All the people were looking towards the sky in panic. Everyone had the same fear in their hearts that he might burn them all to ashes. The Tantrik was also trying his best to stop all this. After some time, all the bats hovering in the sky started sitting on the nearby Peepal tree.
In a few moments, the whole tree started burning and due to its heat, people were forced to move back but the problem was that the whole house behind them was also burning.
The fire was increasing slowly and after some time everyone started hearing some sounds. Those sounds were now coming from inside the house. Those sounds were coming due to hundreds of people shouting together. As if someone had burnt them all alive.
"Save us, we are being killed here, save us" painful sounds were coming from the house.
Due to those sounds, there was an atmosphere of panic among the people. Some people tried to run away from there but then they found that some people had surrounded them from the other two directions.
All those people were also slowly moving towards them. All the villagers were slowly gathering in one place. Me and father were also trapped among them.
The faces of those people were not visible due to the darkness of the night but people were scared seeing them walking.
After some time, bats started flying from that tree and started sticking to the faces of all those people. As soon as a bat went and stuck to their face, its whole face started burning and all the bones of its head became visible.
Seeing that scene, father closed my eyes with his hands. Everyone was thinking that today would be their last day. As soon as those burning people started coming towards them, the fear of the people also came out and they started shouting out of fear.
"Mukhiya ji, do something, save us, you had said that everything will be fine".
At that time, father removed his hand from my eyes, after which when I looked at him, there was no fear on his face, he was just looking at everything in anger.
Now Aadesh moved towards those burning people in anger but then he found that everyone turned away from him and started going towards the tree.
Slowly people were going towards that tree in a long queue. After going there, they surrounded the tree and stood there and then the tree pulled all of them towards itself. Seeing all this, I screamed in fear and I held father tightly.
After some time, all the burning people went to the tree and started hanging upside down as if they were bats. Slowly, all those people went to the tree and started hanging. Everyone was looking at them in silence but then suddenly all those hanging people screamed together.
Their voice created an atmosphere of fear in all four directions and people's heartbeats started beating fast. They were saying something in unison and perhaps their shouting was being understood by my father.
Now father left me and quickly ran towards the Tantrik. Actually, the Tantrik had understood something at that time and was about to tell everyone when my father caught his hand and signaled him to say no with his mouth.
All those sounds suddenly stopped after some time and everyone started hearing the sound of something breaking from somewhere else.
"What kind of sound is coming from the Mukhiya?" said Vaid in fear.
"Don't be afraid Vaid ji, nothing will happen to anyone, if something happens then I will stand in the front", said Aadesh in a stern voice.
At that time everyone was seeing my father like a god but even being 8 years old, the only thing going on in my mind was what was the Tantrik going to say and why did father stop him.
After some time the sound of something breaking started increasing and then everyone turned towards that burning house. Soon the whole house was destroyed like mud and some people started coming out from inside it.
Coming out of the house, their bodies were on fire and they were moving towards the tree calmly. Everyone was shocked to see them coming in a line. "Listen ji, oh God what has happened" a woman started running there shouting but then people caught her.
They were all the same people who had gone there with my grandfather, that is why now the villagers were feeling sad instead of fear on seeing them.
Slowly all those people also started going towards the tree and finally I saw that my grandfather was also going with them and ahead of them a woman and her two small children, who were almost of my age, were also going.
On seeing them I could not stop myself and ran to go to them but father caught me. "Your grandfather is dead Rudra, that is just his body" father said. "Grandpa look at me, leave me, I want to go to them, leave me" I was crying and shouting but my father was not ready to leave me.
Finally I saw that scene which even today when I think about it, I get scared and I start getting nervous.
"After all what had happened at that time" Seema asked looking at Rudra with surprise.
"Actually at that time when everyone was pulling me towards the tree, my grandfather looked at me and then he smiled looking at me, looking at him it seemed as if he wanted to tell me something" Rudra replied.
After that he also hung upside down from the tree like the others. Right after he hung, flames of fire started rising from the entire tree. Its flames were visible going up to the sky. After some time some strange sound came from there. "Don't think that everything is over, I will come back and just like my family has burned, your families will also burn in the same way.
It will burn, remember this day".
Now there was a loud explosion and some people were hit by bats flying from the sky due to which some part of their body got burnt and this happened with only a few people.
Soon after that that house also collapsed completely and the fire of the tree also subsided.
Now I also came back to father after which father started holding the hand of the Tantrik. "Look, don't tell them anything" said father slowly and fearfully. "You have committed a sin Aadesh, if you were not my friend then your condition would have been the same as that of all those people" said the Tantrik shaking off Aadesh's hand in anger.
Now that Tantrik also went away from there looking at father in anger.
After all what was Aadesh hiding from everyone, what had happened inside that house, why did Rudra's grandfather smile after seeing him?
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