16th century India. The Mughal Empire had already established itself in India. In a rural and distinct district in the empire named Dazzajal, a boy found himself waking up from sleep in the morning.
Sajid Khan, an orphan at 15 years of age, woke up from sleep.
Sajid khan's pov:
"Aaa," What a nice day it is. Just waking up and finding the day to be gloomy and dark is just my thing. I should go and freshen myself up, or that old bastard would nag me again. After finishing my work in my room, I started my journey towards blacksmithing. After reaching the destination and greeting that old bastard, I was just about to get back to my work when suddenly the old man started yapping again: Sajid, things have been looking bad for the past few days. You should come to work early and leave early; who knows what horrors lie past the boundary. To this, I just replied Yes, sir.
Although the old man appears stern and his face is not quite amicable, he is still a kind-hearted man who has given this teenager a job in these harsh times. So I am very grateful to him. After that, I started working in the smithy while other shop owners and businessmen were also starting to open their shops. In just a few minutes, the whole market area became livelier as vendors and sellers came and went to the market. Said also started on his work. After an hour, the guards from the castle came to the shop, and the old man started arguing with the guards. Sajid knew that the old man was senile, but he did not expect it to be this crazy for him to be arguing with the guards. One has to know that the guards in this district are under the direct rule of the nawab, and all the nawabs are under the supervision of the grand sultan of the empire. To argue with the guard, one must have a very strong backing, but Sajid did not that the old man.
While they were arguing, there were murmurs of the people panicking, people leaving their jobs, and running into the street. Sajid also heard this rumor and sneakily ran into the street to learn what was going on . But after going to the street, all the people, including the guards and the old man, looked up into the sky. The sun was darkening like an eclipse, and an ominous feeling gripped everyone's heart. The city alarm bell rang and everyone started running like headless chickens. Although the city is protected by the dome barrier, nobody knows if what lies outside the dome would be able to avoid them.
Sajid is also thinking of running when all of a sudden, people started screaming and were writhing in agony, and their bodies were disintegrating and appearing like they were being removed the existence. Then the real horror came from the eclipsed sun, and nightmarish skeletons with a dark aura were descending from the sun. The whole ordeal was a nightmare to Sajid, who had only heard about the magic and stuff and never really witnessed them.
Sajid's survival instincts kicked in, and he started running. He started running towards his house in the room to find safety, and before running, he also took a spear for protection. Along the way, he found that the skeletons are erasing the existence of the people with their scythes. Being a teenager and not being so tall, he was able to hide between the crowd and skip past these abominations while going to the house.
But just as he was about to turn around a door knob he saw the reflection of a skeleton behind in him in the mirror.Chills run down his spine. Sajid quickly ducked as the skeleton brought down his scythe towards him. After ducking and gaining some distance,e he found this particular reaper quite different.
He was a lot smaller in size compared to the other reapers and almost the same height as his. Then this reaper's eyes were also a bit different. while others had a red hue in their eye socket, but this one had a purple eye socket. But Sajid didn't have much time to wander around as the reaper again locked his eyes with him, and he started running. Sajid was scared out of his wits, and the only place he had in his mind to get out of this hell was outside the dome barrier. Sajid ran for his life, and the skeleton pursued him with interest.
Finally, Sajid saw the dome barrier and thought to himself that if the dome barrier couldn't protect the people, then he better take his chance outside. But as he was going outside the barrier. Starting with his legs, his body started dissipating like he was being removed from reality. Sajid fell and his body was in complete agony, and his body started shaking.
The reaper caught up to him and raised his scythe as if his judgment was coming, but just then the sun was fully eclipsed and a violent gust of wind blew everywhere, and the wind blew the sajid outside the dome. But just as Sajid was outside the dome, the reaper managed to strike to down and cut his body in half.