Chapter 15: The Big Black Book
Shruti couldn't sleep that night thinking about Uncle's wife. It's not that she didn't believed in ghosts earlier but she was of the opinion that she wouldn't believe it unless she saw with her own eyes. It was similar to believing in extra terrestrial beings invading Earth. She was trying to recall about Rahul. Even though now she doesn't recognize him but at some point he was the love of her life. She just used to stare at their wedding picture for countless hours.
She said in her mind, "Why does anyone wants to kill Rahul? He looks such a sweetheart. God please give me strength to find his killer and bring him to justice." She then went to the window and began to watch the dark sky with some stars on it and the half crescent moon. She could feel the cold wind blew through her body causing her to shiver a bit.
She went back inside and laid on her bed, closed her eyes. When she opened them, she found herself on the floor, but the floor was not familiar to her, the whole room was big enough for a football match to be played, slowly she stood up to explore the room and Tring Tring!!!! Her alarm clock rang waking her up... She woke up with confused expressions. She got ready and went downstairs.
Monika was making tea in kitchen as usual. Shruti greeted her and turned back towards living room. She sat on sofa with newspaper in her hands, Suddenly she remembered she forgot to bring her phone from her room.
She went back to her room only to find out, her wedding photo was floating in air. Her eyes widened at the sight, she closed her eyes tightly, but as soon as she opened her eyes back the picture was back in it's place. She took her mobile phone and turned, she froze there for a second as she felt a breath on her face. She felt someone standing dangerously close to her. She moved her hand forward to check but there was no one.
She ran out of her room as fast as she could and went straight away into the kitchen. Her throat was almost dry because of what happened in her room. She opened the fridge door and took out a water bottle and gulped half of the water before smashing the bottle on table. Monika looked towards her, she had just smashed a water bottle on table and there was water all over. Shruti kept watching as the water spread through kitchen floor. She noticed ripples in the water, as if something was coming from that water. Slowly a creepy skeleton hand covered in blood and soil came out that water to grab Shruti's hand.
Monika spoke, "Shruti! What happened? Why did you throw the bottle?" Shruti was already horrified she just kept staring at water.
Monika held Shruti's hand, "Shruti! I am talking to you." Shruti was broken from her thoughts, even the creepy hand had disappeared. Shruti hugged her and began to cry.
Monika took her in the living room and asked her, "What's the matter Shruti? Are you alright?"
Shruti told her everything, also about that creepy hand she saw in reflection of water.
Monika consoled her saying, "Relax Shruti! It must be your hallucination. Believe me, there is no one in my house. By the way Uncle is coming at lunch so don't worry he will help us. You come with me and have your breakfast first. Then we will make lunch together."
They both went inside the kitchen.
After some time Uncle Rathod visited them. He had a big black book with him. While having lunch Monika told him about Shruti's horrible experience in the morning.
He said, "I think its hard to determine whether it was hallucination or real but we will find a way through it. Anyways I wanted to discuss very important thing. Shall we go in the living room?"
They both agreed and all of them went to living room.
Uncle took that black book that he had bought with him and began to turn the pages of that book.
He took out a page and said, "My Guru had gifted me this book when I had completed my training. This book was written a hundred years ago by a 'Muni' (Muni means a sage or a saint. People would respect them as a person of God.) This book contains every answer to our problems. It has ways to communicate with the people in other realms. Many years ago a group of 'Aghoras' from Kashi had found a way which would lead them to the realm of dead, which brought evil entities in our world, so some munis took help of ancient remedies and eventually sent the evil beings back into their realm. Then they wrote those ancient remedies and made a manual. This is our manual." Monika and Shruti were listening patiently to him.
He continued, "We need to communicate with him to know the reason behind those killings. But I think today is not the right time to speak to him. But we can check the real killer of Rahul by going back in time."
Shruti cut him off, "Uncle! Then I am ready to go back in time and save my Rahul and bring him back to future!"
But Uncle said, "Shruti! I know you are very curious at this time but there are certain rules of Nature which we cannot break and this one is like breaking one of the rules, just remember we can't change past as it will have consequences on future. But we can see past without acting in it. This book has a mantra which allows us to see the past but only once. But before we take any step, I want you to rethink Shruti because this method is extremely fatal and I cannot guarantee the desired result. Because there are certain things which are better to be unseen."
Shruti said, "But what if we see those unseen things!"
Uncle answered, "They will give you scars for lifetime, which will shake you down to your core. I am speaking from my experience."
"So you had used this power to save your wife didn't you?" Said Shruti.
Uncle remained quiet but then spoke, "Yes. I have used this spell and I still can't forget those painful memories it gave me. Trust me its hard to live with them."
Shruti said, "Uncle, in these days I have seen many things, that has already shook me. I had wished for a better life, I had everything in my life. A loving husband, our own house, we haven't even started our married life and this shit happened. What was my fault then? Why did this happened? I don't have any memories but my living is still painful. Uncle, I really don't care what happens to me but my only reason to live is now to find Rahul's murderer. I am ready for anything."
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