After they heard the news, they were feeling totally different, people were curious to know abouthim, who is he? can he be around us daily?. they sat on a bench in a park and discussed howthey are going to behave in college as if they see any crime and let the police handle the workbecause it's their job and he needs to be safe around but only work in action if it's an absolutenecessity because he can't risk his millions of years kept secrets and life for some bunch ofthugs and rupees, he wanted to make sure that everything works as it was before yeti attack, hedidn't want to change anything otherwise, things might become against him as his frequentactivity could make people stalk him or trace him and risk his identity, of course, he wanted tobe practical instead of playing a superhero and not only that, nothing changed between Aaryanand Preksha also, Preksha just accepted his powers like any other of his talent and hobbies, itwas normal between them, but now Preksha was feeling more confident about him and moresecured her herself. they still used to go on dates and parties but now they both keep their eyesopen because they don't want that disco incident to happen again. but he thought hiding hisidentity is not more important than saving people's lives, one far midnight he wakes up whenPreksha is in deep sleep because of the pills she takes for insomnia and he roams around thecity in a black hoodie looking for trouble. he thought that most of the helpless crimes are doneduring midnight as victims don't have many people around them and police and other securitiesare most inactive during that time, people more prefer sleeping in their bed rather thanchecking who's that suspicious man outside looking at her across the street neighbour's housebedroom, Aaryan was on the hunt and he wanted to use his power for good, where people feelsafe and criminals scared, he didn't want any popularity, he just couldn't sit in his house doinganything when someone needs him somewhere, someone hoping that anyone might come andhelp him/her, waiting for a superhero even knowing they don't exist but now if he does then hejust can't stay put. Aaryan went into many allies and scanned each and every corner, around 3 inthe night he heard a help scream few blocks away from him, he rushed towards the sound andsaw a man trying to steal a woman's purse on a knifepoint, she might have screamed when hefirst showed her knife and, Aaryan slowly moved behind the thief so that he could not directlysee Aaryan's face, the thief made the women turn around so she was facing the wall and nottowards Aaryan, the thief was searching for money in the purse but he didn't found enough sohe came towards the women with the knife, Aaryan luminesced his fist and veins on neck andface so that the thief and, women couldn't see his face, as the thief was trying to snatch her ringAaryan grabbed the thief by this neck from behind and started choking him, the thief used hisall strength to escape but it didn't affect Aaryan, not even one per cent, just like if a rat trying topull a car, Aaryan was careful while choking him so that he doesn't break his neck, after acouple of seconds he was passed out and he asked the women to call the police and make surehe ended up in jail. The woman was trying to see Aaryan's face but his bright light under thehoodie was blocking her sight, as he was walking away the woman made a small video of himthat Aaryan was unaware of. After a few hours of patrolling he called it a night and headed forhome, he silently came inside and slipped inside the bed when he heard "where were you, honey,the whole night? you think you can wander around without getting caught?", Aaryan had nowords, he turned and tried to cover "Golu I was just walking out in the street to get some freshair", Preksha rolled and got on top of him and she pushed her knee against his balls hurting himlike hell and replied in sweet tone "don't try to lie again, okay honey? and if you want to get intotrouble by saving people at night then fine, include me, keep me aware how you are doing outthere because I can't have the risk of you going there clueless and another yeti comes andattacks you, so you will keep me updated before you take any actions, I will monitor you fromhome", Aaryan hadn't any choice, his life was under Preksha's knee so he had to agree and saidyes. Preksha moved her knee and smiled "I asked Dr Singh about it, where I can hurt you likehuman beings and he told me this part, so sorry and good night!", Aaryan was in pain andirritated and cursed "fuck you doctor", Preksha noticed Aaryan's expression and hugged himtightly to comfort him and they fell asleep. next day Preksha woke up before Aaryan, she wasstill on top of him, hugging him tightly, she didn't want to wake him as he just slept a few hoursago and was out all night, she smoothly got off him and headed to the kitchen to make some tea,she turned on the TV and suddenly ran into the bedroom and shook him to wake, Aaryanreplied half-asleep "wha why the hell would you wake me up like this?", Preksha dragged him tothe kitchen and showed him the new flash "live from Vimaan Nagar a woman was attacked by aburglar last night on her way to home but then she was saved by an unknown figure after CCTVfootage and mobile recording from victim's phone were checked police confirmed that it wasthe same guy who saved the people from yeti's attack and got heavily injured, now we know heis still alive and helping to catch criminals, with that now we can sleep peacefully and peoplecan move on street fearlessly knowing that there is someone out there who will help whenneeded", exactly what happened that Preksha was afraid of, people depending on Aaryan,making him prone to risk himself. Preksha held his hand and said "promise me you will be morecareful out there, because there will be a lot of people looking for you now, they might try totrick you, just keep your brain on!", Aaryan first gave her poor look then side hugged and tookher tea took a sip and said "nothing gonna happen to me because I have you saving my assgetting kicked", Preksha chuckled but still, she had that tension in