DAMAR WULAN(Bahasa Inggris)

DAMAR WULAN

         DAMAR WULAN WAS BORN IN THE VILLAGE OF PALUH AMBA ,NOT  FAR FROM THE CAPITAL CITY OF MAJAPAHIT . HE WAS THE SON OF UDARA , THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF MAJAPAHIT SINCE HIS FATHER HAD RETIRED HIS FAMILY LIVE IN A QUIET AND PROSPEROUS VILLAGE OUT SIDE THE CAPIT AL . DAMAR WAS A SMART BOY SO HE COULD EASILY LEARNED THE LESSONS HIS FATHER TAUGHT HIM . HE LEARNED MARTIAL ART , RELIGION , POLITICS, AND LITERATURE . HE WAS VERY GOOD AT ALL THOSE SUBJECTS . WHEN HIS FATHER THOUGHT THAT  HE IS MATURE ENOUGH , HE ASKED DAMAR TO FIND JOB IN MAJAPAHIT HE TOLD DAMAR TO APPLY FOR A JOB AT THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE . HE HOPED THAT HIS CLOSE RELATION WITH THE  NEW PRIME MINISTER WOULD HELP HIM GET THE PRIME MINISTER’S ATTENTION . FURTHERMORE DAMAR WAS A SMART BOY SO HIS FATHER WAS SURE DAMAR WAS CAPABLE TO DO ANY JOB .

               DAMAR WAS VERY CONFIDENT HE WOULD GET A GOOD POSITION AT THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE . EARLY MORNING HE LEFT HIS VILLAGE . AT MIDDAY  HE GOT TO MAJAPAHIT AND HE DIRECTLY WENT TO THE PRIME MINISTER’S HOUSE . PRIME MINISTER LOGENDER WAS HIS NAME . THE GUARDS SARCASTICALLY QUESTIONED HIM WHEN HE TOLD THEM HE WOULD SEE THE PRIME MINISTER .

     ‘ WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ?’

      ‘ I AM DAMAR WULAN . I AM THE SON OF THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER UDARA . MY FATHER TOLD ME TO SEE THE PRIME MINISTER HERE’

       ‘ IF YOU THINK YOU CAN IMPRESS US BY TELLING US ABOUT YOUR FATHER , YOU ARE COMPLETLY WRONG POOR BOY . THE SON OF A PRIME MINISTER WOULD NEVER GO ANYWHERE ON FOOT ‘

       ‘BUT ,THAT ‘S TRUE .MY FATHER TOLD ME TO FIND JOB HERE ‘

       ‘LISTEN POOR BOY,THE PRIME MINISTER IS A VERY  BUSY PERSON . HE DOES NOT HAVE TIME FOR JOB SEEKER LIKE YOU . BUT IF YOU NEED

               THEN THE SOLDIER REPORTED TO HIS SUPERIOR . AFTER THAT SOMEONE CALLED DAMAR TO GET INTO THE COMMANDER’S CHAMBER. HE TOLD DAMAR THAT THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE NEEDED SEVERAL BOYS TO TAKE CARE OF THE HORSES . DAMAR WAS SURPRISED BECAUSE HE EXPECTED CLERICAL JOB BUT THEN  HE ACCEPTED THE OFFER . SINCE THAT  DAY HE LIVED IN A SIMPLE HUT BEHIND THE PRIME MINISTER’S HOUSE .

               DAMAR DID A GOOD JOB SO HIS SUPERIOR WAS SATISFIED WITH HIM . HE WAS ALSO VERY SOCIABLE . SOON HE HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP  WITH THE PRIME MINISTER AND HIS FAMILY . THE PRIME MINISTER HAD TWO SONS –LAYANG SETO AND LAYANG KUMITIR AND A DAUGHTER-ANJASMORO . HIS SONS WERE VERY ARROGANT AND  LAZY . THEY TREATED DAMAR CRULRE . THEY WANTED DAMAR TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT . EVERY BODY HATED  THEM BUT NOBODY DARE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELING . ANJASMORO , ON THE OTHER HAND LIKED DAMAR VERY MUCH . GRADUALLY SHE FELL IN LOVE TO DAM AR . SO DID DAMAR . THEY HAD A SECRET LOVE . WHEN LAYANG SETO AND LAYANG KUMITIR KNEW WHAT HAPPENET TO DAMAR AND ANJASMORO ,THEY WERE VERY ANGRY . THEY TREATED DAMAR MORE AND MORE CRUELLY .

