The couple didn't die… When Akash checked, they were still alive. Obviously, they will be, humans have turned into immortals but they weren't invincible… But one thing bothered him still…. why did his team members die so easily? The parallel division, huh? He wasn't one of those foolish protagonists, who would say that he wants revenge no matter what and get defeated easily, life surely wasn't some movie or anime, or even the books he wrote once… but for some reason… for some reason his heart wasn't wavering against revenge.
The family was a wealthy one, and a mild behaviour at that. Maybe they are just pretending because we saved them, Brooza whispered in Akash's ears. When they asked what happened there, the family was hesitating at first but they said it….
"We're in the O division… So we didn't have much problems regarding the monsters much… we had the least dangerous monsters.. "
"Had?"
"Yup, there is sudden drop in the population of humans and rise in the population of monsters… you can understand right?" No I can't understand… I just landed on Earth yesterday and here I am without knowing a thing about this world… wasn't I in the F division? How did I get here? Why did they have to die? Where's that Kroft guy? What happened to that kid and the large wolf which? Nothing was clear for Akash, all of these questions were hitting him, and hitting him hard.
Hearing all of their conspiracy theories about the world why this was happening, it was clear that they knew something about this world… they shouldn't have! It was pretty much like the real world; well, it was the real world now… some things never change, do they? They said that, the world wasn't just ruled by monsters but powerful humans who found those stones! What stones? Well… they were stones found deep down on earth or inside some mines which came in existence out of nowhere since the apocalypse… Why is it starting to sound like all the Fantasy I have read combined? thought Akash.
They family offered them an inn for the night, since they had no other place to go. Which they accepted of course, they might look like fools but they were quite smart.
The dinner was steak and wine. Quite a Royal serving, Akash murmured in his head. Kreya would have loved it… The taste was well, how it should be, but the sauce used was making the difference… it was delicious.
"Hey, about that stone… "
" Yeah they don't know we don't have one with us.. "
They came to know that everyone in this world had one of those stones… they say that the stone chooses you… and from what they said it was clear that the stones could be used to bring back their strona.
"We should head there for the stones… our powers will surely be not the same and with training we might be able to use them properly… but to survive here... "
"….We have to use that magic thing they are talking about" Devil completed Akash's sentence.
All the humans had that stone inside their genes by birth since ages now… but how do they get it? The couple stated that… the nearest source of these stones was inside a huge cave, where no one goes anymore… they say inside the cave is the reason the population in area O is decreasing so rapidly.
"Well… we are the only ones alive in our team which was sent to save earth, but if we can't find ways to save ourselves… whom will we save? Even if there are monsters exceeding our level, we have to do it… "They started making plans if they saw a thing which they shouldn't have.
After a few days of working out and training here and there, they set out for the cave. It was as they said not even an insect roamed in that area. It took them two hours to reach that cave from the city. It was located in an abandoned village numbered as O657. Akash was hesitant, but Brooza pushed him in. It was dark and damp inside, they had artificial light with them. The light could only let them see about 40 metres in front but this cave is really deep and huge. Well, it seemed unending for some reason.
"What's with this life tunnel?" Devil asked.
"Life tunnel?" Akash asked.
"Unending... Hehehe.. "Well, no one laughed. It was an old joke, but for immortals it wasn't a joke. And for Akash who wanted to get strong enough to not let anyone die on him anymore it was crucial. As if the whole universe was against Akash, something grabbed him… something huge, not just him but Devil too… but for some reason Brooza was standing there with a smile, unharmed.
"Bring your dad here we have to finish him up… Remember Brooza?" The lady, or my mother told me. I have been living for more than a million years now. My purpose of living has been dragging people to hell, biting and tearing them apart… or in other words I just drag them to our dimension. The dimension named as hell…... It's not like how they show in movies, hell is more monstrous and ruthless… you don't need huge volcanoes and stuffs like that, hell was just living your mistakes again and again… Eternity of reliving your darkest mistakes… until your soul ceases to exist anymore, it's always fun to watch. We devils aren't here to cause humans or any other dimensional species any trouble, but we can enjoy it right? Of course, there was no other entertainment here other than this.