her smile.Soon they started struggling with their schedule, college work and then they also have tomanage their home too, but they were strong, enough to barely handle all that, Preksha used tobring Aaryan notes from college whenever he was too caught up with work or needed to hidebullet shot scars that he got from criminals while patrolling. Preksha used to monitor threats ifthey were real and not hoax to trap Aaryan but so far every single one of them were real. after afew weeks of night patrolling crime rate decreased and everyone was giving this credit to an"unknown glowing figure", the more love he was creating in people heart was also creatingmore and more hatred inside criminal's heart, one night when he was in his usual petrol, heheard screams from a nearby alley, Preksha was monitoring all so she was checking the placearound it, the scream became louder now, it was clear that it was of a small boy, Aaryan couldn'twait for Preksha's intel so he headed towards the alley, just before he could reach the opening ofalley Preksha freaked out and shouted "stop right there!", Aaryan stopped unaware but he wasworried for that little kid so he said "Golu what happened?, someone can be in trouble", Prekshareplied, "I don't feel good about this, the scream came just when you were near that alley isn'tthat weird?" Aaryan asked her irritated "what are you saying?", Preksha said "this area filled iswith goons by seeing police records, and no one leaves their kid alone at this time, all I amsaying is just go from above the buildings and look underneath and confirm", Aaryan agreed toher as he never doubts her gut feeling and also because there might be a chance of it being atrap. Aaryan went to the terrace of the building and jumped to one another building andreached right above the alley point where the scream was coming from, he looked down, thealley was dark and only one pole light was working and luminescing the alley and rightunderneath the pole he saw a man holding a ten or twelve-year boy who looked like he mighthave shitted himself on gunpoint, Aaryan said "Golu I see a boy held as a hostage on gunpoint, Ishould hurry", Preksha stopped him and replied "do you see anyone else there?", Aaryanscanned the horizon and replied "no, the alley is empty as a shell", Preksha side smiled andreplied "I knew it", Aaryan asked "what?", Preksha sat back and replied "if the boy is kept as ahostage then for what and who is he waiting for? no one is around you from who he could askmoney or anything else, he can't be doing that for nothing", Aaryan agreed but he was more of asucker side when it comes to helping anyone and he was constantly hearing the screams of thatkid so he said "how can you be so sure? I should" and just before he could finish he sentence heheard "come on kid, shut the fuck up now, he is not going to come, we failed to lure him" and hesaw men coming out of big metal dustbins and behind walls and door with electric tasers andguns and knives and whatnot, they must be hiding there so that Aaryan comes running to helpand they attack him with an element of surprise, they were ambush, a conspiracy. it was likeevery goon and thug from all over the city came to kill him as he was on top of their hit list, theywere hundreds of them, covering the whole building and alley and one goon among them said"let's go back guys, we will try again tomorrow", Aaryan wanted to beat the shit out of them butPreksha said "don't even think about it, they have electric tasers, it will fuck you up, I have theirfaces recorded so get out of there and we will do our unfinished business later", Aaryan thoughtleaving is the best thing he could do right now so he left without getting noticed. he reachedhome and Preksha was standing there with "I told you so" expression, he came and hugged herand said "thanks for saving my ass again Golu, I might have been dead twice with you", Prekshaclosed her eyes and said with taunting tone "I know, not so clever as a superhero, I think yourfather did a mistake giving his powers to you, he should have given it to me", Aaryan knew shewould say that but he loved this taunting thing about her, but he realized she just saved her andalways have, she is no less than a superhero for him, he feels safe when she's around, Aaryangrabbed her by hip and lifted her put her into front piggy bag position and started kissing herroughly, it was the heat of the moment that both felt and she whispered "bedroom" and thencontinued kissing him, Aaryan too her to the bedroom, it was all dark there, the bedroom was ascold as ice so Aaryan turned on RGB lights and turned it to blue and turned up AC temperature,then he held her jaw and pushed her in bed, he had dominant behaviour when it comes to beingphysical and it excited Preksha more and more, he laid on top of her and kissed her hands toneck in one drag, she was wearing Aaryan's blue sweatshirt which was oversize, she took off hisblack T-shirt and Aaryan slipped his hands inside the sweatshirt and grabbed her hip, he was soaroused by kissing and that the sexual tension between them that he scratched her hip very hardand temporarily scared it, they could barely see anything in that blue light, just feeling their theskin on each other, rubbing and warming them in this cold November night, Preksha felt painand pleasure both at the same time with kissing and scratches, she pulled him close but thesweatshirt was resistance, but she was too shy to take it out, maybe she wasn't ready to go all theway, so Aaryan lifted her sweatshirt and dove inside her sweatshirt! she was little scared ofbeing so close to going all the way, but then Aaryan said with low tone "it's okay if you are notready", at that moment she knew that there is definitely some deep connection that theyunderstand each other without saying a single word, they both stayed together in the samesweatshirt, slept a whole night in the same sweatshirt, feeling each other, little more connected,little more in love.It's been more than a week since yeti's fight, they both are still in the void to know the reasonbehind all those attacks. but in meantime every news channel was talking