As the lights ran out,everyone started to panic and murmur to each other.Slowly the sound of a piano silenced the mutters.It started in a low note and developed into a perfect tune,the Rise of Destruction.A spot light was turned on and travelled to the source of the music.It stopped moving at a spot where a man was sitting and playing a piano,showing his back to everyone.The guests slowly started enjoying the soulful music while the Valliyath siblings started to sweat.

The music came to an end and the man slowly turned around.It was none other than Adithya.He picked up a mic and said,
"This tune was my father's favourite and he himself had taught me to play it.So  on this happy occasion of togetherness,let me present a portrait of my father prepared by myself as a token of love and remembrance."he paused and moved from where he was standing.There was a huge structure covered in a red cloth behind him.He invited the Valliyath siblings to unravel it.The two men and Parvathi neared the painting and slowly moved the cloth.There was an evil smirk plastered on their faces.

As the painting was unravelled,all of them stared at it in awe.It was magnificent and Adithya's talent was worthy of tremendous appreciation.

But the anomaly everyone noticed was that the painting's background was of fire and blood,giving it a fiery look.Anand's face had a red glow and the Valliyath felt as if he was standing infront of them in blood and flesh.

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The party proceeded with fun and laughter and soon it was time for dinner.All the guests were requested to go to the grand dining hall.

The guests were now seated at their respective seats around the dining table and they were served wine.

Everyone dug into the dishes and almost finished eating while the lights ran out again.Everyone fell silent as they heard some chantings and screams.Slowly the noise turned into sharp breathes,sending a chill down everyone's spines.The breathes subsided abruptly and the atmosphere was oozing with deadly silence.

There was a loud crashing noise and then it was silent again.

Most of the guests tried to get out of the room only to realise all the doors were locked from outside.

As the lights came back,all they could see was the chandelier of the dining hall lay crashed on the table and the curtains catching fire.There was panic everywhere.All the doors were suddenly wide open and all humans present there ran out with their lives,while three people lay on the chairs,unconscious.

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Prathap Valliyath blinked his eyes twice and then again.He couldn't make out where he was as darkness prevailed the surroundings.He could here the disturbing sound of a typewriter and the creaking of an easy chair.He badly wanted to close his ears but he found out that his hands were tied tightly with a rope.He winced to free his hands and a small cry escaped his mouth as he felt pain rising on his right elbow.He felt a hot fluid stream down his elbow and touch his fingers.

"Who are you?What do you want from me?Why did you tie my hands?"he yelled in distress.

Slowly the area started lighting up,making him realise the place.It was Anand's room in his outhouse.

The painting of Anand created by Adithya lay hung on the wall in front of him.A sudden panic gripped his veins.The painting slowly started glowing.

"For your hands are stained with blood,your fingers with guilt;

your lips speak falsehood,and tongue utters deceit."Adithya walked in holding a typewriter in his hands  with Maya and he stared at them in shock.

"No one brings suit justly,no one pleads truthfully;

They trust in emptiness and tell lies;

they conceive mischief and bring forth malice.

They hatch adders' eggs,and weave spider's webs:

Whoever eats their eggs will die,if one of them is pressed,it will hatch as a viper;

Their webs cannot serve as clothing,nor can they cover themselves with their works.

Their works are evil works,and deeds of violence come from their hands."Adithya paused and stood infront of him with an evil shine in his eyes.

"So its you.Son of the dead Anand.Look at him Maya.Are you helping him to trap me?" he asked with a smirk.

"Their feet run to evil,and they are quick to shed innocent blood;Their thoughts are destructive thoughts,plunder and ruin are on their highways."Maya spoke,completing the verse Adithya had said.

"Ohh.So you are all ready to destroy me?You think you can scare me with those punch dialogues."Prathap said and chuckled out.

"Its no punch dialogue Mama,just a verse from the bible that my father had taught us a day before his murder."Adithya stressed on the word murder making Prathap sure that they know everything.

