On A Mission
MJHT OS
Genre: Humour/Adventure
I Mohit Sehgal also known as Samrat Shergill, have always considered my friends to be my family, but today friends have turned enemies as the obsession to conquer overcomes our hearts.
Area Assigned: Training campus ; Arch enemies: Everyone except my partner Dia.
Dia and I have invaded the Head Department, unfortunately it has been raided, i assume by the ERD (Energy Restoration Department).
"what does this mean?" Dia asked her gun pointed at a disgruntled Annie.
"It means the ERD need information, not members" I responded.
"Annie i want u to tell me the truth" Dia murmured.
"Well I am not telling you anything" Annie huffed "Go ahead shoot me"
"Okay" I began "You spill the beans and she wont shoot you"
"You promise?" Annie asked Dia who nodded in assurance.
"They needed information on the survivors, they were particularly happy to know tht only Mayank and your gang are surviving"
"Why?"
"The ERD are no longer into thier work, thay wanna be Conquerers, they have been collecting information and ceasing weapons"
Dia and I shared a glance, if this was the truth, then our area wasnt safe anymore "We cant go back there" i murmured.
"There's no way out" Annie interrupted "you are done for good, though i wonder if they headed for the castle of knowledge after leaving from here" she murmured deep in thought. "Castle of Knowledge?" I asked.
"Yeah that's Mayank and gang's area"
"then we have enough time to get to our area...Is Gunjan Alive?"
"Yes" Annie replied "worried for Sanaya?" she asked with a wide grin.
"No, we had a bet" I replied with a matching grin "She's mine"
"Thanks anyway" I smiled and took an aim with my gun
"you Lied!" Annie shrieked BANG!
"i said Dia wont shoot you"
- - -
Name: Mayank Sharma aka Arjun Bijlani ; Area Assigned: Castle of Knowledge ; Arch enemies: Everyong except teammates Gunjan and CJ.
Current Position: Training campus.
Surprisingly i found this area deserted, I can sense Samrat and Dia in every inch of it, though they are nowhere to be seen, this could mean two things either they are on phase 3: Invading or they are dead. I liked the second possibility, cuts down my list of enemies. My team still survives, together we have taken down 23 enemies, and i own the largest area, the Castle of Knowledge and now i have ceased the weapons of the training campus.
"Surrender yourself, keep your hands where i can see them" The words drained me of all motive, someone had caught me and in no time, i could be dead. It was hard to recognise the person, i had never heard this voice before, it surely belonged to a girl but who?
"Dont turn, this gun is loaded mister" she warned me.
"who are you?"
"MohitzPari" she replied proudly.
"Mohitz what?" I frowned turning around. She gaped at me and then grinned a big one "OMFG i caught Arjun!!"
Before either of us could comprehend anythng, there was a loud BANG.
- - -
"Dude i want you to be honest, were you cheating on sanaya?" Dia whispered her gaze fixed on Mayank as the girl who claimed to be my pari got shot by CJ. "What? No" I replied aghast. "I would never, anyways they have ceased our weapons, what do we do now?"
"Walk into the Lion's den, the ERD"
"Freak!" I sighed.
The two of us slowly made our way towards the other end of the campus. Though i gained sufficient information from mayank on my way. He seemed to be angry on CJ for having left Gunjan alone to guard their area. Dia and i could invade the place easily, but we needed to reach the ERD more importantly, we needed weapons, without them, even Gunjan seemed a threat.
- - -
"Nupur, we have guests" Benji announced.
"Good" she smiled "Uday let them In, take their guns"
Area Assigned: Energy Restoration Department (ERD)
With Nupur as the head, they decided to bent the rules a bit, they worked on collecting the information on survivors, with a unique style of sale.
Samrat and Dia entered quite nervous.
"Welcome!" Nupur grinned.
"We have come here to purchase some weapons" samrat stated
"What happened to yours?" she asked.
"Mayank ceased them"
"He's smart, always been" Nupur remarked
"can we just come to the point, what's the charge?" Dia asked
Nupur smiled "Do you know how many survivors are out there?"
"I am aware of 3"
"i overestimated you, i thought you would form teams with the members of the castle of knowledge...i wonder sam didnt you care for Gunjan?"
"As pleasant that sounds, no they are our enemies..now wats the deal?"
"The only survivor out there is mayank's gang..3 of them and we are 4"
"No 5" Dia interrupted making a quick headcount.
"Dont count uday bhaiya he failed to shoot even one so far" Nupur sighed."I figured killing one of you would be a mere waste, so we merge our teams and attack them"
"and If we dont merge?" dia asked hesitantly.
"I hate to say it but then...you die" Nupur smiled innocently.
"Okay so we merge, but i get to shoot Gunjan" Samrat smirked.
"Yep" Nupur agreed. "and mayank is mine"
They shook hands and prepared for their next attack.