and buzzing aboutAaryan and how he has declined the crime rate by 41% and now he was a hero in most of thepeople's eyes, he also has haters but far more lovers too, people were actually safer now, theyhad faith that someone out there will always save them, the city was cleaner now, criminals wereafraid to make any move, people wanted to know who he was, everyone kept trying to trace himbut they never did, he used to carry few clothes with him in his backpack and whenever he wasdone patrolling he used to go in public places like station or clubs and change his clothes andexit with others in the crowd so that he gets mixed up among them and it gets impossible totrace the right one even with CCTV as bathrooms don't have cameras, but there was a slightlybigger problem for him now, which was student dance bowl. Aaryan was struggling to askPreksha because he can do all romantic things but he doesn't know anything about dance, hewas scared if her great day gets fucked up because of his pathetic dance moves. Aaryan thoughtabout taking online classes before he asks her for dance bowl because after that at least hewould be sure that he won't fuck up her day. one thing you need to know about Aaryan that hisupbringing was in absence of his mother, his mother died just after a few months he was bornso he is not used to how to behave in front of girls or how to care for them, he was brought up byhis harsh father and his discipline and rules.after couples of days spent in practising how to dance in secret, he was unable to give Prekshahis time, they only spend quality time when they are at home which was only for dinner andsleep as most of their time goes in college and their part-time job, Preksha soon noticedAaryan's strange behaviours and thought to talk it during bedtime. that night when theyfinished their dinner Preksha asked Aaryan with a concerned tone when he was cleaning theplates "so what's up with you these days? you seem off, is everything okay?", Aaryan didn't wantto disclose anything about his recent activity so he replied by avoiding eye contact "nothing, Ijust get too much work these days, so it's hard to keep track of things", Preksha stood betweenhim and washing counter and asked "what's the real matter? I am not buying this shit", hebecomes a bit impatient because of his actual frustration with college work and dance andreplied in higher tone "there is no other fucking reason okay", Preksha just moved aside andwent to her room. Aaryan came in the room and he saw that she covered the whole bed givinghim a sign that he is supposed to sleep on the sofa tonight. next morning Aaryan woke up andhe saw the empty bed, Preksha had already left, he was feeling like shit this morning withfucked up mood and fight with her last night. he freshened up and poured some juice forhimself and took off for college, there he saw that preparation for dance bowl has alreadystarted and many guys asking girls in cafeteria and grounds for beings their partners in thebowl, and the rejected ones had their place, in science labs alone from rest of students cryingfrom inside. he was totally distracted during the lectures and just thought how he should makeit up with Preksha. During lunchtime, he went to the cafeteria looking for Preksha and to havelunch with her. as he entered the cafeteria he saw some bunch of students looking at something,Aaryan went closer and saw a guy trying to ask Preksha for the bowl, his heart sank there, evenhe saw that Preksha hasn't replied that guy anything but still, he felt cheated inside him like shewasn't supposed to allow being around her, but now he saw the guy kneeling and asking forbeing a partner for dance bowl, Aaryan was filled with rage and anger and sadness and someother feelings too which was hard to describe. slowly his energy was channelling towards in fistinvoluntarily, he didn't realise that his anger was about to do something really bad. he didn'tknow what he was doing, he just started walking towards that guy kneeling, his veins of eyeballstarted glowing like it was filled with rage, there was hidden anger inside him that wasscreaming to come out. he pushed the crowd aside with one push, Preksha saw him coming andthe rage in his eyes made her body stiff, Aaryan grabbed the guy's collar lited him few inches upfrom the ground, everyone was shocked at that moment, they were shocked because he lifted thecaptain of the football team who is well known for bullying kids around, they were shocked tothink how that captain is going to bully Aaryan, but Preksha too knew that it's the guy sheshould be worried about because Aaryan could just kill him in just a few second. the captain inmid-air said "put me down asshole then let's have a fair battel for her, whoever wins takes her todance bowl", Aaryan left him and he dropped on the ground, the captain stood on his feet andjust before his punch even travelled halfway Aaryan moved aside and punched his nose andknocked him in one shot and replied while scratching his beard "I win, she is mine". he grabbedPreksha's hand in front of everyone and took her off the cafeteria. Preksha was really pissed athim, she pulled her hand just outside the cafeteria and replied "you just can't barge into thecafeteria and pull a stunt like that", Aaryan looked in her eyes and said "he is a bully, hedeserved that", Preksha covered her face with her palm in frustration and replied "yeah he didbut you didn't punish him for that, it was your jealousy", Aaryan agreed and told her everythingabout his strange behaviour, she listened to him patiently and then replied with anger "whydidn't you tell me?!, that dance isn't bigger than our relationship, you could have just told me,we both have had learned dance together", Aaryan was in deep guilt, he was silent, he gave her alook to get back home but she replied "I was thinking to stay at Priya's house tonight", Aaryanreplied with a fake smile "okay then see you at night", Preksha replied with pain in her tone"night stay", Aaryan understood she didn't want to come home, she was upset. he didn't haveany choice rather than letting her go. she stood and started heading, Aaryan yelled "I