Trembling Shadows
A romantic, psychological thriller
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
He knew that he was quite besotted with the shadow world. It was quite disgusting to him in the beginning. He did not enter into that all by himself. It was not with his interest he pursued the shadow world. He was forced to know about the matters of witch-cult. He was forced to follow them. He denied doing that in the beginning. But could not help doing what he was commanded. But later he started liking it as he saw the value of it. Realizing how much useful it could be to him.
Aravind was left at parents of his mother by his parents and he was barely having four or five years of age by then. He did not know the compelling reasons that made his parents to leave him at his grandparents’ home in the beginning. In those days, he neither knew whether his parents had any idea the way of his grandparents leading their lives. Later on he came to know that his mother was the main reason for his being left in her parents’ house. His father has to roam all over the country because of his business nature and for Aravind’s studies he has to be kept still at a place. He came to know that his father has chosen to put Aravind in a hostel at that tender age itself but his mother compelled his father to put him at her parents’ house. Considering the interest his grandparents have on witchcult and occult matters, it would have been better to put him anywhere else except in their home. Having grown up in such a home, his mother also has interest in those matters and wanted him to grow in such surroundings and compelled his father to leave him in her parents’ house.
In fact it was not just his grandparents but so many families in that village preferred to lead their lives in that way. The house of his grandparents was full of framed photos of bad angels which were also portrayed in the book. There were no usual gods or goddesses photos in his grandparents’ home except the photos of those bad angels. They adore only those bad angels. Besides his mother they had got another daughter only. That another daughter was not married. She was a fierce devotee of these bad angels. Her name was Mulki.
“See…see…. That angel. With a female head and snake body. She is called as Mukinni. Most powerful angel. She can do anything for us. Do you want to adore her?” she asked him on one day. They were so early days that he was just introduced to those matters. Those were the recent days of his entering into that home and he was aged just five years or so by that time. He was already disgusted by those things around him.
“No, I don’t want to adore any of these angels” Aravind firmly said.
She slapped him strongly on his right cheek with her right hand. It was very first time that he received a slap like that from anyone and his head started reeling.
“Don’t say like that, I would get angry” she said. “I want to make you a very great man in this. What all you need to do is just do whatever I say without a question. You will certainly become a great warlock. It is just matter of time and a little patience and performance. I am here to guide you all the way. What you need to do is just follow my instructions.”
Aravind did not say anything at all. He nodded his head while trying his level best not to allow the tears flow down on his cheeks and succeeded anyhow.
“These devils want us to be completely naked. Come near to me. Take off your clothes.” He went near to her and she peeled off his clothes one after one and in a matter of minutes he became completely naked. He felt very much ashamed and cumbersome when she observed his naked figure with scrutinizing eyes.
Then to his surprise she herself became completely naked. He astonished and there came a feeling of complete disgust when he looked at her naked body. He did not see a fully matured female naked body until then. He closed his eyes as he could not continue looking at her so. Even now too her ugly naked body was haunting him.
“Don’t feel that much. When the bodies are completely naked they would be so. Come here and be squatted on this mat. Fast” he did not delay at all when he heard the order of her. With his shivering legs he went near to her and be squatted on the mat she put on the floor. Then he found a razor with blade in her hand. There was fear and shock in his eyes immediately since he could not guess what she was going to do with it.
“Don’t become over panic. I am not going to cut off any of your body parts.” Then she slowly started shaving his head. He felt very much shameful as she was shaving his head so. It took completely ten minutes or so to her to shave his head completely. When the task was finished she said “Now you are ready to adore these angels”
In such a way he had got entered into the world of witchcult. Even he hated it a lot in the beginning, he came to understand it was not that bad as he thought about it. It became really quite surprising to him how those bad angels work for him. He felt very much thrilled whenever he got things done by the power of those bad angels. He realized that his aunt was not as much worse as he thought of. It never had been possible to him to get the powers he was having then if his aunt not taught him adoring the bad angels.
