River of Time, a place which is considered to have peace as its oxygen for its residents. This is the place from where a mythical being witnessed a godly event in many different versions. Under the safety of its Keeper, Kaka (a crow), the people of this world which lives' out of the loop of time, live happily but who knew that darkness would come devouring the prosperous timeless land.

“Who do you point? That Ekha, huh? I shall destroy him, Kaka. Summon him if you want him to die?”

With anger and frustration in his face, Kaka chanted a mantra and teleported himself to the nearest residential settlement. The wounded Kaka could not walk too far. He couldn’t even stand on his legs, when a resident witnessed the wounded Kaka and took him to a doctor.

A few days flew away. Kaka had regained his powers. Kaka flew away to a nearby river and started chanting some of his mantras. As he started chanting, his wings widened, and he started moving above the sky. He released his hands and when he opened his eyes, it started glowing. The sky started changing its color from the blue to an astronomic level where he is standing above the sun and all the planets are in a straight line.

He stretched his arms to two opposite sides. On each side a black hole appeared. From the black hole at his right, six humans holding different astras in which five were in black metallic armor covering their face and the other one was in a royal robe. With them, from the same whole came out a semi-human monkey holding a Gada (a blunt mace).

From the other black hole, a sleeping boy holding the Brhatbanu was pulled out. Kaka closed his eyes and pulled his hands close and within no time, all the summoned eight started moving down. The sleeping boy Isavaka, fell down from the sky with a great speed and hurt himself and woke up.

“OUCH! Where am I? How did I fall?!”

Listening Isavaka’s cry, the person who wore the royal robe said, "Was I such an idiot?”

“Yeah, you were, Isava.”

“Hey Maru! I did not expect this from you.”

“Um. Can someone give me clarity of what's happening here?”

“Err... *caw* *caw*”

Every one of the summoned eight turned towards Kaka.

“I have summoned you eight here, *caw* *caw*. Let me explain myself. The Demon king has invaded our land, *caw* *caw*, the Timeless land. I am the Keeper of this land, *caw *caw*. If I am not wrong, I summoned the Saptas, *caw* *caw*. I don’t get why there are eight here. Let me revise the extra person later, but I request you to fight with me against the Demon King, *caw* *caw*.”

“WHAT! Demon King, who is he?”

“Arr... Why did the past come here? I wanted the future ones, *caw* *caw*.”

Kaka hits his head and turns towards Isavaka and observes the shadow tier Brhatbanu and comes out with a shock. He turns towards the teenagers and observes that there is a guy who yields a non-shadow tier bow. He again hits his head.

“Wait, wait, wait... *caw* *caw*... You are the future bow yielder but where is your shadow tier bow?!”

“Uh... that... I am no longer taking that responsibility. So, can I go back and lead my normal life as a Pratha?”
“WHAT! YOU are the future ME?! I don’t give up on MY duties!”

“Yeah, I don’t give up on my duties as a Pratha, but I gave my duty as Ekha. The reason is, *pause* I have completed my duty of Ekha by uniting the others and...”

“NO! The duty of Ekha was bound to train and fight by the side of the God destined warrior! How can you resign before you do that?!”

The half-monkey started speaking,” Firstly junior, my name is Maru. You’ll get to know me very soon, approximately at the time you enter 5th year. Coming to the point, Isavaka of the future, who is renowned as the ‘Ghost of the East’ committed a mistake. He could not save his village from a demon outbreak. So, he left the position of Ekha and now you see him here. He is the Dhanush Pratha.”

“You... you failed saving my village...”, terror all over his face, Isavaka glared at his future self and bowed his head.

“Don’t worry *lifting head* I’ll change everything. I’ll save our village.”

“It is not that simple kiddo. You’ll be stabbed, betrayed and tortured. You don’t know what cataclysm is coming forward. I could not save a single life... I was forced... I was forced to reveal crucial information... I... *crying* I... I *on knees*... I DID SOMETHING VERY BAD FOR MY OWN SURVIVAL!!!”

“You cried now. That means in future I might cry same as you, but... but I’ll defeat anything and everything that’ll come in the way of my absolute peace.”

Isavaka walks away from his retarded future self. Kaka realizes why two versions of the same person have collided. It’s a call for the Ekha to beat the crap out of him and once again stand on his legs.

“Hey, where should I sleep *yawn*?”

“Anywhere in this greenery *turning head to sky*. Till the demon king arrives.”