0.2 : The Secrets of Past

"Mother say something. Please tell me that everything written on this letter is not true. Please mother say that father is still alive. Please..." The prince said with moistened eyes and with a hoarse voice. He felt like electrocuted when he finished reading the letter. His mind was filled with all kind of questions - how his father and his sworn brother could be dead? how could his Great Uncle from whom even gods fear can be dead? or how could Dwarika, one of the most beautiful and strongest kingdom could be submerged into ocean? Who dared to do this? Who dared to challenge two of the ancient clans? Even the gods from the heavenly plane had to think carefully before doing that.

The middle aged woman was still sitting there quietly, without saying a single word. She wanted the prince to calm down before she tell him anything further, as well as she also wanted to see how long would he take to calm himself down and how he was going to react after calming his down.

All in all, if his son had reached the maturity and understanding to be able to sit on that throne, to be called as emperor. As the mother of the young man sitting in front of him, she was the one suffering most seeing her only child crying. She had no one left now except her son, her husband was already dead, her eldest son died in war even her parents lost their lives in the flames of war, so she didn't want her son to cry, she wanted to show her motherly love to him, she wanted to wipe his tears and provide him consolation but she couldn't do any of that, she was bound by her duties, she was not only her mother but she was also the Queen Mother of the empire.

If today she showed her weakness she would destroy the future of the empire and even the whole Kashyapa Clan. After considering all of his actions she had to decide if she could tell him eveything or not, every secrets she was told by her husband and all the knowledge she had, afterall the person who would be sitting on that throne was not going to have a peaceful life. He would be shouldering a huge burden upon himself which could crush any feeble minded or weak willed. If he showed the qualities she was looking then it's fine she could tell him everything and if he didn't show those qualities then he would have to wait and go for a tempering.

The prince was going through tsunamis of emotions. He wanted to rush there and see everything for himself, he wanted to summon and send everyone in searching. Just when he stood up for rushing there, suddenly he remembered something... the promise... he remembered the promise he made few minutes ago, he sat down again from where he stood up. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, tried to calm down and suppress all of his emotional waves, after he exhaled he had a peaceful calm expression on his face once more. Aftter regaining his calm he asked once again.

"Mother, is there anything you know about it or anything related to it. Can you please tell me everything you know about it and why again and again heaven is punishing our clan, what taboos and unspeakable our clan has done to warrant heaven tribulation again and again? Please Mother tell me"

" Of course, I will tell you everything I know about it, afterall today you're going to sit on that throne and from that moment you'll The Emperor of this Empire so you have right to know everything as an emperor as well as the son of His Majesty and mine." replied the mother with a slightly but almost non existent smile on her face. Maybe this happiness is of her son passing the hurdle.

" Now pay attention and listen carefully what I'm going to tell you is the secret and everything about Kashyapa Clan which expect few there is no one on the mortal plane know about this.

Our world is divided into two planes- Mortal Plane where we live and the Heavenly Plane where the people who has attained godhood live. Both of these plane depend upon each other for survival. Gods on the heavenly plan depend on the prayers they get from there human worshipers and in return the gods provide protection to the humans but the same rules of worshiping doesn't apply to the demon gods, instead they depend on the sacrifices of mortals by the demons.

So there's constantly a war going on between demons and humans on the mortal plane. The mortal plane is afterall for the mortal so even if a god wants to come here and kill all the demons here they can't cause mortal plane is too frail for accommodating them and if anyone tried to come here, he will destroy the whole mortal plane the moment he will enter. This same rule applies to the demons gods too. So they cannot directly interfere in mortal plane but it's also not like they can leave us their dependents on our own fate cause if they do that then most of us humans with our frail body will be slaughtered by the demons. So they came up with 'godkins'.

Godkins are of three types - first, when a god fragment a very tiny part of his soul and let it materialize as a human in mortal plane but gods rarely do this cause this method harm the soul itself. Second, they let themselves go into reincarnation cycle, in this way they could born in the mortal plane just like a human and live like an extraordinary human untill they die and after there death they can go back to the heavenly plane. And third and last one, this method is and can only be used by gods of the highest class, when a god themselves extend his blessings to a human for some reason, he treats that human just like his own child and provide him his weapons, teaching and everything. But these all godkins are in no way gods but they are just extraordinary humans and they live not a long live. Most of the people who died in that war were the godkins even His Majesty was a godkin.

Now you understood why His Majesty died but as who did that even I don't know " told the middle aged woman.

" Mother can you tell me more about father and his era and why this great war even happened? " asked the crown prince.

" I can tell you that but you'll have sit till I'm finished and will have to listen quietly everything I'm telling you. Can you do that?" asked the woman with a solemn expression.

" Alright, I will do as you said mother "replied the crown prince.

The middle aged woman started telling the story of the past " All of this started at the beginning of the previous era when eight biggest clans came into emergence that time, right now they are called Eight Ancient Clan. Kashyapa clan as well as Aadi clan are one of them....."