2012

Time: 21st December,2012.

Five people were sitting around the bonfire in the freezing cold woods in a certain part of the earth. These were no ordinary people. They were witches. In simple words, they had mastered the ancient art of Wicca and Witchcraft. They were all blessed with magical and extraordinary powers which ordinary people like you and I didn’t possess. And they were not here for celebrating bonfire night. They were here for a special mission that, according to the Elders, they were destined to accomplish. But they were not well-known to each other.

Their names were Martin,Tia, Lucy, Khalid and Vyacheslav. They had been sitting here for an hour waiting for the prophesied devastation and demolition. They spent their time mostly yawning and stretching their legs or killing mosquitoes or taking a small snooze.

Sometimes they made fireballs and whirled it balancing on one finger. Or made grass grow longer and flowers bloom. They could achieve the impossible. But they were getting impatient. They were tensed also, they didn’t know in what form the attack would come. They also doubted if they were powerful enough to stop this devastation and save the planet.

All of them looked up with utter curiosity when they saw a heavenly blue fireball floating in air. It stretched and shrunk like a rubber ball but stood at its fixed position. The fireball grew big and gleamed in its various rainbow colors. It was a teleportation portal.

A rough outline of a human figure appeared inside the portal; the figure of a female. Someone else was coming in to join the chosen ones. The others stared at the beautiful portal with their jaws dropped. The person jumped out of the portal. She was smiling and dressed like a “Winx Club” doll, not to mention she even wore a tiara.

The witches stared at her, with a bit of surprise. The girl too was surprised to find that other people had already reached this place.

“Wow! You can teleport!” exclaimed Khalid.

“Yes”, the girl said with indifferent casualty, “Any big deal in that?”

“Well, till now none of us can do it! And you are just a child!” Tia completed Khalid’s sentence.

“So you all also know about this…” she hesitated for a moment, and nervously completed the sentence, “…this 2012 stuff?”

“Yeah”, the others sang boringly.

“So guys, here’s the sixth person who has been given the duty of fighting Satan, in the legendary and much prophesized 2012 battle between good and evil that is about to take place on this day…Wow!”, she clapped her hands and almost started floating in joy.

“I am Tarina Blenthé coming down from a family which bred some of the most famous witches,” she declared puffing up her chest. Then they had a short introductory session among themselves.

“So how did you guys come to know that we had to meet here?” Tarina asked them.

“The story’s quite the same for all of us, you see. Our instincts told us. And even my tarot card indicated this place to be the right one,” said Vyacheslav.

“And what about your practice for the whole day? What did you do as last moment preparation for the battle?” she asked again, “As for me, I didn’t do much except meditating the whole day in my basement.”

The others had to gasp at this. “What?” she asked with a puzzled look.

“Well that’s exactly what I had done too,” agreed Martin.

“Not only you two… I also did the same thing,” Tia had to consent.

They all had to agree on this. They had meditated the whole day in some secret place, totally unaware of the outside world. Then they had directly reached this place through their own means.

“Well it really sounds like we were all destined to do the same thing today…Save the planet,” said Khalid cheerfully.

“But what I am wondering is… What is going to happen today? Will our battle take place face to face with Satan? Or will it be in the higher planes? How will he ever bring destruction? And how can we humans… though we are special…possibly defeat Satan?” Tia raised the question.

“Oh yes”, said Tarina, “These are the same questions which is lurking in my mind. Does anyone know?”

They all shook their heads. None of them knew.

“I believe only time can answer them”, said Lucy.

“Talking of time? For how long will we wait here? Two hours already over. And there’s no sign of any danger. Everything is so peaceful here!” said Vyacheslav impatiently.

“Hey lets fly around to see if anything is wrong anywhere. Then I think we will have to get ready for astral projection,” said Tarina.

“My guess was correct. The battle will take place in the seventh plane maybe,” Tia supposed.

“Yes come on. Let’s go. Six of us fly in six different directions. Then we come back here and report,” commanded Lucy.

“Check,” the others said as they flew up.

Tarina soared in the night sky where the cool wind touched her face and refreshed her. But she was shocked when she looked down on a busy road. There were big buildings and sky scrappers that sprung up like trees everywhere in the city. It looked as if someone had set the city on fire; so much smoke and dust was everywhere. And everywhere people were pressing the horns of their cars; waiting angrily in the traffic jam and saying vulgar things in the hope that the cars would move forward. Further on, she saw many people fighting with each other. They had all sorts of weapons and killed each other so passively that it seemed it didn't matter to them as long as they weren't hurt. She went down further to have a look everywhere…

On the other side, Martin saw miles of forest with barren trees. There was nothing left of them, no leaves, no flowers, no fruits, only a few bare branches hung from its sides. It looked as if the charcoal-black trunk of the trees was standing with great pain and they would eventually fall any second now. In this place, few men were mining in search of petroleum. He just stared at the trees with greasy eyes. A loud explosion inside the mine made him come back from his trance and he moved on to see…

Lucy also soared on. The sharp stench of corpses caught her nose. She felt sick. As she flew more closely to the ground, she saw few humans lying dead and as she went further she got to see some more of them. It was clear to her that they were beggars and poor people who had died getting no food to eat. No one had shown any mercy to them. The faces of the dead bodies were pale, dry and stared at the sky with bulging, passive eyes that indicated nothing but grief. No one knew that there were so many dead people as these people had not mattered in this world…No one knew their silent existence even when they were living....

Khalid, Tia and Vyacheslav also saw other horrific scenes of death, demolition and destruction on earth, which had no living souls to save now. Vast tracts of ocean which beared the dead bodies of fishes which died because of a petrol's tant leak. Somewhere they saw the few remains of war. Someone had stolen all life, happiness and peace that once reigned on earth…

The essence of evil has sneaked into this once-happy place. Evil has done its job most proficiently… It has crept into earth and turned a human's heart charcoal-black. The destruction and devastaion had spread very slowly for many years in front of the Chosen One's eyes. Satan was now everywhere...within all human beings and even inside the Chosen Ones... The Chosen Ones had lived their lives selfishly... When they could devote all their time to purify humans from this evil, they devoted it for developing their powers which was of no use now.... Whom would they fight and whom would they destroy to fulfill the prophecy?All the humans whose hearts were possessed by evil today???