love you!",Preksha stopped there turned around smiled at him and continued walking away. Aaryan wasbroken, more than he already was, he didn't go to work, he gave up a dance class and directlywent to the liquor shop and brought a bottle of Smirnoff and sat on the bed in his bunker anddrank all night. he called Preksha about a hundred times but her phone was in aeroplane mode.he was so drunk he slept on the floor.he woke up and saw Preksha standing upon him, his sight was blurry, he stood up but couldn'tmake eye contact with her. she angrily looked at him with shrunk eyes and asked "so now what,you going to sing Bekheyali now too?", Aaryan was ashamed and didn't know what to say,Preksha continued "anyway, stand still, I want to say something" Aaryan was still dizzy inhangover but then Preksha continued "so will you go on dance bowl with me?", Aaryan wasshocked and replied while standing up "but how I mean...?", Preksha rushed towards him andhugged him very tightly and kissed him very hard, she kissed till they both were out of breath.she paused and replied "I am sorry, I should have been there last with you, I just got insecureand reacted like that, happens with the best of us, I would have done same with I was you",Aaryan held her jawline and said "it's okay, you are with me that's what matters for me", theyboth felt each other's essence and that's what made them special, no matter what happens, inthe end, they always have each other to face tomorrow. but tonight was a big day, tonight wasthe dance bowl, they both had only a few hours left for it so they prepared their dress andpracticed for the dance bowl. they practised till the last moment, they wore their dress, Aaryanknew that Preksha love when he wears black so he went for an all-black tuxedo with a blackshirt, shoes and untied bow tie around his neck and Preksha knew that he will wear somethingblack so to compliment him she decided to wore silver one piece with red lipstick and red nailpaint and loose hairs, she was looking like a frost queen of 21st century. they both encounteredeach other down in the hall and they just kept looking at each other, they couldn't keep theireyes off each other. Aaryan brought his twenty years old reel camera and placed it on the tableand set a timer, he put his hand on her shoulder, got a little closer and posed in a cute formalway. They took their essentials in the car, filled it full with gas for the after-party, got out andheaded to the dance bowl. all the way to college they held each other's hands tightly in the car asit was a very special moment for them. as they reached college they saw the whole place turnedinto a teen club, students with their partners, holding hands in the entry gate kissing in hallsand talking in grounds, college at night looked so beautiful, they saw all that while coming toparking. They parked in the corner , locked their hands like formal couples and entered the hallroom where the event was held. They saw many other couples from their batch wearing tuxedosand gowns, holding each other and dancing. Aaryan looked at her and asked "may I have adance with you?", Preksha blushed and handed over her hand. Aaryan smoothly slipped hishand on her hip with a bit discomfort on his face but the satisfaction of her touch too, she thenslowly put his one hand on his shoulder and one hand grabbed Aaryan's other hand and she puther head on Aaryan's chest and they just closed their eyes and enjoyed the moment. The discolight turned blue and created a romantic atmosphere and hats off to event managers becausesoon artificial snow started falling from sealing it was a moment to remember, they both wantedtime to freeze, they didn't want this to end, at least not so soon!. while everyone was enjoyingtheir quality time, Aaryan felt something but he ignored because he was more careful about thatfeeling with Preksha than a troubling feeling, but within seconds a bazooka came barging inmiddle of hall injuring students and staff and tossing Aaryan and Preksha in corner of the hall,Aaryan hugged her so that if they hit anything hard then she doesn't get any injuries, they weredragged and then hit a wall very hard that it cracked. Aaryan stood up and confirmed if Prekshawas okay and started channelling his powers, but Preksha stopped him because there were waytoo many people around there. he just scanned around for threats and source of this bazookawhen he saw a barbarian looking guy with grey hair and ponytail with perfectly round blackshade through his red blazing eyes were hidden inside and wearing polar bear skin coat andcargo, but he was not alone two Yeti same like the one he was attacked by, one holding thebazooka concluding that he fired it and other Yeti holding Dr Singh by his neck. the barbarianlooking guy stood in the middle of the hall and yelled "sorry to barge in like this, but I amlooking for Aaryan, if he is here then please step forward, and then I will kill the rest of you!",Aaryan didn't know what to do, he wasn't sure who this guy is and what will he do after heconfronts him because entering with a bazooka fire isn't friendly gesture. the barbarian guygave a hint to the yeti who was holding Dr Singh and yeti lift him in the air by head andbarbarian said "if you don't come now I will kill your doctor!", Aaryan had no choice now, hecouldn't delay now so he asked Preksha to stay put and he was going to step forward, thoughPreksha tried to stop him even she knew that saving lives is more important right now. Aaryanstepped forward, as he did, the barbarian guy had an evil smile on his face and suddenly that guysnatched Dr Singh from yeti and looked right into Aaryan's eyes and crushed Dr Singh's headwith his bare hand as if the head was lemon and he just squeezed it. it just created chaos amongeveryone around and all the students started running and scattering in the hall, Aaryan was inshock for a while, the guy who helped him and his father and been so loyal to his family was justmurdered in front of him, Aaryan looked around and saw almost all students ran off the hallleaving him and the barbarian guy with his yetis alone in there. the barbarian guy