Not just a mother after sunday (chapter-4)

The next morning I finished my work and prepared to go with hiyanshi. It has been three years since I saw heena. "I am so eager to meet her but all the things those two said, if that's true then I'm more worried about my family than fixing the issue of the past". Two brothers came early in the morning with horses for the ride. "I see you are ready to go" braun said. "Yeah she will need me". We started our journey. "How did you know where heena is living?". "We have many friends and the power she has is really unique so words travel fast" shiki said. "Where is she?". "She is living on a small mountain. Out of fear peoples don't go there. We will reach there tomorrow evening" shiki said. I was sitting behind shiki with hiyanshi and he was riding the horse. "We have to find a place for tonight. Its not wise to travel at that time" braun said. We saw a river and decided to stay at the bank during the night. Shiki was really tired so he went to sleep. Braun and I started talking. "You said yesterday that your mother is the reason you are doing this, so what happened?". "When I saw my mother for first time that I remember she already had wrinkles on her body. Then we come to know that she was ageing faster than normal. When we were just eight she was in her death bed. We couldn't do anything to save her. After sometime our father told us everything about the past. When we heard about your wife, we decided that we will do everything we can to destroy this curse" braun said. "I'm so sorry about your mother. That must have really hard". He remained silent for sometime. "Let's get some rest, tomorrow we will meet the sun" braun said. "Ok good night". Next afternoon we stopped because horses were hungry. "I have a question. Do you know how to find the devil?". "We know the ritual to summon him into this world. When he will show up your wife has to fight and burn him" shiki said. "It seems very simple. Isn't he supposed to be powerful and full of tricks?". "We have to support her in every way to win this" braun said. Finally we reached the mountain. There were many burning marks. We climbed to the top and we saw an open area where ashes were blocking the twilight sun. We searched the surrounding area and found that heena was sleeping under a tree. It brought tears in my eyes. Her clothes were in bad condition. Some bruises on her body and she couldn't even build a small house because of the curse. She woke up and saw us. She was surprised and happy. She was just stared at hiyanshi for sometime and she was aboutto cry. "Why are you here? I told you not to search for me. All this time I tried but couldn't control it. Please dear you have to stay away" heena said. "Please listen what these two have to say. Its really important for you and our daughter". We walked towards her. Two brothers introduced themselves and said everything to her. "If this can ensure safety of my child then I'm ready to fight" heena said. "Alright then we will start the ritual now. It will take some time so wait a little longer" braun said. She was controlling herself not to touch any of us specially her child. But hiyanshi walked towards her and when she saw her daughter so close she started crying and hugged her. Suddenly she coughed blood and she was about to collapse. I was shocked and ran to hold her and saw that a thick piece of wood had pierced her heart. "Help braun, shiki help. We need to take her to a doctor". I carefully took out that wood. They both came in a hurry. "Heena don't worry you wi--" she stopped me. "no dear, I can feel I'm... dying. I'm sorry I...couldn't fight...for our baby. I...love you both...so much" she said. "No don't say that. You made me a father I'm forever grateful to you. Hey you two, help me take her to a doctor hurry please we need to save her". Hiyanshi stood up suddenly and her voice was weird. "Do you know the most exciting thing in the world? Its playing with feelings and idiotic emotions of you humans. Why should I even fight fairly with someone who has the power to kill me? Now my will is absolute" devil possessed hiyanshi said. She lost consciousness after that and heena was in my arms. I was screaming and crying a lot. "There is no reason for living now. We lost everything" braun said. 

