BUG OF THE PAST

13.VANISH.

As if on instinct,Aliyah inched back.

She came back to her senses and remembered where she was and why she had bought Aslan to the terrace.

To show him the truth,just as he demanded it.

The truth of the past,that he needed to know,which was kept hidden from him...and him hidden from the truth.

This was the only way she could help him satisfy his curiosity and also prepare him for what was to come in the future.

The potted plant that grew silver berries was placed in a corner near the black railings of the terrace.

Clearing his throat and moving a step ahead and away from Aliyah,Aslan gestured towards the plant.

He sensed the awkwardness in the air and tryed to stirr up a conversation.

''So...this plant here...its magical ain't it...?''

''Hm.''was her curt reply.

She too started towards the corner where Aslan stood.

''Get aside.''she kneeled down near the pot,on the floor.

''What are you doing?'' was Aslan's immediate question.

She was carefully examining each and every silver berry that hung from the tree.

''I won't be able to do what I'm doing if you keep on interogating me.''

Aslan remained silent for a while,then:

''Hmm...Alright! Kneel down beside me.The berries are ripe and ready for our purpose.''

Aslan did as she said, though hesitantly.For a careeristic man like him who should have been at home resting,and going to office every six days a week,he thought this mansion was a madhouse and staying here as a refugee from the rain was simply a waste of time even if it was just for his own safety.

Weird people,doing weird and unwordly stuffs,thats what he experienced in his short stay at the Khan's.

Although what he had seen previously that day while playing in the enormous backyard had proved his thoughts wrong.

The way all three transformed from normal humans into half wild demonic animals....fangs protruding from Zayd's mouth...Aliyah growing black long claws for normal nails and Zara turning pale...growing scales on her previously rosy skin...that had turned a malevolent silvery-white.

That got him to believe them...that they weren't normal...but really really weird.

Yet...they had proof.That the reason behind their weird behavior was not just a psychicness that ran in the family but a real power that they all possesed and he too sensed it as well as had experienced it.

Everytime.

All throughout his stay,it had bugged him and now he knew...what bugged him.

It was their demonic aura.Their prowess in handling their super stregnth made him remember....the past.

His past.

That was a memory...banned from his head.Somehow he knew,there was more to him than just a normal office going man,and yet he couldn't know it.

It was almost inaccesible.Like someone,who coincidentally also happened to be from his unknown past had sealed his memory and anything about him related to that past.

This someone's images would flash across his inner eye all the time,ever since he was a child.

Being in the pressence of his grandmother back then had proven useful,since somehow these flashes would appear only occasionally as a child.

But now...things were different.

His surrounding stimulated those memories to come back.

A part of him was glad that he was going to be able to remember his past,but whenever he would see it come back,some experiences that flashed in his mind were just......lets says...were very undesirable.

Aliyah had plucked three silver beries which now rested on the palm of her hand.

Little by little they started changing colour,untill they turned a full blood red.

She turned her neck and looked Aslan in the eye.

''Pluck three.Quick.''she spoke in an authorative voice.

Aslan plucked three berries and held out his palm just like Aliyah did.

Immediately the berries in his palm turned a cerulean Blue.

Aliyah closed her eyes and inhaled deeply as she sat kneeling on the terrace flooring.

''Aslan...wish it in your mind.Mention in aprropriate words what you want.I'd say....The past...you want to visit the ancient Alhayawanat's rule.''she said like an all-knowing sage.

''Wait....Alyawalya-what? And...what do I wish for? To visit this Al-something place...you say?''Aslan asked completely and utterely confused.

''Al-haya-wanat.In simple words...we are going to wish for a time travel,to the past of another world...Now quick!...its hardwork and we don't have much time.We have to complete the journey before the berries turn into black dust and vanish into thin air....and if we don't we'll be stuck their forever...and we'll have to live in the jungle for the rest of our lives....Now!''

Her voice was merely a whisper and yet a bellowing command.

Aslan closed his fists tight and shut his eyelids completely and said in small precise words:

''To the past of Alhayawanat's rule.With Aliyah Khan.''

Beside him,Aliyah spoke the same and she too closed her eyes while saying:

''The past of Alhayawanat's rule.With prince Aslan.''

In minutes,the terrace was empty with no trace of both Aliyah and Aslan's presence their.

All that was there was,the potted plant growing another six new silver berries,the splattering of raindrops on the terrace roof....the sound of wild howling wind....and...

A jaw ticking,and unnerved Zayd standing in the terrace door, watching the two vanish.

T H E   E N D

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Hiya people!
Its been long since I last posted...but I hope my writings still hold your interest.
Also I hope that you liked the cliffhanger,if you do...then vote for the chapter,share my book.

If you are dissappointed in me about the number of chapters then you needn't be....because....

Behold!
A new sequel of BUG OF THE PAST is soon coming!

Hope you all are exited to read Aslan,Aliyah,Zara and Zayd's further journey and get to know newer charachters that will be introduced too.

Also...Aslan's secrets of the past will soon be revealed in this upcoming book...so stay tuned...

And thats all.Have a magnifique day.

Aú revoir!😁

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