THE SOUTHEAST EARTH FIRE GOD SWORD
PART 13'S
"No, Mudu!” cut Dato Hongli.” Your place and your fate are not here, but in a very broad society. Your fate, duties, and obligations as a swordsman await you there." Dato Hongli paused for a moment before continuing, "Alright, my granddaughter, sit down first quietly. I want to tell you a story that happened in the past. Hopefully this story will make you come down from this silent world soon."
Dato Hongli told me all about all the events that happened in Tanaru Village twenty-three years ago. La Mudu listened to him carefully.
At the end of the story, suddenly La Mudu holding a necklace pendant in the form of half a piece of selaka (silver) hanging from his neck. His face suddenly turned bright red. "So..what's the baby in Ato's story is...mada?"
Dato Hongli nodded slowly. "Yes, Grandchild. The Gods moved me in a medley and they ordered me to head east immediately to take you and then to be appointed as my disciple. At that time your body was rolled beside the body of a woman who held you. The woman's body was already charred. Ato thinks he's your mother's body. You really are a drop of the gods, my granddaughter. Your body is intact, completely untouched by fire. Precisely fire energy is absorbed by your body. And that is the great power stored in your body. Since I got you on top of the burn marks, then I gave you the name La Mudu. Yeah, you're a drop of the Gods, my granddaughter. The miraculous survival of the slaughter and burning carried out by La Afi Sangia with his men. Forgive Ato, because Ato was too late to prevent the massacre. Perhaps also the God outlined so. All that's left is you alone. You're wearing a necklace with a half-piece. Grandfather hinted there must be a meaning to why your necklace leaf is only a half piece. Then a few months later, Ato tried to find out, and Ato heard the grapevine among the villagers around your former village, that Galara Ompu Mpore and Ina Canggo, your father and mother, were, having two baby twins. Baby twins boy and girl. If the news is true, according to Ato's hunch, your twin is still alive. For Ato did not see his body at that time if he was dead. So it's your job to find out later. Kauharus ended the savagery of Afi Sangia. Ato heard lately the arbitrary actions of La Afi Sangia with his men have become increasingly savage and rampant."
Hearing Dato Hongli's story again, La Mudu's anger lingered in his face and eyes. But the teacher, Dato Hongli, always advised him to act wisely and use careful calculation. "Mature policies and calculations are the key to success, Cu," advises Dato Hongli.
After all the conversations had gone on for quite a while, La Mudu finally followed the words of the teacher, Dato Hongli, to leave the place. Even with a heavy heart.
"Go, my granddaughter. Keep your head up, never look back," said Dato Hongli as he delivered the departure of his beloved disciple, his baby. After that, with a light movement, his body darted down into the mouth of the narrow abyss, the place where for twenty-three years he had been raising and nurturing La Mudu. On top of his firecrackers, he vanishes the sorrows of his world. He continued to work.
La Mudu, don't say a word. Just stop the step for a moment, not turn away. "Goodbye, Ato, my teacher. If the Great God still wills, Mada will come to see you!" he muttered, before he continued his footsteps, leaving the person he loved very much alone.
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When he was at the foot of the mountain, he let go of his fatigue for a moment. On the stream of La Rindi that flowed fast and clear, he soaked his feet, washed his face and both wrists. The clear and cool river water is a little able to eliminate fatigue in the soul and body. All kinds of large and small fish swimming freely in the river stream was the first sight that reminded him of all his memories in the cave of the Sorowua gorge. He chose and caught fish almost every day in the underground river, to become his daily meal with Dato Hongli. He grew up with fish like this. By looking at i
the big one who swam around his legs, his stomach suddenly rumbling. He picked up a few pebble seeds around him to sit down, then flicked them into some fairly large fish. The fish instantly died floating. The fishes were burned with many wooden branches scattered around. And before long, the distinctive aroma of grilled fish immediately spread.
When he was enjoying grilled fish, his ears caught the sound of the footprints of people who were running. There was the voice of a man and a woman who continued to speak between their exhausted breaths. The longer the sound is heard approaching and pointing to where it is. And it is also true, La Mudu saw a young man and woman running with the rest of their breath that was frenzied. The young man's hand never let go of the woman's wrist in order to stay afloat and run.
"Sorry, Lenga, Amancawa. Where are you two from and where are you going?" he asked La Mudu, when the pair of young men had been before him. (Lenga \= friend; amancawa \= appellation of respect for women).
"Help us, Amania, we are pursued by the men of my family" answered the girl on the sidelines gasping with exhaustion. (Amania \= brothers, or for the honorifics of men).
"Why are you guys being chased, and what are they going to do to you two?”
"First introduce my name La Kalimone and my future wife is La Alo Salaka,” said the young man. “ Yes, We love each other and now we decided to londo iha. If my beloved's family manages to catch up with us, we can be killed, Lenga." Londo iha \= eloped/daily).
