NEON

CHAPTER ONE- THE FUNERAL

So far we have seen Gods as our saviours and wellwishers but in their noble works there liessome dark chapters that are forbidden for us, the chapters that higher power would never wantthe humans to discover them, this story is just about one of those chapters.

At Cityside Lake [Present time]It was thundering and lightning in the sky, Aryaan opened his eyes and found himselfunderwater but the storm was so loud that he could hear the thundering from underwater,everything was dark around him, hopeless that no one will see him in this darkness and savehim, he tried to swim up but he felt as if a huge rock is tied by his legs making him impossibleto move, filled with regret that he couldn't complete his love story, he was crying but his tearswere fading away with water currents, his voyage was at the end, he looked at his completelyburnt body, he was running out of breath and hope. when he looked up to the dark night skycovered by lightning clouds and furious thunders, light in hist was getting dimmer and dimmer,His heart was filled with so much sadness that he was seeing or hallucinating his loverswimming towards him and then she grabbed him at the very end of his life and pulled him outof the darkness towards light.

ONE YEAR AGO

It was a dark morning, even in daylight dark clouds were covering the whole town of Rangehills. it was raining as if a god died, it wasn't too far, a part of God did die. in a long lonelygraveyard, where light could barely penetrate the clouds and reach the tombstone. there ourhero was standing, all soaked up. rain dripping from his beard and short hairs, standing asidehis great father Pratham's grave. grieving for his loss and sobbing quietly, feeling lonely. voiceswere haunting him from all sides, in all those voices, one was his father's, "son, I have trainedyou enough if I am dead, and you notice something strange happening around the world, thenyou know what to do, so now is the time you take your responsibility and do as you were madeto do, for what seven gods made us for, its time you do what I trained you for, the world needsyou, you are humanity's last hope". Aaryan stood up, wiped the rain from his eyes and headedtowards his father's bunker.Meanwhile somewhere in AntarcticaWhile many laboratories were working in the chilling coldness of Antarctica, scientists of onelab saw steam coming off from an ice-covered mountain. they were shocked with this abnormalbehaviour because there were no thermal vents around that region for kilometres. Americanscientists sent some officers to personally check the thermal vents. four patrol officers reachedthe site, their mouth was wide open, they couldn't speak for a few seconds, they saw a huge holein the icy land of Antarctica. they got curious so they decided to peep inside, as they came near ahuge shark-like creature that jumped out of the hole. the most terrifying thing wasn't its size, itwas the pitch dark red lava-like liquid that was glowing like veins all over its body. it was likelava was flowing in its veins, not blood. The officers quickly took out their guns and they startedshooting. it just made the creature more volatile, the creature growled at them as it wasn't ashark but a Godzilla. It made the officer's blood go chill, as it opened its mouth and a massiveflow of lava came out of that creature and wiped and evaporated the officers along with theirguns, there was only lava left there as if there was nothing else besides it. The scientists at thelab were so terrified after seeing that attack that they hid in isolation rooms. holding their dearbreath. The ice under the lab started creaking, all the scientists grabbed something that floatedbecause they knew something so big could easily break through the ice. but suddenly everythingbecame silent, scientists were sweating like waterfalls even in that cold environment. theywiped their foreheads and stood up. The second they stood up, a streak of lava penetrated theneighbouring room and splashed on the roof. they came forward to look inside the surface, theybecame so terrified after seeing what's coming that two scientists fainted on the spot. they sawtheir death, the big creature swimming towards them at a speed of a bullet train, and no humancould outrun a bullet train, so they were no exception. they accepted their death as it swamtowards them. it penetrated the ice with its speed and with one wide open mouth in which lavawas spilling, the creature swallowed the whole lab by making a U shape in mid-air and wentback into the deep cold blue silent underwater.Two weeks laterweather was clean again, it been two weeks after his father's death and the giant creature attackin Antarctica. Aaryan was trying to get back to his normal life. it was very hard for him, asPratham was like a best friend for him. but he has a life too, college life and a part-time job lifeto stay alive. he was studying psychology at college and doing part-time at a cafe. though he wasan above-average five nine-foot-tall with short hairs medium-length beard and always wear fullsleeve clothes to cover up the traditional tattoos that his father gave him. his relationship statuswas single though there do was a girl in his life, his childhood friend since LKG, his only femalefriend Preksha, a nineteen-year-old teen, five four foot tall brown sugar complexion and a voicetone like melodious opera singer and hairs so straight like musketeer sword but her eyes asblack as it could be of a jaguar. neither of them ever proposed each other but deep insidePreksha had feelings for him but she was too scared to confess. they even used to work togetherat the cafe.one morning he was doing his daily routine at the cafe when the news hit him "breaking news,there was a mysterious creature attack on scientists at Antarctica lab and government washiding it for more than two weeks, officials reports say it was just a shark attacks but since ananonymous videotape found by every news channel this morning which was found footage ofCCTV cameras which confirms that it was actually a giant unnatural Megalodon, a lava spillingmegalodon. surprisingly megalodons were supposed to be extinct two million years ago, but ifthey are still alive then who and how someone captured and modified them, can it begovernment or something much worse, and why is this happening now, what triggered it, if thatmegalodon is still out there for past two weeks then lets all hope we find all the answers in theright time", Aaryan knew what triggered it, his all father's death, something strange happenedaround the world and he knew if it's happening then who is behind this and what he has to donow! he asked for an early leave from his boss and headed directly to his all father's bunkerunderground his palace. There he unlocked a giant titanium safe and took out a big old leatherpilgrim on which there was written "Itihaas".He took the pilgrim upstairs and remembered