THE UPRISING (PART ONE OF DEVI SERIES)

CHAPTER 5-SCALE OF THINGS GOT BIG MAN

With that message an attachment of a location was also there.
As soon as I opened that location, it came out to be an abandoned factory in the outskirts of the city near the airport and for those of you who don't know Bangalore's airport is actually outside the city of bangalore.
5 mins after i opened the message i reached another text

'Be there at 5 pm 
Tomorrow
Thrilled to see you there

Regards
Maharishi yamikanand'

So after travelling 50 kms for almost 2 and half hours, I reached the factory.
Thanks to the fact that I have already witnessed a lot of weird things , things don't surprise me anymore.
The factory although had nothing spectacular per say. I mean it was an old dusty abandoned factory with dust, cobwebs and rotten smell around and in the air.
Suddenly i received another text message
Which was vague but again it was a text message from a muscular maharishi ,if not vague what else can you expect it to be.

'Come inside
Count your steps
19 steps forward
Turn left then take 10 steps
Then turn right and take 5 steps
You will see a burning torch on your left
And a normal torch on right
Using the left torch burn the right one
And move 10 steps forward

Follow them diligently
Regards
Maharishi yamikanand'

I did as I was told and followed the directions diligently.
The setting was spooky and creepy for sure and nothing i repeat nothing good ever happens in abandoned factories, i have watched enough movies and tv series to understand this.
As soon as I lit the right torch the whole setting changed. Instead of an abandoned factory, I was standing in the middle of what seemed like a hall of gods. Brightly lit room,  for a second I was able to understand what happened. But soon enough my eyes were able to adjust to the brightly lit room. The room was good enough to encompass around 300 to 500 people. The room was well built with marble tiles all around it felt like I was in a treasury room from the era of Alexandria the great. It was then I realized that I was surrounded by  statues of devas, demigods and gods all around me.
The whole pantheon of greek, egypt, roman, norse and indian gods in a stone form was staring at me.
I slowly and steadily kept walking while the gaze of the status kept on shifting. It felt like those statues were alive and at any given moment one of the statues would come out in a real form. It was scary and so I kept my head down and kept on walking.
The end of the room was marked by two statues of eight trunked elephants and as glad as I was that I was out of that room, what I saw next blew my mind.
I saw a room full of people running here and there . Everyone was wearing a white coat and blue denim jeans with a swastika logo printed on the coat.
In the center of the room was a machine that looked like a computer or machine from 2050 probably. The machine was shaped like the same eight trunked elephant and each of the eight trunks had a screen attached to it. The base of the machine laid many wires that were connected to some small screen near the machine.
As I was observing all this maharishi yamikananad,naina along with two more people saw me aweing in wonder and stealthy walked towards me.
"Did you like it?" maharishi yamikanand said while nudging me a little bit. Also scaring me half to death and bringing me to the world of living from the comatose state I was in.
I was awestruck and as much as I loved the places, the words in my mouth were not in agreement and hence I kept mum.
"Well nonetheless welcome to the armageddon" said maharishi while doing a whole arm pose like srk does in his movies
Before i could have questioned anything 
Maharishi introduced me to the two people who were standing and staring at me during this whole charade.
"This is ahimaya and rajesh.
Ahimaya would help you regarding all the physical combat skills, meanwhile rajesh would be your part for all the technical aspects of your upcoming journey." Said Maharishi 
All three of us shook hands with each other and with extreme awkwardness in the air all 4 of us started following maharishi to the center of the room .

Maharishi waved his hand and the screen on the trunk pad started glowing
"Take these and put them on" naina said while passing some earpiece towards me
I looked at Rajesh who smiled sheepishly towards me while putting on his earpiece.
Suddenly a video started playing in front of my eyes.
It all started with a hero gone rogue.It  was the night of the full moon, the legendary warrior dalakeshwar was leading a conquest against the asura rani (the queen of asura)  .Dalakeshwar was one of our own. He was the best out of the best. Excellent at physical combat and in weapons training. Master strategist and tactics player. He was a perfect soldier. Strong with lean muscular figure, the blue hue coloured eyes of dalakeshwar along with the macho beard he opted for, he was a catch for everybody around him.He never had any weakness until he fell in love. 
Rabhya , as elegant her name was, she was also a fierceful leader. Coming from the lineage of the females who bear the helm of devi. With being the epitome of beauty and romance, rabhya and dalakeshwar is a forgotten love story. 
Forgotten because the story ended with such tragedy that it changed dalakeshwar forever.
The conquest that dalakeshwar was leading took his whole family from him
The asura rani was a skilled deceptionist and sorceress trained by the sages at the sacred  hills of   . Her deception was so strong that she tricked many dewas to do her bidding.
The army against asura mata was small, but that small army was everything to dalakeshwar
Rabhya- his lover, abhishm and batusha - his best friends along with rakshasha - his half demon sister and vaishva -his half dev brother , dalakeshwar breached the halls of demon successfully.
Little did he know he was straight walking into asura mata's trap and was leading his loved one to their death.
The whole hall of demons was rigged by asura mata herself as soon as they stepped the whole hall blew up.
Rabhya having the devi helm survived along with dalakeshwar. All four abhishm, batusha, rakshasha died on the spot and with having no clue of vaishva
Dalakeshwar's body was pierced by a piece of metal that went inside out of his stomach.
Seeing the only way to make sure her love survives, rabhya transferred her energy to dalakeshwars body and rabhya with this act of sacrifice got mixed with the celestial energy.
The grief-stricken Dalakeshwar , with his newly acquired powers, marched straight to asura rani. But that is exactly what Rani wanted him to do. Using her powers of deception and mind manipulation Rani went deep into the mind of dalakeshwar whose mind was already fighting with the fact that in just past one hour he lost his whole family. As easy as it was to breach his mind, asura mata seeded his mind with deception and tricked his mind into thinking how it was the gods who blew up the halls of demons.
Being half demon , the hatred that formed in the mind and heart of dalakeshwar gave rise to  many new demons along with a new devi. The only difference between the original and new devi was that this devi was born to serve dalakeshwar and asura rani and is fueled by adharma.

Meanwhile the already weakened vaishva, managed to breach and reach the queen too.
During the final stage of Rani's plan and after the creation of the devil. Vaishva used all ounces of her strength throwing the suriken of fire at asura rani.
To the attack ,Vaishva acquired a very big and harsh response from the devil. Summoning the celestial trishul of devi , she shoved it right through the stomach of vaishva.
Lying at her last breath , vaishva cursed the asura mata 
( in every reincarnation the amalgamation of devi and his family would end your life")

Before closing her eyes with this life,asura mata cursed the army that marched against her.
"In all of eternity, in all of time and space ,dalakeshwar and his reincarnation would face the loss of family till exist the mani of hatred, with devi killing dalakeshwar every time"
While everything was happening ,dalakeshwar was unconscious due to the seeding in his brain. Seeing his dead sister in front of his eyes, dalakeshwar rage fueled furthermore 
After gathering an army for almost 50 years, dalakeshwar attacked the reign of gods, the war that happened is known as the war of second men.

I took my earpieces out , tears were  flooding in my eyes, I just realized one thing that I have become a part of something big .
Something celestial, something that is beyond you and me.