Tarung Ghaib - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 : A Flower For The Dead

At one of thirty seats in Class 2-1, sat a girl who is busy doing her assignment as a class accountant.

Almost all of her other classmates had left to their home and she was alone in the class.

Sometimes, she rubbed a few of her side hair because it was covering her view. It can’t be help. Her hair is long, afterall.

The girl took a look at her watch and realized it’s 06.00 PM already.

She wanted to go home, but,

“I can’t leave until these paperworks are done, huh?”

She sighed with some feels of defeat. But, she quickly regained her spirit and back to do her job when suddenly,

Kreeeekkk

She gasped after hearing that sound and looked for the source by reflect.

A grateful sigh could be heard from her after she realized that sound was caused by movement of her class door.

“Wind. Such a strong wind that was. Hm? Oh God!”

She became lifeless after took a look to outside. She saw a dark sky got darker and light rain had came down to earth.

She held her head using her both hands and then she raged out.

“Damn! This is getting worse! Even if I finish these damn things now, I can’t go to home immediately! Agghhh!”

She didn’t care about her works anymore. She just sat there with frustration in her brain.

Then, someone called her name.

“Lilly.”

Being called, she let go of her hands and faced the caller, a boy with straight black hair. He is one of her classmates.

“Prabu? Why you still here?”

The girl called Lilly looked confused.

Prabu just chukled seeing that and said,

“I just finished my training on Silat Club. What about you? Another paperworks?”

“Yeah. It sucks.”

Prabu couldn’t help but laughing at her reaction. Meanwhile, Lilly just puffed her cheeks because of her frustration.

“You’re so mean, Prabu.”

“Hahaha. I am sorry for laughing. It just, you are still cute even when you angry.”

Prabu saw Lilly went into facepalm and heard her words with some defeated tone after he said those words.

“Ahhh. Prabu, will you ever stop teasing me?”

“Probably won’t.”

Lilly hung up her head and stared at the ceiling. She felt too tired because of her works and being teased by Prabu.

“By the way, you should go home now, Lilly. It’s already pass six right now.”

“ I can’t. There are still some works need to be done. I have to give all of these to Miss Lisa today.”

“I see. Then, I will help you. What I have to do?”

Lilly felt happy as she was stood suddenly from her seat and smiled widely at her classmate.

“Really? Thanks so much! Then, just check half of these papers. Make sure the calculations are right. I will signed them at the end.”

“Roger that, Ma’am.”

Lilly restart to work with help from Prabu.

Fifteen minutes had passed and Lilly felt relieved knowing all of her works had finished.

“Thank you for your help, Prabu. I don’t know what will happen if you didn’t help me.”

Prabu smiled at her and answered,

“Don’t mind it, Lilly. It’s still raining here. If you want, I can give you a ride to home. How about that?”

Lilly took a look to outside and realized that Prabu said the truth. It was not like she didn’t believe in him, but she needed to made sure.

“If you don’t mind with it, then I will take your offer. Then, come with me to Staff Room. I need to give these things to Miss Lisa.”

“Sure.”

After packing her stuffs, Lilly and Prabu made their way to the Staff Room.

Lilly finally got home after a long day. She was really happy that Prabu had drove her to home so she didn’t need to take a bus at night.

She walked to the front door and surprised when she found her mother after she opened the door.

“Welcome home, Lilly.”

Lilly raised her eyebrows. Never once in her life her mother greeted her when she came home since her father died.

Despite her confusion, she still answered her mother with a warm smile on her face.

“I’m home, Mom. What happen today? It’s the first time you greet me when I come home since dad is gone.”

She felt hurt after she said those words. Actually, she saw her mother has gloomy eyes. Maybe she making the same expression too, like her mother.

After a long silence between them, her mother finally said something to her.

“Your time has come, Lilly. You have to finish something that your father couldn’t.”

“Huh? What do you mean, Mom?”

“Follow me. I will explain when we get to the place.”

Lilly obeyed her mother and follow her through a room unknown to her. She could see a white circle mixed with some words of a language unfamiliar to her. She also saw four candles at left and right side of the room.

The room was small and dark, only relied to the candles as light source.

“What is this room, Mom? What are we gonna do here?”

Lilly only had those questions in her head. She was so curious about the reason.

So, her mother began explaining to her.

“Seven years ago, your father died because of a hear attack. That was what I told to you.”

“What she told to me? So...”

