Chapter 8: The Truth revealed
Remember the day I found this clock in the dungeon, that night just few hours into my sleep I woke up and thought to myself, “Why isn’t anything happening today, why are there no dreams?”
I reached out for a glass of water on the side of my bed and then realized I was five feet in air floating. Before I could create a panic around I was flying through a dark tunnel and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. I was dropped a few moments later at a graveyard, moments those felt like years. The graveyard had no sky above it in fact I was somewhere beneath the earth. I made my way to an open space, after all that had happened to me as a child I never got frightened with such incidents. I was in a middle of an arena; in front of me was a giant structure which looked like a chair made up of dead bones and skulls the roots of ancient trees keeping it together. There were two more such chairs on the either side much smaller in size. Suddenly I found myself transforming into the same devil of the dungeon. When it was over I was wearing a cloak, my eyes burning red. I again floated in the air and took my place in one of the Chairs. There was west encrypted on it. I was the western lord of death.
I looked to my side and my brother’s also appeared on their respective chairs. My heart was filled with joy to see them but this devil form would not let me express anything. I noticed they were looking towards the open arena. I also looked in the same direction. Then we all stood up and lightning fell upon the biggest chair creating a cloud of smoke, when it cleared Death was here. We all then took our seats and what looked like a ceremony began. There was a circle of fire that lit up and souls started appearing from the ground, there were hundreds and thousands of them but all were black.
They were frightened and were screaming of their innocence. Death now stood up and the soul’s stopped screaming until complete silence was restored, it said
“Welcome oh eternal souls of the world. You had been brought here as a result of your deeds in the last human form. You will now be released of your sins to be sent back to the world. Remember, the soul never dies.”
Death took his seat and the circle of fire started becoming small, it was a massacre and the souls climbed on top of one another to save themselves they screamed and begged for mercy but neither death nor my brothers moved. The one whom the fire caught were burnt until they turned into ash. The circle kept on decreasing its size until finally all souls were burnt and what was left was only ash. There was silence again, Death again stood up and said,
” Rise again!”
The circle lit up again to its original size and the souls started to appear again, this time they were happy and were of a golden color. All of them bowed before death before flying in the four directions to give happiness to someone in the world. I was both shocked and confused.
As I rose and started towards death, it turned to me and said,
“Mark my child I know you seek answers.”
I was confused; all of a sudden there were no questions in my mind.
It then turned towards my brother’s, “Leave us” it said and my brother’s now disappeared as they had appeared.
Death came closer to me I was both frightened and anxious. It removed its cloak and I was surprised to see a handsome young man in the cloak.
“I know what you are going through; there are a lot of questions to be answered.” It said.
I was trying to think that this person doesn’t look that bad. “I was the last prince of the dark ages, there was a war between the spirits of the world and I had seen many of my soldiers die and their families burnt. At the end of dark ages al the spirits came to an end and that is when the first humans, Adam and Eve were born. You are all their sons and daughters. I was given this role of death by the almighty to carry on the circle of life on earth. Souls are sent in different forms to the world and it depends on their deeds to rest in heaven or goes back to the world as humans. Hell as they call it is just a place to make them realize what evil they did and they pay for the same and go back to the world. Souls are eternal they cannot die, there are a handful of souls who make it to heaven and for the ones who do, just like it there for a few years before requesting to go back to the world and try and make a difference but most of them end up here only, so the circle goes on and on. ”Why did you kill my parents after all they did for you?”
Death paused for a moment and then said, “It is a circle of life, no one but the almighty has the right to live forever and you see it’s not a boon to live forever, it’s a curse. You me and your brothers are living that curse, our souls can’t be like others.”
There was silence again, I had a lot of questions but they were just thoughts and not taking the form of words at the moment.
”Why did you drink the potion of life at the pond, you are immortal as you said?”
Death smiled now, “Do you really think I drank it for becoming immortal? I am already immortal; the rules are laid by the almighty not me. I didn’t want this to happen to anyone else, look at you and your brother’s do you call this life? Do you really think that your father had saved you?”
