Obscure Land | Self-Written Short Fiction Story

When Vikalp came to his sense, everyone was afraid of death, some were walking over the corpses in terrible pain and hurry to stay close to life, maybe it was Saturday, he had a flight on Friday night.

He felt very good on the morning of Friday, lives alone, and had a habitude to talk himself like one does in real life, the room was perfectly managed and clean like one stay at a five-star hotel. Vikalp's childhood friend Sachin has a wedding on Sunday evening at New Delhi, India so, Vikalp took a leave of three days from his office. He packed only new clothes in a bag and said "I should call Sachin when the flight will land" to himself so, he makes a call to Sachin and said, "I will come to Delhi by Saturday morning or noon." It takes 12 to 14 hours to reach India from Singapore spoke to himself after seeing the ticket.

In the evening, he got a text from airlines that flight is delayed due to heavy rain. It's okay to wait at the airport than at home said to himself, booked a cab from an application, and reached the airport before take-off time.

The clock was ticking, the minutes were going by, seeing her picture in his mobile, Vikalp dissolved in his past, reminds seized flash with her, her smile, loving care, gathering happiness, all the dates with her. some romantic songs started going in his head that he loved to listen with her, staying in the present he went to a piece of past. Reminding all it seemed his heart beats like a second heartbeat, one of his and other of her. It was a sensational and an echo of past how he remembers all these just by seeing a picture. The time had come to take a boarding pass, he went along with others after deleting her picture. He sat on the seat, the flight was ready to take off after the rain stopped a while ago. He took a catnap and when he slept he didn't know. All were afraid of turbulence, for the first time he awoke and the second time everybody scared, it took four times in a short period of time. Air hostesses were also got scared and whisper to each other, one of them tried to connect with the pilot through telecom but go down swinging, everyone's cell phone was just a metal can, outside dusk and downpour was another reason for panic. Each one was screamed and prayed with agitation "God Save Us...". Side passenger of Vikalp asked an air hostess, "Why and how this occurred several times?" , "Sir, it's stormy weather outside."  she said. With fear, they both saw each other and lied on the seat with no other side of the coin. In meanwhile, an air hostess said to another air hostess "We lost connection with airlines" that electrified like lightning in the storm. The first seater heeded, shouted out loud to everyone, and that fire up the heat of anger to everyone, all yelling at the pilot to make a connection.

Some cracking machinery was loud hidden under the weeping sound of passengers. On the spur of the moment plane headed down with sudden fall, who was not in their seat they swiftly rise above the surface, all bags. mobile phones have the feeling of flying inside the flight that felt like a hollow body and suddenly it kissed hard with the ground and crashed.

That was three or would be four complete watches before sunrise, dingy and misty everywhere only that was noticeable where woods catch fire. When Vikalp came to his sense, everyone was afraid of death, some were walking over the corpses in terrible pain and hurry to stay close to life, Vikalp helped to the side passenger asked: "Are you alright?", he can't even open his eyes hanged with seatbelt through his waist and counting his last breath. An air hostess was helping many passengers so, Vikalp also went close to her to help others. Of the crew members, only she and a co-pilot were survived in the crash, co-pilot tried to communicate with airlines but there was no network also no cell phones were working, he didn't know what place that was. Only 11 passengers left alive some of them poorly wounded rest died. The cockpit was completely crashed after co-pilot successfully came out, he had no option left to help all of them.

All at once, the earth shivered, the vibrating sound started growing, a man with long hair that covered shoulders, enlarged beard, was visible to Vikalp behind the firelight of the plane. He merrily said to others pointing towards him, "See someone is there he can help us". Co-pilot slowly moved towards that man and asked for help, but he was chanting some inaudible words just by murmuring his lips, to listen to those words co-pilot took a step forward brought ear next to his lips. Listening to those words co-pilot panicked with fear and runs opposite the man. Those survived group asked what he heard from him co-pilot said "We all were sent by someone to die here with the order of God". Some of them laughed and said that man must be mad who only lived here.

The man was a hermit, he spoke mantra taking soil in one hand and other towards the sky which made everyone fearful he said, "All the living creatures came from this soil in this land, the righteous should have right to had another life on another land. This land is cursed with the sinners. Hey, Lord, I am sending you 11 righteous humans they will be a new source of life of humanity." No power can survive in front of the order of God. All of them runs fitfully but all there was covered with mist and dark everywhere. We all are going to die no one can save us we don't have anything which we try to find anyone to help us said Vikalp to the group. No one can survive from here you all are the reason for the birth of new humanity, you all are blessed from God who chooses you to be a reason for a new world of creatures said the hermit to survivors.

That night some lost the world and gained the universe that was the beginning for them, everything continued with the vivid life of a spirit. The hermit chooses only 11 passengers to send to the new world, 11 shows a continuation of life with one and one sooner whole humanity would die from this land to start a new life. By his will, flight's connection was lost, crashed on his own undiscovered land which was the expiration and dawn of humanity.

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