FROM ANOTHER WORLD To You (A Mystery Short Story Collection ) - The Second Book
Gate of Death Episode 01 - Alas Sewu Dino (Eighth Round )

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After the Kingdom of Sandekala was repulsed, Sembada officially led the Palace of Adhep Bumi and invited Sasmita Sukma Candramaya as his queen. While leading the Kingdom of Adhep Earth Arif and wise. Many other small countries joined the palace of Adhep Bumi so that the kingdom became one of the largest kingdoms on earth Nusantara.

Even though Sembada was able to complete all government affairs well, however, messed around by family affairs. After marrying Sasmita Sukma Candramaya, Sembada was blessed with a Princess named Dyah Sekar Ayu Cahyaning Wulansari which means beautiful like a full moon light, and indeed her face was so beautiful like her mother, kind and liked by many. Ever since she came out of her mother's womb, she has golden yellow skin and dimples on both sides of her cheeks.

In the previous round it has been told how Princess Ambarwati entrusted Jatayu to Sembada before starting her asceticism. Both Sembada and Sasmita loved Jatayu as their own children, but lately Sembada was preoccupied with his strange attitude.

The 5-year-old boy was often delirious in his sleep. In his delusions, he always mentioned Grandpa Jagabaya, the day he disappeared, making the entire palace in an uproar. After being searched here and there, finally, the boy was found on the edge of the Sewu Dino forest.

"Who told you to come here, son ?" ask Sembada.

"Grandpa Jabaya," the boy replied innocently.

"Who is Grandpa Jagabaya, have you ever met her ?"

"Grandpa Jagabaya, is the ruler of the Thousand Flowers Mountain.tuh, the mountain whose peak rises high above the sky," said Jatayu while pointing towards the mountain that was plastered majestically in front of them.

"Does Dad know when you met Grandpa Jagabaya ? Whatever he said,"

"Grandfather Constable always comes in a dream Tayu, Dad.... The grandfather said that later after Tayu was 10 years old, he would come to pick her up. He is very kind and powerful. He was able to punch a hole in the rock with his index finger, "Jatayu seemed very excited to tell a story.

"If you hole a stone with your index finger, you can too, want to know the evidence ?"

"You, will... Dad. Well, there's a rock big enough, I love to look at Tayu, yes," said the boy, pointing to the rock not far from where they were sitting.

Smiling, he stood up and walked towards the rock that Jatayu pointed at. After closing his eyes, Sembada rubbed the coral body with the right foot and after that he touched it with the right index finger.

While pulling his index finger, and looks a hole deep enough, a hole the size of an index finger. Jatayu widened his eyes, his mouth was gaping, he seemed to feel amazed and proud to see his adoptive father successfully hole the rock with his index finger.

"How, son ? You believe it, don't you ?"

"A... dad, can Tayu learn it ?"

"of course. But wait until you grow up, yeah. Come on, come home.your mother and sister are waiting at home," Sembada said as he carried the little body of Jatayu, "Waduh.you have grown up, yes, I can't carry you anymore. But, please.don't you repeat this again, Father and Mother are worried that anything will happen to you, son..."

Jatayu nodded his head, he smiled as he pressed his head against the chest of the Sembada field, he said, he just let his body hugged tightly and his hair was stroked by a man who was not really a real father but loved and cherished with all his heart.

***

That night Sembada sat cross-legged in his practice room. His eyes closed tightly. In front of him there was a offerings that was stuck in some incense, while his mouth was muttering a spell. The wind slowly blew away the thin white smoke into all corners of the room. Spreading fragrant aroma of wine.

"On the permission of the Almighty, the Eternal and the Great, give Your despicable servant the strength to meet with Grandpa Jagabaya...."

Countless number of times Sembada said the spells until finally a thin smoke came out of the crown, mixed with the smoke of flying incense soaring, and, round the room to then exit through the air holes.

The thin white smoke spread and came to a halt at a shadow figure sitting on top of a sizable mountain rock. The shadow was wearing all-white clothes, a yellow bamboo stick transverse on his lap. He raised his head as a thin white smoke that resembled Sembada's face and body.

"Heh..heh..heh...heh,"

"Grandpa Jabaya ?" ask Sembada.

"I know you must have come to ask about Jatayu, didn't you ?" said the figure in white clothes.

"Yes, cake... If I may know, why Grandpa every night met Jatayu, son of Yuangga ruler of Sandekala,"

"By, know, ngger... I am so amazed at your personality, you gave her a good example, but, in the future, Jatayu will sooner or later find out who her real father is. Are you ready for that ?"

"I understand, kek. later I will tell him about it, but, for a while he is not ready," said Sembada.

The figure called Grandfather Constable stroked his beard, he looked at Sembada's face deeply, then again said, "Jatayu is a good boy, however, he looks at Sembada's face deeply, we have to test his mentality and personality so that he doesn't go down the wrong path like his father did,"

"What does grandfather mean ?"

"Listen, ngger. You have to leave Jatayu to one of Tunggak Bayu village named Ki Jampang. He was one of my students. Well, there is a word that is quite wise.as long as you educate your son in luxury, then, he will drift in luxury for the rest of his life, never once will I look down. The meaning of these words is. When we are at the top, it is wiser to look down so that we can know the suffering of others," explained Grandpa Jagabaya.

