Angus Poloso - Legend of Ki Ageng Selo.

Horror 20 – Test of Faith.

Without even budging, Mela happily accepted the knife. Although the prick hit his stomach, but not a single drop of blood came out, even myself was sprawled, covered with blood coming out of my stomach.

“Risa, take the two of them home to the Marwan family residence now, and come back before anyone sees you!” tell Mela to turn around, turn her back on me.

I saw at that moment, she shed tears, either tears of regret or tears of happiness. After that, I fell unconscious.

“Good, miss!”

Risa whistled, and a dimensional hole appeared in front of her. Many call this the occult study of Lara Welut. Then he entered the room with the two of us who were still unconscious.

This dimensional space is different from the space that exists in the supernatural realm or something like that, the dimensional space of this Lara Welut we walk in endless space. But in this case, we can only walk

straight, and can not move left and right, because there is a steep abyss that is deep black ready to eat anything that enters it.

“You're lucky, Umam. You came when Nyi Imas was not taking over Miss Mela's body. Otherwise, maybe you were dead by then,” muttered Risa flat, without the slightest emotion (Kuudere in the Japanese anime). “But, don't expect Miss Mela to be as generous as before, because a hundred days from now, exactly the red full moon, Nyi Imas will take over the total over the soul and body of Miss Mela,”

“What do you mean it?” asked Aris who had unwittingly been able to stand up and his wounds healed. “What happened to the Immas family's daughter?”

“You? Oh, it turns out Mbok Inah's descendants are great too huh? Though the poison that we put into the blood tea is very strong and even experts canuragan and indigo will not be able to know about the poison!”

“Hm .. are you surprised? Looks like your attitude is mediocre!” said Aris who tried a nice chat with Risa. “It is true, I will not be able to know that in sweet tea there is blood poison, even I was seriously injured by it, he said, but it is not impossible for me to regenerate the parts of my body that have been destroyed,”

“What do you want?” ask Risa cynically.

“I don't want anything from you. I just want your story, and what does it have to do with my good friend,” replied Aris who tried to seduce Risa to tell a disaster that had and will happen in the Immas family. “You certainly know something about the princess, ‘kan? Or do I want to say a word that will interest you, hm?”

Risa was still staring cynically at Aris back then. “Nona Mela is like a little golden elf who is still growing into a beautiful and graceful lady,”

“What do you mean?”

“He can grant every wish that is always implied in the human heart. He does not know with his ability, but therefore he is cursed,” replied Risa explained. “More on the day of death

her sister, miss Vira. That day there were millions of evil forces responding to a distress call from Miss Mela.”

“More Nyi Imas, ‘kan?” sahut Aris understands. Risa just nodded, agreeing to what Aris had just said.

...

Aris came out of that dimensional hole by carrying me who was still unconscious. It turned out that the dimensional hole was right in front of the door of the Marwan residence.

It turns out there is already waiting for brother Vita and Danang. They seem to know that things are not going as I want. Quickly, sister Vita told Aris to take me to her room, while Danang called Mr. Sutrisno, the Marwan family's personal doctor.

“How are things, doc?” ask my mom worried.

“Mother need not worry, I have treated Umam deck, and his internal injuries have been sewn,” replied Dr. Sutrisno trying to calm my mother. “If you can tell, what is this really about? Why can Umam deck hurt like this?” ask Dr. Sutrisno.

“Ah, this is just family matter, doc!” said my mother who tried to cover up the secret about me to Dr. Sutrisno. “Most doctors will not believe in supernatural things, right?”

“Sorry, miss Erna. I don't mean to be presumptuous or anything like that, but I also believe in things like that, ma'am. There have been many unforeseen occult events happening to my patients, he said,

moreover, I have been a personal doctor for the Marwan family for fifteen years,” replied Dr. Sutrisno trying to find a middle ground on my mother's accusations. “You all know that Almh. Mbok Ruqayah, the wife of Mbah Jayos once healed my wife and son who was santet by my former colleagues. From there I believe in the occult and owe your family,”

In the evening, many relatives and neighbors and my friends visited me at home. They got my bad news from my sister through whatsapp, and it was immediately received by Niken, who was a friend of Danang, and from there, spread throughout the school.

They all come to bring a lot of snacks, not even finished for the next week. And surely the ones who took the jajans were my two younger sisters, Leina and Tiara. You see they're too Greedy the same name by-by.

“It's mine!” tiara.

