The white clouds that floated in the sky were swept away by the wind that blew until the sun was hiding behind it. The bright light that morning watered nature and a garden full of blooming colorful flowers. Honey bees go back and forth from flower to flower to collect honey from their nectar.
The tree of beautiful flowers surrounds a pond filled with fish swimming under lotus leaves that spread on the surface of the water. On the lotus leaf stood a water frog, and the frog jumped across. On the side of the pond, there is a chameleon that is brownish in color because it is hiding on the ground. When crawling onto a tree trunk, the color changes to green. On the tree there is a cocoon ready to split and out a butterfly that has just seen the world.
The world with its nature welcomes the butterfly and invites it with the butterfly's desire to see the beauty of the universe. Slowly, the butterfly opened its wet wings and flapped its wings. It also flew and saw the flowers blooming, also felt the warmth of the sun that embraced him with affection. Since the butterfly did not recognize its place, it flew to look around until it brought it to a window.
A window opens. The windows are made of wood and the leaves are decorated with glass. While looking inside the hidden space behind the window, the butterfly stopped. It noticed someone sitting quietly on the edge of his bed. A beautiful princess with golden hair that is beautifully wavy, leaving bangs in front of her face makes her look cute because the ends of the golden hair almost cover her eyes that look far into the sky.
Butterflies do not know what happened to the princess. Feeling not wanting to disturb, the butterfly left. Even though the butterfly left, the princess in the room behind the window was still silent. Her heart was filled with deep longing and it was as if there was remorse that made her feel guilty.
Her heart mumbled, "why is even happiness to blame?"
She is a princess who shut herself up. For three years, she had never left the pavilion he was hiding in to escape the life she thought was full of selfishness. No one could understand her about the feeling of loss and they allowed the princess to remain confined.
In the morning she started to get bored and she got rid of boredom by reading books of knowledge. At a certain time, someone will come. They were the maid who prepared the food and they would still be waiting for the princess behind her bedroom door.
No one dared enter without the call and the appointed time until the sun began to dim in the west. And it's time, the princess went out to clean herself because the sweat made her body uncomfortable and uncomfortable to enjoy a night's sleep.
So the maids also prepare their needs in the bathing pool, they will let the princess bathe as much as she wants. They themselves will guard her from the outside, because the princess wants to escape the face of life and lock herself up at fault. Maybe that was the punishment for her who had to punish herself because her mistake made her lose.
In the bathing pool that was so wide, she could see the sky was starting to turn orange and the birds were flying in the sky. How freely they can go wherever they want. The princess, wanted to be like the birds she saw flying.
When she was busy imagining freedom, suddenly fell from above, something that entered her bathing pool. They are two boys and a girl who come to interfere with her life.
Ahhh…
The princess screamed until those who came were suddenly frightened when some of the pavilion guards came. But, those who saw their princess in the shower immediately came out again.
"Stupid, you guys entered without me telling." The princess scolded them.
The benhur-haired man laughed at the poor girl who wanted to be helped but pushed her helper away. "Hey beautiful princess, we are here to kidnap you. Aren't you afraid?"
The princess turned her face away. "Get out of here and at the door they will catch you!"
Another boy was out of the pool. He took off his shirt and wrung out his wet clothes. His white body shone in the twilight light. So beautiful and dashing child.
"Sorry I did not mean to…!" The young man smiled until his narrowed eyes closed. His right hand scratched his brown hair and it was so thick that the top part of his ear could not be seen.
With the state of the girl falling from the sky, she covered her face in embarrassment. "You are quick to put your clothes on..." Mutia splashed water on the child.
The princess still looked away and did not want to see them. Sandanu and Mutia started to come out of the pool. From the side of her curiosity, the princess glanced at those who looked the same age as her. There is something interesting about them.
"Why did they fall from the sky?" The princess's voice was not heard by anyone, while the princess thought of those who had fallen from the sky and might kidnap her, in fact they were fighting.
"It's all your fault," Sandanu pointed at the brown-haired boy. "If only you didn't appear suddenly from the front, Malin wouldn't have fallen," snapped Sandanu.
While wearing his clothes, the other person answered. "What did you say? Your bull that doesn't know the rules. The buffalo should walk on land, not in the air." The child did not want to lose, he was sure that the creature that the two children were riding was a buffalo.
"Malin is not an ordinary buffalo, he is our friend and he is a liberated batu akik spirit."
"Oh, so you are a jewel, then fight with me," said the young man who wore long black pants with a gray woven cloth wrapped around him. He wore a white long-sleeved shirt to cover his muscular body while lifting his head. "The loser is the wrong one."
Sandanu insisted. "Ok, let's fight!"
Mutia who was standing behind her was silent, just drying her hair and trying to wring out her wet clothes little by little because it was impossible for her to take her clothes off. Even though it was wet, she used her scarf to cover her upper body.
