CHAPTER
6
No. This couldn’t happen. “Tell
me you’re lying” I yelled at Tony. His smirk told me otherwise. No. No. Was
that the reason the connection didn’t work earlier? I didn’t want to believe this.
Marsella, my grandparents… no. The surroundings started to blur and darken. “What
did you do to them?” Arya was also screaming his lungs out now. “Oh you want to
know the details then. Okay. Your royal dear grandparents have probably eaten
their food by now which is poisoned. Guess who poisoned it?” he laughed so
cruelly I had the most instant urge to kill him by tearing him apart. “And as
for your pretty little friend, I shot her right in her heart. With this very
gun! Now you tell me your plan. If you don’t, I’ll make you. You two were lucky
to escape from that storm, go to Samar, kill him, kidnap Rhodes and come back
here to hide. But I figured it all out. If you wrecked the shuttle, you won’t
be able to get back either. Come on, spill your backup plan. Tell me how to
travel back to earth.” He was one, we were two. We could take him down. But I didn’t
want Tony to die so easily. I’d take the life out of him like a psycho-killer. Slowly,
part-by-part. He’d killed the people I loved. I was barely aware of tears
trickling my cheek. While I was in the midst of deciding which kind of torture
would hurt him the most, Arya spoke in a very convincing way “Okay. Looks like
you figured it out already. You’re smarter than we thought. Lune, I think we
should tell him the truth. But Tony, in return I want our lives safe.” What was
Arya talking about? We hadn’t even seen those two guys. Let alone killing and
kidnapping them. He definitely had something in mind. “Oh yes, sure” Tony
replied a little sarcastically.
I
felt sort of numb. What was happening? Why couldn’t I be a normal human? Why
did I have to be an alien? I wished I had a normal life. But I had to come back
to reality. Arya was leading me and Tony lingered behind. I had no idea what
Arya had in mind. Today was one of the few days when the moon shone. Arya
connected at about the same time when I thought of it. “What are you going to
tell him Arya?” “I frankly don’t know Lune. It’s just a distraction. We have no
weapons and he has a fully loaded gun. A fight could turn into his favor.” We
discussed what to tell Tony. His harsh voice interrupted us, “Speak up fellas.
What’s the plan?”. “There’s another shuttle”, Arya said, “When Pikshtra invaded
Prisma, he’d hid an extra shuttle here to be on the safer side. When I and Lune
escaped, we encountered that shuttle and planned all of this.” I added, “We’re
reach there soon. And remember your promise Tony.” I told him in the same tone
he used for us. I wanted to kill him so badly. Arya now spoke through the
connection. “There’s a long rope like thing under my leg. Don’t look at it
right now. Its long. I’ll pass it over to you on the count of three. When we
stretch it from both sides, let’s hope Tony trips over.” I was in.
The
plan executed successfully and we snatched the gun from him. Arya pointed the
gun towards him but I was not gonna let him die so easily. ”Wait Arya” I said,
“He has killed them. He killed them all! He deserves being tortured at every
step while he drags himself to hell. But first I want to know his purpose.
Speak up!” I was sure Arya was on my side and he felt the same way. As an
agreement, he shot both his legs first, making him immobile. “Tell me why you
wanted to come here. Before you even the others have tried to implement the
connection in human brains but it never worked. You thought it would work if
you came here? What did you want Tony?” “I really can’t believe you’ll are that
dumb kids. It’s not only about the connection. You see this place around you?
It’s magical. I know about the lamors and lusciata. The leaves are made of pure
gold. The air is so pure.” “What’s lusciata?” I asked him like he was my
science teacher. “You seriously don’t know? Your dear grandfather didn’t tell
you?” He hadn’t. “Figure it out yourselves kids” Arya had his gangster look on
his face like before, “You are under my gun. And you think such kind of an
answer is going to help you?” Tony looked scared for once in his life.
“lusciata is a kind of plant with medicinal properties. It can cure any wound
within seconds and has the ability of curing cancer completely.” Why didn’t
grandpa tell us about this? May be he’d just forgotten. “So you thought you’d
take all of this to earth and get a fortune that’ll set your life?” “No kid, I
didn’t want to take any of this to earth. I wanted to make this, another earth.
