Burning bats

After leaving from there, I don't know where my father went but shortly after that the Vaidya brought the Pandit of the village and all the other survivors to our house. The condition of all of them was very bad. Some were dying very badly.

Now suddenly a man fell down and red rashes started appearing on his body. By the time the Vaidya ran to him, he also vomited blood and died immediately.

"Oh God, what harm have all these people done to anyone, please help us" said the Pandit looking towards the sky with a sad face.

"Where is your father, why hasn't he come here till now, how long has it been, will he come back only after we all die" Vaidya asked me in a slightly loud voice.

Everyone was mourning his death when my father arrived there with a Tantrik. Everyone there was scared of that Tantrik, it was said about him that he drinks human blood. That Tantrik always used to sit near the cremation ground and his body was covered with ashes.

Seeing him standing in front, I got scared and ran and stood behind the door. Everyone was scared of him like me but he was looking at all of them with strange eyes.

"Have you seen the condition here, now fix them quickly" said my father in anger.

Now that Tantrik quickly went to the dead body which had just died and started smelling it. After which he suddenly stood up and turned his face towards that house.

In no time, the eyes of that Tantrik turned white. "What are you doing after all, for what work did I call you and what are you doing" said my father in anger.

As soon as father went near him, he got scared seeing his white eyes and he took his steps back.

"Why have you brought him here inside the village, he should have been in the crematorium" said the Pandit from the other side.

"Listen Pandit! This is not in your control, there is no epidemic in the village" said the Tantrik. But then the Pandit while talking to him said "Oh then why are all these deaths happening".

"Someone has started this series of deaths, he has given earrings of hundreds of bats so that he can achieve his siddhi and the dead bodies of all those bats are lying there rotting for many days, due to which the whole air here has become polluted" said the Tantrik.

"But how can we believe that what you are saying is true, there are no dead bodies of bats anywhere in our village" said the Pandit while looking with suspicious eyes.

After which Aadesh also replied. "He is telling the truth, there are hundreds of dead bodies lying in Ravi's house".

"We have to destroy all those corpses as soon as possible, only then our trouble will end" replied the Tantrik.

Now the Pandit started saying, "Look, this doesn't mean anything" but then Aadesh interrupted him and said, "Do you have any other way Pandit?" After which the Pandit became silent. "If there is no way then keep quiet, let's go and destroy that house" said Aadesh with enthusiasm.

His words filled everyone with enthusiasm and their blood boiled but then the Tantrik said, "This is not the right time, all this started at midnight, so we also have to go there at that time".

"So should we all keep dying while waiting for the night" said a man from the other side. Listening to him, the Tantrik made a big circle with the help of his stick. "As long as all of you stay inside this circle, none of you will die, but whoever is outside it, his life is not my responsibility" said the Tantrik.

After making the circle, the Tantrik left from there. After some time, everyone stood inside the circle with their families. Pandit's wife and his son were also standing inside, at that time his son's age was also the same as mine.

Everyone believed in the Tantrik's words and they were completely sure that as long as they stay inside the circle, nothing will happen to them. But there was a person in the same crowd who hated that Tantrik.

After some time, father took me and left from there, but after that Pandit came out of the circle and stood there despite knowing everything. "Look, that Tantrik is a liar, I have also come out of this circle, it does not matter whether you stay inside it or outside it" said Pandit addressing everyone.

"Listen, come inside quickly, I am feeling very scared" said Pandit's wife panicking. "Don't be afraid, nothing will happen to me, this circle is of no use" said Pandit with frustration.

As soon as the Pandit was about to speak further, suddenly his mouth became crooked and slowly his whole body started twisting, after some time the priest started coughing badly and sat on his knees.

Suddenly while coughing, blood came out of the priest's mouth and fell on the ground which scared everyone. Then suddenly everyone saw that the Tantrik was coming with a bundle in his hands.

Seeing him, the Pandit coughed and shouted "Save me, take me inside the circle". Seeing his shouting, some people were about to cross the circle but then the Tantrik shouted from there "This man has been contaminated and if all of you also want to die with him, then take him inside".

On hearing his words, everyone stopped their steps and left him there. After some time, when the Pandit started vomiting blood badly, his wife could not bear it and she also suddenly went to him.

As soon as his son was about to run away, some people caught him. "Leave me, take me inside."

Weeping, the Pandit's son said, "I have to go to my parents."

Slowly, in front of everyone, the Pandit and his wife vomited blood and died. All this scene was imprinted in the eyes of their son and he fell unconscious there.

When it was about to be 12 o'clock at night, the Tantrik started spitting ghosts on everyone. As soon as the ghosts fell on everyone, the Tantrik said, "Come with me and take some torches and things to burn."

Along with the Tantrik, my father and I also started going towards that house. After some time, the Tantrik smelled that house and said to everyone in one voice, "Burn it quickly, otherwise this poisonous air will reach outside the village as well."

Listening to him, everyone put wood and oil around that house and burnt it. Slowly, the flames of fire were burning that house, after which, suddenly thousands of burning bats started flying there.

The whole sky was covered with those burning bats and everyone felt as if they were trapped inside it. The Tantrik thought that someone had sacrificed the bats inside that house but the truth was something else. Burning the house became the biggest mistake of the Tantrik. Death was roaming in the form of bats all over the sky.

How will the epidemic end, what will those bats do, what was the curse on the village, why did nothing happen to Rudra and his father?

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