EVERNA Ring of Fire

MEGASWARI Part 4

Seeing this opportunity, Kamaja returned with an unusually wide smile. “Whatever your resistance is, the result is the same. You die first, your friends must catch up with you to hell.” He now jumps up high, his legs ready to pulverize Arumi's body without giving him any chance of escape at all.

“Because of you.” Suddenly Arumi jumped as if flying, knocking his long keris straight. The streaks formed pillars of fire that towered upwards. That's the same style of the Hell's Core Magma Sheet as Kamaja's. The difference is, the pillars are not spread, but lined up in a straight line. Unmercifully, the pillars of Arumi's fire pierced through, as if splitting Kamaja's body.

“A-what?” With one scream, it was Kamaja who fell first. His giant body hit the ground and spread a loud thumping sound. The woman-horse was not really split, but surely she suffered severe internal injuries due to the onslaught of Arumi. He was beguiled by being too confident, and eventually had to pay dearly.

“Great, Arumi! You have toppled that giant!” nirya the first to rise.

It was Begarwana who held his head. “Si Kamaja Jahanam it must have died due to a massive attack earlier. Good boy, you finally got your mother's revenge.”

Surprisingly, Arumi even glared fiercely at Begarwana, then said ketus, “A true father is more willing to die so that his son lives, rather than let his son die so that he himself lives. You're not my father, Begarwana. After all this is done, I will make a calculation with you.”

Begarwana was stunned, not at all expecting Arumi's reaction to be that loud. It is true, Begarwanalah the culprit of Arumi's suffering so far. He would rather have Arumi present in the world for him to disappear one day, rather than die in Sriwedari.

Suddenly, a warning came from Sthira. “Awas, Kamaja rise!”

Slowly, Kamaja stood up straight again. The blood flowing from the wounds on his body seemed as if it was boiling like magma, bubbling with explosive fury.

“To you, you traitorous bastard! Attacking me with my own style! Indirectly I am your teacher, you know!” Even the blood that bathes the lips and chin of Kamajapun boil anyway.

“Really?” reply Arumi. “All I know is that a mysterious woman who always covers her face is the one who secretly taught me the streaks of fire. Only now, in this place do I know that woman is my mother, Ni Lara Sati, and those moves come from you. So, since you are not my teacher and have seized my mother's body, you are my enemy!”

Although his body is a bit limp now, Kamaja rebuked until the blood pooled in his mouth sprayed. “Basic traitor ungrateful! So now you're changing your mind again, trying to kill me for revenge? Not helping me so that your mother's sacrifice isn't in vain?”

“That's what you think. I'm the one who was wrong for not knowing you wanted to ‘take-’ my mother's body, not ‘borrowed it’. I was also wrong to place importance on my own mother's safety rather than trying to bring peace to the benefit of the people of Jayandra. Mahapatih Galahasin is right, because a series of ‘ rings api’ disaster has been ignited, inevitably we have to finish it so that there is no more serious disaster. We had to destroy everything in order to start over!”

“Cannot! I am the guardian of Mount Megaswari. Although the whole world around me should burn, I will not let this mountain erupt before its time!” Kamaja's voice shrieked at the peak of his anger. “So get rid of all of you with my ultimate move, the Ember Eruption of the Universe!”

Kamaja then held out his hands high. Almost instantly, a gigantic ball of fire whirled over the two palms.

“Well, Arumi, how do we break this style?” ask Nirya.

Arumi replied ketus, “I don't know! I didn't teach that to me!”

That answer made Sthira make a quick decision. “Nirya, Arumi, dodge and run around Kamaja! Me and Begarwana will try to restrain and dampen the destructive power of that giant ball!”

Kamaja might hear the tactics of Sthira, but he continues the action. After the giant fireball was felt to be quite large, Kamaja swung both his hands forward. He threw the ball at his targets, as if to crush four ants with one large stone.

Nirya began to run as fast as possible, while Sthira and Begarwana concentrated their inner strength to block the path of the ball.

On the other hand, Arumi got a crazy idea. Because his bow had broken, he was forced to concentrate all his energy at one point, the tip of his keris. Yeah, that's the plan. Arumi will act like “life arrow”, disperse the ultimate enemy completely. After all, the ball was moving a bit slowly, it seems that this plan will be smooth.

“Hehehe, you guys got it wrong!” Kamaja stamped the invisible energy from both of his hands. As a result, the giant fireball exploded, breaking into pieces that darted in all directions.

The warriors were beguiled already, it was impossible for them to avoid from close range. The force of the explosion alone has pushed Sthira and Begarwana backwards, while Arumi slammed. Plus, sharp flakes of flames were burning, raining down on their bodies.

Even Arumi, that formidable senopati groaned in pain. The sharp flares of fire turned out to penetrate the protective prana layer of his body, incising puncture wounds and scratches on parts of his body that were not protected by armor. The good news is, the injuries did not endanger Arumi's life. The bad news, the injuries must be immediately covered with magic, prana or drugs, not to let Arumi die of blood loss.

