Chapter 1
I really cannot
believe the things happening around me. First it was Kabir returning from his
official trip in a near demented state believing to have been a guest at a
vampire's house, and now it is this weird Dr. Arnab Dobriyal, who is hell bent
on proving that my best friend cum soul sister Misha is not suffering from any
illness. Can someone please ask him how else he can explain her needing blood
transfusion thrice a week? But no, he won't answer it directly. Rather he would
prove it to us that my sweet little angel is actually turning into a devil. Why
do I have to deal with such mental cases? If that's not all, he has managed to
convince my fianc Kabir and her fianc Jeh that she indeed is a threat to all
of us. Sometimes I feel like hating such men who would believe such any crap
being said about women they supposedly love. But Kabir knows how to emotionally
blackmail me: "It's just a question of one night Love. Let Dr. Dobriyal try
to prove himself. If he is proven wrong, we can be rest assured about Misha,
and if he is proven right, you would know that you are not marrying a mad man.
Do it for me Pia. Please!" well, how can a woman not melt at these words!!!
So here we go on this crazy mission which would either prove which I firmly
believe to be true ' that Dr. Dobriyal is mad, or it would shake the very
foundation of our existence and our beliefs that vampires exist only in
legends.
Next Morning
I don't think
one life time would be enough for me to forget what I saw with my own eyes last
night. Despite my protests Dr. Dobriyal had forced me to sleep in a different
room than Misha's. According to him, it was essential for our experiment and
besides it was dangerous for me. I had scoffed at him for thinking for even a
nano second that Misha could be any danger to me ever, but the last night had
indeed shaken all my faiths.
It was around
midnight when Dr. Dobriyal woke all of us up. He first made us check in Misha's
room and to my great shock, she wasn't there. The doctor gave us a triumphant
smile, and I felt like wiping that smile off his face then and there. He made
us proceed to the forest area. We waited for almost two hours and I was growing
really impatient. I wanted to go and find Misha as I was sure, she was
sleep-walking again, but the witch doctor forced me to accompany him on his
crazy expedition, much to my chagrin. It was around 2:30 am when we felt a
swishing of leaves. The doctor put us on alert and we started looking in the
direction of the bush from where we heard the noise. Soon we could hear a soft
wailing sound which seemed like a child was whining after having run out his
lungs from crying and screaming. That was when I felt the first shiver of
creepiness. I wanted to rush to the child to save him from whatever was making
him cry so much, but a part of my mind was telling me, that I would be inviting
my own death if I would do such a thing. The creepiness increased and now I
could hear a soft humming sound of a woman which somehow made me shiver in
fear.
With a shock I
realized that the woman was humming Misha's favourite song, but there was evilness
even in that humming. And soon the woman came out of the bushes holding the
wailing child with her back towards us. She had similar curls to Misha, but I
hated to even think that this could be my best friend. There was something
sinister about this woman and the way she was holding the baby. I could feel it
even standing here so far away from her. I saw the woman lowering her head
towards the child, and suddenly I was afraid for the child. My fears were
confirmed when the child gave out the most shrieking scream which shattered the
silence of the night. And soon the woman threw the child's body to the ground.
I wasn't afraid of the child getting hurt as it hit the ground. I knew that the
child was already dead. The woman turned around and I could not believe my
eyes. For a moment I felt that I would have fainted had Kabir been not holding
me tightly.
Blood was
dripping down Misha's lips and her crimson canines were still hanging out. As
much as I hated to admit it, I knew that Dr. Dobriyal had been right all along.
Misha was indeed becoming a devil. Before I could overcome this shock, Misha
sniffed the air and then moved her eyes towards the direction where we were
standing. Inadvertently, we all took a step backwards. Misha gave a huge smile
to us, but it wasn't the usual cheerful whole-hearted highly contagious Misha
smile. There was a wickedness in that smile which instead of smiling, made me
feel disgusted. She looked at me and called out, "Pia, my sweet little Pia, I
see that you still are worried for me. So sorry to bother you, my friend! But I
can't help it. Come, let's go back home now. Lead my way Pia, I am extremely
tired." She held out her hand to me, but before I could react, Dr. Dobriyal
jumped between us with a holy necklace in his hand which he shook towards Misha
making her take a step back in fear. But she calmed herself almost the next
instant and spoke in a sad voice, "I see! This world would not let me meet my
friend anymore. But, you know Pia, I could never ever hurt you." Her voice
almost carried a pleading tone in it, and deep in my heart I somehow knew that
she was speaking the truth. Devil or Angel, my Misha could never hurt me.
I could feel
tears dripping down my eyes cursing myself for betraying my friend in this way.
I looked at her, but she looked away and that hurt. She looked at Jeh now and
called out, "Jeh, my love, you promised to love me forever na, then why are you
backing away now. I still love you. Come to me my love." But Jeh gave her a
look full of disgust and moved backwards which made Misha steeled instantly.
She addressed him in a cold voice now, "I see, you no longer love me, as I have
changed now according to you. But then it's you who is responsible for this
change Jeh. Day and night, I kept craving for your love, but you never had time
for me. It was always work for you. Missing your attention drove me nuts and I
don't know when I started walking in my sleep. And that was what started this. He
would have never found me, had you kept me close to yourself, but your
indifference drove me towards him. You could never love me the way I wanted
Jeh. And now, I really don't care for your hatred towards me. I would leave
from here now, this world of humans is not meant for me. I would go into
another world with someone who may not be a human, but knows how to love a
woman."
She started
walking away and I wanted to call her back, to tell her, that I still loved her
and wanted her back as my friend. I wanted to tell her that together we would
find a way to make things back to the way they were. But apparently the witch
doctor had some other plans and his plans made me completely immobilized in
shock. He addressed Jeh and said to him, "Now is the time to fulfil your
duties as a lover Jeh. Set her free from this cursed life. Only you have the rightful
right to do it." For one second, I thought that maybe he knew of a way
which would make Misha normal again, but never in my wildest dreams I imagined
that by setting her free from curse he would mean this. I wanted to shout out
loud when he handed out a sharp Trishul to Jeh and asked him to go and
stab Misha at her heart; but no voice escaped my throat. I was almost paralysed
to speak or act anything. I kept observing in shock as Jeh took the Trishul and
went after Misha. He called out to her, and not knowing what was waiting her,
Misha turned back and in that instant, Jeh stabbed her at her heart with all
his force. Her ear piercing shriek broke the silence of the surroundings. She
fell to the ground with blood oozing out of her heart and Dr. Dobriyal immediately
rushed forward and took out wooden sticks from the oversized bag that he was
carrying with him. He hurriedly made a small pyre as my mind registered the
shocking events that were taking place in front of my eyes while I stood there
motionless, paralyzed from shock. Jeh and Kabir together dragged her body to
the pyre and set it on fire, while Dr. Dobriyal recited the last ritual
mantras. Tears of despair ran down my cheeks as I stood there helpless seeing
my friend meeting such a tragic end.
Chapter 2 - Pg 12
Chapter 3 - Page 21
Chapter 4 - Page 29
Chapter 5 & Epilogue - Page 37
Edited by ..dishu.. - 10 years ago
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