Chapter-6 How I Met Her

She is just as beautiful and fragile like a flower, her baby like eyes were slightly opened and her soft hands were held by Ishaan, she was suffering from an intense pain, her memories were jumbled.

“Ishaan, are you here?”—Anushka

“Yes, I am here, I’m with you.”—Ishaan

“Thank god.”—Anushka

“What happened to me, where are we?”—Anushka

“We are someplace safe, rest for a moment, when you wake up again, I will tell you everything.”—Ishaan

Ishaan gets out the room, he had seen thousands of people suffering here today, but watching Anushka suffering hurt him most, he was feeling a sour pain within himself. ‘Why is it hurting in my chest? Why can I speak properly? Looking at her suffering like this, makes me want to kill them all.’

Meanwhile Rayleigh was talking to faculty in charge Dr. Singh, a Panjabi man wearing turban and white doctor coat.

“Have you seen her?” Rayleigh asked Ishaan watching him approaching towards him.

“Yes, what the hell happened to her?”—Ishaan

“Probably, it’s a case of body reconstruction, it’s a rare type of magic in which a human rejects its body structure to turn into some other being, in her case her body parts were turning into that of a dragon.”—Dr. Singh

“Are you fucking kidding me, how is that possible.” Ishaan Screamed with anger, one after another illogical things were happening one after another.

“Just, calm down boy, it’s the truth, you have already watched the CCTV footage, her body is not stable, I guess neither of them have a stable body.”—Rayleigh

“But, why now all of sudden, she was absolutely fine before coming here.”—Ishaan

“Some sort of trauma might have triggered her transformation, like fear or some sort of magic, it could be anything.”—Dr. Singh

“Tell me, tell me about them Rayleigh and I will tell you everything I know about them, I know.”—Ishaan

“The organization which did that to your bodies is called Soberian Trinity, its leader is Drazen, the king of Dragon, he is a super powerful human and a wanted criminal who has a bounty of 180 Million Dollar, one of the highest bounty to be placed on someone’s head. When I heard about that Soberian Trinity was performing some sort of funny business in your world, I was asked to go and destroy all of their hideouts and release you all from their imposition, now you speak up.”—Rayleigh

It had already been three weeks since Ishaan had started his training with Grisana and some unexpected things were going to happen today.

Ishaan and Grisana both were present in the training field as they used to do every day, but today something was wrong Grisana, she was continuously staring at ishaan, her cheeks was red, her facial expression weren’t good either.

‘Dear god, now what I have done to anger her? Girls and their moods, angel or not a girl is a girl, now think hard what might have done, No clue…’ Ishaan starts thinking about what could be the reason behind Grisana anger but he couldn’t think of anything which he did to make her angry, but still he need to think of anything fast or the bomb will go on.

“Ah… Grisana.” Ishaan tried to come up with something to speak and break this irritating silence but was interrupted by Grisana in middle.

“Don’t you speak a word?” Grisana took a breath after this, which made ishaan mind to blow ‘Dude it is serious, what you did freaking bastard think, think hard?’.

“I want you to take off your shirt.” Grisana spoke in a very soft voice which was really hard to listen, but Ishaan somehow heard it.

‘What take my clothes off, then that red face, dude she is not angry, she is actually blushing.’ At that very moment Ishaan decided to tease her a little more and enjoy her company for a bit.

“Hmm, what are you saying can you say louder.” Ishaan asked Grisana trying to hide his laughter, he acted quite brilliantly and sounded perfectly natural.

“Take your shirt off.”—Grisana spoke in a voice which was even harder to listen, as her face was turning red, her voice was also getting softer.

“Grisana, I can’t hear you” A small laughter spout out of Ishaan’s mouth, but still he somehow put the act together and continued teasing Grisana.

“I said take your clothes off, you pervert.” Grisana screamed out loud.

“What, did you say pervert, by the looks of it you are the pervert here.”—Ishaan

“Enough with it, just take it off already.”—Grisana

“Take off what?”—Ishaan

“Your shirt, what else.”—Grisana

Ishaan took his shirt and inners along, there was not a single layer of cloth to protect his body from the sizzling cold which has started to fall upon all of the people during this time of year.

“So, what you want me to do now?”—Ishaan

“Use magic arrays to create to crate your clothes.”—Grisana

“Is that even, possible I don’t remember you giving me a spell for that.”—Ishaan

“So, what you don’t need spells while using magic array, magic array is controlling the flow of magic with one’s mind thought instead of using some specific symbols, so as to achieve a faster mode of using magic, I thought I thought you that much.”—Grisana

“Yeah, I remember, but making clothes that too directly, sounds like pain.”—Ishaan

“Stop complaining and do it.”—Grisana

‘I think I teased her too much, she is really angry right now, I never heard her talking like that usually she is calm and the way she picks up word is also different.’ Ishaan was thinking about Grisana only when he tried to perform the task he was given, he never used the any sort of magic to create tangible objects so it should have proved to be a hard test for him, but Ishaan mysteriously completed the task in an instant.

