Mystery of the Book of the Air
A Goddess

"Krieigg!!.... Kriyinggg!!.... Kriiiying!! ... "

The sound of the school bell three times signifies the end of all school activities, and preparing to go home each.

"Are we going to the city library? "Sahut Dani to me and also Feni.

"So, there's a lot we can get there!! There's still a lot of ambiguity going on right now" Feni replied. After a short chat, we prepared our belongings to head to the city library.

Me, Feni and Dani walked towards the school gate to wait for the angkot that passed from our school to the city center.

The three of us sat on the sidewalk waiting for the angkot to pass, waiting, we also talked about the plan that we will do in the future.

"We have 4 items that we have got, and we go to the library to look for the history of the Bugis tribe in the past, and we go to the library to look for the history of the Bugis tribe in the past, and the last book sheet I hold right now needs to be clarified and searched for where the missing sheet is"

Dani said while showing one by one the items he held

"Eh!!! You don't go out with all that stuff, Dani!! You know that stuff that makes us pursued by Parakang"

Feni spoke in a tone while pinching Dani's right arm.

"Ouchh!!.., sick Fen! Yes, I will not joke anymore. Eh that's the angkot who wants to go to the city center waving your hands forward"

Indeed, the behavior of both my friends sometimes makes me feel comfortable from the hustle and bustle that occurred some time ago.

And Sam! He was one of my friends who was also very cheerful among the other classmates.

We often have events and meetings, yes... The four of us, sometimes at my house, at Feni's, at Dani's expense, and what made us most happy when we held it at Sam's.

This is because Sam's house is a comfortable place to move, sometimes the house is empty because both parents go out of town to have office meetings.

At this time we made a promise to make a party at Sam's house, and after all Sam is also the son of the CEO of one of the electronics companies in Parepare.

We used to party all night like young people in general, sounding a little free.. But we also know the limits of the parties we do.

We changed the usual alcoholic drinks into the party main course into orange and melon syrup, the food we served was also a chicken burger with cheese toppings and pizza.

And if you remember, Feni and Sam are cousins, so actually our parents know each other.

But only Dani's parents we never saw, this is because Dani is a regional kid and he only receives monthly submissions from his parents, but make no mistake! Dani is also the son of a rich man whose parents are one of the gold businessmen in Kalimantan. All we know is that Dani went to school here because she has an aunt who also lives here.

While Feni has a father who is a director in one of the famous banks in Indonesia, he also has a mother who works as a clothing designer.

You could say I was surrounded by the son of a rich man, hahaha what a very interesting coincidence.

And Me? I'm the son of Feni's father's partner. My father was a sizable rice businessman in the town of Pardis.

The four of us also had bracelets that we made ourselves to signify the four of us were friends.

But don't misunderstand me! We are people but we don't want to show that to our other friends, why? Because what did you do? Haha.

I went to school just riding an angkot and came home too so, even sometimes I went home a short distance away, this was also done by my three friends.

Sam....!! Hmmmm.... He was a very good boy, a jolly friend, a diluent of the atmosphere when we were very rigid in our conversation. Hope bad things don't happen to you, and don't worry! We're trying to get you back, please hold on a little more.

"Left sir..!!"

Say the three of us to the driver to stop.

We finally got to where we had planned to be from yesterday. The place is quite large when viewed from the outside, has a pale yellow paint with dark brown pillars.

"Where do we start? "

I asked my two best friends,

"How about we do our duty? I'm looking for the missing pages of this book, Feni's looking for the origin of the saloko and the bosara, and you're looking for the origin of the ring and also the history of the Bugis in ancient times"

Dani also spoke to share our task of looking for information from all the items we have.

The three of us went to the counter to ask where the book we wanted to get, because actually everything we wanted to find was probably on the same bookshelf.

"Excuse me... I want the name ma'am, Bugis history bookshelf where is yah ma'am?"

