chapter 1

"On his 21st birthday, Arjun discovered an old, dust-covered wristwatch in his grandfather’s attic—one that ticked backward and whispered the date of his death."

After seeing the watch he was confused he tried the watch on his best friend. As soon as his best friend wore the watch, time froze around them—the falling rain paused midair, birds hung motionless in the sky, and the only sound was the slow, eerie tick of the backward-moving hands.

He panicked he removed the watch from his best friend hand and wear on his own, trying various buttons on it.The moment Arjun pressed the red button on the side, the attic around him dissolved into mist, and he found himself standing in the middle of a bustling marketplace—but the signs were in Sanskrit, and a young Ashoka was giving a speech nearby.

He had wore different clothes from other, surroundings people was shoked to see him the gaurds start targeting weapons on him. Realizing he stood out, Arjun raised his hands in panic, but before the guards could reach him, the watch glowed blue and yanked him forward through a tunnel of swirling light, dropping him into what looked like a futuristic city floating in the sky.

As he was seeing his surroundings flying car, robots, flying bots, and floating houses he was again thrown to tunnel by the watch.

This time, he landed in a dark forest under a blood-red moon, where a hooded figure was waiting beside a fire—and before Arjun could speak, the figure said, “I’ve been expecting you, Timewalker.”

He was all dizzy due to time travelling and fainted then and there. When Arjun awoke, he was lying on a bed of glowing moss inside a tree-shaped house, the hooded figure watching over him and murmuring, “You’ve only scratched the surface—your destiny is tangled across centuries.”

Arjun was confused then the hooded figure came forward elaborating how his grandfather was also a timewalker. The hooded figure pulled back their hood, revealing a face marked with ancient symbols, and said, “Your grandfather guarded the watch to protect the timeline—but now, its power has awakened in you, and forces from the future want to control it.”

The hooded guy said further my name is Draco I am the gardian of different dimensions and I am responsible for maintaining peace within the realms. Draco’s voice was calm, but carried a weight that made the air around him feel heavier.

He looked at the Watch on his wrist and said, “That artifact chose you—not by chance, but by fate.”

Arjun was dumbstruck he asked in tiny voice felling the weight of the revelation "Why me ? "

Draco’s eyes softened, though the stars still flickered in them.

“Because your bloodline carries a fragment of the original time-thread—we call it the Aeternum Strand." Your earth is not the only one in the universe there are various realms and many evil forces ready to destroy this peace.

“And the Watch,” Draco said, gesturing to it, “is the only thing powerful enough to seal breaches between realms—or open them wide.”

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