EVERNA Ring of Fire

MEGASWARI Part 2

“Long!” snapped Arumi as loud as a voice. “If you really cared about me, you would not have left me to die! Admit it, you educated me much harder than your children to make me die, ‘ right? Butno. Unexpectedly, I became stronger, more capable and more resilient than your other children. So, you are constantly devising foul plans to get rid of me, so that your disgrace will never be revealed.”

“Begini Arumi, I'm sorry to you! That time was a mess! I thought you were already on the boat that was on the run!” Now Begarwana says it. “I was really panicked and overwhelmed, had to save five thousand lives. My attention is divided, it is impossible for me to think of you constantly!”

“Why did you just say it now?”

“Because I was too proud to admit my mistake, let alone in front of Prabu Narendra. So, are you willing to forgive me?” Begarwana looked expectantly at Arumi and Nyi Lara Sati.

“Eit, tungugu first!” Arumi pointed her index finger at her father, whom she would never admit. “There's more. You deliberately wanted to arrest me with Nirya and Sthira, leading the three of us to Wulantra to serve the death penalty. Isn't this what you wanted from the beginning?”

Begarwana gasped for a moment, then his speech stammered as if he was looking for the right excuse, “B-not. It's not! I originally intended to release you secretly in the palace later. But, so that ‘ friends’mu unsuspecting and harming you.”.

“You know I won't be that easy wretched, especially if you help me, Begarwana,” Arumi. “But I have considered them my friends since Ratauka.”

“Well, that's the problem. So I was forced..”.

“. And indeed he is dead, and this person in front of me is nothing more than a criminal!”

Finally everything returned to strengthen the assumption. Whether it's a lie or not, Arumi doesn't care anymore. There is no man more abominable than the father who tried to harm his own blood, and that man was Begarwana.

“But... I never intended..!” Begarwana seemed at a loss for words.

“You are really outrageous, Begar!” reprimanding Lara, her eyes looked at Begar as sharp as a sword. Sati then rebuked, “We are so sorry to have saved you, chosen you to be our companion and became a father to our daughter.”

Barganti Lara pointed her wand at Begarwana. He turned towards Arumi. “Well, come here, son. Stay away from that nista and welcome your mother.”

The outpouring of feelings in Arumi's heart was unbearable. He immediately immersed himself in the mother's birthday. “Mother..!”

Nyi Lara Sati lowered her cane, hugging her daughter back. The tears of the two women were breaking, as if they no longer cared about anything around them.

“Excuse mom son,” says Lara as subtly. “Mother is tied up in this place, and you can't stay here, forced.”.

“What's wrong, mother. It'sit's okay. It is precisely thanks to the sacrifice of my mother that I am still alive today. From now on, I will always defend mother above all else.”

“A-what does this mean?” Sthira who was with Nirya was pointing a weapon at Begarwana so as not to steal the attack gaped confusion.

“Well, what else to say. It was a big mistake for you to bring Arumi to this mountain. Now he'll take care of his mother, and we're done!” sergeant Begarwana, his movements are like a bull that thrashed to be released from its shackles. “Come, we must act while they are off guard!”

Arumi, who had been listening to Begarwana's incitement, took off his arms to his biological mother and stood by, this time with his bows. “Begarwana! A rotten man like you should be wiped out from this world!” The shot was aimed right at the admiral's forehead, but the target was slightly obstructed by Sthira's body.

Nirya yells, “Awas, Arumi! There's Sthira!”

“Oh, even better. Like killing two birds with one arrow.” Arumi smiled cunningly.

Climbing up, Sthira quickly twitched, removing her toad on Begarwana, as well as Nirya. Perhaps Arumi had deliberately given Nirya-Sthira a chance to avoid, but it was clear that she intended to side with her mother, the caretaker of Mount Megaswari.

“So you're thinking now, Arumi? What about the mandate we take to complete this noble task?” cecar Sthira's.

Arumi replied, “Ni Lara Sati is my mother, so it is only natural that I take her side. You guys sure understand, ‘kan?”

The orphaned Nirya may not understand, but Sthira does.

But before anyone could talk, Arumi's arrow was already shot. Simultaneously Begarwana moved to one side, but the arrow turned out to be in the direction he was heading anyway, as if it had read the gesture. Begarwana had to raise his hammer and fend off the arrow. However, the power of the lesatan was enough to make the grip of the big man on his rock almost loose.

“Let me disable you just understand, Arumi!” Begarwana then ran forward while dragging his rock, ready to be swung with all his might.

“Do not try to touch our child! Face us!” With a hoarse voice, Sati burst out with her magic wand. Women “ half old, half young” was apparently able to balance the power of Begarwana like a giant with a very agile movement, fast and directed.

For every single attack Begarwana repelled, Lara Sati inserted two-three punches and a stick with an iron head into the opponent's burly body. The big man grimaced a few times, but his rock swing did not slow down or weaken.

On the other hand, Sthira took the initiative by approaching the red crystal man-horse statue. Then he began to read out the statue's feet with his machete, like an axe cutting down a tree. Although very hard, the fragments began to fly from the large magical crystal.