I also asked the guard

After the perpus guard mentioned his number and also his position, we went straight to the place he had mentioned.

After arriving, the three of us stopped for a moment at the last step of the stairs. The room temperature here is very cold and feels humid, the aroma of books that have been arranged for a long time and never touched is very typical.

We started looking one by one for the book we needed, first Dani got the book called The Ritual of the Blessing Caller, Feni got the book entitled The God Container Seuwwae, and I got!! Guess what! Yap History And Origins of Parakang Creatures in the Land of Bugis.

Deni started talking back to give directions on what we needed to look for,

"Feni, you find out the usefulness of bosara when the Parepare kingdom was formed and also saloko is usually used when the ceremony is held. And you're Jina, you find out about the ring you're holding right now."

I spoke to Dani again

"How am I going to find out about this ring while the book I picked up is called Parakang?"

"You open it first who knows in it you found a clue about the ring, and who knows also the book you read it has other clues about the other three items"

Dani said in a slightly annoyed tone,

It's weird! Because the one who gave this book was Dani, after that he told me to look for this ring with the title of a book that had absolutely nothing to do with it.

But yes it is, maybe it is true said Dani, anyway all we get is related to each other.

I began to read one by one the sheets of the book I hold, the contents of this book tell exactly the story of Aunt Siti.

Here it is written there are ten humans who are steeped in forbidden knowledge in an inland village in the Kingdom of Parepare, and so on exactly with the story of Aunt Siti.

But!!... But, in this book I find a clue who the goddess of darkness is the mastermind of everything that happens to the ten people who become the Parakang.

Her name is Dewi Gayatri, in this book it is written that this Goddess often gives bad luck to the villagers in the kingdom of Parepare.

Like, thwarting the results of the villagers, aborting the womb of pregnant women, and giving the curse of disease to anyone who he feels more beautiful than himself.

Actually, the terror of Goddess Gayatri is more terrible than the terror Parakang has happened, because the terror of a figure who is considered this Goddess is not easy to eliminate.

Up to the time there was a woman who claimed to have come from the northern mountains, and said,

"You villagers, take a lipa' sabbe and wrap it around the central pillar of your house, and pray for protection for your home and its inhabitants."

The entire village people flocked to do this, after doing what the woman who had said out of nowhere! Indeed, the bad luck that often befalls the village is slowly disappearing.

After this Dewi Gayatri has another way to ravage the village, by raising the figure of Parakang to attack and terrorize the village.

But luckily the terror that happened did not last long and the village returned as usual.

When I got to the middle of the book, I got a paragraph that seemed to tell me about a ring.

It is written, Dewi Gayatri has a gold ring and has a red pomegranate stone in the middle, she is often seen wearing black Bodo clothes that signify disaster.

The ring worn by Goddess Gayatri is also believed to be able to give a curse to who wants her to curse.

While I wanted to continue my reading suddenly from the front at the end of the row of bookshelves there was a light that seemed to be from the burning candle flame.

It just so happened that the three of us were a little far apart because to make it easier for us to move to find a new book if the book we read was finished.

I began to slowly walk forward towards the light, only five steps did I walk! I can see women, wear red bodo clothes and wear black lipa' sabbe.

Something suddenly flashed in my memory, I then spoke in my heart.

"This isn't the woman I met in the Jompie forest back then!!" I stopped my steps and started yelling at the woman,

"You who? You kidnapped Sam, right?! I thought from the beginning that you weren't human when you first saw you in the woods"

As I shouted towards the woman she slowly walked towards me, with singing and laughter that made my hair stand up.

The more I shouted the louder the voice sang, without me realizing I could not move my body, and was accompanied by my mouth which I could not move.

I began to panic until I could not feel my tears coming out on their own, with the sudden blink of an eye the woman reached right in front of my face and grinned and spoke.

"You want your friend? Find her!! Haha"

My vision went dark and I fell on the floor