SEBERANG VILLAGE

Chapter 16 - Dekka and His Dream

It was pitch-black with a stuffy, non-luminous room. There Dekka was, with a large figure in front of him staring intently at him. Dekka sat quietly by the side of the room, with her hands hugging her knees and a face of fear. The figure in front of him was truly terrifying, with pitch-black eyes of the face and a huge black body.

"You're disturbing!"

His figure spoke loudly, echoing with a distinctive and hoarse voice. Dekka closed his ears, not wanting to listen to any more of the things that the figure would say later. The figure was still vociferously speaking, continuing to say Dekka was presumptuous to him. Dekka did not know what was wrong with him.

"Give me back!" say that big figure again. Dekka increasingly tighten his hands to cover the ears, his head feels dizzy really. The former giggling was still felt, that makes Dekka not sure that now he is dreaming. But from now on he prayed to God that everything he experienced was just a dream, not a real situation.

"Fight, Dekka!"

Another voice rang out in his voice, with a soft smooth voice he had never heard. Dekka ventured to open her closed ears and eyes, reassuring herself she was not alone there. But still, it was only wishful thinking because the nyatanua in front of him was just that big figure, but the voice still continued to ring in his head. Like an order that requires him to obey everything that the figure tells him.

"Dekka, fight him. If you want to go back to fighting that figure. Your degrees are higher, son, air him with all your courage."

"No, I can't" said Dekka lirih. Somehow he felt the warmth in the cold atmosphere of that stuffy room. Her hair felt like it was stroking, her body as if it was being held warm by someone who was invisible. Again Dekka looked forward, the figure still said he was presumptuous with a hoarse and loud voice. The unsheathed gaze was still given to him who was still frightened.

"CHAMAN!"

It was the last word that Dekka heard before the warm feeling disappeared and all he heard back was the sound of that huge figure. Dekka got the courage, out of nowhere he started to raise his head. Pitted with a sharp gaze with the figure in front of him, the figure looked even more furious at the hard growl that still made Dekka close her ears in pain.

"I've never been presumptuous" Dekka said, though there was still a tremor of fear in every word spoken. He stepped forward, approaching towards that figure. His heart continued to pray, so that he could survive and this will be resolved soon.

"Give me my hair back!" say that figure. "RETURN! RESTORE!"

Dekka closed his ears again, damn it was too piercing to his sense of hearing. And then he just remembered what he did with Bertan at Bu Darmi's house earlier. Packed with black cloth, was that what that figure meant by hers? Hair from that figure? If yes, then it must be all the origin of the problem that is there.

"You've made the loss of Bu Darmi's family! You shouldn't be there, back to your master!" Dekka spoke commandingly, the figure laughed in response as if what hang Dekka said was a funny thing. Dekka frowned in wonder, he was not joking so that there could be laughter.

"I'm with my master. My master who placed myself beside him, my master who is so good!" say that figure.

"You don't need to know, GIVE ME MY HAIR BACK QUICKLY!"

"NO! TO HELL WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE MADE AN INNOCENT MAN DIE!" rebut Dekka. He screams in anger, hearing the answer from the figure Dekka is convinced that Bu Darmi is the culprit. He sacrificed his family to that person. Perhaps for wealth, perhaps also for beauty all things could be the reason for even envy.

Iru's figure began to attack, raising his hand forward and making Dekka avoid being shocked. His head slightly formed a wall, and the figure growled furiously as Dekka dodged. As the figure was about to strike again, Dekka began to pray inwardly.

Like a miracle, the figure cried out in pain saying a hot word. Dekka just looked, watching how the large figure was slowly shrinking with the condition of the body giving off smoke smelling charred not mixed with carrion. It feels like all of Dekka's entrails want to come out kissing that thing at the same time.

On the other hand, Bertan Bersama Kek Retno tried his best to fight the figure with Dekka. The black cloth that Bertan had taken from Bu Darmi's house was burned along with all the goods that had been given. The stench of the carcass entered the nose, the flames grew larger with black smoke beginning to waft in front of Bertan's house.

Kek Retno kept telling Bertan to let the fire live, at least until Dekka finally came to his senses and opened his eyes. Shortly thereafter, Bertan's loud screams were heard which made him flinch. In front of him the huge figure was with smoke coming out of his body. Just as Dekka saw it, the figure went along with the growing flames. Over time the figure disappeared, along with the screams also gone.

Now the fire has shrunk, and when Bertan was about to return to watering with oil the sound of coughing diverts attention. Dekka seemed to have regained consciousness so he immediately ran to the room to find Dekka who was sitting with his nose bleeding a lot. Panicked, she grabbed a tissue in the living room by running and gave it to Dekka.

Kek Retno only noticed at first, until finally he approached and patted Dekka's shoulder softly which was no longer nosebleed. The last tissue he used contained only a small amount of blood, while the other three tissues had already turned red.

"Good Dekka, that's how. Against them Dekka, do not lose to those who are lower than us!"

Dekka smilingly nodded in response, his body of fate feeling limp. Bertan painstakingly helped her back to lie down, Kek Retno then resigned. It's been so night, Dekka's been unconscious for a long time.

"Don't deal with them without preparation next time, you're lucky to be safe now, Dekka." Kek Retno said before finally leaving was ushered in by Bertan.

Dekka sighed, he came back weak from dealing with them. This is what Dekka does not like, he should be braver at least like Bertan, not a coward like now.

"Don't think of macems, sleep again."