“No! It's mine!” sahut Leina's.

They both fight each other over the snack given by Niken. The Niken family, the Prida family is one of the respected blue blood families in Java, so it is not surprising if he brings snacks that are so luxurious, to make my two greedy sisters was seized.

Both of them still fight until Danang came who immediately clocked the heads of the two of them.

“Whispering! In the living room there were many people and brother Umam was resting. So understand a little!” danang advised both.

“Basic, ah! Brother Danang evil!” they both snuggle. “Kak Danang grumpy, unlike Umam's good-natured brother,” he added.

“Sorry yes if brother is not as good as Umam. However, see the results of his upbringing to the two of you? He so spoils you, until at the age of you who almost stepped nine years, you still do not know about manners!” Danang reply softened. This time he decisively defeated the two little girls with a sliver of punchy sentences.

That night our house felt so alive with the voices of the people who visited me today. I was truly grateful that if anyone noticed me after before, I was completely empty.

...

Two days have passed since I fell asleep in bed. All my brothers took turns to take care of me, waiting for me to wake up. To this day, though, I still sleep.

In fact, I actually do not feel that I am asleep, but I am in a dreamland. There I met three people I loved dearly, Kakung (Kakek) Satori, Kyai Marwan, and Astrid.

They exchanged beautiful smiles for me. They encouraged me and gave me what I was going to do about the Immas family. Either I want to reconcile our two families, or erase the existence of that family by killing Mela and creating peace in the world.

“What Jayos said is true, Umam! You have to keep him your partner in that test,” Kyai Marwan said. “Jayos is my son who won't make anyone do something he didn't plan to do and know in advance. There might be a compelling reason why he told you to!”

“But he's not the Mela I used to know. Even I have not seen the figure of Mela who is spoiled and cheerful as before.” I replied gloomily, clenching my hands holding back the anger that was beginning to appear. “Even he hurt my best friend!”

“Then, what will you do, my grandson?” ask Satori seriously. I can't answer my leg's question. I don't know what to do with Mela.

Astrid, who was next to me, was smiling very sweetly and warmly, making me realize that she was really beautiful all along, even though I knew she was gone.

“Then, isn't it obvious, Mam? Your heart has moved on from me, and it looks like you've considered Mela more of a friend the same as when you were with me. You must know what you have to do. I believe it!” said Astid who really knows how I feel.

“Astrid, I ..”

Astrid then immediately kissed me while crying, expressing her longing for me. When Astrid kissed me, I could feel an incredible warmth, just like when she was alive.

The warmth suddenly wipes out the wound (like rusty iron that continues to spread) and makes me heal.

“Le, grandson. There's a good reason why you brought us here. And that is ...” said satori tense. I heard every word he wanted to say, and every word he said, made me gulp and shudder in horror at what he said.

But before I could ask that question, I finally woke up as well.

Upon awakening, I saw my brother and three sisters sleeping soundly beside me. Seeing my brothers and sisters moved my heart. Unexpectedly behind their spoiled, selfish, and cynical attitude, they still cared about their brother.

Unwilling to wake them, knowing that they had just slept, I immediately put their hands away from my feet and shoulders. After that, I woke up and immediately went to the bathroom.

After the bath, I still noticed those who were still sleeping soundly, I let them and rushed out of the room. The moment I came out, from behind the door was waiting for Nana who was about to wake up Brother Vita. I stopped him immediately and I pulled him down the stairs and I took him to talk in the living room downstairs.

“Nana, let my sister sleep well today,” I said to Nana, she just looked at me blankly and cynically, without any emotion. Maybe this is what I call a kuudere chick. “My sister is exhausted because

kemaren keeps me with my sisters. So you better let him rest!”

Nana nodded, “Okay, Mr Umam! But my arrival in front of your room is not because of that, but I have a need with the young master,”

“He, me? What's up?”

“Before that, shouldn't you immediately leave for Abdurrahman's store, sir?” asked Nana who even asked back, as if diverting my question earlier. “Today is not the day on which Test of

Faith it was called, why young master is still lazy?”

I was shocked to hear it. “What!? Today?!”

Nana nodded and I rushed back to the room to prepare all my needs for the test. But I did not think all my needs were ready, more precisely there was someone who prepared it.

Vita.

Yes, my spoiled and strange brother has prepared all my needs. From the start of the provision of food, snacks, books, and so on.

“Kak, Vita, you prepared all this?” my many.

