The promised one

Shastriji had left with his colleagues to confront the enemy. They were traveling fast, they had to. They knew that the enemy was beyond their powers, but they had to try. Else there will be nothing left to lose.

Ae they were reaching towards there destination, Shastriji felt an unusual presence of a powerful energy. And it didn't belong to the enemy. He closed his eyes and tried to find the source of energy. His vision travelled through air like a wind and stopped at a car traveling towards the same destination of theirs. The source of power was the man sitting on the back seat of a big SUV car along with another power source who was looking back at him, or Shastriji felt like it.

'Is he the one?' Shastriji asked himself.

'Has god blessed us with the son he had promised, to save us from this enemy from another world?' 

He wasn't sure. But he had hopes. He hoped to find out the truth once he meet him at the destination. They both were traveling towards the same.

After few minutes of silence in the chaotic world, it got noisy suddenly. They, the one and his comrades, had met the enemy before Shastriji. The sound of monsters screeching loudly pierced everyone's mind who were able to hear them. And all of them, Shastriji and team, were unfortunately able to hear them clearly. They looked at each other with fear and disbelief. It had started.

'Nothing can stop him now if 'the promised one doesn't show up!'

Shastriji's vision was tracing his footsteps. He was moving fast but nothing extraordinary was happening, he was fighting like a normal human being. And the another power source who was accompanying him was still looking back at Shastriji. As if he was making sure that nothing from the mind world would hurt him. He was guarding his mind. It was certainly powerful duo.

Suddenly, the suspected man fell down on the ground. Everybody's heart stopped beating for a second including Shastriji. If he was the one, then they wouldn't have afforded to lose him this way. But the view he encountered next, shook Shastriji's world.

The man stood up from the ground and grabbed the monster fearlessly. And the monster red eyes turned brown once again. He brought him back to humanity. Was it even possible? Yes, it was possible. He was the living proof of it.

'He is the one.'

Shastriji smiled to himself and looked at his friends who were confused after watching such a confusing scene. Shastriji didn't have time to explain them everything right now, hence he smiled from the corner of his lips and declared,

"He is the promised one and we're going to meet him soon."

Everybody looked at him with disbelief and happiness. They couldn't believe what they saw and heard. They were eager to meet him, to see him with their own eyes.

Shastriji didn't know anything about the person they thought the promised one was. He tried to gather information about him, from every living soul around him. He focused hard, he used all of his power to gain every bit of information they had about him.

'Vishwaprit, a prince of Vijayprath', with no one else alive from the family and the person beside him was 'Setupati', who was gifted with the power of vision beyond the time itself. And he had observed that Shastriji was searching for Vishwaprit. But he was too caught up with the situation in his hand that he couldn't do much except protecting Vishwaprit's mind. Shastriji couldn't reach both of their minds.'

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"I can tell you how!"

Shastriji's words reached everybody like a thunder. He was walking towards Vishwaprit and Setupati, and was staring at Vishwaprit without blinking. He reached them along with his group and kept staring at them further.

Vishwaprit's curiousity reached the level and he got frustrated, but he still asked with immense respect towards Shastriji,

"Will you please elaborate?"

Setupati was going to tell what he knew but he let Shastriji speak.

The atmosphere filled with Shastriji's voice,

"You're the son of late Maharaj of Vijayprath kongdom 'Vijaydev' and a spiritual spirited lady 'Sadhwi'. Your blood is a hybrid mixture of human, God and Dark lord. You received your human genes by being born as a human, your mother graced you with the part of god you carry inside, and your father, who was cursed from last 300 years, gave you the bits of dark lord. You can reign in all the three realms. But you're neither purely a human nor a god or any dark creature. You're a special entity created by nature and hard work of your family, so that this world can be saved from this evil."

"You are saying that my father and mother intentionally gave me birth. They knew all along what I was going to be?" Vishwaprit asked.

"No Vishwa." Setupati answered.

"They didn't get to witness their success. They lost their lives way before they acknowledge your true form. And your powers were not exposed until the return of the dark lord. As if nature was waiting for his arrival." He explained.

"My mother, did she give me these powers? I mean the god side?"

"Yes"

"How?"