The amount of money I would get is beyond counting limits. But more
importantly, you know what I would become? God!” His eyes told me how much he
was yearning to complete his mission. He might even have completed it if he
hadn’t told us how he’d killed my family. “Good plan Tony, but now it’s your
time to die.” I snatched the gun from Arya and shot his shoulder. He started
crawling towards his left. He took out something from his pocket and said “Haven’t
you heard? Never wound something that you can’t kill”.
He
threw the soil in our eyes. Before we could attack him we caught a glimpse of
him sprinkling the powder on his shoulder. It was like magic. We could
literally see the wound getting dissolved in his skin. We caught him before his
next move. “Did you seriously think you would be fast enough?” We’d held him tight
but by the time he had already put the powder on his legs. He was fit and fine
as before but he didn’t have the gun. We had. I put the gun straight in his
mouth. I was about to pull the trigger when I heard a voice in my head.
Marsella’s voice. It said, “Kill him Lune. He killed Fiddle and Fiona. Kill
him!” I was obviously imagining her voice asking me to avenge her and my
grandparents. But then something weird happened. Arya connected to me and he
was telling me the same thing. We could feel another presence in our minds.
Marsella was alive? But Tony had shot her in her heart… “Guys I’m alive. Thanks
to Mitiksha. I’ll tell you the rest later but first kill Tony.” We both were so happy to hear her voice we’d
lost hold of Tony. He had disappeared from our hands and we saw him running far
ahead. We chased him but he was fast too. We barely heard his voice saying,
“Hey guys, I think I forgot to mention this. But lusciata gives you great speed
too!” We lost him. Shit! I had a gun on him, and I let him go. I’d never felt
so restless and guilty in my life. We searched and searched for him but
couldn’t find him.
We
tried to connect to Marsella and told her everything. We could feel her
disappointment too. She told her where she was and we followed her directions.
She was sitting on the ground beside Mitiksha. I hugged her so tightly, it hurt
both of us! I was just so happy that she was alive. Even Arya did the same.
“How did you survive?” he asked her. “It’s all thanks to Mitiksha.” She said.
Tony shot me but didn’t realize Mitiksha was nearby. He just shot and left.
Mitiksha told me that she was going to get something for me. I don’t remember
anything after that but I think I survived!” she said laughingly. Now Mitiksha
spoke, “Tony bad human. He doesn’t know we have heart on right side. Not on
left. So Marsella alive.” What? Even I didn’t know this. Thank heavens. It was
such a relief. Marsella said, “I can’t even feel my bruise. She told me that
she had used some plant extracts called Lusciata.” So Lusciata it was. “Tony
had the same thing” we informed her. I and Arya told them the entire story.
“We’ll catch him” Mitiksha said with confidence. We also told them about
lamors. Mitiksha was pretty impressed. She told us that inspite of living here
her whole life, she’d never seen a lamor. Hm. We were lucky. “I think we must
go to the royal building or tent or whatever it is. We need to take care of
grandma and grandpa.” I said. Both Mitiksha and Marsella looked at each other.
“Lune,
before shooting me, Tony said that he had poisoned them and killed both of you
with a tree or something. I thought you’ll were dead. I couldn’t even feel
you’ll in the connection. But after I connected with you, we both went to the
tent-house where Fiddle and Fiona were. But there was nobody there. I couldn’t
connect to them. I have no idea where they are. But we saw the food right
there. So they haven’t eaten it.” So they’re alive too? But where were they?
Mitiksha was listening quietly, but now she spoke, “They blocked you out.” We all
replied with “huh?” She was laughing. You’ll need to know a lot about
connection. She closed her eyes and her rora came before us. Why had she called
it? She kind of hugged its neck and it went away. We were still uncomfortable
with the roras. Specially that one. But he flew away immediately. “I will teach
you how to block, allow and be invisible in the connection. Let’s begin.”
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