startedwalking towards him and said "look I don't have much time because I have an entire army ofmost powerful ancient creatures that I collected and bred over so millions of years waiting in aninactive state in Antarctica to start killing all mankind so let me just give you a painful death sothat I can move forward", Aaryan was terrified, he now understood all those attacks, it was him,but he couldn't figure out who he is and why is he doing this?. The barbarian guy came in frontof him and said: "you have your father's looks, I think I am going to give you a very painfuldeath just because of this", Aaryan standing stiff but ready to channel his energy anytime, heasked the barbarian guy looking into his red glowing eyes under his black shades "who are youand how do you know me", the guy came closer and took off his shades and his rage and revengewas reflecting in his eyes and he replied "I am the one who you're father left alone to die,hopeless, in the verge to kill myself, broken, shattered into pieces, vanished from existence, I amAgni", Aaryan and Preksha both were shocked from the bottom, but strangely Aaryan wasn'tshocked enough, he was worried. Aaryan asked with confusion in his tone "but why do you wantto kill me?"Agni looked at his feet and said "before I kill you I should clear your doubts so thatyou die peacefully", Aaryan thought he is not going to die but he should ask what he thinks sohe asked "tell me why you want to kill me and how are you alive?, Agni went silent for fewseconds then he hinted yeti and one yeti bent on his knees and Agni sat on yeti's back as if itwas a chair, he put his one leg on other and started explaining "it was a miracle that you born,technically we can't reproduce with a normal human being, our genes and DNA is totallydifferent, even if a female could able to fertilize then she won't be able to bear it for nine monthsbecause soon the child will start eating the mother from inside, I tried to reproduce for yearswith humans but none of them could even survive the initial stages, I was worried about mybloodline, all our former members are dead, I didn't want our kind to extinct, but then I got toknow that Pratham have a child, I was astonished when I felt about it, then I tried geneticmutation in animals to ensure successful fertilization but I was failed in that too, i spent moreyears to find perfect carrier but then I got that solution is not fertilization if I could just takeyour DNA and tissue sample because you are a mixed breed of both the kind then I can create asmany clones as I want for my future, so I did some background checking on you and yourpersonal life, and found about Dr Singh that he is only one who knows your secret and helpedduring delivery when your mother was in labour then I got to know that he knows how Prathamwas able to reproduce, so I barged in Doctor's house and interrogated him for a few days till hestopped breathing and choose to die rather than giving up your family secrets, then he was nouse to me but I thought to bring him here so that you can literally see his face for one last time,see I have humanity, ignoring that I was also the one who crushed his skull hahaha, I assumedyou haven't got your powers developed yet because I never saw you using them but I couldn'trisk so I sent my mutated yeti to check and I was wrong, you do have developed them and prettygood at using them. I mutated the creatures that we collected for so many millions of years andbuilt my army and tested them first in Antarctica on those scientists and I got pretty dammgood results, then I sent one for you too in the club, now I will kill you extract your genes tobuild clones for my army", Aaryan was not in his senses now, he was feeling that he was part ofthis conspiracy for so long and if he destroyed the world then his part will be in it, Agni stoodup and yelled "enough of this back story, now I accept your fate" and just finishing that he rantowards Aaryan and threw a red blazing lava-like fist, Aaryan quickly bent and dodged his fistand channelled his energy to his leg and kicked Agni in the chest and he went flying in corner ofthe hall and made a big hole in the wall, Agni screamed furiously "you got straight kid, thanks itwill help my army!" and he stretched his arm and produced liquified igneous rocks and threw atAaryan, Aaryan crossed his arms to cover himself but those rocks were not usual lava rocks, theywere something toxic, Aaryan turned his head and saw the yeti's trying to hold him from back,they both pulled his one hand each up and lifted him in christ position, Agni came around andsaid with frustration " let me tell you, I will destroy this earth because that's what we are madefor, and there is nothing sacred than accepting your destiny" saying that Agni punched hischeekbone and Aaryan started bleeding from his eyes and nose but still, he spat the blood thatwas going in his mouth and yelled "what you mean, you were supposed to protect humanity, youwent rogue and it wasn't my father's fault, the seven gods made you establish civilization andinstead of that what you do is manslaughter, the god won't forgive you", Agni gave confusedexpression and pulled Aaryan's hairs and said "what the fuck are you talking about the kid",Aaryan looked him in his eyes and replied "father told me all about how you went rogue andalmost killed a member to prove your point, how he had to kill you which unfortunately heshould have made sure that you do stay dead and they all left you there" after the second Aaryanfinished talking Agni laughed his breath out, he put his hand on his forehead and just laughed,Aaryan found it annoying and he said "what's so funny asshole?" Next thing he rememberedthat he felt two enormous fists punched him from both left and right side from yetis and he wasall dizzy but still hanging in the air but now bleeding from his head too. Agni sat on his kneesand said "you seriously have no fucking idea don't you, your father had been lying to you so far",Aaryan was not buying this bullshit but then Agni continued "the seven gods never created us toestablish any kind of civilization bullshit, they created us as