This is a story about a boy, James Casper, who didn’t like to be with anyone, he just wanted to spend his time alone.
James’ parents died when he was very young and was raised by his aunt Ms. Jenny Casper. Not long ago Jenny had suffered a stroke of cardiac arrest which leads to her untimely death, now James was living alone all by himself.
He has very strange kind of nature, nobody understands him. He has got friends, but he meet them occasionally, and tries to avoid them. He was living his life with no interest in anything around him, he was only alive because he was alive. He had few friends and only one of them was close to him, he shares all his secrets with his dearest friend ‘Mark’.
There was no excitement in his life. But there was something which can be called extraordinary, was with him. He had made some claims that seems rather ridiculous, when he told his friend Mark about it, even he finds it difficult to believe. The claim he was making were such irrational, perhaps if we would ever come across someone who made such claims, we immediately declare that person mentally ill.
at what was happening to him. At first he told nothing, but after Mark asked him time and again, he told Mark that the previous day, when he was sitting near the stream, watching the sky and the trees around him, he suddenly experience something strange. That was no ordinary thing. He experienced some kind of force which was moving towards him from the sky, (but the crazy part was that, that no one else had experienced any such thing at that time of the day). He told his friend that the force had not only approached him, but also told him that he was no ordinary boy but a special one, and this was not all, he said that that force had given him some kind of extraordinary powers. And also told him that these powers were making him so strong that he feels invincible, he can destroy anything with his powers.
For Mark all this seems a bit unrealistic. Though, he didn’t express any of his doubts to James, but it was clearly seen that he was not impressed by what James had told him, and it was rather obvious not to believe in such kind of story. But Mark was not a person who could keep secrets. He was the type of person who used to discuss everything with his friends, and for Mark, James’ story seems to be a perfect topic for discussion. Mark met his friends, and was eager to tell them about his encounter with James, and all about those extraordinary claims that James had made.
Marks’ friends Martin and Brat are very exciting type of people. When they met, Mark told them about what James had told him, and they thought that being alone for most of his time maybe James had gone crazy and making up his own world inside his mind. And maybe that’s why he was talking nonsense, they think that James had gone completely mad. (But the truth was completely different from what they think it was).
As Mark told them about the incident, they spread it over the entire village, almost everyone seems to know about it, and then started the nightmare for James, a person who already don’t like to spend time with people was now afraid to even face them, as they all think that he was mentally ill and some even think that he was possessed by the devil and that’s why he’s making stories like that, (although, soon we are going to find out that what that force actually was).
This awkward behavior of people forced James to spend his time remain in isolation and he didn’t want to talk to anyone not even Mark.
After few days, Mark decided to meet up with Martin and Brat, at the meeting he found out that Brat had left the village to visit his uncle who lives in a nearby town. Mark expressed his confusion to Martin about James and said that he was unable to believe that James was lying, because he could tell from his actions, that he was not. Martin asked him, if he really believe that James had got some kind of supernatural powers?? Both became curious and perhaps he didn’t say, but Martin wanted to know the truth behind James’ story. He insisted Mark to investigate into the matter, and to find out that what James was up to. Mark also wanted to know the truth so he decided to visit James and talk to him, at first, James refuses to talk, but when he tempted James and said that he was lying about his powers and the people are right that he had really gone retard, then only James agreed to talk to him. Mark asked him to show the power but James hesitated, however, after some persuasion he agreed to show his power. Mark asked him, if Martin can join them as Martin was also excited to see his powers.
James agreed to show them his power, but he told Mark that it might be dangerous and he will not take any responsibility if anything happens to anyone, but at that time Mark was totally fascinated by the idea of supernatural powers and so desperately wanted to witness the existence of such powers that he really don’t care about anyone’s safety and insisted that nothing wrong will happen.
James asked him and Martin to come at an isolated place just outside their village where no one will see them. On the following day, all three of them meet at the agreed place where James has promised them to show his powers. James once again warned them that this might be dangerous as he himself doesn’t know the strength of those powers, but Mark insisted him to show.
