My Destined One

Dangerous powers

Aarsh's POV

  I don't know when sleep had engulfed me, but knowing that after that horrible incident Meera is with me, I slept with a little bit of peace. I woke up around 8o'clock in the morning, though it was Sunday, still I was a bit late. I did my morning routine, skipped the shower, got ready and went to have breakfast. Now its time I get some of my questions answered. After a few minutes, Meera came down, but she hesitated to sit. "Today you aren't my PA, you are my friend, so come, have a sit and eat your breakfast." She then obliged, sat down, had her breakfast quietly. I got the feeling that she was trying to ask something but she just couldn't bring it up. "After finishing your breakfast, come to my study. Lets complete yesterday's talk," with these words I got up and went to my study. I wanted answers as soon as possible, but I pretty much know how much she wants this topic to be a secret.

  After about 15-20 minutes, there came a light knock at my study room's door, I understood it was Meera, without waiting, I quickly went to the door, opened it, gestured her to come inside, and then I closed the door, locking it up. "Come on, sit here. Now tell me honestly, why didn't you do anything when those drunkards were about to r**e you, Meera? If I hadn't come at the right time, don't you know what could have happened to you? There were at least 4-5 people. For God's sake Meera, don't sit here quietly, answer me." I shouted at her.  I was way irritated than I thought I would be. The only reason I didn't say anything yesterday was because I know I would burst out and I will scare the s**t out of her, and after what she faced yesterday, it would be the last thing she would want. So I decided to calm myself down, ask her peacefully everything, but here she was sitting like a statue.

  "Can't you hear that I am talking to you? ANSWER ME MEERA SHARMA? Why didn't you use your powers yesterday?" God this woman is testing my patience now! "I want to go home" she mumbled, but to her bad luck I heard it properly. I clamed myself down, and then spoke softly, "I will take you home. But first tell me, why didn't you use your powers Meera? Why? I know I made you promise something but that doesn't mean you won't protect yourself, right? Meera, those powers are for protection, right?" I tried to make her understand calmly, trying to reason with her. "Aarsh you still think that I can protect anyone with these deadly powers? It was just a miracle that I saved you on that picnic. But now both of us know how deadly my powers are Aarsh. Aarsh, I know I asked you to forget about our past and move on, and am pretty much sure you have, but the fact still remains same. My powers are deadly, I am deadly. I can destroy anything and everything in just a fraction of second. How can you say that these powers are for protection huh? How? And that too after that day I destroyed everything."

  I still remember that dreadful day when I took Meera to my Ashram, to Guruji. And to be honest it was a dreadful day I have ever experienced. I still regret it till today. That day I broke Meera, the day she understood how powerful she is, but in a negative way. I tried to bring her back from the shock, but by the time even I could understand what to do, the damage was done. I am pretty sure after that day she has never used her powers. I hope am wrong, but I still wanted to know the answers. 

4 Years back  

  Its been about 2 months, Meera and I exchanged the biggest secrets of our lives with each other. After she told that I can heal Sana, may be because she is my destined one, I tried to heal her when she got hurt. In the panic I almost forgot about that, but then Meera gestured me to use my powers to reduce Sana's pain. I did use it, but to both of our shock, I couldn't heal Sana. It told us one thing that she is not my destined one. But Meera didn't want to believe it. She wanted me to go and have a check about my powers. I was pretty sure why she forced me so much, she didn't want Sana to lose me. She wanted Sana to be my destined one. If Sana is not the one, then Meera knew she would break down, and to be honest Meera didn't want that. So after begging me for more than a week, I finally agreed to go to my home, our Ashram, meet Guruji, and get the answers. As it was Meera's idea, I dragged her here to be with me. So here we are, going to the Ashram to get some answers.

  "Aarsh can you please tell me again why am I accompanying you, and that too to go to your home? Its not the first time that you are going home alone, you have been doing that for last 3 years, so why am I accompanying you this time, huh?" she asked getting annoyed. "Cause it was your idea for me to come here and get answer why I couldn't heal Sana, so you are coming with me. Plus, you hardly know anything about your powers, so it is better we, actually you, get some knowledge about it. You should know about it as much as possible, who knows what you are exactly capable of. So you are coming with me." I said to her calmly. I don't know how much she is interested to know about her powers, but I wanted to know about her powers more. When I got to know she has some super natural powers, just like me, I couldn't wait to know more about it.

  After 3 hours of continuous drive, we finally reached infront of the Ashram. This Ashram was my home for 12 years, from KG to class 10, I have been here, had most of the best and worst moments here, the Ashram is more like a home to me than my school or hostel. And Guruji was always a guardian to me, no matter what, he was always there for us. My parents own a moderate sized house, not too far away, but because of my father's job as a school teacher and a matron in the hostel, my mother decided to move in here. So this is my home, more than my actual home is to me. I put off the engine, got out of the car, made sure Meera was following me, locked the car, and made the way towards the Ashram. Its nice to be back here everytime. I didn't go to meet my parents, instead I went directly to meet Guruji in his office.

