"It always felt like a dream, a dream we all are forced to live in, only to find that this dream is nothing but a fake reality created by our human minds, to make us believe that we have a purpose to keep living on.
But, how do I free myself from this? How?"
A traumatic night for Karan as his death is reflecting on his eyes. With a terrified expression on his face, there is an asura who is looking at him with murderous intent.
Karan looks around, confused at his surroundings, and then he notices his friends lying passed out cold on the ground. With tears streaming down from his face, he can't help but mutter in fear of the scene before him,
"W-what… What is happening?...AAAAAAAAAAAAGCK!!".
The sound of bones being broken to pieces becomes audible. The pain is so unbearable, that a scream escapes from his mouth, resounding throughout the whole field.
"Look at you, crying in pain." says the asura, twisting Karan's broken hand.
"Can you feel anything in that arm? does it hurt, or can you even do anything at all with that now!!!!" Asura asks Karan and then breaks into a burst of uncontrollable laughter.
Karan inquires Asura as he looks at him with a stern-frightened expression, "W-what do you want from me!?"
, to which asura replies with a smile
" Look at you whining like a baby".Asura points at Karan's heart and says " All I want is your destiny, destiny which is doomed to destroy us". Asura approaches Karan's broken right hand and starts twisting it and screams " Can you feel it?!!!, feel the power building inside your body!!." Karan falls into pain and then a sudden surge of power starts flowing through him. Karan thinks with a surprised look "Wh-what is hap-", Karan feels his whole body being torn apart and starts screaming "AAAAAAAAAAAA!! ".
Two Days Ago
Karan wakes up from his sleep and as he notices the clock he realizes that he is late for school and says " Holy crap!! I'm late again" and starts contemplating " I'm already late, that leaves me with only one choice, and that is to sleep again" but as he thinks that he looks down with a grim look and then chuckles and thinks "No gotta work hard!!" , Karan gets out of his bed in panic and gets prepared for school.
As Karan is about to leave he realizes something " I'm forgetting something, what is it? what is it?." And then he realizes it and " ya I totally forgot it!!", *FARTS," yeah that felt good" Karan proceeds to leave his house he whispers , "I'm going to school, bye!" And leaves. As Karan is on his way to school he is looking at the people all busy and impatient to reach their destination and thinking"These people, why are they so impatient? What are they looking for? , is it money or a good life, well an easy life does depend on how much money you have, isn't it?" Karan thinks with a happy look on his face " Well I don't plan on living an easy life, because I will become an assassin who fights for the poor and helps weak people in this world full of threats like Asuras."," I will become the strongest assassin ever to be alive, even if I don't have power's like them"," But they don't even let normal people in there, maybe I can sneak in with HER help!".
Karan is trekking forward to school as he spots Ambika surrounded by two bullies, Karan realises the heat of the situation and decides to observe them from a distance.
Bully 1 puts his hand on Ambika's shoulder and asks "so,are you free today?" to which Ambika replied with a furious look on his face" how dare you to touch me!!, look I'll give you 5 seconds if you didn't disappear from here, I'll kick your ass!!! " , both bullies start laughing uncontrollably, bully 1 " Ha! Ha! good joke" , bully 2 " By your looks you seem like you can't even throw a rock". As Karan sees this he gets furious and thinks "What am I doing, watching from a distance doing nothing!!, if i want to be an assassin then i have to have a brave heart!!!, YES!!!, i can do I-!!!," Karan looks at Ambika and sees both the bullies passed out on the ground and sees Ambika laughing like a maniac, "You should have taken my warning seriously" she said to bullies, Karan muttered to himself," If i want to live i think i should leave without getting spotted", as Karan was leaving Ambika looks at him and asks angrily "You were watching, don't you" , This scares the hell out of Karan and Karan tries to run for his life as he has witnessed the scariest side of his childhood friend, he thinks that running away is his best chance to survive so, runs as far as he can. As Karan is running he sees Ambika chasing him, so he asks as he is running"What ha-have i done? "
To which Ambika replies angrily "Then why are you running!!!!! ". Ambika catches Karan and asks with a deadly look" what did you saw? " Karan being pinned down answers" i beg you, I was just passing by!!, I didn't saw anything, please don't kill me. " then Ambika asks him " then why were you running away from me?, hm?" , Karan replies furiously " with that look on your face anyone who cares about his life would have ran!!".Ambika chuckles and says " You are an Idiot you know that " she gives her hand to Karan and picks him up and says " C'mon we're getting late for school " , Karan replies with a bright smile " ya let's go", they both get on their way to school and Amika says" walk fast you idiot we are gonna be late ", to which Karan thinks " Ya you were the one chasing me like a mad bull", Ambika punches him on the head and says " quit talking to yourself ",Karan with a confused look says " Ok!! Ok!, just don't hit me! " ,they both rushed to school.