- - -
"I dont believe you, the castle of knowledge is unguarded!" Mayank yelled.
"Yeah Dude let the world know about it" CJ retorted looking at the unknown girl whom she had shot "Who's she?"
"I dont know, she said she is..well MohitzPari" Mayank replied awkwardly.
"Well we dont tell Sanaya about this, Lets Go she's alone"
"Oh you do realise that" Mayank muttered through clenched teeth "Be thankful, i saved your ass" CJ murmured.
Together they collected all the weapons and left the campus. "any idea about the survivors?"
"The ERD survive...cant say the same about Sam and Dia...All this time i took refuge at different places, couldnt find much enemies"
"Annie and Chako had come to attack our area, I shot Chako but Annie escaped, did you see her?"
"Nope" Mayank replied.
Loud Bangs echoed from within the castle of knowledge, the two of them panicked.
"She's keeping up a fight" Mayank whispered quite impressed. They peered through the window to get a better look at the attacker.
"No" CJ frowned "It's someone else"
"Yeah and Gunjan's right behind her...Hiding!!"
"Well she's gunjan"
"She can be Sanaya to save her own neck! she has done that before"
"I dont know, right now she has someone to protect her"
"I hate this thing, Identity crisis"
CJ chuckled in response. "Lets Go" The two entered the battlefield, their attacker stood facing the unknown girl.
"Damn!" the attacker cursed throwing away her blank gun.
"Game Over, Chaddi Aunty!" The girl grinned in Victory.
"Wait what did u call me?" she asked.
"Dont mind, i hated sheena" BANG Pragya smiled savouring the moment, this was something she had dreamed of since ages.
"Who are You?" Mayank asked confused, where were all these girls coming from?
"Arjun!! I mean mayank, am pragya, a huge fan of u guys!" she beamed in response, feeling proud every passing second, she had saved gunjan's life, shot sheena! whoah dream come true.
"Fan? wow" Mayank grinned " I didnt know fans were in this, that's cool..where are my fans anyway?"
"Aww thank You" Gunjan smiled and hugged her.
"My pleasure and I Love You!"
BANG!
They stood stunned as Pragya slowly turned to stare at the red liquid oozing down her shirt.
"Positions everyone!" Mayank yelled and ran for cover, others followed suit.
"Who are they?" CJ asked.
"Samrat" Gunjan replied shocked " and Nupur's gang too,"they are not fighting, what does this mean?"
"They merged" mayank answered.
"Come on out guys!" Samrat called "Face Us!"
"Yeah Hiding is not gonna be Fun, Its just the two of us!" Nupur grinned.
"Lets Go" Mayank sighed
"and get killed?" CJ asked incredulously.
"On the Face...not hiding"
"I agree" Gunjan sighed standing up. "we will try though"
CJ nodded in agreement, the three of them left their hiding spot.
"We outnumber you" Dia smirked. "Game Over"
All of them were momentarily distracted as a girl holding a gun appeared from behind the bookshelfs.
"And you are?" Mayank asked having a fair idea this time.
"You dont know me?" She asked quite upset. Of all these times, she thought they would remember her, afterall she had visited the sets 4 times!
"I know You" Gunjan smiled.
"Me too" Samrat grinned "Charmee right?"
"Yeah, u remembered!" she replied floating on the 9th sky.
"Okay so tough call, who's team?" CJ asked.
"Uh-oh" she sighed "Well Gunjan needs me" charmee smiled "and i need to get back at you, for my friend pragz"
"So Its 4 on 4" Mayank grinned. "Or is Uday gonna join?"
All of them turned to Uday who was busy admiring his burger.
"Well go on then...shoot" Mayank declared.
"You shoot, we shoot nobody wins" Nupur murmured. "And all the hardwork goes down the drain"
"Then be it" Mayank announced, aiming at Uday. The Battle began with a Loud Bang. Withina fraction of a second, guns faced each other, Loud Bangs filled the castle of knowledge followed by a deadly silence only to be broken by Uday's scream.
"Geez you aimed at my mouth!" CJ complained annoyed.
"Oops sorry" Benji apologized.
"YOU IDIOTS!YOU SPOILED MY BURGER!!" " Uday screamed furiously.
"What!?" Mayank scowled in discontempt at the blue blotch of paint on his shirt, having lost the Paintball game.
"IT WAS YOU MAYANK! YOU SHOT MY BURGER!" Realisation dawned on them, they were covered in colour, but uday stood untouched with a green burger in his hand.
"No Effing way!" CJ yelled.
"Uday CANT win!" Dia whined.
"Leap Of Faith" Samrat sighed.
"SAMRAT!" A very disgruntled Annie entered with a gun.
"YOU SHOT ME AND Now YOU PAY!" she pulled the trigger of her and BANG a yellow paintball hit him squarely on the chest forming a yellow oozy blotch.
