Sanggana Swordsman
Petperma 10: Other Humans
*The Adventures of the First Empress (Petperma)*
“Gimbaaa!” shouted Prabu Dira anxiously while running to find a giant bird lying among the trees.
Prabu Dira immediately hugged the big beak of Gimba. The bird is not dead, it is alive and moving. Wind and rain still hit the mountain. The trees were blown away which made a loud noise.
“How is the condition?” princess Yuo Kai asked somewhat yelling at her husband. He came to follow, also feeling anxious to see the condition of Gimba.
Sis!
The jungle was cooing slowly, softly, as if it was enduring the pain.
“For a while Gimba cannot fly,” replied Prabu Dira. “It looks like we will be stranded here.”
Prabu Dira then moved to check the condition of Gimba's left wing. On the left wing was severe damage and charred wounds.
“How are the other conditions?” prabu Dira asked his wife.
“Let me first check their condition,” said Princess Yuo Kai, then immediately go look for her servants.
At the location of the fall, Bo Fei wriggled in pain. His body looks like it's crumbling.
“Nona Bo, are you okay?” mai Cui asked worriedly.
“It's okay,” Bo Fei said as he flinched with his body lying free, leaving his body and face doused in rainwater.
On the other hand, Chi Men immediately rose from the fall. His clothes were dirty with the mud of the mountain ground. His condition is fine. He immediately approached Yi Liun who was groaning in pain.
“Are you hurt, Miss Yi?” ask Chi Men.
“My hand,” Yi Liun replied grimacing in pain as her right hand held onto her left hand.
“Try me to check,” Chi Men said as he grabbed Yi Liun's left hand. After checking, he said, “Hold a little!”
Crews!
“Akk!” yi Liun's strangulation was stifled because the pain was so piercing, as Chi Men pushed his hand bone.
After pushing, Chi Men pulled back Yi Liun's left hand by stomping it. After that, Yi Liun stopped screaming or groaning.
“It's okay,” said Chi Men.
Then came Princess Yuo Kai to them.
“How are you guys doing?” ask Princess Yuo Kai.
“It's okay,” replied Chi Men.
“Iya, it's okay, Your Highness Princess,” Yi Liun said anyway.
Princess Yuo Kai then went to check on Bo Fei and Mai Cui's condition.
In the end, Prabu Dira and all of them took shelter under the wings of the unfurled Gimba.
“Gimba cannot continue the journey. We have to wait for the storm to stop and find out where we fell,” said Prabu Dira.
“If Gimba can't fly anymore, will he be here continuously?” ask Princess Yuo Kai.
“We have to find a way to treat his wound. I also do not want to leave Gimba in this condition,” said Prabu Dira.
“Will Gimba be threatened with death?” ask Princess Yuo Kai.
“No, he just got hurt and couldn't fly. I think it will take a while if I have to wait for the wings to heal,” said Prabu Dira.
They had to wait for the storm to subside. Prabu Dira sat hugging his wife's body in front of his servants, in order to make Princess Yuo Kai not so cold. Mai Cui and Yi Liun also sat hugging, but not for Bo Fei and Chi Men.
Finally the storm subsided as well, and so did the rain. Although it was still day, but the sun had not yet appeared in the sky because it was still covered by the black clouds the rest of the storm.
“Gimba, can you call for help from Alam Kahyangan to be able to take you home?” ask Prabu Dira.
“Do it!” said Prabu Dira.
Yaw!
Gimba koak.
“You need a lot of power. Later I will find you food,” Prabu Dira told Gimba. Then he said to Princess Yuo Kai, “We will have to find Gimba a lot of fruits.”
Princess Yuo Kai then conveyed it to Bo Fei and Chi Men.
That afternoon, they searched and collected fruits, any fruit, as long as the skin was not painful like durian or coconut.
On this trip, Gimba did work hard because it had to fly far and wide for days. The energy is drained a lot. Prabu Dira also does not know how Gimba can call for help from Alam Kahyangan. I don't know what kind of animal he'll call because his mother's dead?
Towards dusk, when Prabu Dira and Princess Yuo Kai plucked young mangoes, Prabu Dira saw human movement in the distance.
“There are other humans,” said Prabu Dira who was on the upper limb.
Princess Yuo Kai immediately jumped floating to the branch where her husband was. She looked at her husband's view.
Farther away on the lower side, there were three men dressed in dark blue-blue clothes walking among the trees. It is unclear what they do other than walk. However, their direction headed upwards, where Prabu Dira and Princess Yuo Kai were.
“It looks like they're heading here,” said Princess Yuo Kai. “What if they see the existence of Gimba?”
Prabu Dira was silent for a moment. He thought.
“We go back first to keep Gimba,” said Prabu Dira later.
Prabu Dira then embraced Princess Yuo Kai's waist and led him to float down happily. They gathered the mangoes they had harvested in a basket woven by coconut leaves, made by Prabu Dira. With that Prabu Dira easy to carry mangoes in large quantities.
The two return to Gimba's place. Now he can sit and walk like a chicken, but he cannot fly.
When Prabu Dira and Princess Yuo Kai arrived, all that was with Gimba was Mai Cui and Yi Liun. Bo Fei and Chi Men have not returned.
“It's eat, Gimba!” said Prabu Dira while putting a basket of woven green coconut leaves in front of Gimba.
Gimba immediately pecked the mango fruit like pecking beans only. After one or two strokes, Gimba's head suddenly shuddered.
“Hahaha..!” Suddenly the laughter of Prabu Dira exploded, making his wife and two servants amazed. “You must be acidity!”
“Hihihi..!” princess Yuo Kai laughed after hearing her husband's words.
Sis!
Koak Gimba slowly, then pecked back into the basket. He said, it does not matter he ate young mango, it does not mean he was “ngidam”.
However, when Bo Fei and Chi Men came to bring a lot of guava fruit, Gimba also switched to leave the sour mango.
“Wah! Me and Yuo Kai had a hard time picking mangoes for you, but you didn't spend it when the other food came!” gerutu Prabu Dira to Gimba.
Princess You Kai only smiled broadly at the sight of her husband nagging, a thing she had never witnessed.
“Bo Fei, you keep an eye on the three people on the east side who are walking climbing towards this place!” princess Yuo Kai's orders.
“Good, Your Majesty!”
Bo Fei immediately went to carry out his master's orders.
Bo Fei stopped behind a tree, as he looked at the whereabouts of three large tall men. Uniquely, the three men had golden yellow hair, had large noses and were very sharp, very different from Bo Fei's tiny nose.
The position where Bo Fei was hiding with the position of the three reddish-skinned men, separated by a torrent of water flowing from the height of the mountain.
The three men conversed with each other in a language that Bo Fei did not understand. However, it was not a language like the one Prabu Dira had. In the future, the three decided to turn the direction because they could not pass through the flow of water that was like a small river of rushing water.
Heavy rain has made the river over the mountain overflow and created a new stream of brimming, brown-colored rushing water. (BH)