NOT THE ONLY ONES

29. I'M WHAT...?

It felt like those slow motion movies. However hard you try you cannot run faster and that my dear friends is annoying.

Welcome to my regret filled confessions.

I so wished I had done a little more running practice. I should have been running like Usain Bolt right now!!!

No, it's not my fault. This is definitely not my best. I can do a lot better than this but I'm injured right now coz if that stupid, moronic Aryan.

I need to run faster but my limbs won't allow it. I'm injured for Pete's sake! I can't run any faster than this.

But you have to silly! You can't slow down. Their lives depend on you.

Yeah my inner voice is right.

Either I can go on glorifying about being injured or I can save all of them. The choice is mine, either I can be legless or Veerless, Robertless and Professorless.

I will choose to live legless but not friendless.

Alright dear legs, hurt as much as you want. I'm not gonna stop before I save them.

And I run as fast as I can. Like running is the only thing in the world that matters and surely it is the only thing that matters.

This time I don't let my hair fall away from my grasp. I'm not gonna make the same mistakes again.

"STOP!"

The MBA's turn around and so does Veer, Robert and professor. The military stops fighting for a moment and everybody alive stares at me with interest.

"Just stop ok? Don't kill them, you want me and I'm right here in front of you"

"No" all three shout together.

I ignore the three of them and move so now that I'm standing in front of them. Shielding them.

I look around myself and see so many lifeless bodies. All of them are dead because of me. I should've interrupted earlier.

This image is not gonna leave my head ever. Wait, that'll happen if I survive right? But I'm not gonna live.

I'm gonna sacrifice myself to save them right! No worries then. I deserve dying, it's my karma for letting so many innocents die. Take me and give everbody their lives back.

"Your highness can bring back them to life" someone says.

"What?"

"You can give them a new life, your highness" the same voice mutters.

"It's not possible to bring people back from death!!! And what's the deal about 'your highness'?"

The MBA whom I speaking to completely ignores me and continues, "They aren't dead, Your Highness, they're mearly asleep"

"What are you saying? Wait, how can I understand what you're speaking?"

"Look in the sky, Your Highness" the MBA says ignoring my question again.

And before my mind can ask any more questions I look up to the sky.

My jaw hits the floor.

Souls of all the deads are flying in the sky! Some of them are whizzing past each other and enjoying while the others are looking down towards their destroyed bodies with pity and sadness.

"What is this?!?!??"

"I told you Your highness, they aren't dead. Thanatos here is holding them up. He won't take them to the hall of judgment if you want. You can save them" the MBA says.