Blood In the Ancestral Land
Chapter 23
The princess' tears were dripping nonstop. A habit that never changed, more than an hour of crying until his heart was completely relieved. Kumetra was very patient waiting until she opened her voice again. Usually the one who could calm him down was the crow demon. Alundra remembered that the demon was still left behind in the palace.
“Kumetra, let's pick up the demon crow. He's still there, right?”
“Mr princess, the crow demon is on a secret royal mission. He will be home in a very long time”
“Why didn't he ask me for permission? Or say goodbye. Everything seems to avoid and hate me! Hiks!”
The second dayang tried to entertain wearing a crow stealth costume. His behavior made him cry. “Already princess, my shirt can already be squeez”
“Kumetra, second day. Only the two of you will talk to me inside this palace. Why aren't you guys like them?”
“Princess, we love you__” very much
Playing with the demons outside the palace changed the face of the princess who had been grim. He ran after the rabbit demon until he climbed onto the elder's tree. The radiant light within the dark sky illuminated his steps.
“Princess, let's go to the palace. The Queen advised not to leave the palace at night” said lady Kumetra.
“What is the difference between night and day? Sky still looks dark covered giant fortress”
“Princess please don't get us punished by the queen” said the second lady.
In the room of greatness, the two ladies only dare to sleep on the carpet of the rug. Alundra was among them while looking up at the sky. He waited for the queen's return, slowly sitting on the edge of the window. Shouts of moaning voices from the western palace. The princess ran to find the source of the voice. Down the palace, moving through a long hallway, opening every room. One of the black-colored doors locked from the inside sounded very clear.
“Hello, is anyone inside?” shouted the princess.
He knocked on the door, his knocking retorted even harder until the princess stomped her body backwards. No soldiers or ladies have passed by. The torch fire was like being blown by the wind, suddenly the door opened wide revealing a long hallway lined with giant candles.
The sound of screaming changed calls calling his name. The princess went inside, the door slammed shut and the whole candle went out.
“Argghh! Mom!” his yell.
A monstrous creature was behind him. He let out mucus touching the princess' body to bite her wrist right in her veins. The demonic incarnate beings who are allied in the science of the queen. The curse that was given made the creature go after him.
Brughh__ Kreekk_on_
The door made of iron and steel was shattered. The queen raised Alundra's body using the magic of the sea water scrolls to go towards the room of his greatness.
“Give the boy to me!” the voice of the creature.
Whose fault is this? How do I stop it? He doesn't want ALundra threatened every time. The wound on the wrist was still clad in a healing spell.
Alundra slept on his lap, occasionally the ends of his eyes flowing tears. If you know this, he must know early who the baby he will curse is. An evil queen turns into a good fairy every day looking for ways to save the princess.
“I will always protect mu”.
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“I just got back from the war. Information from you makes me not believe, if you want to complain you should change this joke a little funnier” he said while sipping red wine.
He showed the Wanua Ubun kingdom's identifying symbol that fell from the princess' pocket. He could not stand rubbing his throat.
“Quickly dispose of the badge of greatness before you are accused of being a traitor! I am increasingly worried that this kingdom will be the spotlight of other countries if I know the big secret of Mangkubuana”
The prime minister of security was thinking about how to expel the princess from the palace. As minister of the oldest generation during the reign of the sixth king, he was very afraid of the Mangkubuana country to be destroyed.
“I will go looking for Garuda, after a long time our ancestral animals are stolen by the Tumenggung. I don't know where he hid it. I'm pretty sure he's in Wanua Ubun”
“What if your opinion is wrong?”
“I've asked the fortune teller I accidentally met in the woods. He also advised a young woman who is none other than a princess must immediately get out of this region so as not to be exposed to her curse”
The injection of evil thoughts from the old woman who almost killed the Diajeng queen caused a new disaster in the kingdom. Early in the morning the palace was chaotic, even two escort ladies were given a head-cut sentence for poisoning the princess. The glass broke from the hand, the spilled water black gave off a fishy aroma.
Lately the queen's emotions are out of control. He felt again the tones of danger that would lurk Alundra.
“Mother.” Alundra.
“Sleep little creature”
“Mother why have you never called me a child?”
His tongue complains to eloquently call Alundra child. He is the flesh and blood of a couple of kings and queens Wanua Ubun, how can he easily call his enemy's children as children anyway?
“Mother is very sleepy ALundra.”
After the great battle of that time, Alundra still strongly distrusted the evil king who would kill him was his real father. Moreover, the attitude of the queen loved him very much, he still questioned the peculiar answer of the land of Mangkubuana and Wanua ubun.
Sleeping beside the black magic queen, a slithering beast crept on her body. Alundra woke up stomping his body. The large thousand-foot-like black hairy beast entered his mouth.
“Akkhh, arghh!”
Alundra glared in pain as the creature scoured his organs as it stopped sucking on him he could not move his jaw for help. Queen Diajeng awakens to feel that something is wrong with the princess.
“What's with you little creature? Why are you glaring like that? tell me, what bothers you?”
He twisted the staff, the magic power of the black flash entered the body of the princess. The creature inside was pulled out, instantly Alundra let out a vomit of maggot blood. He was crying in pain, his throat was so hot like a burning fire. The torturous curse just below the full moon the queen pierced into her five fingers with a needle and then dripped blood into a bowl filled with water.
“Spend this drink!” his insistence by frowning.
“Can't mom, I can't swallow it. The heat! Hiks!”
The queen kept drinking it. He used magic to hold his hand when he was about to refuse. The princess groaned in pain.