James, very hesitatingly spread his right hand in front of him, Martin and Mark were standing there watching him. James started excreting power from within himself, and suddenly they felt that there was something strange happening to James, his body started to glow, a kind of red, and some sort of energy was coming out of his hand. James pointed his arm towards a big rock and concentrated his power at the rock, all of a sudden a beam of light red as fire came out of his arm and struck the rock, tearing the rock into small fragments.
It was like that the rock was burst from inside and shattered completely. There was dust all over the place because of the force generated by the explosion and amidst that dust, there was something that was not pleasant for anyone. When the dust settle down, a horror struck them as they saw a large piece of that shattered rock had hit Martin in the head and he was laying there bleeding to death.
An adventure that was started in hope of satisfying the curiosity of two friends ended with death of Martin.
The death of Martin had came as a great shock to the people of the village, as for them it was impossible to accept that Martin was dead. Only that morning, he was well and as cheerful as he ever was, even some folks asked him the reason of his extreme excitement, he told them that this was going to be the most memorable day of his life, as he was going to experience something that no one has experienced ever before. It’s not the death of Martin that actually the matter of concern for the people, rather, the manner of his death. Nobody was willing to buy into the story of Mark, that they were leisurely walking along the hillside and Martin stumble upon something and fell head-first onto a rock that caused a mortal wound and ultimately his carelessness killed him.
Following the death of Martin, Mark and James were nowhere to be seen in public, but Brat had returned, as soon as he heard about the death of his best friend he headed back to the village. While the absence of James was not even noticed by anyone because he hardly ever liked the company of people, but, it was Mark’s absence which raise the concern of people towards the strange nature of Martin’s death. For certainty they know that Mark was involved in Martin’s death, and maybe hiding something from them or even the worse, there were talks that Mark himself killed Martin over some dispute and invented a story of accident just to escape the consequences. But little did they know that Martin’s death was just the beginning of the series of terrible events that were going to change their lives forever.
In the days to follow, the whole village was covered in some sort of strange fear and sadness. Everybody knows that something was not right but were unable to determine what. The gloom and energy was seemed to be missing from the atmosphere, everyone experienced some kind of force had devour the happiness from their country and left them with the feeling of sadness and fear.
Mark, so active and cheerful of a lad, now hardly seen visiting anyone. It’s been one week since Martin’s death and Mark remain at his home not leaving unless it was absolutely necessary and speak to no one unless spoken to. Even Brat was so worried by seeing his friend in such condition. Although, Mark hadn’t told him anything about that day but Brat know that all this have to do something with James and his unrealistic story of powers and some supernatural force.
Part – II
James was so shocked by the result of his power exhibition that he started fearing himself. He realize that he, himself doesn’t know his own capability and this realization came as a horror, a horror of his friend’s death by his own actions. Even though, James knew that he was the one responsible for Martin’s death, but somehow this fact doesn’t bother him as it should be. He had succeeded in convincing himself that Martin’s death was not his fault after all, they came there by their own, and he had forced no one to witness his powers, rather, he was not even ready to do such thing for he feared that his power might hurt someone. Despite being knowing that there was danger involved in this deed, they came all the same. It seems clearly, that it was Martin’s and Mark’s fault to came to him and request him to perform such dangerous course of action that resulted in Martin’s death.
As the time was passing, James thought that he should learn how to control his powers and also try to figure out that these powers were given to him by whom and why?
On the other side, Mark’s thoughts were not so distinct from James on the matter of Martin’s death. He also thought that Martin’s death was his fault. Even though, James had warned him about the danger involved in the act, he hadn’t paid any heed to his warning and not even once said anything to Martin about such danger. His consciousness was eating him alive. The fact that he caused his friend’s death was so horrible that he could not sleep peacefully, he woke up in the middle of the night from the nightmare, in his dreams Martin looking none like himself, have a hole in his head, blamed him for his death and said that a day will come when I’ll come back to take revenge and that day was not very far. Mark was losing grip over his mind and he remained in dream state for most of his time, he fear that Martin will come back from the dead to avenge his death. Because of all this, Mark became seriously ill. He became so thin that for some, he was beyond recognition. Even the doctor was unable to state the cause of his illness. His illness was consuming him from inside.
