Ethan fearlessly rushed to the rescue, his talisman clutched tightly in his hand. This was his last and only hope, besides Adhwa. As he confronted the body double of Sundel Bolong, the air crackled with tension. The creature had already slashed at others, leaving chaos in its wake. With determination, Ethan countered its vicious slash mid-air with his talisman. The force of the impact scorched the creature's hand, but to his dismay, it healed faster than he had anticipated. In a swift motion, it grabbed Ethan by the neck, its grip tightening like a vice.
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Reacting instinctively, Ethan lifted his foot and kicked the creature squarely in the face. Instead of recoiling, it retaliated angrily, roaring directly into Ethan's face, a sound that reverberated through the clearing. With a sudden, powerful throw, it slammed Ethan to the ground, but he managed to land on his feet. Seizing the moment, he moved behind the creature with swift precision, plunging his talisman deep into its back, targeting the wound he had created.
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As he pulled the talisman vertically, ripping through its flesh, the creature shrieked in agony. Black blood gushed out, and a cloud of smoke began to emanate from its body as it started to dry up. Finally, it collapsed to the ground, motionless. Ethan felt a surge of relief wash over him; he had done it. Yet, despite his triumph, he refrained from celebrating. Deep down, he understood that this was merely a mimicry of Sundel Bolong's full power, and the real battle was still ahead.
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As the other Sundel Bolong caught up to Adhwa during their intense supernatural clash, she quickly reacted, stabbing its chest with one of the wooden stakes. The stake pierced deep, emerging gruesomely from its back. The creature let out a bone-chilling shriek of pain, collapsing onto one knee, revealing the extent of its injury.
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In that fleeting moment of distraction, Adhwa turned her attention to Ethan, who had just triumphantly taken down the body double of the Sundel Bolong. However, the real threat was still looming. With a sudden surge of aggression, the Sundel Bolong lunged forward, wrapping its arms around Adhwa in a desperate embrace. In a horrifying twist, it plunged the wooden stake deeper into her own chest, a cruel act of betrayal and desperation.
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Adhwa gasped, the shock of the attack washing over her as pain radiated through her body. The world around her began to blur, and she struggled to grasp the gravity of the situation.
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Ethan, witnessing the horror unfold before him, rushed in to help Adhwa. His heart raced as he sprinted toward them, determined to confront the Sundel Bolong once more. The air crackled with tension, and just as he was about to reach her side, the creature turned its gaze upon him, its eyes filled with a haunting malice that sent chills down his spine.
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In an instant, an unseen force surged through the air, slamming into Ethan with a brutal impact. He was thrown backward, crashing into Sari and the others, who were struggling to nurse their injuries. The impact knocked the wind out of him, and for a moment, he lay dazed on the ground, trying to gather his thoughts amidst the chaos surrounding him.
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Sari quickly caught him, her hands steadying him as he blinked to clear his vision. Leaning in close, she whispered something into his ear, her voice a soothing balm against the fear that threatened to overwhelm him. "You can do it, Ethan, one last time," she urged, her words igniting a flicker of hope within him. The warmth of her encouragement wrapped around him like a lifeline, pulling him back from the brink of despair.
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Adhwa writhed, her body pierced alongside the Sundel Bolong by the cruel stake, a macabre dance of two souls tethered by pain. With a desperate heave, she tore herself free, the agony like fire in her veins. She collapsed, her breath ragged, as Ethan emerged from the shadows, his face set in grim determination.
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With a swift motion, he plunged the Talisman into the Sundel Bolong's skull. The air crackled, the Talisman sparking like a live wire, igniting the creature's hair into a grotesque halo of flame. It roared, a sound not of this world, trying to shake Ethan off, but he clung with the ferocity of a man possessed, his arms locked around the monstrous form.
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They battled their way to the edge of the roof, the city sprawling below like a dark sea. The Sundel Bolong, with its feet now magnetically adhered to the concrete, fought back with a vengeance, its eyes blazing with unholy light. But Adhwa, fueled by a mix of love and despair, lunged forward, tackling both herself and the creature off the precipice of the 15-story building.
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As they plummeted, the Sundel Bolong hissed, "What are you doing?"
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Tears streaming, Adhwa's voice trembled, "I'm sorry, Mom! You have to go down, even if I go with you." She wrapped her arms around the creature, embracing it in a fatal hug, both hurtling towards the bamboo shoot waiting below, sharp and unforgiving.
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In the last moment, the Sundel Bolong summoned her fading dark power, hurling Adhwa back towards the roof with a final, mournful smile. Adhwa soared, time slowing as she watched the bamboo spear through the creature with a sickening crunch, the sound echoing like a death rattle up to the sky.
