Aarav ran.
His breath was breaking.
His heart felt like it would explode out of his chest.
Behind him—
Footsteps.
Dozens of them.
Slow.
Perfectly synchronized.
He didn't dare to look back.
Because he already knew—
👉 They were still following him.
"Think… THINK!" Aarav whispered to himself.
"This isn't real… this can't be real…"
But it felt real.
Too real.
The cold air.
The pounding heartbeat.
The fear.
He turned into a narrow alley.
Dead end.
Aarav stopped.
His body froze.
"No… no no no…"
Slowly—
He turned around.
They were there.
All of them.
Standing at the entrance of the alley.
Men.
Women.
Children.
All smiling.
All with black eyes.
And in the middle—
👉 Meera.
She stepped forward.
Slowly.
Gracefully.
Like a predator playing with its prey.
"Why are you running, Aarav?" she asked softly.
"You were looking for me… weren't you?"
Aarav backed into the wall.
"I… I just wanted to save you…"
Meera tilted her head.
Her smile widened.
"Save me?"
She started laughing.
A low… echoing… inhuman laugh.
💀 "You still don't understand…" 💀
Suddenly—
All the people behind her spoke together—
💀 "YOU CREATED THIS." 💀
Aarav covered his ears.
"STOP IT!!"
But the voices only grew louder.
Stronger.
Inside his head.
💀 "Every universe…"
💀 "Every death…"
💀 "Every scream…"
💀 "It all started with you…" 💀
Aarav dropped to his knees.
"No… I don't remember anything… I didn't do this…"
Meera walked closer.
Now just a few steps away.
"Then let me help you remember…"
She raised her hand.
And pointed at his forehead.
⚡ The world shattered ⚡
Suddenly—
Aarav was somewhere else.
Again.
A room.
Dark.
Silent.
And in front of him—
👉 Another version of himself.
This time—
Not a killer.
Not smiling.
Broken.
Crying.
"I didn't mean to…" the other Aarav whispered.
"I just wanted to stop her…"
Aarav's heart sank.
"Stop… her?"
The memory continued—
👉 Meera screaming.
👉 Machines everywhere.
👉 The same multiverse device.
"You were going to leave me…" the other Aarav said.
"So I trapped you… across universes…"
Aarav's eyes widened.
"No…"
Tears streamed down the other version's face.
"I split your existence…"
"Again and again…"
"Across infinite realities…"
His voice broke—
💀 "So you would never leave me…" 💀
⚡⚡⚡
Aarav's mind collapsed.
All the pieces connected.
👉 The machine…
👉 The universes…
👉 The deaths…
It wasn't random.
It was—
👉 A prison.
For Meera.
And he was the one who built it.
"NOOOOO!!" Aarav screamed.
The memory shattered again.
He was back in the alley.
Meera stood in front of him.
Smiling.
But her eyes—
Filled with pain.
"You remember now…?" she asked softly.
Aarav looked at her—
Tears in his eyes.
"I… did this to you…"
Meera nodded slowly.
💔 "You didn't just kill me…"
💔 "You trapped me… in every possible death."
Aarav's voice broke—
"I'll fix it… I swear… I'll destroy the machine…"
Meera's smile changed.
Into something darker.
More dangerous.
😈 "Too late." 😈
She leaned closer.
Whispering—
💀 "Now… it's my turn to trap you." 💀
⚡⚡⚡
Suddenly—
The crowd rushed toward him.
All at once.
Aarav screamed—
Everything went black.
TO BE CONTINUED…
"Next universe… you won't be the only one trapped." 😈🔥