Niken Areline
Puzzle Pieces

    Sunday morning, the sky was overcast and cold air pierced the bones. Julia Nada was supposed to be at her father's bakery to help. However, today she prefers to pay a visit to Alan's house at nine o'clock over twelve minutes. The woman came on a matic motorcycle and parked it in front of the fence.

*

    There was only Alan mopping in the living room. Vivi left for work an hour ago. The woman sits down drinking hot chocolate in a plastic cup. Maybe bought it on the way here. Slurp, his mouth noisy, his legs both lined up on the table. Without awkwardness, he rested his head on the cushion of a fairly cushioned chair. Occasionally blow his own bangs. His eyes watched Alan mopping the floor nearby.

    “Beresin page now?”

    “Front month aja.”

    “Iiiiiiiihhh!”

    “Yes now, are you serious about helping? Capek loh.”

    “Why did I come here early in the morning? If not serious,” said Nada.

    “Oke, wait not yet done,”

    “Yauda I started first while waiting for you,” Nada got out of the chair, then he came out. Tone looking for a broomstick in the yard. He found it in a corner of the wall, tucked behind a pot made of clay.

    From inside the living room, Alan who had mopped up to a corner, heard the sound of friction of a broom with the ground from outside the house. Srak, srak, that voice made Alan smile. Tone swept under the guava tree, he slashed through the trash and threw it in a tub made of old tires.

 *

    They want to clean the dirt under the flower pots on the ceramic floor. Not a bit of rat shit is there, lizard droppings and dried leaves. First Alan moved first the pots of plants whose weight made the veins on his arms visible. Then sweep and mop the floor.

    After finishing the arrangement until quite neat, they began to paint the black iron fence into yellow. Tone clean the fence that has not been painted with a brush so that the dust is gone, while on the side, Alan paint the fence that has been cleaned.

*

     Alan and Nada sat in a rattan chair on the terrace. They looked at the courtyard that had just been cleaned together. Paint on a shiny fence, clean soil and a fragrant floor feels more comfortable. They've finished a plate of chicken porridge and a glass of tea. The porridgeer's brother was sitting next to his wagon, he was smoking a cigarette. Then his gaze looked up as the airplane was seen behind a tree branch. Until both engines roared loudly.

    “Aw,” cried Alan suddenly, he felt pain in the tip of his ring finger. Nada was shocked and patted Alan's arm.

    “Ih ngagetin only!”

    However, alan's face turned to panic. He immediately got up from his chair, then went inside and took out the motor. Tone of surprise noticed Alan's sudden changed manner.

    “Where are you?” ask Nada.

    Alan did not answer, he immediately turned on the motor and pulled the gas out of the gate. The follow-up tone rose from the chair, he took the door lock from the vents above it, then locked the door of the house first. Then he immediately ran out of the fence, rode his bike and chased after Alan.

    “Oi neng!”  invite the porridgeist. Waduh has not been paid. He nodded while throwing his cigarette on the ground.

Three hours earlier.

    Cold woke Alan. A hint of light from nature had already entered through the gap between the holes in his room. He opened both eyes that still felt heavy, then found Niken sitting in the front seat of a table nearby. The woman looked at Alan.

    “Since when did you come out?” alan asked in a slightly raucous and lazy tone.

    “Thirty minutes ago,” replied Niken.

    “Ngapain sit there?”

    “Waituin you wake up.”

    Alan opened his eyes wide, then he sat down and enveloped himself from the coldness that felt. There was a little thought in his brain after hearing the sentence waiting for you to wake up’ the sentence made him think that he felt like he was married to Niken. He looked at Niken and asked.

    “So wait for me?”

    "Yes, I also went to your sister's room.”

    “Hah? Seriously?” Alan's shocked.

    “Ya,” Niken replied calmly.

    “Ngapain? She saw you?”

    “Ngak,” answered. “I thank Recetio for him.”

    “Recetio?”

    “Ya, that's the name of protection magic.”

    “What do you mean?”

    “I understand you're so worried about him, so I give you Reketio. If he is again in danger, then you will understand, the ring finger on your right hand will feel stung by electricity.”

    Alan was silent, then looked at the ring finger on his left hand.

   “Recetio?” muttered.

*

   Vivi sat on the kitchen bench, she called her coworker's cell phone number one by one. Lila, Didi and Aji.  From each of those cell phone numbers, only the waiting tone he heard. Not usually. Vivi. Dani

going into the kitchen, she sat down next to Vivi.

   “Vi, I'm sorry about what I'm going to do,” he said.

   Vivi stared at the astonished face of Dani. The truck! Vivi dropped her phone on the floor.

Nowow.

    Alan rushes his motorcycle. Without wearing a helmet, he overtook many vehicles in front of him. Tone of difficulty to chase, but from his direction, Nada could think Alan was going where. Only, the woman did not know what was really going on. Is he going to Vivi's sister? Inner tone.

    “Kak!” alan loudly shouted for Vivi.

    He went into the kitchen, not finding a single person in the store. Then his attention was on his brother's phone on the floor, Alan picked it up. That obviously made him more anxious.

    “Kaaak!” Alan shouted louder. He opened the toilet door but did not find it.