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She landed back on the roof, her feet hitting the ground with a thud, her heart breaking as she witnessed the end of the thing that was once her mother. She stifled her sobs, the scene below a tableau of horror.
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Ethan was there, catching her as her strength ebbed, whispering, "I got you, I got you, you will be alright," his voice a lifeline in the chaos. Her wounds wept crimson, her consciousness flickering like a dying bulb.
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He called out, and soon, others arrived, their faces masks of concern. Adhwa, half in this world, vomited a dark, viscous sludge, her body convulsing before she inhaled deeply, life flooding back into her eyes.
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Above, a helicopter's blades sliced through the night, its searchlight piercing the darkness, landing with a roar on the rooftop. Budi emerged, his body a patchwork of bandages, his presence a testament to their shared ordeal. With him were two men, armed and silent, their clothes speaking of efficiency and danger.
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Together, they hoisted the wounded—Sari, Mark, Jason, and Trent—into the helicopter, the rotors whipping the air into a frenzy. Budi stood beside Ethan and Adhwa, now conscious but forever changed, watching their friends ascend into the night sky, leaving behind the echoes of their battle and the silent, still form of the Sundel Bolong below.
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Budi embraced Adhwa, tears streaming down his cheeks, his voice breaking, "I'm sorry, love. I was blind and stupid. You are worth more than every penny I own." His sobs were raw, each one a confession of guilt.
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Adhwa, cold and silent, felt the pain like a shard of ice in her heart. Yet, she returned his hug, her voice a whisper of forgiveness, "It's alright, Dad. I forgive you." Her words were a balm, but the wound was deep.
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Ethan stood aside, watching this poignant reunion, his mind suddenly snapping back to his cameras, still rolling on the ground. He retrieved them, his anger flaring as he saw the blood-smeared lenses had ruined most of the footage. But then, a realization dawned - the world would likely dismiss it all as fiction anyway, for who truly believed in the supernatural?
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The helicopter returned, its blades cutting through the heavy air to take Budi, Ethan, and Adhwa away. Yet, Adhwa, in a voice choked with sorrow, pleaded, "Let me see her one last time."
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They landed at the base of the hotel, the night air thick with the scent of death. There, in the dim glow of the helicopter's lights, lay the corpse of the Sundel Bolong, now eerily resembling Adhwa's mother. Adhwa's sobs broke the silence, a lament for what once was.
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The ground trembled, as if the very earth was recoiling from the sight. They stepped back, watching from a safer distance as the creature began to stir, the bamboo shoot that had impaled it now snapping under its supernatural strength.
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"Is that you, Mom?" Adhwa's voice trembled with hope and fear.
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"No, Adhwa, that's not your mom," Budi warned, his grip on her arm tightening. "She's just trying to cling to life, to steal your soul!"
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The creature, now a grotesque mimicry of Adhwa's mother, took a step forward, its smile chilling the air. But then, as if reconsidering, it turned, walking back into the darkness of the abandoned hotel, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions and a daughter's undying grief.
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The moment the spectral figure of the Sundel Bolong slipped into the building like a shadow into darkness, Budi gave a grim nod to his two men, who had made sure the others were a safe distance away. With a cold, calculated motion, one of them pressed a button on a grimy controller, and the earth beneath the structure yawned open with a series of mines. The explosion erupted with a ferocity that seemed to rip the very air apart, a sound so monstrously loud that it forced them all to clamp their hands over their ears in a futile attempt to block out the apocalypse. Dust billowed up in a choking cloud, enveloping them in a gritty embrace. As the dust began to settle, the building groaned, its death rattle echoing in the sudden silence, before it began its slow, inevitable collapse, each brick and beam tumbling down like the last notes of a dirge.
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In the very heart of pandemonium, as the building groaned and crumbled like a beast in its death throes, Adhwa clung to Ethan, seeking sanctuary in his trembling arms. Side by side, they witnessed the ghastly apparition of the Sundel Bolong, her wail slicing through the cacophony like a knife through flesh. 'Adhwa...' Each syllable was a dagger of despair, 'my daughter...' The debris rained down like the wrath of an angry god, striking her head with a cruel precision, 'my little girl...' Her voice, now a whisper against the roar of destruction, 'my baby...' as the earth itself seemed to rebel, rocks tumbling, pushing her into the abyss of oblivion. Yet, in her final moments, her hands clawed at the air, desperate, as if trying to hold onto the very essence of life, her screams a haunting echo as the hotel devoured her, sinking into the earth's maw. Adhwa, turning away, felt tears carve rivers down her face, the weight of loss pressing down like a leaden shroud as the hotel, and with it, her world, disappeared into the void, as if it had never existed.
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The End
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I wanna end here but i will leave you all with a teaser of what may come next.
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