The Chronicle Of Jawata (Compilation Trial Edition)
7.05
”I ... where?”
Half-conscious, Taja felt lunglai. Looking around the dry expanse looked foreign. Fully awake, Taja found himself lying on the ground, roofed by the sky. As far as his eyes looked around, lay dry roots sticking out onto the surface of the dry ground. There are carcasses of trees that seem to have died long ago. Smells the scent of carnations.
”Calpera ...,” heard her welcoming voice awake. Apparently Dakka appeared, standing with a group of people behind him.
“Have long since this place was nicknamed Serambi Gunggali, City of Dancing Fairy. Greenest and happiest forest porch.”
”But, look now all that is left is a bed of rotten soil and toxic water. The Queen closed this area because it is not livable,” continued Dakka without being separated to look at the entire place. No need to speak up, his flock throws dislike like Dakka.
”People make Gunggali narrow!” timpal is all simple.
”What does this have to do with me?” Taja.
Once again Dakka slammed his body into the dry ground.
”His relationship with you?!” his eyes glared sharply. In a moment, the wind blew strong due to the influence of Dakka's anger.
”Friends, drag him there!” dakka orders and directly done by four of his friends. They forcefully pulled Taja up to the middle of the valley and left him there.
The dry tree hoard on the sticky ground, inundated with green liquid, smelled very foul, extending to tens of feet.
”What is this? Why did you bring me here?” Taja apart from the provision of four fairies whose age they are older. Then they quickly got out of there.
”That's your mother's grave!” Dakka shouted from a distance with her flock.
”What? My mother's grave?” in complete disbelief at hearing that, Taja was fixated on a tragic sight before him.
The green liquid turned out to be traces of past poisons, inundating the surface of the ground to a distance this wide. Exactly in the middle, the expanse of land cracked, it looked dead trees leaving the leaves to dry.
”No! You're liars!” Just hysterical.
”This is reality! You are a Jew, a doom-bearer!” shout Dakka.
Look Taja's eyes back at the dead trees there.
”Come back to where you came from!” again shouted Dakka loudly.
”Near dusk, we can not linger here,” someone reminded Dakka.
“Women are getting dark, we should get out of here soon!”
”Then what about him?” others followed.
”Just leave him!” Dakka.
”What if the Queen looks for him?” Some others objected.
”You're still sorry for him?” angry look Dakka discourage his friends.
”Let the Jawata's children get away from Gunggali!” it feels like Dakka has not been satisfied to vent frustration on Taja. But seeing the atmosphere getting dark, he had to leave the place immediately.
”Come we go!” take Dakka to her pack. Then they left the land of Calpera, leaving Taja left alone in the dark valley.
Dark clouds lined the Calpera ceiling as wide as the eye could see. A cold gust of wind gushed dry weeds as high as his body.
Taja was still standing in front of his mother's grave without stopping crying. All this time she had no idea before Dakka brought her to that place. It was in his mind that the news was true. He should not have been the blooded man living in Gunggali. All this time, no one had ever said anything about Taja's true identity, except Dakka. Though it warns him of the truth which makes him very unhappy.
Clumps of soil mixed with thick green liquid grabbed tightly. The liquid was sourced from an object the size of a hand stick to the tendrils of tassel leaves rotted.
“Saddening once ...”
“Is this my mother's grave?”
“What happened to my mother. I never knew before,” Taja's hand reached for the flakes of dried leaves attached to the branches. Her tears are shining.
Suddenly something out of nowhere pulled Taja's leg until dragged.
”Aargh! Off! Let go of me!” tekik Taja in the dark silence, getting docked to the big tree crawled. There was a huge shadow dangling, bulldozing the carcass of the remaining trees as wide as barren and steep land, fixed on him.
Gratbins ...!!!
Brutal once and too suddenly, the tree where creeping crashed by a great libasan, he was bounced away with the debris of the trunk. After that, a roar rang out the silence of Calpera. A giant root appeared in front of him.
”Let go of me!” Taja was entangled with moving roots in both of his legs. For a moment he thrashed on the ground, struggling with countless large roots, sticking out of the ground and increasingly popping out.
Not far from he was trapped, a piece of land was shaking increasingly higher and collapsing.
The land spewed upward. From the depths of the ground appeared the head of the creature. Unexpectedly his form was like a giant tuber that clumped while talking loudly.
”Who are you?!”
Taja was a bit shaky to see the alien creature that he had just seen this time.
”I'm Changgala, the one left in Calpera. The queen still commands me to guard this region, long ago until this valley disappears though. This place is my power, including that tomb.”
”Changgala! You almost destroyed my mother's grave!” Taja getting tighter.
”I won't escape the demon stomping on this land! I'll tear your body apart!”
”Wait! I'm not a demon!” Taja did not wart, while the creature increasingly stretched its roots.
”Not stealth? Then who are you to dare to enter the border! What're you doing in this place?!” Changgala develops some of its roots high, in addition to others twisting Taja.
”I am a resident of Gunggali!” Taja no longer struggling and the roots of Changgala spiked until piercing the skin.
