My peaceful dream was broken by none other than my sweet sister Anshu. The water she splashed on my face was icy cold. 

"Flood! Flood!" I shouted as I came to my senses. 

All the three of the- Anshu, Karan and Chitrakshi - were standing in front of me. 

"What?" I asked half confused half in shock. The air around me was icy and the sky outside was dark which meant it was early in the morning. 

"Well, you are going tho be Princess's trainee now." Karan said. 

"So?" 

"So we just thought…" Anshu said. 

"No-no. No more terrible ideas." 

"... We are just giving you a makeover. Besides it's my idea." Chitrakshi completed. 

God! Save me. 

"Why did you wake me up so early then?" 

"Vaani wakes up by six. The market here opens at five. It will take us much time in market so we decided to take some margin." 

"So you woke me up at half past three?" 

"We got over excited." 

"I am over exhasusted." 

"Whatever." 

"What whatever?" 

"No- it isn't 'whatever' whatever. But actually whatever whatever. Wait- I didn't mean that-" 

"Shut up." 

"OK, we admit this that you have half an hour in spare." 

"Half an hour only?" 

"Twenty nine minutes and forty three seconds if you want to be exact." 

I got freshed and dressed. Looking in the mirror, I was still the same- brown eyes, blah hair blah blah, a couple of scars too, but this didn't matter any more. Because I knew what I had to do. 

I grabbed the Book of Keeps. The pages seemed like feathers to me. The book was vulnerable. Keeping in mind about not to harm it, I turned the pages. 

Index

The Gods and the pact

The Eternal Kingdom - The Beginning 

Types of Creatures 

Types of SaptaSiddhis

Assembly of Gods

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Well, the thing was all Greek to me hence I decided to start reading the first chapter. 

The Gods and the Pact 

In the beginning of the world, there was only darkness, nameless, lifeless universe. In the middle of this nameless world, the formation of a body took place. The body revealed light. But not just any light, the light had a very high intensity and it resembled goodness- the only light in the dark. 

Slowly the light faded away, revealing a man with a crown, four hands and garland. He was lying on a five headed snake.

Vishnu the first primordial. 

From the navel of Vishnu, Brahma came out. 

But the union of two primordials was up to no good. Soon, Vishnu and Brahma started arguing about who is Greater, who came first. 

Due to their arguments, Shiva came into Existence. He first questioned the knowledge of the other two primordials. The one who gave satisfactory answer was Vishnu. 

In this very way, the three Fates came in the world. 

Brahma the creator, 

Vishnu the operator and, 

Shiva the destroyer. 

Well, I was going to sleep again. Boring man! 

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In the middle of the pages, I noticed a strange heading 

List of Gods

Indra - he is the King of the Gods. He is the God of sky and thunder. Greek equivalent Zeus. 

Ashwinis - they are the twins, doctor twins if we go exact. They have marvelous medic powers. 

Surya - The Sun God. He resides in Suryalok. Greek equivalent Apollo. 

Chandra - He is the moon God. 

Varun - The God of Water bodies. 

Agni - The God of Fire. 

Vayu - The God of Wind. 

Yum - The God of Death, son of Sun God Surya. Greek equivalent Hades. 

Shani - The God of equality and balancer of Deeds. 

Prithvi - The Goddess of Earth. 

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I flipped the pages and the last number in the list was-

330000021

Literally! Thirty three crore Gods! But I continued to read the page. 

Besides this, the three main gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are the three Fates of this world. 

"Hey Neel, come." Chitrakshi called. 

I quickly folded the page, barely reading the subheading - 

The Pact

"Are you coming or not?" Chitrakshi called again. 

"Where are we going?" 

"Parlor." 

"I thought you were kidding." 

"No we were not. Be quick now, we are getting late." 

I quick grabbed a jacket, as I left the room. 

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"You said that the place wasn't too far." Anshu complained. 

"Come on! You only walked a few miles." replied Chitrakshi. 

"But my legs are in utter pain." 

"This was your plan. Stop complaining about it." 

We were in the middle of a large clearing. The place was surrounded by not large but many infrastructures. There was one with a big sword attached to the roof. "The weapons shop." Karan told me. 'Ajay and Sons- Professional Blade Smiths' as I read the sign board. 

"So, here you buy all weapons?" 

"Actually no. This is the place from where the Palace is supplied it's supplies." 

"Oh!" 