               AT THE TIME THE KINGDOM OF MAJAPAHIT FACED A VERY SERIOUS PROPLEM BECAUSE OF THE REBELLION OF MENAK JINGGO . HE WAS A HALF BROTHER OF THE QUEEN KENCONO WUNGU . HE WAS A PRINCE OF MAJAPAHIT AND A HIGHLY RESPECTED GENERAL OF THE MAJAPAHIT ARMY . FOR HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENT FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS FATHER APPOINTED HIM AS THE RULER FOR THE KINGDOM OF BLAMBANGAN ,A VASSAL STATE UNDER MAJAPAHIT .WHEN HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY HE WAS SURE  THAT HE WOULD BECOME THE SUCCESSOR . BUT HE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED WHEN HIS FATHER APPOINTED HIS SISTER INSTEAD . HE THOUGHT  THAT HE WAS MORE CAPABLE THAT KENCONO WUNGU SO HE REBELLED .

               MENAK JINGGO PROVED TO BE A GOOD GENERAL. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP THE BLAMBANGAN ARMY COULD WIN SEVERAL BATTLES WITH MAJAPAHIT ARMY . THE TERITORY OF MAJAPAHIT ONE BY ONE FELL TO BLAMBANGAN . AT THE TIME THE MORALE OF THE MAJAPAHIT ARMY WAS ALREADY DOWN . THEY WERE NOT SURE THAT THEY HE COULD WIN THE WAR . SO THE QUEEN AND THE PRIME MINISTER MET EVERYDAY  TO DISCUSS THE WORSENING SITUATION . SOME WEEKS WENT BY BUT STILL THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY IDEAS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM . EVERY REPORT THEY RECEIVED ABOUT THE  WAR WAS ONLY ABOUT  THE DEFEAT OF THE MAJAPAHIT AMRY.

               PRIME MINISTER LEGENDER WAS CSHOCKED WHEN HIS WIFE REPORTED TO HIM ABOUT THE AFFAIR OF ANJASMORO AND DAMAR WULAN. FOR A HIGHLY  RESPECTED PERSON LIKE HIM,IT WAS VERY SERIOUS BLOW TO HIS EGO.HE WAS A VERY RESPECTABLE PERSON  WHILE HIS DAUGHTER DATED A POOR  BOY. IT WAS A SERIOUS HUMILITION. HE COULD  NOT ACCEPT IT. THIS FACT MAD HIM VERY ANGRY. HE THOUGHT VERY HARD TO FIND A SOLUTION.SUDDENLY  AN  IDEA STRUCK HIS SHARP MIND  WHEN  HE WAS MEDITATING  AT MIDNIGHTING.

                EARLY IN THE MORNING  HE WENT TO THE  PALACE  AND ASKED  THE QUEEN FOR AN AUDIENCE. THEN HE EXPLAINED HIS PLAN.

“YOUR MAJESTY ,LAST NIGHT I  HAD AN IDEA”

“TELL ME ABOUT IT”

“OUT ARMY  COULD NOT  WIN BECAUSE WE APPLY  A WRONG STRATEGY . THE  BLAMBANGAN  ARMY IS  VERY GOOD  AT A FRONTAL  OPEN WARFARE  LIKE THAT. FURTHEREMORE  OUT ARMY’S  MORALE IS  NOW DOWN. SO WE  HAVE  TO AVOID  OPEN  WARFARE  .SINCE NOW  ON WE HAVE TO LAUNCH  A NEW  TACTICS  OF  OPERATION  . WE MUST  SEND A  SMALL ARMY  UNIT  TO KILL MENAK JINGGO SECRETLY”