missionaries, like assassins, anyonewho thought themselves above god we took them down to show them their place, that was ourprimary job. God made us for to maintain his top position and fear among people, establishingcivilization was our secondary job, we were sent to earth about 2.6 million years ago during thePleistocene Epoch ice age, the earth was totally covered with ice, but we lived. After two millionyears humans came and established their civilization, they made rules to help each other forjustice so our job to protect them and establish civilization was over, with continuous floodingand earthquakes and other terror Gods maintain their fear and superiority among people andthey soon made their statues and started worshipping them, our primary job was done too, wedidn't want to live among pitty humans so we waited years for our redemption, but it was likeGod just made us and forgot about us, it was just like when spy completes its mission and if thegovernment wants to bury the ugly truth about the mission they forget and abandon the spy sothat the secret about the mission stays hidden and they comes out clean chit. We were promisedthe luxuries of heaven after completion of our job but there was so sign from them for years, allseven gods abandoned us, maybe left us here to die between humans. we spent days thinkingabout it, then finally we thought to rebel, we all seven members decided to start attacking bigempires like Roman or British and build our own genetically mutated humans and animals andkeep attacking till we rule on most of them and finally use our true potential and mostimportant maybe by this God will see us, remember that we still exist, waiting for salvation, weall agreed except one, yeah you guessed it right, your father didn't like the idea to genocide andearn redemption, he was a bit of human-like, he had feelings, he thought to kill them is immoraland unethical, they were worried if anyone could die doing that, he loved humans so he wentrogue, yeah he was the one who went rogue not me, but there was a reason he was the firstmember of the group, he was more stubborn, powerful, more intelligent and whatnot, so onenight I woke up and saw all my fellow member laying dead on the ground, their body wasmutilated, he was too afraid that we won't be able to stop us all together if we tried to kill himand continue with our mission even without him, he spilled our own blood, the blood that wasmuch precious than any other living or non-living things on Earth, I was full of disappointmentand rage, I would have done anything to continue our mission, anything and he knew about thatI would, so he came for me next, he fucked the shit out of me and left me alone in that ditch hepunched me in, I was partially paralyzed in there, couldn't move, couldn't breathe properlybetween lava rocks around me pumping poisonous toxic air into my lungs, I was like that fordays, waiting to die when I realized that my body is adapting the habitat, and ate worms fromsoil to survive till I could feel my legs again and after that I got myself out but till then the worldwas changed, it was the 21st century and I was like lost Alice in wonderland, but I adapted theretoo, my veins were pumping lava like blood because by blood was habitual to that extreme heat,did research, training myself, to face Pratham again so that I could make him pay and also buildmy army in Antarctica so that if I was able to kill him and I am good to go for genocide withoutany delay, but when I searched him I found he was dead by then, but the good news was thathave a son who can pay the price, i was confused at first how did he reproduced then i tried toreproduce too for my bloodline just like Pratham did by producing you but i never could so idecided to make clones with your super human genes and our bloodline but for that I have tokill you so that you don't come between my plan just like your father did because at last, hisblood was flowing in your veins, you are just like him, you are the son of a murderer, so enoughtalking let's finish you because I don't have much time". that moment Aaryan was moreconcerned about if his father is a murderer or he did what he thought necessary to do. Aaryandidn't want to belive the truth, he was feeling fucked up, but deep inside he believed in hisfather, he knew if he took such a big step then it must mean something, he wouldn't have donethat in vain, but now is not the time to think about that, he has a job to finish so he asked "butwhat makes you different now?", Agni looked at the night sky from broken sealing and said:"your father killed my last hope so I will kill his, the unfinished business that needs to befinished, this genocide will bring salvation and justice for my fellow members, who your fathermercilessly killed and killing you will be my revenge, it will create chaos that even the Godscan't ignore and then they will call me up". Aaryan looked at Preksha hiding under the table tobe safe, he saw his hope, he didn't want to die in vain, he was his father's last hope, it meantsomething, he meant something, he wanted to live for Preksha. this time he rather thanchannelling his energy to his arms he channelled it to his legs and made two turns verticallywhich twisted both yeti's arms which were holding him and they broke apart, Aaryan grab ahold on himself and driven towards Agni, but he saw Aaryan coming to him and threw a punchat Aaryan's knees, but this time our hero dodged it by slowing down his speed and kicked Agnion the head and made him dizzy for a while which gave Aaryan some more time and he grabbedhim from behind and locked him in unmoveable position while yeti were still struggling tocontrol the blood flowing from their one armless shoulder, but when they saw their masterkneeling to death they ran towards Aaryan with one arm each but then hopefully they heard apolice siren, maybe someone from students might have called them, they barged in the hall withguns and tasers, Agni ordered them to handle the police while he was trying to get out hisAaryan's hold, Aaryan was losing his grip slowly, his hands were getting sweaty and Agni wastrying hard, he reached