Beyond the Fence

Chapter 2

"A few years back, the saints of the forest Clave, joined together. Each of them had their own powers; some had a very powerful vision; they could see a hundred kilometres away. While a few had the powers of reading people's mind, a few would never age, and so on... on realising these powers, they wanted to know its sources, they wanted to know how they got their powers. They tried everything possible, every single experiment they could do, every research they could do. Nobody found out how these powers existed.

Among those saints, there was one saint who all of a sudden gained the power of seeing the future and the past. Unlike them, he continued to have these powers for a long time and this made them restart their research and their experiments, this was a sign of hope for the others. This time they worked more carefully and harder, researching every way possible. They did ask the saint on how he got his power but he would not tell. Before they could get it out of him, he was dead. He loved seeing his future that he was drained of his power. It was like the powers had been a part of him. One fine day, they found the root cause of their powers. Each power was hidden in each combination of different plants that were growing in the forest. It took them years to figure out and try every combination and make them into potions. They tried these combinations on the people who were powerless and on little kids. Those little kids did obtain the powers, but they grew stronger and stronger as they grew up to be adults. As this continued, a few took the right path but the other few... saw a different kind of use to their powers. They wanted to rule the forest, they wanted to rule the people in the land and have all the kinds of powers that existed.

Their powers kept growing, as they grew older. And with that grew their evilness. When the potions are taken by kids, it grows stronger as their bones and muscles get stronger with age and when they start to deteriorate, the powers start to fade. The evil ones started destroying trees and plants, a commotion started. They burnt down houses, they cut down the trees and ruptured the brains of other people. All the saints were being killed brutally; the forest was being destroyed. All of this was just to create fear amongst the people, to show who was superior.

At that time, one great saint took the last of the powerful potions and hid it inside the forest. He was caught and killed on the same day. But the evil saints had no luck in finding the potions. Yet, they started to rule the land. They made up their own rules, they made people follow their ways. And if the people denied following the rules, the evil ones would torture them or burn them alive. They made new potions and forced them into the people they found fit and made them do all the terrible things that they wanted.

These went on for a few years until one of the commoners accidentally found the potions. A rift erupted between the saints. Everyone wanted to have more and more of the powerful potions. These potions would let one live for too long and these potions do not let the powers weaken. The evil saints started fighting against themselves, killing themselves. The people took greater advantage of the situation and created a war. It destroyed the entire saint's group, except a few. The last and the most powerful of the saints ran away before they were killed.

The potions were locked safely and were left untouched for years, when later, out of curiosity, a little boy had drunk not knowing what it was. People noticed changes in him. But there weren't many left, only very few, around 50 maybe. These potions were remade, years later. No one has any idea of where it is now. The boy calls himself The Potion Master and the history is starting to repeat itself."

Kashvi was confused, all these did not make any sense to her. 'What does this potion have to do with me?' She did not remember having any potions like that!

"I don't remember having any potions."

"You must ask your mother. Did anything strange happen to you when you drank something?"