CHAPTER IX A Night in Kota Gede - Part 1

At Kota Gede, Mataram

The buzzing in the head and the noise in the ears were the first two things the man felt when he started to regain consciousness. Noises can be heard from outside, very noisy but sound very far.

Then he started to open his eyes at the noise. His vision was still covered in darkness, and his ears were still buzzing slightly to be able to ascertain the source of the noise he was hearing.

Then a few seconds passed. He also began to regain his senses. He realized that it was the sound of dozens of footsteps, footsteps that kept passing by one another. Not only in one direction, but the steps seemed to scatter here and there.

His eyes, which had begun to adjust to the dark, began to guess the surroundings. His skin also helped, although all he could feel was cold.

In front of him, a wide stone wall was visible, blocking him from advancing, as well as on his left and right. As if he was trapped in a cube of stone walls, or maybe this was a place for prisoners?

He immediately turned his gaze back. His guess was right, right behind him were iron bars extending over the other side of this stone wall cube.

Questions began to appear in his head as if delaying his steps to approach the bars. The question of who he is? why he is in that place? and what is happening really is?

"Geh !! Uhk !! Uhk !! "

The blows of questions filled his head as if it didn't give him time to breathe. He accidentally choked at the tempo of his own breath.

His hand gripped the bars tightly while choking his face facing the solid floor ... or maybe a straw floor?

He immediately confirmed it with one other hand that did not grip the bars. Once again he was right, the place where he stands is not a hard floor that could be used to restrain a prisoner, but the pile of hay stacked tender meets the cube room floor.

Then this place isn't a prison! That's what he thought as he raised his face forward. However, why should the room be covered with iron bars?

He has soon realized something, his hand still clutching the iron bars can feel if the bars do not as straight as an iron bar in general. There are various scratch marks and bites of wild animals all over its parts. A wild animal that may have been bigger than an adult lion, but was only able to scratch and bend it slightly without being able to break the bars.

He immediately thought that perhaps behind the bars there were various wild creatures that were about to pounce on him. But from the sound that sounded in his ears, he was the only creature breathing around the place.

Hmm ...?

He didn't hear a sound other than his breath, then where was the noise of the footsteps that bothered him so much earlier? could they have left?

Pause for a moment, then thought walking again, stirred him up immediately, and told himself that the most important thing right now is to get out of the place. He immediately tried to stand up.

Hmm?

It was strange that his legs were unable to lift his body to stand up from all fours. His feet felt completely devoid of strength, even with the help of one hand holding onto the iron bars. Then, how about two hands!

Hgh !!!

Heaaahhh !!

Crack !! Ctaaahk ... !!

Two bars in his hand were broken!

And not only that, it felt like hot energy spread throughout his body, immediately his legs were able to lift him on his feet again. His eyes were able to see even more clearly, even without the slightest light in the room.

A smile immediately crossed his face. With this, he can get out of this narrow and dark place. Immediately he broke a few more bars to make enough holes for his body to pass through. And it worked, he got out of the bars, now all he needed to do was find a way out.

He immediately ran through the dark room full of curves. Even though in the dark he could see clearly, plus his ears were somehow sensitive enough to hear the gentle breeze blowing at the end of the exit.

Likewise, his ears, which seem to become wave radars through the pounding waves that his legs cause while running.

What perfect senses, but how did he get all these extraordinary abilities? who is he? He can't remember a thing ...

Not long after, a dim light appeared dominant at the end of the road. That must be the way out!

"Haah ... haah ...."

Finally, it's outside.

He looked up at the sky, full of stars and so purple without the moon. In front of him were several stone buildings and horse stables. It was a very large place, yet it was really quiet.

Asking where all the people is not a question that is worth it to ask now, because it was thought better this way for him to quickly run away from this place.

Yes, he had to get moving before anyone came back.

He looked at the stables, and somehow thought he looked like he was capable of riding. So he immediately ran into the cage.

Once again he encountered a lonely atmosphere. Not a single person was left behind, only an empty cage whose door had been open as far as his eye could see. However, if he wanted to go far from this place that locked him in, at least he had to find a vehicle to be able to go the long way, even though he still didn't know where to go.

He could not give up, he continued to explore the wide cage. And according to his expectations, in the last row of cages, there is one cage that is still closed. He immediately ran and opened the door to the horse stable.

Inside stood a plain black horse with a straight white line on its face. One of his eyes looked white blind, and one cheek was seen with a sharp, lingering wound. Could it be that this horse was deformed as a result of a fight and considered obsolete?

However, he did not have much time or choice, he immediately took the horse out.

"HIEEEE !!!"

The horse struggled a little when the harness and saddle beside the stable were attached to its body, but soon the horse calmed down and let the man ride it.

Without wasting any time, the man immediately sped off with the stolen ride.

But just as he walked out of the wide cage, there were several clattering steps approaching from the front.

"Oh no, they're back!"

Immediately he turned around and fled through the back of the cage. Pass several stone buildings, he kept lunging forward. Until the end of the road from his escape began to appear, a dead end blocked by a wooden fence as high as an adult. But he had no other choice but to move on. He also tied a rope on the saddle of his horse to keep the horse from running. Then the next step he had to do was destroy the wooden fence.

He thought, if he could even break even the iron bars, the wooden fence would be nothing to him now. He immediately jumped up and ran ahead of his horse, he himself was surprised when he realized that his running speed could really match his horse. It was as if his body felt so light that he could move very fast.

He also sped and jumped right in front of the wooden fence in front of them. And without wasting much time while still dashing through the air, with his fists he smashed all his strength into the medium diameter wooden fence.

The fence shattered to pieces and gave them a way out. He also managed to escape from that place, towards the dark forest that spread out wide to cover his vision. But the darkness was not an obstacle for him, he also darted deep into the dark forest.

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That night Anna was in her room, packing up to immediately leave Kendal to the capital city of Mataram, Karta or what is more viscous is called Bhumi Mataram by the people of Mataram.

She remembered this morning, in front of the sultan and Pitung, she bowed to face the sultan who cast his gaze at the blue sky outside the window.

Then the sultan said, "The time will come, and of course we will prepare you for it. A fierce battle would no longer be inevitable, however ... before that, I want you to do something for me. "

The Pitung and Anna raised their eyes and began to wonder what the Sultan was trying to say.

"As long as we can do it, sire" Old man Dekker replied.

"I want you to meet someone and forgive him"