THE WILL AT FREEWILL

CHAPTER 1 – OF FINDINGS

The police investigations were still going on. It was strange indeed, the
victim returned safe and sound, although unconscious, next day in his
own house after being kidnapped. The only thing Ravi remembered was
walking back home from school, He always had walked from school to
home. Although it is a distance of 1.5 km, he walks (or sometimes take a
bicycle with him). He remembered, as he was walking home from
school, a sudden darkness and suffocation and….and…..he is in home.
It was certain that he was kidnapped. But the question still remained,
who? And more importantly, why? It was not for bounty threat. Or did
they pick up the wrong person for the threatening? Even if it were so,
why would they return him back, safe and sound. At his home. It was as
strange as it was risky.
Ravi’s school was filled with rumors which soon died. 2 days after the
event, he was returning home on his cycle while passing through the
park near his home when his glanced reached a stone. Or rather, a
pebble. An adorable pebble. It was no ordinary pebble, and one could
tell so by looking at it. The texture was rough and would’ve felt nice
when rubbed on hands. He wanted to feel it. But he didn’t get down his
cycle just for the sake of the stone. He didn’t want to. He didn’t have to.
He didn’t have to get down to get to the stone. The stone came by itself
to him. He had it in his hands, but it didn’t feel good on them. He let out
a gasp! A gasp of mixed emotions. He was astonished, horrified, and
thinking of himself to be hallucinating, all at the same time.
He let out another deep exhale and tried to ignore it. even at home, he
tried to ignore it, only to find that he couldn’t. the thought was…was…
inevitable.
“what happened out there was nothing! I was tired and maybe I
hallucinated. That’s it! It’s not like I am having some kind
of…..telekinesis or something! That’s idiotic of me to think of.”
Ravi said to himself rather loudly in a self-consoling tone. He looked at
2 spoons on the table.
“spoons, come to me.”
Nothing happened. Ravi smiled, it was nothing after all, just wasted
stress. He wondered why he was stressing at all, telekinesis is a boon,
after all.
He again looked at the spoons and wondered what if they really came to
him. And they came. Sliding in his hands.
Ravi gasped again!
The first time he had just said it. Second time he wished it.
 CHAPTER 2 - A DREAM OF REMEMBRENCE

The place resembled an abandoned laboratory of some kind. There were

three to four more people besides him. Tied up, like him and their faces
covered in their muffles of some of them. Ravi was scared, scared out
his wits. He looked pale as his throat ached to cry. There was a person
standing in front of him who appeared to be their leader. The leader of
his kidnappers who appeared to be a part of a criminal organization.
The leader had signaled something to the apparent other members of
the organization after which they injected every person kidnapped
including him with something which Ravi wished was not poisonous.
The syringe was injected on his arm which didn’t pain much. Even
though, a flow of silent tears emerged from his left eye.
“Now give them the eraser and return them to where they were. They
can lead normal lives. For now.” the leader said.
Once again there was a syringe brought up, this time to their necks. The
moment it was pierced, Ravi tensed; he wanted to mourn in pain. He fell
on his knees and most of the liquid in there fell through his neck, as cold
as his blood.
Ravi woke up with a sudden from the disturbing dream which he hadn’t
seen for the first time. He looked at the clock. It was quarter past one in
the morning. He dreaded that dream. But something felt so peculiar
about it. It felt so real. As if it really happened to him and he is having a
memory flashback. It felt as if that was what happened to him when he
was kidnapped.
He remembered the words from his dream again. Now give them the
eraser and return them to where they were. They can lead normal lives.
For now.
He was unsure if the eraser was some kind of memory-lapsing drug and
he didn’t get a full dose of it.
Deep inside he was sure of what he thought.
 CHAPTER 3 – A REVISIT

The aisle lurked with silence which was broken by the man’s words.
“they are here for you to examine them.”
The group of intellectual geniuses working for evil criminal
masterminds walked towards the place where the people at first injected
with the serum were brought for examination. A shoulder suddenly
shoved a girl among them who smiled slyly, now was time that she did
what she was here for. And she had an excellent plan to execute.
She looked at the subjects of different kinds of people with different
kinds of health conditions and of different ages, all of them were to be
examined. Others got to work and she too, pretended taking out blood of
a subjected. He was a teenager, maybe twelve or thirteen years old and
in his school uniform. She waited for an opportunity.
Her eyes glanced upon the man beside that boy, his rope had opened
itself. He was using his powers and she could see it was immense, or
rather huge. The so called scientist behind him backed away reluctantly,
as if opposing an invisible force. All others, induced with fear, backed
away as he got up and ripped apart a man carrying a gun, without even
touching him. All of them started screaming and running hither and
thither.
Bingo! This was her chance. She quickly grabbed the teenage boy by
the back of his collar and rushed out, carrying a few blood samples with
her.
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The boy roused from his sleep to find himself in a car. The woman who
was steering turned backwards to have a look at the boy, who just stared
with a confused look on his face.
“let’s exchange our names to start with, you can call me Kaani for now.”
He didn’t bother to listen “Where am I? what happened back there? Who
are you? What did you people do to me? ” he said, being a bit manic
with panic.
“It’s not fair. You first answer what I asked you. I’ll tell you all about
it.”
He calmed down a bit.
“Ravi” he said
“So Ravi, now listen…..” Ravi was sure that he was in trouble, being
kidnapped by the bloody criminals.
“I am not one of them. I was in there as an agent, to get those people at
the hands of the --- you don’t need to know who, but certainly not a
criminal organization . They are criminals. Big ones, in all the phases.
I’m an agent.”
“And why should I believe you?”Ravi asked, he had familiarity of these
situations from his novels, comics and the movies.
“ ‘cause I saved you! I need your help.” She snapped back, “first of all,
tell me where your home-sweet-home is.” giving a lewd expression
while saying home-sweet-home.
Ravi didn’t like her, she seemed to him one of them, only criminals had
that kind of tone. But she did save him. And she was sending him back
home. But they did the same last time too, still, he needed to know more
about they. And this woman, calling herself Kaani could tell him all that.
Kaani sensed what he was thinking, so she added, “I know I’m a bit
aggressive, workin’ on it, but you need to believe me.” she said, and
heaved a deep breath. “All right, since I need your help, I will show you
my identity card.” She said, after some reflection.
She tucked her hand into her coat pocket, took out a card and revealed it
to Ravi. He squinted his eyes to have a better look. It was a genuine
looking FBI certified identity card with her photo on it, only that her
name was different, ‘Karshini’, it said. She tucked it back in before he
could read the surname, still he believed her now, but not entirely.
“alright, I believe you. But tell me about those people who kidnapped
me and injected in me a serum that gave me telepathy.”