(*they both were late anyways )
IN THE CLASSROOM
Karan sits on the last bench and Ambika sits in front of him and whispers to Karan " Ha! Miss Sane is late today!! " to which Karan replies with a happy face " I think something is up with her(teacher) she is never late", Ambika replies with an interested look " ya you're right, she is never late". Miss Sane walks in and says '' Everyone take your seats ", everyone settles down.
Everyone takes their seats and then Miss Sane says " Students i have good news today " ,as Karan hear's this he looks at Miss Sane with some hope in his eyes, and Miss Sane sees that and says "No Karan you didn't pass the test this time!!" .After hearing this everyone starts laughing.
Miss Sane introduces two new students to the class who have transferred to this school today, as both the new students make their way into the class everyone welcomes them. Miss Sane tells them to introduce themselves to the class. "What a weirdo, wearing weird sunglasses in the class and what's up with his hair style, looks like an anime character, I hope we never become friends. Shees!",Karan thinks . The first student introduces himself and says'' Hello everyone, my name is Virat and my parents just moved here so i had to move here mid semester, but i don't mind making friends with these cute girls here, but guys here are ugly then me, well anyways looking forward to study with you, especially girls! " as he finishes his introduction everyone starts booing him, "BOOHOO! ","you don't even look that good","what's up with those sunglasses ya weirdo!!", to which Virat replies " why are you booing me I'm right! ".Miss Sane stops everyone and she say "c-mon now, let's move on to the second transfer student.".
"She looks good, short black hair with a smiling look , she doesn't seem like ambika at least, maybe we can be friends." Karan thinks. The second transfer student introduces herself " Good morning everyone my name is Shavi, my favorite sport is basketball and I'm also here because of my parents transfer, but I'm looking forward to making friends with you all, and hope we all have a good year. " ,everyone started cheering for her as all of the students fell for her beautiful face ,"YAY!! ", "She's so cute!! ".
Miss Sane tells Virat and Shavi to take their seat where they like. Both Shavi and Virat decides to sit on the parallel benches as Karan and Ambika. As they were about to sit there one student interrupts them and says " Hey you!,you idiot and Shavi don't sit with them." To which Virat replies " Who do you think you're calling an idi-!! " Shavi interrupts Virat and asks "why?" Then the student replies " they are not good people!", Miss Sane interrupts them and says" let them take their seats! ",Virat and Shavi both confused, takes their seats and settles down. Karan's curiosity about Virat increases as he thinks that "His glasses, why does he wears them?, should I ask?, No harm in asking!" , he introduces himself to Virat and says "Hey I'm Karan",to which Virat replies with an enthusiastic manner "Oh! ,so you're the one!"Karan confusedly asks"what?!!" ,Shavi interrupts Virat and replies " Nothing!!, well you just saw here how big of an idiot he is, he is just playing with you, he! he! ",Karan replies with a confused look "O.. KKK!! ", Ambika says" Well anyways I'm Ambika, nice to meet you ", to which Shavi replies " ya, nice to meet you t-- ,Virat interrupts Shavi and says"Nice to meet you beautiful! ", Ambika with a scared face point's behind Virat and say " look behind!! ",he looks behind and sees Shavi boiling in anger, he gets scared and as he was about to move Shavi punches him on his face and says " Don't interrupt me!!!!! " , Virat passes out. Both Karan and Ambika starts doing their own work as they both are scared of her, Karan thinks" She's even scarier than Ambika!, Never never believe in first impression.".
Miss Sane asks if there is any problem to which everyone replies in union " No Mam!! ".
Miss Sane thinks " Ok, so Virat is an idiot like Karan and Shavi is a hot head like Ambika!, they'll be good friends." and smiles.
As the class is going on Shavi thinks " We are so close now!!.He might be the one!, i can do this!! ".
Who are Virat and Shavi, are they friend or foe.
Find out next week on Assassins : an Indian odyssey
Chapter 2 - An unavoidable past
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