Early 2021, this is the most exciting time for me because I made it into one of the favorite high schools, especially at that school I can choose a special study group that I like the most, is history. I don't know since when I like things that are historical, that memory has long been forgotten, maybe because when I was a child my grandfather often told me historical stories, both real and fairy tales.
The atmosphere is bright and fun in the school environment this weekend, the sun is shining brightly but it doesn't feel hot because the alternating clouds dance side by side in the sky, the gusts of wind bring along my joy, who can't wait for the home bell to ring.
My name is Yuji, I am 15 years old and have just entered the middle school for the first semester. With straight side hair and olive skin, 159cm tall and athletic posture, and an oriental Javanese face, I am rather famous among girls in school. I live alone because my family lives in different places and far from my school.
Saturday afternoon as usual after class hours, we history club members usually gather in the history room to study together, but this time the history club teacher will invite us to visit one of the ancient places that are currently being excavated and researched to dig up information or try to find a sign of historical relics in the form of hidden artifacts.
"Come on, the students gather, get on the bus immediately so it won't be too late." With his short stature and square glasses and gray hair, he led us on this study tour. He is a history teacher named Henri.
"I want to sit at the back, I'll go in first. Yahooo!"
"Eh not fair !! Wait for me Yuji." I immediately rushed to the bus and left my friends who were still gathered and chose the back seat, because it was the student's favorite spot when going on a study tour. In total there were about 20 students and 2 tutors and a driver on the bus.
It is a long journey because the location we are going to is to the east of Borobudur Temple and the trip takes about 3 hours by bus.
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"Mr. Burhan, we found something at the bottom of the tunnel. There is a large rectangular thingy like a door on the side of the room we found artifacts."
"Is that true? Have you investigated it? Soon the study tour students from Satria Middle School will arrive to represent the artifact collection."
"We will immediately close the room and move the artifacts to the floor above, sir."
"All right, do it right away. So that later nothing unwanted happens." Two people were seen having a serious conversation, they were artifact excavators and one of them was Burhan, an archaeologist from Brawijaya University and an archaeologist from the Sangiran Museum.
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"Ah .. finally arrived, quite tired of riding the bus for 3 hours."
"Hmm ... nature here is very refreshing, far different from the city." the students tell one another.
"Hello, Mr. Burhan! Good evening."
"Good evening, Mr. Henri!" The two of them shook hands with each other and started discussing something.
A few moments later we were all summoned to immediately march into the ancient site that we wanted to explore while taking the artifacts that were inside.
"Well, students, please come inside and don't scramble to get in. Don't touch something that is not what we were here for." Mr. Henri warned us.
"Yes, teacher!" Simultaneously the students agreed.
After going inside and Mr. Hendri explained what we encountered in the cave when we arrived in a dark room lit only by fluorescent lights in every corner. Inside, there are several chests filled with straw as a place to put artifacts, and there are two long tables that have ancient artifacts that have not been put in the chests, several workers are seen passing by with their respective busyness. Meanwhile, our job is to move the artifacts into the chest and take pictures and study them when they arrive at the museum.
"Whoaa .. this place is full of ancient aura, haha." I joke with my friends. Suddenly my eyes fixed on a staircase that led down, I invited my three friends, Toni, Dimas, and Rendi to investigate and we went quietly downstairs without being noticed by our teacher and the workers there.
"Wow, there is a secret place here! Let's explore!" I whispered to my three friends as I walked down the stairs which were only lit by a neon light that was not too bright.
"Are you sure Yuji?" Toni seemed to hesitate.
"Yes sure, who knows we will get the treasure!" I answered excitedly.
"Hmm, that's fine."
"Okay, let's go!" Dimas and Rendi agreed.
In that place, it was bigger than the previous floor, but it looked darker because there were only 3 fluorescent lights on, while for some reason we felt goosebumps.
"Hey, guys! We'd better get back upstairs! It's dark and there's nothing here." Rendi whined asking to return to the previous floor.
"Ah, you're just scared right?" I made fun of him.
"I agree, let's just go back." Dimas and my three friends asked to come back upstairs. Suddenly there was something cold that hit my body like there was a wind holding me and leading me to an object covered by a large tarp. Unconsciously I was standing in front of the tarpaulin and with fear but curiosity and trembling I opened the tarpaulin covering the mysterious object.
"Whh..whoa .. what is this ?!"
"Let's run !! Run !! Whooaaa!" While trembling there was a golden light that parted from between the mysterious objects, the light radiated to make my friends startled and immediately ran leaving me alone in that place.
The atmosphere suddenly became quiet I could not hear anything as if my ears were covered in something, out of nowhere this courage, I continued to walk towards the light inside the door. I was shocked when I looked around, the room was glowing and sparkling as if the place was made of gold, then my eyes fixed on an object that was located in the middle of the room, it looked like a sphere and hovered above a small altar right in the middle of the room that glowed.
"Amazing! What is that thing ?!" the curiosity in my heart grew so fast like raging waves. I slowly walked closer to the room to reach the mysterious object. As soon as my hand touched the object, time seemed to stop, and I felt as if I had shifted somewhere, I felt like I was in the middle of the galaxy.
"Huh ?! Where is this? It seems I was in a cave, why am I now floating. Is this in outer space?" I wondered to myself. The thing I touched was still shining brightly even though I seemed to have moved from places outside the universe. Then I grasped the object tightly, as soon as I was attracted by something very fast as if I was riding a very high-speed roller coaster, I was thrown and carried away to another realm, either in the earth or somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
For a moment I felt like I was flying around the earth, a flash as if I had entered a giant black hole that was very scary in the sky and made me tremble incessantly. When I seemed to lose consciousness, suddenly there was a voice calling me and I gasped, and that voice was my teacher's voice, Mr. Henri and my friends who immediately came downstairs accompanied by workers and archaeologists.
And when I turned to leave the place immediately, suddenly the place became dark and the walls collapsed, I tried to run as hard as I could but the roof made of very large stones fell and closed the exit, I glimpsed the sad faces of people. who is outside, and I realized it was because of my own carelessness, I was confined in this lonely and dark place until I closed my eyes.
[Mr. Henri POV]
"Students, does anyone know where Yuji and his friends went?"
"We don't know sir, we are busy moving and collecting artifacts."
"Mr. Henri !! Mr. Henri .. help us !!" There was a sound of screaming from the forbidden place, and it was the voice of the murids.
"What is it, my students? Calm yourself, try to tell me what happened." I ran towards them and immediately asked what happened.
"Yuji! Yuji just walked into the room covered by the tarpaulin, and a strange light appeared from within!" the three of them explained simultaneously even though they were terrified.
"Mr. Henri what is this?" Mr. Burhan and his colleagues immediately approached us.
"One of my students got into the forbidden place and they said something strange happened there!"
"Let's go there immediately!"
"Come on !!" We along with other students and workers as well as several archaeologists including Mr. Burhan immediately rushed to the lower room. As soon as we got below, we were shocked because there was a very bright golden way of radiating from inside the room that was originally covered by the tarpaulin. As soon as we tried to enter, we saw Yuji floating in the middle of the room, shining gold while holding a strange object which was the source of the light.
Somehow we couldn't enter the room at all as if there was an invisible wall and our bodies became heavy when we were about to step toward my student.
"Yuji! Yuji! Get out of there Yuji!" We tried shouting many times, but Yuji didn't seem to flinch or couldn't even hear our screams. Until a few moments later Yuji looked turned around and realized, but when Yuji was about to leave suddenly the room turned dark again and the cave walls began to collapse. Until finally the mysterious door closed tightly and buried one of my students.