IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

Shonun , a boy mere 10 years old, had to witness the death of his parents in front of his eyes . While he was hiding in a nearby trunk, his parents were getting brutually murdered by a group of thugs and bandits. Little did he knew that this day will change his life entirely.

Forward 7 years into the future , now shonun , a 17 years old handsome lad is on his way to china after years of travelling all around the world . There he sought after mental peace as his soul has been dried up since the day his parents were murdered. The year was 1508. As he roamed through the streets of a peaceful town in china, the images of war wounded and devastated images of his own country kept swaying around his head. He has never returned to his country, India, after that ill fated night after which he left his country for good .

As far as he could see , there where kids playing around and people busy in their daily chores. He wandered whether this is the place where he would find what he was looking for . Suddenly a priest looking saint crossed the road in front of his. As if there were magnets attracting him , Shonun developed an itch to follow the monk . After a few minutes of following him, shonun reached a series of stairs above of which lied a temple looking structure. As he climbed the stairs , he went upto the temple and asked around about what was that place. But none of the monks seemed to mind his presence at all. Inside the temple was a huge statue of Gautam Buddha beside which sat a monk meditating.

Shonun sat there waiting for the monk to complete his meditation as he fell asleep from hunger and tireness. As the monk completed his meditation he saw a young boy sleeping on the floor of temple. He woke shonun up and tried to communicate with him but upto no avail as both didn’t understood a single word which either spoke. So the monk tried to ask shonun using hand signs which he quickly followed and said that he was hungry. The monk offered shonun with some food and asked him to sleep in a spare room using his hand signs. The next day shonun woke up and started helping around the temple in their daily chores. He would sweep the floor , wash clothes of other monks and even cook food for them. He found great joy in these things. As a month passed by, one day as he was sweeping the floor when he heard the disciples of the temple practicing kung-fu. One of them was the same saint which he saw that day who crossed the road in front of him. As shonun tried to approach that monk, another monk tried to tell him something. The other monk punched repeatedly in the air looking directly in the eyes of shonun. This monk was Shourya who tried to get shonun to follow him. So shonun understood and started practicing with those monks . As days went by, shonun mastered all of the techniques that kung-fu had to offer in a mere short period of 3 months. All the monks in the temple were shocked to see a 17 year old boy master all of the techniques of kung-fu in such a short time. This didn’t go un-noticed by the head priest as well. The head priest was the one whom shonun met while he was meditating near buddha’s statue. The priest called a local translator to the temple the next day who could understand and speak both the languages. The priest spoke to shonun in a mild , timid voice. He said that shonun is not a normal human being. There hasn’t been any person who has mastered all of kung-fu in such a short time. NO single person has ever even mastered all of kung-fu in their entire lives. The priest went on to say that shonun should enquire more about his family background as he doesn’t seemed to be a normal human. There were no ill intentions in the priest’s words but Shonun was not able to interpret the priest’s intentions and got angry and stood up and yelled that the priest was jealous of him as he had mastered all of kung-fu and the news of which will bring shame on the monks as a foreign boy mastered all of which no other monk had been able to, before. He said that he didn’t wanted to stay with the monks any longer as they will only try to hinder his learnings and that he will never return to the temple again.

One month later, Shonun was in England which at that time was having a revolution in the fields of science and technology. He stayed with an elderly couple who had no children of their own. Near their house was a library which had books of all kinds . Shonun was fascinated by these books . He tried to read some of those books but didn’t understood a single letter and was hopelessly lost. Then he found a book entirely by chance. It was a dictionary which translated all of the English words in Hindi. From their on Shonun read as much books as he could with the help of the dictionary, reading as much as 500 books in two months. This was not suited to the eyes of the librarian and so one day, he along with his neighbours followed Shonun to his house and started throwing rocks and pebbles at his house. Shonun immediately came out of the house and begged the locals to not do so as he feared that the old couple might get hurt. Then amongst the crowd an old man came to his aid. He shouted at the crowd to leave the couple and the boy alone. But the townspeople were hell-bent on making Shonun leave the town. So Shonun had to do so unwillingly and yet again he was deprived of a home.

Three months later, Shonun is back in India. He reached his old house of his parents. A group of thugs were residing in the empty house. Shonun came through the front door and saw some of those thugs in the main hall. He asked the people who they were but none answered. Then a guy called Shonun asking who he was and what business did he had on his house. Shonun described to the guy that this was his house but the thug pushed him and tried to get him out of his house. Shonun gently asked the thugs to leave his house but none did so and then suddenly a thug started peeing on the floor below a family picture of Shonun. Shonun boiled with rage but a thug attacked Shonun but he easily punched him away breaking 4 of his teeth away. And then he called

“Get out of my house” and again but a little louder “Get out of my House” .

After this all of the thugs surrounded Shonun and a big fight occoured. Shonun was easily overwhelming the 8 thugs beating them around . A punch to the face, a kick to the kneecap , a hand-chop to the shoulders and a round-house to the chest and all the thugs were on the ground. The thugs ran for their lives out of the house while Shonun sat on his knees with tears rolling down from his eyes. But something strange happened at that time. A drop of his tear went straight down the floor as if there was nothing below the surface. Shonun took notice of this and started searching the floor for something unusual. After going through the floor a few times Shonun found a handle which he pulled up and a series of stairs appeared in front of him. Shonun lit a torch and descended down the stairs with the light of the torch fading slowly and slowly behind him.