The Cursed Child

A Perfect Life

It's the time when snow balls begin to settle on the roads of Seattle , the sun rays could not find enough space to make it through the sky, dark clouds surrounding this city of 7 lakh residents , there lived on the 16th avenue street , 54/131 house, a handsome, bearded man named Adam (Adi) 42 years of age, his beautiful and loving wife Gelena and their daughter Mary aged 6, this small part in Adi's life is called his happiness. It's December 2nd, 9 pm, the temperature outside is -2 degrees , Adi was adding woods in the fireplace to keep the temperature warm inside, Gelena has cooked Adi's favourite, butter chicken with a thick gravy, some Indian breads. She has made Mary fall asleep , Mary had some milk and cookies. The couple use to have the dinner together, go for shopping together, and do everything that needed both of their effort in making their life dynamic, unless the call hasn't come on AlphaX, the best invention which I would think of in the history of mankind, after all, with the help of this device a person can connect with anyone who has the code of the caller and device itself, and yes by the way, the Hero of this story is the inventor himself. See, isn't it a perfect life!! A person well-settled  with a wife and kids and he also turns out to be a Genius !! But what if I say that person curses himself on a daily basis to be this god-level best. After all, why he only? Why can't he lead a normal life? Do you really think he is leading a life which I just showed you? Lots of questions...

After having their dinner, they went into the bed, Gelena has made some love making surprises for Adi, She came into his arms, kissed him on his beards, Adam kissing her back on cheeks, and suddenly someone interrupted on AlphaX , " Hey Adi, hope you are doing good, We need you !" The couple's life immediately turned into the Devil's pool of blood, after all they both were aware of the reality, they might not see each other again !!! Gelena asked Adi with a trembling voice, " Why don't you leave this? Is this more important than your wife and your 6 yr old baby? What if something happens to you , what will I do without y............ Ssshhhh.. Gelina, nothing will happen to me, I will contact you as soon as I reach there, and will update you with everything that's happening there. Love you sweetheart!" And with this, Adi packed his bag, kept his AlphaX under his sleeves to hide it from the enemies. Adi bid farewell to his family and then went in extreme cold at 11pm . 

He invented AlphaX long back when he was completing his school. He created 3 of them. He gave one of them to Gelena and another one to Hobbs, his closest friend, a reliable one, after all you cannot rely on anyone nowadays specially when things goes upto the level of killing humans and animals and both!!! AlphaX is the most powerful device of connecting to each other. It doesn't works on the principle of radar towers placement and then signals catching characteristic as it is in the normal cell phones. Instead, Adi designed it in a way which detects electro-magnetic waves and the source of the EM waves acts as a node which has these waves as the response but the source should be within the atmosphere of the earth. Likewise, the node will have a request coming in, that too will be an EM wave. This request wave acts as the next response wave for the next node which must have been the source and this process continues until the node becomes the primary source or the root of the tree created. The advantage of this device is , the source can be any small thing in day-to-day life, a mobile phone itself, a CCTV camera maybe which means if there is a phone in the vicinity of this device which has even a weakest signal connection, AlphaX gets activated. The second most powerful advantage of this device is that it is highly untraceable. Adi designed it in a way that if someone tries to trace or hack it, it will further pass on the incoming signal to some random location on earth. We will see the Jarvis feature in this device later on.

Coming back to the Adi's trip,  Adi reached New York Commando's Unit within 2 hours. Meanwhile, Gelina and Mary went off to sleep with a hope that they will see a bright morning. She prayed for Adi's safety with a little hope this prayer will save him from the impending doom ahead. Adi reached at the unit's gate, he was given all passes as if he too was a Commando. A tall 6 ft 2 inches man in uniform came up to him , " Adi, we have put the micro-cameras in position, the alpha team is in position and beta-2.0 is waiting for the next part of the plan to be in use." Adi replied," Hobbs, how far are they from us ?" Hobbs: "That's the disappointing part, they are roughly about 1 kms away only. Adi, there's something more, since we have around 2-3 hours to rest, there's someone upstairs in the visitor area desperate to meet you, he is a writer by profession. (Hobbs then murmured) Although , I don't find the reviews very well." Hobbs wished him good fortune and went to his team for surveillance. Adi, came inside the visitor's room and saw a young man with a hat and a coat, had a pen and paper in his hand as if he was waiting to write something. Adi asked gently ," Hello Sir, How may I help you ?" The man in a shaking voice replied , " So, its true, I came here 3 hours ago, and heard that you were home, and within 2 hours you covered almost the diameter of North America, well I think I am embarrassing the person with the super natural talent. Ahh... by the way I am Archit, a writer by profession , not that famous HAHAHA." I laughed but the person in front of me remained silent, he asked me , " What is it that you want, Sir?" I got a tinge of nervousness, you can compare this feel with the fact that Brad Pitt asked you the same thing looking deep in your eyes with a serious expression.Obviously, you would get nervous. I stayed calm and replied that I came there to know him, to know about all the rumours that had been the in the main headline for the past 6 months and that Adi's been hiding in his special hide-outs. Afterall, one doesn't gets a chance very frequently to meet a terrorist in a Commando unit and specially when people don't treat you like a terrorist, like the people should run in fear and the armed forces should encounter him, but nothing like that came into my sight. 

Let me be a bit frank here, I have been a bad novelist my whole life, I always failed to reach into the reader's heart and soul. My work's have been criticised by many groups of people. Actually, this is the last project that I am working on, if this doesn't goes well, I am screwed, I know this.So, I am betting my life's career now on a biography of a terrorist who is a nation-wide fear.

A bit of Adam's present status in the world : He is the most-wanted criminal with all powerful weapons (nano-tech based) handy. He has been accused of murders of politicians, many innocents. US news headlines had a cover that Adam has been very brutal with the victims. He use to pluck off the nails and make the victims eat them. As the story continues, I will tell you more about his brutality. 

Adi was all quiet." The world has been very rough to me", Adi spoke after breaking utter silence in the visiting area. "I am tired of proving myself for what I have always tried to do, I have been proving myself my whole life, the difference is the audience herself is biased." He was being a bit philosophical, not what I did expect. Although, the first impression to me when I saw the news headlines was a very arrogant, ruthless, self-centric person. But a part of me always wanted to tell him , " Its okay buddy, you have done your best, things were not in their place, you were never wrong, circumstances were." And this is not only me but I guess the whole world had this feel somewhere deep buried inside them. My role was to dig this feeling out of everybody and express it out to the saviour of this world-- Mr. Adam. If it was not him, we would have been dead long back. Adi with a deep voice replied , " If tomorrow morning something happens to me, take this pen-drive , it has my wife's present location, please give her this pendrive. It's really important for the vision that I ever dreamt of" . "And what's that Adi?" Adi replied immediately, " To have a crime-free world. Before going into the main event, I would like to tell you about my life. How I turned into this freak, dangerous animal and how things went wrong one after the other. I would like you to tell my story to the whole world, maybe you will get fame after this work, as the audience always likes spice. Maybe this isn't the last case that you are working on." Adi put off his mask, I saw his face for the first time and probably the last. I was being quite as void. I opened my diary and gave immense amount of focus to his words. I knew there is something more to bridge the gap between the world and Adi's perception. 

20 years ago...................................