“It is not easy to keep these angels satisfied at all times. It is not difficult either to make them satisfied and get whatever you want. You are my sister’s son and I like my sister a lot. So I want to make you a highest person in this field. Surprisingly you yourself are having some inherent powers in you. With those inherent powers you can easily excel in this shadow world. So I have started teaching things to you.” His aunt said on one day.
What she had said was right. Recently he was feeling something different in himself. “I cannot have full feeling of those powers in me:” Aravind said to her.
“You cannot feel all at once. It needs practice in a regular way to feel them and to use them for your advantage. By blending those powers in you with the outside bad angels powers, you can do wonders.” she said.
“Is that so? How could you know about my inherent powers of which I have no idea at all” with lot of surprise he asked with a glint in his eyes.
His aunt laughed sweetly and said “Don’t underestimate your aunt dear boy. I know lot many things. I have got lot many powers of these bad angels in me.”
“Is it is like that? What and what I can do with the powers I am going to acquire soon?” as the glistening in his eyes was continuing he asked
“A lot. Once you experience those powers fully you can be known yourselves what you can do with them.”
It had become true. As he continued practicing whatever his aunt said he started experiencing a strange power in him. Because of that he started knowing about the future, about what the other people thinking and many more. One day looking into the eyes of his aunt he said very sadly “If you don’t mind I want to say something to you”
“Tell me, my dear boy. I would not feel anything whatever you may say to me.” Taking his right hand into hers and looking into his eyes with a smile on her lips she said again before he said anything “It is about my future, is it is not?”
“Of course, you are right” nodding his head he said
“You are going to say that you have perceived that I am not going to live longer, is it is not?”
“I think that you yourself know about this.” there was lot of despair in his voice then.
“Yes my dear. I know I shall die very soon” there was not even a speck of fear in her face.
“Are not you feeling any fear towards death?” he asked her again. She hugged him and kissed on his right cheek. “I want to live happily a long time in fact. I don’t want to die.” Then she made him away again. He could see tears flowing down on her cheeks.
“Are you weeping? So you are as well feeling fear to death, is it is not? I am thinking it is possible to escape from it by taking the help of these angels” wiping her tears with his right hand Aravind said.
“Death awarded by God should not be avoided, my dear. Because God is most powerful than all of us and these angels as well. It is God who asking me to leave this earthly life and I must obey. But don’t stop practicing and performing what I have taught to you. If you have stopped what you are doing, you loss all the powers you have got and it may result in a negative way as well.”
Just in one week or so after that conversation, his aunt died. Even though his grandparents as well known about the adoration of those bad angels, they were not as much well versed in it as his aunt. After some more years, his parents took him to the place where they were residing. By then his father sopped his roaming business and settled at one place. His mother encouraged him adoring the bad angels so but his father did not allow that at all.
“What is this bloody hell? I never like this. If I ever found you again doing these things I shall wring your neck” After throwing away the photos, etc. of those black angels on to the road his father roared.
He tried to convince him about the utility of it but his father did not listen to him at all. His mother said to him in his father’s absence “I know about these things and I can think how you are feeling being deprived from doing that. But we are helpless. Your father will never approve that and allow you do that in this house. Not just your father, anyone in this educated and intelligent world would allow such type of things.”
“But mom, they are all real. We can do wonders.” Aravind yelled with anguish.
“I am not as much knowledgeable and proficient as your aunt in this black art but I know about them. They would work and give us immense benefit providing we perform them quite carefully. But it cannot be done here at all. It is our bad luck that your aunt died like that and you have to return here in this way. So forget about that completely” his mother said with a helpless tone.
Aravind could not do anything at all. He lost everything relating to that black art except that book. He seldom take that book anywhere but before starting to this place there was a strong inner urge in him to bring it with him. Even he lost all the other powers as he could not adore those black angels as he was directed, there were still some powers remained in him. One of those powers was knowing about the future to some extent. But the problem was he could not know about the future whenever he wanted. In some occasions future would be known to him all by itself. If he had practiced and performed as his aunt guided he would have got the ability to know the future whenever he wanted by himself as well. But he was forced to stop everything.
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