Chapter 60 60. Storm
'Huh? Why were the forces in the dark uneasy all of sudden?'
The goddess of Shadow and queen of darkness, Chaaya was seating on her throne with majesty suitable for a queen when out of nowhere she felt the powers and being around her realm were uneasy, terrified of something not daring to show themselves.
This surprised her. These were beings and powers which were not afraid of anything. Her domain of darkness is tagged as a forbidden place for this reason, So Chhaya did not understand what happened to this being.
"*Sigh* Did Devraj (King Of Deva) cause another trouble?"
The first thing that came to her mind was that Devraj aka Indra had caused another trouble, And she would be surprised if it would be the case as the arrogance of that guy someday might become the downfall of the whole Devlokas.
Chbaya was uncertain though, As if this was caused by Indra, These forces which dwell in the darkness should be happy, not terrified, So it has to be some different reason.
But even after a moment of not being able to figure out why these forces were reacting this way, She had to give up and use her divine sight to look into the cause of the issue.
She did not want to use her divine sight as doing this is considered as indirectly probing into the secrets of heaven, Though she is a goddess and not bound by mortal laws but she still has shackles of Karma and fate.
If she sees or hears something she was not supposed to then the world would do anything in its power to keep the information she learned as secret, So unless necessary most gods would not even think of using their inherent godhood power of divine sight as their are severe consequences if they were unlucky.
Yet Chhaya did not have a choice to use her sight. After all, others might hate these dwelling in the dark but for her, they were her subjects, Who are like children to her, She can't ignore their distress.
So she closed her eyes and used her third eye to activate her divine sight. A strand of her consciousness escaped from her body faster than the speed of light as the image of a bird's view appeared in front of her eyes and started to zoom in the direction where the problem originated from.
"Huh!! Why is this here? And why is Araya doing there?"
Chhaya suddenly opened her closed eyes in shock as she broke out in a cold sweat. She did not miss a second and was quickly ready to leave for Hastinapur just other than flying out, She dissolved herself in the shadow below her.
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"Why is my heart suddenly feeling relentless? What kinda foreboding thing is going to happen?"
A beautiful woman was sitting in the flower garden when she suddenly held her relentless heart as she looked worriedly at the sun in the sky. She was the goddess of Twilight, Sandhya.
She has a feeling that something big is going to happen but she just can't put her finger on it. She closed her eyes and started to imagine all of her loved ones trying to figure out who is going to face catastrophe.
But after she went through with her children, She thankfully did not feel any threat to them, So she moved on to her husband and her "sister" but even they did not trigger any warning signs in her mind.
"What is wrong? If no one close to me is about to have something bad happen to them then why am I feeling this relentless all of a sudden? I-Is he in trouble?"
Sandhay was confused. She did not understand why she was getting a bad premonition if no one close to her was going to have any problems, Which was making her uneasy.
She takes this warning seriously, She as a goddess has certain privileges, Which include a prior warning for the things that are going to happen. In Chhaya's case, she also got this warning but she being immature at that time ignored it.
But she will not going to ignore it now. She will never repeat the same mistake as before. It's just not knowing who would be one of her loved ones going to have trouble eating her heart out.
It was then it clicked with her, Which did not make her happy but scared. She remembered her son, The one who was cursed by her own "sister" and had to be born as a mortal because of it.
Just as she thought of her mortal son, Her heart felt a pang indicating her she hit the target which she was unwilling to accept it.
Her Arya (Husband) only told her the name of their mortal son and that's all. Where he lives and what condition he was in are unknown to them, He said he did this to prevent them from helping him in any way.
She understands what her husband was trying to say, If she as a goddess was involved too much in the life of a mortal it would not only do any good to him but rather she would cause him more problems.
She understands and accepts this action of her husband not telling her about the location of their son as a goddess but as a mother, she was really hurt and was even angry at him for keeping a mother away from her child.
There were too many things that happened during his birth. He was cursed even before he was born, And there is always a pain in her heart that she did not get to take him in her arms even once after he was born.
She blames this all on Chhaya, She was the one who cursed their child but then thinking she too was equally at fault and Chhaya also going through the same pain as hers, She was able to forgive her.
"I-l have to inform Arya. I'll have to warn him about the warning about our son."
Sandhya could not able to sit still knowing it was Karna who was in trouble, Her other children are more than capable of defending themselves after all they are gods.
Karna on the other hand is a mortal and that too is still too little to understand and defended himself, So she just looked at the sun and closed her eyes.
*Rumble*
As she closed her eyes, Sky changed and in a moment noon changed the evening as a beautiful red hue covered the whole sky showing the world with its beauty.
When this happens Sandhya vanishes from her place leaving a piece of heaven which was her flower garden desolate.
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"Finally, I recovered from the loss of essence, I could not wait to go and see that little guy."
A beautiful woman like a celestial Apsara comes out of the cave which was located in the snowy white mountain which looked like a white sheet spread across the whole mountain range.
At this moment there was happiness and joy on her face as she smiled looking in one direction, But then that smile froze on her face as her look of horror spread on her face.
She just used her divine sight to take a look at her little one, Just to take a look at how he was doing but she was not ready to see what was happening with him.
Fear for him occupied her mind. She, the goddess of purity, the one who calms everyone's mind with her mere presence, had a chaotic heart now as she went through the ways to help him in her mind.
But she could not come with any, She Ganga the mighty river goddess was helpless in front of the thing which was surrounding her little one, That power was even older than her, She couldn't do anything against it.
"No, There has to be a way, There always is one, I just have to think hard."
She did not want to give up at all. She will never give up, She started to ransack her mind to come up with ways to save her son from the chaos surrounding him.
She even thought of going to ask for help from the 5 elemental gods, Their combined power with hers might be able to save her son but that would mean she had to risk revealing the secret of his physique.
And once that happens there is no way, Indra would allow him to live a second peacefully. She did not want that to happen but she could not see any other way at all.
"Wait?! How can I be this foolish? Why am I worrying? I still have someone who can definitely save my son."
Ganga who was contemplating about whether to risk it or not stopped panicking as she remembered there is that one person she knows can help her, She did not waste even a second as she flew towards the direction of that one person.
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'Hey, System, how long do I have to sit here? It's boring.'
Meanwhile, others were panicking for him, Karna was complaining system about how much time it was taking to merge Eyes Of Chaos with him ignorant to the fact of what kinda storm he kicked off.
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System as alway did not answer his irreverent questions making him sulking on the spot waiting for the process to complete.
Thankfully others can't see inside the dark aura surrounding him but he can see everything, So he was not in the dark which was solace to him as his fear of the dark still did not go away.
(A/N : Like always thank you for reading and have a good day ??.)