Chapter 1: The Apocalypse

"Om Namah Shivaay" I was chanting in front of my Ishta Devata/favored God, Lord Shiva.

Our family was ardent devotee of Lord Shiva and they also thought of him as the supreme god. We kept both his statue and Linga.

I never left home before I did my puja. When I was finally done, I wore my uniform which consisted over a leather jacket and a white undershirt along with blue jeans.

My university was not strict with the dress code, they allowed us to wear anything unless it was too inappropriate.

I exited the puja room and touched my parents' feet, and they gave me their blessings. I exited the house and inserted my bike key into my bike.

I belonged from a rich family so on my birthday a bike was given to me but no worries I am not a spoiled brat. I am a topper at my university.

I brought my phone to my ear since I had called my best friend Aditya.

"Hello" I said.

"Where the heck are you, Agastya?" He yelled.

"Was doing my puja" I replied.

"Fine quickly come pick me up. Everyone is looking at me thinking I am a hooligan" he told.

I started to laugh and cut the call. I gripped the accelerator while wearing my helmet and then left to get my best friend with a trail of smoke following behind me.

Since Aditya had sent his live location, it only took me a few minutes to arrive at the location.

"Sup get on man" I said and following my instructions he sat on the back seat.

I gave him a helmet and he wore it, thank god he didn't make a scene. Our next destination was the university.

We reached the university within 10 minutes, yeah it was a little far. Aditya went down from the bike while I parked the pike, grabbed the key and then exited the bike.

"Hope we aren't late" Aditya told himself.

I checked the time and saw that we were on time, so I showed him that to ease his worries.

We entered our classroom and instantly their looks were on us.

We were pretty popular since we are one of the most handsome boys in this academy. We also had many achievements like Aditya was the school best player in football and was also country-level chess player.

While I was the school's best story writer, and fighter also I am a topper. From a young age I became interested in boxing and so from there on I became the best boxer in this school.

Mainly I used my brains instead of my strength but if I needed to, I wouldn't hesitate to beat someone.

If we had to compare our looks with each other Aditya is leaner while I am more muscular but we both had six packs. I am 6 feet 1 inch while he is 5 foot 11 inches.

I have slight bluish hair while he has a fiery red color hair. Both of our eyes were black. He kept his hair short while I kept mine long.

I am more handsome than him though. Yes, I like to brag but it's true though.

"Are you really monologuing again?" Aditya asked while we went to our desk and sat down.

"Yes" I replied while smiling.

"This what happens when you read too much story or write too many novels" Aditya whispered and I just grinned since I was proud to be a novelist.

Whenever I wrote a novel it felt like I had become a god and the rush I get while creating is addicting.

Many novelists can relate to me while many can't it's up to them.

"Oye stop monologuing and focus Ma'am is here" Aditya whispered to me and we all got up to say Good Morning to our class teacher.

"Good morning class, how was your winter vacation?" Ma'am asked.

"Fine Ma'am" All of us replied.

"Good, now let's start the class since we have to cover the syllabus." Ma'am said and started to introduce us to a new concept of chemistry.

I was sitting idly bored out of my mind, thinking of various novel ideas etc etc.

While I was thinking of novels my instinct screamed at me to dodge. While fighting I had developed a sixth sense kind of thing which helped me to detect if there was a danger around me and if yes how should I dodge.

I instinctively grabbed Aditya's hand and leapt out of our desk; everyone was shocked at our action but soon the wall beside us exploded.

I had closed my eyes so that no dust can enter. Within 1 minute, I opened my eyes and saw the destruction that occurred.

There was debris lying everywhere, there was a big hole in the school wall, the students were injured because of the debris. I was not extremely injured since I had dodged in time though my right arm had deep cut on it.

The smoke had cleared, and I saw something that shocked me and if I had to guess I can say all of us were shocked at the sight.

There were 10-12 feet bulky muscular men who had tusks, multiple horns emerging from their head, eyes that were reddish in color and some of their skin was red.

"Rakshasa" I muttered in shock. They were exactly like they were described in the Puranas and Vedas.

The three male Rakshasa started to laugh and one of them spoke.

"Yes, we are Rakshasa children."

I could see that one of them had a corpse in his hand which was OUR CLASS TEACHERS.

Multiple students vomited after seeing her state and continued to vomit since the Rakshasa started to eat her in front of us.

We were scared to our core but the adrenaline in me was pumping since it sensed a fight will happen.

Somewhere I felt excited, but the fear was overwhelming me. Suddenly the Rakshasa started to approach us slowly and we were also slowly getting away from them and suddenly they stopped.

No, it was safe to say time stopped but only us the student could move.

A bright light appeared in front of us which forced us to close our eyes and when we opened our eyes again, the person in front of us gave us another shock.

"INDRADEV"