THE EMBODIMENT OF TERROR-I

THE HOMECOMING-II

9:30 AM

Moksh woke up after a long and satisfying sleep on the lovely fluffy bed. The old man was sitting on a chair with two beer bottles on the table "want to share a drink with me" the old man said while displaying the beer bottle to him.

"Yeah, sure", Moksh accepted, and they opened the bottle caps and cheered it to each other as the ritual of celebration, and the old man asked with a curious tone ", you sure got quite the hardships along the way; want to share?"

"Yes, why not? I had to cross the Indian ocean to reach Sri Lanka illegally, but we got caught by the Indian coast guard. Still, I managed to escape by jumping straight to the water, and I swam like hours, got tired, lost hope and got saved by the Garuda. We had quite a chatter; at last, it resided in my body; anyway, the Garuda helped me a lot in this journey.

After that, I met the Yakkha clan; they were royal servants of King Ravana, yet their leader was a fascinating man and taught me something important.

'HUMANS CAN'T TRIUMPH AGAINST THE TIME' leader trained me even taught the clan's secret techniques, and the trial of Chandrahas was challenging, yet it opened my eyes which were in the dark all these years. I finally wielded the sword and mastered the 1st form, and soon after the trial, I got ambushed by the Nandaka sect; it was led by the 'Adiraj Nandaka' brother of that woman who killed Aardhya. I got heavily wounded; even my Aura core got damaged, I still managed to kill him and flee with the Garuda's wings.

I flew with wounds and crash-landed into the country of Bangladesh, even lived there and worked as an errand boy for a grocery store. The Garuda advised me to get the Yaksha's manhood; it was the only way to heal that injury, even I met KAMA SECT'S LEADER and helped her to discipline that girl I brought with as the achievement she granted me the favour of duel to win the Yaksha's manhood from her. She was super intense. I was close to death many times, but those hardships weren't in vain I mastered the 2nd form of Chandrahas, and at last, she gave me the vitality of Yaksha's manhood, then she died; it was painful to watch. This girl, her name is Nagma she joined me till now, and I met an old friend too she helped me a lot." Moksh narrated the whole summary of the journey with a tint of nostalgia in his voice and images of people he met.

"you got an adventurous journey; you survived battles against Adiraj and even that old hag too she is a crazy monster", the old man said with a funny face, and he asked with a surprised reaction "you know her?" "I know her even fought with her it's hard to dodge those arrows or to fight her in equal footing, she even had the famous name 'the succubus witch'." The old man cleared the doubts lingering on Moksh and asked, "what do you want to do now?"

"I don't know; maybe I will go and check on some things don't worry, I won't be a burden to you, and you had helped me more than enough already; I can't take more debt on my shoulders," he said with a guilty face. The old man said with assuring tone, "oh c'mon, don't say these things; it was my duty to guide and support the people with the Black Aura and make them walk on the right path rather than the path of deviancy."

They talked and shared the living experiences, food he tried, and many other things. Nagma was sleeping inside as she wasn't acquainted with this journey.

EVENING, 6 PM

Moksh went out and headed for his parents' residence; they seemed to live their lives, but unlike before, there was no more happiness in the household anymore.

He saw his father in the building's compound, roaming alone. Mrs Chaturvedi carried a packet of biscuits and fed it to the dogs, and Moksh wondered, 'should I go and greet him? That will be weird, even if I don't like you. Still, I had the loneliness deep in my heart even after abandoning and destroying your memories. Now, I get why people said the family is a blessing and even a curse.'

After feeding off the biscuits, Mr Chaturvedi went back towards his flat. Moksh went away and moved towards Aardhya's residence; what he saw was unusual; the house was locked for a long time. 'I guess it's normal, Aardhya and her mother are both gone, and her father must be lonely and depressed because of their memories in that house, he thought and moved again. Moksh bought a pack of cigarettes, dashed towards her college, jumped off wall fences and sat on the terrace. He lit a cigarette and puffed "it's been months since I saw this building; my college life is gone; if I were an average person who left, I would be a joke in people's eyes. 'A fool who even dropped out of an arts college' this what people would have called me, and after abandoning, I met interesting, crazier, stronger and good people. I feel sorry for you, Yash still, it was your fault to get provoked by that bitch, and I'm sorry, Aardhya, you died because of me.

I want to see the world beyond the mortal could ever imagine" he talked to himself all this while and stood up, laughed out and let out untamed Aura vigorously.

"I WILL DO IT! I WON'T LIVE A WORTHLESS LIFE!!" he screamed aloud. The tremors of his Aura even cracked his college's walls "ah man, it seems I overdid it," he sighed after seeing those cracks. 'I should go now; it's getting late, ' he thought and moved towards the old man's residence; after reaching there found the old man distressed and asked, "what happened?" the old man replied, "Nagma disappeared even I tried to detect her Aura presence but can't find her."

"What?! But how did she disappear, and she is not some timid girl? Could some sect bastards do it?" he grunted, and the old man said, "she got out to roam around the city, and after that, I can't get any hold of her."

Suddenly both of them turned towards the dor alerted and felt an enormous Aura; it smashed through the door, and he just grabbed the arrow in mid-air. Meanwhile, the archer, who was situated more than 3 miles away, was stunned 'he grabbed an arrow engulfed with Aura such a speed with bare hands. Indeed he is the calamity people talked about the archer thought with bizarre expression and disappeared.

"It seems we know the answer now" he smiled while staring at the arrow, and there was a small paper around the arrow it read as:-

We have Nagma in our possession

better come to meet us at the land of Lord Ram

to the wielder of Ram sect

Chandrahas

"These guys are sure too filmy to play these tricks; how dare they do this. I will make them Pay!!" Moksh was furious the whole atmosphere with an eerie suffocating bloodlust even the bugs and rodents were dying. "calm down, kid, it's not time to get furious; we still need to rescue Nagma" old man calmed him down, and he asked with composed mind "that's true so do you know anything about this Ram sect?"

"RAM SECT is one of the strongest intermediate sects; you could count them in the top 10. no one has seen the RAM SECT'S LEADER in more than 400 years. The leader's disciple is one of a terrifying warrior; he has the blessing of Lord Ram, even the treasure equivalent to your Chandrahas.

It's 'the Sharanga', a divine celestial bow created by Vishwakarma even has the unique art to make the 'RAMBAN' (RAM'S ARROW); it's like an annihilator it could destroy the nation in its minimum power level, and the elders of RAM SECT are formidable if you attack at the front gate it's suicide" the old informed him.

"Interesting! Indeed interesting," he said with a crazy smile. The old man was stunned to see this kind of reaction on his face. "I should be moving tomorrow," he said, and the old man stopped him "don't be impatient and reckless; you can't beat him with your current power level." He asked, shocked, "what do you mean even this sword is not enough to fight head-on" and old spoke, "It's not about the sword but your mastery level with weapons you hadn't even mastered the Halayudha."

Moksh realised what the old man was referring to "so what should I do now?"

The old man went inside, bought an old and worn-out boo, and handed it to Moksh. "It's Halayudha weapon arts it contains three special arts:-

impenetrable footworkVanishing bladeEpitome defence

"So if I mastered these, I would be able to defeat him?" he asked with excitement, and the old man replied bitterly "not defeat him but could be in equal footing or managed to escape with the girl." They started training without wasting any second.