”Krrrrgh ..!” Changgala slightly loosened up, then sniffed Taja's body for a moment, ”You are a fairy leaf! Quickly say!!!” Changgala lifted him up high.
”Let me go first! I ... can't breathe ...,” Taja's voice is getting weaker.
The roots of Changgala are plunged up and down, occasionally united and scattered again.
Taja.
”I Taja ...,” half stammered and staring at the weathered eyes of Changgala among the clumped heads of the creature.
”What are you doing in this valley?!” changgala's body shrank and fused. Taja who was entangled under it to cough because of dust scattered everywhere.
”It .. my mother's grave. You almost destroyed it,” he replied on the sidelines coughing.
”Mour mom's grave?” ask Changgala.
”People Jawata,” replied Taja without even though without being able to point direction anywhere because his position was in a blob of roots.
”Where am I sure if you, the son of the buried woman?” Changgala looked doubtful.
”I Taja. Just look at my hands!” Taja showed tassels of leaves popping from between the fingers of his palms and feet.
”Hmm. You, Half-Human Fairy, or Half-Evenly Human?”
“What made you dare to come to Calpera?!” Changgala loosened its roots after recognizing the Taja as a type of Challius.
”They brought me here!” said Taja.
”Basic!” Changgala suffocated after noticing Taja, her roots stiffened again, ”They have deceived you!”
”So, you also think of me like that! No 'I thought the news reached the frontier of Gunggali. Instead, I was made deaf to the point of not knowing all this! Can you tell me everything you know about me, Changgala?!” Taja followed the direction of Changgala's shrinking head and away.
Changgala roared like never before. His voice sounded sad and wailing.
”Changgala, why are you?” Taja was astonished to see the creature immediately curled up half drowned in the ground. A momentarily heard his roar blaring accompanied by thick roots plunge into the ground.
”I'm crying! Do you understand what it means to cry?” Changgala opened the water flowing from his five eyes which were in each stringy section.
”Last-lately I've been experiencing it a lot too,” Taja murmured.
”We almost never cry. If someone cries, it means he is very unhappy. That's our weakness,” Changgala sounds slitting.
”You? Who do you mean?” Taja don't understand.
”You and your mother!” changgala. Taja was astonished, while the blob-shaped creature of the root was sobbing.
”A part of me loves you, part of me hates you too. Your mother, the Jew, has brought disaster to this land. I hate you so much,” Changgala intermittently wiped the tears with the help of the roots closest to the head.
”What do you mean?” Taja was curious.
”Toxic Heritage!” changgala.
”That woman, your mother. Coming with a severe wound. The poison in his body spread all over Calpera. All who live here die. Don't you feel my sadness?” changgala continued to grow more and more clumped. Its roots tightly rolled into a giant sphere the size of twice the mouth of the cave.
”It turns out that the baby is you,” Changgala's roots wriggled along with his cries.
”Part of your talk is just boozy, isn't it? Just like those who don't hate me!” Taja rebuked in disbelief so Changgala was furious as his roots stretched and his voice boomed again.
”How dare you! I've lived here for hundreds of years!”
Guts Taja ciut so, facing the unexpected creature his emotions finally showed the prowess of his form more towering.
”Hate me as they do,” Taja said resignedly. Changgala said nothing more. Wailing her cries.
Changgala inched to the ground.
”Wait!” Taja had pulled one of Changgala's roots. But because it was too strong, as a result Taja fell to the ground.
”Do not tempt me to kill you, Jew!”
“I don't want to be a demon!” Changgala blared before his entire body was blown into the ground and left a trail of huge holes. Only Taja is in Calpera's vast solitude. Until both of his eyes saw the mountains at the dark cloudy skyline.
”People Jawata?” muttered Taja staring there.
“If so, I will prove myself after being behind the borders of Gunggali, so that I can see firsthand what humans are like out there!” thought. Then Taja moved to one direction across the lagoon flanked by two slopes there.
The dew of night thickens as far as the eye can see the sky. The lagoon between the two slopes looms and narrows its peak very high. Beneath him, a faint crevice was covered in thick fog.
”Gap to the open ocean. I finally arrived!” Taja jump over the surface of the clear lagoon. Occasionally go to the rocks there.
”Perfections Gunggali. Maybe this is what the Guard Warriors often talk about,” he thought.
”I'll cross there!” Tekad Taja round. Sayup-sayup, a sound echoed in all directions, briefly holding him back.
”Do not do that!” the voice echoed from everywhere.
Taja searched for the origin of the sound in all directions. Once his eyes caught the image of a monkey flashing from one direction in the mountains surrounding the lagoon.
”Don't cross that border!” the voice sounded again.
”Who's there?” yelled Taja retorting.
”Out there, dangerous!” A shadow with a loud voice.
”Who's there?!” Reply Taja and install a vision. Only the verdant mountains are visible across there.
”Here!”
“Seberang lagoon. Over here!” the shadow of the ape with a hoarse voice retorted.
”I don't see you!” yell out and don't want to care anymore. Behind the fog at the end of the lagoon, began to appear giant tendrils covering the gap between two cliffs.
”There is nothing there other than fog and forest!” think Taja.
”Border there, cheats eyes!” again the voice echoed.
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