Not just a mother after sunday (chapter-3)

 "What do you mean the sun would set forever?". I was so confused. "We will tell you everything, first can we come in please?" One of them said. "Ok fine, come on sit down". "I'm braun lock and this is my younger brother shiki lock. We know the truth of this world" braun said. "I don't understand, what truth?". "We know why moms develop such powers and how it started" Shiki said. "What? Really? How did you know?". "Our family has been passing down this information through generations. We haven't told anyone else yet because first, there's no point in telling others and second, we don't want to cause any panic" braun said. "Oh ok then why are you willing to let me know?". "Simple, it involves you that's why" shiki said. "Go on, I'm listening". "Its all happening because of too much hate of a human. He was born fifteen hundred years ago. He lived with his mother. Everything was fine, his mother treated him well but one night when he was just nine years old, she told him that 'I am sick and tired of pretending that I care for you, no I hate you. You are just a result of your father's assault, I hate both of you. I only raised you because that man was here. I wish I could cut both of you into pieces but he ran away with another woman so its going to be you and I am not a little bit sorry, I didn't even considered any of you my family to begin with'. She tried to kill him but somehow he escaped. He was all alone and grew hate towards her. After one year he became ill and couldn't survive that illness. After death he met the devil in purgatory. He was so filled with hate that he asked for all of this so that everyone can suffer. 'This kind of high level spell I requires payment' devil said. 'Everything, I offer you anything you want, just do it' he said. Devil smiled and did it" braun said. "Nice story but how do you know that and doesn't that person has a name?". "After that incident god sent a messenger to earth. He United six people and told them everything. They scattered around the world and passed this to their children. He said that god has erased his name from history after what he did and made a prophecy that after many years one mother would be granted the power of the sun and she can beat the devil. And your wife has that power" shiki said. "Why her? Anyone else may have that power". "Have you ever heard of someone having that? No, there's no record of a mom having fire power" shiki said. "No no I can't risk her life, leave her alone". "You don't get it, do you? Your wife can beat the devil and this curse will be over, think about your child. She doesn't have to go through the same suffering" braun said. I can't argue with that. I don't want hiyanshi to suffer. "But, I don't know where heena is". "We have done our research and found her. Your home was on the way so we stopped by. We are going there tomorrow. Our mother died because of this curse so we want to end this, with or without you. If you want to come then be prepared. We should go now" braun said. "Alright I will. I want to end this too, for our child". 

Not just a mother after sunday (chapter-2)

"Wh...what's that?"[panting]. I woke up in the morning because I heard horrible screams. I couldn't find heena and our baby anywhere in the home. I rushed outside and saw that some parts of the village was burning. "I...can't move". My heart was beating faster and hundreds of thoughts crossed my mind in an instant. I ran towards a well near the fire and there was our baby on ground. "Thank Goodness you are okay my baby"[sobbing]. I immediately got her home and came back for heena. There was a crowd near the lake shouting and throwing rocks at someone. "Let me through, let me through". She was there in the lake, crying and bleeding. I hugged her and covered her with my shirt. "stop, it wasn't on purpose, she couldn't do anything about it. Please understand". "She is the only one to blame, peoples are injured because of her. Can't you hear the heart wrenching screams?" villagers said. "We are sorry, hurting her won't do anything". "Kill her, if she remains alive then the fire will engulf us soon. Yes killing her is the solution now" one of them said. "Our family is living here for so long with good relations and that's how you treat us for an unintentional mistake??? How can you say that?". "Son, you have to understand their fear. As long as she is here no one is safe, even your child. So you can move to an open place and start a new life" an old man said. "Fine, we will do that. Now let us go". Peoples stared at us for some time and went to their home but that old man stayed. "I have never heard someone having fire power, I was very surprised. Go home and take care son" he said. I helped her to stand and we walked away. "How's my baby? Where is she?"[sobbing] Heena asked. "Don't worry dear, she is good". "I was so worried. I was on my way home after a walk and it happened suddenly so I put her on the ground and ran here. I didn't know what else to do at that moment" she said. "Everything is fine now so don't cry". We got home and heena immediately ran to our baby and hugged her. "I'm so glad you are doing fine baby"[sobbing] she said. "Yeah, I found her near the fire but miraculously she wasn't hurt so I think she is really special born from a special woman"[smiling]. I hugged both of them and we got rest for some time. "Dear, what do you think about moving on from here?". "We should go, it happens randomly so we can't take the risk. Maybe we should go tomorrow morning" she said. "Yes you are right. I don't even want to see their faces. After all this years with them happily, maybe they were selfish from the beginning. We couldn't see that". It was the last night there for us. We had dinner and went to sleep. Next morning I woke up and saw hiyanshi sleeping, I smiled and kissed her on forehead but I couldn't find heena anywhere. I searched for her in and outside the house but couldn't find. Eventually I found a note in the house. It was from heena. "I'm sorry dear, you have to take care of our baby yourself. I'm going away and please don't try to find me. I'm doing this not because of the villagers but for you two. I can't risk both of your lives whom I love so much. I love you both, thank you for being a great father and husband. Thank you for loving me. Goodbye " she wrote. I cried holding the window, watching the rising sun and thinking "we could have done something about your power maybe tried to control it, I'm sorry I can't be there for you when you need me the most, I'm sorry. There's no point in living here now without you". I packed some of our important stuff and moved to a different place with hiyanshi. I could understand a fraction of heena's pain after taking this decision so I respected her choice and didn't tried to find her. 