"Yes, I remember very well, mother… I will bring him to that cave, you can kill him!"
"But he's over you right now… what if he listens to everything?" Mother asked. Well, he isn't alone, there's that lad too… well anyway…
"He's hypnotised by the method you suggested so don't worry… "She nodded and went away. I shook my body to drop them off me. Dad was fool enough to believe whatever I said.
I was the one to summon that demon or devil whatever you might call it, to lure those fool immortals along. That kid alongside the demon wolf was just a coincidence but it lured that good for nothing immortal, whose name came out to be Akash. When that Kreya girl kicked the demon away it formed a pathway to suck them all in and there they were all senseless… Then I myself squashed them to death but that Akash didn't die, I don't know how? Why? It wasn't possible for any cosmic being to be in one peace after being touched with that, even dad would have had a hard time if I took him too. But this guy got out without a hitch in his body. I thought about killing him in his sleep in that human inn. But I couldn't for some reason. I never had the intention of taking anyone other than dad into that cave but that guy, when he was saying he couldn't save anyone… he had tears but his face showed an expression I had never seen before, it wasn't fear, sadness, joy, laughter, revenge, it was beyond those earthly things… it couldn't be described… it made me scared, it made me take him in that cave…
"I have brought him here… You remember the deal right? You free me from all this and let me leave hell… " I said while looking at the large monstrous octopus like figure swinging it's tentacles around the cave. Looking at the monster, it was clear that the cave was huge itself. It must have been 400 feet tall, the monster. Then a voice came, an ear cracking voice of a woman, it was mom. She was standing at the top of the monstrous creature.
"Of course you will be free, but first let me squeeze your dad to death… " She patted on the monster gently and it started squeezing dad as hard as he could. I didn't know why but dad didn't have any of strona left. It made my work so easy, so I won't complain…
The octopus or Kraken was sucking all the power from dad's body, unlike humans… we have power not blood to support our body….since it's a human body so it might be seen as blood…
Even after all his blood was sucked, his eyes weren't wavering… what was he made of? I thought but his body soon gave in, the kraken crunched his body in half and just gobbled him. Then it looked at that guy Akash. For some reason mom jiggled a bit, then she turned towards me.
"You can free now.."
I smiled and started walking towards the exit of the cave but…
"… free from your life that is… I will have you go to your dad… "she patted on the monster again and stretched one of its arms towards me started squeezing on to sucking in all my power… It must have been my last moments since, there was a bright light which filled my eyes and flashbacks rushed in… Dad holding me, asking me what I want to become but mom ordered me to become a dog… it wasn't his fault ever….. Hell wasn't just for humans it was for its inmates as well… I couldn't keep up with the lust of all those… humongous monsters whom were called in to feed on the fears of those humans and other beings whom I dragged with me. Some of them couldn't find enough entertainment by just that so they were allowed to use the bodies of other slave devils like me. I had to offer my human body to those devils… they raped me, slashed me, and reformed me into bodies they would have lusted upon so many thousands of years but couldn't put a hand over them as they were inferior to them… so they let out everything on me, I have had millions of kids… and… and they were all killed in front of my eyes, I thought it was whom I was supposed to be but one day dad went out… everyone said that he was going to bring back the equilibrium in the universe again…
Mom ordered a kill over dad, she was jealous with all the people praising for him. In between that I made a new friend, she was a slave too, but she wanted to be free… Free? I never heard that word before… She told me that the allowance to live on your own terms is called independence. I was shocked I thought those words only were for higher ups… I didn't know that a daughter or a son had equal value as their parents because we were made slaves irrespective of our genders… I thought why doesn't dad do anything? I started hating dad and thought he was the one behind all this and mom supported the idea and when my friend argued against that mom killed her saying she was one of dad's fiend.
I was devastated by her death. Mom took that as her advantage and made me do all these sinful things, Well what is sin? Is there any sin in this universe? No one's there to save us is there? I am sorry dad, I am sorry Akash… I could have done better… I think I am dying, I wonder what's there in the afterlife of immortals?