ORION
Two Wings Engraved, Nightmare
Engraved two wings stretched out on his back arm. How many times he tried to remove the pattern but it remained intact as if it was permanently attached to his skin.
On the way home, Orion looked so tired that he decided to fall asleep for a while.
“Huh, this thing I'll take care of later,” muttered Orion.
As he slept, he thought he would never dream again. But it seems not now. He looked around him black, dark and gloomy. There was no light coming in, completely dark which left him alone.
“I am where? Is this a dream?”
He wondered where he was. To think that this is not an ordinary dream, and sometimes also think he may be in someone's memory.
But in the end nothing happened. Then Orion walked, barefoot. Shortly after, he felt a chill from his knees down.
“It's cold as if touching an ice cube. What am I doing, actually?”
Orion stopped walking. Sit down crouching while trying to touch the cold. However, he did not feel the cold anymore.
“Hah?”
Shocked by the sudden change. Orion was forever sitting there. It was as if sitting on a cold floor with no sky or air. Many times he looked back, sideways or up, he still found nothing.
“Can I know your name?”
Someone seemed to be talking to Orion. Orion was startled and then his eyes looked for anyone around.
As soon as he looked back, he found a man in old-fashioned clothes with a thin cloth, a line of batik sticking out from his arm.
“Who's there?” Orion asked with a cautious attitude towards him.
“I'm just someone who happens to create the Eternal Flame.”
Orion was surprised. After a while the man said it, the figure of a creature with two large wings was visible. And the creature stood beside the man.
The creature's appearance looks very handsome, but he can only see the back with two wings stretched. Then, the man who also gave Orion his back.
“This Karura.” The man spoke again, seemingly introducing the name of the creature.
Then he came back to say something.
“Are you looking for strength?”
“What? Strength? No, wait ..why am I here? Am I not dreaming?” thought Orion with a confused face as well as panic.
Orion got up and turned his head in all directions, hoping to find a glimmer of light or whatever.
“You didn't even introduce yourself. Basic disrespectful child,” he said insinuating.
“Why should I introduce myself while you yourself are not clear of its origin.”
“But I answered my question earlier. I am someone who happens to create the Eternal Flame,” he said in a loud voice until the surrounding room echoed.
“Your own fault answered my question!” orion with ketus.
Since the arrival of the two creatures, a strange air spread to the surrounding area. He did not feel any killing at all but felt strange. Exactly when he faced a mysterious man with his lute.
“Hah, stop. Like you don't understand the situation now, yeah. Get ready, your strength may I take away,” said someone.
Eve gripped also came from the front. It struck Orion as if he was hit by a terrible wind.
Right behind him, Orion heard the growling sounds of many people. Their voices stacked against each other. He looked back, and it was as true as what he had heard.
Many people gathered and growled. And the fire came out as if burning them alive. So that the form of these people no longer looks the shape.
Both of his eyebrows bent in surprise at what he saw today. A flash of horror and being haunted by many people made him shudder with goosebumps.
Graaa!
Many people became one, pulled their bodies forward and were about to obey Orion. A moment Orion was stunned, when one of his legs was dragged backwards, the air from someone was pressing on him strongly.
“What the fuck? Oi! Tell me why I'm here! I'll just sleep a little while! Anyway if this dream—”
Bluk! Bluk!
Orion was silenced, when they—the people fell on Orion. The heat was so intense that his skin was burning. Then those people fell down.
Afflicting the body of Orion which at that time was difficult to move freely. It was as if his whole body was shackled. Orion then vanished in the pitch-black room.
Falling in the bottomless darkness. Orion's original lost consciousness, slowly returned when something touched his face.
He was surprised when he opened his eyes. Seeing that there were many people he knew from the moment before he died. Everyone screamed out loud and raised both ears.
It feels haunted further. Orion even recalled all of his bad memories to the people that were in plain sight at the moment.
“Basic trash!”
“Miskey!”
“Sok holy once! You think you can handle this!?”
“Never come back!”
“B*touched! Go!”
“What's the point of you living!?”
All the insults sounded. Orion felt asphyxiated, his heart pounding even more, as if it was about to escape from his body. Orion could no longer look them in the eyes of a vengeful and hateful man. The swearing in was endless, and it kept Orion slumped.
“Just turn off there!”
The deg! His heart was pounding once again in one go. Who's talking? This makes Orion look for the whereabouts of the person who said that.
And it turns out that the person she hated so much.
“Orion Sadawira, damned you!”
“So sorry, he got lost until finally punished by the gods! But it was worth it for her!”
The person he hated most for life. The figure who once betrayed, injured and often ignored to make the relationship between them shattered into pieces.
“My wife ...” muttered Orion with bulging eyes.
“Basic women don't know they're lucky!” added shouting.
In between their insults against Orion. Orion hates them very, very much. Especially the wife, he even chided her coldly.
At that moment, Orion returned to the dark room. Looking straight in the eyes but his eyes were empty, muttering something, Orion also sometimes banging on the floor below.
“All those who are after Eternal Flame, must end up wanting a power. Well, now, what do you want most?” The figure spoke again.
Orion then answered him in a low voice. Powerless plan.
“I'm not after strength at all. And I hate everyone who offers me this. It was as if they were stronger than me, and they weren't!”