Full Moon
"Hahaha... Brother Tingkir is indeed Brother Tingkir. No matter where he goes, beauty is the first. Now, he even bring Lady Laras, the daughter of Officer Pathi to this feast. How envious!" Gundala, the adopted son of Emperor Kronz, a ruler in the Kingdom of Thunder, said while eating vigorously a plate of 'Satai' and a cup of 'Cincau' in front of him.
"Right? How about you, little Gundala? Have you found your destined love?" Raden Patah suddenly chimed in and teased that 'Little Thunder'.
"No way, I'm still young. I prefer to study and someday I will make a very amazing discovery." Gundala said while still putting a piece after piece of Satai Meats to his mouth.
"Well, well, that is good. Gundala is still too young after all hahaha..." Jaka Tingkir, who always decided everyone around him to be a junior generation even though some of them was older than him, commented.
"Big Hrother P-hatah, Syou have to becareful in the future." Gundala said that words between his teeth that never stop chewing the food, making the words he said weren't clear enough to hear.
"Calm down, little thunder, why do I have to becareful in the future?" Raden Patah said while offering a cup of water to that little gluttonous.
"Although Brother Tingkir wouldn't snatch someone's wife like that guy over there, Brother Tingkir could deceive your daughters and flirt with them to make them falling in love with him. So, you have to becareful." Gundala said seriously with his innocent face.
Hearing that answer, Raden Fatah, Jaka Tingkir, and almost all the audiences nearby almost choked by his words. Jaka Tarub, the pure bachelor, only shook his head helplessly and smiled wryly.
The other heroes, such as Jaka Sembung, the silver hair blind-man Barda, Adityawarman, Raden Wijaya, Aji Bandawasa, and Erlangga, could only smiled and laughed in amusement. Gajah Mada couldn't be bothered with them and sipped his wine silently, showing a cold and arrogant face. Wiro Sableng laughed so hard that his stomach hurted while Arya Dwipangga gritted his teeth in anger.
Arya Dwipangga knew that the one who snatched someone's wife spoken by Gundala is him. Although Nari Ratih and Mei Shin had never became Kamandhanu's wife, and they once both only his fianceé, but they almost married at that time before he tricked both the girls to become his concubines. So, he felt so offended by the words uttered by Gundala.
Thinking of Kamandhanu, Dwipangga looked around to search for him, but could't found him anywhere. 'He hadn't come yet?' He thought, while trying to calm his heart down and acted like nothing happen.
"Gundala, your mouth is always full of chilly." Wiro Sableng commented.
"Hmph!" Gundala snorted.
"Anyway, what about Brother Tarub? I've never seen him with any girls before." Young Master Wiro changed the center of topic to Jaka Tarub.
"Don't you know, Brother Tarub is in love with Fairy Nawang Wulan." Gundala, the most knowledgeable person about the gossips all around, gave an answer.
"Who is Nawang Wulan?" Everyone was puzzled.
"She is one of the Seven Fairies in the legend, who descended to this continent a few years ago and took a bath in the clear river at Daren Village." Gundala explained.
"Oh my, I didn't expect that the standard of Brother Tarub is so high. But, but... They are after all fairies. They are living in heaven realm. Would they descend again to this continent? If not, wouldn't it means Brother Tarub should wait forever or for a very long time until they descend again?" Wiro Sableng widen his eyes in disbelief.
"Brother Tarub is a loyal one after all. If he determines to wait, he will wait. Brother Tarub, you also should be careful with Brother Tingkir. Don't let him get his way to flirt with Fairy Wulan." Gundala started to mock Jaka Tingkir once again.
"You brat, how dare you disrespect your senior. You will have a difficulty to find girls in the future if you talk nonsense once again." Jaka Tingkir chided and pretended to be angry. He actually someone who wouldn't care about any gossips, rumours, or whatsoever about him.
"Doesn't matter, I have no intention to find girls. Study is more important." Gundala replied nonchalantly while shrugging his shoulder. "Anyway, why don't I see Brother Kamandhanu?" He was puzzled while looking left and right.
Just as he finished his sentence, he and the other heroes suddenly heard a big commotion on the front section of the land. Peoples were gathering together as if they were seeing something amazing. There was the sound of whispers, exclamations, and gasping.
They were clamoring around as the words 'Wow', 'So beautiful', 'Who is she?', 'She must be a fairy', 'How come there's such a beautiful girl in the world?', 'But, look at her strange clothes! What kind of clothes is that?', 'Yeah, it's looked like feathers? Are they bird's feathers?'
"Make a way, make a way!" Gundala and Wiro Sableng, followed by several peoples and some of 'The Thirteen Heroes' also came to see the commotion, while the others were too lazy to move and choose to stay on their seats as they waited for the crowd to part way and the 'object' of their commotion could be seen afterward.
