Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Between love and hate, part 2

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Between Love and Hate (Part 2)
The Civil War Erupted

Retold by Satoto Kusasi


Chapter 1

Patih Kebo Ireng call on his subordinates for meeting urgently; They want to discuss the neglected duty of theirs.

Patih is angry, “Do you abandon your duty by sleeping?”

“Yes Master, because of I feel sleepy when I have my duty. Even I can’t be able to open my eyes.”

“So do I. Will you give us punishment ?” The other friend said.

“You should have your punishment, then it would be not fair since I have the same experience as you have. I wonder why; Perhaps the killer utter pray to make us sleepy and then we go down to deep sleep.”

“Yes Master I agreed with you; Perhaps he has divine power. who is he?”

“I have suspicion that might be a soldier of Jati Wengker as the killer.
Because of the keris have eight waves, the keris type of Jati Wengker.” Patih Kebo Ireng gave his comment.

“However. you should have another evidence to accuse Jati Wengker murderer.
A thief could have a keris with eight waves.”

“Yes you right. However, the political condition making us to accuse Akuwu Wengker who has ambition to be a King.

Now we will face problem, how to answer people question tomorrow morning.
They will ask us, who the killer actually was. We must prepare the answer properly.”

“So, what’s we want to say? Who the killer was ?” The subordinate guard asked.

“Akuwu Wengker was the killer.” Patih Kebo answered.

“What evidence to accuse him?”

“The eveidence was the keris; it have eight waves. Do you have another opinion?”

“Akuwu Wengker perhaps the killer but we were still not sure.” The guard not satisfied the conclusion of Patih.

“For time being, Akuwu might be the killer, until we could prove he was not guilty.” Patih making sure finally.


Chapter 2

Early in the morning, people of Medang City uproar hearing their beloved King was death, stabbed with a keris on his chest.

The bad news spread from one village to other village by the sound of kentong (kentong = stroke of wood or bamboo to produce sound).

They discuss the King assassination that has happened last night. They assumed concerning the killer, “Perhaps the killer has climbed the wall of Palace with rope; then he uttered pray to make the entire guards will go down to deep sleep; then he could has done his bad act easily.”

“Who the killer was ? Akuwu Wengker ?” A man asked. Akuwu Wengker was become top of suspected as the killer in discussion among the Citizens of Medang.

“I can’t say that, but Patih will.”

“Let us gather in front the gate of Palace to hear the announcement from Patih.”

People crowded in front Palace. That day is a grief day for the people of Medang Kingdom. They eagerly want to know, who the killer was.
They waited Patih that wants to announce bad news of King’s assassination.

Afterward, the Patih come, “Ladies and Gentlemen, we have to announce a bad news to all of you that our beloved King has passed away. Because of some body has stabbed a keris (blade) onto King’s chest, last night.”

“Why you didn’t catch the killer?”

“I knew that you were very angry, but please don’t disturb our announcement.
Last night when we were guarding, suddenly we feel sleepy and finally we fall down into deep slept. We supposed that the killer has come and do his murdering when we were sleeping. He has done the assassination easily.

The screamed of Consort King as well as Princess have made us wake up, but the killer has already gone away. The King was going to die when we found him.

A keris still stabbing on his chest. We pull off the weapon.
It was keris with eight waves.

The keris with eight waves is keris of Jati Wengker.
It was a clue that the killer might be a soldier of Jati Wengker.

For time being we accused the soldier of Jati Wengker was the killer, until we can find another evidence that Akuwu Wengker not guilty.”

Suddenly, a woman comes out from the mob and shouts, “I disagreed with you Patih, Akuwu Wengker is a nice man; It is an impossible thing to accuse him.
How a son could kill his own father. How come you can accuse him ?
You must find anothers evidences to accuse him as a killer.”

She is Ken Uno, Akuwu’s mother.

However, majority people agreed with Patih,
“Now we have to fight against the fake King; down the fake King, down Akuwu Wengker!” They shouts altogether.

Again, Ken Uno shouts, “You have to prove him be guilty before you fought him.” She is a good mother to protect her son.