“OUR ARMY COULD  WE APPLY  A WRONG STRATEGY.THE BLAMBANGAN  ARMY  IS VERY GOOD AT  A  FRONTAL  OPEN WARFARE  LIKE THAT. FUTHERMORE OUR ARMY’S MORALE IS NOW DOWN  SO WE HAVE  TO AVOID OPEN WARFARE. SINCE NOW ON WE HAVE TO LAUNCH A NEW  TACTICS OF SECRETBOPERATION.WE MUST  SEND A SMALL ARMY UNIT TO KILL MENAK JINGGO SECRETLY”

“WHO WILL DO THAT?”

“I HAVE A BODY GUARD .HIS  SKILL IN MARTIAL ART IS EXCELLENT.HE IS VERY CAPABLE  AT INDIVIDUAL  FIGHT.SO HE IS READY FOR THIS DUTY.I AM SURE HE IS THE RIGHT PERSON”

“OK, I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT.SEND HIM  AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO BLAMBANGAN.IF  HE CAN DO HIS JOB   WELL I WILL GIVE HIM GREAT  REWARD”

              WHEN LOGENDER  GOT HOME HE CALLED  DAMAR WULAN IMMEDIATELY.HE ASKED HIM ABOUT  HIS MARTIAL ART SKILL.DAMAR SAID HE HAD  MASTERED  SOME FIGHTING SKILL.HIS FATHER  HAD  TRAINED  HIM  PENCAK SILAT,THE INDOSIAN MARTIAL ART.AS A RESULT ,HE WAS VERY SKILLFUL AT USING SWORD,LANCE, AS WELL AS EMPTY HAND FIGHTING TECHNIQUE.THEN  LOGENDER ASKED HIM  TO FIGHT  BOTH LAYANG SETO AND LAYANG KUMITIR .BOTH OF THEM FOUGHT EMOTIONALY SINCE THEY HATED DAMAR VERY MUCH.BUT DAMAR SMART ,SKILLFUL,STRONG,AND TOUGH. IN JUST  SEVERAL HE MINUTES HE COULD  BEAT BOTH  OF THEM  WITHOUT DIFFICULTY.LOGENER WAS ANGRY BUT ALSO SATISFIED  SINCE HE FOUND  A  WAY TO GET  RID OT BOTH PROBLEMBS – HIS HOME  AND HIS COUNTRY.

“DAMAR,YOU ARE A GREAT FIGHTER.I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU.AND THAT’S  WHY YOU WILL  RECEIVE A HONOR TO FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY. NOW THERE IS A  REBELLION IN MAJAPAHIT. THE KING OF  BLAMBANGAN  HAS DONE  A CRIME .HIS NAME  IS MENAK JINGGO.FIND HIM IS PALACE AND BLAMBANGAN AND KILL HIM. ARE YOU READY?”

“YES,SIR I AM VERY GLAD TO  RECEIVE THIS ORDER . I WILL DO MY BEST”

                   THE NEXT DAY , VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING DAMAR WULAN LEFT MAJAPAHIT ALONE MEANWHILE PRIME MINISTE LOGENDER HAD IMPLEMENTED HIS OWN PLAN.HE PREPARED A SMALL ARMY UNIT UNDER THE LEADERSHIP  OF HIS TWO SONS.THEY WENT BEHIND DAMAR IN A DISTANT  SO THAT DAMAR DID NOT NOTICE THEM.THEY WENT SECRETLY SO NO ONE KNEW IT.THEIR TASK WAS NOT TO PROTECT DAMAR BUT TO KILL HIM AND SEIZE THE HEAD OF MENAK JINGGO IF HE COULD KILL  MENAK JINGGO.BUT IF DAMAR WAS KILLED THEN THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO.

