Invulnerable

Trapped in hell (not like underworld but a place as bad)

Trapped in hell (not like underworld, but a place as bad)

Dreams and nightmares! They always caused me trouble.  Anyways.  Harpie was shrinking in size and I was not.  Desperate to leave Kamha behind, she flapped her wings as hard as she could, flying straight forward, but the giant snake looked murderously angry. 

Terrified, I did the first thing I should have done, I scanned the skies for Kalki and he was flying upwards.

“Tell your bird to fly upwards as fast as he can!” He screamed.

“Harpie! Buddy, you need to move upwards.” I said as calmly as I could, stroking his neck.  Fortunately, she listened to me and was now moving upwards in a superfast speed.  As we flew upwards, Harpie’s size increased.  I looked down and saw that Kamha was not following us anymore.  He looked up straight into my eyes.  There was only one word I could see there; vengeance, the snake would take revenge for this.

When Kalki saw that Kamha was no longer following them; he came down to my height and Harpie flew peacefully again.

“What happened?” I asked him.

“You were sleeping when we reached the Bay of Bengal, everything was fine.  The water was blue too, and then, out of nowhere, Kamha came.  Harpie was not listening to me.  I guess he is still angry about the time when the monster abducted you.  He would not let me get you on my dragon- bat monster and was not even obeying me and flying upwards,” Kalki said with a shrug. “What did you see this time?” he asked me.

“You figured out I had another nightmare?” I asked.

“Yes, so what happened this time?”

“He’s interfering with my sleep now, Shiva.  He showed me all the horrible stuff that would happen if we try to wage a war.  He says the people will still die, but if he gets to perform the tandava, he’ll put the mortals to sleep before.  Do you think he really doesn’t know about that Kali is behind all this?” I asked him.

“I think he does, he just does not want to admit it.” Kalki said.

“Gods!” I shouted and shook my head.  “What do we do now?”

“I guess we should land somewhere in Kolkata.  We need a plan by day break so we better get started and find shelter.”

We were both going on super-fast speed, our pets racing against the wind.  The both fought to be in the lead.  Showing off, my bird was showing off to a monster!  No wonder she was goddess Lakshmi’s vahana.

We landed on a deserted street called Mayfair road.  Harpie shrunk back to her normal size and I put her back in BOD, Kalki’s pet took flight.

We were searching for a house that might accept two minors…with weapons.  We had walked about half an hour before deciding upon someone’s mansion.  We entered the garden.  The house was old fashioned and shabby.  I had a feeling that this ancient house was quite safe, except, the ceiling might fall down of course.

There was not even a bell, only a door knocker.  When I knocked, the sound echoed in the house.  I was having second thoughts about this lodge; it looked too creepy now, up close.

“May I help you?” said a terribly old man while opening the door.  By the looks of it, I had a feeling this guy was still there when the house was building.

I pasted my best puppy dog look on my face.  “Yes you may.  We have nowhere to stay for the night.  We um…stumbled away from this orphanage.  They didn’t treat us well out there.  We were wondering if you might provide us with some shelter till tomorrow morning?” I asked concentrating very hard to maintain the innocent look.