The screams of Midnight
Ardi is Cruel

Ardi stepped into the old building behind the mansion. The sound of a rusty big door creaking hurts the ears.

The smell of stuffy, moist and full of dust feels so thick it fills the air in the building. Ardi walked on until he arrived in front of a room. He opened it and turned on the light.

The devil's smile fell on his lips. Ardi looked at the three young people tied to the rope in his hands and feet. 

"Hmmph ... hhhhh ...," came an indistinct voice from the mouth that was gagged with cloth from the bound youth.

"You're aware of it?!" his grim frequenting of Rico and the others.

Ardi walked slowly around Rico, and the others. "Hhhhmph .. hhhmpph!"

"What did you say?" Ardi pretended to put his palm on his ear to listen.

"Solicit release?" Ardi's facial expression pretended to understand, but then he laughed out loud.

"unleash? Going home?" His laughter again boomed causing echoes in the haunted old building. "Listen to me!"

"This is the last house you'll ever visit!" his whisper in Rico's ear was heard by the others as well.

The eyes of Rico, Rudi, and Arif looked at Ardi with fear they could only look at each other. The three of them had already been in the warehouse for two nights, but they could not tell the difference in time since they were always in the dark room.

Tied hands and feet plus a cloth-clad mouth were truly torturous. Their stomachs were hungry and thirsty but there was nothing to eat or drink. They are now in the dehydration phase.

Ardi laughed looking at the faces of the three men in front of him. "Fearful? It hasn't even started yet!"

The sound of footsteps approaching echoed in the old building, someone opened the door. His face was not visible because it was dark outside the room. 

"Take one of them somewhere else!" Ardi ordered on the figure before he left the room.

There was no answer from Ardi's orders, the room lights suddenly went out. The three young men were scared to death they shouted but in vain. One of them was forcefully dragged out of the room. Rudi selected.

The sound of Ardi's laughter resounded echoing and slowly drifted away, disappearing into the dark of the night. Leaving behind a look of fear and horror for Arif and Rico, their cries were heard softly in the dark.

"Sssst ...," a soft hissing sound was heard in a dark room.

"Don't cry …," 

Rico and Arif gasped, they were about to scream but once again a lump of cloth blocked the sound. They were hoping that the owner of the voice would help him.

"Hhhmph .. hhmmmph,"

"Sst .. I said diiiaaaaaam!" the hoarse and raucous voice growled. 

Both of them fell silent, dashed hope of help. The woman's giggling voice rang rome feathers. 

Tak Lelo Lelo Ledung ….

My son sing nice rupane ….

………….

Tembang Jawa child sleepers are heard sung by an invisible figure. So heart-wrenching as well as scary because followed by the sound of giggling laughter women and baby crying.

"I will set you free .. do you want to?" The voice of the woman whispered quite close to the two.

The horror was clearly imprinted on the faces of the two, their eyes glaring in search of and fro in the dark. 

"Who-who ... Who are you?!" Rico asked with trembling.

No answer just a giggling voice, "Sssst .. Don't yell, you're disturbing my son's sleep!"

Rico and Arif looked at each other and shook their heads, "Forget us!" Sobs were heard from the two.

The light suddenly came back on, making the two squint their eyes due to the glare. It took a while before they could finally see the surroundings.

Rico circulated his gaze, "Rif, who was the one who spoke?" Her breathing was so bad seeing no one there.

Arif did not answer, he just moved around his body looking for the figure who had spoken to them. "Nobody Ric, w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-?"

"Ha-ghost? What sins are we Rifs, until we're locked up like this!" Rico is back.

"Sssst .. diiiaaam!" The voice was heard but no one was there.

Rico and Arif trembled, their faces both deathly pale, sweat increasingly flooding the body. The black shadow seemed to be approaching and moving away around the two. Make their guts growl for a moment. The lights go back out.

But it was only for a moment, when the lights came back on, the face shattered horribly with teeth full of blood grinning right in front of them all of a sudden.

Screams of fear and screams sounded from inside the room. Their voices continued to be unpretentious in horror. I don't know what's going on in there, just the sound of screaming for help and the sound of stuff being thrown around all night.

The sound of the dog's howl sounded shrill from the direction of the forest. They smell blood. New prey came, the growling sound of the sharp-toothed snout ready to pounce on the helpless prey.

Ardi smiled at Rico who was still tied up. He pulled out a knife and without hesitation stabbed Rico's right thigh. Screams of pain rang out from the mouth that was stuffed with cloth. Long and deep scratches made Ardi.

There is no face of mercy, only the eyes of the devil incarnate in Ardi's body.

"Run, run as far as you can! Or dying will be your life choice!" whispered Ardi when breaking the bond in Rico's hands and feet.

Rico who was in pain did not understand what Ardi meant. His limp body grew even more helpless with deep wounds that continued to spit out fresh blood.

"Run! Run saying!" yells Ardi at Rico.

Rico dragged his injured leg, enduring intense pain. His stomach was no longer hungry and thirsty in his mind at this moment only saving itself when the opportunity arose.

The long howls of the coyote were heard again. Rico's blood was smelled from a distance. Red eyes in the dark began to appear flashed among the large trees.

In the dark Rico ran on one leg, his left knee began to tremble. No matter how long he ran, time stopped spinning. His breathing was congested and his head was dizzy as he started to lose a lot of blood.

"I have to live .. I still want to live!" his murmur was softly interrupted by the nearly exhausted breath.

Rico looked back, Ardi was not chasing. Makes him a little relieved, but when he just got back on his feet. The arrow shot through his left chest, piercing Rico's heart.

The events so quickly made Rico feel dreamy. Rico's shirt was wet and sticky, slowly his eyes staring at the perfectly stuck bow. 

Fresh blood came out of his mouth with a cough. His eyes began to darken, his body no longer able to support. Rico fell on both knees. And lying lifeless limp along with the pupils of the eyes that shrink.

Ardi smiled with satisfaction, he pulled out the arrow stuck in Rico's chest.

"One sacrifice I offer you Asih, my beloved!"