She tried to pay attention to the large bathing pool and wandered around the beautiful flower garden. Several wooden pillars stand to support the side of the terrace that surrounds the pentagon-shaped pool and garden. The walls of the existing buildings are plated with brass, and indeed they are made of wood covered with brass. Many decorative motifs are engraved on the walls or pillars, in the form of an arch like the young leaves of a fern. And there is an image of a dragon coiled around the pillar.
"This is great, like a palace princess bath." Mmm… Mutia thought, looks like she's never been in a bathhouse in the palace.
On the side of Mutia who was amazed watching the surroundings, Sandanu and out of nowhere started to fight. Sandanu showed batu akik wrapped around his finger, while his opponent showed a brown batu akik with a pattern like scales wrapped around his left arm.
"Batu mustika Siliwangi shines..." Sandanu stone emits light.
His opponent also cast a spell that made the stone glow. "Batu sissi' naga shines…"
Before they had finished chanting the mantra, the princess they had forgotten about shouted. "Stop…." She was still soaking in the pool because she was not wearing any clothes.
Sandanu and his opponent stopped, they turned to the princess who only saw her head up to half her chest.
"Guards catch them…" The princess shouted and then drowned herself.
Next, the guards came and arrested the three of them. So many guards entered that those who tried to rebel could not escape. Finally they were brought to the minister of justice.
***
The court magistrate stood at the highest in the room. An old man with a fat body and wearing a black and white round headgear. His eyes were so big that they looked like they were going to pop out.
Security guards lined up behind the suspect who sat facing the magistrate with his hands tied behind his back. It was evening and the sky was still overcast.
"Who are you?" The magistrate asked the suspect.
Sandanu and Mutia introduced themselves who came from Tanah Aceh and were going to the Negeri Sabda, while the brown-haired youth was still silent.
"And you?" Asked the magistrate.
"I come from Negeri Dirga and want to go to Tanah Melayu, my name is Andi Galigo." The young man looked at the magistrate sternly.
"Negeri Dirga?" Sandanu turned to Galigo. "Then you fly across the ocean. It was great." He was amazed at the child who had previously been his opponent. "Can you tell me?"
"Sandanu," Mutia warned him who didn't know how to adjust.
Sandanu grimaced as he looked at the judge. "Sorry Chief Justice. Actually, we didn't mean to kidnap the princess of the Tanah Lampung, this was all just an accident."
The magistrate was furious with Sandanu's behavior and he wanted to sentence her immediately. But before his intentions were realized, a far-respected figure came from before the open court doors, the Ketua Suku as the supreme judge.
Haha…. The Ketua Suku is voice boomed from the direction of the court door. All the guards gave way and the Ketua Suku approached the suspects. He was tall and handsome with a mustache. His oversized clothes made him look even more majestic and wise.
"Who will go to Tanah Melayu?" asked the Ketua Suku.
Sandanu and Mutia looked at Galigo. The Ketua Suku asked the boy. "Really you?"
Galigo nodded.
"Then where are you two going?"
"Negeri Sabda, but actually only around the world. We've never been to Tanah Melayu either, so we're going there too." Sandanu smiles. He thought that people who would go to Tanah Melayu would be freed.
Mutia just grimaced not knowing Sandanu's thoughts. Only nodded in agreement as the Ketua Suku stared at her.
"Sorry my Majesty, but they have broken through the Keraton." The magistrate argued.
"We just didn't mean it," said Sandanu with her innocent face.
Hahaha… the Ketua Suku laughed, "Yeah, you guys didn't mean to. I can understand that, but I will still punish you."
"But the Ketua Suku?" Sandanu and Mutia begged for forgiveness.
Galigo still kept his head down.
The Ketua Suku smiled. He finds out about his princess who's locked herself in. There had been many things to persuade his princess out, all to no avail. And no one dared to enter her pavilion including herself, the biological father.
Given, the three of them were able to enter the Siger pavilion. So they must be able to persuade his princess out of the cage it. "A punish for the three of you is to invite my princess, Way Gambas to go with you to Tanah Melayu. There will be a beach party by the queen of this kingdom, Ratu Kandis."
Ha! Everyone was astonished to hear the Ketua Suku is decision that was not in accordance with the Kuntara Raja Niti book, but what could you do? The one who spoke was the Ketua Suku, the leader of this Tanah Negeri.
"Hahaha… that's easy, I can definitely take her and make her have fun in Tanah Melayu." Sandanu was sure it was the easiest punished he had ever received.
Mutia is still weighing a punished that. She remembered the princess's face in the bathing pool. Mutia wasn't sure that it would be easy to persuade such a person. "Why did the Ketua Suku ask us to take the princess to Tanah Melayu?"
Galigo also felt there was a point and thought it was a ridiculous thing for a Ketua Suku to give punished to people who broke into his keraton. Remember, this is the highest keraton of the Tanah Lampung government, not just a family castle of Ketua Suku.
"Do it, you will surely find the answer." The Ketua Suku stepped away, leaving them behind.
Sandanu immediately stood up and watched the tribal chief leave. "I'm ready to accept punish that." []