Hunt for Survival

In your dream

Prashant

I looked at Shaurya and smiled. Finally, his motivation has come back. I know that all these things are getting tiring, but if we have decided to give up, then we won’t be able to get far.

Shaurya may have been the first person whom I met. He is careless, but also, along with that, he knows the person who values his family and knows when to be bold and brave. He just needs someone to mentor him, but it is very sad that both of the people who could have been great mentors for him are gone and now he is the one who had to grow up and has to train himself.

I felt something roaming in front of my eyes and I come out of my thoughts.

“Mr. Prashant. Come to the earth. We have to go ahead as well.” He was shaking his hand in front of me and when I heard what he was saying I rolled my eyes.

“What was that?”

“Trying to bring you back from your dreamland. By the way, was it fun?”

“What was fun?”

“Your dreamland?”

“Don’t waste your words on nonsense.”

“My words are made for spreading happiness to other people.”

“But right now, your words are irritating me.” He rolled his eyes and I looked away and a smile came over my face which went away soon also. We were a few meters away from the fog and had even had a bad feeling about that.

“Don’t allow yourself to get lost,” he warned.

“Same goes to you.” He nodded and I nodded in return and then we both went inside and saw that everything around me was blurred. All I could see was the white fog and I looked down and saw that I couldn’t even see myself. At least in the previous one I could have seen a fading image of my body, but here it is so dense that I couldn’t see anything.

“Prashant.” I heard his voice, which was clear but was slightly dim.

“What?”

“Are you there?” I rolled my eyes.

“If I am not here, then how did you listen to my voice?” I asked him and I heard him chuckling and I shook my head. “Don’t be over there only, let’s move forward.”

“Alright.” I heard his voice, which was very cheerful and energetic, who would say that a few minutes ago he had lost his motivation to go inside this. “Let’s kill this.” His voice is really cheerful and I think that he will be able to complete this, but why am I feeling terror inside me? I walked forward and saw something bright in this dense fog and for a moment I thought that I had found the exit of this fog, but something inside me wasn’t allowing me to go inside.

Prashant, everything is going to be alright. Just get through this.

Now I guess I need some motivation to achieve this, but before that, I decided to check over Shaurya.

“Shaurya.” I called out to him but his voice was nowhere to be heard. “Shaurya!!” I called out to him but again no voice was heard. Has he lost his way? I decided to go back to my route but then I heard his voice.

“Hey Prashant.”

“You are alright, right?”

“Yeah I am, I just slipped.” I shook my head. He is really careless. “Have we reached the exit?” He said and that caught my attention.

“What?”

“There is something bright in front of me. Is that the exit?” I looked in my front and saw the bright light in front of me and I thought that we both were both seeing the same light.

“I am also seeing the same light.”

“Then what are we waiting for? We should get ahead.” He said, but I was unsure about his decision and then I felt as if I was the stupid one over here there because a minute ago I was motivating him and now I am the only one who wants to escape this.

“Have you started walking?” I heard his voice.

“I am coming.” I said and walked towards that brightness. I reached there but that bright light was so bright that I couldn’t see anything inside it.

“Let’s go.” He still has the same energy. Isn’t he scared at all?” I put my hand inside that light but felt nothing. I think that I was overthinking about that, but in reality there is nothing. I went into that light and for a moment it blinded me with its brightness and, to save myself, I turned my back and put my arm over my eyes.

“Prashant.” I heard a familiar voice and that shocked me a bit. I removed my hand from my hand from my eyes and then I looked behind and the scene behind me made me shocked.

“He is such a cute child,” my mother said. Where am I? I looked at him and they were both happy and I went towards them and tried to touch them but I couldn’t touch them at all.

“Ma.” I called her out, but she didn’t even listen to me or look at me. I looked at the new born in her hands, who was none other than me, but I was jealous of that newborn. He is getting the love of my mother which I had lost when I was young. The baby cried. I don’t have any kind of memory like this, so why am I seeing this?

“Because this memory isn’t yours but of your father.” I heard a voice and I looked back and saw Papa.

“Papa.” He looked behind me and walked passed me and I stood beside him and saw my mother and me. She looked so happy.