to his breaking point and lost his hold on him, Agni quickly turned andkicked Aaryan and flew through the roof and fell in college ground, his kick was like catapultwhich threw him hundred meters away, after few seconds Agni landed in the ground with lamppoles in his both hands, while Aaryan was handling his demon meanwhile Preksha cameforward and advised the cops to use electric tasers on yeti to neutralize them, though they dohave taser but Yetis were too strong and fast that they couldn't even get near both Yetis, theywere all struggling and Preksha was doing everything possible to end them, she even called backup but since the station was too far so it was going to take at least ten minutes to get them here,Aaryan was alone with Agni, he threw the poles at Aaryan like sharp javelins which he tried tododge but one pole pierced his leg and shattered his thigh bone, he screamed so loud thatPreksha heard it from meters away and she ran towards the ground to check on him, she waswatching his love dying in front of her, with his scream the dark clouds lit up and it startedraining, heavy drops of rain were falling on him and increasing his pain, he couldn't even moveone inch without pain to death experience, it was like his shattered bones are puncturing histissues like sharp iron nails. he was yelling and screaming, Agni came near him and stood uponhim, Aaryan was laying on the ground in great pain, he was healing but very slowly, Agni put hisone leg on Aaryan's thigh and started crushing it, Aaryan was crying and screaming but Agniwas smiling and enjoying it, the rain turned into a storm, winds blowing at high speed andlightnings continuously striking everywhere, Agni bent a little and said "I experienced ten timesmore pain than what you are feeling now" and thew a hook but in a second Aaryan channelledhis power to his other leg and kicked in the opposite direction in which leg folds, it brokeAgni's leg in half and dropped him on the ground too now, ignoring his pain Aaryan stood onone leg and tried to lift Agni, but Agni kept punching him, he didn't have any choice now, Agniwas too strong, he trained himself so far so he could never beat him in combat, they were bothin same terms, one leg gone but still if Agni got to hold on himself in few minutes before hegoes full mumma bear on him, he had very less time but a big thing to do, he was thinking andthinking but out of nowhere Agni stood on his one leg and crouched his other one too andstared with killing spree eyes, he saw Agni was channelling his power to his leg, Aaryanunderstood that he is planning to kick him or push him down so that Agni could punch him todeath, Aaryan knew he won't be able to stop him once he dominates him, the storm is becomingbloody. so he had one idea, an idea that he knew he won't come back alive, everything was goingin slow motion in front of him, the rain the storm and Agni running towards him, he had to takethe risk now or he might risk millions of lives, he was stuck in his mind, hanged by twothoughts, one side risking his happy life with Preksha and one side risking humanity, he didn'twant to be selfish but he also didn't want to lose her, he looked at Preksha dodging the yetiswith taser along with other cops in the same ground, at that very moment they made eyecontact, call it coincidence or fate or connection between their heart, she looked at him and sawa sorry expression in Aaryan's eyes, a farewell and tears in both Aaryan and Preksha's eyes. hechannelled his energy to his both leg, he crossed his limit to flow his blood through veins thateven his traditional tattoo started luminescing neon colour, he was now in binary mode, he wasthis close of having a heart attack because of blood flow, he had to take the risk, all thathappened in few seconds, the stakes were too high, as Agni came near him Aaryan grabbed himby his chest and started spinning him a couple of times to build momentum and then withoutcaring about his thigh bone he pushed his ground as forcefully that he could jumped in the air,he broke his other leg too and took off a few hundred meters in air at sonic speed, Agni didn'tget time to respond, with that sudden increase in G-force they both lost conscious in mid-air,they managed to reach the farthest distance they could in the air somehow without catching upwith tornado, when they both opened their eyes they found themself flying towards a tornado,dark swirling clouds with the glowing centre as if it contained powerhouse inside it, Agni wasscared and tried to escape from Aaryan's sight, but Aaryan was not going to let him go, it washis last chance for redemption, Aaryan starts rotating himself making himself to move fastertowards tornado, it was getting hard for Aaryan to control Agni at that time so he had to dowhat he never wanted, he was scared to death, but he needed to do it anyway, he wasn't mentallyprepared but he was shocked when he heard some voices in his head, the storm was making sonoise that he wasn't able to understand the voice but then he closed his eyes and finally realizedthat it's his father talking to him, he heard "son, you meant for something, you meant to do whatI could never, live without regrets and help who deserves, Agni could never reproduce becausethe nature was against it but you were born out of love, I loved your mother so much that evenmother nature allowed our relationship and that's how you were born, your mother knew thatit's a risk that she could die giving you birth but she still did it because she wanted a symbol thatwill bring change in humanity and continue rakt's bloodline by a product of love, not a singleday passed pass when I never regretted murdering my own blood, my members, but they werewrong, they were doing wrong and sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to make the rightthing happen, I might be a murderer but if murdering could lead to protecting the innocentones then I am happy to be a murderer, I lived to regret but I couldn't keep up, I don't want thatto happen with you, save humanity or you will regret till the last day you live, you have to takethe risk, sacrifice, sacrifice is worth taking a