TIKZ 2 [Throwing Into the Golden Age]
003 - INTRODUCTION TO MESSAGES IN THE FORESTS

"I don't think it's easy to catch the cruel princess."

A man who had a scar on his jaw, was proud of the huge catch he hadn't expected.

By capturing this splashy-clad woman, she can fulfill her dreams, her group's dreams, as well as the dreams of her entire society.

"Lowo, isn't the daughter she's said to be beautiful? It's so fat" asked a man who was bare-chested. The lower part of his body was wrapped in two jengkal striped woven fabric.

His friends wore matching cloths, only longer covering their knees and calves.

"Mondho, it is not her daughter who sets foot on our land that I mean, but rather we get her superior daughter! She is the princess of the beloved Maharaja and Mahapatih."

The man, who was called Lowo and had a scar on his jaw, stared intensely at a girl tied to her legs and hands.

He made sure that their struggle against those who came from across the country would bear fruit.

"Mano, stop! Don't touch him anymore" Lowo scolded a man who kept pinching the prisoner's cheek.

"She's so funny, ketu, cheeks like a firecracker." Mano continuously pinched the princess's chubby cheeks. Ignoring the chairman's word.

"Well, is that right, Reo?" mano asked for justification for his friend, who was leaning against a tree.

"Women are annoying," ketus Reo passed away away from the gesrek guy lovers fat girls.

How could handsome dashing men like them like fat girls?!

After all, all women are shitty. They only know how to fight.

"But through this woman, maybe we can realize our wishes" Mondho said.

"If you want to make your wish come true, go to the cave in Kelimutu."

An old geezer with a stick in his hand, walked straight through their place. It was as if their gathering place was a public road, which could be passed just like that.

They took their weapons and prepared themselves.

No one was aware of this grandfather's arrival, even though they had already built a protective magic, which would make anyone detectable.

"He came looking for something, along with that your wish will be realized," added grandfather still walking without turning his head.

"What does grandfather mean?" tanya Reo was on guard.

"I have no intention, just want to wander," replied the grandfather, then disappeared at the end of the abyss.

The abyss was as deep as a hundred thousand cubits, there could be no survivors if it fell there.

Lowo approached the edge of the ravine and turned his head. His eyes sharpened looking for the footsteps of the grandfather in the ravine.

"Nothing" Lowo murmured.

He did not hear the sound of falling objects, the sound of heavy wind, let alone the sound of screaming.

The old man seemed to be lost in the wind.

"Chairman, you didn't mean to believe it, did you?" Reo looked seriously at his chairman, Lowo.

"I don't feel emotion and power. The grandfather was the messenger in the woods like the elders were talking about," Lowo replied intending to follow the grandfather's direction.

"Noto?" reo asked the man who loves cleanliness.

The man who is also good at cooking it, every spare time always wipe the wedhungnya. He is the most logical man in his group.

Humans who not only follow mere prejudice, but calculate in detail the magnitude of the opportunity that is in sight.

Noto glanced at Reo, then refocused on his wedhung. "There's no harm in trying."

Noto raised his wedhung high. The reflection of light in his wedhi carries the memory of a dozen years ago, when he was still with two colleagues in a distant village.

One of his colleagues was missing and pronounced dead. The other one joined the Maja Army, a week before he knew that he was the descendant of one of the Kelimutu Elders.

A place now hostile to Maja.

Somehow he would face the fellow who had been with him from infancy, if met on the battlefield.

"Stop complaining, Reo. After all we are in Kelimutu, the safest place," Mano said calmly.

"The grandfather had warned about the arrival of a group of destroyers, and we ignored him. Now we want to ignore the message again?" added Mano made Reo speechless.

Long before Maja's troops came, a group of young men looking for a quarry in the forest got the message.

But no one cared about the message of grandfather, now Kelimutu has been occupied by Maja troops who are happy to do disgraceful things.

Finally the five of them, along with one prisoner, went in search of an unheard of cave in their ears.

Though they were locals and felt, there was no place in Kelimutu that they had not yet come.

"We've gone around and to the limit. A kilometer ahead is where they are" Mano pointed to the lush trees.

"Now understand what I mean?!" pissed Reo. These are being trapped by the enemy! Reo was very suspicious of the grandfathers earlier.

"We haven't been to the lake yet" Lowo said optimistically.

They did not check the lake, as they were sure there were no caves around there. Their tribe always performs some important rituals, every two or three months.

