Jade Amulet And The Leer Of Evil

chapter one: dream or what

About 250 years long waterways journey, it's not easy to keep the record, when you are floating underwater on a wooden submarine, such a long time, but now this putrefied prison could not stop me more, I AM COMING.

Completely unaware of their twisted fates and the crisis ahead, three friends were sitting on a small bridge's stairs built on a small river in a north Indian village called "BhagwanPur". The river was named on "Saraswati", the goddess of all kind of arts and knowledge.
The river was now being used for throwing all kind of garbage in it, industrial waste, religious things, posters and idols of Indian deities. Some people used to do bone immersion in the river too. And the saying was, that the place is also being used for black magic at night. So, No one usually likes to go there, except for some shepherds and fishermen. but for whom wanted a break from their seriously depressing lives to spend some time with their best friends, with no disturbance. So, they can just talk about everything except for important real-life stuff, in that case, it was a great place to visit.
Besides if one does not pay attention to rumours, there was nothing to be afraid of, a quiet and open place surrounded by farms. A pleasant breeze always blows there in summer days but was now about to end. A little cold could be felt, whenever the sun got covered by clouds.
Today the boys were talking about ghosts and "Jinns". One of them Aditya, who was an average guy, normal in body always dressed up and stylish. He was wearing a shirt and jeans. Shirt in and sleeves folded half. Said in a low voice 'Jinns are the deadliest form of spirits and There are two types of jinn, one is natural and other can be only created by black magic.'
The other two boys were Rajveer and Sidharth.
Sidharth was wearing an old faded checked shirt over shorts. he used to say that he doesn't care about fashion but that was hardly true. However, His nose was like a parrot's beak and he had a serious problem of acne. Rajveer who was the big guy of the group always makes fun of Sidharth's nose while calling him an "angry bird". Rajveer himself had a long and lean athletic body. His hair was long enough to cover his ears and he had a little beard on his face. He was wearing a baby pink t-shirt, sports lower and shoes. His beady eyes were focused on Aditya while he was nodding, continuously. Sidharth and Aditya were same in height which makes Rajveer look a bit weird in the group as he was about 5 inches taller than both of them.
'And the thing makes them more dangerous' Aditya continued 'is their presence couldn't be noticed. Even the possessed person wouldn't feel it. They use a person's body to complete their desires. such little ones like eating and drinking and you know what? they are extremely lucky too, in a way actually' he shrugged 'to the person they possess. For example, if a businessman gets possessed by a jinn, his business never goes down. His rivals in business will automatically gets out of his way and the person become rich in no time but..' Aditya saw his friends faces 'but if the person somehow gets to know that he is possessed. Then they disarmament everything thing, give the person a deadly disease and kill him in the end'
Aditya had very good knowledge about ghosts. Three friends spend the entire day talking on this topic, now the day was about to end. Sun was half drowned out. They decided to go to their homes now. Aditya and Rajveer got up and started to move. After walking some steps, they noticed that Sidharth was not with them. They turned to see Sidharth and they found him still sitting on the stairs.
'Sidharth' Rajveer yelled, from about five steps away. But he was like a stone, his body was motionless and eyes were wide open and staring in one direction.
'What happened to him' Aditya asked.
Rajveer shrugged 'I don't know'. They went close to him and when they shook him, he came back in consciousness. 'What happened' Sidharth asked astonishingly. Rajveer snorted
'What happened to us? You tell me what happened to you?' But Sidharth was totally blank he himself was in a dilemma when his friends got up and what Rajveer was asking him about.
'guys, we should talk about it later' Aditya said grimly 'it's getting late. And I don't know what but.. there is something.' they glanced each other. Everyone went quiet for a minute, it was almost dark now and the otherwise not so creepy place, suddenly was giving them creeps. the humming sound of insects was now echoing more than ever. They did a silent discussion and the race begins. Without waiting for an another second, they scuttled away from there. Half scared half enjoying, while trying to get ahead they managed to get out of the place at the same time. This place was several feet down on one side of the highway. So, when they were out, they were crouched and breathing hard. After taking the breath, when they saw one another's faces Rajveer was the first to laugh. Other two joined and then there was a burst of laughter. They banter each other for a while for their cowardly behaviour. On the one hand, all three used to maintain themselves brave, just as everyone does. But the truth was they were pretty much scared to death when Aditya said there is something.
Finally, they controlled themselves and started to move towards their homes on the highway. 'So, what were you saying down there' Rajveer asked Aditya.
'It's feeling like someone was watching us,' Aditya hesitated 'but it would because of fear.' But still, his instinct was saying the opposite. Somehow, he knows that there was something, something dangerous. But he didn't say that to his friends and then they advanced towards their homes.
But not home sweet home for everyone. Especially Rajveer.
When he was in his way home, he was thinking about his mother, who thought him worthless. For her, Rajveer was thickheaded who always stay lost in himself and never cares about anything happening around but Rajveer, he had some high expectations from his life, no matter how bitter the circumstances were for him. Just like every teenager he wanted to make his mark.