The people, who were not long ago, blaming Mark for Martin’s death have now changed their opinion. Mark’s condition was getting worse day after day. The villagers thinks that he had taken the death of his friend so emotionally, that he had lost his senses. But some of them didn’t agreed and had their own view on this matter, they said that it was Mark who was responsible for Martin’s death and he was suffering because of it. This illness that has taken hold of him was nothing but a punishment of his crime from the almighty himself.
Brat, who was still unaware of what had exactly happened on the day of Martin’s death, decided to look into the matter to find out the truth. He visited Mark, he tried to talk to him about that day but Mark was not ready to say anything about what had happened that day. From Mark’s behavior Brat understand that he had to try a little harder than he expected to get the truth out of Mark. Mark despite being so ill had somehow hold his strength together to hide the truth from Brat, but, in the end he could no longer hold it and give it up all to Brat. He told Brat how he was desperate to see James’ powers and how Martin joined him in his quest, and what had happened during their meeting with James, and how his eagerness of experiencing a supernatural power resulted in Martin’s death.
The truth came with little shock to Brat as he already suspected that all of it had something to do with James’ claim of getting some kind of supernatural powers. But one more thing that he learned from it was, that Mark blame himself for Martin’s death and his guilt was the reason behind his serious illness. Brat tried to convince Mark that he had nothing to do with Martin’s death. Martin’s death was a result of choice that he made himself, nobody had forced him to come that day. Even though, Brat tried to do his best to convince Mark but it seems that it was of no use, because the idea had rooted deep inside Mark’s mind. He firmly believe that it was his and no one else’s fault that Martin was dead. Nobody could do anything to change his mind about that.
After learning the truth about Martin’s death Brat was very disappointed by James’ conduct. It was acceptable to him that Mark had hidden the truth from him as he knew his condition, but for James to behave like that was totally unacceptable. James might not have been their best friend but was a friend nonetheless, he should have visited Brat and should have told the truth about the accident. But since the day of the incident nobody had talked to him, some villagers have seen him wondering near the stream, so it was clear that he had not suffering from any kind of illness, and there was no good reason for “why he had not visited them even once since the incident?”
It has been three weeks since Martin’s death, Mark’s condition was getting worse with the passing of time. Finally, the day came which bring a sad news to James and Brat, Mark was found dead at his house. Last night, Brat had visited Mark and they had a long chat, perhaps the longest since that incident. He asked Brat to see James, he was worried about James as James had not visited him since the incident and people say that James was seen wandering around river side. Mark was worried because this was the very place where according to James, he had got these supernatural powers. Brat assured him that he was going to visit James the next morning and see what he was going through.
The news of Mark’s death have shook James from within, he realize that he was so busy solving the mystery of his powers that he completely ignored any news about Mark, and not visited him even once since the incident. Mark was his best friend, and perhaps the only friend, he knew that hiding from people will do him no good and decided to attend Mark’s funeral. At the funeral everyone look at him with a disgust in their eyes for him, they all knew that Mark was his only friend and yet he never visited him during the course of his illness. But James had learned long ago how to ignore people and that’s what he did. Brat was present there and watched James, but didn’t said anything. After the funeral, Brat approached James and asked him about his mysterious absence. Brat told James that he knew all about his powers and the truth about Martin’s death to which James replied, that Martin’s death was not his fault or anybody’s for that matter. And it’s not Martin’s death that have been the cause of James’ absence, it was the mystery of the powers (that he had got) had kept him long from the people. James explains Brat that what was actually happened to him and why he was away for a long time. Since the day of Martin’s death James became scared of his own powers and all he wanted to do was to get away from people to protect them and to find the answers about his powers to protect himself.
