Caucus and his journey

Mastering the balance

‘Focus and faith

focus on what you are doing and have faith in yourself that you could do it’, said Ross

Everyone, there were confused.

‘Could you see the ant in the ground near the tree.’

‘Yes, there it is’, said everyone.

‘Now focus on it.’

‘What do you see George?’, asked Ross

‘I see the ant is walking toward the hole.’

‘What about you Voilet.’

‘I see it is carrying one of the dead insect wing.’

‘And you Anna.’

‘I can see it is pitch black in color.’

‘You Caucus.’

‘I can only see pitch black’

‘You Migma.’

He pointed toward Caucus signing his answer matched him.

‘I am not too happy to say this, but only two could exactly focus at ant, Caucus and Migma. To focus you have to forget everything around and focus at one point so that you don’t see anything besides a point which was pitch black if you focus on an ant’, said Ross.

‘Now sit on the bamboo again’, ordered Ross. Everyone went for the bamboo stick and sat on the top of it.

‘Now close your eyes and only focus on that part of your body which is in contact with the stick.’

Meanwhile Voilet and Anna couldn’t hold and fell from the stick

‘Don’t get distracted, now three of you try to concentrate whole mass of the body in that part’

Caucus and George also fell from their stick, but Migma was still there ignoring everything that was happening there.

‘Now feel satisfaction from the pain you are getting from the stick, slow and steady’, Ross continued motivating Migma. While others were just amazed at him.

‘He did it’ Voilet screamed in excitement.

‘Now remember the happiest moment of your life’

Migma remembered the time when Caucus, Voilet , Anna and George were flying around him the previous day to cheer him up, suddenly the picture of his mom Ellijah pops up in his head, he got distracted and fell from the stick. Tears were running through his eyes, he was missing his mom and was worried about her. Caucus hurried toward him ‘are you okay, you did amazing’, he hugged Migma. ‘You were the hero of today’s training Migma’, Anna ran her hands into his hair.

‘You did better for beginners, Migma’, said Ross, ‘Don’t let anything ruin your moment of happiness, try to find satisfaction in pain and misery, it will lead you to conquer over yourself.’

She went inside the house to prepare for the morning meal. While the rest of them tried it again and this time they could hold a little longer than previous.

After one hour uncle Jha came with his bag full of herbs. He smiled looking at them on the top of bamboo stick meditating.

‘So can’t help yourself to help them’, uncle Jha gets into the house.

‘I still remember the day when you helped me master it, I felt like helping myself when I helped them’, ‘can I ask you something uncle’, asked Ross.

‘Ask me two.’

‘Is it possible for Migma to achieve his magic, he seems quite determined. I am afraid of him getting hurt.’

‘Impossible is not an option here, I see the hunger in his eyes for magic, We have to try.’ said uncle.

Ross placed plates for morning meal,

‘Mealtime’, uncle shouted. Everybody except Migma jumped out of their sticks for meal meanwhile Caucus went toward Migma and shook him up.

‘What happened’ signed Migma shocked standing from the stick.

‘Didn’t you hear uncle calling us for morning meal, everyone except us have gone for it already.’

‘I didn’t’ signed Migma.

‘Seems like someone is ready to move into next level’, said uncle trying to sound proud coming outside.

‘I am proud of you, brother’, Caucus puts his arm around Migma’s shoulder and they both went inside.

After meal. They all gathered near the bamboo sticks. ‘Being able to balance above the stick is just a beginning for you. You should be able to focus inside you so much that you won’t be influenced by outer surroundings. Just as Migma did’, said uncle. Everyone screamed, ‘great job Migma.’

‘But still, there is a lot more than that, you have to create an aura around you from frequency of your meditation, the strength of the aura decides the strength of your magic.’ said uncle. Everyone nodded their head and went for their stick. They each sat on their stick, closed their eyes, and focused on the pain and tried to soothe it through good memories. But soon everyone fell again and this time Migma also joined them. They all laughed at their situation. ‘This is not a joke, you all have to be aware of consequences of not having magic, if it’s not in your heart to gain magic then forcing you won’t help at all’, said uncle Jha angrily. They again tried, they sat on the stick, concentrated the mass of the whole body into that point. The pain was endless but they tried to get satisfaction from it and soothe it with their happy memories again. This time they remain there longer.