what his father told him about their history whenhe turned sixteen. His father's words were echoing in his head "When our solar system wascreated, the seven gods allied together to create nine groups of superhuman ability to maintainpeace order in their sectors of each planet and we were called "rakt". We were sent in thePleistocene Epoch ice age on earth and other eight groups were sent to rest of planets at thesame time but seeing the harsh environmental conditions on the other planets they only mighthave survived a few seconds. I was the alpha one in the group who had supreme powers than anyof the group members. We were a group of seven and all had super strength and super speed as aprivilege. Because I was the most supreme I was called "Pratham" and others were Jal, Agni,Vayu and so on. There were three men and four women in our group all having similar strengthand power. After two million years, seven gods decided that earth's climate is ready for humansso they delivered a man and women, our next job was to observe them how are they survivingand establishing civilization, whenever there was any injustice among them we secretly boughtjustice to them, whenever any anarchist tried to unfollow mother nature's laws we corrected it.but soon everything changed. man-made laws for themselves, punishment for injustice andorganizations to protect them such as police, military, court etc. our sole purpose for ourpresence was banished. there was no need to be among humans now. so we all decided to makeour ways apart. I don't know where rest of my team members are but I assume they all are alivebecause we all have a gifted power among other things that we have telepathy to ensure oursurvival, we were given this as a communicational way to communicate between us because thetelephone was created in the 19th century and we couldn't wait so long for Graham bell toinvent it. but there is something I need to tell you when we were in around 17th century Inoticed a huge change in Agni's behaviour towards humans, he wanted to dominate on them,enslave them, he even tried to convince other members but thankfully they didn't get patronizedand told me, after that he went rogue, he proposed combat, whoever wins will become Prathamof the group along with his powers, other group members were totally against it. but one nighthe tried to attack our female member before he could harm her I accepted his proposal for trialby combat then and there only, I had no other choice but to spill the blood of my own, he cameraging on me full charged, his veins started luminescing red colour, his every single visible veinstarting luminescing, his arm veins neck veins all started luminescing. he moved so quickly thatI barely had any time to react and came beside him and he used his super-speed to push his legsagainst the ground and punched me below the chin, it threw me like hundred meters far, myhead started ringing because of it, everything got blurry when I saw that Agni was lifting a giantrock and was almost going to throw at me, as I was trying to stand up he threw the rock and Iwas only on my knees yet, I saw the rock coming towards me so I also unleashed my innerabilities and my all veins started luminescing Neon colour, I channelled my strength to my armand punched the rock with my bare fist and the rock shattered into pieces. I quickly stood on myfeet and shouted "I don't want to spill our blood in vain, you still have a chance, stay down andwe can talk this through'' but he surely didn't listen to me and headed towards me, as he camenear me I dodged his overhand and slipped behind him and used my arms to lock his neck andstarted choking him, but he was smart he back kicked me and tossed me in front of him andnow I was facing him and he kicked on my chest and crashed onto a banyan tree. It was thattime I thought that one of us was going to get killed and if I didn't do anything then it wasgoing to be me. so I made my mind to neutralize him, I plucked strong and thick roots of thatbanyan tree and used my super-speed to reach me, I started circling him so that he getsconfused but so doing that I quickly started wrapping him with the roots, he was screaming as adevil, I tied him so hard till he suffocates and passes out, but he channelled his power to hisforelimb and broke through it, he pulled me towards him with the root I was holding and liftedme up by choking my gut, I was really scared that time, but not for me but for humans and othermembers, what he is going to do if I die here, it was a do or die moment, I was ready to kill himfor humanity, I channelled my all energy to my left fist, but this time I was so energized thatwith my hand veins my eyes were glowing too, that made Agni nervous, I just looked at his eyesand said "I never wanted you to end this like this, I thought we would die in an honorary battle",Agni replied with regret and guilt in his eyes ''this a the battle Pratham and you should dowhat you have to do'', I pushed him to get him on his knees and delivered my deadly punch righton his left eye. that punched made a huge crater on the land and it thrashed him inside the landcreating a massive hole, the hole was so deep that he passed through earth's crust and mantleand lava started coming out of the ground, all saw that and grieved that he would be dead butnever confirmed it, after that, we all members decided that we should part our ways for ourgood, but after separation our telepathy just allowed us to sense if we are still alive or not, andthat's where the problem comes if you are reading this then I must be dead, but after my deathbe extra careful out there, if something strange happens around the world then do as I taughtand instructed you to do, humanity's survival is in your hands, and don't give up", Aaryan readthe whole pilgrim and locked it again in that same safe. as he finished locking the safe andstarted looking at a mysterious gold safe and a leather journal he heard his house bell ringing,"hey Aaryan, open the fucking door and tell me what happened, why you left in such a hurry", itwas Preksha calling him in a concerned tone. He then quickly went upstairs and hid the secretdoor for the bunker with a mattress. Aaryan opened the door and invited her in. Preksha sat onthe sofa and asked while scratching her eyebrows "what happened weirdo? why were you insuch a hurry?", Aaryan thought for a second and sat right next to her on the sofa and made asick expression and said "ahh I don't know how to say this but", Preksha came little closer andmade eye contact with him and replied "just say it what happened", Aaryan made an innocentexpression and said "I was feeling sick Golu, my stomach is been troubling me since morning, Ihope you understand what I want to mean", Preksha's expression suddenly changer fromconcerned to disgust and she pulled him up from sofa by his collar and yelled, "we are going tohospital sicko! you can't be so careless".