THE 8 SAVIOURS

GGS-8

It is 6 in the evening now, and all we are doing is sitting in the children’s park and staring into oblivion. There are no kids, why are they not here?

Suddenly, Samarth stands up and says, “This has never happened, haa, it’s a dream, yeah it is I just need to wake up”, he pinches himself.

“Nooooooo, it’s real”

“Really dude you are pinching yourself now. we pinched ourselves when the wall of the room opened into a passage” Shifa says.

Samarth looks at us and we silently nod in agreement.

“Why are no kids playing today?”, I ask.

“Why can’t you focus on the matter on hand” Arjun retorts.

I was about to say something, When Aaravi holds up her hand in front of us and speaks,

“All the kids are at Harsh’s birthday party, every year all the kids have sleepover at his house.”

“We are not fighting on this, now, peace!!!”

She practically yells it, for someone promoting peace, she is one hell of an angry person.

“Let’s toss, heads we go and tails we don’t” Samara says.

“Yeah, let’s toss, heads you shut up, tails I kill you” Samarth growls

“even I am not that dumb, it’s a matter of life and death, we should think carefully. Not just our lives but if we don’t turn out to be 8 good milites, then everyone on the earth gets killed too.”

“What if we somehow win the competition, but we are not good enough for a real fight......the whole realm might blow up” Shifa says.

It’s a really serious issue, if we win the competition, we can’t back out and now with the attack going on there it's 99% probability that we can get killed. Are we ready to get killed? it’s for the greater good and I know that but we have barely lived our life.

Plus are we ready to take the responsibility of the lives of the whole realm?

“I guess sitting here is not going to work, we should sleep it off, if we can.......and let’s talk about this in the morning, I have made a w******p group and added all of you except Avijita, give me your number plz” Anubhav says.

He is a smart one, more observant than any other and I agree with him.

I give him my number and we all go to our respective homes.

Time flies by.......it’s10 at night, I am on my bed and still thinking about what to do.

Suddenly, I hear screaming and shouting, I get off my bed and rush out of my room.

My mom and dad are getting out of the room too, we go downstairs together and see everyone gathering around the house.

I see Shubham is already standing in the crowd and I ask him,

“What’s going on?”

“You know the kid Harsh, Aaravi mentioned about, there was a sleepover going on at his house and his dad was out for some work, kids were watching movie and suddenly 4 people with guns entered the house. They pushed out Harsh’s mother out of the house with her phone and told her to call her husband and ask for a ransom and not the police.

But she quietly called out the neighbours,....the intruders found out about it and so one of them killed a child inside.”

I gasped, “OMG”, tears form in my eyes.

They killed a kid, and many more of them are in danger.

“Did they call the police?”

“No, majority of kid's parent's don’t want that because their kids are in there too, they are arranging ransom money.”

I turn around and see Arjun and the rest of them are standing beside me, some shocked, some with tears.

My parents are also making calls to arrange for ransom money.

“The four people inside the house are sent by a rival of Harsh’s father”, Anubhav says, “there is a fair chance, even after the ransom, they will kill the kids”.

“I think we should go in there and save the kids”, I blurt out.

They all look at me like I have popped out a second head.

“Are you crazy or something, or did you hit your head, you i***t”, Arjun yells at me, “do you want to die, you are a crazy b***h and yeah, why die alone, take us with you too, kill us all.”

It hurts, I expected him out of everyone to understand, but, well.......when you expect you are bound to get hurt, so I guess it’s fair.

Suddenly, there is a gunshot and a woman screams, “he killed my kid! I saw it, it was my Yash”, she started sobbing.

I have to go......I have no other option; I will carry something to shield myself from gunshots and something to hit them with.

“I guess if we act wisely, we might be able to save them, I am with you.” Anubhav says with a straight face.

I smile and mutter a thank you, he understands, I look at Arjun and he looks at Anubhav with a shocked look.

“Dude, she is going to get you killed, why the f**k are you listening to her”, Arjun yells.

Anubhav just turns around.

“you are not gonna listen to me and agree with some shitass girl and that to on the matters of life and death”, Arjun tries again.

I understand he cares for his friends but now he is being mean.

“NO NEED TO HELP ME”, I yell, “I will go there alone and try to save them or die trying. Anubhav, you stay here and formulate a plan.....I need your help, plz. I will go inside alone, coz I can’t live a life, where innocent children are getting killed and I am standing outside doing nothing so that I can selfishly live my own life. I don’t want to wake up every day and see a COWARD in the mirror. I don’t want a long and meaningless life, I'd rather die.”

I walk off and start collecting rods, knives, ropes and stuff to go inside, I tie some plates on my chest and wear jackets above it, at least I won’t get hit in any major organs. I wear a helmet; it’s not going to help much but what else can I do. When I go down, I see all of them carrying something, sprays, powders oils, rods, knives, is Samarth really dressed like a policeman ? He has a gun?

Arjun steps forward.

“You are a crazy b***h……. if you think I will let you go there alone and get yourself killed. Today is the real test, let’s see how much of a damsel not in distress you are.”, he has a challenging gleam in his eyes and I like it.

“OHHH, we should give our squad a name, right?” Samarth says.

We all groan.

“Now is not the time”, Samara yells.

“PLZZZZ”

“Okay fine what name”

“GEEKY GAMING SQUAD-8, because there are eight members.”

“We are not gaming anything” Shubham says.

“yess but we all like playing video games, plus it’s the same thing, a strategic plan, a crew, some muscles, some weapons and ways to create diversions. It’s just like a video game, just if we get hit, we die for real.”

I have to admit it was a smart answer.

“Okay GGS-8 it is”, Samara says.

“Let’s do some ass kicking” Arjun yells

“hell yeah” everybody screams.

We all look at Anubhav and I ask,

“So, what’s the plan?”