The Thousand Mask Warrior

Do Fly

The sound of the horn stomping. The clattering of metal bells echoed within the room. Four dancers consisting of three women and one man stomped their feet on the wooden floor. Three female dancers bend their legs, turn slowly, playing the neck and head like three birds. Both of their hands flap like wings, let alone the feathers of birds tucked between their fingers so that it really represents the movement of a bird's wings.

The male dancer, playing the do in his right hand with ease, bent his knees, skipped short while shouting, "Kyaaakkk!"

Temenggung Bear danced in circles with a bitten do in his mouth.

On the sidelines of the harbor sounds Punyan cast a spell, "Tujoh pinang wood in the bouquet, tujoh ku sanarai wood. Tujoh kali pulong,

I have to bawarai. I towu somor pulong eat porot, sharp tumpol bise tasteless."

This mantra is recited many times as the sounds and rhythms become faster. Before long, the Temenggung Bear became possessed. The spirits of their ancestors entered the body of the Temenggung.

The body of the Temenggung moves faster along with the sound and rhythm of the tetabuhan.

Jayaseta sat cross-legged in the middle of the room. He was in the middle of the dancers and Temenggung Bears, while beside him Punyan bound head of red cloth was still solemnly reciting the mantra. On the ceiling, as a backdrop to the scenery of the Temenggung Bear dancing possessed, Jayaseta saw several skulls hanging, including Karsa's head that looked fresh even though there was no more blood dripping.

Dara Cempaka felt the feathers bristled watching this ceremony. Sitting beside and around Ireng, Siam and the citizens, both male and female, young old, looked solemnly at the ceremony.

Jayaseta focused all attention on the energy in his poison which had begun to bubble because it was provoked by the sound and rhythm of the loud, fast and vibrant harbor. Sweat was seen flowing out profusely from his body which was just wrapped around by a sheet of loincloth on the lower part of his body.

"You don't have to get them out, just take it. Let me and my dad set him up. Just follow them" Punyan whispered on the sidelines of his spell. Then, the young would-be chieftain splashed water from a wooden stick decorated with bird feathers and leaves onto Jayaseta's body.

Everyone could see with the naked eye that a thin smoke billowed from Jayaseta's naked body when he was hit by water droplets, like embers.

Jayaseta yelling restrained. So did Dara Cempaka who bit her own lips, worried and afraid of what Jayaseta is experiencing. It was not once that he saw Jayaseta desperately receiving treatment. This is the second time he witnessed the pain that whack men adoration his heart was other than when Datuk Mas Kuning inlaid the figure of a flower.

Punyan shouted inside the room in their tribal language, "Open the road. Let the creatures out!"

Residents who had gathered around the ceremony stood up and in a real sense, opened the way to the exit of the room.

Temenggung Bear was already in a state where the elders had been living inside him. His eyes became sharper, fiercer and showed obsolescence. There were at once five ancestral spirits pervading within his body.

Jayaseta, in the same situation. Dara Cempaka now no longer sees Jayaseta, but some kind of monstrous creature that takes over the body. Jayaseta's eyes were wild. He stood up and snorted. His hands formed claws, looking around ready to attack like wild animals.

On the contrary, Temenggung Bears are now standing tall, also being possessed by the spirits of the elders. Donya he still bite, but before long the mantikei blade has been in his grasp.

The Bear moves his hand to form an expelling sign. Jayaseta, who had been completely overpowered by the foreign energy in her body that had been looking madly around her, now turned around and ran out quickly. Temenggung Bears also followed Jayaseta's departure by running and jumping agilely out of the room.

The whole room was crowded with all kinds of words representing feelings of surprise, curiosity and worry, especially for Ireng, Siam and Dara Cempaka.

Now everyone is pouring out of the room into the darkness of the night into the field in front of the building which is lit by bamboo torches and coconut oil lamps.

***

"My father did want to release those foreign powers from Jayaseta's body, not to lock them up. During this time other powers he had gained from various teachers tried to tame the curse poison, but the peak was the release of the wild creature from Jayaseta's body. For that, the father can not be alone, he asked for help from the spirits of the ancestors to lure them out," Punyan explained to Dara Cempaka, Ireng and Siam who clearly looked anxious and worried.

***

Jayaseta blaring. His ten fingers formed claws, ready to tear the body of Temenggung Bear who challenged him. His body held high and swooped sharply towards the enemy.