Meanwhile, Ken Umang and Princess Putri Sekarpandanwangi, the entire staffs of Palace, as well as Patih along with his military staffs were gathering beside the King’s corpse.
Ken Umang cries continuously so did Princess.
In addition, all the Palace staffs were glooming in deep of sadness.

Afterward, Ken Umang says, “I believed Mas Alitkereng was the killer of his own father because of he wants to be a King.
I hates that boy. Patih! I command you to attack Jati Wengker immediately.”

Patih Kebo Ireng surprised heard command of Consort King.
He isn’t suppose to attack Jati Wengker immediately. “ We should have another eveidence to accuse Akuwu Wengker.” He thought


Chapter 3

Akuwu Wengker was in his office when He heard the news that someone else has killed his father. He is surprising when he heard that the killer was he.

“How a son could kill his own father; if so then the killer was mad.” He thought.

Not so long, a guard giving report, “Master a mob of soldiers came toward our Camp, seems they were Medang soldiers whose want to attack us.”

“Prepare our Army for combating immediately; call on Patih Gajah Gendut; prepare my horse si Gagak Lodra. I will come in front of my soldier’s line.”

Afterward, Patih Gajah Gendut came, “Master, what was the reason of them? Why did they attack on us? We must avoid this useless war; I will wave a white flag and then ask them what their reason is.”

“Yes I agreed with you, you can do it.”

Jati Wengker Army moved, led by Akuwu Wengker and Patih Gajah Gendut.
Patih fast his horse, surpassed Akuwu. He held a white flag.

Meanwhile, Patih Kebo Ireng leads six hundred amount soldiers of Medang. Princess Putri Sekarpandanwangi is among of them; she is at the middle of line.

Now the two troops are so near to each other that an arrow can kill. Patih Gajah Gendut shouts, “Stop don’t move, we are friends. We want to make peace!”
He waved his white flag.

Patih Kebo Ireng says, “Hi coward soldier; how a soldier say peace after kill our King. You have killed our King like killing a deer.”

Then Patih Kebo Ireng prepares his bow and an arrow. An arrow fly to its target, straight to neck of Gajah Gendut. Gendut can’t be able to avoid the arrow because he is so fat that his moving become slow.
Patih Gajah Gendut is death, fallen down on earth.

Akuwu Wengker gives command by signing with his hand; that meant the troop separated in two groups. Group one will lead by Akuwu run away on top of a hill as if they were afraid and run away. Group two run away and then back again at rear of enemy line.

Now two parts directions of Akuwu troops have clipped Medang Army likes scissor.

Akuwu gives command to archers group to shoot from top of a hill; many Medang armies fall down to death.

Princess moves her horse to enemy’s line at rear. She killed ten soldiers with her sword. She was a brave soldier because of she wants to revenge the dieing of her father.

Where is Patih Kebo Ireng now ? He can’t be able to walk because an arrow stitched his left leg, now he hides under the bush.

Akuwu can find him then catch him.

Akuwu shouts, “Hi stop this useless war otherwise I will kill your leader!” He touched Patih’s neck with his sword.

The battlefield become quiet, no sound of command, clink of sword and scream of a dieing soldier.

Not so long, Princess gives command, “Soldiers put your weapon down, and we are surrender.”

Medang soldiers obey their commandant to put their weapon down and rising their hands up. Akuwu armies size their weapon and tied their hands.
They asked to make a line, go toward a prison.

Akuwu interrogated Patih, “Now I want to ask you Patih what was the reason of you to attack us?”

Patih answered, “You are accused to kill our King.”

“Do you have evidence to accuse me?”

Patih can’t be able to answer the question; He just keeps silent. He remembered Ken Uno saying; don’t attack Jati Wengker before you have proved that Akuwu was guilty.

Since Patih kept silent, therefore a soldier shouts, “The evidence was a keris of killer’s weapon; It has eight waves as clue of Jati Wengker’s keris.”

“Keris with eight waves is abundant in the market; You can buy it, then it wasnt evidence.
Do you believe that a son could kill his own father?
If you said yes then you will be horrible monster.”

