Terror spread through the town.  No one could stop his terrible work of destruction until Danepan came down out of her house, and begged him to spare part of the people that she might have some from whom to borrow fire. [71] Her great beauty amazed him and he ceased killing, and asked her to prepare some betel-nut for him to chew, as he was very tired.  She did so, and when he had chewed the nut he spat on the people he had killed and they came to life again.  Then he married Danepan and took her to his home.

Now it happened about this time that the people of Magosang were in great trouble.  At the end of a successful hunt, while they were dividing the meat among themselves, the Komow, [72] a murderous spirit that looks like a man, would come to them and ask how many they had caught.  If they answered, “Two,” then he would say that he had caught two also; and when they went home, they would find two people in the town dead.  As often as they went to hunt the Komow did this, and many of the people of Magosang were dead and those living were in great fear.  Finally they heard of the brave man, Sayen, and they begged him to help them.  Sayen listened to all they told, and then said: 

“I will go with you to hunt, and while you are dividing the meat, I will hide behind the trees.  When the Komow comes to ask how many deer you have, he will smell me, but you must say that you do not know where I am,”

So the people went to hunt, and when they had killed two deer, they singed them over a fire and began to divide them.  Just then the Komow arrived and said: 

“How many have you?”

“We have two,” replied the people.

“I have two also,” said the Komow, “but I smell Sayen.”

“We do not know where Sayen is,” answered the people; and just then he sprang out and killed the Komow, and the people were greatly relieved.

Now when Kaboniyan, [73] a great spirit, heard what Sayen had done, he went to him and said: 

“Sayen you are a brave man because you have killed the Komow, Tomorrow I will fight with you.  You must remain on the low ground by the river, and I will go to the hill above.”

So the following day Sayen went to the low ground by the river.  He had not waited long before he heard a great sound like a storm, and he knew that Kaboniyan was coming.  He looked up, and there stood the great warrior, poising his spear which was as large as a big tree.

“Are you brave, Sayen?” called he in a voice like thunder as he threw the weapon.

“Yes,” answered Sayen, and he caught the spear.

This surprised Kaboniyan, and he threw his head-ax which was as large as the roof of a house, and Sayen caught that also.  Then Kaboniyan saw that this was indeed a brave man, and he went down to Sayen and they fought face to face until both were tired, but neither could overcome the other.

When Kaboniyan saw that in Sayen he had found one as strong and brave even as himself, he proposed that they go together to fight the people of different towns.  And they started out at once.  Many people were killed by this strong pair, and why they themselves could never be captured was a great mystery.  For it was not known that one was the spirit Kaboniyan, and the other the son of an Alan.