"And not only you are being destroyed.Just take a look at your left."Maya said and he turned left to see Parvathi and Vikram in the same condition as of him,but unconscious.

"But why do you say Anand is murdered?"Prathap decided to act dump.

Maya started shaking in anger.Suddenly she felt dizzy and then everything blacked out.

Adithya stared in horror as he saw her eyeballs' colour changing from jet black to blood red.She tilted her face to look at Prathap and in the flash of a second caught hold of his neck.

"You bloody!Are you trying to act dump after killing me?"she yelled,her voice manlike.

"Maya!"Adithya called her.

"Anand I am"she screamed.

Prathap choked and she slowly released her hands.By that time,Vikram and Parvathi earned consciousness.They stared in horror as Maya sat on the easy chair at a corner,keeping one of her legs on the other,swaying back and forth just like Anand.

"From my birth, all of you taunted me and hurt me making me go insane.I was declared mad by my own parents in front of my eyes.Do you know how humiliating it is?
When I found out the cruelties going on here,you made me a prey for your wrath.You killed me like an animal."her fiery voice was turning gloomy.

"I'm asking you a question I had been storing  for the three of you of you since ages.Why?Why this much hatred towards me?Is it my fault to be born in this family?"

"No answer?"this time it was Adithya.He threw the typewriter he had kept on the table.It crashed with a loud sound.

"With the same typewriter,you made me type my so called suicide note.Then you made me sign it.Now the past is going to revise itself.I'll laugh at your dead bodies.I'll set my foot on the soil you will be buried.I'll spit at it."she laughed out.

"Your suicide note is already typed.Just have to get your signs."Adithya said and walked to Parvathi.

He held a dagger near her neck and made her sign the note forcefully.He then approached Vikram but he denied to sign.

"Look Uncle.We have evidences against all the crimes you have committed till date.CCTV footages,files,folders,agreements and everything.Not only yours.All the three of yours.We have handed it to the cops and they will come in an hour.So decision is yours.Like an obedient child,sign this or rot in jail for the whole of your life."Adithya said and took out some agreements from his pockets.They were of  some of the illegal contracts Vikram was  part in.

"Dying is netter than being tortured everyday. "Vikram thought and signed the note.

Suddenly a kick landed on Adithya's back and he fell down with a thud.He turned back to see Prathap standing beside him with an evil laugh.

A fight broke between them and ended with Adithya's foot placed on Prathap's chest.Adithya made him lay on the floor on his chest.He then clutched Prathap's hair and made him face the suicide note lying on the floor beside him.

"Sign it."he yelled

Prathap slowly signed it.The next second,the room was on fire.
Before leaving Adithya glared at the terrified faces of the wicked fratricides and said,"Karma sucks!"

Adithya and Maya ran out of the house while smoke filled the surroundings.

"Both of you healed my wounded soul."Anand who had possessed Maya said while Adithya looked at her with teary eyes.

"Take care of her and I love you."saying this she fainted in his arms.

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Adithya clapped his hands so that crows would eat the rice kept in front of him(its a hindu ritual performed after someone's death so that he/she could rest in peace.I guess all of u know it better than me)

Some crows gathered together and ate the rice bringing a small smile to his face.He looked at Maya and caught hold of her hand.He left the place with satisfaction and a tinge of sorrow.

They reached Anandakripa in an hour and Adithya changed to his casuals.

He looked for Maya and found her in the kitchen making something.He slowly sneaked towards her lifted her in his hands.

"Leave me Adi."

"No.We got married in the temple after dad's last rites.You said no touchy touchy before marriage.Now that we are married,we can do as much as touchy touchy we want."

Maya blushed crimson while he placed a kiss on her cheek.

THE END

So this story has come to an end and I thank all my readers who encouraged me by voting and commenting.
I know I didn't write much about Adithya and Maya's life.So here is a small gift.

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Chris