THE CHALLENGE.

Faith Wins Over Fear.

I heard a laughter gushing from behind, I stopped and turned behind, the evil spirit was not dead, and he was standing at the passage, holding the rails of the passage, and neither I moved ahead from the spot, and I was running like a rat on the hamster wheel without steering ahead. He said, "Fool! There is no point escaping me, you are trapped here till eternity, and there is no escape from here." I had made a plan in my mind, this is the reason, I fired at the evil spirit, and I definitely know that evil spirits cannot be killed; however, this was a part of my plan, which will be unveiled in due course. The evil spirit uttered, "My servants will kill you in few moments." And he rolled his eyes, flaring his arms levelling up to the shoulder, he shouted, "Rise!!!!! And kill this stupid human."

There was an eerie silence for a while, and then I heard a laughter, as if there were thousands of people laughing, the unholy spirits were appearing at the corners of the factory, and they were marching towards me to kill, they had semi-transparent bodies, they had large nails, and hairy arms and legs, their eyes were large, with ragged hairs on their head. This is the crucial time for me, to survive or perish, I removed the Divine Locket from my neck, and I extended my arms, as the strings had clutched my fingers, the Divine Locket was emitting brilliant glow, and thus the spirits approaching me were squirming away, and they scattered away like ants.

My plan was to annihilate the evil infesting here.

I chanted the Holy Hymns of God, which Shyama has taught me, as the spirits were running away, I looked at the passage, the evil spirit was covering his face with his arms, and he yelled, "Officer! I request you; please shove away this Divine Locket." I was not in a mood to do it, and then I swung to see the way clear for me, I saw the exit door is just couple of steps away, and then I ran towards the gate, however, again the army of the evil spirits were closing me in, and again, I raised my arms, displaying the Divine Locket, and they glided away. I saw few gasoline containers, at a corner, I had the gun in my left arm, and then I fired at the gasoline. There was a sudden burst, I sprinted and jumped out of the exit door, I landed on the ground outside the factory, and the factory was engulfed in fire within few seconds.

I got up quickly, running a few steps, and then I stopped and swung towards the factory; the rusted structure was tumbling down. The fire was taking shape of devil with empty eyes and a wide open mouth, I raised my arm again, which had the Divine Locket, chanting Holy Hymns, and a light bolt emerged from the Divine Locket hitting at the devil, and pushing him to the sky, perhaps he is been pushed in the depths of hell.

I saw a familiar voice coming behind me. I turned back, Amit, Jagdeesh and other were huddling towards me. They were asking me questions, however, I laughed and replied, "I won the challenge, and y'all got to admit, that I am the fierce competitor and a strongest challenger." Everyone agreed, and laughed in unison, including Kelly. We returned to Sanjay's house, and I narrated the story which happened to me. I saw surprise in everyone's face, however, Jagdeesh and Amit were calm, as we had faced this creepy situation before, Kelly looked at me with surprise, and I saw her tad smiling at me. Sanjay apologised to me, for playing this stupid childish game, but I reciprocated informing, that the place where the factory stood is no more haunted.

The next day, Amit, Jagdeesh and I were ready to move, Sanjay insisted us to stay, but we politely refused, and then Rahul, Kelly and Mr. Singhal followed us. We promised him to meet again, I conversed, "Until next time the challenge should be more complicated to fulfil." Sanjay bowed to me, and pulled his ears, he replied, "No Sir, please no more challenge, you will always win." We all laughed, and bid adieu to Sanjay. Rahul boarded in Kelly's sedan, while Jagdeesh, Amit and I boarded our jeep, Kelly's sedan drive past our jeep, they waved us goodbye, and Kelly waved me goodbye. Our eyes met for the last time, she waved me, and gave a beautiful smile of her yesteryears, and I too smiled and bid her adieu. We were back on our routine work, and then on a weekend, we visited Shyama and Vineed, I narrated my story to them, and also I thanked Shyama, as she taught us the Holy Hymns of God, which helped me in crucial hour. We gave gifts to them, as a goodwill gesture, now everything is good, and we are in peace.