The story ends this way…
Few houses from the traffic lights, somebody was glaring and witnessed the descend with no shock shows on his face from his bedroom windows behind a curtain…he mentioned nothing and just close his curtain and return to his bed to sleep….
he never mention of what he saw to anyone ever…because in his mind, only he knows the true reason behind the killings and why the traffic lights turns red on all side…
he thought to himself…this is not the first time and it will not be the last….and his mind is taken back 63 years ago when he was 6 when his grandparents was still alive and well…
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*knock, knock*
the grandpa: who’s there?
the worried dad: Tuk, my daughter is sick..
the grandpa: come in cu, let me take a look…
The worried dad and his entourage brought the sick with much resistance into the house hoping the grandpa can help his daughter with her condition…this was the time when clinic and hospital are scarce, and shaman, dukun and the likes were the people who seemed to be able to help for some illness, especially spritual…
The sick, was found running towards the end of the forest by the worried dad and the search entourage after been missing for almost a week, at this time was having a seizure, punching and kicking everyone who were holding her, pale white eyes, her blood veins were dark green as it were showing, her hairs seemed as if they have their own mind, moving and hitting the entourage, her nails were black as night and her teeth, her mouth were salivating like a rabid dogs, and her voice, deep sinister voice lets out a faint grunt…
the grandpa, known for his capabilities to ‘heal’ people with such condition took a deep look on the sick, not physically but rather deeper than the eyes can see into the soul of the sick…and what he saw was as what he expected….
A little girl of age 8 was held by what seemed to be the exact being that was seen by everyone else physically…
the grandpa: who are you? and why are you holding this girl?
the ’sick’: im no one and she’s the one who grabbed me…
the grandpa: how so?
the ’sick’: i was going home and she crossed…
the grandpa: crossed?
the ’sick’: yes, at the cross point…
the grandpa: okay…now please let her go, she didnt mean any harm…has you finish your unfinished business in this world?
the ’sick’: yes, and i’m taking her home with me…
the grandpa: no your not…
the ’sick’: *snicker* try and stop me…
the grandpa, at this time, back to real time, touched the sick physical body and recited few verse from Al Quran…started with Al - fatihah, then, the 3 Qul, Ayat Qursi, Surah Yassin and then he prayed…
Few moment passed and then…
the grandpa: let’s bring the sick to the cross point…
the worried dad + the entourage: huh? but isn’t it forbidden?
the grandpa: don’t worry, Allah will protect us…
And so they all went to the cross point, 3 large Merbau Berdarah was standing there firmly, with the middle one slightly shorter the other 2…The entourage gently placed the sick at the bottom of the middle tree while and the grandpa again recited verses of Al Quran and pray…the sick suddenly stood up and glared around, and then let out a loud but chilling scream and fell flat on her dad’s lap…
Then the girl, sick no more, slowly opened her eyes…
the girl: daddy, where am i?
the worried dad: safely with me *sobbing*, safely with me…
The grandpa asked everyone to return to his place for final check up…
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Few villages from the grandpa’s house, in a coffee shop..
The coffee drinker: hey, did u hear, somebody found ali’s body in the forest, all bloody and torned…seemed like he was attacked by a tiger…
The mee goreng eater: really aaa? wahhh, i never thought we had any tiger near our village..
The shop owner: Ya lorrr, i also never heard of any tiger spotted before…maybe lost from somewhere…
The coffee drinker: maybe laa, better not roam in the forest alone or without weapon…
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Everyone left the grandpa’s house by now, only left the grandpa and his ever so obedience only grandkid…
the obedience grandkid: tuk..what happened to her?
the grandpa: she was possed my child..
the obedience grandkid: ooo, how so? and why did we go to the 3 merbau berdarah trees place?
the grandpa: the trees area are the point where long time before when the founder of our village and the villages around us used to dump the souls that possessed people…sometimes, souls of the people are murdered also descent through there… and if somebody was to be there during a crossing, the soul will possess the body to get its revenge… that’s why i forbid you from playing around that area…
the obedience grandkid: ……
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Now, 63 years after, the man reminisce the memory and how the village and the forest had fallen victim to the urbanization to that area…
the 3 merbau berdarah trees area was clear to make way for roads and housing area although with much protest from the earlier generation, however changes were inevitable…
The area might seemed to change but the effect is not…once in a while, where once stood the 3 Merbau Berdarah, which is now replaced by traffic light for pedestrians crossing will turned red on all side signifying there’s a disturbed soul descending and no living human should cross at that time…

