SUKMA: The Deal With the Devil

Other Dimension

A speck of light from above slowly illuminated the bottom of the well. Giska woke up as the light shot towards her. He was stunned, finding himself inside an unexpected place. Panicked, the short-haired girl shouted for help.

An old woman faintly heard the sound of reverberation from the bottom of the well. He went back there, and looked down. From above it looks like no one. However, his curiosity made him want to find out.

"Aya saha in handap?" the old woman shouted into the well. (Who's downstairs?)

"Ieu. Jalmis. Servant's confinement! Didieu teu aya sasaha," replied Giska shouting as loudly as possible. (It's me. The humans. There is no one here.)

The old lady wearing the green kebaya only heard the sound of reverberation from inside the well. He was sure that there were people in there. He sought a mine that was commonly used to draw water from the bottom of a well. Not far from where he stood, he found a fairly long mine.

The mine goes to the bottom of the well. The old woman felt a movement in the mine. Gradually, he felt a burden rising towards him. The old woman pulled the mine with all her might, until a twelve-year-old girl came out of the well. After Giska made it out, the old woman approached him.

"Teu kunanaon, Neng?" ask the old woman to see Giska's condition. (Why, Neng?)

Giska shook his head weakly. "Henteu nanaon, New. Hatur nohun, his, tos nulungan abdi." (It's okay, Grandma. Thank you, yes, for helping me.)

"Sawangsulna, Neng," said the old woman, then walked towards the dense forest that was ahead. (Together, Neng.)

Giska was astonished to see the old woman walking towards the area of the rice fields. As he remembered, in front there was a settlement of residents around. However, Giska ignored him. He turned around, headed back to the school building.

Increasingly walking into the school area, Giska saw many strange occurrences. The people there are not like in general. Most were pale-skinned, some even lost some of their limbs. Giska shuddered in horror when she found a man walking with his head in his hands.

"Is this really my school, huh? The feeling, all this time I've never seen people like them" murmured Giska while scratching her head.

Turning to the front area of the school, he was made to not understand anymore. The building should be two floors, only consists of one floor only. His school became like an ancient building made in the '70s - '80s. Not only that, the clothes of the students were impressed old school. There were no smart phones in their hands, only thick books. Giska was made to not understand all that.

When he was about to walk outside the school area, he accidentally saw a teacher crying sobbing. Unbeknownst to those around her, the female teacher ran towards the back of the school. Giska followed him, but the figure of the teacher disappeared to nowhere.

It happened so fast. As Giska walked through the classes one by one, his steps came to a halt in one of the classes that was so quiet. How surprised he was when he found the teacher had hanged himself. In addition, Giska was surprised to see two female teachers in the room.

Despite her fear, Giska tries to enter the room. While gulping, he approached the female teacher who was crying sobbing in the corner of the room with a rope wrapped around her neck. Awfully, Giska patted the teacher on the shoulder until his head was raised.

"Mom, w-why do that? Is your problem so severe that you're suicidal?" ask Giska.

"I don't have any other choice. I'm tired of living. My husband has betrayed me and beat me every day. No one cares about my fate. My parents are gone. I don't know who to complain to" said the female teacher as she pleased, her tears not visible dripping at all.

Giska was filled to hear the reason of the female teacher. He hugged her body, rubbing the woman's shoulder. Shortly after, students and teachers came to the room, carrying the body of the female teacher hanging from the ceiling. Those people looked sad, not even a few who called the name of the female teacher, Mrs Ratih.

Meanwhile, Giska's body was still not calm in his house. He kept shouting, berating the homeowner who was reluctant to open the door of the room. Giska's mother is getting scared. He was taken by Elisha to the house of his neighbor who was a few feet away from his dwelling. Elisha did not want his father-in-law to fall ill because of this incident.

Sukma was forced to delay his return after learning that Giska's body was not well. He called Atikah and told her that he could not go home quickly today. Atikah is upset with his sister, but Sukma once again gives understanding to the brother, that there is a soul that must be saved tonight.