But what he told Brat was not seems to be a good news. First of all James wasn’t seems to be like himself, it was like a part of him has changed. He was not ready to take any responsibility of Martin’s death and also he was unaffected by the death of Mark, who was his best friend. All he care about now was the powers and to find ways to control those powers. When Brat inquired about his quest to find the answers about those powers he disclosed all that he had done till now. He had visited the place several times where he got his powers in hope of finding the answers but the efforts turned futile as there was nothing that could give him any clue. Although he hadn’t got any answers there but he got a feeling, a feeling which was very disturbing and Brat was horror struck when James told him that from all his experience till now, he had a strong feeling that, “This was not the end, rather the beginning of something much more dreadful.”
The tone in which James was talking, makes him sound like someone else. Brat wondered what had happened to him, James, all of a sudden start behaving completely strange. He told Brat that he must find the answers before it was too late or all of them have to suffer. Brat knew that something was terribly wrong with James and he wanted to help him, so he decided to accompany him in his search and told James that he was also going with him to find those answers. James agree and they both set up for the quest. They visited many places around where James had got those powers, but had got only a little success, someone at adjacent village told them about some talks of strange activities coming from an isolated place not very far from there. The only information that was important to them was that these activities started happening from the same day James got his powers. Brat found this one promising and they decided to visit that place, and their journey continues. Back at the village the life was going as usual, until that fateful day…
Part – III
The feeling of fear and sadness that was looming in the atmosphere had now turned into something more real. It was a morning as usual as any other, as the dullness had become a part of the surrounding, so there was nothing strange that day. Late in the morning, everything and everyone in the village came to a halt. An earthquake had hit the village, not much strong, but strong enough to disturb the daily life of people, and even cause small destruction to some weak structures. Three people were hurt due to it, but no further damage was done. The villagers were unaware of what to follow this earthquake.
The earthquake was the first among many unpredictable things that were about to happen. After the earthquake, the weather had taken a strange turn. For several days, it was nothing like normal, suddenly it start raining and after few hours it become normal and then again something strange will happen like a lightning storm or a tornado. The earthquake might not even had any impact on the people but the strange weather that follows it, had broken the spirit of the villagers. The uncertain weather had caused many villagers their homes and lives. Most of the people of the village were forced to abandon their house and move to the village’s central office building. This was a large building, remains mostly unoccupied except for few rooms which were used by government officials of the village. Being a government building, it was opened for public. In time of crises like this, this initiative of government came as relief for people but it was of little help as people are afraid that if another earthquake will hit them, then living in this building will bring more harm to them than good.
Fortunately, no other earthquake hit them, and after four days of chaos and disturbance, finally, the weather turned back to normal. This change have caused a great deal of trouble to the people, many had injured and nearly twenty people have been killed.
It took many days for people to rebuild what was destroyed and going back to the routine as normal, but it can be clearly seen that this sudden and strange event have completely changed their lives forever.
When all those calamities were happening James and Brat confronted a weird truth. Just a little before all this strange weather phenomenon started they had almost arrived at their destination, this place was in the middle of the forest and it was a hard road which lead them there. Nonetheless they stay on their course and when it seems that they were about to reach the place where all these strange activities were happening they find themselves in a disastrous situation. First, the earthquake hit them and after that the strange weather continues.
They were almost in the middle of the forest and were stuck there in that terrible weather, they had nowhere to go and no place to shelter themselves from this situation. Luckily they found a cave nearby, it was like a blessing to find a place like that in middle of the forest in such condition, and they swiftly moved towards it and decided to make their camp in there. They waited in that cave for four days till the weather was clear again.
This was undoubtedly the hardest phase of their journey till now. They hadn’t expected anything like that to happen and so they haven’t prepared for that, they only bought a little amount of ration with them, it was a long road to the middle of the forest so they had bought supplies that will last one week, but they had already travelled for four days until they had reached the cave. In there they know that they got left with only three days of supplies and in that uncertain condition they didn’t know how much time they were going to spend in that cave.
