AN UNKNOWN ADVENTURE

CHAPTER 11: Known Devil

The billowing smoke transformed into a female demon, possessing a corpulent form, crimson eyes, and a slender nose.

Aleena lay there like a living corpse, frail and pallid, with bruises marring her body, bound in shackles. The demon scowled at her, unleashing a torrent of anger and distress through vehement shouts.

Aleena: STOP IT!! STOP IT!!!!

Dayan: How did she defeat me in the end? Dravilla? No, now Alishka and everyone will die! HAHAHAHAH!

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Saina: Maa ji, me and Alishka.......

Pujaran: (interrupting) I know you both are sensitive! But there is another power within you that is the fierce form of this power!

Maanvir: Maa ji, will our Alishka be saved? She's enduring a lot! First her sister's departure...

Pujaran: HER sister is alive!

Himanshu: JI? {what}

Pujaran: You don't want to know why this is happening to Alishka after all?

Ahaan: I want to know!

Pujaran: You care deeply for her! If this journey is successful, you two will find each other's company.

Ahaan: Maa Ji, could you please tell us what has been troubling her all this time?

Saina: And how did that spirit enter her body?

Pujaran: 'astral projection' Ever heard about?

Saina: the ability of a person's spirit to travel to distant places.

Pujaran: You're quite insightful! Yes, with this power, we can gain control over our dreams and even leave our bodies to observe them. Perhaps, one night, Alishka unintentionally left her body while sleeping, and that's when Dravilla seized control of her body!

Adhiraj: {squinting his eyebrows} Maa ji? Could this be the same witch from the 90s who was Known for her dark magic? Wasn't she sealed away by a great sage in a cave?

Pujaran: Drithi and Dravilla... Meaning me and my twin sister. We were both daughters of the head priest of this Ashram. We were like Lakshmi and Alakshmi. While I was walking on the path of worship, righteousness, understanding scriptures, and goodness, my sister Dravilla was fond of dark magic, worshiping demons since childhood. And she had the power to influence minds since childhood, what you call 'persuasion' in your language. At first, Father never found out about her, while I knew that she was practicing Black Magic and dark forces were gradually entering her. Then one day Father saw her performing animal sacrifice and practicing black magic, he severely beat her and locked her in a room where she screamed and shouted... and the next day her body was found in that room, there was a lot of black water under her body, Father called some Aghoris and performed her last rites. My father thought that a severe crisis would come... and it did Because this ashram is a place of God, so her soul had to leave here immediately, but I don't know from where she got many black magical powers and started killing innocent people... and she didn't spare my mother either... Then Father, along with many priests, performed a very big ritual and managed to control her and we imprisoned her in a cave.

Ahaan: But Maa ji? What connection does she have with Alishka? And has anyone set her free?

Pujaran: Yes, Aleena! She's the one who set her free.

Saina: Aleena? But why would she do such a thing?

Maanvir: hatred, jealousy and yes evil too.

Saina: {sync with Adhiraj and Himanshu} what?

Ahaan: Yes, Aleena despised Alishka! I know how she treated her! That's why I always hated her from the start.

Adhiraj: But why?

Ahaan: {smiling} you guys call her your friend? Anyways, Aleena hatted Alishka throughout her entire life, just because of her ability, talents and love that she received from elders, parents and teachers. Although Alishka tried to makeup with her sister but always failed. Moreover, Alisha's parents Always criticized her for no doing well and cursed her a lot which made her hatred grow deeper for Aliksha.

Saina: Listen, I knew that her sister is rude, but this is the scene? Aleena will go till this extent. I think we shouldn't save her.

Pujaran: Only Alishka will tell! What you should do next. Either fight against that witch and save this town or save your own life and leave!!

Himanshu: this place needs us?

Pujaran: yes and no

Maanvir: {crossing his hand} meaning?

Pujaran: {deep sigh} It means it's up to you! This town needs to be saved. But it's your choice whether you want to save it or not?

Maanvir: And if we declined? Wont you stop us?

Pujaran: {sleek smile} No, because we have full faith that someday, some brave warriors will surely come to save us!

As they were talking a girl entered the room and whispered something into her ear. Her eyes went wide, and she stood up with the help of a stick, seeing her everyone present there stood up too.

Pujaran: {raising her voice} YOU CAN MEET ALISHKA! NOW SHE IS ABSOLUTELY FINE!

Adhiraj: BUT MAA JI? WHAT HAPPENED?

Girl: {who just entered} A spirit has entered our Ashram!

Saina: {taking a long deep breath} Yes, I can feel it!

Suddenly, the room plunged into darkness, enveloped in an eerie silence as a chill swept through the air. Then, out of nowhere, a piercing scream shattered the stillness. That scream sent shivers down everyone's spines, causing her to tremble uncontrollably and collapse to the ground in fear.