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Part 11 Picking up souls

Rayi and I sat down cross-legged, Rachel will help us get to that place faster. Kak Sandi and Aira's bodies were also laid out in a circle. Around the chalk is also surrounded by candles made like a fence. Circled with a flame that makes the room dim. The lights are turned off, so that the ritual can run well. So said Rachel.

Rachel started instructing the two of us to close our eyes, with hands holding each other. We sat facing. While the two people whose souls had been taken away were on our right and left. The woman he used to think of as psychic by some of those people, began to chant out sentences that I did not understand. I've never heard the language before.

Hearing all the words Rachel said made my ears feel hypnotized. Even though I was closing my eyes, I was like I was dragged into a whirlpool that kept circling. The longer it feels deeper and more confusing. Until I finally felt the air around me colder than before. The atmosphere that was originally quiet, was now boisterous by the gust of wind.

And made me curious and finally opened my eyes slowly. A little surprised to see things around me change. No longer at Rayi's house, but already at our school. My hands and Rayi's hands are still holding hands. Rayi's sister still closed her eyes. I shook her hand so she would open her eyes immediately. While continuing to call his name, whispered. Honestly, I was afraid of the dark around me. There was no lighting around us.

Brother Rayi slowly opened his eyes, and was surprised to find out that we were at school." How are we here?" her tanya was confused, watching around with an anxious look. Well, his reaction was naturally as a beginner. I will react that way too.

"Yes, we've made it into another world. And Rachel took us straight to Djin's lair, brother. Yes here," I'm clear.

"How serious? What do we do now?"

"Eum, we need to find Sandi and Aira."

"So you mean we should go around school looking for them?" tanyakanya. "Okay, yuk."

We were both on the third floor. Right above my classroom. And this condition is in the present, not like I experienced yesterday. Thrown deep into the past that even I have not been born into this world. All of the rooms on the third floor, we've been through, and found nothing here.

Now we both went down to the floor downstairs, past my new classroom I just left this afternoon. Apparently there was Rio who was sitting quietly at the back table. He just kept quiet, looking down without looking at us. "That's who?" brother Rayi asked in a whisper, as we peeked out from the front door. I stopped and decided to look at it from the outside. We need to be more careful now.

"Rio," I said in a whisper.

"Oh, so he's Rio?"

I nodded and was about to enter the classroom, but Brother Rayi instead held my hand and made me turn to him with a question through the eyes. "Let me just. That's weird, huh? "

"What's so weird, brother?"

"You notice, she doesn't look like Rio you've been telling me all along, Bil? He looks weird. Yeah, not really?" askalanya. I thought the same thing. But it doesn't answer any questions from Rayi. He nodded and began to enter the class.

Kak Rayi's voice echoed throughout the room. We started to go in with him in front. "Eum, Rio?" call Brother Rayi doubtful.

The summoned figure was silent, not responding. Seeing Rio's increasingly strange attitude, it made me doubt that he was the real Rio. Or something happened to him. It makes his attitude strange like that. I held back Kak Rio's hand that was about to go deeper. We who were still standing by the door, were only stunned to see a strange figure in the middle of the room. I shook my head to Brother Rayi, I now feel more doubtful that it is the real Rio.

"What are you doing here?" ask someone standing behind me. When we turned our heads, how surprised we were, to find Rio standing there. Her face was bright and her attitude was the same as Rio whom I had known all along.

"Why are you here?" manya pointed.

"If this is Rio, keep that one ... who?" sak Rayi asked to look at Rio who had been silent since.

Automatically me and Rio took a look at the corner designated by Kak Rayi. I also wonder who that figure is. Because I believe the real Rio is the figure who just came and is now standing behind me.

"Mending we unplug now," Rio invited and then pulled my hand. As it connected, I also pulled Rayi's hand and left our classroom.

With our quick steps down to the lower floor, Rio looked panicked while continuing to look back. "Eh, wait! Mending you obviously first, who was that person there?" sak Rayi asked, standing in front of Rio.

Rio stared at the second floor, where our class is. Take a deep breath, then breathe it out quickly. "It was one of Djin's creations. Some of the detained souls will be made twins. To deceive and pursue the soul."

"Cursuing?"

"Well, he was assigned to chase me, and take me to Djin. But I managed to run."

"But why was he just silent. You showed up, Ri?"

"Because he's asleep. He and I were fighting. I have a way of keeping them quiet, like falling asleep. "

"Seriously?! How's it going?"

"Baby breath flower pollen! It's in the park in front of the school. I don't know, maybe they're allergic to pollen or something."

"Wow, that's so sweet," murmured Brother Rayi with a smirk on his face.

"But it didn't last long. So before he wakes up we have to leave immediately."

A loud noise was heard from the 2nd floor. Suddenly we looked up, and saw that Rio's twin was already standing there, staring at us intently. "Well, right, wake him up! Run!" tell Rio.

We ran, avoiding the figure. Looking for the winding road that as much as possible Rio was not easy to find us. Our school environment is quite spacious, also many other spaces besides the usual classes become a place for students to learn. And this is advantageous to us as a temporary hiding place.

We hid in the lab room. It just so happens that this room has no clear windows and only two doors in the north and south. The window here is not much, but made of thick frosted glass. Cannot be used to peek or look inside or outside the room. But if someone passes by the window, it will be clearly visible, even if only the color of the clothes.