When it got over and the weather was restored to normal they find out that there was not much supplies were left with them. It was better for them to reach their destination as soon as possible and much better if they get what they came looking for, or else they were going to die in that wilderness.
Brat and James continues their journey with little they have. If it was going to be any longer than they expected now then they will be left with no supplies at all. They could hunt for food but they lack the instruments, all they could do then was to reach their destination as soon as possible and hope that they will get their answers there. On second day after the weather had cleared they reached their destination. It looks like nothing special, just like what a normal forest would look after a storm, the trees were uprooted as they were in many parts of the forest, but these seems different from the rest of them. It seems like these trees were not uprooted by some external force rather they were burst by some internal force, which seems very odd.
As soon as they reached there, James started feeling a little uncomfortable, when Brat asked him he told Brat, that although this place seems to be just normal yet he could feel some kind of force there. On the mentioning of force Brat knew that they had reached the right place, and started searching for something or someone.
Not long after they came across a weird person, who wasn’t supposed to be there. This person was looking strange. He was wearing an outfit like one no one had ever seen before. He was a tall and broad man, having some strange aura around him. When he saw them coming towards him, he spoke something in a language they couldn’t understand. But his voice sounds like he was reciting some chant. Both of them were scared but had no other choice but to confront him. They approached him and then all of a sudden a very strange thing had happened, as soon as Brat had looked into his eyes he freaked out and after some time he fell unconscious to the ground.
Now James was only one left to confront him so he approached him and tried to talk to him. At first he didn’t responded properly, at that James thought that might be he doesn’t understand his language but that was not the truth as after few seconds he responded to James’ question. By the time he spoke Brat had already passed out.
This person told something James find hard to believe. He talk about himself and the place where he was from, this person (or we should not call him a person, because a person was human but he was not a human, perhaps an alien) told them an unbelievable story about himself.
At first his story seems to be absurd but that was also the case with James’ powers and they turns out real, but there was one thing that was making his story reliable, he knows all about James’ powers and know the ways to control them. Although his story was pretty impressive but the explanation he gave regarding his knowledge about powers and James’ life was something James was not ready to believe.
He told James that they were going to stay there in the forest for a while. They made camps, and this person insisted that Brat’s camp should be evidently far from theirs. Brat protested against this idea, but was persuaded by James. Brat was more worried about James than he was about himself. He knows that he was not a person who could easily be fainted, and definitely not by seeing a strange person. He knows that there was something wrong with this strange guy, but what? He couldn’t actually tell. He hadn’t express his doubts to James and decided to first observe things and then only take any action, as this person might be seem peaceful but nonetheless he had same sort of deadly powers with which James had killed Martin.
This mysterious person had a name and it was “CettR” (चेत्तृ). Word ‘CettR’ in an Ancient language of the place where he had come from means “protector”. And this was all that Brat knows about this mysterious person so far.
This protector seems to know everything regarding James’ powers, he himself got powers of his own, but not as strong as James’ (His powers were weakened because Earth’s environment is much different from his home planet). CettR seems to be disapproving of Brat, he talks only to James and ignores Brat completely, and he had some kind of disgust for Brat in his eyes, as Brat being a human was inferior to him. Brat was unable to understand the reason behind his behavior. Inhere Brat seems to be an outcast, they don’t talk in his presence and even James hadn’t told anything about the conversation CettR and James were having. All James had said was that they were going home soon. When really? He does not say.
Where Brat was growing suspicious about this stranger day by day, and James was thriving like he had got someone who had been long lost to him. They spend five days in forest (food and supplies all taken care of by CettR) and CettR and James talk for hours, where James came to learn about almost all the mysteries of his powers and their origin, and also a great deal about CettR as well as himself.
