ORION
Villa In the Middle of the Barren Field II
Surrounding the kitchen found considerable damage to the table and short chairs below. Runo who was still in a state of slump was then pointed to the side of Endaru.
“A-watch! In-in, in the back!” Runo's words stammered with fear towards something near Endaru.
“A ..ah! Dogs! There's a dog!” endaru who was then startled shouted as he turned to look next to her. Endaru get out of there.
They only found a dog. But it's not a pet dog usually. But a wolf dog with a body almost as big as the body of Mahanta.
“Gosh!” Orion was late to react in surprise when he saw the body of a dog of that size.
Ramon also avoids being shrunken when faced with a dog that can even devour it. No exception Runo who had previously been knocked down and shivering in fear, Runo then lay limp and unconscious on the spot.
“Runo, wake up!” cry Orion as he approached her.
The dog continued to growl and sometimes barked loudly. Then walked over with a sharp look at Endaru on the spot. After a while, the dog leapt towards Enderu quickly.
“Guk!” The dog barked once more, Endaru was glued there. Mahanta grabbed the dog and pulled it back.
“Do not be naughty, smart dog!” mahanta said firmly.
Things calmed down after Mahanta caught him. Although the dog thrashed, rebelled and even wanted to attack Mahanta. Shortly after Mahanta stroked the tip of the head while trying to calm down with his words, the dog was immediately silent with both ears down.
“Is it safe?” ask Endaru.
Their faces except Mahanta are still so panicked that their mouths hang wide. It was even frustrating when Endaru was about to be quieted by the dog.
”Oh, yes. Seems like no problem.” Mahanta continued to prop the dog up with elusan hands.
“Wah, he is very smart in dealing with things like this, yes. I didn't think,” Orion said.
“I'm not very experienced. It's just that I once tamed a military dog also trained it,” Mahanta said.
Instantly everyone was astonished to hear Mahanta's statement just now. As a trainer or military dog tamer, it was definitely very extraordinary. And this fact was only known by them, especially Orion.
“I bet, only Miss Gista knows that,” thought Orion.
“Not intended to hide. It's just that you guys never ask, right? Haha,” he replied with laughter at the end.
The dog suddenly broke away from Mahanta, he then ran into one of the rooms upstairs. After a while, he descended while carrying a framed photo in his mouth.
“She took a photo.”
He then placed the photo in front of Mahanta. Then sit while wagging his tail and stick out his tongue.
“You're looking for your employer, huh?”
Mahanta understood what the dog meant by thrusting a framed photo. A picture of a man in a full army uniform.
“The owner is this person?” ask Orion to Mahanta while taking the photo.
“Iya. He's owner. But maybe he's missing,” Mahanta thought.
“I'm reminded of Ramon's story. Don't tell me he's a ghost.” As soon as Orion called out a ghost, Endaru was shocked.
“Could be,” said Mahanta agreed atss his words.
“Did I ever see it somewhere? I feel familiar with that dress. But where is it more precisely?” inner Orion who thinks that he has seen the man somewhere.
“Wait.” Mahanta stopped his steps because he did not want if the dog would experience the same thing as yesterday.
I don't know where the man is now. Also, a land so vast would be misleading to travel.
”What's Mahanta?” ask Orion.
“This dog seems to want to find his employer again.”
“Then let it go.”
“Can I take it off. But what if the man comes to him?” mahanta said very worriedly.
“Then we all go. The storm has also subsided, and the sky is already bright.”
With Orion's advice, they finally leave the villa with a dog that has gone first.
“Wait, smart dog!”
Mahanta rushed after the dog that had been walking without looking at the direction but only sniffed the streets. Sometimes he looks forward or side sometimes also look back, then back to walk by sniffing the streets again.
“Dog is weird,” said Endaru who was behind.
“Do not protest. Dogs are also usually like that.”
A sudden fog appeared on the way of those trailing the dogs. Within seconds, the mist disappeared again and the dog that was on the side of Mahanta had disappeared.
“Eh? Where's the dog?”
“Don't ask me Mahanta. You're the one next to him. Didn't you see?” orion ketus.
“Wait. If the fog appears, doesn't that mean he'll come?” suhut Enderu recalls the story of Orion and Mahanta.
But no one answered because they did not know whether the man would reappear or not. Linger here also will not get answers may also provoke the existence of the man.
So that they immediately continue their journey. Just before stepping back, Mahanta saw the animal trail below him.
“Follow this animal trail only.”
The trail went round and round, until it stopped halfway. But the existence of the dog is still not visible in front of the eyes. Mahanta gets very confused, where and why the dog is missing now.
“What before this, the dog is in the kitchen?” ask Runo. Before this he lost consciousness because of the dog, and it seems he was still very frightened.
“Nothing. But maybe in passing from the back door when the door is wide open.” Mahanta answered.
The four-legged animal's tracks stopped near a trench. Like someone wiped it, maybe the wind. The moat, filled with the corpses of soldiers lined up below, showed no sign that the dog had ever been there.
Orion turned his back, turning his back on the trench feeling uneasy. While the others were examining something from the corpses, unknowingly a drop of Orion's blood from the wound to his right arm fell into one of the soldiers' esophagus that was there.
“Better we just go from the border. Free looking to the area as wide as possible,” said Orion walked to those who were busy alone.
***
Get off the border. But the dog just got to the ditch. I don't know from anywhere he had just arrived when he had preceded. He sniffed a familiar smell to him, then roared by covering both ears. Sometimes he licked the wrong soldiers there with a sad look.