“Just like you think. That was a lie. He didn’t die because of a heart attack.”

Lilly grabbed her chest so tight realizing the truth. She couldn’t believe that her mother had lied to her in this seven years.

But, another question raised.

“If dad didn’t die because of heart attack, then what was the cause?”

Her mother took a deep breath before answering. Lilly felt a bit of anger because her mother was so slow to answered. After two seconds, she finally heard her mother spoke.

“Your dad was killed in a ritual called Tarung Ghaib.”

Lilly widened her eyes with her mouth opened a bit because of surprised and confused at the same time.

She surprised because her dad was actually got killed. She confused about a ritual called Tarung Ghaib, which she never heard until now.

“Wait! Dad got killed in a ritual?! What is Tarung Ghaib?! Explain to me, Mom!”

“Calm down, Lilly. I will explain it slowly. Please calm yourself.”

Lilly relaxed herself after hearing her mother. She sighed deeply to calm her head and then looked at her mother with a straight face.

Looking her daughter had calmed down, she began to explaining things.

“I will explain about Tarung Ghaib. Tarung Ghaib is a ritual which held once every seven years. The ritual is being held to claim a keris which has a power to grant two wishes of it’s possessor. That keris is called Sacred Keris by us. It has the right to choose seven participants who will fight each other to death in that ritual. That’s why your father got killed. And you, Lilly, has being choosen by Sacred Keris to participate.”

Lilly felt her throat had dried and couldn’t give any response except terror because of the fact that her mother had told her.

After she regained her voice back, she started to give some words to her mother.

“To-To death? Fight to death? What? Why it choosed me? I am nobody. It’s a nonsense, Mom. How?”

“It choose randomly, Lilly. But, if I have to guess, I think it choose you because you carry the blood of Wismara Family. A family with long traditions of witchcraft and supernatural activities. To say it simply, one of four ancient shaman families in this country. But, let’s skip those things now. We don’t have much time left. You have to perform a summon ritual now. You can’t skip Tarung Ghaib. If you don’t summon your Khadam before 08.00 PM, you will be killed by Sacred Keris.”

Lilly made a give up laugh at that. She didn’t want to knew anymore about the ritual. Except for one thing.

“Summon? What should I summon?”

“Supernatural beings. Like ghost or spirit from realm of death.”

Lilly gulped. She couldn’t believe that she should summoned being that made her scared so much.

She started to trembling and shaked her whole body because of huge amount of fears.

“This isn’t time to be scared, Lilly. If you don’t want to die, you have to summon your Khadam.”

They walked into a white circle that was mixed with some words of a language unfamiliar to them.

As they reached the center, some of them felt cold at their whole body. While some of them felt hot at their head.

Ignoring those feelings, they placed both of their hands into their chest and closed their eyes.

After that, they began to chanted some words.

“He siro ingkang mboten dipunemuti, Kali ingkang wonten ing watesan, Panjenengan lajengi tretek sukma. Tulung dalem kagem ngupadi jarwi,

Kaliyan kunci ingkang mbikak gerbang, Gerbang ingkang nunjukaken kasugengan ugi bilahi,

Rawuha! He penghuni mboten kemriksa jagad!”

Then, they saw the words within the circle started to moving in clock direction.

They narrowed their eyes when they saw the circle with the words which was a white-coloured changed into dark blue.

As time went on, the speed of the word’s movement went faster and faster.

Then, they forced to close their eyes because a sudden flash filled their view.

When they opened their eyes, they finally saw them.

Lilly back off after she saw it.

It has a long black hair that could easily reached it’s butt. It wear a dirty white dress like someone who just played at a mud. It’s face was a pale white, like someone who used too much face powder.

She started to breathed hard with her left hand held a place where her heart could be while saw it looked at her with glaring eyes.

Cold sweats ran through her forehead after it showed a terrifying smile at her.

In her terror and horror, only one person who could say some words to break the silence.

“Congratulations, Lilly. You are a master, an Empu, right now.”

Lilly choosed to ignored her mother. Actually, she couldn’t heard her mother because of too much horrors at her.

She kept staring at it. It also kept staring at her with a terrifying look.

Lilly wanted to closed her eyes so bad. But, she couldn’t do it because she felt something dangerous would happened to her after she did that.

Lilly knew about it.

It was a legendary ghost which said could give people so much fears just by using it’s laughter.