  "Pranam Pandit ji! Where is Guruji? Is he inside his office?" I asked Pandit ji. He is like an assistant to Guruji. After Guruji decides to leave his post then he will be Guruji's successor. "Areh Aarsh! Long time no see! No Guruji is not inside, he went to Kali Mandir to pray. The Ancient one went to ancient temple! For some days, something is bugging him. So unable to sustain the storm inside his heart, he went there to find some peace. You wait here if you want." "No, I will go there to meet him, need to discuss about something, privately, something that can be discussed there only." I know, once Guruji steps down Pandit ji will be his successor but that really didn't let me tell him about my powers. Guruji knows everything, and if he decided not to inform anyone about my power then I would also like to keep it a secret.

  I turned around and started walking towards the ancient Kali temple with Meera following me. This temple is said to be the place of all magical things. From the outside, it looks just another normal stone temple, giving it an ancient touch to it. But only a few people know what lies beneath the temple. When I told Guruji about my powers, he brought me to the temple and showed me the secrets of it. The temple looks one storeyed from the outside, but there are many floors under the temple. It has two storeyed library, two secret chambers and one floor completely occupied to treat the wounds of magical being, moreover it is not easy to reach there. There is a secret door which can be opened only by the person whose retina and heartbeat are recorded.

  I entered the temple, and to my surprise Guruji was worshiping Lord Kali at that time. We went there, seek the deity's blessing, seek his blessings, and then I said, "Guruji, I have hidden nothing from you. You know I love a girl back in the city. I think she is the one destined for me. So keeping your words in my mind, that I can heal my destined one apart from myself, I went to heal her when she got hurt. And to my surprise I couldn't, trust me I tried, not once but thrice, but nothing happened. Guruji I love her." When I said the last line, I was scared. Back in my mind, I knew the answer but I just couldn't accept it. "Aarsh, who is this young lady?" He asked looking at Meera, completely ignoring me. "Guruji she is my friend, I wanted you to meet her but please solve my problem first, and she knows everything." I told, trying to sound confident.

  "Well, you know the answer, Aarsh, if you can't heal her, then she is not your destined one. You may continue your relationship with her, if you like, if everything goes right, you can even marry her, but I don't think your marriage will be very successful, but Aarsh, you can heal your destined one only with your power, marriage will hardly be any hindrance on that. Are you getting my point boy?" He said all these things clearly, but without looking at me. He was continuously staring at Meera. And Meera, on the other hand, completely aware of the hawk-like gaze of Guruji, was turning nervous with every passing second. She didn't utter anything but by the way her facial expression was changing, I understood how she felt. I understood Guruji was being interested in her, but I didn't know why. So, before things started changing, I brought Meera in front of Guruji to introduce them formally.

  "Um...Uh...Guruji, this is my friend Meera. We have known each for about a year, she is also Sana's friend, Sana is my girlfriend. Meera, this is Guruji, the Head of the Ashram, well basically he is our Principal too, but to me he is more like my guardian." "Pranam Guruji, I heard quite lot about you," Meera said, coming to Guruji, touching his feet for blessings." "Stand up Beta. Show me your hand" Guruji said. Meera obliged and showed both her palms to Guruji. Generally, according to Indian tradition, the girls show their left hands and boys their right to determine something about the future. Without any hesitation, Guruji took her left hands in both his hands, but he started caressing the place under her pinkie, as trying to feel something, don't know what but he was trying to search it rigorously. Meera was also shocked to see this kind of behavior, and so was I. 

  "Meera, since when do you have this?" "Since my 16th birthday." "Does it burn?" "Sometimes." I don't know what was going on, but it made Meera scared as I could clearly see her face getting paler and paler by Guruji's each question. "Does it burn in his presence?" he pointed at me and asked her. "Sometimes." "Sometimes or most of the time?" "Most of the time." "Is it the first time you are coming here and seeing us?" "I don't remember." By this time Meera was on the verge of breaking down, even crying too. We know that Guruji has this intimidating attitude, but I have never seen anyone getting intimidated at this level. Now even I was getting scared for Meera. "You are same as his age right?" She nodded. "When you were 18 years old, didn't you come here? Please try to remember" this time he was being soft, and I finally let my breath out. "Well I came here when my school brought us here for a project, I guess the day I was roaming around freely, I have come here without knowing anything. I don't remember any one's face, but I do remember this Deity" I was shocked to hear this. Meera came here before, and that too without anyone's knowledge, wow. How did she do that? No one can come here without no one's knowledge. 

