Once upon a time there was a mighty mountain deity named Uryu. She possess the power to control the northern wind, which made her one of the most powerful deities during the Bang tang dynasty. Aside from being one of the most powerful deities, she also holds the crown of the most beautiful deity in the realm of gods. Everyone look up towards her beauty. For they say that her beauty could calm a strong storm and tame a fatal beast. There is even a story that a king fell in love towards her beauty that he summoned all his men and used all his fortune to find her on every corner of the kingdom. But none of them has ever found her, which made the king lost his sane.
One day her niece named Monggay visited him in the mountain. He is also a deity but mortal blood runs through his veins. For his deity father named Adlaw that guards the streams, had fallen in love with his mortal mother. According to the stories narrated by the spirit of the streams who had witnessed how they had fallen in loved with each other. Bulan the mortal mother of Monggay was peasant who fetches water on the stream every day to sell it to the houses in their neighborhood. One night as she was fetching water she stepped on a slippery rock and fell to the water. As she taught that she would die a hand reach her and she was saved and there she meet Adlaw. Uryu loves her niece so much, even though the other deities doesn’t like him for the reason that he isn’t a complete deity. However despite of this Uryu never failed to make Monggay feel loved.
The following day Uryu and Monggay happily wander, eat and had fun in the mountain. However an enormous tiger ridding a cloud came telling Uryu that she is needed in the realm of gods, to deal with an important matter. Due to this unexpected happening Uryu left the mountain towards her niece, but she strictly told him “My niece before I left I would like to tell you do not open the box that lays at the bottom of the golden trumpet tree. For that box holds evil things.” and he nodded in response.
As Uryu left with the enormous tiger, Monggay lay on the grass and looked up at the clear blue sky. However no matter how hard he tries, he cannot hold his curiosity which lead him towards going to the said tree. As he arrived he saw the golden trumpet tree. If his assumption is right the tree might be a thousand years old. Based on how big and tall it looks. As he walked closer he saw a shining golden box embedded with precious stones. He grab the box and tried to shake it, but he heard nothing. He even tried to open the box, but he could not since it is locked.
Therefore he looked for the key on the surrounding where the tree stands. He looked at the bottom of the rocks, on the grass, he even lifted a nest to look for the key. But he wasn’t able to find it. As he was about to give up he saw a stream nearby, then he taught maybe the spirits of the stream could help. He went to the stream and called them, lucky there where spirits playing and went to him. He asked them if they know about a key that could open the box that lays at the golden trumpet tree. The spirits was hesitant to speak about it and was about to turn their back when Monggay plead to them. Since his father was the deity of the stream they gave up and told him where it was. In just a short period of time after the spirits told him where it was he was able to find it.
As he was about to open the box, a fragment of a memory of what her aunt told him about the box snaps in his head. “My niece before I left I would like to tell you do not open the box that lays at the bottom of the golden trumpet tree. For that box holds evil things.” However he still attach the key to the keyhole and turned it. As he slowly opened the box the surrounding began to shake that made the ground torn apart into two. The sky rolled a very lou thunder that he went deaf for a moment and the wind blow strongly that the trees in the surrounding was almost bowing down like a king had passed by. Then a mysterious pitch dark smoke came out of the box, and disappeared in thin air.
Because of fear his knees wobble like crazy. Which made him sat on the ground and the next thing happened tears started falling from his emerald green eyes like waterfalls. Suddenly a cold wind blow and he saw his aunt the mighty mountain deity in front of him. Monggay told him everything and apologized. Even though Uryu was a bit upset because of her niece unlikely act, but still she manage to hug him tightly assuring him that everything will be all right. Then she picked a leaf from the golden trumpet tree and sing a magic spell. The leaf floated in the air and it started to glow. Then it became a golden firefly, which Uryu called hope. She then looked at Monggay and held his hand, she pressed it lightly and uttered “even though darkness and evil had been released in the mortal world, for as long as this golden firefly that symbolizes hope is present. I can assure you and all the mortals that everything would be alright”.
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