One evening James and CettR were chatting and Brat was far from them as usual, CettR told James that he knows how to control these powers and he was going to teach James to control them. CettR warned James that he should let go of Brat before he start his training to gain total control on those powers or else Brat will become a problem for them. This was the first time James realize that to the person whom he was talking all these days was not his friend but still a stranger about whom James know very little.
He was confused as how could Brat would become a problem for them, after all Brat was his friend. Then also he had hidden this truth from Brat, a truth about his life and real identity. CettR had told him not to disclose this truth to anyone, not even Brat, but CettR was only a stranger and he knew Brat since he was a little child. He was unable to determine that how his childhood friend could betray him, and how could this CettR who had just came here was the only one James could trust. This was something more than his brain could take and he decided not to think of this and just sleep, maybe in the morning he could figure out a way to work things out.
Brat, out casted by his own friend on advice of some stranger feels betrayed and decided to talk to James the following morning. It seems like they had stuck there for so long and for no apparent reason. They had come here to inquire about the strange things that were happening and in return they came across this stranger calling himself CettR. Brat didn’t knew weather he had given any answers to James’ questions or he just filling James’ mind with his stories. And now he couldn’t even know what those two were doing as he was out casted.
Brat was fed up by following James’ orders, he was getting a feeling that it was not supposed to end like that. He firmly decided that if James was not going to tell him about all those conversations he was having with that strange guy (CettR) then he will not going to stay there any longer, he was going to leave, with or without James. He lied down and was looking forward to the following morning. But little did he know that the following morning awaits him with the greatest shock of his entire life.
Part – IV
Finally, that fateful morning arrived. Brat had already made his mind and James amidst all the confusion and dilemmas came to a conclusion. He decided against the advice of CettR to disclose all the truth about his powers and CettR to Brat.
When Brat arrived at their camp James was having his breakfast and CettR was sitting in the corner. Brat can tell from the way CettR was looking at him that he was not even a bit delighted by his presence. CettR doesn’t know what was about to happen in the following moments. James told CettR nothing about his plan of disclosing information about them to Brat because he knows that CettR would never approve of this action.
Brat approached James in order to begin the conversation but James interrupted him by offering some breakfast. Brat tries to ignore this gesture as he was firm to his resolution, he straightforwardly asked James about all that was concerning him. First of all he asked about how much longer they were going to stay in that forest, what’s up with his quest about seeking answers regarding his powers, and most importantly what he was hiding from him regarding this mysterious person ‘CettR’. The last one was the greatest of Brat’s concerns and James had also grasped that. James does not want any futile discussions so he started answering him and he started with the big one. What follows next completely blew Brat’s mind, but that was the truth he wanted to know.
James told Brat that he was going to tell him everything from the very beginning, CettR tried to stop him but he already had enough of CettR’s restrictions, and he started.
James said that he was not a human, but a half human and half alien (it was told to him by CettR). His father ‘Jeremy Casper’ was a human but his mother ‘Esmeralda Casper’ was an alien, same as CettR, she came from the same planet where CettR had come, and CettR was a distant relative of his mother. Ever since CettR came to know about his Aunt Jenny’s death he was trying to contact him. The voice he heard and the force he experienced back at that place near the stream, was nothing but a message from CettR. CettR knew about James existence all along, but had never contacted him because he knows that James would be safe with his Aunt Jenny, but when she died CettR took it upon himself to protect James and tell him the truth about his identity. James had these powers in him since his birth but he himself didn’t knew about it, it was only when CettR told him about them through that message then he tried to use them. James said that his powers were not rare as everyone on CettR’s planet born with them, but he could become special if he could perfects the art of controlling his powers. And CettR told him that with his help he definitely could.
He said that CettR was the perfect person to teach him the art of controlling his powers because back in the days CettR was in an army at his home planet, so he could teach James how to use those powers. And that’s why he came all the way here, just to teach James.
