CHAPTER 1
Terrifying screams...
Before 16 years,
22 January, 1996
'AAAH!' a sharp scream interrupted the skipping of the little girl. She looked around the garden to see the source of the sound. She couldn't find any. Her inquisitiveness was at toll and her keen sense of hearing guided her back into the mansion. She could hear that agonizing scream again and again and knew that someone was in great peril. She followed the screams for a long time and came near a part of castle she had never been into. She was scared but she didn't give up. She wanted to know who was screaming so terrifyingly. That intensity of the screams gave her gooseflesh on her skin. She wanted to help that person, so that the pain he or she experiencing would vanish.
She walked as fast as her little legs would carry and found herself in the darkest part of the castle. Even though it was mid noon, there was no sunlight penetrating here. It was pitch dark and very, very eerie. The loudness had increased to a great amount now that she was very close to the source of the sound. Along with terrifying screams, she could hear loud voices and evil cackles. She got scared but the courage shadowed the momentary fear that erupted in her and she closed her eyes before she opened the heavy, old fashioned door in front of her and walked into a hall.
The only source of light was a fire lit in the fireplace, where she could see her father holding something, some kind of a rod in the flame. The walls had moving shadows of the other people present in the room and she looked around to see the source of those screams hanging upside down from the roof, still screaming. He was a little boy, crying his heart out. Tears of pain were flowing from his eyes as he faced the tortures inflicted upon him by those huge people surrounding him, laughing at his state. The little girl's eyes widened in shock when she saw her father bringing a red hot rod out of the fire and started walking towards the boy in a deathly pace.
The little boy got terrified even more when he saw that red hot rod in his master's hands and swung hopelessly from the rope, struggling, to avoid getting hurt. The old man laughed cruelly and muttered in a cold voice 'phirse hamare saamne muh kholne se pehle do baar soch lena nahi to woh haal karoonga tumhara ki tum zindagi mein kabhi nahi bhool paoge...'
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'Na...na..nah..nahi...malik...mat maro..malik...main dub...dub...dubaa..dubaara nahi karoonga...' sobbed the boy between hiccups. But that innocent pleading had no effect on this old man. He smirked and in one swish hit the red hot rod on the legs of that little boy who screamed his lungs out at the amount of pain. He could feel a burning sensation in his legs and the pain was excruciating. The little girl stood frozen at the door, looking at the tortures that were inflicted on this boy. Her eyes showed pure terror.
The men surrounding the little boy started laughing. It was a cold laughter that made the little girl shiver. It had no emotions except hatred resonating from it. The scene was too much to witness.
Her father again swished the red hot rod on the boy, this time on his arms that evoked another powerful terrifying scream from him. The servant removed him from the rope and threw him down. The old man looked down at the boy, who now had fallen on his feet begging him to stop hurting him, with pure disgust on his face before he kicked him hard on his stomach causing the little kid to fly backwards and hit the wall with a huge force. The force knocked him out of his conscious and he slumped back on the floor. Her father kicked his legs aside and went through a door, shouting 'Mangal...uss ladke ko usski kamre mein band kardo. Bahar nahi aani chahiye woh...' The servant came forward and lifted the little boy by his legs and carried him out of the back door. Everybody followed him out of the room, unaware that their master's little girl was following them. They came to a door after a long walk in the passage that connected the two rooms. They opened the heavy door and threw the boy inside, where he went and crashed his head into the wall, and locked the door. The girl shrank back into the shadows so that they couldn't catch her and watched as one by one, all the servants walked past her. She slowly followed them out and came outside the room without their knowledge and ran away to her bedroom.
PRECAP:
Kuch to karna hoga...bechara...kitna sehta hoga...lekin bauji usse aise kyun maar rahe the?
PS: trust me guys, it will get murkier than this. Now please don't hit me that I am making our Maan suffer :P This is a psychological story and I hope you will understand. Okay, let me give you all a treat. For all those who have a great doubt of whether the story will end on a happy note or sad note: this story is going to have a happy ending. So, can I presume that you guys are at least a little happy? But I can't promise anything else. But you guys have to wait a long time for maaneet moments. But I can assure you it is going to be good. These updates are just a basic foundation to the continuation.