With a form of pale-skinned women and wearing a dirty white dress, it gave terrors and horrors to the living, especially kids and females.

It was-

“Kuntilanak”

With the Empu and the Khadam still staring at each other, Lilly muttered the type of her Khadam.

The Kuntilanak kept smiled at her. Like the dead who was happy to received a flower at her funeral.

Meanwhile, Lilly’s fear started to raised and she wondered about what would happened to her in a ritual called Tarung Ghaib.

Note :

Kuntilanak has different names at each regions. Sometime it's called Pontianak or Matianak or some other names. For full explanation, click this link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontianak_(folklore)

Tarung Ghaib - Prologue

PROLOGUE

He walked into a white circle. He could clearly see the circle was mixed with some words of a language unfamiliar to him.

As he reach the center, he suddenly felt cold in his whole body. He shaking hard because of cold and sometimes rub his palms to heat up his body.

“It’s cold.”, he said.

After those words, he received a comment from corner of the room.

“It is cold, yes. Then, it must be one of human’s.”

He looked to the corner and saw a girl there.

“Milly, could you make me warm with beautiful smile of yours? It’s rare to find a blonde girl in this area, afterall.”

The girl called Milly smiled at that and locked her eyes to the man.

She said,

“I’m honoured to be looked highly by you, Young Master. But, please concentrate yourself to the ritual instead to me.”

He laughed hearing that. Then, he concentrated himself to the ritual.

He placed both of his hands into his chest.

He started to closed his eyes and chanting some words.

“He siro ingkang mboten dipunemuti, Kali ingkang wonten ing watesan, Panjenengan lajengi tretek sukma. Tulung dalem kagem ngupadi jarwi, Kaliyan kunci ingkang mbikak gerbang, Gerbang ingkang nunjukaken kasugengan ugi bilahi,

Rawuha! He penghuni mboten kemriksa jagad!”[1]

Then, he saw the words within the circle started to moving in clock direction.

He narrowed his eyes when he saw the circle with the words which has been white-coloured changed into dark blue.

As time went on, the speed of the word’s movement went faster and faster.

Then, he forced to close his eyes because a sudden flash filled his view.

When he opened his eyes, he finally saw it.

It wrapped by white yet dirty fabric which cover every parts except the face. Yet, it has no face afterall.

He gasped after realized the black skull of it.

Although it has no eyeballs, he could clearly feel that it look at him with respect.

He smiled because he realized that it has great power.

“So it is Pocong. I’m a lucky one.”[2]

“Congratulations, Master. You are a strong candidate to win.”

Milly smiled at him. He also smiled at her.

Then, he looked back at it and said,

“State your name. I can’t just call you Pocong, you know?”

With a small roar at start, it began to stated his name.

“JaFaR”

After pocong called Jafar stated his name, the man rest his palm to Jafar’s shoulder and said,

“Nice to meet you, Jafar. My name is Prabu. I hope you will work hard for me.”

“As yOUr wIsH, Empu.”[3]

Hearing that answer, the man called Prabu grinned.

“O, Sacred Keris. For the wish of mine, I shall bring you to sinner palm of these hands.”[4]

Tarung Ghaib.[5]

A ritual for getting Sacred Keris which will grant two wishes of the possessor.

Together with their familiars called Khadam -beings like ghosts or spirits-  masters called Empu would fight each other until they gone from existence.

For their wishes.

For their dreams.

For their desires.

And for theirs existences.

With Milly opened the door for him, Prabu started his journey to the fight.

Notes:

[1]. English translate : O' you whose unseen, whose live at borderland, please cross the soul bridge.                                        Help me to find a meaning, with a key to open the gate, the gate which show                                         salvation and calamity. Come, people of the unseen world!

[2]. Pocong : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocong

[3]. Empu is a javanese for master.

[4]. Keris : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris

[5]. Tarung Ghaib means Supernatural Fights

The One-Eyed King Volume 1 Chapter 1 Part 1.2

Night has came. By order of General Avrah Zelzan - The General of Shaim Forces - , all citizens in the city were now hostages to Shaim Forces. Though they were being hostages, Shaim Forces treated them really well. And thus, many citizens didn’t bear hatred towards them. In fact, some of citizens even pledge to Ishaim and started to worship Khamii.

The deads has been buried, all works to set defense has been done.

And now, most of citizens and some of Shaim’s soldiers were in deep sleep.