They knew the place well, but now only the triple lake they had not checked.

"I will go with the prisoners to Tiwu Ata Mbupu, Reo and Mondho go to Tiwu Nuwa Muri Kofai, Noto and Mano go to Tiwu Ata Polo. We'll meet at the intersection, anyone who can't need to move on" Lowo said.

"Spread!" lowo said his men ran as fast as the wind.

Lowo lowered his head to tighten the prisoner's bond and added a long rope on the girl's back. "Daughter, I'll carry you" he said, putting the prisoner on his back.

"Y!!" The girl that had her mouth gagged loudly.

There was never a man who was rude to her!

Lowo paid no heed to the princess' refusal. He carried the girl on his back then ran towards Tiwu Ata Mbupu.

Lowo circled Tiwu Ata Mbupu looking for a cave, but could not find it. Then he decided to go down looking from below, to get a different view.

And he smiled wide too.

"Of course this is the deepest slope" Lowo murmured a few feet up.

Not long four of his men came empty-handed, because the cave the grandfather talked about was in front of Lowo, more precisely in the middle of the cliff.

"Chairman, is there really?!" Reo stared in disbelief at the cave covered in trees. No one would know it, except to have eyes as observant as the chairman.

"Let's go in" Lowo asked impatiently to meet the reported rescuer.

"We will check" Mondho said entering the cave with Noto before the others.

The two of them split up on the road connecting the two rooms in the cave, then went around and met again at the starting point.

They nodded and reported to the people outside.

"Safe!" exclaim Noto approached his group, followed by Mondho who had just finished cutting down two barrier trees at the entrance of the cave.

They enter the cave with Reo and Noto carrying firewood, to warm themselves up.

"Sir Ketu, we have to feed him" Mano proposed striking the prisoner's cheeks with wood.

He could not touch the prisoner, not that he could not play the adorable chubby cheeks, belonging to the jutek-faced woman in front of him.

"There forage" Lowo ordered in front of the bonfire.

"Ready!" Mano puts the wood on the ground and bids farewell to the sweet girl, who has stolen his attention. "I'll go first, princess."

"There's no one. Where's that said?" ask Reo after touring.

Lowo did not answer Reo, he chose to close his eyes to the ascetic. Rather than listening to Reo's ramblings, who continued to complain like women.

Mondho entered the cave while moving his tired hands.

He was a person who was proficient with the land, so was given the task of making a pile of soil in front of the cave door for easy travel.

Mondho breathed a tired breath and laid his body on a pile of banana leaves. He sharpened his eyes looking at the faint light on the ceiling of the cave.

Mondho sat down, he smiled widely and waited for the moment when the light became bigger.

"Finally come!" mondho shouted to everyone's surprise.

Lowo opened his eyes. Reo and Noto who were standing guard in front of the door rushed in, upon hearing Mondho's shout.

As Udelia almost fell into the campfire, Lowo caught her elegantly.

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"Mountain is always the best. Wawi ndua is not losing either." Mano held the animals in one rope, raising his eyebrows to see that the two creatures on the doorstep of the cave had disappeared.

"Where are those two guys going?" muttered Mano wonder. Never have Reo and Noto ignored orders from their chairman. "Hey, why don't you guys guard the door?!"

"She's a very weak woman" Reo sneered at Udelia who came down from Lowo's sling.

"What are you doing in the woods?" Lowo's eyeballs went up and down staring at Udelia's strange clothes.

Especially on the woman's back there is a large package, like a turtle shell.

"I'm looking for something." Udelia frowned, her gaze darkened, then she fell asleep.

Lowo who was in front of him swiftly caught Udelia.

Mondho checked Udelia's pulse, then covered Udelia's body with a cloth. Mondho nodded at Lowo. "Just tired."

"Mano, have you brought food?" ask Lowo.

"Mouse and wawi ndua, also turuwara to increase stamina." Mano raised both his hands, showing the animal in his right hand and a bag of flowers in his left hand.

"Sir don't want fish in the lake?" mano asked remembering the magical fish in the lake.

Lowo nodded in agreement. "It looks good to add strength."

"alright. Blind morning when they come out I'll catch them."

"I'll work it out." Reo takes a rat and a pig out of Mano's hand. "Catch her!" He throws a turuwara at Noto to get them to work together.

The men ate the dish with vigor, while the two women there closed their eyes.

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