HOLY CRAP!
It just didn't happen what he thought had happened right?
Ram froze as he felt their gazes on Aunt El's fingers on his hair.
Elder of Air was glaring at them, while Proxy Elder has a worried look on her face. Sandhya was confused while Chandra was looking as if he found something that would change his life for good.
Holy Crap.
That shouldn't have happened.
Ram still didn't have control over how his powers worked or for how long they would work.
Sometimes he wished that his powers would work like he commanded. But he never felt like what he was feeling now.
They were in some serious trouble. It didn't matter if he were the only one in trouble. But this time, Aunt El was also in trouble.
She had an affectionate gaze, the one that a mother would be showing towards her child, while ruffling his hair. Her disguise as an Older Man was shattered just for a moment and Ram wished he could erase this image from people's mind. It was something that he wished to cherish only in his mind forever. He was so selfish to even think that only he could get to have her look at him.
She had been keeping him related to her as well as her monitoring both the Factions for long time as a secret for god knows how long and at the moment when he Froze the Flow of Time for others, she made a mistake.
Just like Ram did when he first discovered that he could Freeze the Flow of Time for others and kissed Sandhya, she also acted on her affection towards her foster son, him, by ruffling his hair and time flow returned to normal to cause her trouble.
But the trouble they are going to face this time was hell lot of more intense than his.
That time, he didn't know how to use his powers as and when it required.
But this time, he did know that he would be able to use his powers when he wanted.
And Ram wanted to use his powers to reset what had happened.
He wanted to Reverse the Flow of Time for all of them, except for himself.
Ram gulped, looked apologetically at Aunt El and fed all the panic and worry he was feeling for his aunt and also for himself, then fed it to his reactor just above his navel.
He clenched his gut as a result his insides felt as if they were twisting in anti-clockwise direction, followed by a gentle breeze spreading all over Ram, flowing out through his opened pores and towards Aunt El as well as others that were present around him.
He thought he had seen a shadow at the corner of his eyes, but when he turned to look at that direction, nothing was there.
He shook his head and focused on pushing the power to every one present, resisting the bile that was forming. The last thing he wanted was to puke his guts out while in the middle of Reversing the Flow of Time. It would be difficult for him to explain what he was feeling if the Flow of Time returns to normal for them.
Ram was sweating all over and breathing as if he had ran for hours when he saw all of them repeating what they did.
In reverse order.
It was very disoriented to look at and Ram realized that it was very different now than when he had used his powers the previous time.
He realized that he was able to see more details of him using his powers than earlier times and it made spots appear in his vision.
Ram felt as if his eyes were burning, to watch all of them acting like they did in reverse order, and there was something else that he was not able to see. It felt as if he were seeing the blazing sun using his naked eyes.
Once they returned to when they arrived after Ram called for them, for a moment, they were frozen and a strange light flashed all around him.
Ram's burning eyes were not able to recognize the color of the strange light, but when the burning sensation in his eyes reduced followed by his vision returning, they were looking at him as if he were wasting their precious time, just like they did when their meeting started earlier.
Ram smiled at them sheepishly.
"Hi guys, Elders and Ladies, you might be wondering why I had called you here, despite the fact that all of you are busy dealing with the absence of Elder of time, the chaos it had caused as well as collecting the proof of me being danger to The Institute and all," he said.
Elder of Air snorted while Chandra glared at him menacingly. "If you knew about that then you shouldn't have called us in the first place. What are you thinking? " he asked.
"Probably to gain my attention, to make me fall in love with you?" Sandhya asked with a hint of amusement as well as anger.
Something was off about her. Ram didn't know what it was, but before he could observe her more carefully, Elder of Air repeated. "Sandhya, be careful around him. I don't trust him," Elder of Air said.
Sandhya chuckled. "Don't worry mother. I know who he is and what he is capable of. I am sure that what you were worrying about will never happen," she said.
Aunt El looked at Ram in sympathy, but it was there only for a second. She then replaced it with a chuckle. "Boy, you are such a wonder to me. Although we are busy searching for evidence to prove that you are dangerous, as per my fellow elders and leaders of Faction of Realists, so far what I have seen were against our claim to you. But who knows, her refusal to accept your love was what would lead to you going rogue," she said.
Ram swallowed. He hoped that would not be the case. After all, he was perfectly alright in controlling his emotions in front of her.
'Like the way you did when she held Chandra's hands back at the Pleasure and Privacy hotel?' Em asked, her voice filled with worry.
'I am fine. See, if I do any mistakes, I can make use of my power to reset them, just like I am doing now,' he said.
'Something is wrong this time. I can feel it,' She said.
Ram wanted to clam her down, by showing proofs and all, but as he remembered something was off about Sandhya after he Reversed the Flow of Time, he stayed silent.
Proxy Elder of Light just stared at Ram for a long time. Finally, she sighed and said, "That is what I am more worried about. You can't relax just because Faction of Realists didn't find anything convincing. But remember, not only will your feelings complicate things for us, there are someone amongst all of us working for The Forces of Darkness. We don't know who they are and how they are going to use the chaos your arrival had caused. It's best to be safe and also make sure you concentrate on your training. And not on Sandhya over here. I believe that your crush on her would be your downfall."