At this time, General Avrah was sitting in his office - former of major’s office - with deep thoughts.

He felt guilt because he and his force were brought deaths and terrors toward this city.

But of course, he couldn’t do anything about it. He just did his duty as soldier.

One thing he can do was pray to God so that the emperor would accepted defeat, end this war, and peace would came back.

Then, he heard knock at the door with a voice of a man asking for permission to entered his office.

After General Avrah allowed that man to entered, he can see one of his lieutenant entered the room.

The lieutenant put his right fist to his left chest and greeted General Avrah.

"May peace and bless of Khamii be with you, General Avrah."

General Avrah answered and greeted him back.

"May peace and bless of Khamii be with you too, Lieutenant. So, can i help you with something?"

"It is not that, General. I just come here to remind you that you need some sleep. We may destroyed East Gate, but I already set many mens to defend it. And with no sign of Romeruth's counter-attack, this city will be fine. So, you can rest without any worry, General. I told you before we come here, didn’t I? As a front-line general, you need to save your energy."

"I am sorry for making you worry. To be honest, I want to sleep, but just can’t."

Because of Avrah’s answer, the lieutenant frowned and asked,

“Is something troubling you, General?”

"I feel guilty because we bring deaths and terrors to this city."

The lieutenant showed a bitter smile and said,

“You haven’t changed at all since we were kids, Avrah. You have talent to fight, yet always feel guilt to hurts others, even it is for the sake to protect something you cherish.”

"Really, huh? I guess you are right, Eksa."

Suddenly, they heard a scream.

That scream was so loud and even could made windows got broken by it’s soundwave.

General Avrah and Lieutenant Eksa couldn’t move. They just could covering their ears in pain.

After that screaming was over, Lieutnant Eksa asking about that scream in panic.

“Wh-what was that, General?”

“I do not know either. If I am not mistaken, it came from where the East Gate should be. Let us go there, Lieutnant! We must investigate this case.”

And so, General Avrah and Lieutnant Eksa went to East Gate, the place that scream came from.

What waited them is.......

To Be Continued

The One-Eyed King Volume 1 Chapter 1 Part 1.1 - The Day He Was Born

At that day, a six years old boy saw the last thing he wish to see. Spilling bloods from the dead, cries of pain from those survived, and the fall of the city where he was born and lived.

An invading force came to shattered everything from his and all of the citizens lives.

“Hide here. Do not come out even an inch! Rest easy. Your father and his friends are fighting the invaders right now. And I will protect you, my son.”

His mother tried to comfort him, even when herself was trembling in fear.

He knew that his mother worried about him. And for his mother’s sake, he obeyed her and hide in a basement of their house.

Then, the worst happened.

Three soldiers of the invading force entered their house and one of them said,

“Please get out of here! All of the city guards has been defeated and our general demand all citizens to gather at front of city hall!”

His mother gasped for a moment, but then calmed herself and knew that they were not lying.

The invading force was known of their supreme power. His mother and all of citizens, even all of dead guards knew that fact because of their origin.

They came from Shaim Kingdom.

Shaim Kingdom, which ruled by King Dauth Vinne Rajack, was a strong and prosperous country located at northeast.

The kingdom adhered theocracy system which came from a religion that worshiped one God only. The name of that religion is Ishaim and the God that they worships is called Khamii.

Shaim Kingdom was always known as the manufacturer of great war armaments, technologies, and the distributor of healthy, yet delicious food ingredients. Thus, making their economics great and stood as one of the strongest country on the planet.

They also possessed knowledge at all factors needed to strengthened their country.

Besides all of those, Shaim Kingdom was also known as a peace-loving country which doesn’t use their great power to invaded other countries.

Then, why they invaded a city this time?

That is because of the city which the boy and his mother lived was a part of Romeruth Empire, a wide country which was at war with them.

Two years ago, the ruler of Romeruth Empire, Emperor Marcus Claudius Sole Nic August ordered his forces to invaded Shaim Kingdom for the sake to expanded his domain.

He believed that his forces number would overwhelmed Shaim’s forces.

But the truth said otherwise. His quantities couldn’t match their qualities.

Then, Shaim Kingdom officially declared a war against Romeruth Empire.

As the times flowed, Romeruth Empire starting to lost one by one of it’s territory to Shaim Kingdom.

Senates began to asked their emperor to surrender and accept a defeat to Shaim Kingdom. But due to Emperor’s pride, he refused their plea and continued fighting.