“Who was the killer then?”

“Let us answer that question together.
If you asked that question before your attacked then we could have avoided this useless war.
I regreted that my Patih was death already.

Now you are prisoners of us. I will interrogate you one by one. I believed that one of you is the real killer of my father. Now go!”

The civil war ended; his friend buried the dead bodies. The soldier of both groups hand in hand buried the war victims as if no hostility between of them.

Patih Kebo Ireng, Princess Putri Sekarpandangi as well as the Medang Army become prisoner. No excusing for Princess and Patih, both must put into jail.

Patih wondered, “Why did we can lose in this war? I admitted Akuwu Wengker have successfully built his Army. He is a good leader and good public administrator”.
Patih Kebo Ireng thought.

However, Princess Putri Sekarpandanwangi is very angry, “Now he has divine power; He can able to make some one go down to sleep by his utter. He can be able to win this war easily. Therefore, he has his ambition to be a King by killing his own father. I hate you.” She thought.


Chapter 4

Palace of Medang is lonely after the King has passed away.
A military staff on duty at the Palace is Jaran Edan.

Suddenly, a soldier comes and says, “Master, we lost at war; Even they captured entire our friends as well as our leader, Patih and Princess.”

“What? I can’t believe it, how they could defeat us ?
Prepare our Army to revenge now!
Call on our friends to discuss next war immediately” Penyewu Jaran Edan command

Medang Kingdom was suffering disaster continuously, therefore every people was in sadness. Penyewu Jaran Edan was very angry.

He led the urgent meeting, “Thank you for your coming. We just received bad news from battlefield that we lost at war. Now I command you to attack Jati Wengker to revenge. Do you have another option or opinion?”

“Yes Master, our friend as spy at north border just come. His duty to spy the Wulansari soldiers Camp. Now he brought bad news also; Ki Manjangan, would you speak?”

“My name is Ki Manjangan; my duty watching the enemy soldiers at north border. First, I regreted the dieing of our King. I really surprised to hear it.
We should blame the guards on duty on the night of King’s murder.

Why did they have been sleeping when they were on duty?
Therefore, the killer has killed the King easily.

Now, can you answer my question? Why did they have been sleeping when they were on duty” Ki Manjangan asked twice time.

“People on the street said that the killer uttered pray to make the guard sleep.”

“No, it wasn’t the right answer.
The right answer is this thing.”
Ki Manjangan show dry herb

“What that thing is ?”

“This herb is called Turon leaf, the family of grasses. Hot water must be poured into the cup for using the herb.

If we have drunk the herb then we will be sleepy.
And then going down to deep sleep.

I have my assumption that all the guards have drunk this herb before they were going on duty.
Because of the killer has given the herb to every guard on duty on the night of King murder.”

“How the killer was so brave that he can give the herb to every guard.” Jaran Edan asked.

“Perhaps, he has agreement and cooperated with a Chef of Palace kitchen.”

“Might be the Chef was traitor in this case;
You, Boyo Langi, catch the Chef !” Jaran command.

Jaran Edan continued the conversation, “Where did you buy that herb?”

“That herb is a secret thing of Wulansari Army. It is their weapon to make sleep their enemy.

I heard the conversation between two Wulansari military staffs.
He said to his friend that they will use this herb to make soldiers of Medang going down to sleep.

That was why I can say that a soldier of Wulansari has given the turon herbs to make our guards being sleepy.”

“Would you mention to me, how you can go inside their military camp?”

“Mas Alitkereng has given order to me to watch the enemy Camp at north border.
I pretended being a farmer, planted rice at near their camp.

One day their leader whose name was Kebo Anabrang asked me to help them as stall cleaner and grasses feeder for their horses.
I agreed with him and from that time on I worked for them in their military camp.

One day, I found the horses got sick altogether; it was strange.

Kebo Anabrang was so angry to me that he fired on me. I lost my job, but I am happy since I can go home, report the enemy’s data to my boss, Mas Alitkereng.

Before I went off their camp, I have followed an expert and some military men for inspecting the sick horses. I heard the expert said, “Those horses were not sick but sleepy because it had swallow the bad grasses.