“You were so sweeter when you were a child. Your mother wouldn’t want to leave you and would always worry about you. That sometimes would affect her work, but she was never so much concerned about that, but when you grow up, she started to worry less because her grandfather was taking care of you while we were away, but if she started to worry less, that doesn’t mean that her worry was less.” I looked at him and for a moment I thought that this was all a dream and a desire that I wanted to hear.

“This all must be a false. Who are you and why are you trying to divert my mind?” I said and looked at him while glaring at him and he looked at me with a smile. I do remember my father’s smile.

“You are really suspecting your own father Prashant.” That made me rethink and I thought about the moment when Shaurya was impulsive because he thought that the Princess wasn’t a good person and I also shouldn’t act impulsively, but…I looked at him and, then looked away. But if I keep my guard down, then I won’t be able to get out of here.

“I am not suspecting you but…”

“But you are not comfortable over here.” I nodded.

“Prashant, be a good man like your father. I know that he would be very proud when he saw you like him.” I heard my mother’s voice and my heart was filled with joy.

“She wanted you to become like me but you are not. So never try to be like me. Just live your life and do what you like. Don’t get yourself entangled with your past. It can only dig your pain. So it would be better that you also move on from our memory and try a fresh start.”

“What about your killer?”

“God is watching. If he didn’t wish to punish him, then why should we get ourselves engaged in that?” That enraged me.

“Papa, this is the problem, we can’t leave everything in the hands of god. If we don’t take any steps, then he won’t be getting any kind of punishment. He is enjoying freedom, while I was the one who has been suffering till date and no one knows, no one knows how I feel.”

“Aren’t you wrong about that?” He asked and I looked at him weirdly.

“What does that mean?”

“Your best friend Shaurya. He knows how you feel and you both know how the other must be feeling.”

“How- How do you know about Shaurya?” He just smiled and went ahead and joined his wife and looked at me another time before everything changed and I found myself in the other scene and there I was crying while being in the arms of my grandfather. I remember this scene when everyone thought that I was creating stories and no one believed me, but he believed me and said that whatever I was thinking was right. I just have to follow my heart. He looked up from me and then looked at me and smiled in my way.

“Come here, Prashant.”

“Dada ji.” I said and, without me knowing, my feet, started to walk towards him. My steps were slow and were hesitating to move forward and before I could even reach him, everything went black. “Dada ji.” I called out to him but he didn’t answer me “Dada ji.” Fear was the thing which I could call present in my heart. It was shaking me to the core. “Dada ji.” I fell over on my knees. My emotions are now hard to control inside me. They are making me a feeble man.

“Finally, I am seeing you where you deserve, Prashant.” I heard a familiar voice and I looked up and found the killer who had killed my parents.

“You, you are finally here.” I stood up on my feet and glared at him. “You deserve to die instead of them. They should have lived in this world and you should be the one who should have left this world.” He laughed.

“Prashant, you are such a naïve person. You really think that the world is the same as you think. Not at all. This world is full of greed and what was wrong when I thought about myself and for my family.” He was not helping the situation at all but making me feel angrier. “And if you really want to kill me, then I am right in front of you. Go ahead and do whatever you want.” He said, and I looked at him. He was behind me because when he was talking he was walking in circles. I went towards him and held him by his collar.

“I will really make sure that you get what you deserve.” I said and pushed him and then punched his stomach and then on his face and he stumbled and fell down on the ground. “Does this taste good?” I asked him while wiping my forehead with my arms.

“You are a really feeble man, Prashant, just like your father and also like your father. He really trusted me so much long back ago.”

“And that trust only killed him, and I am not the fool to trust like my father.”

“Oh really! What if that Shaurya is the same person as me? He is also using you and when his work is done he will kill you like I did.” That angered me and I went towards him and held his collar with one hand and punched him with it.

“Everyone isn’t as you are. He isn’t someone who is wearing a sheep’s skin. You are a coward who can’t try at all but rely on other people.” I punched him more and he chuckled.

“Here coward isn’t me but you are.” I looked at him. “You are a coward. After no one trusted you, you have gone to find a place to hide yourself and now you have come out of there. You are such a coward.”

“No I am not. I am punishing you right now.”

“In your dream,” he said, and after that I started to lose consciousness. What is going on? Before I could understand anything, I just fainted there.