Now Shastriji answered,

"Lady Sadhwi was a pure form of god's power. She carried them inside her, for you. I knew her, I met her once. And I can never forget her eyes which gave me spiritual feeling of a god. As if she was herself standing instead of him. Your father found her, loved her and married her. They knew what were they doing. But they weren't sure it was going to work, until today. We have witnessed the success of their sacrifice."

"You say I have a bit of dark lord inside me. So does that mean I'm evil?"

"No, my son. No. It is reverse of what you think." Shastriji tried to explain but couldn't find the exact words.

Setupati saw his struggle and interfered,

"Vishwa, it means that you can cross the boundaries of human world and can reach to the dark one, where dark lord resides."

"Am I powerful than the dark lord?"

"Indeed you're!" Shastriji said it proudly.

"The dark lord should be afraid of you. He is afraid of God and you're part god." Setupati explained further.

"So can I destroy the dark lord? He has caused pain to many of us. He has cursed my family for generations."

"Son, the dark lord balances out this world, that's why nature has allowed his existence in this world. If you finish him, only if you can, you'll disturb the balance in this world. And about cursing your family, they had accepted the bid with all the knowledge about pain their future generations would have to go through. And he kept his word too. He had locked the enemy until now. It wasn't his fault that your family was cursed by him. It's his nature. He doesn't make people do bad things, but he encourage them, because their pain gives him pleasure. Now you decide." Shastriji explained.

"..." Vishwaprit didn't say anything.

But Setupati asked,

"Shastriji, what about the enemy. It looks like he has stopped for today."

"He is shocked by Vishwaprit's presence. But he will return. We have to be ready for his next attack. We have to inform all the people of the city."

Shastriji warned them and looked at Raghav and Ganesh.

They both were already surprised with what they had witnessed so far, but Ganesh still managed to answer,

"We'll arrange it. But what are we going to say?"

"You can say that it is viral infection because of the terrorist attack of infectious mist, which causes people to go mad. They'll buy it. After all the movies about it, it is the best story, which fits to this reality." Setupati suggested.

"Hmm. That's believable. But how are we going to stop them from turning into monsters tomorrow night?" Raghav questioned.

"I have to think about it." Shastriji answered.

"I know how." Setupati said, looking at Shastriji.

Shastriji looked at Setupati curiously. Setupati started to explain,

"What I have learned about Vishwaprit's powers, he can bring them back by his influence, either by touch or by his influencing aura. So, we can ask them to meet us at a specific place to get protection from the enemy."

"But how will we differentiate between the unprotected and the protected one? There are far too many people in this city." Raghav asked.

"We can do that. We have a number of people who can differentiate and then we can have a ritual to enhance Vishwaprit's influence to convert hundreds of people at the same time. I'll look into the details and let you know." Shastriji volunteered themselves.

"Fine. It's settled for now then." Ganesh said.

"No my sons. It's only about protecting the unprotected ones. But the enemy is still active and should be planning a new plan to attack our world. We need to be alert. And most importantly, he will try to hurt Vishwaprit. He is the only obstacle into his path." Shastriji said with great worry.

"But he is the most powerful one. He can't hurt him." Setupati asked with disbelief.

"We don't know that yet, son. Better be careful. The enemy is far too much powerful." Shastriji's words made everybody alert.

"We will." Setupati said.

"That's settled then. We have to clean this place. It looks like a graveyard. We will gather all these unprotected unconscious creatures. You people arrange them to convert." Ganesh declared.

"Vishwaprit is tired for now. You take them with you and keep them safe. We'll do the rituals tomorrow." Setupati said with great care towards Vishwaprit.

Vishwaprit nodded saying yes. He was too tired to talk.

All the police force started to gather the people and loaded them into the cars. It was very hard and time consuming work. Vishwaprit and Setupati decided to leave the site. They asked the police to take care of around those monsters and left. Shastriji stayed with Ganesh and Raghav in case of any emergency.

After Vishwaprit and Setupati's leave, Shastriji still felt the presence of someone powerful around him. Someone not from this time. Someone unusual. He looked at Raghav once more, working with the police force. He looked ordinary to his eyes. His aura was normal too. But still something was different about him. He dropped the thought after thinking for few minutes and sat on the stone beside. Keeping an eye on the situation.

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