THE MESSIAH

VOLUME 1

CHAPTER 1.

His name is Zenith.

It was dark, no sunlight was reaching the surface and it seemed like it was about to rain.

BANGG!!!!

The thundering scared off the birds flying, and in no time it started to rain. As soon as the 1st drop touched the surface, the crying of a small human infant echoed. It came from a huge dug whole in the ground, it was like a dumping ground, and it was stinking, the only difference was that it was not garbage which was dumped into the hole. There were bodies in it. Human bodies piled up one upon the other, it made a bloody picture, and on the top of this pile there was the child. All alone in that mess and crying.

2 Kraton soldiers were walking in that surrounding area.

Kratons, the invaders of the earth, the rulers who rule over the humans along with Gulves. Kratons and Gulves both the species used their superior strength to torment the humans. Kratons with their Mana- magic and Gulves with their overwhelming physical strength threatened the existence of humans in their own planet earth. Humans had to kneel down and obey. That's what history says.

On appearance Kraton's physical features were just like humans, except for their purple skin.

"Ughhh! It stinks."

Said the 1st soldier with his hand on his nose.

"Yeah right, dead humans and dead rats stink the most."

Replied the other soldier.

The crying echoed again.

"Hey hey, you hear that?"

Asked the soldier.

"Yeahh!! I guess the executioner missed one, we should report about him."

"Yeah right, but 1st let's have a look where the voice is coming from, that dumping hole it is."

They both rushed towards the dumping hole. And saw that there was a human child on the top of the piles of human bodies.

"There it is, a child, let's grab him as a proof."

They managed to get that human child into their hands and went towards the Kraton's colony. The Kratons had separated their ruling land into two parts the human colony and the Kraton colony, the ambience of this colony was rich. There were several castles built, you can say by the looks that the people who live here are having a luxurious life.

Near the huge gate of this colony there was standing the executioner along with a Kraton elder named Sintan. When the two soldiers came towards the colony with a human child in their hands Sintan made a confused look on his face and asked

"That's an unusual picture, what's going on?"

"Lord Sintan, we are here to report that we found this child in the dumping hole, when we were checking up after the slave massacre. Our executioner has missed this child."

Said the soldier.

"Hmm, this is an offense."

Sintan stared at the executioner who was standing right next to him."

"Lord, I didn't intended to----"

"I am afraid I don't care if that was on mistake or on purpose, that is an offense, no human comes out alive from the massacre that's the golden rule, and today you have violated that rule, in punishment what you get is death. And in reward of reporting this situation what the soldier gets is a promotion, he is our new executioner now. And his 1st command is to execute the previous executioner."

"I am sorry my lord, I beg you to forgive me."

Cried the executioner, kneeling before Sintan.

"I hear no------"

Before completing his sentence, Sintan's eye catched a ring on the child's finger. A golden ring, Sintan reacted as if he had seen this ring before.

"Give me that child."

Ordered Sintan.

The moment he took that child into his hands his heartbeat increased, he started sweating and said.

"Executioner, you have been spared this time, instead you did a good job."

The soldier was confused and he said

"But sir, he----"

"SHUT UP!"

Yelled Sintan.

"I am keeping this child for now, you all get back to your duties, DISMISS!"

Sintan was serious, he started walking towards his castle with the child in his hands. He was in a hurry.

"There's no doubt about it, it's the same thing…."

Said Sintan to himself.

Sintan entered his castle and rushed towards his room, he locked the room, placed the child on a table. He removed that ring from the child's finger and tried to wear that ring himself, but the moment his little finger came in touch with that ring, his finger busted.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!"

He cried due to the pain.

"What was that?????!!! That ring, after all these years, here it is…. How?????"

Sintan tied a bandage to his little finger, he had lost that finger of his. Usually Sintan is not this serious but today this ring is giving him stress. He tried to wear that ring, to know more about it, he was curious but by the looks of his face, he was more frightened than curious by the presence of that ring.

Sintan was walking around the room murmuring

"No! I can't do that … but!!!!!!! Ughhhhh!!!!!"

He was confused, so he poured himself a glass of water. He closed his eyes and sat down.

A few minutes later he opened his eyes, and it seemed that he had made a decision. He stood up, grabbed a pen and paper, he wrote something on it and called for a guard

He handed that paper to the guard and said

"Spread this word to all elders in the colony right now."

The word was that Sintan wanted to call for an elder meeting, in the next hour. The guard did his job, by the next hour. All the Kraton elders had gathered in the nearby hall of the colony. There were about 40-50 elders. Sintan waited for all to arrive and when all did, he entered the hall with that child in his hand, and with that ring on that child's finger.

As soon as the elders saw that child in the room, they started gossiping among themselves, they stared at Sintan and that child.

"What was it Sintan that couldn't even wait a day? We usually give a notice a day before."

Asked an elder.

"It was something important."

Said Sintan with a blank face.

"Is it something related to that…. "

The elder pointed his finger towards the child.

"Yes"

Sintan replied, he took a deep breath and started with his announcement.

"Greetings, my lords. I am sorry I had to call you all on such a short notice, but the situation called for it. And that situation is…."

Sintan picked up that child

"This, I wanted to say that, I have decided that"

Sintan closed his eyes

"I am gonna raise this human child in this colony, not as a slave but as a family member."

The silence in the room said it all.

A few seconds later when all were done processing what Sintan just said.

"This is nonsense!!!"

Said an elder.

"Think before you say, will ya?"

"My lords! I am using my elder right for this."

Said Sintan, elder right was a gesture made to the elders by the Kratons themselves, which allows the elder to perform the actions even if it violates the rules, no one can object, when the elder right is used. Though the elder eight can be used only twice.

"Damn!!! We can't do anything now! He has done it!!"

Said an elder.

"Would you like to explain this???"

Asked an elder.

"When the time comes."

Replied Sintan.

"Nothing can be done now, there's no point complaining now, so grandpa Sintan, what are you gonna name him?"

Said an elder with a sarcastic tone.

"Huh! Humans have their elder one's name them, technically I do have a right to name him. In Fact I have thought of a name."

Said Sintan.

"And that is ?"

Sintan held the child up and said

"His name is Zenith."

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