                 SEVERAL DAYS LATER DAMAR WULAN ARRIVED  IN BLAMBANGAN.THE MAJAPAHIT ARMY KEPT ON SPYNG ON HIM.THEY WERE SUPRISED TO SEE DAMAR DID NOT DRECTLY ATTACK THE PALACE.HE APPLIED FOR A JOB INSTEAD.ONCE AGAIN HE WAS ACCEPTED TO WORK IN THE PALACE TO TAKE CAR OF THE HORSES.EVERYBODY  INCLUDING THE KING MENAK JINGGO  LIKED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS VERY POLITE AND HE DID HIS JOB WELL.HE WAS ALSO VERY HANDSOME THAT TWO OF THE KING’S WIFE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM.WAITO AND PUYENGAN WERE THE WIVES OF KING MENAK JINGGO.

                  AS EVERYBODY TRUSTED HIM ,IT WAS EASY FOR DAMAR TO SEARCH THE PALACE.HE KNEW WHERE MENAK JINGGO LIVED.ONE NIGHT HE SECRETLY JUMPED THE PALACE WALL TO KILL THE KING.FINALLY HE WAS INSIDE THE KING’S BEDROOM.BUT UNFORTUNATELLY THE KING  WAS READY TO WELCOME HIM.HE WAS NO MATCH FOR MENAK JINGGO.BUT MENAK JINGGO WAS A SMART PERSON.HE DID NOT KILL DAMAR INSTANTLY.HE WANTED TO GATHER INFORMATION FROM HIM.SO HE ORDERED HIS GUARDS.

“DON’T KILL HIM.LET HIM ALIVE,TREAT HIM WELL. I WILL QUESTION HIM TOMORROW”

“YES,YOUR MAJESTY’

                  HE ORDERED HIS MEN TO TREAT HIM WELL.HE EVEN LET WAITO AND PUYENGAN TO SEE DAMAR. BY DOING SO HE HOPED THAT DAMAR WOULD GIVE HIM VALUABLE INFORMATION. BUT DAMAR WAS ALSO A SMART PERSON. HE DATED WAITO AND PUYENGAN AND HE ASKED THEM THE WAY TO KILL MENAK JINGGO. SINCE  THE TWO WOMEN LOVED DAMAR THEY REVEALED A SECRET.

“NOBODY CAN HURT HIM.HE IS A THOUGH GUY AND HE IS PROTECTED BY GOD. GOD GAVE HIM A SECRET WEAPON CALLED WESI KUNING”

“WHAT IS THAT?”

“THAT’S  A GOLDEN AMULET.IT IS JUST A SMALL AMULET,AS SMALL AS A THUMB BUT IT IS VERY POWERFUL.ITS SHAPE IS LIKE A STICK. IT IS STORED IN HIS BEDROOM”

“HE IS A DANGEROUS MAN.WE HAVE TO STOP HIM.COULD YOU HELP ME FIND HIS AMULET?”

“I WILL HELP YOU IF YOU MARRY ME”

“SURE I WILL MARRY BOTH  OF YOU AS SOON AS CAN ARREST HIM”

                    HEN THEIR TURN TO AMUSE THE KING ARRIVED WAITO AND  PUYENGAN COULD GET INTO THE KINGS CHAMBER.THEY USED THAT OPPORTUNITY TO STEAL THE AMULET.THEN THEY GAVE IT TO DAMAR WULAN. MENAK JINGGO DID NOT REALIZE THEIR CONSPIRACY.WHEN THE NIGHT WAS VERY QUIET  THEY OPENED THE DOOR FOR DAMAR WULAN. THERE WAS A FIGHT BUT IT WAS TOO LATE FOR MENAK JINGGO .THE SUDDEN ATACK DID NOT GIVE HIM MUCH CHANE TO SURVIVE.CONSEQUENTLY DAMAR COULD BEAT HIS ENEMY AND MENAK JINGGO WAS BEHEADED.

                  DAMAR WULAN IMMEDIATELY LEFT BLAMBANGAN PALACE THAT NIGHT WHILE PROMISING WAITO AN PUYENGAN TO BE BACK AFTER HE RECEIVED THE REWA.