An old man came out. "Listen everyone! Today we are going to organize a contest. The one who will win this competition will get a chance to lay his or her hands on my personally favourites-

He led his hands forward, revealing two daggers one of gold and one of silver. They looked fabulous!

"Advance Demon Hunting Daggers. These are made itself from the treasurey of the Palace." 

"Man! I want those." Karan appealed. 

"And what will you do of those? They are not for cutting fruits… " Chitrakshi said satirically. "... Ajay will not give them for nothing." 

So that man was Ajay, the shop owner. 

"The competition will start from this evening. It will start everyday at twelve to five for three days. The one who will win this three day competion will win these blades." 

"I want to take part." Karan told me. 

"But for sure, many graceful fighters will come to complete there. You will be like a chicken in the middle of a wolf pack!"

"I will not give up trying...." Karan replied. "...Remember what an ant can do to an elephant." 

A crowd of people approached in an instant. Participants. 

Ajay noted the names of all of them."This evening OK." he once again reminded them as the crowd cleared. 

Karan approached some moments later. 

"Yes?" Ajay asked. 

"The form. I want to take part." 

"Two forms are left. But I have promised about a fifty contestants. I would give it to you for free if you will be able to find another person" Ajay put his demands. 

"I know another person who will at sure participate." 

Who was that person? I wanted to meet him. 

Karan came back with a smile on his face. 

"Great that you got your hands on a ticket." 

"Can you hold this ticket for a minute?" 

I grabbed the tickets as I asked, "Who is the second person, By the Way?" 

"Well…" 

"Yes…."

"The person has got his hands on his ticket." 

"What?" 

"It's you Neel. Congrats, By the Way." 

This was turning bad now but somehow it cheered me up, at least he was happy. These SaptaSiddhis have given me uncountable number of favors. I owe them something. 

After many days, I did something good. 

I was lost in my own thoughts as a hand moved ahead to my face. 

"Are you listening? Neel? Hey you moron, we better get going." Chitrakshi asked. 

Back to Earth. 

"That place I the corner is where you will get a makeover." she continued. 

'ArtStation: A Makeover Destination' 

"Am I going to get a makeover here?"

"See? I said hell would be a better option."

"Stop this Anshu. I like what I am. And I think this is the only thing that matters."

"But we don't like what you are. None of us…" then there was a long pause, "... and neither do Vaani."

"What did you say?"

I actually wanted to ask What did she say? But that might have made the moment awkward.

"Well you are the anti-social type person and you like it or not but being around you is somewhat -"

"Uncomfortable." I completed her sentence.

"I might use different."

"Taking this straight forward, you think I am a gay, right?"

"No!" Anshu and Chitrakshi said in union.

"Yes." Karan's words came as a punch on my personality.

"No I am not!"

"Yes you are."

"A really big NO to that."

"Prove it then."

"What?"

"Let's talk straight. Agree to makeover."

"How in heaven is it related to my sex ?"

"It is. The way you look describes your personality and if you change your style of presentation so that you can change your way of thinking, your personality and hence, your gender."

"You seem like Hitler."

"Come on. It's just a parlor secession. Agree or not?"

I thought for a moment. Why did I take it too far? I had to end this now. After all, this wasn't a big deal.

"Okay."

Anshu and Chitrakshi grabbed my hands and took me inside. "A girl knows the best definition of handsome. We will handle this Karan. You will not come inside." Chitrakshi said as Anshu put a black cloth over my eyes.

First thing I was treated with were scissors. I was unable to see anything and the only thing I heard the clicking of scissors.

Straight after that, I was transfered to the changing room. "Don't you dare remove that cloth from your eyes." Anshu said as she handed me something to change. 

"But how in this world am I going to get ready if I am blindfold."

"You don't need to see the food to eat it." She said as she shut the door.

I came out after a few minutes, taking the support of the walls and objects around. 

"So what do you think?" Chitrakshi asked.

"No." Anshu replied.

"A big NO." Chitrakshi agreed.

Then they gave me another pair of clothes.

I came out after what seemed a quarter. 

"Nice!" They both said in union.

"You can open the blindfold now." Chitrakshi said.

I opened my eyes slowly. There was a mirror right next to where I was standing. I had a glance at my self. My messy hair now had a nice one side haircut. I was wearing black jeans and t-shirt along with a golden jacket.

Man! I was looking cool!

"If your staring is complete then I have a visitor for you."

"Who? Where?"

"Right past that door."

 Okay. Now I was even having visitors? I opened the door and was amazed to see the person.

"You look hot." Vaani said as her jaw hit the floor.