Brat find it hard to believe that someone as powerful as CettR who no doubt was very important to his people would come all the way to such a distant planet just to teach a teenage boy ‘how to use your powers’ which in first place he didn’t knew he had. Something about this story doesn’t make sense to Brat, but he knows better not to express his concerns about legitimacy of the story right now. He doesn’t said anything and James continues.
James told Brat, that all those weather anomalies had occurred because of CettR. They were caused by the disturbance created in environment by the wormhole through which CettR had traveled to Earth from his native planet. The energy that was required to keep the wormhole open had very disastrous effect on Earth environment and caused that earthquake and strange weather.
And for the question that how much more time they were going to spend in there, James told him that he was not leaving the forest until CettR said so, (but Brat was welcome to leave if he wanted) James had to complete his training and CettR was going to give him the training there in the forest. CettR had told him that once his training will complete then he would became the most powerful person in the entire world.
That was all that James had wanted to tell Brat and that was pretty much all of what CettR had told him. Brat still had his concerns but he knows that although CettR seemed to be very calm at that moment yet will not waste any single chance to get rid of him. He remained calm and announced that he was not going to leave them and James approved. CettR become bit uneasy and stared at James harshly like telling him to send Brat away but James completely ignored him and didn’t said a single word.
After the conversation was over, Brat who was still confused, retreated back to his camp. Brat knows that something was wrong with CettR and he was not what he pretending to be, he got some other motives, he simply couldn’t had travelled this far just to teach a kid. Brat thought that, that was not all of it, the energy and resources which he used to come to this planet wasn’t just for James, there has to be another reason, a real motive behind his arrival. He decided to find that out at any cost, and started spying on CettR. Although he thought that it would be very difficult to follow CettR (as he got all those powers), yet he was somewhat successful in his attempt.
From that day onwards CettR started teaching James. Brat was not allowed to come near them during the training time (for his own safety), yet he managed to slip in there unnoticed, it seems to him that the loss of CettR powers had also caused him his attentiveness and he could not focus very well, and this made it easier for him to spy on CettR without being noticed. He followed CettR for a couple of days but was unable to get any info regarding his real motive. He watched James training and doing better every day, he hadn’t said anything to James since that conversation, he just follow them around.
It’s been three days since Brat was following CettR in hopes of getting some info, but he hadn’t achieved anything substantial so far. Little did he knows, that this was the night when he was going to confront the horrible truth.
Late in the evening James and Brat were together as usual. James had finished his training for the day and was resting and eating some food and Brat was also doing the same. They hadn’t talked much, and after some time Brat went back to his camp to sleep. It was the time of night the, woods were dark, there was very little light coming from the moon. Brat was unable to sleep, he sensed that James and CettR were up to something, but what? He could not tell. He went out of his tent and sat next to the fire outside his camp, where he spotted some movements from the other campsite (one where James’ and CettR’s camps were). They might had not seen him awake due to darkness (or rather they hadn’t paid any mind to him), but all the same it looks like they were preparing to do something.
CettR was carrying some sort of device and James was behind him, they came out in the open at the place where the stars were clearly visible and then CettR put down that device onto the ground. Brat was having difficulty in understanding what was going on, so he quietly moved towards them, hiding in the shadows as to remain unnoticed. When he came close enough then he hid behind a tree and watched them from there.
CettR was doing something to that device and when it started working then Brat observed that, it was a communication device. The device was on and some blue light was coming out of it and then few seconds later there was a picture in that light. CettR greeted the man in that picture (in his native language) and that man responded, James did the same. This person in the light seems to be some kind of leader, and as James speaks he suddenly diverted his attention from CettR to James. He was looking pleased by seeing James and called him the “Prince of the Earth”. He continues and said that when James will complete his training then with all his powers, he will become the sole ruler of the Earth and will be known as “Prince of the Earth” throughout the entire universe. These powers will make him invincible and nobody could stand in their way, the whole world will bow to him and to his ‘uncle’ CettR (although CettR was not his real uncle, but that’s what the boy was calling him since he came to know that CettR was his mother’s distant relative), and that man smiled towards CettR (a very conspicuous smile). James seems to be amazed and enjoyed by the notion of “Prince of the Earth” and told that man that he will do best in his ability to complete his training as soon as possible. This leader person became a bit serious and once again turned towards James, he said in his serious tone, that this path to become “Prince of the Earth” will not be easy, James had to make some very difficult choices, many will rise against him and he had to fight them, destroy them. When he said so, it was clear that he means war and massacre, and at very large scale.
