THE 8 SAVIOURS

The Competition

We walk inside the passage and finally see a metal door. When we walk inside the dark room, there is man sitting on a swivel chair, facing towards the window and his back turned towards us.

“Sir Alexandros they are all here”

“Hmmmmm”

I can make out his sharp nose and pouty lips when he turns his face sideways to blow out the smoke from his lips.

“Aditya” Alexandros says in his gruffy voice

“Tell them everything about Winxer, what we do and why we need them”

“YES SIR”

Aditya guides us to the adjacent door and when we go inside, we see a room with 8 chairs and a desk, as we take our seats, Aditya perches on the desk.

“So, I will be straightforward with you guys, what I will say now will be a little difficult for you guys to accept and absorb, but try”

“Don’t ask how is this possible, before I complete saying everything I have to say”

“okay??”

“yeah, like we have a say in this” guy sitting behind me says

I suddenly realise, I don’t know anyone’s name except for Arjun.

“well, you have a say in this, we have brought you here because we think you are best for this job but if anyone of you don’t wanna do it, its your choice completely because we can’t force you into it. It’s not a job exactly, we need your help, sort off you will get what I am trying to say after I tell you everything.”

“so, you are saying, you need our help, you are telling us your problem and we can choose if we want to help you or not, right?” I ask.

Aditya smile at me and says, “yes, you are right, it’s just that ‘we’ don’t need help, it’s kind of for the universe.”

What universe!!!! Okay I am confused, but then it wasn’t all that clear since the beginning so

“Okay so you people know there is this one big universe, but the big universe you think is actually just one part of the universe. In reality there are seven realms that make the whole universe they are like really thick elliptical discs placed one above the other, the smallest realm is the red realm, then there is orange realm, the yellow realm, the green realm, the blue realm, the indigo realm and finally the biggest realm the violet realm.”

 “you are saying scientist couldn’t see or discover that, yeah right”, somebody says, its irking the hell out of me that I don’t know anybody’s name

“Shut up and listen, no questions remember”, Aditya says

Every year, which is 33 years according to earth’s calendar, each realm conducts a competition among the people of the realm to chooses 8 milites(knights) for the protection of their realm, no realm can have more than 8 milites coz that upsets the balance of the universe. So that whenever there is a war between realms, they can help to protect their realm.

You eight are supposed to take part in this competition from earth’s side.”

“now any questions?”

“how are we gonna get there, according to the space time theory, the ti....”

“yeah, okay, NEXT”

I raise my hand and Aditya motions for me to continue

“I don’t know anyone’s name here…”

The moment this line escapes my mouth Arjun’s face goes like “hellooooo”

“…except Arjun, I would like an introduction”

“I am Avijita”

Then suddenly the guy who was sitting behind me stands up and says, “I am Shubham and he is my brother Samarth” he said pointing beside him.

I see too lean and lanky boys sitting together they don’t look like brothers their faces are different.

The girl beside me stands and says, “I am Shifa and that is my sister Aaravi” she points at the girl beside her.

They both are pretty, but Shifa is hot, they don’t look like sisters either, what is with siblings here.

Then the remaining two stand up at the same time and the boy waits while the girl says, “I am Samara” and then the boy speaks, “I am Anubhav”

Then after a pause, they suddenly speak at the same time “we don’t have siblings to introduce us”.

I let out an accidental laugh, while the four of them glare at those two, they look like siblings to me.

“okay introductions are done, any more questions”

“are we going to die?” Shifa asks

“Hmm…. In the competition no, you can be severely injured but you won’t die”

“In real war, yeah”

Anubhav sits up straight in his chair and says, “you are choosing us, for a competition that may or may not choose us to be the warriors of earth. Why us?”

Aditya looks at me and mutters, “Lineage, past, potential and inevitable disaster”

Then he turns to Anubhav and says, “Fighting for the realm can we very strategic and more like video gaming fights and you all are, though anonymously, the top gamers of different genre in the world.”

“what inevitable disaster” Arjun asks

“Well, you see every other realm already have there milites, because they have conducted their competition and 33 years of our milites weren’t over yet. This year their 33 years were over and now suddenly yellow realm has attacked on the red realm; this has led to wars among the other realms as well. For now, Indigo realm is protecting us but it won’t be long before, they attack us, so we need you guys.”

“there is a possibility we are not even selected, then why you want us to participate so badly, surely earth can skip a competition?”

Aditya smiles at Arjun and says, “Something tells me you just might. Tell me your answers by tomorrow”

He starts to leave the room, when suddenly Anubhav quietly asks, “What about lineage and past”

Aditya turns and his eyes has turned like he can sense an impending doom.

“Time will tell everything. Just remember, we need you”

He leaves and we sit there confused about what to do next, only a day in the new city and disasters have started.

All my life, I wanted a life full of adventure, unreal adventure and now when I am actually getting a chance, I feel scared and uncertain.

Now I want a normal life.

What to do, accept or reject and most importantly will the others accept or reject.