Between Two Different Realms
35. Ateuh Village
The next morning we left the area feeling that it was a little unsafe. We continued walking until we found a village, it was very quiet and there was no sign of life. "What's so weird, why is there a village around here?" Mumbles.
There was an old woman passing in front of us who was again carrying firewood, the old woman then approached us.
"You must be the climbers" said the woman. "Yes Grandma!, we happened to see there is a village here and we were interested in visiting it," said Aprili.
"Then, let's go to my house, please" Take the old woman and we follow her straight to a house at the end of the village. "Uwah ..., deserted ...."
The old woman lived alone in the house. The village where the old woman lived was called 'Ateuh'. The name of the village itself is given because the village is in the mountains, many women are there, while the men are only about thirty people because many cases of male disappearance. And what stuck in my mind, why is this village so deserted?, aren't there many women in Ateuh village?.
We went around the village of Ateuh looking around the village, some men came out of their houses, we only saw their activities from a distance. Only a few old women were outside the house, while the girls were none of them.
"Ni, what a strange village," murmured Vino. Suddenly a girl quietly came out of one of the houses and went with a man there and they were so hurried that they quickly disappeared from our sight. "Dating times," My inner self.
We decided to return to the house of the old woman who invited us to her house, our curiosity became more and more until in the end we asked everything about the village of Ateuh.
"In this village has a rule that must be lived by everyone," said the old woman about the veil of Ateuh village. " Here all men are forbidden to go out at sunset, whereas girls are forbidden to go out at sunrise, unless the girls are guarded by men from their own families," Obviously the old woman.
"But ..., why Grandma?" Ask Arian. "The man who comes out at sunset will die by the most beautiful woman in this village.no one can escape from her, because her beauty can captivate the men," she said.
"And ..., why can't young women come out at sunrise?" Ask Mauliza.
"Because of the girls who come out at sunrise, they will be kidnapped and return home pregnant or carrying their babies," All the veils were opened by the old woman. "Oh, what a strange village," I muttered. "You guys, stay here last night, I'll explain to you about the road you're going to take. Oh yes, you call my name Mbak Milah" said the old woman. Evening arrived, all women went out to do activities such as shopping, drying clothes and other activities. Me, Aprili and Mauliza also took a walk to see the night atmosphere in the village of Ateuh, while Arian and the others remained in the house of Mbok Milah, because they were not allowed to go out. Suddenly there was the sound of a woman singing, the song I had heard in my dreams. So we stepped in search of the singing voice, it turned out to be true as I thought, there was a very beautiful woman singing and that woman was exactly what I had dreamed of that night.
"Lho, why go?, we see this first ...," Mauliza wants to see the woman singing with her merdunya. "No ah, Za, we go, I feel bad!," Mauliza was forced to leave because she knew I was sensitive to mystical things.
Finally we began to move away, I tried to look back and how surprised I was when I saw five men killed in front of him. "Serves in a dream!" my inner. "Sir Aprili, Mauliza, we're walking away!," I'm feeling increasingly unsettled. "Why?" the two asked confusedly. "Run away!" they ran with me.
When we ran, for some reason we suddenly ran to where it felt like the dimensions were twisted.
"Why are we even here?" I asked in an empty room. "I was sitting on goosebumps, nih ...," The woman smiled looking at us who were terrified. Then he disappeared and appeared with his sinister face from behind us.
"Aaaaa!!," cried the three of us simultaneously.We tried to escape from there, but we were trapped with trees that had nowhere to come.
"Click!, I'm not married to Nanda yet!, plis!" Mauliza shouted saying that. I looked into the look in the woman's eyes and somehow the look in her eyes showed sadness and anger while making me stunned for a moment.
"What do you want?!," I firmly ventured. But he did not answer, I repeated my question once again. "What do you want?!, why are you after us?!" I'm making a sound. "Help me," he said to surprise us.
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A beautiful girl from the village of Ateuh became the idol of the men there, her beautiful face like an angel, her melodious voice dazzled the universe. He often surrounds the village as if showing off his beauty, but that is not his desire but the desire of his older brother who continues to accompany him along the way. Her older brother wanted to show off his beautiful little sister to share an angel.
Until one day his older brother left him a place where the men were swarming, he immediately ran away from those who started chasing him. Suddenly her female friend appeared and confronted the girl near the forest she was referring to, then beat her to a fall and scratched her face with a thorny twig. The woman's friend turned out to have an envious nature to see the girl so that her intention to kill her, and her corpse was left lying just like that covered in blood, and no one saw her, and no one else saw her, no one from his family was looking for him. Until now no one knew his fate, if he was dead, now his anger and revenge, he said, with the appearance of her beautiful face all the men approached and she wanted to eliminate all the men who approached her by showing a terrible face full of bloody twigs and a fishy smell that was stinging, and, until men could not see it and were killed with fear of their own.