James was so overwhelmed by the title, that he did not consider all of this to be wrong. All he wanted to be was “Prince of the Earth”. He wanted to rule the whole Earth with CettR beside him, no matter how many people (innocent or no) he had to kill. James had been told by CettR that he was not an ordinary boy, but what he had just found out was way more exciting than that. His mind was completely filled with the idea of being a ruler, for the moment he couldn’t ask for anything else. While James was standing there partially lost in his thoughts, CettR bid goodbye to the man and turn off that device. They both went back into their camps.
Brat was still there hiding behind that tree, when both of them were gone he silently slipped back to his tent. He couldn’t believe what had he just seen. That person was talking about massacre and James was okay about it. He understand very well that CettR was using James to fulfill his own motive, to rule the Earth, there was something that CettR and his people want from the Earth and James was going to help them get that (probably unknowingly). He wanted to stop all of it, he did not want to watch anybody die, but he couldn’t figure out any way to stop all this. He hardly got any sleep that night. In the morning he went to James as he usually do, had his breakfast, and pretended like he knows nothing of what happened last night. Soon after James and CettR left for training, but today Brat hadn’t followed them, rather he went back to his camp, he was already preoccupied with thinking of ways to stop James and CettR. He knew that he could never stop James, because of those powers he had, and neither will James going to listen to the reason against his fantastic dream of being a Prince. And if they came to know that he was spying on them, then maybe CettR would kill him before he could do anything. At last a notion (which seems rather unethical) strikes him. From most of the perspectives this notion seems to be an act of abomination, but it was the only way to stop James at the moment, and Brat knows that if he hadn’t stop James now, then there will be no stopping for him. All Brat had was one shot, one shot to do it right, or watch thousands of innocents massacred and places burned.
He had made his mind, he was going to stop him. He went to James’ tent and acquire the knife which he use to prepare food and went back to his own tent. He spend a long time sharpening that knife on the stone, to make sure he will not fail in his attempt.
It was the time of evening, James and CettR had returned from the training, and were resting in their camp. Brat visited James as usual, CettR was sitting just outside the tent, but hadn’t paid any mind to Brat. He entered the tent and sat right next to James, and for once after this long time he started a conversation with James. He asked him about random stuff like, how his training was going on? How he was feeling? And other stuff like that. James was happy to get his friend back and started replying with a bit of enthusiasm. Only few moments had passed since they had started their conversation when Brat had made his extremely unanticipated move. He draw the knife from his waist and without even a second’s delay he stab it right through James’ heart. He strikes as fast as lightning, and then took the knife out of James’ heart and slit his throat with it, to make sure that he will not survive this attack.
All this happened in the blink of an eye. CettR who was sitting just outside the tent, finds himself too far to reach there in time, still he had reached inside, but there was nothing he could do by then, James was beyond saving. CettR at once knew that all of his plans to take control of Earth were ruined, he was not much powerful to do this alone, he needed James help in his endeavor.
CettR was enraged by this act, and he gathered all the power that was remain in him and targeted Brat. A beam of red light had emerged from his arms and hit Brat. Brat was unable to move as the power was entering his body, and suddenly there was an explosion, Brat’s body had burst into pieces and scattered all over the place. CettR became very weak by using his powers, he could barely walk. He took his devices and with the help of one of them he went back to the planet from where he came, and never showed up since then.
Brat saw James for the disaster that he was, and did what’s needed to be done. He may or may not be a hero for many people, but there is one thing for sure, that he was “A silent protector” for all.
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