After a little struggle, Gundala, Wiro Sableng, and a few of peoples who followed them to see the commotion finally halted their steps when they saw what the crowds were clamoring about. The moment they halted their steps, they widen their eyes simultaneously as their mouths were agape, indicating that they were feeling so awed and amazed.
"Goddes, my eyes." Gundala was stunned as rubbed his eyes.
...
A while ago, in the private courtyard of The Head of The Imperial Guard...
Arya Kamandhanu brought Marissa, the little black chicken to his courtyard, after the short section of interrogation by the Emperor regarding the assassination attempt on Prince Anusapati.
As per the rules of Singhasari, the Head of Imperial Courtyard was given a private and single courtyard, while the other guards should be living in group of three, five, or even ten peoples in one big room.
As Kamandhanu was going to take a bath, Marissa was left alone on the wooden table, accompanied by a pile of books. It was at this moment that the system was ringing loudly inside her mind.
[Ding! A warning for the Host to prepare herself in the upcoming full moon in two minutes]
"Wait... Prepare for what?" Marissa asked in puzzle.
[Because the Host had successfully secure the
"Huh? I don't know that I was given some rewards. When did it happen?" Marissa asked.
[A while ago, after the
"I see... So, tell me, Mr. Generous-Angel, what's the rewards?" Marissa was excited as she shook it's chicken tail, anticipated to obtain some good stuffs from the system.
[An increase in strength by three small realms, One chance of
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[Previllege: The duration is twenty four hours and the Host could switch back and fort between human and chicken form.]
[The system suggests the Host to use human form during this period because it was the strongest form of the Host when the full moon arrives. The reason is, the Host could fully uses soul attack on the full moon]
[The Host possess a stronger soul then physical body as of this moment. This physical and soul condition could be changed in the future, depend on the Host's effort]
...
In Nusantara Continent, the cultivator also called as 'Pendekar' which meant warrior. So, basically, in this world, warrior or cultivator were just the same.
In this Continent, the cultivation system consisted of nine stages, namely : First Stage Warrior Dan-1 until Warrior Dan-9; Second Stage Warrior Master, Third Stage Warrior Grand Master, Fourth Stage Core Formation, Fifth Stage Origin Core, Sixth Stage Nascent Soul, Seventh Stage Void, Eight Stage Monarch, and Ninth Stage Emperor.
From Second Stage Warrior to Ninth Stage Emperor, there were four small realms in them, namely: Initial, Middle, Advanced, and Peak.
And it's a bit different from the other stages, the Seventh Stage Void was divided into three sub realms, which were Void Apprentice, Void Connoisseur, and Void Transformation or also called as Void Master. Each of these three sub realms also consisted of small realms like any other Great Realms, which were Initial, Middle, Advance, and Peak level.
Each Great Realms were differentiated by seeing the amount of Phantoms of Garuda behind the warrior or cultivators. The first stage Warrior had 1 Phantom of Garuda behind their back. The second Stage Master Warrior until the Ninth Stage Emperor had 5, 10; 20; 50; 100; 120-150-200; 300; and 700 Phantoms of Garudas behind their back respectively, to indicate their levels.
From Warrior Dan-1 until Warrior Dan-9, they each had their own colours to differentiated them, which were white, brown, yellow, orange, red, green, blue, purple, and black.
It was mentioned above that each great realms, except for First Stage Warrior, each of them consisted of small realms, which were initial, middle, advanced, and peak level. This four small levels had different colour : yellow, green, blue, and purple.
For example, an expert at the Fifth Stage Origin Core, initial level, would possessed 50 Phantoms of Garudas behind their back in yellow colour. Another example was, someone at the First Stage Warrior Dan-9, would possessed 1 Phantoms of Garuda behind their back in black colour.
...
[Ding! Two minutes is over. The full moon has arrived]
"What? Wait, ehhhh...?"
"Ahhhhhhh...!"
Marissa was screaming spontaneously when she felt there was something magical that enveloped her body entirely. At first, the sensation was like fire and ice combined together, before it change into a soft sensation as if she was enveloped by a soft blanket and laying down on a cotton or a comfortable bed.
[Calm down, Host! It would be over soon]
Thankfully, the system had arranged a formation to prevent any sounds from being transferred out of this courtyard.
At this moment...
Crieettt!
The sound of door of the bathroom was opened hurriedly with a strong force, and a hoarse voice of Kamandhanu could be heard shortly.
"What happened?" Kamandhanu asked.
The second he got out of the bathroom, his pupils constricted and his mouth was opened widely. The only thing he could see is a brilliant white light before it was gone and a girl abruptly appeared in front of him.