    “Alan!” I heard Vivi's voice from outside calling out to her.

    Alan realized the voice was coming from behind the shop. He's headed to the back door. Run and open the green door made of iron. Set him up in the backyard of the shop, surrounded by a high white wall and brimmed with thorns.

    “Kakak!” alan shouted as soon as he saw Vivi standing on the sand dune.

    “I can't move,” said Vivi. Not yet had Alan reached the sand dune, Vivi shouted. “Awas Alan!”

    A white colored light shot out from the ground behind Alan. It sped quickly and hit Alan's back. As soon as the light hit his body, Niken came out of Alan's heart. The princess with the white kebaya, fell to the sand at Vivi's feet. His crown came loose and rolled on the ground.

*

    Likewise with Alan, he fell down beside Niken. It was obvious that Vivi was so surprised to see the figure of a woman in a white dress coming out of her sister's body. Vivi's mouth was wide open and her eyes were glaring like seeing a ghost. This was his first time seeing Niken.

    “Arrggh,” cried Alan and Niken together, they felt a fleeting pain in each other's hearts. It may be the effect of the white light that keeps them apart.

    Then, from the back door of the shop, Dani came out and walked up to them. Behind him was a black cat following Dani's footsteps.

    “Miauw.”

    That cat! Alan. He began to assume that the black cat might have been spying on him all along.

    Dani stops a meter in front of Alan and Niken.

   “Who are you?” ask Alan.

   Dani immediately showed his true form. The black, shiny hair is gone. Replaced with uneven pieces and there were scratches on his right eye. Everyone was surprised to see the figure of the foreign man, he had turned into Kardi. His shirt had also been changed with a black robe and an open hood.

   “You...” muttered Niken, maybe she recognized him.

   Cardi folded the sleeves of her right robe. He stretched out that hand and opened his palm wide. From the palm of the hand came out the chain he had made using Metta stone. Sraaat! Sraaaat! Sraaat! The chain tied Niken tightly.

   “Arrrggghh,” Niken pain.

   “Oiii! Leasin!” alan violently tries to untie the chain that encircles Niken's body. Zrat! A heatstroke was felt as he tried to untie the chain. “Arrgh,” cried Alan, then he noticed his burning palm. While Niken continues to struggle to release the chain.

    Afterwards, Kardi opens a portal to Kana. With his left palm, he created a portal hole beside him. Niken was surprised Kardi could do it here, she activated the tower again? Niken. Like a magician, Kardi raised Niken with a chain that was tightly tied. At the same time, the sand dune under Vivi's feet moved, hardened and transformed into moving hands, and the sand was holding Alan's body. Preventing him from blocking Niken.

    “Niken!!” alan loudly shouted as Niken's body entered the portal.

    Alan and Niken reached out and looked at each other. But the power of Kardi separates them. The slap! The portal door was closed. The three of them live, Kardi, Vivi and Alan in the hot sun.

    “I can't tell you your memories but, I hope you guys live quietly after this. Just like before you met him (Niken). And, sorry I used your brother as bait, I can't go head-to-head with the power of Niken.”

    “What do you want to sell to him?” alan loudly asked with emotion and a red face.

    “Not me, but everyone, the death penalty!” the answer.

    Then Kardi opened the circle of portals to Kana. The black cat jumped onto Kardi's left shoulder. Then Kardi stepped into the portal. However, before she went inside, Kardi picked up Niken's silver crown that had fallen on the ground. Kardi looked at him for a while, then she continued her steps into the portal.

     The slap! The portal closed and disappeared instantly. Vivi fell sitting on a sand dune. The hands of sand were gone too. Alan and Vivi were able to move her body freely. Sontak Alan immediately saw the situation of his brother.

    “You okay?”

    However, Vivi did not answer. He was silent for a few seconds and said something.

    “There's a lot you have to tell sister!” said.

    “There's a lot you have to tell me!” a voice came from behind Alan. She's Julia Nada, standing looking at her.

*

     “Why didn't you say from the beginning?” hard Vivi asked Alan. Vivi, and Alan sat in the kitchen of the store, while Nada stood leaning against the wall listening to their chatter.

     “I'm afraid brother is worried,” he replied.

     “Hmmm,” muttered Vivi. “So now Niken will be put to death?”

     “Iya,” Alan scowled, immersing his face on the table. “When I promised to take care of him,” his voice sounded annoyed, he hit the table.

    “You said the magic of glass balls brings you together,” said Nada. “Is there no way you know how to do Niken?”

    “Oi, wait,” said Vivi saw Nada. “Not now we're back to living like before again?” he looked at Alan. “We recommend that we do not interfere with the problems that exist in other worlds.”

    Alan raised his head and looked at his brother.

   “Kak? Why if you want to know my story if in the end you are more willing to do not care?”

   “Danger! You know what you're saying is beyond reason. We never know what the dangers are.”

   “You fell in love with him?” Tone asked, cutting their conversation.

   Alan looked at him.

   “Not that, but Niken is a good person,” Alan is nervous to say it. “That curse has ruined his life.”

   “Alan dengerin,” says Vivi. “You're the only family you have, you can't be involved any further with this!” Vivi said while pointing at the table.