice echoed. “I'm sorry, sorry. Nothing is more beautiful than true love. One sincere apology able to repair a fractured relationship.”

As the song continued, being overwritten by the energy shadow of a flower full of charm, Hima said again, “Gosh, I almost made a fatal mistake. If I separate Bandung and Jonggrang, I will perish and endure the torment of hell. In fact, there is a much better way out..”.

Along with his words, Hima's body slowly floated in the air. Apparently the genie drained the power he had accumulated since earlier to Gilang's body to recover it. Fortunately the spirit of Bandung Bondowoso has dampened and absorbed some of the ice prana, until the powerful explosion was prevented.

Slowly, Hima's blue costume changed into an orange jacket, brown jeans, a brown hat and other ordinary clothes. The masked face of Himapun changed into the handsome face of Gilang. All of that goes back to the original form, the ice crystal necklace. While the host's body, Gilang landed back on the ground in a recumbent position, not moving a sign he was unconscious.

The image of the spirit of Roro Jonggrangpun emanated from the Brooch Badge Puspa Kirana in Julia costume. Said the beautiful queen, “I also thank you, Julia. You're a good, intelligent student, well worth inheriting all my knowledge and wisdom. Now, there's no more strangulation in my heart. Finally, after many centuries, I am fully convinced that Bandung Bondowoso is my soul mate. And now, I will accompany him through eternity.”

Juli's costume has returned to its original, ordinary clothes. With the brooch still stuck in her chest, Julia said, “Thank God, there's nothing happier for me than seeing Himawari's curse break, and the two lovebirds finally come together. But, there is still one thing that holds my heart.”

“Lho, what is it?” ask Bandung.

“Roro Jonggrang has appointed me to be his heir of power beyond my own will. Maybe I should just return this brooch to the temple, after all you are free.”

Jonggrang. “You don't understand yet, Julia. What holds my heart is not merely Himawari's curse, but the certainty that all the magic of the Kirana Puspa Badge is in the right hands.”

“But I don't want to be a hero. I want to be normal like an ordinary college student,” said Julia.

Bandung responded, “Roro Jonggrang has chosen you, because you are the one who most deserves the badge Puspa Kirana. Like it or not, we ask you to accept this power and all the responsibilities that come with it. Prevent Jin Himawari from changing his mind and re-creating chaos. After all, you will contribute a lot to the peace of the world, capitalizing on this power.”

Julia thought for a moment before finally nodding. There was still an implied reluctance on his face. “Alright, I received this precious inheritance,” he said while holding a brooch on the chest. “But I need a pseudonym, so that at least I can still live a normal life when not in action.”

Jonggrang replied, “Hmm, name ‘Puspa Kirana’ is too long. What was the name of the flower on that badge in your day?”

“Dahlia,” Julia replied.

“Beautiful name. Alright, from now on your pseudonym is Dahlia, Pendekar Puspa Kirana.”

\==oOo==

Long story short, after teaching some more magic songs to Julia, the spirit of Roro Jonggrang is now holding hands with the spirit of Bandung Bondowoso. Then, through the light that infiltrated from the ceiling of the cave to the top of Jonggrang Temple, the two lovebirds were lifted into the afterlife. What a beautiful sight.

Just aware of the stings, Gilang had witnessed this supernatural appearance with Julia. The two agreed to keep this incident a secret, also the location of Jonggrang Temple aka thousandth temple from their other club friends. Although the members of Jagadnatha are the fact-finders behind the legend, not necessarily the ratio they can accept and trust the honest reason of Giang and Julia.

“Lho Gilang, Julia, where have you been?” ask the club's chairman, Brian, with a full face. “We've been looking for you since!”

“So Julia got mired in the hole, and it took me a long time to get her out of there.” The reason Gilang has a point, although of course he does not reveal the whole truth.

“Oh, so that's why you guys get so injured,” Leony said as he ruffled his waist. “But you better remember well, Lia. Don't think you can take that chance to snatch Gilang from me, yeah!”

“Calm down, Ony, it didn't cross my mind,” Julia replied as she clasped the Dahlia brooch securely in her tight jeans pocket. After all, all these new responsibilities would make Julia think a thousand times before seizing someone else's girlfriend.

“Huh, because of you, we will not watch the Ramayana Escorts in Prambanan,” serve Brian while pinching Gilang's head. Yes, it is dark now.

“Already, anyway we can watch it next year,” said Leony. “Important all club members have reunited safely.”

“Agree,” Gilang replied, smiling in front of Julia and friends for the first time. It was that rare smile that momentarily reminded Julia of the reason she liked Gilang from the beginning. And for the first time, there was a secret to share between the two of them.

Two days later, Gilang separated from the entourage of Jagadnatha Club. He said he wanted to visit his parents in Surabaya, East Java. But Julia knew, actually Gilang went to Mount Semeru to return “securing” Himawari Necklace.

Afterwards, Gilang returned to college, dated Leony and became increasingly familiar with Julia and Brian. Everything seems fine.

Several months passed since Julia got the Dahlia Brooch at Roro Jonggrang Temple, but she rarely used it. As she said, the girl was not a challenger to danger, always trying to live a normal life as a student. Only occasionally does he carry out rescue actions, catch criminals, even prevent crime with his magical powers that are able to affect the human mind.

Then one day, on the shore of a beach, Julia looked at Bros Dahlia in the palm of her hand. His face was grim and his mind was wondering.

What does a hero mean?