10. Black Halo

“I don’t think so, we took you to the hospital but the doctor told there was no injuries on your body, it’s like you were on a deep sleep” the grandpa said.

“Anyways, you rest let me bring you some food” the old man and the young girl closed the door and left.

Shivaay didn’t passed the doctor’s remark as misconduct, he just wanted to believe the operation was successful, for one last time he wanted to believe in himself. He concentrated his mind on the root meridian which was originally missing.

Shivaay nearly shouted from joy, he could not believe it what he felt, he felt his root meridian just in its actual place far more rigid and perfectly compatible with is body and mind. He knew it was the artificial root meridian, so it was successful but then what happened at the laboratory, he didn’t think after the successful procedure they would let him go…I will have to find out what actually happened.

He was still at joy but after calming himself down, he once again concentrated on his root and to his surprised he found a black wheel on, with a shadow of a man. Wheels represents special skills when someone receives a blessing, its common to every person in spite of how high or low god blessing was but not so for Shivaay as his root meridian was stolen just after the blessing ceremony, if someone damages his or her meridian at the starting point of cultivating, he or she losses the blessing as well.

He applied some energy in the root meridian and a black halo appeared below him, it was so black as if even light was being suck into it… The whole room became gloomy. Shivaay was surprised he didn’t expect the outcome, he now knew the shadow of the man he saw on the wheel was Supreme God Shiva he saw before in his dream, it was not a dream it was a blessing. He couldn’t express how happy he was, he was crying of joy “Mom, Dad, I didn’t lose everything, I will bring you honour with the blood of our enemies” he clenched his fist and spoke.

Few weeks passed, a young boy was climbing a steep water fall, he was smashed to the ground by the force of water but he stood up. Injuries could be seen all over his body but it soon disappeared one by one, he began climbing once again. His astonishing regenerative abilities were discovered accidently when a hot bowl of soup felt on his body from Aisha’s hand. After she banded him, he observed that his injury was hardly visible so he experimented on himself. He found out any injuries on his body, even if his hands felt down will heal itself limited to the chakra power left in his body; more the heavy injury is, more the chakra power will be used.

“Brother, you are hurt please stop” Aisha standing on side almost crying.

“Once more”

“But why are hurting yourself?”

“Some people just entered my life and destroyed everything I had… that day I promised myself I will do anything to achieve the power to take my revenge… I have to train hard to become strong… Again” he felt down and starting climbing again.

After trying to climb several times… “Just a little more I will be there” … he reached the top. Shivaay exhausted himself, even his regenerative abilities solely works on the chakra power he has. The sun is beginning to set, the whole sky was mixed with different colours, Shivaay just stood and watched the scene thinking what he would do next.

“Brother, lets go its already late” Aisha shouted from below… “Okay let’s go”.

He became friends with everyone in the town, they were not rich but they were happy with whatever they have. On the way home, he hunted a rabbit and gave a chunk of it to the old grandmother trying to sell her belongings to survive, she happily accepted it and thanked him.

After reaching home, Shivaay gave the rabbit to Aisha and he went to his room. For now, Shivaay faced a big challenge as don’t know how to cultivate his chakra powers or what skills he got from the blessing. His father once said in each class after every five levels a person receives a skill related to the god he got blessed by. His regeneration ability was a skill but Shivaay don’t know anything after that.

“Shivaay, may I come in, are you busy” grandpa came knocking the door.

“No grandpa, please come in”.

“I just wanted to ask you, how are you… Aisha told you felt down the water fall… did you got hurt anywhere”

“No grandpa, I was just training and tried to see my limit” Shivaay said looking guilty.

“Okay, you are young boy already 8 years old… are you preparing for school entrance exams you have only 6 months left…if you want, I could help”

Shivaay eyes shined “Thankyou grandpa, I would very much appreciate it”

Next day, “So tell me what do you know about the chakra power”. Shivaay told him everything his father told him before. “Good, then I don’t have to start from the basics…then I am assuming you don’t know anything about how to develop and train your chakra power” … “Yes” Shivaay replied.

“Then I will explain in short, chakra power will increase with time and your talent in absorbing natural power, you can consume pills and boost it for a short period of time but its very much costly and the other way is to fight wild animals and beast increasing the harmony between the body and natural energy.”

“But the most important thing in a fight is skills, every person receives one skill just after blessings and another after 5 levels each time… the more your class increases the more powerful will be the blessing” … Shivaay listened with full concentration… Grandpa nodded his head pleased.

“To learn about your skill, you just have to observe the god’s image in your life wheel…the skill be automatically implemented on your mind… you can also learn skills from outside as much as you want but not the god skills from others as it is not compatible with the person’s blessing and outside skills will not be as powerful as your own god skills”

Shivaay already reached the fifth level of the Root Chakra while trying to climb the water fall. He is incredibly talented in absorbing energy from the nature and his healing skill also played an important role in it. He closed his eyes and tried to observe the shadow of Shiva on the life wheel, he entered the dream land once again.

This time he saw Lord Shiva in his own size fighting a demon with a black bow. Both the demon and Lord Shiva was showing violent fighting techniques but in slow motion, but this time he did not felt the powerful waves coming out of their body, it felt like he was watching a live action movie.

He saw Lord Shiva firing three arrows from the bow; the first arrow marked the demon with a black point in his forehead and disappeared, soon followed the second and third arrow together, the second arrow entered the demon’s forehead while the third arrow made a protective cover around the demon after the second arrow entered. Soon followed a big blast inside the cover burning the demon into pieces.

Shivaay startled he couldn’t react what he saw, soon after he woke up from his dream.