Temenggung bear shifted to the side and quickly cut towards Jayaseta whose attack had failed to hit the target.

NAH!!!

Arrested cries and screams rang out from the residents, especially Dara Cempaka, who witnessed this.

Jayaseta staggered and fell to the ground. Rays from the torch flames and oil lights flashed over his shadow body.

"Are you sure you want to escape this kind of power, Jayaseta? If you can hear this, keep in mind that if you can master this incredible power, you will be invincible. Not only are you immune and hard to kill, but you are also fast and have great skills that you have learned all along" Temenggung Bears said. His voice was multilayered, as if there were several people at once speaking at the same time.

Jayaseta closed her eyes. Now the real Jayaseta is back. He stood up straight and looked at Temenggung Bear sharply but respectfully. He then proclaimed, "Honorary ancestors, through the Temenggung Bear whose servants also respect and exalt. I beg you to help me break away from this foreign power. Servants are not interested in being the strongest people on earth. I just have the desire to help a lot of people. If indeed the servant can only help them with the strength that the servant gets himself through practice and experience, the servant feels that it is more than enough. This kind of great power will only make the servant devoured by surprise, pride and thirst for victory. Blood will only continue to pour out for the sake of the lust of the servant. I beg you, the Datuk, Temenggung and the Commander of this holy island help me get rid of foreign powers that have not only made it difficult for me, but also made sacrifices everywhere. Servants are afraid that good people, innocent people, or loved ones will be the victims" Jayaseta said at length.

Temenggung Bear with the ancestors smiled, "Alright. A wise decision. If you really want it, let the alien force fight with us!" said the Temenggung with a multi-layered voice.

Jayaseta closed her eyes. It was then that he had drowned again replaced by a creature that was almost unknown at all, except from the body he was wearing.

Temenggung Bear threw his rotating do semicircle mengbat Jayaseta.

The creature inside Jayaseta's body is churning and clumping in the air. Do did not hit it, but miraculously returned to the hands of the owner.

The best-known yet highly secretive form of Flying Do. Ireng stunned, Siam opened his mouth wide and Dara Cempaka choked. Science as if only the story turned out to be real.

Jayaseta jumped up and once again used his claws to tear the enemy's body apart.

Temenggung Bears move to dodge so quickly as they just disappear. Suddenly he was already ten spears away from Jayaseta.

What kind of magic is this? Thought Ireng.

Once again, all the citizens were shown with that secret style. Blah do floated fast, cutting twice three times into the body of Jayaseta who no longer had time to avoid.

NAH!!!

NAH!!!

NAH!!!

... and back to the owner's hand.

Jayaseta was thrown down on the ground. His body still did not show the slightest injury, but the thin smoke billowing from the marks did fly over his body.

Jayaseta's body is now weakened. The creature inside him was still trying fierce and violent, but his fangs seemed to have been dislodged.

Temenggung Bear drove as fast as lightning. His do is now in hand, a thousand-year-old kinyah style is again launched.

Without hesitation and a second thought, Temenggung Bear subjected his do three legs in a row to a stab wound caused by Kyai Ageng Plered's spear in the lower chest of Jayaseta's left side, which was then cut off, then two strokes on the left and right thighs, and a long streak on the chest.

Sparks of fire can be seen from the impact do on Jayaseta's rock-hard body. Smoke evaporated from each slash.

Punyan closed his eyes and returned to chanting incantations repeatedly, "Talu talu bumang, alu,

I'm towu somor pialu.

Urang jorah oran tanah arai, arai land demon pit. Lokas ku somor lokas boyek, in a floating outside pansang."

Jayaseta shouted loudly. His body fell to the ground and convulsed. Smoke or thin white vapor disappears. After that the body of the warrior man was hollow. He was unconscious. So also Temenggung Bear who immediately fell to the ground. The ancestors have left their bodies.

Punyan rushed to the apai with several men to check on the state of the chieftain.

Dara Cempaka himself was unable to hold back and had even run first towards Jayaseta before Punyan approached the fire.

Ireng and Siam took a little longer before coming to their senses and rushed over to Jayaseta.

Dara Cempaka had embraced Jayaseta's sweaty lunglai body. He was already unable to withstand the turmoil of his anxiety and worry. So, hugged tightly is a slender body full of muscles that clay. Fearful tears flowed from the girl's beautiful eyes.