Off to the topic :)
This was supposed to be an answer to a challenge from a friend of mine, Putri Khairunnisa. Here is the challenge. And here is my answer; but i was too (damn!) late to collect it, so here you go:
The Tale of The Dark Unicorn (lanjutan versi saya *muhahahahaha)
Who says that a fairy tale always had a
happy ending? Well this is exactly what happened to the two brothers; as soon
as the unicorn saw the brothers, it started to step heavily into the ground
with its hooves, and it heads toward the younger brother. The older brother
managed to grab his sibling by his collar and pull him aside, but the unicorn
was too quick in changing direction and now he, the older brother, is being the
one targeted by the unicorn. There is no helping him then. The unicorn simply
stabbed him to death with its sharp horn.
The younger brother can’t do anything for a
while. In fact, his whole body feels numb and didn’t feels like it belongs to
him when he just stay there, staring at his brothers body which being gobbled
by the unicorn. He stand there, trying not to believe in all of his senses when
he watched the unicorn tear the older brother limbs apart and started to chew
on it before it moves to the stomach where it gruesomely gouged by the unicorn
horns. For a moment the unicorn stand there and glowering at the younger brother
while it masticated the gut of his older brother. Then the unicorn seemed to
grow tired of the older brother and started hovering for the younger brother.
The younger brother yelps and jumps
straight away, but this act has no use. In a second the unicorn was able to
tackle the younger brother down, and screeching it piercing teeth down the
younger brother legs. The younger brother screamed at the top of his lung when
his skin and flesh ripened away, showing his white bone. The next thing he
knew, he was no longer able to even saying a word since the unicorn has shifted
its position so the younger brother now trampled below the unicorn hooves. The
unicorn continued to trodden the younger brother and he began to feel out of
breath- to the point that he can no longer feel any pain at all. This is
somehow relish him, and he began to wonder when will the angel of death come
and get him, and soon his soul was leaving his body forever.
~*~
Years after the villagers left their
houses, a young man came to the village. The poor adolescent had been warned
about the darkness of the forest, along with its ominous creatures. Of course, the
most ferocious one, the black unicorn as well. Yes, the unicorn is now living
in the forest, since it succeeded in escaping the hell. Not even the devilish
monsters in hell could forbid the unicorn from its way to liberty. But after all, this brave juvenile didn’t
have many options either. He has to go through the forest in order to get a
rare herb, a main thing needed for his sister medicine, for his sister is now awfully sick and may even dead for any
moment.
Ever since the young man arrived at the
deserted village, he began to have strange dreams. He kept seeing a giant door,
and since it seems that he have to come across that door, he knocked on the
door over and over, kept pestering it with all his might, trying to barge in
whenever he can. But it was no use, and the door keep bulking in, stood there
with all its mightiness. And even after all that useless labor, he would start
it all over again until suddenly an immense power pulled and pushed him away
from the door. Then he would fall through some thick mist when out of nowhere,
two icy cold hands appear and abruptly hold his hands. His dreams always ended
here, and he usually wakes up with a jerk and shivers, a cold run down through
his spine. He feels as if someone, somewhere, was watching him all the time,
but he can’t even trace that person whereabouts. He remembered the ghastly
story being told after him, and horror came into his mind. He embarks on
disguising himself in every camouflage possible, and he never again rest
undefended. The shadow of monsters and the black unicorn haunted him
everywhere.
That way, the young man continued his
journey and begins to explore the forest. He endured his fear and persisted in
his objective, to find the rare herb. After such tiring expedition, he finally
found the herb. It shrub were full of large, hairy leaves with it small stem
which seems vulnerable if not for its tremendous thorns. He started to pick on
it, and from it stems a white, milky liquid trickled down and mixed with
morning dew. It was such a pleasant morning until an enormous black shadow
appears out of the blue behind him.
He turns around in alarm, and terror
overcomes him when he catches a glimpse of a black unicorn at his rear. Screaming
at the top of his voice, he dash into massive bushes, hoping that it would
cover him from the black unicorn. A gleaming sphere swiftly soars in his
direction, startles him and caused him to trip over a plants root and fell. He
rolls and bumps into the ground, and suddenly he stop. He realized that he was
in some kind of underground cave covered by roots and bushes, and through some
hard effort, he peeked outside.
Two
gleaming spheres were floating around the unicorn; halt it to chase the young
man. The unicorn snarl in frustration at those two spheres, and finally turns
it back in condemned retreat. The spheres slowly dissolve into thin air. The
young man breathes a sigh of relief, but he is still panting heavily and his
heart pulsating wildly. Suddenly the cave brightens, and the adolescent twitch
in anxiety. He spins and finds the two gleaming spheres behind him, and he
watched wearily when those two spheres gradually swift their shapes.
“No need to afraid, my dear man,” without
warning, a voice resonating dimly within the cave. The voice originated from
one of the spheres, but it no longer has it shape. Instead, a figure of man
stands facing the adolescent. “We don’t mean any harm to you.”
Another figure derived from the other
sphere began to speak as well. “We were the two brothers who created those
beasts and the black unicorn. We were killed by the black unicorn and our souls
supposedly transcend to heaven, but the door to heaven forbids us to get in.