She shook her head. “No, last night the four of us gotong royong helped you prepare for the test because we were sure you would rush to prepare the supplies knowing that the test would start the moment you woke up. This morning, I just stuffed everything we had prepared into your backpack, Mam!”

“Thank you, brother!”

“Don't thank me, but our sisters later. Besides that you're too quick to say thank you, Mam!” replied Vita while smiling wryly. “Thank you when you were able to pass this test. Maybe out of a hundred participants this time will pass only a handful, and others will disappear or die.”

“Cih! They held this test just wanted to sacrifice the blood of young men who knew nothing about what they would face in this test. It makes me sick!”

“Don't be in a hurry to say so, Mam. They are all the sons and daughters of the champion family and shamans throughout the archipelago who once helped our predecessor, Kyai Marwan in dealing with Nyi Imas. So, even though they will die, but I'm sure they will come back to life because of their Pancasona studies,” replied Brother Vita who did not worry about them at all.

“Thank God then,” I'm relieved to hear it.

“However there are also among them who will actually die and disappear, Mam, without anyone remembering and also worrying about them. Did you know that there's a small part of

families of those who do not want to embrace the sciences kanuragan?” said sister Vita began to wry. “If they find their death in the test, they will really die!”

I was angry to hear it. “Then why are they allowed to take the dangerous test!?”

“This is all because of custom. Adat exists and is agreed between Kyai Marwan with seventy-two kyai, other religious leaders, shamans, and champions, Mam!” answer Brother Vita. “Because of this custom, sister must

lost a lot of friends four years ago, and this is why you have to fail that test and have to give up Astrid,”

“I won't let anyone I love die a second time, brother! I believe in it!”

After a long talk with my brother, I was immediately ushered into the ponpes Abdurrahman by Mr. Joko. Arriving in the middle of the road, I saw Mela waving at my car from the bus stop on the side of the road. I immediately told Mr. Joko to go to Mela and as if nothing had happened a few days ago, I allowed Mela to get into the car.

Today, he will be my partner in this Test of Faith exam. After receiving the trust from my dream, I did not dare to cancel my desire to make him my partner this time, especially after the incident some time ago. However, today she looks like the Mela I used to know, so I decided to keep her, even though it was a bit uncomfortable actually where she was too clingy with me.

“Mela, how are you?”

“Alright, darling. Yesterday I wanted to see you at home, but Risa forbade me, so .. sorry!” mela replied while bowed down filled with regret. “Kata Risa I yes who hurt you? Is that true, though,

darling?” he asked me back.

“Eh, no kok!” I replied evasively, covering up all of that from Mela. Said Aris who heard from Risa herself, Mela has mental instability which makes her not remember what she had done before.

“Oh yes, darling. Why didn't you answer my text and phone yesterday? Yesterday I was really worried tau!”

“Ah, it's okay. Yesterday I went to bed early so ..” answered me who did not want to answer the question earlier. Last morning I saw my smartphone there were more than four hundred texts and a hundred incoming calls from the number of this Mela. Duuh, you weird girl!

Arriving at the ponpes Abdurrahman, we both got off the car. Not to forget also we say goodbye to Mr. Joko and after that, Mr. Joko passed.

The two of us gathered in the courtyard of the ponpes and performed flag ceremonies and cultural ceremonies of the entire archipelago. Eits before you think strangely, this traditional ceremony is not a ceremony that is idolatrous, just showing off the customs that exist throughout the archipelago.

Afterwards, we were all gathered in a ponpes hall where we were given instructions regarding the exam this year. There from the umpteenth of many participants, there was a young man who stared passionately at Mela, but stared apathy at me. I don't care about that, but it's just Mela. He looked frightened and tightened his hand grip on my arm making me uncomfortable.

Duh! Though you can hurt me as well as my friend, then why can you be afraid to see the passionate gaze of that young man? Thought.

After a long and meaningless talk, Mbah Jayos, as the main mentor, immediately went up to the stage to give a two-sentence sentence that he would convey to the participants.

“Ehm, okay kids. I am here to give a word for two for the participants who will take this Test of Faith exam,” Mbah Jayos said opening the speech. “As you know that in this test, you must exert all the abilities you have to re-seal the demons into Angus Poloso. Therefore, you must devote everything in this test, be it your treasures, spirit, abilities, even your life. Out of the hundred participants, I made sure only thirty people would be able to safely exit this exam and the others would either die or be lost!”