Our door lock. And now hiding under a table by the window. It feels like we need a break, also to make a plan. What should we do and where can we find the souls of Kak Sandi and Aira.

The sound of footsteps could be heard echoing along the corridor. We kept quiet, trying not to make the smallest possible sound. Rayi's sister who was closest to the window, then tried to find a gap to peek. And a small hole in the window became an easy target. Rayi's sister peeked while trying not to be seen from the outside.

"His eyes narrowed, his face moving like he saw something strange. He then looked towards us. "Not Rio, but Sandi!" he said without making a sound, only his lips could be read.

The door opened violently. Those heavy footsteps started to go inside. Makes my guts shrink. Either the guts of the two men are the same as me or not. But I saw Brother Rayi just silent while paying attention to the direction of the voice. Our bodies are covered in a fairly wide table.

Suddenly Rayi's expression changed. He looks very serious. And a hard blow made the table above me split in two. I screamed and shuffled back away. A figure that resembled Kak Sandi grinned, with a slow movement, approaching me. I kept going back and forth, until it was cornered between the glass cabinets around me.

Kak Sandi's incarnation head was hit with a glass tube. Split and scatter into that body. "Bil, run!" jerit Kak Rayi's. I stood up and moved away. Rio also came out of the closet earlier, we both stood next to each other while calling out the name of Kak Rayi. "Corn, brother! We're leaving!"

"You guys go first! Let me keep him here!" said.

"What?! No! We're going together!" sahutku hysterical.

"The bill! Just go! Rio, take Nabila out!" jerit Kak Rayi's.

Rio who initially looked hesitant, now pulled my hand out of the laboratory room. I nodded, refusing his invitation. But Rio kept taking me away.

"Bil, we need to find that Djin, and kill him! If you want Rayi to survive, everyone else will!" said Rio. Many times I looked back, hoping that Brother Rayi would now also catch up with me. But until we were far away from the room, he didn't show up.

"Bil, that," pointed at Rio, whispering.

We're in the gym. There was a strange sight there, and made us hide behind the door. Aira was being tied up in a chair in an unconscious state. Nearby was another Aira who seemed to be the same as the figure of Rio I had seen the first time.

"Where's the way to kill Djin, Ri?" my many.

"Sep the head from the body."

There was something strange about the air around us. Surprisingly, in my hand was cold, like something was suddenly between my fingers. When I looked down, I was holding a sword. "Ri!" I said to Rio to see what is in my hands now.

"Well, cool. Where'd you get that, Bil?"

"I don't know either."

"Ughhh!" Rio groaned, from his stomach there was a sharp object that pierced through from his back. Red liquid seeped from there. Apparently behind Rio there was a figure of incarnation of him. "Rio!" my screams. I held the sword in my hand and slapped it at that figure. He dodged and retreated away from Rio. The knife on Rio's back was still stuck there. In this world, the soul has life. They can even bleed and feel pain, that's what's on my mind.

He looks stronger than the real Rio. Just a few minutes I was overwhelmed. This fight looks a draw, even though he doesn't use a weapon, but he's much stronger than me. Even many times I injured his body, he did not feel any pain.

"Sep the head from the body." That sentence suddenly crossed my mind. When she let her guard down, I slashed her head until it slipped from her body. The head rolled on the floor, causing a pool of blood.

My breath gasps, waiting for the reaction of the evil twin from Rio. Whether he wakes up or not. He's really dead now. Well, all who live will die. Although different ways. The creation of Djin alone can die, surely who creates can also die.

After making sure the evil version of Rio was killed, I immediately helped the original Rio. He was already lying on the floor holding his stomach. "Good, Rio! You how? Sick? Duh, there's a lot of blood!" I'm panicking and I don't know what to do.

"Bil, sorry, I can't be with you anymore. It feels like my time is up now" he said in a stifled voice.

"Rio, Rio! Hold it down, yeah. Let's get help first. You have to hold on." I looked around, looking for someone who might be able to help Rio now. Even in the depths of my little heart I knew that we were here alone, and maybe Rio wouldn't survive, considering that his injuries were deep enough. His face was even pale.

Rio's head is already on my lap, my tears can't be held anymore. Especially when he saw the wounds on his stomach. "Bil ...," he called again.

"Yes, why? What do you need?"

"No. I just wanted to say, thank you for your time all this time. Thank you for accepting me to be one of your friends."

"Rio, don't say that. You'll survive, we'll wait for Rayi's sister, yeah." I anxiously kept looking for Brother Rayi who never showed up.

The screams in the room distracted my attention. Now my mind is branching out, thinking not only of Rio, but of the safety of Kak Rayi, and also of Aira's soul being bound inside. And the soul of Kak Sandi who is out of nowhere. I'm really frustrated right now.

"Papa .. What should I do?" I started sobbing, holding all the weight on my shoulders made me weak.

"Bil, goodbye," Rio said.

I looked back at Rio's body that was still on my lap. He seemed to start fading, his body like a shadow that was about to disappear. "Geez, Rio! The rio! Rio!" my screams along with the loss of that body from before me.

I screamed, even roared. Hit the floor below me for failing to protect one of my friends. However, at the end of the corridor I heard the sound of slow footsteps, approaching. I raised my head, and there was someone I knew very well. Brother Rayi .. and his housekeeper tiger.

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[Come, spirit! said ayang]