risk, sacrifice" Aaryan opened his eyes with gaspand found himself inside the tornado and Agni dizzy and a half passed out trying and strugglingto escape but his leg and the head wasn't helping him, Aaryan pulled Agni up the same level ashim so that he could listen to what Aaryan was going to say, he punched Agni to bring him inconscious and said "you wanted salvation right? let's both end this together, they are calling us"and in second Agni opened his eyes he saw a bolt of giant red lightning coming towards him asif gods themself sent it as an invitation, Agni closed his eyes to surrender himself with smiledwhile saying "thank you Aaryan, now they remember me, it's time to accept my salvation andjoin my fellas, they finally saw me, they are calling me" and the giant red lightning came like adescendant of gods, maybe devil's, but it came raging and Aaryan saw it as his end and closedhis eyes to accept it, in that very moment he was only seeing flashes of Preksha, the lightningcame closer glowing his face into its own red colour, the lightning hit directly Agni but Aaryanwas in close contact with him and almost all lightening conducted in his body too, a bigexplosion happened in air and cops along with students and other people witnessed his heroicaction, but there was no sign of Preksha around cops or students, everyone on the ground sawthe explosion and noticed one body dropping straight down to the ground and other one bodydropped tangentially making Simi-arc towards city lake, police and media got to both bodylocation as soon as possible, the one that dropped straight to ground was identified as Agni'sbut when they reached to the lake they didn't found anybody, they just found a sign of draggingsomething out of the lake as there were dragging sign on lake soil coming from the lake tolakeside soils, all they found were pieces of black blazer and shirt floating on the lake, but theycouldn't identity as DNA prints were spoiled because of water. Because of the lack of evidencethe investigation was closed after all.weeks passed but there was no sign of Aaryan, the crime rate increased again by 32% as ifcriminals were filling their absence with a crime they couldn't commit when Aaryan waspatrolling, people were dying in streets, mugged, looted and sometimes abused. people wereliving in fear again, they were scared to go out at nights again. a prime time reporter wascovering the crime scene and she said "range hills turning to vice city, people spend their timeholding guns to either attack or defend themselves, absence of our protector has resulted inchaos, so far there has been no sign of our protector, after talking and identifying with collegestudents we now know the real identity of our protector and his name was Aaryan, a psychologystudent, they also told us about his girlfriend but there is no sighting of her also so far, studentssaid they last saw her going towards the tornado path which leads to the lake in which Aaryancrashed into, when police investigated Aaryan's house they found many things missing or stolenand an open golden safe in the hall along with some leather pieces after forensics reportsexperts said that it contained an ancient herb that heals the high degree of burns and severedamage. we all think he is dead as his rival was found dead on the spot when the police checkthe body, international agencies have found the large inactive isolated mutated army inAntarctica which was then confirmed that they matched with Aaryan's rival's DNA confirminghow dangerous he was and it was necessary it was for Aaryan to take him down as he wasplanning a war, Aaryan saved us from genocide and stopped the evil. if he is really dead then noone can stop this city to burn into ashes"LATER THAT NIGHTA same group of thugs that tried to trick Aaryan before with small kid were scouting every alleyin the midnight, the sky was dark and fog covered the streets giving an advantage to people tohide in it when thugs and looters come around, they found a man in the middle of the alleytaking out his garbage, he caught their attention so before he could go back inside the buildingfrom the back door they surrounded him, all six thugs pulled their knives out and threatenedhim to give him his ring and locket as he didn't have a wallet, the poor man resisted a lot butthey got out of patience and grabbed his hands and legs, the man cried "please it's the onlything left with me of my dead wife, please someone save me, help me", a thug said while takingout the locket "shut up old man, there is no one coming to save you, let's send you where yourdead wife is", the alley was dark and only the light was coming from cars and bikes passing bythe main street and lighting the alley to inside, the guy pleased till his verge and asked for helpbut no one came and thug said by taking out his gun "no one is coming", they all were facing tothe guy who was on the ground and suddenly they heard footsteps so they turned their head andsaw a black figure in front of the alley, because the light was coming from behind the figure noone could see it properly, but it made their heart froze and body shaking with wide-open eyeswhen they saw the figure luminescing Neon colour.
SCREEN TURNS BLACK
WRITTEN BY SURAJ PRAKASH
Aaryan and Preksha were in the bunker when they heard the news "we are broadcasting live
from outside city centre bank where a group of thieves calling themselves 'the caretakers'has attacked the bank and made the employees as their hostage for an escape plan, policeare in the process of negotiation but wait what's that in the air?" Aaryan and Preksha saw thenews and got ready to get there ASAP but they stopped when they continued the newsbroadcast that out of nowhere a girl in a weird costume landed flying straight from whiteclouds directly inside the bank and the news broadcast went out of signal.THE END
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AcciónAn Indian mythological character who is kept in dark by his father's secret about their history but soon his life changes when his worst nightmare comes to life and he struggles to accept the truth! and faces an unimaginable threat.
