Past is the Starting

While thinking about her past, Abha opened her grandmother’s trunk again. She kept staring at that photograph. Holding the picture in her hand, she didn’t even realize when sleep took over.

When she opened her eyes, she was back in her old mansion—standing in front of that same locked room inside the basement.

No. This can’t be happening. I didn’t come here. Wake up, Abha. You have to wake up. You need to get out of here as soon as possible, she told herself.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around.

Her father stood there with a gentle smile on his face.

The dark, frightening mansion was now glowing with light.

“Abha, my child, your mother has been looking for you for so long. We’ve been waiting to play with you.”

Tears started flowing from Abha’s eyes.

“Why… why me?” she thought before looking at him again.

“No. No. You are not my father. My mother left me…” Abha screamed.

Slowly, the smile disappeared from her father’s face.

“What are you doing here? You shouldn’t have come here!” her father said angrily.

Abha looked around.

As anger filled his face, blood began dripping down from the walls of the mansion.

Fear overwhelmed her.

But this wasn’t the time to be afraid.

She understood something terrible was about to happen.

“No… leave me. Please stop all of this. Please try to understand. I don’t want to do any of this. I want to live. If you were in my place, you would do the same,” she tried desperately to bring the shadow back to reason.

Suddenly, the door behind Abha opened.

She turned toward it.

“Go inside,” a terrifying voice ordered from behind her.

Now she realized—

There was something even more dangerous than the shadow standing before her.

She turned back toward the shadow.

“If you have the courage, then push me inside.”

The black shadow began growing taller to frighten her.

“I’m not afraid of you. Do whatever you want.”

“Don’t fear him… but you should fear me.”

The voice came from inside the basement room.

When she turned around, a terrifying laugh greeted her.

Wake up from this nightmare. You have to wake yourself up. Wake up, Abha, she told herself.

Arjun… Arjun is alone at home. If something happens to you, how will he survive?

Wake up for Arjun.

Open your eyes.

Then she saw a light to her right.

“When a dark shadow surrounds you, always remember your family and run toward the light. Never look back at times like these, fairy.”

She remembered her grandmother’s words and did exactly that.

She kept running toward the light.

Before her hands could reach it—

Someone grabbed her leg from behind.

She fell.

But her fingers touched the light.

Her eyes opened instantly.

She looked around.

She was lying on her bed in her room.

She looked at her feet.

There were four finger marks on her right leg.

She couldn’t understand what kind of powerful shadow had touched her.

She didn’t know what was going to happen next.

But she decided Arjun should never find out.

So she wore long pajamas and a T-shirt to hide the marks.

Paatal Lok

“Finally… we found her.”

“Hahahahahaha!”

Hearing the laughter, the ruler of Paatal Lok’s kingdom rushed to his king.

“What happened, Your Majesty? Is there good news?”

“Not just good news… extremely good news.”

“The human we’ve searched for centuries and never found… we finally know where she is.”

The king laughed.

“This is wonderful, Your Majesty! Finally, the fruit of our centuries of waiting!”

“Prepare everything. We ourselves will go to Earth and bring that human here.”

“Once she comes under our control… all three worlds will belong to us.”

The king of Paatal Lok said.

The minister looked worried.

“Could someone else bring her instead, Your Majesty?”

The king glared angrily.

“Why would we let anyone else touch what belongs to us?”

The minister immediately knelt.

“Forgive me, Majesty.”

“But remember—she must come here by her own will. Not only willingly… she must become ours.”

“If someone else touches her, she will be useless to us.”

The minister frowned.

“But no spirit can touch her. Only you can control the power she was created with.”

“That’s correct,” said the king.

“But divine powers can control that strength too. And even that girl herself.”

“If she learns to control her own power before me… it won’t be good for us.”

“My father—the Supreme Lord—created her to protect Earth.”

“We must bring her here before she discovers her powers.”

The minister grew more concerned.

“Leaving Paatal Lok means leaving ninety percent of your strength behind.”

“And once you go to Earth, you’ll feel every human emotion inside you.”

“You know very well even the Supreme Lord cannot control human emotions.”

“How will you fight that?”

“That’s why you’ll come with us.”

The minister agreed immediately.

“But if word spreads that you left… demons may rise here. Captured souls may escape…”

The king nodded.

“That’s true.”

“That’s why we must leave before anyone realizes.”

He sealed ninety percent of his powers into a diamond.

The minister asked, “What is this?”

“My power.”

“If anyone gets this… they’ll try to take my throne.”

“This kingdom is mine. I built it.”

“Even if my father forced me out of heaven and sent me here.”

“This throne belongs to me.”

He put the diamond into his pocket.

The minister asked, “Will you create a human body?”

The king laughed.

“No.”

“We’ll simply possess one.”

“As soon as we take over a body, that body will gain ten percent of my power and become immortal.”

“Now go.”

“Find someone who is going to die soon.”

“Because we need a fresh body.”

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