And finally, the waves of Shaim Military Forces reached this city.

“I won’t obey! I will kill you right now! Don’t come further!”

The boy’s mother said that and pulled a knife from his blouse, then pointed it to the three soldiers in front of her.

“Leave now, invaders!”

“Please don’t! I assured you, you are not in danger. Our general just want to gather all survivors so he can manage this city more easily in this time of war. We won’t harm you, even a bit, so please don’t rise your hands against us!”

The three soldiers sheathed their swords to ensured the mother that they have no ill intention to her.

“Like I will trust you! Leave now!”

“Please believe us! We will leave when you leave with us. That is an order from our general. So please, I beg you to come with us to city hall.”

The mother has lost her temper and started to advanced one of the soldiers with her knife.

The threatened soldier catch her hand and then broke her neck due to his reflect.

His mates were just staring at him and the dead woman for a while before they shouted at him in anger.

“What did you do?! Why you killed her?!”

“She was just a citizen, dude! Why?!”

The soldier who killed the mother trembling in fear and answered,

“I..I just..I’m sorry! I just reacted and killed her by reflect!”

“By Khamii, general won’t be happy to hear this.”

While the three soldiers weeping at what they’ve been doing, a sudden shout, a painful one, interrupted them.

“Mother!!”

The three soldiers looked with horror to a boy who came out from nowhere. They realized that one of them had killed his mother.

“Mother! Wake up! Please wake up!”

The boy embraced his dead mother and cried with tears full of pain and sorrows.

The three soldiers couldn’t see the scene and adverted turned their sight away with a painful face.

The boy kept crying and the three soldiers remained silent before someone, who equipped himself with same equipment as them, entered the house.

“What happened here?!”

The three soldiers looked out to that voice and pay homage as fast as they could to the new person.

“Lieutenant, Sir! We apologize for being late! A distasteful event has occurred! A citizen raised her hands against us and forced us to killed her!”

The lieutenant looked at a sight of a boy who cried to a dead woman in front of him, and said,

“What a shame. I understand. One of you, take the boy to city hall! The rest will carry the dead to be buried later!”

The three soldiers put their fist to their left chest and answered,

“Sir! We hear and ready to carry the order!”

Then, the boy forced to said goodbye to his mother forever and being carried to city hall with a soldier and his lieutenant.

Why this happened to us?

Why no one saved us?

Where are Emprium Gods?

If they existed, then why they didn’t save us?

I prayed to them, worshiped them, but.....

The boy couldn’t understand why a disaster hit him and his family.

Were Gods not care about mortals?

Or were they not existed at all?

The boy tried to think about that, but still had no answer.

Then suddenly, something happened to him.

An explosion of darkness felt breaking his mind. From that explosion, a black tree with a billion branches grew and gave him many things which he didn’t know yet.

Then, he felt a lot powers came to his brain, his body, and his soul.

After that, he became something different in the multiverses.

In one of many dimensions of this world, a being who lived there felt something has occurred in human’s land.

“This is amazing. I’ve never knew that he is something this amazing. Does Khamii know or not about this fact this whole time? Or His warning just saying that he will threat His domination of these multiverses?”

That being tried to think as hard as he could about the possibility. But as he expected, the answer didn’t come.

“Khahahahaha!! Whatever! This is so good and amazing! O, my future companion, I will guide you until you gain your every powers! Planets form galaxy, galaxies form multi-galaxy. That knowledge will be learned by human easily. But the fact about dimensions form world, worlds form universe, universes form multiverse, and multiverses form Liternature, less human will learn it. And you are something beyond that. Your existence will not bound by rules of Liternature which Khamii created. You may not be realize it yet, and not fully free from the rules, but you will in the future. We and you will march together! And we will challenge Khamii who created my race for the sake of being evil!”

The being started to released a dark-red aura from his whole body, stared to the sky, and said his final words before called his subordinate.

“I hope you see this too, Angra Mainyu. With him help us and we help him, your dream to defeat Ahura Mazda will no longer be impossible.”

Then, The being called one of it’s best subordinate.

After his subordinate arrived, he started to release his orders.

And those orders were,

To be continued

Author Note : Well. There's the update. It is a shame for being too long. But dude, translating is really hard. Especially for me. And Lills, I hope you want to draw some characters of this story. We stayed in our Last Home! The Z that will never erased, The Home that will never burned.