The Fighter
Chapter 11 Ancient Snake Nabau
After training with his strength, Wisanggeni walked to the side of the cave where he resided with Larasati. Before they headed to the place, Larasati once said that there was a cave not far from where he lived. The young man rubbed the place, and his eyes suddenly shone. He saw a cave made of stone, he immediately headed towards the location he found.
"Is this cave what Laras meant?? I'll go inside alone first, I'll tell the girl." Wisanggeni thought to himself. Slowly he entered the cave after cleaning many wild plants in the mouth of the cave. With a standby attitude, he took out the relic dagger from his late mother, and he was shocked that the handle of the blade suddenly shone like a light of a lamp.
"Why did this stone handle suddenly shine?" Wisanggeni asked himself. He scanned the hilt, but not in the slightest did he discover there was an oddity in the handle of the dagger. Unwilling to think long, the young man walked into the cave. He observed the look of the interior that was inside the cave, and there appeared a sense of amazement and awe at the look of the inner space of the cave.
In the corner of the cave, Wisanggeni somewhat suspicious to see a rod that like twisting brown like the color of wood. Using his courage, Wisanggeni came to the trunk, and suddenly he turned his body back. It turned out that what he saw was like a brown log was a huge snake like a dragon sleeping to change its skin. There was a desire in his heart to run from that place, but he also thought that the snake would creep into the cave where he was staying and would disturb him if he had finished changing his skin.
Wisanggeni turned his body, and intended to leave the cave. But the handle of the dagger in his hand flickered, and the young man stopped his steps. He looked back at the hilt he had in his hand, and if he stopped then the blink would disappear and change into a bright light. When he steps back out, the handle will blink again.
"Will this dagger handle convey a message to me?" Wisanggeni asked himself. After quite a while he spent thinking, he finally went back inside.
"Rather than me who will one day be killed by the snake, I will kill him now before it is too late. Moreover, this snake is still sleeping." muttered Wisanggeni, while approaching the head of the snake that was asleep in the corner of the room.
"Snake, I'm sorry, because I'm going to kill you!! I did it because I didn't want you to do that to me one day." Before throwing the dagger at the snake's head, Wisanggeni asked permission for the snake.
"Clap.." the sound of throwing a dagger, right at the center of the snake's brain.
The snake wriggled for a while then opened its eyes, sat up with the young man. Nervously and fearfully, Wisanggeni was shocked because the snake's gaze was like a human eye thanking him. Not long after, the snake closed its eyes, and a very dazzling bright light came out from the snake's head. After the beam disappeared, Wisanggeni slowly came to the caterpillar, and using his dagger, he split the head of the snake. A black purple mustika he took and he took it out of the snake's head, then put it into a storage place that he always carried everywhere.
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"Where am I now??" Wisanggeni opened his eyes, and he was like a person waking up.
"Have you woken up yet??" laras looks very close to the front of his face. Wisanggeni then sat in the hands of Laras, he observed the surroundings, and he was now in the cave where he and Larasati were living.
"A confused, right??? Last time Laras brought Akang from the cave that is next door. Larasati was confused to find where Akang, it turns out that Akang was already in the cave in a state of fainting. Finally Laras brought and moved Akang here." Larasati recounts the moment she found Wisanggeni.
"I'm not exactly how Laras is either. But, this morning I was trying to find the cave that you told me about before. I found it, and then I went in. But inside was a large sleeping snake, which seemed to be shedding its skin." in detail Wisanggeni recounted his discovery of the ancient snake.
"What did you do with that snake?? It looks like you met the ancient serpent Akang, which is often referred to as the Snake Nabau. According to the belief of people who meet the snake will get good luck or great strength. What did you do with the snake, and when I found you, I didn't even see the body of the snake, not even one side of it I found."
Wisanggeni was surprised to hear the words of Larasati, he then told what he did to the ancient snake. He felt clearly, if he split his head and picked up a blackish-purple mustika. It also found a leather bag containing ancient books inside the snake's stomach. And as he swallowed the snake's heart directly, he suddenly felt nothing, when he woke up already moved to the cave they were currently in.
"Maybe the body then disappeared akang, because someone has inherited its power. Can I see the mustika?" Larasati wanted to see the mustika that Wisanggeni found.
The young man then took out the mustika from his storage box, and showed it to Larasati. But just touched the mustika...,
"Aaaw.. hot brother." suddenly Larasati squealed, as she attempted to touch the mustika.
Wisanggeni felt astonished, then he grasped the mustika with his hand. He felt a cold air entering the pores of his hand, and he did not feel any heat.
"I don't feel anything Good, only when I hold it I feel a cold air entering my body through the pores of my hand." Wisanggeni explained what he felt as he grasped the mustika.
"Thank you Kang, that mustika means to be with you, he chose his own master. Try to learn the book that has been found in the bag. May there be a miracle that Akang got after studying it, and I am sure that it will benefit you."
"May Baras. Can I ask you to get some water?" Wisanggeni asked for help, and with a smile the girl nodded her head.
"This is Kang.., or Akang wants to eat first?? Let me prepare, just now when I wasn't around, I was looking for a bird and then I burned it." Larasati offered food to the man who had helped her.
"Later I'll take it myself Laras. Rest first.., you have accomplished bringing me here yourself. Now I'll try to rehearse." subtly Wisanggeni refused the offer from the larasati.
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