Chapter 5: We got a lead
I was in my room,sleeping tirelessly. I heard a voice calling me downstairs.
G-one:It's the voice of mom. Mom, mom! You down there?
Mom:G-one, help me.
G-one:Mom, mom,I am coming. Just hold on.
I went downstairs. My Mom was struggling with Ra-one. I was standing there but my body was lying down on the floor. It appeared my soul was roaming out of my body. I ran towards my mom panicking.
G-one:Leave her alone,you bastard.Get your hands off her now.
But what's this, I passed through them like a hologram, like I wasn't even there. Ra-one was still choking down my mother. I jumped again but nothing. I couldn't touch him.
Ra-one:(looked at me and laughed)Meet your mother in the heavens.
G-one:No....
I woke up on my bed.It was that nightmare again. Lying on my bed, I opened my eyes and lifted my left arm, and twisted it around.
G-one: Everything seems just fine.
Except I am not a kid anymore. A lot more time has passed and my body has grown with my experience and knowledge. With the money I earned while working. I paid for a cheap school and got admission as an irregular student. I didn't had to go except for important days like exams and inspection days. No other choice I had with working and studying at the same time. I had to drop one thing and Piyush came up with this idea managing to hide this from his and Akash's parents as well. While I was lying oblivious on my bed suddenly Piyush dropped on my stomach with his elbow. I jumped up in pain.
G-one : Oww! What the crap!
Piyush:This is your endurance limit, you are a superhero for god sakes.
Me:I will kick your ass If you used me as a punching back again early in the morning.
Piyush:You always say that.
G-one: Ya, and you never learn. You are taking too much advantage of my leniency. I swore to not use my powers against you, looks like I will have to break it.
Piyush: Ohh! Just chill man, it was just a warm up. No need to break anything. I will be sure not to do it again.
G-one: I don't need such type of warming up and more of that in the morning.
Piyush: Ok, I won't do it next time. I promise.
G-one: What about your never learning thing?
Piyush: I heard somewhere that promises are meant to be broken.
G-one:Who said that you dog shit. Get out of my house.
Piyush:Ok, ok. You were dreaming with your eyes open again. It was that nightmare again,wasn't it?
G-one: Ya,sure it was. Now it is like an alarm to wake me up if your elbow forgets to ring me up any day.
Piyush:I was just helping you to snap out of it.
G-one:Ya, I know. Seeing me in pain and then giggling like a witch, really looks like help to me.
Piyush:Was I? Really? I didn't notice myself giggling and like a witch!
G-one:(sigh)Oh move it, let me get some fresh air.
Piyush: Hey remember the scholarship form you applied for the college?
G-one: (walks towards the bathroom) Ya, what of it?
Piyush:Did you check your results?
G-one: Is it out already? I don't know.
Piyush:We three aced it man, we got the scholarship.
G-one:No!
Piyush:Oh yeah!
So this is how my days began after I transformed from Jeevan to Gone. My both friends used me as their punching bag and they beat the crap out of me everyday. When I asked why then they said it's the part of my endurance training. I can only dream of combat training coming from them. It has been three years since that incident. I am having that nightmare ever since. And I know it will stop only when I finish Ra-one. Now, enough with my labour work. I decided to join a university and a part time job somewhere. My friends weren't leaving me that easily. We even decided to go to the same college together. Door opens
Akash:G-one,G-one,where are you?
G-one: What is it freak?I am cooking right now.Just tell me it's something worthy to interrupt my cooking.And if later I found out it's a prank than you are a dead meat. I am not in a mood of getting slammed right now.
Akash:Just take it easy, dude. I am here to make you know about the result.
G-one:(cutting vegetables)I know, Piyush told me that already in the morning.
Akash:And about the lead on Ra-one.
G-one:Isn't that's the reason why we chose that college?
Akash:According to the current information that I have collected, it's most likely to be him. Check out my research here. (opens his laptop)See before three years people began to go missing in this area. Till now many people went missing.Police once caught a missing person.When he saw them he tried to escape because he was coming out of a mall, looting it.Police caught him and interrogated, his eyes were red. He refused to answer.He was knocked down by the policemen.He was then hospitalized.When he regained consciousness, he didn't remember anything and his eyes became normal as well.
G-one:What?I think I know what it is,mind manipulation.
Akash:Ya, and some evidences suggest that the missing people gather around some places and work together in some criminal activities. Some people having good backgrounds started showing reverse behaviour than usual self and sometime ran out of their houses for no reason like some one is calling them.
G-one:What the hell? But why would Ra-one manipulate them to loot things.
Akash:Maybe, he just wants to make his presence known and slowly he is gathering man power for something.
G-one:What's the police department doing about this?
Akash: They don't have a clue about who is behind these activities exactly. And people really don't go missing, they return home after sometime but act differently and vanish all of a sudden time to time. Because of this people reduced to go out in nights.
G-one: What's the rush in night?
Akash:Unexpected murders!
G-one:What is this? Does Ra-one..
Akash: Unverified! Don't know, but victims body is brutally damaged and beyond recognition. Appears like he has been through some kind of experiment or so and after failure he has been thrown away.
Piyush:(walks in)Hey guys, be sure to pack everything up, we will be leaving tomorrow.
Akash:(looked at Piyush) Try to act serious for once. This is a matter of great concern.
Piyush:Acting serious isn't gonna do anything. Staying here would only be a waste of time. We will only find the truth when we go out there. It doesn't matter if who we find there is Ra-one or not, but anyone who is behind all this, should be dragged down.
Akash:This is not so simple.
G-one:It is time to get charged then.