Chapter 2:

Beginning

Reappearance of the lost ones (RLO)


He lifted the creature and slowly took it to the bathroom. When carrying it towards the bathroom Raj realized that the creature had something identical to someone or maybe something!

He kept voicing inside his head 'What is this analogous feeling I am getting while carrying the creature?'

Then he comprehended that although the creature's size is the same as a teenager's, its weight was not as much as it should have been compared to a human teenager's.

Raj tried to take out the paws like gloves thinking it wasn't real but couldn't pull it off of the creature's hand. He then confirmed that it's really, not a human being.

The prickling sensation the creature got when Raj pinched its paws made it conscious.

'Aghh...'

It coughed up some blood out of its mouth. Raj tried to calm it down and gave it a glass of water from the kitchen.

'Here, drink it. It will make you refreshed.'

The creature snatched the glass and gulp it down within a second. Raj was astounded as the creature acted as if it could understand what he was saying. Seeing upon Raj's amazed expression the creature spoke,

'What is there to be so amazed? Of course, I could understand you otherwise how could I communicate with you before passing out.'

Raj recollected his composure and realized that he had already communicated with it before it passed out. He then asked the creature bombarding it with countless questions.

'Who are you? No, No, What are you?'

'Why were you in my house?'

' How did you get injured?'

'Why were.....'

The creature slowly closed Raj's mouth putting its hand on top of Raj's lip and replied.

'I know you are panic-strucken after seeing a never-seen creature but try to remain calm.'

Raj nodded slightly in accord with its statement.

The creature spoke again, 'First of all, we need to rescue your brother from those Ravana's followers.'

'And second, don't mention me as some weird being. I have my name too. Call me Karya.'

'Here, put on this ring and repeat the sentences I say after me.'

Karya started murmuring some words but Raj couldn't understand it the slightest and with a startled look he tried to stop Karya. After observing the lost Raj, Karya grabbed his hand started the chanting from the beginning. After a while of chanting a strange flash of light shined and the next moment Raj knew he was inside some big forest.

Raj looked around his surrounding but couldn't elaborate where he was. Karya pulled him and steadfastly came upon a large Sacred fig tree. Raj had heard that a sacred fig tree was a holy tree for many religions and was quite rare to find it but seeing the size of the tree he was thrown off his balance. The tree was about two hundred feet(about 60 meters) long.

Karya pulled him into the tree hollow. Entering the tree hollow the dimension around them began changing and space was changing color. He felt as if he was going through some kind of warp hole. Not so long after, they had entered the tree hollow and began seeing the colorful space around them both of them reached a completely different area.

'It is my homeland and homeland of many demihumans just like me.', Karya spoke.

Raj was feeling nervous and at the same time, he was excited to see a place that should have been within fairy tales and myths. He googled around the mythical site and identified almost all of the beings around him were demihumans just like Karya. He was eager to discover the mythical land but the danger dwelling around his kidnapped brother produced a constant anxiousness within him. He couldn't waste a single moment fantasizing about the new world.

Raj patted Karya's shoulder and asked him about his brother and why both of them came to his homeland. With a calm and reassuring voice, Karya explained that the current power Raj holds cannot fend off Ravana's followers and he needs a weapon that could utilize more of his power.

'Power? What do you mean? What kind of power?', Raj asked.

Karya replied as he took Raj towards a huge mansion, "Now remain calm as I tell you about who you are and the existence within you which even you haven't noticed."

Karya began explaining to Raj about the power existing within him. Karya said, ' It is a power that is capable of destroying the complete realm. It was originally of Ravana the ten-headed one, he was king of a certain place and was a great disciple of Lord Shiva(supreme deity in Hindu mythology). He used to worship him all time, simply he was an ardent worshipper, he would always sing hymns of Lord Shiva and after long years of his worshipping, his prayers were answered. Lord Shiva made an appearance in front of him and asked him why was he worshipping, tackling such hardships of singing hymns, making his statue for hours in one day. Ravana was already wise and had gained knowledge beyond the human realm so, he gave his answers with swiftness and without a sense of fear in front of Lord Shiva. Pleased with his perseverance and wiseness Lord Shiva asked him to make any request and said he would try his best to fulfill it. Ravana asked for immortality which even the Lord couldn't provide and instead of immortality Lord Shiva gave him the nectar of immortality that only gods could have accessed which could make him almost nearly immortal but not completely immortal and with it, the Lord even granted the boon of supremacy over different species including us demihumans. He truly reached the pinnacle of human society but Ravana slowly became corrupted because of power, he started a war with other countries and captured it, killed uncountable numbers of people viciously, and even dared to attack heaven. Seeing his doings even Gods got scared and asked the Trimurti(Gods of gods Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Brahma) for help and was later killed at the hands of the incarnation of the great deity Vishnu. Everyone thought Ravan was killed but his knowledge, power, and his will still roamed Earth. His will would possess humans and tried to gain his complete strength but the strain it caused to the host's body was far greater due to which his will would travel from one human to another one for thousand years. Surprisingly, it found a stable host after wandering the universe for thousand years and IT is you, Raj.'

Raj's face turned timid upon hearing what Karya said. He felt a chill inside him. Raj thought, 'How could such evil be inside me?; What am I gonna do if it completely possesses me and gets its strength?'

Then again, Raj remembered what Karya was saying and asked him, 'If demihumans such as you exist then surely Gods do exist, right Karya?'

'They could easily get rid of this monster's will which hasn't even got its full power, right Karya?'

Karya sighed and told, 'Yeah, they could but Ravana was killed in Treta-yuga(2,163,102 BCE - 867,102 BCE) and this is Kali-yuga, Gods cant descend upon Earth and even Trimurti's can't incarnate in this Yuga and is said that only incarnate of Lord Vishnu "Kalki" will appear only at the end of the Kali-yuga which also means the destruction of the universe. So, sadly we can't even count upon Gods.'

Upon hearing those words Raj was devastated but still the thought of rescuing his brother Ishan made him capable to stand on his own toes.

'Ok, now I know why those bastards kidnapped my brother', Raj said with a trembling voice because of fear.

'They are trying to lure you in the place where Ravana's strength is stored and probably threaten you to take it inside your body using your brother.', Karya replied with a disturbing thought.

'Ok then let's meet up with our King and ask his suggestion as to what to do next!', Karya said again and pulled Raj inside the huge mansion in front of them.