After Maghrib, Rifalbi brought the famous Ustaz Ramlan who was able to heal the possessed with his ruqyah verses. Rushing Ustaz Ramlan with Rifalbi and Sukma headed to the front door of Giska's room. Before entering to meet the girl whose body had been possessed by dedemit, Ustaz Ramlan read the verses of the Qur'an until the sound of screaming in the room gradually calmed down.

"Sister, Giska should be tied up in bed first. I'm afraid, he's making his rampage worse than it was" Sukma suggested.

"This adek is right, it will be difficult if later Dek Giska to escape from here" Ustaz Ramlan said.

Rifalbi immediately acted nimble by taking some rectangular veils from her closet Giska. He tied his hands and feet to the four sides of the bed. Finished tying his sister's body, the man returned to Ustaz Ramlan's side. Next, the man in marriage began to recite the Asma of God for the ease of his efforts to heal Giska. Sukma asked the Rifalbi to lie down in the middle room. He will re-enact the joy of finding the lost soul of Giska. His sister Giska allowed it and hoped things would improve quickly.

Before starting the astral project, Sukma took Wanara out of the bottle. He told his beloved ape to help Ustaz Ramlan remove the dedemite from Giska's body. Wanara understood, then went into his friend Sukma's room. The monkey sat on Giska's head, preparing to pluck the evil spirit from the short-haired girl's body.

Sukma began to lie down and closed his eyes. When his concentration is fully accumulated, he manages to throw his tribe out of the body. Soon the girl runs towards the school, where Giska's last soul is lost. He was sure that he would find Giska right now.

While Sukma was on his way to school, Giska's body again went berserk. The woman in red who entered the girl's body cried hysterically at the recitation of the holy Quran from the mouth of Ustaz Ramlan. Wanara, who was sitting on the woman's head, was still having trouble pulling the dedemit.

"Fuck all of you! I'll kill you when you're free. Aarrrgh!" shouted the woman in red who was thrust into Giska's body.

Rifalbi ignored him. He continued to read the Surah of Yasin as Ustaz Ramlan ordered. The man hoped that, by reading it, Ustaz Ramlan would help to remove the dedemite from Giska's body.

Ustaz Ramlan's hand was accidentally taped to Giska's forehead. His mouth raced the Ayat Kursi in one breath. Dedemit was getting hotter and felt uncomfortable in Giska's body. Wanara was still trying to pull the head from the woman in red as a beam of light shot out from her forehead. He knew very well, that the marker given by the dedemit was already open as Ustaz Ramlan chanted the Verse of the Chair.

"Three of you are fuckers! Especially you, Monkey! Why do I always have to interfere in my business?" screeched the short-haired girl while looking up.

Ustaz Ramlan and Rifalbi are trying to stay focused. Actually they were also surprised by one figure who helped heal Giska. However, stopping halfway would have even worse effects on the innocent girl's body. They continued to recite the prayers and suras of the Qur'an until they made sure that the dedemites that had penetrated into Giska's body actually came out.

Elsewhere, Sukma looks for Giska at his school who looks old in his eyes. Sometimes he noticed the body of a teacher carried by several people outside the school area. For now, the girl did not want to pay attention to the fateful events that had existed in her school. For him, finding Giska's soul was more important at this time.

One by one the classes followed. His patience to find Giska's whereabouts is running out. He was anxious for himself who could not find his childhood friend while making a meal. At the end of the school area, there were people who had just come out of a class with a sad face. Sukma immediately ran towards the class.

He saw Giska hugging a teacher in the corner of the room. Sukma no longer had time to ask what his friend was doing. Soon he held Giska's hand to get out of there.

"Sukmas?! How can you be here?" giska was surprised.

"I've been looking for you from last night. Where are you actually going, anyway?" gerutu Sukma was upset.

"I was trapped in the well, Sukma," replied Giska. "Yes, Sukma. When I played Jailangkung, this teacher was all around me. But ... Why is he still here?"

"Here, don't ask too many questions! We don't have much time. Later I will explain when you have returned to your body," said Sukma in a hurry.

"But Sukma, where are we really?"

Sukma did not bother him. He immediately ran with Giska towards the short-haired girl's house. The girl also hoped that the woman in red who possessed Giska's body would come out when the soul of the owner of the body returned.