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10 years of Phantom
Abhira : The self-respect queen
CHAPTER-49.
Astha forgot to breathe,and then the vision..The grotesque vision infront of her faded,as she fell to a dark unconsciousness..
The man saw it and started laughing out loud..The sound of his maniacal laughter echoing among the darkened corners of the room..
He looked down at her unconscious face with pure raw hatred glittering in his eyes,as he turned back slowly to return to his chopping of the doll..There was time still for scaring her more..
Lots of time to torture her before he killed her for good..
He chuckled to himself even as he thought it..
And then he started humming his favorite tune..The tune which seemed to cover and enclose the surrounding semi darkness in its eerie sinister web..
Shlok kept on making calls after calls,ensuring the search party was as efficient as it could get..
His adrenaline on full force as he tried his best to find her..
He was not showing it on the outside,but he was getting really tense by the minute,but no one who saw him could tell what was really going on inside him..
From the outside he looked as cool as a cucumber, man in control,but on the inside he was a sea of turbulent storm of fear,frustration and rage..His helplessness,his sheer frustration at his own helplessness at being unable to do something really worthwhile was killing him on the inside every single second..!But he knew he had to hold on to that storm..He knew he could not let himself succumb to the abyss of pain and darkness that was beckoning him towards itself every while..He knew he had to sail through this tornado of darkness,and find light and shore to anchor,not just for himself..Not because he wanted to..
But because he had to..He had to for his Astha..
And with that thought Shlok Agnihotri strode out of the house..He had to get active himself..He had to,or else he would just go insane,if he sat here quietly doing nothing and waiting for things to happen..And he had to be on the move to make things happen..To find his life- Astha..He did not know why he felt he had very little time in his hand,that the time was running out fast,and with this fear clawing at his heart he drove away in his car..
Astha blinked and looked at the man laughing at her..
His eerie maniacal laughter echoed around the humid stifling semi-dark room..
She did not know why instead of feeling afraid she now suddenly felt numb..
The grotesque face that had made her faint some time ago,had no effect on her now..She looked at that very same face numbly right now..And the main reason for that was she had realized that it was just a mask..A grotesque mask the man was wearing to scare her..
Astha was not sure why she was not feeling the initial fear that had gotten over her.
Was it because her nerves and brain had taken too much and now had stopped functioning at all..
The surrounding,the eerie atmosphere,the mask,the maniacal laughter all seemed to be indicating only in one direction..And it was only that she felt it was all a set up..As if the man himself had created this bizarre setting to unsettle her,and make her scared,but why..?!
Astha also was not understanding her own lack of reaction at present..
It was as if she was sitting somewhere distant and observing everything under a microscope and making a study of the scenes that seemed to be right out from a horror movie..Was she right in assuming,that this was all a set-up..?Or would the man really harm,her..?!She had yet to find out..
And then suddenly her attention was diverted by the man,as he removed a huge dusty clothe from something that made her cringe and nearly choke on the dust..
Before Astha could understand anything else,the man had dragged something huge close to her,and Astha was quite surprised to see it was a television set..
Her eyes rounded in confusion..
What was this man really?!Was he planning to give her recreation now too..?!
She could not help but think in confusion,when he got busy with something that looked like a Dvd player..
She looked at the television screen and then at the man with the horrifying mask,trying to see his glittering eyes through it,as he turned to face her..
The mask which was a constant grotesque sneer expression of something that looked more like a demon out of someone's terrible nightmare than a human,was constantly distracting her,not letting her read the captor's actual expression..
But somehow Astha managed to see the dangerous glitter in his dark eyes,and that suddenly pierced a dark of fear through her shield of numbness..
He spoke then..And she could feel the hatred in that voice too..And she suddenly had goosebumps all over..
"So..Mrs. Astha Shlok Agnihotri..Let us watch a movie now..Together..What say..?"He whispered coming closer,and Astha had to kneel back in distaste as she felt her skin crawl at his closeness..
He noticed it,she realized,as his eyes glittered some more under the mask,and suddenly Astha wished her mouth was not tied..As she suddenly wanted to scream out loud..
Fear was clawing at her insides now,as he gave out another maniacal laughter,and Astha felt her shield of numbness giving away,as fear took over her..
She whimpered out like the trapped scared person she was,and just when she thought he was going to come closer and touch her he moved away..
And then he had turned on the television,humming that strange eerie music..
Astha felt the shards of fear dig in deeper and deeper into her heart..
She was not feeling good about all this at all..And she just did not know why..Something bad was going to happen..She felt it in her heart..
She made a silent prayer for Shlok's safety in her heart..
And then her attention was diverted by the television screen that had come alive..
She was afraid if she did not watch it,something worse might happen..And she was not scared for herself..She was scared for Shlok..Her Shlok..Her love..
She whimpered softly,when her captor snapped at her to watch the television,and gulping down her knot of fear and nervousness,she did just that..
And she was lost..
Shlok was getting afraid by the minute,as he drove through all possible places he felt she might have been hidden..
He was getting worried as no one had called his home,asking for ransom too..!
Where was she?!He cursed himself again for not being careful earlier,as fear nearly made him want to crumble and break apart..
A pale and shocked Astha sat infront of the now blank television screen..
The man was humming that eerie music again,and sharpening his dagger some more..
"Liked the movie Mrs. Agnihotri..?Or do you want to watch it again..?"That sinister voice whispered out..
But Astha did not blink,as she kept staring at the television screen unable to believe what she had just seen..
The man was now sharpening the dagger with more vigor,as a drop of tear fell down Astha's eye,and then another and another..And so the tears kept falling from her eyes,as she stared ahead unblinkingly..