Those grasses can make every creature get sleepy then it fall sleep. Therefore, I want to say that your horses were in good codition, not sick.

One of military staff asked, “Sir, can the herb react to human, the same as horse?”
The expert answered, “I said creature, so human also included.”
He asked again, “What the name of that grass is ?”
The expert answered, “Turon leaf.”

I can’t go out from their Camp because they asked me to continue my job until the end of Month. Therefore, I was late to report this data.
If I have reported it early then I would have saved my King.”

Not so long, Boyo Langi came along with Chef of Palace Kitchen.

“Chef, did you find a stranger at your kitchen on the night of King’s murder?” Jaran Edan asked.

“No, I did not. Except the man who was the Princess lover, his name is Sora Mahisa. I have known him very well.”

“What he has been doing at that moment ?”

“He helped us to make tea and coffee for the guards on duty.”

“Did you see he has poured some herb into every cup of them?”

“No I did not.”

“Gentlemen, we have a new evidence that Princess's lover can be accused as murderer in this case. I assumed that he has poured the turon herb into every cup of guard's. The Chef didn’t see his action. Do you agree?” Jaran Edan said.

“What purpose of him? What was the correlation with Wulansari Army?” Some one asked Jaran.

“I have suspicion that Sora Mahisa is a Wulansari soldier who has task to kill King Ribut Sakti. He pretended to love Princess.

Therefore, we have to say sorry to Akuwu Wengker that actually he wasn’t guilty.
We have made a mistake military action by attacking him, since the real enemy was Wulansari Kingdom.”

The chef added, “The last time I saw Sora Mahisa when he went out from the kitchen out door at midnight on the night of King’s murder.
He washed his hand and trouser before he went out.”

"So that, No doubt, Sora Mahisa was the assassin in this case.
Now we must cancel the revenge of war even we have to send peace delegation to Jati Wengker. I will lead the peace delegation.”


Chapter 5

Akuwu Wengker investigates the prisoners. He believes one of them might be the killer.
However, he hesitated to investigate his sister, Princess Putri Sekarpandanwangi, because she is a Princess.

He feel sadness since many victims have fallen to death because of civil war, included Patih Gajah Gendut.
Therefore, he has plan to make reconciliation and peace in Medang Army.

He call on his soldiers for gathering in a hall.

Afterward, he call also the prisoners, “Call all the prisoners, included Patih Kebo Ireng and Princess.”

Now the two opponents of soldiers were in one room.

Medang soldiers protested, “Did Akuwu want to make us embarrassed?”

The other soldier comment, “The civil war is not over; shall we fight in this room?”

Akuwu Wengker speaks, “Ladies and Gentlemen, we gathered in this place want to remember our friends that had passed away in civil war.
We hope Goddess would accept them in Nirvana.

We regreted the civil war that has just erupted. I want to say to you that the civil war was a useless war. I want to make concord to all of you. You must remember that we are in one Nation and that meant we are brothers, not enemies.

Gloria Medang Kingdom! Glorious his people!

“Viva Kingdom; Viva King; Viva Royal Family.” The audiences shouted.

Akuwu Wengker continued, “Then I asked you for shaking hands to each other of you. If you didn’t want to then I would have concluded that you still accuse on me as the killer of my own father.”

Now they moved to give their hands, said sorry and hugged to each other.The room became warm, noisy and harmonious.

Not so long, a guard comes and whisper to Akuwu Wengker, “A delegation from Medang City come for peace; Seems to me they have found the real assassin.”

Akuwu goes out of the room to receive the Medang delegation. The delegation led by Jaran Edan.

Jaran approach and hug his partner. Even he drop his eyes tears and said sorry, “Brother, you were not guilty, but we have mistaken to accuse you.”

“Really ?, So that you have caught the real assassin, did you ?”

“Yes I did. I will tell you more in front forum of ours.”

Both of them go into balairung room. Patih Kebo Ireng and Princess Putri Sekarpandanwangi just seat on their chair; they did not enthusiastic to welcome their delegation since they have mental depressive.

(To be continued)
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