Caucus remembered the moment he was playing with his mom in front of his birth home. Then he remembered him playing with Migma in Namche-Bazar. He memorized the moment when he first met his father Alex in the palace and continued playing with his good memories. He was so lost in it that he stayed in that stick for nearly 4 hours. While others were already inside. When Migma went toward Caucus to call him. Something restricted him from going near him. He was thrown out from that area with a blast such that everyone inside came out to see him. But it didn’t affect his meditation.

George went toward Migma ‘are you alright?’ He asked helping him stand. Migma pointed toward Caucus. The aura around him was getting thick and was increasing in radius.

‘If he continues on that. His aura will destroy everything around’ said uncle in his trembling voice. George grabbed and pulled Migma away from it. ‘Is there anything we can do to stop him’, said George looking at uncle Jha.

‘We cannot do anything son, it’s up to him now, his feelings are getting stronger with time. If this doesn’t stop we have to warn other villagers, this aura has the capacity to destroy the whole village.’

Migma pulled his hand from George’s and picked a bamboo stick which was thrown away due to Caucus’s aura, he sat on it and start meditating he remembered every single happy moment of his life. His third birthday when his mom bought him a 3 storey cake, the moment when he went to his school for the first time that was the time when he met George, Anna and Voilet. The time when his father brought him his first football and the moment when he first met Caucus. The frequency of his memory created his aura around him. Before uncle Jha could stop him his aura was strong enough to restrict him. ‘It’s dangerous for their aura to face each other’, It can kill them cried uncle. He went in front of them and shouted ‘invus repella, invus repella, invus repella’ he begun to chant while other’s were terrified of the situation. ‘Invus repella, invus repella’ he went on. Instead of overlapping their aura begun to repel each other. They repelled each other strongly over time. At one point they neutralized each other vanishing aura around them with a blast. Both Migma and Caucus fell from their stick unconscious. Anna, Ross, Voilet, and George hurried toward them and took them inside. Uncle Jha completely distressed of the situation went away from the home.

When Caucus opened his eyes after 3 hours of sleep he began to murmur, ‘How did I get here, What happened to me’, hearing his voice Anna immediately entered the room Voilet, George and Ross followed her. ‘Thank-god you woke up’, she beat Caucus in his back, ‘how can you do such things to us, you really freaked us out’, said Anna hugging him in despair.

‘What did I do, I was meditating in that stick and ...and I woke up here right after that’, ‘ But why I am feeling so weak now?’ asked Caucus looking at his mates. ‘you created an aura capable of destroying whole village, that’s no wonder you feel weak now’, said Ross checking his temperature ‘you will be fine soon, I am just worried about Migma’, said she. ‘Where is Migma? What happened to him?’ asked Caucus in agony.

‘After you created your aura, he created his, I don’t know what came in his mind. According to uncle if your aura would had overlapped it could have killed you both’, Anna explained.

Caucus began to drop tears in despair.

It was time for dinner but Migma was still unconscious. Caucus denied to have dinner until Migma wakes up. Anna tried to convince him but all was in vain. Uncle Jha also disappeared and he didn’t come home that day.

After dinner everyone went to sleep but Caucus. He was sitting near Migma holding his hand waiting for him to wake up. Caucus went outside the house the whole village was asleep. He closed his eyes, the moment when his mother was crying out of pain came in front of his eyes. He screamed and begun to cry while Ross woke up hearing him scream. She came out to find Caucus sitting in the ground holding his face with his palm. Ross put her right hand in his shoulder. As soon as her hand touched him Caucus grabbed Ross and hugged her. Ross stood still trying to comfort him. But when she tried to move he hugged her even more. ‘Everything will be alright Caucus, just have faith in yourself’, Ross whispered into his ear.

‘Nothing is right here, my mom died and Migma is in that condition because of me. It’s my fault that Anna, George, Voilet, and Migma came here. It was me who forced all of them to walk through that portal’, said he.

‘You were just an innocent child then, and nothing is your fault. I believe you, you cannot hurt anyone. You are the man with the purest heart in the world’, Ross said patting his back.

‘Do you think Migma will be alright.’

‘Uncle Jha most be in search for his cure, he saw that coming when you both fell unconscious, I know he will definitely find something helpful’, Ross said trying to release herself from Caucus’s arm.

Soon Caucus released her, then they both shared an awkward look. 

‘I think you should sleep now’, Ross said tearing the silence between them. They both went inside and slept on their respective bed.