The Story on the Slope of Mount Merapi

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The three men drove their horses like fidelity, scattering across the shallow watery river The wader fish in the swimming river enjoying the coolness of the twilight nature surprised to jump to the surface of the water.

But deep at that, beyond the knowledge of the three people were several pairs of eyes watching him from a distance. So the three men came out of the Canggal border. So they took a deep breath too. One of them said, “Let's follow them, don't lose track“

Soon about five horses had run after the three people who had been racing first.

The three men who were none other than Ijo's centipede who were racing back to his hiding place, almost never spoke at all. They are like racing –lomba spur the power of running horses mount each. The three horses that left the Twins were galloping faster. The rider no longer paid any attention to the situation around him.

Within on that, a group of men had been waiting tensely. They are four young men who are assigned to be telik kandi with manyaru as blandong in the forest. They are young hamlets around Pucang Kembar who are considered to have more abilities than most village youths.

“ Dandun..is our action will not be blamed if there may be bad things that will happen to us? “, said one of the young men who had a tall but thin body.

“Ya Kakang Dandun,” replied another person, “we are only assigned to watch not to block and then fight guns “

“ You must not be a coward, the intruder of the gang robbed only three tails while the four of us. Not to mention later people –people from the Pucang Kembar master academy who will soon follow here. What should you worry about Nata?”

“But kakang, although they are only three I am sure the kanuragan they have is certainly high,” sahut others, “ but no matter how high their knowledge, but they will not be able to do much. But the size is at most two of us. The rest is backup energy that is coming soon. And I'm sure the guy from Pajang named Sukmo Aji will also follow. Although still young, the person was a Tumenggung Anom in Pajang”

Dandun took a deep breath. He then lay down on the grass under a lush tree. The sun was increasingly slipping on the west bank, feeling they were becoming more and more agitated. Sometimes they don't wait anymore.

“Perhaps the three people are not necessarily going this way,” said one of the four young men.

“I am very sure they will cross this road,” replied Dandun.

The young man who asked no longer replied. Like his friend, he then lay under a shady tree.

Meanwhile, the three people from the gang robbed the Ijo Centipede no longer galloped in a hurry. The longer the horse runs, the slower it is. But in that instant, the three men did not expect that the infiltration into the Twin Pucang had been known and there were four people who had prepared to intercept him on the way.

Occasionally the journey still has to infiltrate the forest which although not dense, but quite hamper its journey. Sometimes the horse cannot run. All three must infiltrate under the tendrils of lush wood trees or jump the trunks of trees that cross the road. But basically his horse can go forward even though slowly.

Thus, then, Munggur becomes closer to Kali Asat. After the last hamlet that is still in the Pucang Kembar kademangan left, then for a while Munggur down the forest that is not so dense.

But the forest is a forest that has been passed too often, so it looks like the forest is a tourist forest only. The remaining beasts were precisely away from the path that split the middle of the forest.

But the forest was not so vast, so a few moments later the three men had been rounded up by rice fields again. However, it feels cool afternoon angina as if stroking the skin of the back even though covered by a thick sheet of clothing.

But suddenly the horseman in front was surprised when his horse suddenly became a joint. Even then it seemed as if it did not want to go forward anymore. A few times his horse circled even, then neighed. Both of his friends were astonished.

“Why with this horse?” asked Munggur while patting his horse on the neck so that the horse would calm down.

The two friends then stopped a few steps from him while watching the horse become agitated.

“Any,” hiss a.

“Of course his gut feeling says something,” says something else.

Stumping himself still patted several times the neck of his horse while bedesis slowly. Then he rubbed the horse's forehead gently so that finally the horse became calm. But the horse did not want to move forward anymore.

“I am so surprised,” said Unggur, “in a moment we will cross Kali Asat. Why doesn't this horse walk anymore? Is Kali Asat flooded? But, it's impossible. It's still the dry season”

Stupor nodded his head. Said, “Ya. But why?”

“Maybe just a small touch. Therefore let the horse be quiet for a moment.”

Munggur. He then got off his horse and let his horse reflect on the path he was going to walk. Once in a while the horse raised its head and its kiss seemed to touch something that made it uneasy.

“If there are wild animals, of course any horses become restless too,” said a friend named Baning.

“Indeed it might be a wild beast drinking in Kali Asat,” replied another.

Stubborn nodded his head. He said, “Maybe once. Soon the wild beast will be gone.”

The two friends of Munggur named Baning and Probo have come down as well, tying their horses to any shrub tree. The two then swiped the agitated horse of Munggur. It was as if the two wanted to convince the horse that there was nothing on the way. If there were any ferocious beasts, the horse would not have to worry.

The horse understood. Slowly the horse calmed down, so that the three were ready to continue their journey.

“You can drink until full later in Kali Asat,” says Probo while wiping the restless horse's neck.

A moment later the horse continued on its way though it seemed there was still some hesitation. Especially when they appear in a bulak in the East of Kali Asat.

But the horse was still agitated even though he slowly advanced. Even the stump did not want to force his horse to run faster.

In that case the two friends of Munggur also feel agitated anyway. A horse is an animal that has a sharp premonition. Therefore, without realizing it both had shifted the keris on his back, and felt the upstream of his sword. At a glance, they looked at the Munggur in front of them. It turned out that Munggur did not carry any other weapons except the large keris attached to his back.

But they keep walking. Only sometimes they have to pause, if the horse Munggur seems to become increasingly restless. If the horse became somewhat calm, then they continued their journey as well.

But it turned out that the other horses began to become restless as well, so that even though the two friends of the Magggur did not say anything, but they almost made sure in their hearts that something would happen.

The truth is that when the three men approached Kali Asat, the people who had to watch him had first seen three horsemen approaching. Therefore, they immediately signaled to their friends who were still waiting with anxiety.

“They've come,” hiss Dandun.

The three young men immediately prepared. They were fully aware that fighting the three men from the Ijo Centipede gang, was an uphill battle.

Dandun then ordered the three to prepare as well. He said, “You two are behind those three guys. They must be allowed to pass, but Nata and I will close the road so that the man riding in front of it and his guards do not turn and flee. They have to get into a trap and we'll catch them.”

The message of Dandun is quite clear. Therefore, his friends immediately spread.

“We both have to finish first one person who I feel has more knowledge than his two friends,” said Dandun, “let the rest of us who amounted to two people take care of his two friends. If the highest science we have summed up, then the two people are like rats in a wild cat's nest.”

The three smiled and nodded their heads. But their faces became tense, when from a distance they saw three horsemen approaching.

“That's them,” hiss Dandun.

Thus those who intercepted the journey of the three men who infiltrated the Pucang Kembar was immediately hiding behind solid stones and wild booby-grumbul mengedepi Kali Asat. They have each prepared their own weapons. At any moment they could immediately ambush the three people who would momentarily cross Kali Asat.

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