The Devil's Legs Upside
Ending All This
But when my fist should be thrown into his face, suddenly a kick from behind hit Pretni's head hard. Pretni fell to the floor. As if not satisfied, the chinese man who kicked it instantly lifted the devil's thin body and threw it back into the sea.
“LIMM!!” I scream so happy.
I don't know what Lim's goal is to catch up with me. Behind Lim I looked at Julia and Gagan, my heart then went back to worrying. The pretni crowd behind me was getting closer, Julia immediately asked me to join them. The four of us are now faced with hundreds of reverse-legged demons.
“I’m running out of ammo! Listen guys, hear my plan..” (I'm out of bullets! Listen, I have a plan.).
“No more shit again, okay? No more solo run again! We will confront them, together!” (No more plans, okay? No one else is alone! We face them together) Ketus Lim, his face looks so upset.
“Hey! Are you crazy?!” (Hey! You crazy?!)
“I’m crazy .. crazy for believing his plan” (I have indeed gone crazy for believing in his plan).
“His?” (Design?)
When the two of us were busy arguing suddenly Gagan stepped forward against the crowd. I was surprised, I tried to pull Gagan back, but Julia got in the way by tightly grasping my hand. Julia looked at me confidently, hinting that I should believe Gagan, believe what? Gagan continued to walk forward, even though his face was so frightened and his steps seemed to slowly hesitate. I was so confused what he was doing to challenge death like that, but what confused me more was Lim and Julia who believed him.
After a while, Lim then shouted in excitement pointing towards the Pretni crowd. I was astonished, I could not believe what I saw, Pretni-Pretni was retreating in fear. Some even recklessly jumped off the bridge, as if so frightened to see Gagan!
“Pretni... afraid kid ... Dimas” (Pretni ..Fear of small children ... Dimas) Gagan said as he turned to me.
Gagan's action immediately made me remember the events that had happened. The incident when Mr.Dennis who disappeared before me; the incident when the four of us saw Pretni Mr.Xoliza; the incident of three Pretni who only shouted after I hugged Gagan on the Living Platform earlier. In all those incidents, Pretni-Pretni did not dare to attack, they immediately fled jumping from the bridge or just silently roared at me, no. they just remained silent and frightened because they saw Gagan!
Sure enough, why don't I think that far? The Pretni-Pretni killed Abeba and all the other bridge workers with sadism. However, they did not attack me, as I hit Mr. Dennis and dropped the lightbulb, nor did the four of us meet Mr. Xoliza who was already a pretni. Even as I sat on the floor after exhausting the pretni that killed a woman on the Living Platform, they were just silently frightened and even jumped back to the sea. But why are they so scared of Gagan, with a little boy.Oh!
I then touched Lim and Julia's shoulders, inviting them to follow Gagan. I threw a confident smile at the two of them, hinting that I understood and also believed in Gagan. With a slight hesitation, the two of them followed forward.
The Pretni-Pretni roared in fear, they retreated a few steps back into the Well-head Platform. Some pretni who were in the front row of materials changed their form to the origin and jumped on the sea, so afraid to see Gagan. I went forward, holding his hand, convinced myself to keep walking into Well-head.
Arriving in the Well-head room, Pretni-Pretni continued to retreat to form a circle around the four of us, as if giving way to us. Lim and Julia seem so nervous, of course if we are ambushed from all directions at this time we will die immediately. Pretni-Pretni finally opened the way to the stairs. As soon as the stairs got close, without a doubt we rushed up.
The Pretni-Pretni kept watching us, screaming in obscurity, but they didn't seem to be on the monitor. Even so, I still told Gagan to stand guard at the door of the broken monitor room kicked by Pretni who chased after me last night, who knows there is Pretni who sneaked in here.
After being in the Well-head monitor room I immediately explained to Lim and Gagan my plan to remove the drill bit from where it was stuck on the seabed. We then split the task, looking for information on how to remove the drill, of course, it should be the late Mr.Brad or other nautical teams like Abeba who can do this. Julia was trying to find a guide document on how to control a giant drill in the closet and in Mr. Teigl's room. Lim attempts to turn on one of his computers and access his 'Server' to look for the same thing as Julia. While I was facing Abeb's computer, the place where I found the underwater imagery, to look for the same thing. Luckily, Pretni just broke a computer and the main monitor. The other computers are still working fine, and I hope the Bridge drill control system does too.
The three of us were busy by ourselves while Gagan watched on the doorstep, guarding us. And our efforts were not in vain, Julia shouted cheerfully when she found the giant drill manual. I was no less excited when I found a program that could control the drill inside the Abeba computer. I started trying to run the program according to the manual Julia found. This drill extraction should be live on the main monitor screen, but because the screen was crumbling, Lim was forced to go out to the porch of the stairs to watch the drill bit.
My hands clashed so fast with the keys of the computer keyboard, I had to do this quickly. But when the program came up with the red inscription “pull-off” I paused for a moment and took a deep breath. I pray in my heart, that this is the way out of all this chaos, that Pretni-Pretni may return to where she should be, that this may be all over. With one more breath, I pressed the red letter.
NGIIIIIIYINGGGG NGIIIIINGG
There was the sound of a moving machine, like a chain rubbing against a serrated wheel. It sounded so loud, because the drill machine was big and we opened the monitor room wide because the door was broken, so the sound produced from the drill draw was so deafening. I then ran forward when Lim shouted excitedly at the drill pulled from the surface, the drill bit was visible because of the drill tube that was propped up because it was previously torn by hundreds of Pretni.
After the four of us could see the tip of the giant drill pointed, the wind suddenly blew so hard. The Pretni-Pretni changed back to their monstrous form, released her human disguise, then turned again into a black shadow. Hundreds of shadows flew around the Well-head Platform room, creating a gust of wind. After a few seconds of spinning on the ceiling of the room, they then scattered through the slit of the torn drill tube, some of which came out of each gate Well-head. All those shadows flew out into the sea, returning to these ancient buildings on the bottom of the Arabian ocean, to their homes.
I still can't believe it's over, so I ran to the Production Platform bridge to see what was happening on the ocean floor. As I went out and looked towards the sea, it was seen from within the ocean shining a bright golden light. The light continued to glow brightly, even the highlight almost blinding my eyes. Gagan, Lim and Julia who followed me behind cheered happily at the phenomenon, I also took part in putting a big smile on my face. The four of us hugged, It's over….
A moment later, the golden light dimmed. At sea level, hundreds of pieces of human flesh and heads were buried. Scraps of remains from the bodies of offshore bridge workers eaten by Pretni. The sea that was blue then turned red, when the blood from the human body parts pooled. Instantly our happiness was like being forcibly frowned upon, sadness instantly enveloped. Julia even cried when she saw Abeba and Mr. Dennis floating next to each other. The four of us wept, as the people left on this bridge, unable to stem the grief. Although all this seems to be over, there is a great sacrifice that we have to pay, we are not able to save everyone.