Power Legend

Eps 39: Maya Revina (5/5).

*Sreek ....

The sound of a sword slash rang out then a few seconds later Po's cry echoed withstanding the pain of the slash in the chest. It seemed like the swordsman's attack intending to slash his neck had failed. When the swordsman learned his attack had failed, the swordsman intended to slash him once more. But the other warriors held back the action because the time for the warriors to gather to the place where the Elder was getting closer.

Finally the three warriors set their feet out of Po's garden, leaving him in a terrible state after torturing him cruelly. Knowing the warriors who would come out of the front gate, Maya swiftly mobilized the rest of her energy to hide. After a few seconds Maya hid and no longer saw the whereabouts of the warriors, then he came out of his hiding place and stepped his feet to check the state of Po.

As Maya steps her foot into the garden, Maya sees Po's garden falling apart. The neatly arranged tools are now in disarray, the beautiful flowers embedded have now been cut and trampled and Maya sees Po's body lying weakly with slash wounds wide open in her chest. Maya who saw Po in a terrible state was directly approaching Po.

"P-po, you're still alive, right?" maya asks in fear at Po's condition, which is filled with wounds and blood.

Po who heard Maya's voice immediately opened his eyes, looked at Maya's face and smiled, saying,

"Akh .. You came at the wrong time, Maya," Po replied as he endured the pain of a slash in the chest.

"A-ayo stand up Po! I'll take you to the healer in the village!" pinta Maya wraps Po's hand around his neck intending to carry Po's body.

"No need Maya, I don't feel strong anymore." Po refuses Maya's embrace and request.

"You can be healed if you go to the healer, Po!" force Maya by constantly asking her to go to the village healer.

But whenever Maya asks him to leave, Po insists on staying.

"Even if it has been there maybe my life can no longer be saved. Let my last moments chat with you, Maya," said Po smiling as he clasped Maya's right hand.

After hearing Po's words, Maya can only shed her tears and sit down beside Po's body. They both remain silent for a few seconds, Po is seen smiling with his hand still holding Maya's right hand while Maya still holds back tears using her left hand sitting next to Po's weak body. With tears still flowing and breath as excited as Maya says to Po,

"Ma-ma-forgive me, Po," Maya said in a voice held back by a nod to her chest.

"Why are you apologizing?" asked Po astonished to see Maya's reddened face with tears washing her.

"A-I can't do anything s-when you're gonna get hurt o-by those swordsmen. I-I ha-just look without b-can do anything to help, I-I feel like a friend who's t-nothing!" maya's whining denounced itself with a voice that was stammered by a whimper in her breath.

"No need to apologize, Maya. I knew today would happen, thank you for considering myself a friend. Take this, " said Po and gave Maya a brown letter.

"What is this, Po?" maya asked when she had taken a letter from Po's hand.

while calling out his name with tears dripping down Po's face. But no matter how much Maya tries to shake Po's body, she doesn't reciprocate. Po's body had stiffened, his skin had begun to cool and little by little his face had paled. Maya could only hug Po's body which had become that corpse with an extremely powerful cry. The tears that Maya tries to endure break when she learns that Po has been gone for good.

After her crying subsides, Maya puts Po's hand-off letter in her pocket, stands up and looks for a large shovel that could otherwise be used to dig a final resting place for Po. Upon finding her, Maya digs the ground inside Po's garden with the shovel she has found. Little by little the ground had been dug out, Maya's little hands reddened with breaths that had started to disordered. But Maya did not stop or slow down his movement when digging the ground. After the ground Maya dug deep enough, Maya plugged the shovel she held onto the ground and dragged Po's body into the ground and covered it back with the soil she had dug.

Maya stands in front of Po's grave as she reaches into his pocket looking for Po's handout letter. Maya opened the letter and read it slowly in her heart. The letter reads,

"Hey Maya! If you read this letter maybe I'm dead huh, hahaha. I don't know if you're going to grieve over my passing or not feel anything, because we just met a few days ago anyway. Maybe you're confused about some things, like where my parents are or why I gave you this letter. If I tell you all maybe I need five letters to tell you yes, hahaha. But for sure my father was a warrior who did not like the King's policy in running his government. My father defied and preferred to help the citizens, knowing it made the King angry and gave the order to kill all of my father's family.

"I don't feel upset or hate for my father for what he did, I'm proud of what he did, even I have the ambition to become a warrior like him one day. I am the last living family of my father, I will most likely die because those warriors have killed me. I know, the family we love was killed by the warriors and the cruel King. But never hate the other warriors and Kings well, Maya. I hope you can be what you dream of being, thanks for the time. Signed, Po.

After reading Po's letter, Maya can only hold back her tears. Maya grips tightly with Po's letter, holds her head with her eyes closed and promises in her heart,

"Po, I promise I'll do what you haven't done!"

Maya looked around and picked a small rose that looked clean and nice and placed it on the grave of Po.

"Rest in peace, Po," said Maya and left her garden.

During the return journey, Maya is eager to spill her grief into tears. But Maya withholds all that, knowing she must be able to become stronger in the face of all things. The stronger the mind, the stronger it is.

When Maya returns home, Grandpa feels confused and worried to see her granddaughter who came by

a face like crying. Grandpa asks her, but Maya does not care about Grandpa's question and just steps her foot into the room. Grandpa decided

to let his grandson to be alone spill his grief in the room. As night falls, Maya comes out of her room and tells her everything. Grandfather could only hug and rub the back of his grandson.

Days have changed and weeks have passed, now Maya has been able to move forward. Since Po's departure, Maya now has a goal that she wants to achieve, which is to become a 'swordsman who protects people who must be protected'. Every day Maya's activities are always filled with exercises and help her Grandpa's work. Maya once told some of her friends what she dreamed of, but her friends only made fun of her and chided her. Maya never played with her friends again and chose to shut herself away from outsiders.

*The end of Maya Childhood Flashback.

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The To Be Continued.