Then we realized that we still have to take our responsibility for at least,
creating the black unicorn. It seems that the other beasts were quite harmless
if we compare it to the unicorn.” It stiffs for a while and continues, “We need
you to help us defeating the black unicorn. Please, my brave man, would you
lend us a hand?”
The young man staring devastated at the two
figures. “But you just prevent it from assault me! Surely you can put it down
by yourselves without my help!”
A figure shakes his head weakly. “We can’t.
While it is true that we now had more power to stop it, all we can do is simply
push it away for a moment. We can’t confront it, thus we can’t kill it.”
“Seems like we can’t touch it,” the other
figure says in addition to his brother explanation. “Not by ourselves, at
least. But you,” it stops and deepen its voice, “You can touch it. If there is
any chance for you to get near it, you can even kill it.”
“Why does it have to be me?” the young man
whimper in distress.
“To tell the truth, it doesn’t have to be
you. But if we prolonged the execution, there is a chance that it may get
stronger and we can no longer inhibit him to leave this forest. Imagine that
beasts come striding down your street. There would be a lot of ruckus; it will
frighten all of your people. It will send terror down your hills and make you
unable to sleep even in the most peaceful night. There would be a lot of people beaten to
death by the unicorn. Would you want that to happen?”
The young man takes his time to picture all
that said by the brothers. Then slowly, he lit his face up. Without any further
preach, the two brothers know that this juvenile, though still trembling with
fear, is determined to banish the most horrendous creature they ever created,
the unicorn. One of the brothers starts to give the young man some advice and
instruction, “To kill the unicorn, you must stab it straight in its heart, or
core, for it has no heart,” he adds bitterly. “The right spot is just between
its front legs, right below his neck. You have to aim at it with something
sharp ─ do you have anything like that?” Turns
out the young man have an arm-length knife with him, so the figure continues
its speech, “After you stabbed its core, you have to quickly run away and
defend yourself since the darkness from its core will pour out tremendously. If
you don’t be careful, it may possess you.” He lower his voice, “Do you
understand what I’m saying?” the young man nod, and the figure seems pleased.
“We will guard you all the time. Don’t worry, we will try to catch its
attention and prevent it from hurt you.”
The young man gritted his teeth and nodded
to show that he understands and ready. Suddenly they freeze to hear a brisk
sound nearby. And close enough, they see the unicorn stand outside the thorny
bushes. It snorts, ready to attack anyone in sight. The young man climb up from
the cave, and cautiously he approaches the unicorn, trying to keep himself out
of its sight. The next thing he knew, he already jump from the bushes toward the
unicorn, trying to avoid its flexing hooves. The unicorn jolt in alarm and the
two spheres take this chance to appear right in front of the unicorn, startle
it. The unicorn duck at the two spheres, loses its balance and fell to the
ground, bringing the young man, who is still between it front legs down with
it. The young man barge and shove his knife through the middle of the unicorn
front, right between its front legs and below its neck. The unicorn struggles
with all its might, but it no longer have the power to run or release itself
from the knife. The young man, writhe from pain and trying to escape from the
weight of an unicorn, pull his knife out and stab it again, hoping that its
wriggle will release him free from its legs.
But soon after the young man pulls his
knife out, a dark vapor accumulates from the unicorns wound. It mists over the
young man, and before he knew it, he was already engulfed in a heap of black
mist. He tried to get out, but the fog choked him, restrained him even after he
was freed from the unicorn hooves. Tear began to come on his eyes as he
realized that the dark vapor start to seep into his body. He closes his eyes in
anticipation, fearing what may come next.
An illuminating light unexpectedly appear
inside of his eyelids. He was astonished and slowly opened his eyes again. Just
from the corner of his eyes, he sees the two spheres sluggishly absorb the
darkness engulfing him.
“Dear son,” one of the spheres says,
“Please make sure to run this time. After some time we will explode, carrying
each tiny pieces of this darkness in our severed body.”
The
young man watched in horror while those two spheres continued to engross the
darkness and bulking up. “Then, what will happen to you?”
Sadly, the spheres answer, “It is our
destined fate to hold the responsibility of preventing these darkness to unite again. Do make sure of this thing young
boy, passed this story along with your successors. It would be good if they
have no trace of this darkness in their body, but even if they catch it, it
better be in a really small amount. Never let the darkness grow inside of you
or you’ll swallowed by it.” The sphere stops, and as it seems that it will really
go explode, the spheres shouted, “Run, brave man! Ensure you didn’t have any
trace of darkness inside your body!”
With that words, the young man turn around
and run with all his might. From the corner of his eyes, he can see the spheres
explode with a loud bang, but instead of releasing the darkness into a heap of
mist again, the darkness sprays, just like an aerosol. The young man covers
himself by hiding behind a giant tree, and he watches the darkness in really
tiny spheres, almost resembles a dot, being thrown out of the forest. Then it’s
quiet for a while, and abruptly, like someone has waked them up, the forest
crowd began to chatter in each language, overwhelming the silence.
~*~
And thus, is the story about how the
darkness was able to bring itself in our heart. And like the brothers said, it
is fine to have a little trace of darkness, but never, ever let it consumed
your utter self.
THE END
Well,
it's not much, but hopefully you'll be able to enjoy it. And a little
prayer on the fantasy side: dear God, please give me strength to finish
my TLT :'( it's been three years now and i haven't even been able to
move from the third chapter.
See you soon, I hope :)
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