Princess Yuen Rho And The Story of the Dragon
2. Phoenix's Emergence

I still rubbed my eyes, reaching for my full consciousness.

“Let's wake up! Tell me what I described as material today!” Mr. Alex's voice was loud, which he was obviously angry because I was asleep when he explained.

“Good, Sir!” answer's short.

I stepped into the front of the class, I knew this was actually looking to die, but there was no harm in trying, even if it had to be laughed at by all the students in this room.

I tried to explain as I had experienced in my dream about the sacrifice of Princess Yuen Rho, who had to marry Prince Tan. For some reason, all was quiet there was no sound in the classroom. Until we heard a round of applause from Alex.

I still do not understand about Mr. Alex's attitude, whether what I said earlier in front of the class, wrong or right I myself do not know. The sound of Mr. Alex's clapping was followed by the clapping of the other students' hands.

Mr. Alex approached me while whispering, “other time if you already understand the story, you do not sleep. Next time, you'll I'll punish if you sleep again huh, Yuen!”

“Iya, Sir! I'm sorry.” I lowered my regretful face.

Ring ... The bell rang, our school hours were over. Finally, I was saved from Mr. Alex, as soon as I pulled the hand of Ayura, my best friend.

“Ay! Let's go to the cafeteria, my stomach is hungry! You, want to eat no Ay?” I asked Ayura. Ayura, is my best friend since entering Mutiara Bangsa university.

“Yuk, Ayura also wants to eat batagor si Usep nih! Yuen, what do you want to eat?” 

“I pesen seblak first, well!” I left Ayura, and promised to meet again at the canteen table near the big sengon tree, where we used to gather together with Ayura.

After getting a full topping, I took it to our favorite place. Ayura waved her hand, I approached my best friend.

“Ih, Yuen is very good, you know that Ayura was also a pesen seblak aja well. Try Yuen, Ayura tasted a little!”

“Inget, yes! Little .. not all ..” I directly hit Ayura's hand, as half a boiled egg entered her mouth. “Tuh, right! Ayura mah, I live a little! Ayura, anyway!”

“Share fat, Yuen! Poor Ayura is not fat.” Ayura's smile was without sin, revealing her rows of white and neat teeth.

When, we were enjoying the food, Ayura told me about the incident.

“Yuen, when you were sleeping, you were screaming Bixia .. Bixia, so. That's what makes Mr. Alex approach you, keep you flush with mineral water, because caught sleeping while ngigau again.. Well, double kill deh Yuen, you're the same Mr. Alex. Fortunately, you can tell the history of Princess Yuen Rho. Even better than Alex's way. Otherwise, amsyong you have hockey!” Ayura mimicked the accent that my family used to wear.

“If you tell me you won't believe it, Ay!” I spoke while biting the tongue-top that was inside me.

“I mean Yuen, what the hell? Ayura doesn't understand.”

“When Mr. Alex, tell how the story of the dragon began to be known in the world, when it was also a big hole in the white board that sucked me to get into it.”

“Yuen, it seems you have not been aware of your sleep well?” Ayura put the back of her hand against my forehead.

“I've realized Ayura! if you do not realize what is seblak already want to run out.

Popo himself lived, inside the temple of Goddess Kwan Im. From my campus, riding a motorbike only takes 45 minutes to get to the temple where he lives.

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“Popo! Yuen, come!” I rang the bell in front of the temple gate. Before long, the wooden gate was open, a monk opened it for us.

“Excuse me, is bikhuni Wenny there?” my many.

“Bikhuni head, currently praying in the offering altar room, I will briefly tell him.”

We were both waiting in the back garden near the bikhunis who were splitting wood.

There was one place that really caught my attention, one of the wells that was closed and decorated with mori cloth, “that's what, Ay?”

“Yuen, don't beat the well, Ayura's feather stands, Yuen.” Ayura held her neck from earlier, occasionally shuddering in horror looking around the well area.

“Yuen, come here my grandson! Have you not visited Popo?” Popo stroked my black hair.

Because, curious I asked Popo, about the old well, honestly it's not as foreign as it was in my dreams.

“Oh, it is a well that is saved. That said, only the descendants of Emperor Yuen, who managed to cross through the well. The Yin energy of the well was enormous, so we closed it to keep it from things we didn't want. Nevermind! Come on in Popo's got something for you.” Popo took me inside the temple, but my gaze remained on the well covered with mori cloth.

“Pray, it was a long time ago that you never prayed in the temple.” Popo gave me the incense he had burned before. Under the statue of Goddess Kwan Im I said a prayer about who I really am. With my eyes closed, I spoke praises that glorified His name.

Whether, it was all just a sudden or the answer to my prayer that I had just asked, there was a hint of regret in my chest, why would I say such a strange thing.

From Popo's face it seemed like he was keeping a secret that I didn't know, namely the origin of Princess Yuen Rho and the Dragon. The wind blew all the trees, the bells on the temple tower were rung many times, pleading for the Almighty's help.

Looks like Popo knows what made all of this happen all of a sudden. 

“Yuen go to the back room, bikhuni Siau Loon immediately take Yuen to the secret room.” Popo ordered his protege, this time Popo looks more serious unlike any ordinary Popo I know.

A figure of a Phoenix bird whose body was burned by fire attempted to enter the temple.

“You're out, Wen? hand Princess Yuen Rho over to me, then I won't hurt you!” The Phoenix bird could speak, strangely speaking our language, human language just like me and Ayura, just using ancient Chinese, which made Ayura confused.

I peeked at Popo from behind the curtain, the little nun kept pulling my hand out and asking me to hide.

“Phoenix, you are a holy spirit, why did you carry out the decree from your father, to capture our Yuen Rho, this is a temple, a holy place, you should not have soiled this place with bloodshed, don't make bad karma here.” Popo's words were not heard by the fire Phoenix.

This bikhuni hand pull made me fall backwards, I tried to pull the curtain that covered us, my unbalanced body made Ayura who was holding onto me fall with me, and the curtain was broken from the hook so we were all seen by the firebird.