For once I started to think likewise, what this person saying was made perfect sense. My life is a misery and I would have carried out this cycle for ages. Death was reading my mind, it also told me that the car accident for the family was shown to me as I was meant to come to this house of Mr. & Mrs. keeper’s and that it happens in every life cycle. Without death the world would not survive, if no one dies, how would parents have new born? Old people would suffer so much their bodies would turn into pieces of human flesh; they will see it decay but their souls would not be able to leave their bodies. I by now was in death’s favor for whatever had happened and was ready to serve him.
Death took my hand and said, “Son, I could have left all four of you to be on your own, but I didn’t. I took care of all of you. What benefit would I get keeping four of you?”
I went on my knees to thank him. He helped me stand up back. “Now there, we need to face what we have got. You are now ready as my time keeper.”
Till now you were unknowingly doing it but you now know there is a purpose to fulfill.” I stood up and felt a power surge through my veins. I now finally became the Death’s Time Keeper and I knew what needed to be done.
Every night post this I was having these so called ceremonies with death until I met Angela and I was getting healed by love and death was not willing to let this happen. Even after making me believe that death had not cheated my father by burying him alive, it could not overpower Love. That’s why someone has rightfully said Love is eternal. With Angela on the death bed I turned towards the door with vengeance. As I walked the corridor started to turn into a dense forest and moments later I was in the arena. I threatened death to appear.
It did, right behind me, death spoke, “What do you seek Mark?”
I turned behind and looked at it, the eternal evil right in front of me.
“I want you to spare Angela’s life. I had not given her time of death to you.”
Death laughed a voice that of the banshee, “You cannot break the circle of life, if it’s her time neither you nor me can stop it, there is however one way.”
“What is that?” I said.
“You can sacrifice your life for her soul to live.”
Without giving a thought what death had said I replied “I accept”
Thunder broke its way out from the clouds, “very well then, her soul shall live till eternity and you Mark timer are no longer my time keeper. You are relieved of your duties as an immortal and that of your curse.”
Angela appeared before us, I ran towards her. Her tears were that of her blood. I took her into my arms and looked at her face.
She said.”Oh Mark, you stupid fool” She started laughing. I didn’t understand, by this time my cloak was gone and my eyes didn’t burn. I did not understand why she would laugh. She now pushed me back and walked towards death. Death took her in its arm
s and she vanished in its cloak. I was still not getting what had happened but I felt as if I had started quickly aging. I looked at my hands and they were turning weak by every passing moment, I could not feel my legs and fell on the ground.
As I looked towards death, all my three brothers were vanishing in the cloak of death which was walking towards it chair. There were questions to be answered as I looked at death. I then recalled what death had said.
“…unless if they willingly you want to sacrifice their souls to protect someone.”
“Remember the Soul never dies”,
“You can sacrifice your life for her soul to live.”
” Death always has the last smile.”
As my body started to decay with whatever little strength I had left I remembered my family. Death had been successful in taking the lives of my family, my brothers and I was the last one to go down.
With these thoughts everything blacked out. Death had tricked me with the help of Angela who blinded me so much with love that I got ready to sacrifice my own life for her.
I woke up in a place that looked like heaven. I smiled at the people who surrounded me; I think I knew them very well.
Even as the above happened back at the Author’s desk he writes “The End of Part – I.” As he closes the book a familiar voice says, “Is it done?” The author smiles to himself and while turning back replies
“Yes it is”
“Well then it’s time for you to go” Says Death.
Death takes him in his arms and vanishes. The Author leaves us with a mysterious smile.
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Acknowledgements
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Mohit Kumar Arora is passionate writer and has some very interesting projects up his sleeve which will be shortly released. He has taken a long break from his busy work schedule to support his family thus simultaneously he is getting a chance to fulfill his child hood dream of penning down his thoughts and for once living the life of a full time writer. He is also in poetry writing and one day dreams of that one of his stories will be made into a big banner movie.
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