“Hey, Grisana look, how is it.”—Ishaan

Grisana was stunned while looking at Ishaan he had made a black coat to appear on him, he was wearing a beautiful and stunning outfit out of a sudden, then he tweaks with his finger and his coat turns into a red t-shirt.

“How, did you did that?”—Grisana

“I guess I’m pretty good at this magic and stuff, it’s just a little mind game, if you know how to think in a particular way then you win.”—Ishaan

“Guess you pass the test.”—Grisana

“Which test are you talking about? Forget that what is my reward?”—Ishaan

“Since, you can control you magic properly now, I can take you to other pyronites but if you want to meet normal people again, you need to improve yourself even more that too on your own.”—Grisana

“So, this was your last lesson to me, tell me will my parents be there.”—Ishaan

“I can’t say for sure, if they were also turned to pyronites, then they will be there.”—Grisana

“I see, so it’s like that.” Ishaan felt like as if he was cheated, he tried so hard so that he could finally meet with his parents, but it all turned to dust, every time he search for an answer, he receives more question, he was choking from within but he couldn’t express it on outside, but the picture was getting clear in his head, that he is no longer independent he is just a slave of the world’s strongest.

“Ishaan, Grisana, how are you doing, it is strangely quite here?” Out of nowhere Risa pops out in middle of ishaan and Grisana’s conversation.

Grisana bowed to her and greeted her “How are you doing mother.”

‘Wait what the hell, did Grisana just called Risa mother, tell me that it is some sort of joke.’ Ishaan murmured inside his mind, he was getting more and more confuse, Grisana and Risa both nearly look the same age as me.

“How, is cliffle doing mother?”—Grisana

“Cliffle already turned 18, you should come and meet your daughter more and more often.”—Risa

This conversation was taking Ishaan dream straight to hell at full accelerator.

‘First Risa is Grisana’s mother that means she is also Grisa mother, the prettiest girl I have ever seen, then now new revelation, Grisana is having an off-spring named Cliffle who is 18 year old, just a year younger than me, what the hell is this? If Grisana is having a daughter same age as me, she is probably same age as that off my mother, this even leads to fact that Risa is of same age as that of my grandma.’ Ishaan was then completely thrown out of this little girl chattering or we can say a mom and daughter sweet time.

Now, what can be done it’s all over for him, still a heart is broken again, and it takes time to held a funeral for ones dreams and even more time is required to come out of trauma, which such heart breaking moments cause.

Ishaan finally broke out of silence when he reached the place where others of his kind were present, the place where Pyronites from all over west India were assembled.

Ishaan slowly entered the place which was filled with strangers, he didn’t recognized face of even a single person, it was so frustrating for him, he was all alone in this vicinity, searching for a place for his head, a place where he could just sit and sober up, when he ran into a whole new trouble.

While he was moving randomly, he crossed a group of people they were roughly seven to eight in number and all of them were in their early twenties, Ishaan shoulder collided with shoulder of one of the man in the group.

Ishaan walked away silently, but those people didn’t “Oye, you son of a bitch, where the hell do you think you are goinn…” The face of the man was strangled with a hand, then in an instant he was pushed towards the ground and before anyone could react to it, the man was already knocked down.

A single move, a fraction of a second and one hand, it was all which took to knock down a man.

“Watch your tongue, you bastard.” Ishaan gave a warning to that man, he was in a foul mood, he was having continuous mood swings since morning, sometimes he was angry, and sometimes he was happy, sometimes surprised, while sometimes he was just normal.

This day couldn’t get any longer for him, but then this group of mischievous misfits came towards him acting all mighty and stuff.

“You, need to learn some manners.” A man came screaming towards Ishaan, when his anger again exploded and took shape of incredible hot flames, those flames moved to his surrounding and protected him from all the harms, not simply protected but also it demolished those who tried to harm him.

This act attracted the attention of hundreds of people around him, all were staring at him and with their eyes filled with rage, in this crowd a man walked ahead and said “What is meaning of this? Who are you I have never seen you here before?”

“Don’t sweat about it, I just made them remind that they should try to read the mood.”—Ishaan

“Hey, what is all this? Shekhar stop this at ones.” A girl walked her voice was sweet, her looks were pretty, she was like a dazzling light in all the darkness, even her breath can make a man sober.

“Here comes, the queen of righteousness, Anushka.” Shekhar tried to make fun of that girl, with his group.