“Megaswari Lock...!” Nyi Lara Sati was choked when she saw Sthira's action, her concentration breaking instantly. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Begarwana slammed his knife into the back of the caretaker until it fell sprawled.

“Eit, face me first!” Nirya continued to chase the opponent with movements as fast as the wind.

Unwilling to serve Nirya, Arumi continued to dodge and run around, looking for a gap through the barrier. However, all the weaponry that he brought even made himself never find the gap.

“Not to worry, Arumi!” exclaim the caretaker. “Mother is able to face this guy! You prevent Sthira from collapsing the statue on that stage!”

“Ya, mom!” Arumi then turned half a circle. Nirya moved to attack in the direction that Arumi was heading, but Arumi suddenly turned back to his original position.

“Hei!” Fooled, the wrong step Nirya turned around while beating the chain with a kerambit at the end.

Instead, Arumi turned around again, smashing his big dagger to break through. Nirya could only fend off the surroundings, and Arumi darted past her. No matter whether the sabetage had injured Nirya or not, Arumi's entire existence was only centered on one thing, stopping Sthira. His keris stretched straight, ready to finish the disaster bearer with a single puncture.

However, Sthira turns out to read Arumi's simple movements and easily twists to one side. Arumi moved even more nimble, hitting his opponent's waist with the bow handle.

Sthira was knocked back. Arumi again swung the keris and aimed for the opponent's throat. At a very precise time, one of Nirya's cambits flew into the keris until the direction of the stab went off.

Nirya launched an attack with a stab of her second kerambit. Arumi fended off his ass with the bow handle. As a result of the puncture of heirloom weapons such as Kerambit Bayunara incised a hole in the surface of the ordinary bow wood.

“Soide you!” Furious, Arumi dispels Nirya's weapon. He turned back to stop Sthira.

But Nirya came back to him. “I told you, your opponent is me!”

The Nirya Kerambit flashed more and more rapidly. Over time, let alone counterattack, fend off the attacks of opponents Arumi began to be overwhelmed. Forced Arumi to drop his bow and try to balance Nirya's speed with a swing of his keris.

Seeing this Arumi as an opportunity, Nirya moved very quickly like a gust of wind. The crowd was snatching, scattering the crescent prana Wind Splitting Clouds.

Arumi fended off as quickly as possible, but unfortunately his body became the moons of scythe-sabits of the sharpest energy. Only the armor and protective prana that muffle the sabetages to cut only a skin.

No doubt, the girl Senopati Jayandra screamed in pain.

Completing his pain, Arumi heard the rumbling of a large object that was collapsing. He turned his head towards the altar, his face pale for a moment. Sthira apparently managed to break one front leg and two back legs of the Kamaja horse-man statue, so the giant crystal statue lost its balance and fell sideways.

If Sthira manages to hole the statue to damage the magical seal script, the eruption of Mount Megaswari will be inevitable. This is a double disaster for the Jayandra Kingdom. For Arumi at that time, the thought of Mpu Galahasin who tended to support the mission of Sthira and Nirya was no longer reasonable. Therefore, Arumi forced himself to stand up, preparing to attack Sthira without caring anymore about Nirya's obstacles.

Although Arumi knew, his efforts would be even more futile.

Before the futility became real, suddenly even Nyi Lara Sati who ran towards the collapsed crystal statue. Blood from his mouth flew behind his back, the true sign he was also under the wind in his duel with Begarwana.

Begarwana wasn't quick enough to get in the way of the caretaker.

Sthira and Nirya gasped, then darted about to attack the woman.

Arum was the most surprised. He moved towards his mother, but it was too late.

“Kamaja, rise! Use this body!” Ni Lara Sati reached out one hand, about to touch the crystal statue of Kamaja.

Suddenly, the giant red crystal statue broke into pieces. Miraculously, the crystal fragments flew away, all hitting the body of the caretaker mercilessly.

“Mother!” Hysterical seeing the fate of the mother, Arumi's tears broke.

Blood gushed from Lara Sati's mouth. He still warned his daughter. “Do not approach, Arumi!” yells.

“This is a chance! Kill him now!” Begarwana called for that while advancing swinging his tone, followed by Sthira and Nirya with mandau and kerambit.

Instantly, Lara's body was wrapped in a kind of blood-red membrane. Begarwana, Sthira and Nirya tried to attack the membrane, but their weapons seemed to be immersed in mud.

Suddenly, the red membrane broke, exploding. The three attackers were thrown, their mouths splashing a little blood. Only Arumi was hit back a step.

The next view is even more amazing. At the center of the explosion, a figure as large as the giant crystal statue was walking slowly from a puff of blood-red smoke that was still partially smoldering.

The moment the figure stopped, it looked exactly like Kamaja, the female-horse demon in the middle of the altar. The difference is, the skin of Kamaja life is as red as blood, with red veins smoldering like magma filling his entire body.

Image Caption: The closest reference to Kamaja is the illustration of "Boss Centaur Female" by Michael Anthony "Mictones" Gonzales.