KalRatra (काळरात्र) A Night With Horrors

The unexpected meet!! Part 1

Kalshrung went out that night! He needed to hunt.

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Setupati and Vishwaprit left the Aashram with their companions in the evening. They were all silent on the road. Everyone was in deep thoughts.

Setupati was sitting with closed eyes, trying to concentrate on the sounds bombarding in his head, in the search of something useful against the enemy.

Vishwaprit was looking outside the window, feeling the evening breeze on his face. He was trying to analyse all that happened. All the visuals from past few days ran in front of his eyes. Now he had understood the reason behind every phenomenon that occurred into his life. How his mother & father sacrificed themselves in order to give him birth and set this world right. He felt a lot of responsibility on his shoulders.

Before all of this, he was only the lord of Vijaypath, but now he was the promised one, the saviour of the world. Setupati's presence was giving him assurance that they might have a chance against the enemy.

Vishwaprit looked at Setupati, who was sitting with closed eyes. Setupati heard his thoughts into his mind, so he opened his eyes and looked at Vishwaprit. He smiled silently and closed his eyes again.

They reached their home after sundown. They all wanted to rest now. They walked into their respective rooms and no-one said a word.

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It was nearly midnight. Setupati was resting in the balcony, trying to focus into his mind. Suddenly he noticed the frequency shift in the middle of the city. Something or someone caused to disrupt the regular energy level, and it suddenly skyrocketed. He suspected, something was wrong. He wasn't going to take any chance about Vishwaprit's life from now on. He decided to check out the area. He focused into his mind using all his skills and found the exact spot of energy disruption. There were few people, dressed like assassins, discussing about their attack. Setupati tried to check their minds, but they were almost empty. They were not people, they're were soldiers, made to fight and obey.

He realised, something was going seriously wrong. Their enemy was making another move. He was trying to suffocate them by attacking from every way. First there was the mist and bloody massacre of innocent people by innocent people who were born with the unlucky fate. Then, the attack on the Vishwaprit in the realm of minds. And now this. The enemy was trying to destroy and distract them by any means, so that he can fullfill his motives.

Setupati stood up silently and walked towards Vishwaprit's room. He reached him in his mind before reaching his door and alerted him about his arrival. Vishwaprit opened the door before Setupati got a chance to knock. Looks into Vishwaprit's eyes were not scared this time. He was determined and fearless. He asked Setupati,

"Where?"

Setupati looked at him with serious expressions and said,

"In the middle of the city. I tried to recognise their motives into their minds, but I couldn't. They're his soldiers. They're protected by him. I cannot read their minds. But I found their location. We need to move now."

"How many men do we need?" Vishwaprit asked.

"Few will be handful. More men will cause more attention and more problems. And the soldiers are few I guess. We can take them down."
Setupati explained.

Vishwaprit nodded and left to gather his men.

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Few minutes later, Vishwaprit and Setupati left the house, in the middle of the night, with few of their men alongwith them.

The night was dark and moon was nowhere to be found. The cold winds were blowing steadily, as if they were not in hurry to go anywhere. There was silence in the vehicle, no one was in the condition to start any communication. They were hoping that they will fight the enemy bravely, defeat them and return home safely. But nobody knew who was the enemy. They definitely knew that these were not the monsters whom they defeated few days ago. These were soldiers, probably trained in fighting and killing. It was going to be difficult to fight them, but with enough numbers, they could take the enemies down.