ADILAGES
BONUS: KIDNAPPING

When Roro Kandita began to know the world, that was the beginning of the end of his old life.

“Thank you, Father Your Majesty!” Paras Putri Kandita who is able to make the angel fall envious was smiling sumringah. “This gift is truly beautiful matchless!”

How not, the five-colored gold necklace inlaid with five-colored jewels is very beautiful combined with the colorful tinsel batik dress she wears. His body is like a rainbow.

“Haha, your late mother would be proud to see her daughter is now an adult.” Raja Pajajaran, Munding Wangi stroked his daughter's long, waist-length black hair.

Unsatisfied the father-daughter clutched in the palace pendopo, Dewi Mutiara, the king's consort is currently barreling in with a little boy who is crying. “Daulat, Kanjeng Prabu! This time Kandita is really outrageous!”

“Please, Kanjeng Roro,” said the king to appease his wife. “What's the problem?”

“Ayam jago belongs to Anggayuh was found in a bald state! The feathers must have been plucked all by Kandita!” Prince Anggayuh is the son of Pearl.

Protest candidate, “I didn't do it, father!”

“Lying! Remember Kanjeng Prabu, there have been countless times Kandita has cornered her sister!” The sound of the pearls shrill. “He must be punished, expelled from the palace so as not to be spoiled!”

The statement left the king gasping and silent for a moment. Then, he spoke slowly as if he was holding back anger. “Pearl, don't think I don't know what you mean. Keep this in mind, Kandita is my daughter and I will never banish her from the palace, under any circumstances! If he is found guilty, I will give him the punishment he deserves. Huh, if you are not the birth mother of the crown prince, you are the one I will drive!”

Thinking Munding Wangi was more defending his daughter than he was, Pearl clucked in annoyance. Then, without heeding the rules, he went with Anggayuh from the pendopo. The king shook his head and Kandita silently smiled triumphantly.

\==oOo==

“Huh, Roro Kandita should get away from this palace, if necessary from the face of the earth!”

The vile words were thrown from the mouth of Empress Roro Mutiara as she was talking to a hooded man in the darkness of the night, in one corner of the Keraton Pajajaran complex.

The hooded man replied, “Kanjeng Roro does not need to kill Kandita. But trapping Kandita as if he was judging Gusti Prince Anggayuh would not be able to get him expelled.”

“Lantas I should how, brother? I'm out of my mind, do you have a good suggestion?”

The black hood pulled out a small bottle from under his cloak. “Mix this on Kandita food or drink.”

“What? Didn't you say you didn't have to kill him?”

“Yes. This herb will make the prabu deny his vow not to expel Kandita under any circumstances.”

Pearl Eyes squinting. “I know you're a rishi, a powerful hermit shaman. But I think your belief is overrated.”

“Do it, then see it later. If you don't believe me, there's always another shaman.”

\==oOo==

The next morning, Kandita gets a surprise, delicious breakfast by her bedside.

Kandita asked the lady, “Who made this for me?”

“Baginda Gusti Prabu, Gusti Roro,” replied the lady's ladyboy while looking down low.

“Oh, maybe daddy wants to cheer me up because of last night's misunderstanding.”

Kandita slowly ate the dish, enjoying the taste in each bite.

During the day and afternoon, Kandita did activities as usual. Play, learn, talk with the prabu. There was absolutely no strangeness happening to him.

Unwittingly Kandita, the Pearl Empress secretly spied on him from a distance, always frowning. With a muttered Pearl growl, “Basic shaman impostor! I'll send a hit man to his house!”

\==oOo==

The next day, Kandita woke up early as usual. However, he was surprised not to see the green scales like fish scales on his stomach skin, which appeared as he soaked in the water of the palace bathing pool.

Not only that, there are also a few scales on the forehead near the left temple of Kandita's face. The ladies who saw her screamed hysterically. One of them even ran away, probably to report to the king before Kandita could prevent it.

Just as Kandita finished dressing, Prabu Munding Wangi and his empress had already arrived at the side of the bathing pool.

“K-Randus! What happened to you then?” The king pointed to his daughter's face.

“A-I don't know, father! This... suddenly just...!” Kandita.

Empress interrupts, “He must have been cursed by the gods, because his mischief has made his own younger brother suffer.”

“Dragon talks, empress!” snapped king. “Don't accuse Kandita recklessly, or I will expel you from the palace!”

“I'd better get out of here with the crown prince, than stay with the princess who has a possibly contagious curse!”

“K-you...!”

“So, please choose Kanjeng Prabu, I and the heir to the throne, or the damned princess.”

\==oOo==

Before sunset, Rara Kandita found herself walking in an uncertain direction, away from the Pajajaran Palace.

The father's words still ring in Kandita's mind. “Rara Kandita, from this moment I order you to leave this palace, to find a way to cure the curse you are suffering from. Only after you recover can you come back and live with us. Make sure the disease is not contagious and you do not transmit it to others.”

Kandita then wandered to find the antidote to the magic. But gradually the disease got worse. The scales are getting more and more and the breath is even more tight. Desperate, Kandita intends to commit suicide by plunging from the cliffs of Hawu Coral Beach near the South Sea.

As the princess arrived at the edge of the cliff, suddenly a long-haired man approached her shouting, “Stop, Kandita! Don't act stupid!”

“Who are you? Why did you follow me from Pajajaran to here?” Candita turned around and asked suspiciously.

The man replied, “My name is Jalaspati, I am a sage, a witch and a hermit of the Hindu Brahmin sect. I've been looking for you for a long time, and I finally found you in this place.”