"Happy!?" he sighed and turned to the gang "though I got You Sanaya" he added with a proud grin.
"And i got you" Sanaya replied sticking her tongue out.
Pari joined her friends Pragya and Charmee, the three on realising as to what had just happened burst into gales of laughter as the gang continued to bicker and tease each other, with uday threatening mayank into buying him another burger.
The Paintball Game ended with Uday rising as the Conquerer and the Canteen (ERD), Basketball court (Training capmus), Principal's office(Head Department) and the Library (Castle of Knowledge) of Excel College covered in a variety of coloured blotches of paint.
A Game played by a One Big Happy Family :)
A New Me
SaJan OS
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Love...If anyone would have asked me to describe it 6 months back from today, i would have plainly replied - Painful. No i am not the one who would call it bogus, meaningless, fake etcetera etcetera, by doing that i would be demeaning this very powerful emotion. It is a feeling that overpowers us, governs our mind, gives meaning to our words and actions, It is so strong, that sometimes it becomes an obsession. It can make us weak, agonize us, break us, make us vulnerable, yet at the same time it instills in us such strength which cannot be wavered by small means.It can destroy and preserve us, It can end us, it can change us...And i Samrat Shergill had wronged such a powerful emotion by describing it as Painful, Naive i was.
Not a single person who has walked on this planet can claim to have not Loved or been loved, because in simple words we cannot exist without it.
We all Love..differently, in various forms- different things- Family, Friends, Neighbors, Animals, Nature, Celebrities, Home, Ourselves, and when we are left bereft, we feel pain, we grow restless. We don't like the change, we don't accept it, even i didn't- when Gunjan died, the whole world seemed an illusion, A painful reflection that she didn't exist, of who i was...of what i had become after enduring my loss- Hateful. My grief counselor had said that anger was a part of mourning, sometimes hatred...for everything- everyone.
For 6 months there had been this hole, this void in my chest- it seemed to be gnawing at my insides- Its the pain i had endured every minute, every second of my life- her absence. Life had become monotonous- I worked, earned, had a house, and most of the time i was in pain. The peace that settles now in my heart, was something i found only in my sleep, when she was there right beside me in my dreams. I thought that's how i would always be..that nothing could change me, but i was wrong, Today after 6 months of merely living, life taught me better..Love was not meant to be merely substantial..It has no form.
Today morning on my way to the funeral ceremony of my loyal employee Lisa, i barely knew that Life was about to change.
I had offered my condolences to her family and spoken a few kind words for her. Lisa was barely n her early 30's...I felt sad for her, i could relate and connect with the family's Loss.
When i was on my way out i noticed an old man and a boy sitting under the tree's shade at the lawn area, ten steps away from me. I acted on an instinct, it was random baseless, i should have headed out, back to my office, but the instinct was too strong to ignore, strong enough to have me lurking behind a tree eavesdropping on the conversation. The boy had asked his uncle the old man, as to why his ma'am Lisa died. The old man heaved a sigh as the child continued to stare at him curiously, I wondered as to how this man was going to burden the heart of this child with such a crucial truth.
The old man broke into speech, his words penetrated me, etched into my very mind.
"Such things happen kid, people die..everyday- somewhere but when it happen to someone among us...we feel it, and then only we know how it feels Pain, darkness, anger. Even the most beautiful thing becomes a reason of sorrow, It's like holding a rose dearly even though the thorns prick."
"How do we make it go away?" the kid asked "It sounds scary"
"Nothing stays son..Life goes on...and so do we, one goes, others come. It's Nature"
"The pain, darkness..it all goes away?"
"Yes son, Death brings pain, and Love heels us."
The boy nodded as if he understood everything. I waited for him to leave, i don't know how long i stood there, to get a chance to meet the old man alone, but when i did i seized the moment and approached him with a greeting. I apologized for having eavesdropped and asked him the reason for his frank behavior. I told him as to how i personally found it wrong to burden a child's mind with such strong and complex emotions and reality. The man's reply rendered me speechless. He had replied in a clear voice
"Pardon me sir, but that ain't ordinary boy , earns to make a living...i may be wrong but Death is simple..it's we who make it so complicated...The child understood, didn't he?"
That was the moment when i had found a New Me, it instilled in me some deep thoughts which i had never dwelled upon and now here I am in my office, booking a ticket to India, Mumbai my home.
The Old man was right- Death was inevitable, It was i who made my life complicated. All this while i loved gunjan with a pained heart : Why? even i didn't know. Her death brought pain but that didn't mean it was supposed to stay. I could still Love, Love her with a happy heart, cherish the rest of my life with friends, those who knew my Gunjan and still love her...just like me. Those who make her presence felt..even today.
As beautifully quoted by Jack Lemmon "Death ends a life, not a relationship"
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
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