"I understand what Grandpa meant. Let me talk to Sasmita, please,"

"Thank you for Grandpa Jagabaya's attention. Luckily, Jatayu was able to meet Grandpa Jabaya. Back then, when I was looking for Master at the foot of this Thousand Flowers Mountain, I didn't meet Grandfather,"

"Sasmita Sukma Candramaya, you could say my grandson, ngger.but, I can not deny. if he is the most intelligent and high-scientific student compared to the disciples of the Thousand Flowers Mountain. Destiny has brought him to you, ngger. Thank you for keeping and protecting him, it's very important to me. Well, ngger Sembada.. It's time I go back to the Thousand Flowers Mountain, remember my words earlier,"

After saying so, the place seemed to tremble violently, the mountain stone that was the seat of Grandfather Constable was lifted high into the air and then vanished from the sight of Sembada. The young man smiled and hurried to leave the place.

***

Meanwhile, nun is far away... In the Land of Sandekala, the night seemed gripping, all the soldiers looked on guard and prepared with their respective weapons at the iron gate as high as ten feet of adults.

Below them was a black-clad hunchback woman scattering the soldiers with a black iron rod decorated with two pairs of snakes wrapped around her body along the staff, while at the base is engraved human skull.

The woman chuckled, her voice hoarse as if stuck in the esophagus. He looked at the gate guard soldiers with a sharp look.

"Come on. get your king out stupid humans, cuisine does not dare to face an old hunchback like me.. hekh..hekh..hekh," the sound of his laughter was so raucous as the sound of a crow made the ears of anyone who heard it hurt.

"Who are you .. why mess Sandekala up on nights like this" one soldier said.

"Hmm, are you the king of Sandekala ?" ask the black-robed woman.

"I'm just a man. Where might Prabu Yuangga want to meet you," the soldier sneered.

The old grandmother slammed her staff, "Hmm, you really dare insult me, feel this," saying that she pointed her right foot straight at the soldier, from behind the sleeves of his robe darted out some slithering animals and landed on the soldier's body.

He was screaming in fear, his face turning blue, his veins and muscles bulging out. He was holding his neck from the mouth, sounding like boiling water and...

"Ccrroott, man,"

Dark red blood gushed out from his eyes, nose, ears and mouth, a second later along with his convulsing body and head exploding.

The woman's laughter echoed, especially as the soldier's body slid down and fell slammed. This made other soldiers.

"If you don't want to be the same, call your king out, meet me Nimas Selo" he warned.

A little while later, some soldiers opened the gate and from inside appeared a tall, sturdy and burly young man. He was Yuangga, the ruler of the Kingdom of Sandekala.

After being defeated by Sembada in the battle between Sandekala and the Adhep Earth Palace, Yuangga suffered severe injuries that were serious enough to almost make his life fly. However, he did not give up so easily, shutting himself up and forbidding anyone from seeing him. He meditated, trying to heal his wounds. The first stage he paralyzes all the veins in his joints, the second stage heals himself by being buried, and the last stage re-studies the sciences as well as his magic. After going through three stages, he can recover, but because in re-study the sciences with a fragmented mind, the consequences become lost.

He was unable to endure the pain and burning on his body, it resulted in the skin all over his body blistering and his face pale like paper once in a while he shivered, sometimes he feels hot and rages like a madman.

"Hekh.. hekh... hekh. It seems that you have a pretty severe internal wound..hekh,"

"Stop your laughter, old granny.You have disturbed my meditation, tell me what exactly you want after that get out of this place," Yuangga snapped, her voice trembling.

"Hekh. hekh.. hekh... hekh, I was able to heal you even more powerful and powerful than before the war between Sandekala and Adhep Earth... hekh..hekh. I'm giving you an offer" said the woman.

"What offer do you want,"

The woman who claimed to be Nimas Selo chuckled, she walked over and said, "If you can shift where I stand for a minute, I'll get out of here. On the contrary, if you cannot shift me, leave your country to me. hekh..."

Yuangga's face was flushed red, then she nimbly tried to slap the woman's cheek. However, her slap was like passing by, the woman was just chuckling.

Yuangga was curious, again he did the same thing slap, fist and kick, but everything was like hitting an empty room.

"Hekh.. hekh... hekh.... hekh. Well, now it's my turn" the woman screeched. With a movement that could not be followed by ordinary eyes, the woman stuck out her index finger towards Yuangga. The young man dodged to the right and to the left, however, the woman seemed to know where Yuangga was moving.

Until finally, the young man screamed stifled when the index finger of the woman named Nimas Selo landed on his forehead. Yuangga's body was like a hot worm, his cries blaring, on the sidelines of a terrible laugh. All the eyes of Sandekala soldiers did not blink to see his master, some turned away the face could not bear to see him tormented.

After about half an hour of shouting and rolling on the ground, Yuangga was silent for a moment, his face slowly seemed radiant and he felt his blood circulation running smoothly and the heat inside his body turning cold, he had already healed from his internal wounds.

Nimas Selo laughed as Yuangga saluted and let him enter the gate. From then on Yuangga, assisted by Nimas Selo, again drew up strength to face the Earth Kingdom of Adhep.

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