16 1.16: The Keris that Cannot KILL! (1/2)

”Now keris I return. Protect you from harm and evil. Try now and see.” said the old man to me while handing the keris back to me. I was wondering earlier what other foods the old sage of the keris was craving other then Roasted Chicken Whole Thigh. I realized that it was a type of offering that was meant for the Deities but I am pretty sure this old sage sure had some standards when comes to eating.

I took the keris that the old man handed me and instantly I felt that the keris had gained some additional weight than before. There was a slight throbbing sensation to it as if it's alive or seemed to somehow try to communicate with my inner soul. I slowly drew out the keris and I unsheathed it.

The three brothers were looking at me silently unawares that the keris that was emitting a slight glow and the throbbing sensation was only seen or felt by me. I handed Cheng the keris and told him to check it out.

”Seems normal to me but I think the keris after it had gone through the ceremony seemed to be cleaner and there wasn't any speck of rust anywhere around the curvy blade,” he remarked after scrutinizing it closely.

The other brothers took turns handling the Keris and yet had not found any abnormalities to it. The moment the keris was in their hands, I noticed that the keris had returned to its normal state is just a blade with a hilt and no significant aura was noticed when it was in their hands. The moment the keris was handed back to me then it returned to its glow and throbbing sensation.

”Keris is with the owner. The power within released. Others use no power and strength. Just metal blade feeling.” the old man explained as I held it close to me and sheathed it back.

”Now go meditate. Keris in hand. Go....” the old man instructed and I picked myself up and slowly headed straight to the darn rough circular shaped mat made by strands of coconut husk at the gazebo that would instantly prick one's butt after sitting on it.

As I slowly positioned myself and sat down on the mat, I held the keris in my right hand and closed my eyes to cleared my mind and enter a state of blissful, peace and serenity. I gripped the middle of the sheathed keris and began my meditation. My left hand was holding on to my left knee as usual.

A few moments later I could feel the keris and me were somewhat entwined and became one body and one soul. This was an indescribable sensation when the keris merged. Soon, visions of a fierce hand to hand combat soon took over the darkness of my mind. I was suddenly faced off with two shadowy opponents and was performing some low and mid kicks towards a formidable enemy while parrying off attacks using my elbows and hands towards another. In short, I was soon having a triangular sort of sparring session with those two opponents at the same time, attacking me from both angles.

I managed to hold the upper hand of being in an advantageous position where none of the opponents would be able to subdue me or in any way put me in a life-threatening position. With the keris in hand, I became more confident and was able to time my attacks and defense effectively.

Within an instant, I transformed from a noob with little or no knowledge of the martial arts right into a full-blown hardcore martialist! Visions of the earlier battle were etched in my mind and it seemed that I had learned the movements of stances, attacks, and defense all from my form of meditation. I 'downloaded' the sparring session into my memory bank and thus I managed to learn moves that I had never learned before. The agility of a cat, the speed of a cheetah and the attacks of an Eagle that was swooping down to earth from the sky above!

Then I felt the keris was in my hand and was performing slashes at the mid abdomen and stabs at chest level of the two opponents. I was basically crouching and springing on the backs of my heel as I sprinted towards the opponent and performing leaps and bounds that I had never thought I could execute. and it too evaded my attacks.

I slashed my keris from the right to the left at one opponent and I deftly used the momentum to twirl around and delivered a spinning back kick using my left leg. The opponent was kicked in the midsection and stumbled backward. I then took the opportunity and leaped high in from of it and delivered a slamming kick on the head.

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The opponent disappeared with a puff of light smoke.

I sprinted to the other opponent and delivered a flying kick using my right foot. It too stumbled back and when I landed I back kick using my left foot. Then I made a small leap to alleviate my body and aimed my leaping roundhouse kick at its head. Upon landing, I executed an almost smooth crescent kick towards its head again.

When the opponent was staggering to gain its balance, I surged forward; gripped its back of the neck and trusted my keris upwards into his midsection and straight up into the chest cavity.

The opponent looked up and then it too disappeared into a puff of smoke.