The girl wore a black gown with black feathers were embroidered neatly on her shoulder. The bottom part of the gown also had the same beautiful feathers on it. The sleeves of the gown were as long as her elbow.
The girl's skin was pale white, her eyes were like a pair of brown crystal, she had a slender body, a pointed nose, a small red lips, and a long curly hair with brown colour. There was a small crown made of white and black feathers, cycling around her head. She wasn't tall but wasn't that short either. She wore a pair of black heels, as well as a pair of anklet and bracelet made of black and white feathers on her ankle and wrist.
Overall, she was a very beautiful girl.
"Who are you?" Arya Kamandhanu finally came back to his sense and pointed his sword to the 'strange' girl.
"Aiyaahhh, are you that eager to kill me? How cruel you are!" Marissa raised her hands up in annoyed, but she wasn't afraid at all.
Listening to that rather familiar voice, Arya Kamandhanu finally loosen his grip on the sword but didn't withdraw it instantly.
"You are... that..." Kamandhanu found it inconceivable.
"Yes, I'm that little ugly black chicken, alright? What? Are you very surprised? What do you think? I'm very beautiful in my human form, right? Heheheh..." Marissa laughed smugly.
"This..." Kamandhanu was speechless. Never in his life she found a girl that shameless that she could praise herself without any shame.
Of course, in this era, it was rare to find a girl such as Marissa. The girls were usually easily to be shy and very docile. Although they were confident that they were beautiful, they wouldn't say it loudly, but hoping for the others to praise them. Unlike Marissa who was from the modern earth and didn't have many things that could make her feeling shy and embarrassed. Nevertheless, despite of that, Marissa wasn't a wild girl either. It could be said that she's also a bit introvert, but at the same time, she didn't mind a lively and crowded place.
"You... You could change into a human?" Kamandhanu asked.
"Well, I also just found out about it. I think I will change into human everytime there is a full moon." Marissa sighed. 'Why do I feel like I've become a warewolf instead of a chicken?' She thought.
"So, that's how it is..." Kamandhanu came into a realization. Suddenly, he seemed to remember of something, but he couldn't be sure. It happened a long long time ago, but...
'Is it possible?' He fell into a deep contemplation.
Noticing the expression of the man in front of her, Marissa was confused, so she asked. "What happened?"
"Ah, nothing. Nevermind!" Kamandhanu shook his head. At this moment, he suddenly realized that he only wore a piece of clothes to cover his lower body and his legs until the knees.
"Arghhh...!" He ran to the cupboard and started to look for his clothes.
"Hahahahaha...." Marissa, instead of screaming, she just laughed loudly. Because there was still clothes on him, although a bit shy, she didn't feel that uncomfortable, but found it amusing instead.
"You... Turn around!" Kamandhanu yelled in annoyed.
"Fine." Marissa said while kept laughing as she held her stomach.
...
Marissa kept turning around until Kamandhanu finished wearing his clothes. When she saw how handsome the man after taking a bath and changing into a fresh clothes, she gasped and subconsciously exclaimed softly. "Wow!"
Looking at the pair of beautiful eyes who looked at him with sparkles, Kamandhanu felt his ears hot because of embarrassment. 'This woman... Why do I always lost my composure whenever I'm with her. Even in her chicken form, she is still so unrestrained in speaking.' He thought inwardly.
"Hahaha, you are so cute when you are shy..." Marissa pointed her finger and once again laughed in amusement.
"When will you stop laughing?" He asked in annoyed. "You will stay here. I need to go to the feast." He said.
"Noooooo!" Hearing that statement, Marissa exclaimed. She didn't want to stay. She wanted to see how the lively atmosphere in the ancient Nusantara. Moreover, what if there will something happen? Although she wouldn't be able to help because of her low strength, but she had a system to help. At least, she could helped the both of them to escape in case there will be something that couldn't be avoided.
After argued back and forth, Kamandhanu finally agreed. "Alright. You will come with me. It's better if you go with me in case you make troubles if you are out of my sight."
"Are you concern about me?" Marissa teased.
"I just want to avoid troubles." He said flatly.
"Heh, who cares what's the reason. Anyway, we are already late. Hurry, let's go!" Marissa, in a smooth way without any awkwardness, cycled her hand around Kamandhanu's hand as if they were a couple.
"What are you doing?" Kamandhanu was bewildered.
Instead of answering the question, Marissa asked another problem. "What do you think the best status I should have? What will be our relationship if we both come to the feast together?"
Hearing that question, Kamandhanu stunned and just realize that it was indeed a problem. They should considered this carefully.
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Quizz:
What will be the relationship of Kamandhanu and Marissa?
A. Just friends
B. Love-Hate Relationship
C. Master-Disciple Relationship
D. Senior Brother-Junior Sister
E. Fianceé