“Lantas, what's your business preventing me?” sahut Kandita ketus hotel. “Do you think I'm a pity-worthy creature?”

“Not so, Kandita,” said Jalaspati while shaking his head. “First of all, you need to know, I am the shaman that Empress Pearl hired to curse you.”

“A-what?” Kandita's eyes are wide. A moment later, his gaze turned stern. “Pay this debt with your life, coward shaman!” The girl lunged towards the shaman, but suddenly her steps came to a halt and she held his neck. His breathlessness relapsed.

Calmly, Jalaspati continued his words. “Second cause, because of course I have an antidote for your curse.” He then took a very small bottle, filled with a blue liquid. “This is the Tear of Paramitha, the antidote to all poisons, diseases and curses. Very rare, this bottle is only enough for one person.”

“Cih! After all that you've done, you're offering an antidote? How could I possibly believe in that cheap trick of yours?” bentak Kandita's.

With great patience Jalaspati explained, “Trust me or not, your scaly skin can make you breathe and move freely in water, like the gills and fins of fish. In exchange, you won't be able to live on land anymore. Never be able to return to your kingdom, to your family. Well, how'd you decide? Living in the water freely, or drinking this antidote, back to the palace full of intrigue and traps? Back on the Pearl that will scuttle you again and again?”

“Hei! Who do you think you are, Jalaspati? After cursing me and disappearing, you just show up and rule my life? Just yummy! It's good you told me about this skin, so I can find another way to kill myself!”

Suddenly Jalaspati blocks Roro's hand and reprimands, “Wait! Don't be stupid, Kandita! Don't waste your life in vain when the exit is in sight! Besides, I have two more reasons to help you!”

Candita flicked her hand wanting to get off, but failed. “What other reason? Never mind, don't talk!”

But Jalaspati even pulled the girl's hand, his eyes looking straight at his interlocutor with a look full of shade. “Begini, Kandita. Actually I was a drop of Batara Baruna, and I did all this because. I love you so much.”.

Kandita. For the first time, a young man dared to declare his love directly to her. Youth drip dewata anyway. For a moment, his heart flowered.

But the next moment, Kandita's facial expression hardened, her teeth were grinding. Then he pushed Jalaspati's body with one loud jolt. Harsher still, “I told you I'd rather die than receive help, let alone love from the person who has harmed me! Get there!”

Jalaspati seemed to remain calm, as if he had expected Kandita's reaction. “Good, then let me reveal my sincerity.” His lips then pitched a spell, his index and middle fingers clenched together, drawing a magical script that shimmered before his chest. Suddenly on the smooth skin of the handsome young man looked the exact same rash-shaped fish scales as the scales on Kandita's body.

“Look, I also suffered the same curse as you. Let me sacrifice and bear the penalty for my actions, and you will heal as before. Well, now everything depends on your decision,” said Jalaspati while putting the Paramitha Tear tube on the rock. Then he ran quickly to the edge of the cliff and plunged into the ocean water. While doing so, Jalaspati had chanted tembang.

Live on, Kandita terkelita

Go back to your kingdom

Be the wise Queen of Fair

Let me be damned in your stead

Live on, Kandita terkelita

So that my sacrifice is not in vain

This is the expression of my heart

About regret and love

May one beautiful day

You will live a happy peace

Always remember, Kandita is down

I love you more than anything

Kandita had moved to prevent, but fell tripping slippery rocks. He could only be astonished at the determined actions of his adoring man. Then he looked at the bottle of antidote, took it, and opened it.

When the contents of the bottle will already drip out of the bottle, Kandita suddenly undoes her intentions. Nah! I have a better use for this magical water! his inner. The culprit of this disaster is Jalaspati! It was he who instigated the Empress Pearl, engineered all of those deceits and gave me the curse poison to have me expelled from the palace! What does he mean to help me? Is it just because of love? If not, I must find him and avenge him!

Taking that conclusion, Kandita then ran and plunged from the Rock of Hawu, chasing Jalaspati in the depths of the vast ocean.

In the water, Kandita panicked, her hands and feet floundering. But the next moment he realized there was a change in his body. Oh, my God, Jalaspati is right! My scales are gone, I can move freely and breathe freely in the water!

Then, the beautiful long-haired girl looked around her. This was his new world, an underwater world full of its own beauty. There will be no king's consort, evil shaman or anything like that here. I have to admit, as a drip of Batara Baruna, Jalaspati is very powerful mandraguna. In order to fight against my great enemy one day, as well as survive and make this South Sea my kingdom, I must master a magic that no one will ever be able to match!

So over time, Kandita prepared herself by training hard. Not only was his magic immeasurable, he gained the ability to talk to all sea creatures.

Jalaspati turned out to be crossing seven oceans, undergoing the duties of other Baruna Gods. When he returned to the South Sea of Java, he turned out to have aged. Worse, he was intercepted by Kandita who turned out to be young.

Rejecting the love and apology of an old man, Kandita attacks Jalaspati and the two fight in the water.

Although equally powerful, the body of Kandita who is younger than Jalaspati is the determinant of victory. Finally Kandita forced the Tears of Paramitha to Jalaspati. Short of breath waiting for death, Jalaspati blew all his remaining internal energy until his body was destroyed. His spirit possessed Batara Baruna's heirloom bracelet and Kandita wore it as a sign of his victory over the divine incarnation.

From then on, Kandita solidified her power with a new title as Queen of the South Sea and a new goddess.

Nyi Roro Kidul's.