So, after the rain of fire fragments subsided, Arumi did not immediately launch a counterattack. He retreated, then deployed prana to recover his wounds. Arumi chose to stay alive to continue the mission rather than finish off the enemy at the cost of his own life.

“Your attitude is easy to guess! Die!” Accompanying the remark, Kamaja's hand that fused with the blade like his sharp sword thrust down a torrent right into Arumi's heart.

Almost.

Suddenly the movement of Kamaja stopped. Arumi reacted by turning his head, turning to the deadly introductory candidate. It turned out that Nirya who had been far away managed to immerse her cambite in the stomach of Kamaja. Of course, plus the power of wind prana that whirls endlessly like a drill, namely the mainstay of Nirya, Whirlwind Terabas Selaksa. The drill force penetrated to the back of Kamaja's back, more life-threatening and more difficult to recover than all Arumi's wounds.

Kamaja let out a choking sound, choked by the hot blood that was now inundating his mouth. Nirya never let go of her punjaman, instead pumping more and more destructive energy into the body of the giant.

“Tidaak!” Kamaja wailed in pain. “I-this is not the end! Megaswari can't erupt! Ah.. huh! I knew! Just destroy the Megaswari Key Occult Script in this body, along with all of you! Yes, that's right! Me, Kamaja is so smart! Ah-ha hahaha!” Intelligence of any amount is useless if the owner has disturbed his soul.

Affirming his words, Kamaja detonated his inner energy so that Nirya bounced off. Then he concentrated all the remaining prana, shown with a yellow light shining on his chest. Lothawat! Kamaja's body could explode at any moment.

“Yes, that's right. Even if this body and Sriwedari had to be destroyed, I had to make sure Megaswari would never erupt again!” Losing all his senses, Kamaja lunged straight in the direction... The arumi!

Arumi was pale again. Nirya and Sthira are already eliminated, who can save Arumi's life this time? Begarwana? How could Admiral Jayandra help someone who had just threatened her?

But that's what happened. Without regard for his own safety, Begarwana whose body was full of wounds withstood the rate of the Kamaja raid with a single blow of the Mountain Gada, with all his might. Not stopping there, the mighty man hugged the giant women with all his energy.

“Getting you aside, accursed man!” Kamaja slapped and plunged his four swords many times into the back of Begarwana. The consecutive attacks managed to dismantle the barrier's protective prana, chopping the large body until the blood poured down to the ground.

“Nirya, Sthira, Arumi! Fast run, all of you!” begarwana shouted at the threshold of his body's endurance, at the end of his breath.

No matter the mission, Arumi shouted, “Don't! Let's run together... dad!”

Begarwana's full mouth ****blood sharing smile when he heard the word “ayah” called. Finally, he got a confession from his illegitimate daughter. That is what he expects from this sacrifice. Begarwana was once missteps because of forced circumstances. This action was indeed to correct the mistake, and now he is satisfied, even though he does not regret it anymore.

So, Begarwana pours out that whole flavor in a loud voice, “Quick go! You have to stay alive, because you're the one who's supposed to be my favorite kid... Arumi!”

Arumi saw her own father's face turn towards her one last time. And that was more than enough so the trigger for him ran as fast as he caught up with Nirya-Sthira.

Arumi's tears were breaking out of control. Still heard by him sayup-sayup voice Kamaja roared, “Bodouh base! Didn't you want to stop them in the first place, Begarwana?”

Begarwana's voice was getting faint and weak. Arumi had only heard a few words, which roughly meant, “It is up to you to destroy your keys and save your mountain, which is important that my daughter should be safe. The rest depends on the will of Sang Mahesa.”

What followed was the sound of a very loud and powerful explosion. The hot spring quickly shot towards Arumi. The woman quickly fell down, getting as close to the ground as possible. His back was in great pain when the heat of the explosion, thankfully Arumi did not suffer more than that.

When the heat wave subsided, Arumi stood up. His back is still suffering from pain due to the explosion fire earlier, maybe he suffered burns. However, all of that was not felt when Arumi turned to the place where the former center of the explosion was. “A... well..” murmured, her tears still smeared.

Then Arumi was surprised. A flaming sign floated up, rising from the center of the explosion. Examining the shape of the letter that resembles a burning tongue, Arumi just recognized it. That is the magical character that was originally embedded in the crystal Kamaja statue earlier.

The Fire Lock of Megaswari Mountain.

In the air, the magical script grew bigger, then its shape turned into an arc. The bow was bright red, decorated with gold ornamental curves and made it look very beautiful. The bow came down and landed seamlessly in Arumi's hand, as if it was alive and spirited, and he had chosen Arumi as his partner. Or it could just be the last legacy of Begarwana and Ni Lara Sati for their daughter.

Unbeknownst to the observant eyes Arumi stared at the bow. The fire prana that the heirloom emitted permeated warmly within the girl's body, also quickly recovering her injuries.

A beam of light emanated from the magic arc, the new form of the magical character, soared like a rainbow and seemed to plunge into the crater at the top of the mountain. Looking at the scene, Arumi knew what he had to do right now, right now.

Run. Run even faster.

Image Source: Mount Merapi eruption from Gettyimages.com