Years passed and hiyanshi was 3 now. It was tough watching after her but i was managing barely. After all I'm not her mother and I could never replace her. I missed heena everyday and would sometimes wake up from same nightmares again and again. It was so weird. In that dream hiyanshi was a bit older and drawn a painting of heena and was scratching over her with red paint. I was so afraid of those dreams. I hoped she is fine wherever she was. One day I was doing some work at home and someone knocked the door. "Yeah I heard you, wait I'm working here". After 2 min I opened the door and there were two men outside. Well dressed, good behavior they seemed gentlemen. "Who are you two?why are you here?". "Are you mr. nayanth? Is mrs. Heena your wife?" One of them asked. "Why do you want to know and why do you know my wife? Tell me the truth now who are you really?". One of them said "Look sir, I'm gonna get straight to the point. If we don't do something soon then the sun would set forever". 

Not just a mother after sunday- chapter 1(a story)

 "She is so beautiful", Heena said as tears rolled out of her eyes. She was seeing our new born girl few minutes after giving birth. I was sitting beside her with happiness beyond words and also in some corner of my heart there was a little fear. I am Nayanth and Heena is my better half. After some time I forgot about the fear. How could I be bother by that when both of them were in front of me alive and healthy? Then we finally decided to name her Hiyanshi. That day went extremely well and after finishing every work we went to sleep. Again that thought entered my head while sleeping. This is a world where after giving birth, mothers would be granted with some strange abilities by some unknown deity or whatever, I don't know. Some centuries ago, it started. Some people say that it's a blessing for humanity, but I believe that it's a curse. Like the demon is playing with us out of his boredom. I have heard and seen many cases where moms were granted terrifying abilities. Harmful for themselves and their families. After seven days of birth of baby those abilities could be felt or simply, can be used. I heard one case where one mom was exhaling only poisonous gases so for everyone's safety she killed herself and the gases stopped immediately or else everyone in her surrounding would be dead after few moments. I can't imagine the pain she must have gone through to kill herself. I guess she had a kind heart.When the world grows more power there are always peoples who exploit or tries to take control over one another. One life becomes threat to another in direct or indirect way. Some peoples are there who are longing for this powers to paint the earth with flames. I really don't want Heena to develop such cursed abilities. I feel powerless as I can't do anything to change the fact that after seven days she won't be just a mom who would love her baby but also she has to adjust with her abilities. She is not excited for this, she just want to take care of her baby. Next day she did her work like usual but she was very calm. Like she was thinking about all this but wouldn't let me worry about it. In night these endless thoughts would have me awake as if the devil himself is staring at me. Sometimes she would wake up from nightmares and I did everything I can to support her but it was tough seeing her like this. And then it was Saturday, the day before the fateful day. When I woke up in the morning, she was already awake and seeing baby's face and thinking something. Her eyes were filled with love's sorrow. It was painful to see her like this but I had to help her. With a kiss on the forehead her emotions were leaning towards light. Like me, she was also worried but she wasn't weak. We had to go through this time together and we did. She wasn't talking much that day but her eyes were speaking a lot. She was determined to stay by her family whether the situation permits or not. With this it was Sunday morning...