The Thousand Mask Warrior

Mudflows

Jayaseta's awake. His body was half raised. He still tasted the taste of blood rust in his mouth. Before long the delivery of pain from all parts of his body to the brain through his nerves.

He grunts and squirms.

One hand was coiled around Dara Cempaka's shoulder. It is being broken.

"Become ... Stop that!" seng immediately.

Dara Cempaka is shocked to see Jayaseta has woken up. "Angt ... Jayaseta's brother has regained consciousness?"

"I'm fine, Dara. No need to get me. You yourself are wounded" Jayaseta replied, glancing at the bleeding shoulder of Dara Cempaka.

"But we have to take care of my brother immediately. We need to get back to Datuk so that brother can be treated right away."

"I don't think it was a good decision, Dara. Grandfather was already in the handling of the soldiers and the people who were there. We'll trouble Datuk back if we force ourselves to go back to Datuk's house."

Dara Cempaka was silent. He had not yet released Jayaseta's sturdy arm that was still coiled around his shoulder. Both of their faces were very close, making his own face flushed red. But this time Dara Cempaka against him, he did not waste his face in shame, instead he was enjoying the handsome face of Jayaseta who was wet, full of mud and splashes of blood.

"Wait a minute, Dara," Jayaseta said. He released his arm on Dara Cempaka's tiny shoulder.

Jayaseta then limped around looking for something.

In one corner under the grove of tree children, Jayaseta picked up a tarnished scan that he had made a mask of mouth cover as well as a weapon.

He then walked again, picking up the bloody, muddy, wet piece of Karsa's head. Jayaseta wrapped the head in a scan by Dara Cempaka. "I'm sorry, Dara, your kisses I'm wearing. I'll give you a new scan one day. I'll take this guy's head and I'll burn him later once we can find or make a fire. It's too dangerous. I'm not sure he's really dead. I have to bring this head in case," Jayaseta said.

Dara Cempaka held her breath, regulating the nausea inside her stomach. But then, for a moment, he was able to handle it.

"Then where are we going, brother?"

"You come with me to Jung, Dara. You don't mind, do you? We will ask for help, take a short break there while checking the situation of my friend, master skipper, who had been attacked and injured by Karsa," Jayaseta said while staring at Dara Cempaka. The girl herself looked at the swordsman's gaze as if to say, "Sister will go wherever he wants her," but of course he did not say so.

"Alright brother. Brother, I think that's the right plan. After all, it must be in the house Datuk the situation is horrendous," suddenly Dara Cempaka seemed to remember something. He patted her forehead. "Ah, that's stupid of me," he told himself.

"Abang, sister will tell some things to brother. Datuk has also asked if something happens to brother, especially because brother has been forced to use internal energy, we have to go to meet Temenggung Bear, Datuk's old friend."

Jayaseta must have been curious. The pain again attacked his body. He fell to his knees.

"Abang! Brother why?" jerit Dara Cempaka's.

Jayaseta raises her hand to prevent Dara Cempaka. "I'm fine, Dara. Let's go to the jung where I used to sail from Java."

Dara Cempaka this time did not heed Jayaseta's prohibition to help and approach him. He immediately grabbed the young swordsman's arm, then put it on his shoulder while Jayaseta's other hand held Karsa's head wrapped in bloody scan.

Jayaseta also refused. He did feel the consequences that were enough to confiscate his energy. The inner energy that it throws out is a clear abstinence it cannot violate.

"Why did you have to put out a deep energy when fighting the swordsman's grandfather earlier?" ask Dara Cempaka to Jayaseta while breaking it.

"I had to use my inner strength to defeat him, Dara."

"But, we still do not know the consequences that occur in the body of the brother, especially because the Kenanga flower diagram has been inscribed into the body of the brother. Even Datuk told his sister earnestly that you should not use the science of energy in it."

"I have to use it, Dara. I don't know how bad the power usage is. But, I can't let Karsa hurt anyone because of me, especially if those people are important to me."

Dara Cempaka feels silly. It could be that at a time like this he thought about his feelings for Jayaseta and felt excited because there was a speck of feeling and concern for the young warrior who was so powerful to him.

"Dara ..," Jayaseta breaks the reverie of Dara Cempaka who momentarily takes her flying into space, breaking through the layers of the universe.

"G ... Yes, brother ...."

"I heard you say the name Temenggung Bears. Who's she?"

Dara took a breath. The wound on his shoulder is not too felt anymore, but this is also memapah Jayaseta.

"He was a friend of Datuk Mas Kuning in the past. He is the chief of the Daya tribe group who live in the interior of this island, right on the riverbank in a fortress of ulin wood. It took a few days to get there by boat or river boat."

"Then why did Datuk tell you to take me there? Why is it not Datuk himself who is trying to re-treat me if indeed the result of my strength and use of energy in the recovery period is severe?"

"For that matter, sister also frankly do not know, brother Jayaseta. But Datuk's request must have had a certain purpose. It's just that, you clearly understand that the Daya soldiers who attacked us came from the Daya tribe, the enemy villagers of the tribe headed by Temenggung Bear."

Jayaseta nodded, starting to try to understand the situation.

"Sister was also then curious, why they came out from the interior to the coast. There was the involvement of the swordsman's grandfather who had killed and cut off his head," said Dara Cempaka as he glanced at the head bundle inside his bloody scan.

"Yes, Dara. I can confirm they have certain plans and agreements related to the Temenggung Bears, Karsa, and Datuk Mas Kuning tribes. To answer it, indeed you must deliver me to the Temenggung Bear itself, Dara. We don't nudge the Datuk in the meantime."

Dara Cempaka smiled. He did not mind getting orders to bring Jayaseta to Temenggung Bears. In fact, at that time, Jayaseta did not think at all and did not know how heavy and long the journey they would take. Even for a Jayaseta, the journey will be one of his greatest challenges.

Dara Cempaka, a sweet young girl, with a well-groomed white skin, despite having extraordinary courage, stubbornness and a decent supply of silat science, is, still is a woman who is completely unfamiliar with the adventures and rigors of life out there.

Later, Jayaseta will desperately fight the feeling of confusion, and great turmoil. However, now he had yet to come to such a thought. He also did not know how the island of Tanjung Pura actually.

***

The Power Warrior woke up suddenly. His body was injured on the inside. I don't know how many bones were broken, including cheekbones on his face due to being tracked by his opponent, the Thousand Mask Swordsman from the island of Java who turned out to be very powerful.

His body was immersed in the watery mud of the marshy ground. Although the pain spread in all directions, he was still alive.

With all his might he tried to get up.

Seen around. In the dark he managed to see the body of Karsa who was already without a head, as well as the bodies of the two soldiers in his village with the neck wide open, torn apart so that blood flowed unceasingly.

This Power warrior snorted. He approached Karsa's body and examined it. He was astonished that he had not found the old warrior's head. He was well aware that what they were facing was not one of the braking Power tribe who took the enemy's head as a form of habit.

Where is the head of Karsa the Poet Baka?

He shook his head. The movement made his body hurt again.

He decided to carry Karsa's body and take her away.

Unfortunately for him, every movement, including lifting the headless body was suffering from the pain in the parts of his body screaming.

He screamed in the dark, but still carried away Karsa's corpse step by step.