  "Don't you remember talking to me about super natural powers?" "Well I talked with someone but I can't remember whether it was you or someone else. Ahhh" she winced. Why? "Guruji please its hurting, please leave me." she said again. I looked at her hand that was still in Guruji's hands, he was rubbing her hand vigorously. It looked like he was trying to rub some notorious dirt from her hand to reveal something, but he didn't realize that he was hurting her by doing so. "Am not hurting you beta, its just that your mark is burning in the presence of so much power. Its giving you signals about your surroundings. Am just trying to help you Beta. Come on, come with me." Meera looked at me while Guruji started dragging her towards the secret door. I started following them. Something in me told me that I shouldn't let Meera alone.

  When I started following them, Guruji turn towards me and said, "Aarsh don't follow her, I need to talk to her alone." I hesitated, looking into her eyes, I realized how scared she is after hearing these words, but I abided, signaled her that I will be right outside the door. The door opened, they entered, the last thing that I saw before the door closed was Meera's tear stained face, the fear in her eyes to be alone with Guruji. I don't know why but my heart was not at ease at all. Guruji is a good human being, I know he won't hurt her, but still I was feeling helpless standing here alone. To be honest, for last few months, I have realized I am attracted towards Meera, there is a certain pull towards her that I feel. When I first felt that, I decided to avoid her, I generally didn't talk to her, but I never thought I will have this care kind of feeling towards her. The time when she had fever, when her ankle got twisted on road, I was not there, but when I heard about these things, I wanted to be with her. I didn't know her personally, but something always triggered my feelings towards her.

  After 10 minutes, she came running out of the door, crying her eyes out, soon, Guruji's special guards were following her. I didn't understand anything. I went to the secret chamber, and what I saw made me shocked as hell. Everything was a mess, just Guruji was intact. The bookshelves, the table and chairs, the bed, everything was turned into pieces of woods. "Guruji what happened here? It looks like a storm had hit the room." "No Aarsh, Meera hit the room. Stop her before she damages any other thing around the place, if we can't stop her, people will know she is powerful, gifted with super natural powers, and that will be dangerous. She will be dangerous Aarsh. Go and stop her." As soon as these words left from Guruji's mouth, I went out of the chamber, got out of the temple and started running to the direction I saw her run.

  I was a first runner too, I saw the guards following her, but she was not stopping. One of the guards almost caught her but what she did has shaken everyone, even her. She tried to stop the guard but the guard died, I reached and saw his belly was slashed open, as if someone has cut his belly with a sharp knife. What the heck? How did it even happen?  I kept running, after a few good seconds I caught her somehow, as she tripped over some thing and fell down. Although she tried to do the same thing to me she did with the guard, it didn't have any effect on me. Thank God! I hugged her, tightly, just to stop her thrashing and lashing movements, "Meera its me, its me. Meera look at me, am Aarsh, your friend, please calm down,  please calm down."

  "Aarsh I didn't do anything. Please trust me, I never wanted any of these. Please Aarsh take me home, I don't want to stay here" she said sobbingly. "Ok ok we will go home, I will take you home." Soon the guards reached us. As soon as Meera realized they have come to take her, she started moving her hands with powers, the guards tried to dodge but they couldn't and ended up getting slashed here and there. Soon her powers started hitting the walls of the temple. After two three blows, the temple crumbled in front of our eyes. I was shocked, so was Meera and everyone. Soon Guruji came out, don't know how, maybe he was already out of the temple by the time it shattered. I hold on to Meera's hand tightly. I understood, her hands are the main source of emitting powers, so I need to cover them, and it won't effect me unlike the guards. Guruji came to us slowly, "Guruji please let her go, I apologize on her behalf, please let her go." He didn't listen. He came to us, put his hand on Meera's head and soon she was asleep in my arms.

  "Aarsh take her to my bedroom, lay her down there, she needs rest. I don't think she has ever used her power this much, so its better for her to rest." I obliged. After putting her to bed, I went to Guruji's office, "What was that Guruji? I knew she has powers, but this is dangerous, she is dangerous." "I know Aarsh, but I will talk to her about her powers only to her, just like I did to you. She needs to understand who she is, what she is. And don't worry everything will be alright, she will be alright." With that he left and I went to her. What are you Meera? What are you? I knew you are special, but I never knew you were dangerously special.

Present 

  "I understand your problem Meera, and that day you weren't alone, I was also there. But Meera I made you make a promise that was only to make sure you were ok when I won't be near you. Meera your powers can't harm me, or affect me in a negative way. I don't know why but it just can't. That is why I told you not to use your powers. But yesterday you should have used it. Ok ok, what has happened, has happened already, none of us can change it, now stop crying. Go wash your face and lets get you home." I said trying to make her understand, but I hardly believed she understood a bit. She went out of the study, I let out a sigh, grabbed the car keys, and made my way towards the front door.

  One thing I understood was, Meera is still effected about that day, I have to be around her to make her comfortable with her powers.

  Its going to be tough, way tough than I have thought.