“Laugh all you want, but this place won’t run according to your rules.”—Anushka

“Why, not I’m the strongest, you bitch…”—Shekhar, another man who got who learned a lesson on Woman Respect by Ishaan, he also met the same fate as that of the first man, he was knocked down to the ground with his head buried in the thick floor tiles.

“I don’t think you are strongest any longer.” Ishaan walks away from the crowd, everyone was giving him the way to past, they all have seen his power, no wonder they would act like that, they were all scared of him, they knew that he is a serious danger to all of them.

All of them were scared of him, expect a girl, Anushka walked straight behind Ishaan, she grabbed her from the shirt and forced him to turn around “Just walk to me whenever you need my help? You cannot be a loner forever.”

Ishaan’s facial expression changed, he was amazed by that girl’s confidence, and she looked straight into his eyes and spoke the words to comfort him.

This was how he met the girl he fell in love with Anushka.

Meanwhile at some other place Grisana and Risa were having a conversation on Ishaan.

“Grisana, my daughter, why didn’t you made him fight a demon like you were instructed to?”—Risa

“I couldn’t, if we had summoned a demon from Euliser care, we need to make sure that the demon returns safely.”—Grisana

“Those are the terms which we have agreed to my Daughter, Lord Azazel had agreed to them.”—Risa

“It’s because of those norms only mother, if I would have asked him to fight against one of those weak demons he sends us every now and then, Ishaan might have actually ended up killing the demon.”—Grisana

“How, can you say so my daughter.”—Risa

“Mother, I have experienced his power, it’s too great, even younger sister grisa warned me about him, she told that, even though he was born in Inferia, he was born with exceptional amount of magic power.”—Grisana

“Now, only time will sow us, the way he walks.”—Risa

“We will know for sure, quite soon mother, tomorrow is the examination.”—Grisana

Examination, it’s not any sort of physical or mental checkup, but it is actually a program ran by the governing and research body, to determine the growth in magical power and abilities of one, this also checks weather, the magic of the person taking the test is stable or not.

Ishaan was present in the room, in which checkup was going to take place as a result of yesterday’s event, everyone was scared of him, and no one was trying to approach him, he was standing at the front of the line for check-up, kind of obvious, everyone who was ahead of him just left the line to save their asses.

Behind him was Anushka who was chattering non-stop to him, at first he found her annoying but now he has become addicted to her.

‘This girl is strange, at first I thought that she was crazy and it turn out to be true, she is crazy, wild, daring. She is not scared of anything, full of confidence she smiles and makes my pain fade away, she is just my polar opposite, I wish that she could stay with me longer.’

“Ok, this is your first time right?”—Anushka

“Yes, it is.”—Ishaan

“So, listen, just look at the screen at right it is of the world’s strongest” while referring to a monitor screen which was hanged to thee celling of the room, it was at a position where each and every one could easily see it. “I don’t know how much true is that, but according to that someone named God Nox is the strongest person in this world his magic content is 103,800, its much higher than lord Drazen who is at 92,400, then its leader off angels Sir Azazel who had power of 83,700 and the list goes on, then the one on the left side it shows the strongest among us pyronites, not here but among all the pyronites, first is Lloyd Vistas, he has magic content of 59,300 next is Christina Matthews she has power of 58,550, go girl, then blah! blah! and blah!”

“Its pretty tight competition here right.”—Ishaan

“Don’t even think of competing with them, they are all S- class who can control three elements, while I’m just a B-class I can only control one Element that is Earth.”—Anushka

“I think able to control earth, is pretty good ability.”—Ishaan

“It could have been, if there weren’t so many of them who could control it.”—Anushhka

“Like, I said competition is pretty tough in here.”—Ishaan

“Okay, everyone, we are beginning the test, so step here one by one.” A lady passed by near the line announcing commence of

the examination of one’s magic here.

Ishaan being first in the line moved towards the table where the test was going to take place, Ishaan sat down on the stool near the table.

“What is your name?”—Lady

“Ishaan Purohit.”—Ishaan

“Let me just check Mr. Ishaan, so this is your first test isn’t it.”—Lady

“Yes.”—Ishaan

“You, don’t need to get nervous, just place your hand on the crystal here.”—Lady

Ishaan slowly moved his hand on the white crystal which was placed on the table, the feel of the crystal was same as that of an iron ball, cold and hard.

“Your score is 54,800, it places you at rank 108 among all pyronites.” The lady tells Ishaan about his magic content.

‘So, my current ranking is 108 huh, and 54,800 against 92,400 don’t joke with me, I’m barely having half of his power and I’m this strong, so how much stronger would he be, this gap between me and him seems to get widen even more, but just wait, I will surpass you and then I will get the hell out of here.’