Elephant and Tiger
Disclaimer: I do not own Far cry 4 its characters or its story.
Warning: Swearing, mention of blood.
Chapter 1 - Return of prodigal son
The bus ride wasn't as bad as Jessica thought it would be. But she still didn't like how the bus looked. There was even monkey here! And it was running free. Not that she had something against animals, she loved them, but she didn't really like monkeys. Ajay was sitting next to her and that meant next to the window. Normally she would sit next to a window, but this time she knew that Ajay needed it. It was country where he was born he deserves to see it fully. Ajay however wasn't looking at the scenery. He was looking at his mother's ashes. They were nearing the borders of Kyrat. The bus driver shouted for everyone to get ready and take out their passports. Jessica did just that and she noticed that Ajay wasn't listening. She gently shook his arm to get his attention. "Ajay, they ask for passport." Ajay nodded and said. "Yeah, here." Jessica saw his worried expression. "Hey, if you are afraid to talk, don't worry I'm not afraid to talk." Ajay greatfully smiled and said. "Thank you Jess, but I think I'm okay." Jessica nodded and gave the passports to Darpan who gave them to another person and it ended with the driver.
In a short while the bus stopped and driver took all the passport and went outside to check in with the border guards. The guards were checking for things under the bus. This put Ajay on edge. "What is happening?" He asked Darpan, but he just shushed him. Sure he knew something about terrorists, but he didn't think it would be that bad. And not to mention he saw a helicopter in the distance. Jessica was also getting nervous as she saw how a guard slapped the bus driver's hand and all passports flied out of it. Suddenly two people from the back of the bus run outside with two weapons. The guards start to shoot at them and the bus driver shoots one of the guards with a pistol. The guards shoot the two people from the back of the bus and one of them points towards Ajay, who is looking out of the window. They start shooting and Ajay pulls back along with Jessica as Darpan motions them out of the bus. Ajay opens the door of the bus and is greeted by strong wind coming from the helicopter. He is soon aimed at by the guards so he puts his hands in surrender. Jessica does the same, not knowing what else to do. Soon all three of them are lying on the ground, Darpan facing ground and Ajay and Jessica looking at the helicopter. Suddenly man in black coat and pink pants jumps from the helicopter to the ground. He puts his hands to his face. He points at the main guard and starts speaking. "I distinctly remember saying stop the bus." He comes closer and continues. "Yes. Stop the bus. Not shoot the bus. I'm very particular with my words. Stop. Shoot. Stop. Shoot. Do those words sound same?" The soldier looked to the ground and whispered. "But it got out of control." The man put a hand on the soldier's shoulder and asked. "I'm sorry I didn't hear you. What did you say?" The soldier repeated. "It got out of control." The man pulled a pen out of his coat and looked towards the sky. "Got out of control. I hate when things get out of control." Suddenly he stabbed the soldier with his pen. "You had one fucking job and you couldn't fucking do that." He keeps stabbing him as he says this. Jessica and Ajay don't know what to think about this. The man finally pulls away and loudly whispers. "And I got blood on my fucking shoes." Suddenly he looks at Ajay and turns back to now dead soldier. "At least there's silver lining. You didn't completely fuck it up." He turns once again to Ajay and stands up. "Get up boy. I'd recognize those eyes anywhere." He helps Ajay to stand up and hugs him. Jessica just lies on the ground with uncertainty. The man realises Ajay from the hug. "I'm so sorry about this. This was supposed to be ...Well not this." He puts his hand on Ajay's arm. "We have a party waiting for you." He stops and looks at Jessica. "But I don't think I know your name." She looks up from the ground and the man smiles at her. "Jessica Brown." She whispers quietly, however the man hears it and turns to Ajay. "Quiet and beautiful, I like it." The soldiers then go to take Darpan and Jessica from the ground while the man still speaks to Ajay. "I am terribly embarrassed about all this. This was supposed to be simple, but you know if you give food to monkeys they just throw their shit at each other." Darpan is given a sack over his head and soon afterwards so is Jessica. "Oh would you hold this." The man gives Ajay the pen and he pulls out a phone out of his pocket. "Just a moment...I want to get a little picture. Right into the camera, there we are." He takes a selfie with Ajay and smiles. "Awesome." As the soldiers in the background are burning the bus down the man continues. "Don't worry about a thing, my boy! This will soon be behind us and we will be off on out grand adventure. And yes you can take your lovely friend with us!" The man moves back to the helicopter that already has Jessica and Darpan on the board. "Because I have cleared my calendar for you! You and I, are gonna to tear shit up!" He puts his hands in the air and Ajay is given a sack over his head as well.
After the transportation to De Pleur's compound, which is unknown to both Jessica and Ajay. Soon Jessica's sack is removed from her head. She is seated next to Ajay. On her right is Darpan who really looks uneasy. On Ajay's left there is sitting some man that she doesn't know yet. And of course in front of her is the man in pink suit that she still doesn't know his name. Right now he is speaking to the other man. "Give my congratulations to Ashley on your next visit home. I must say Paul, your little corner of Kyrat here is rather beautiful." Jessica looks around and is amused by how lovely the house and the scenery are. However next thing he says is not that comforting. "I expected more, chains and wailing. But knowing you, somewhere around here is a dark place where the secrets flow like the blood." The man Paul smiles wickedly. "Ahahaha! That wry smile betrays you again De Pleur." The man in the pink suit looks towards Jessica and smiles. His look continues to Ajay, who still has a sack on his head. "Well go on take the bloody bag off his head!" He commands and finally Ajay sees what's around him. Jessica on his right following little farther away Darpan, on his left the man called Paul he assumes and the man in a pink suit in front of him. "Again, terribly sorry for what happened before. This," he points to the table, "is more what I had in mind." He clasps his hands. "So, fresh start. Introductions." He first points to Ajay. "Ajay Ghale, our guest of honor." He points to Jessica. "Jessica Brown, Ajay's lovely friend." He nods to the man Paul. "Paul our very gracious host." Paul nods to both Jessica and Ajay. And at last the man points to Darpan. "The little monkey, whose name I still don't know. And I, of course, am Pagan Min." He smiles but both Ajay and Jessica are confused. Pagan looks more to Ajay, he frowns a little. "You really don't remember me, do you ? Your mother, she never spoke of me, never mentioned me?" Ajay thinks for a little bit, looks to Jessica but she shakes her head a little, indicating that she never heard of him. Pagan understands and doesn't make a big deal out of it. "Oh, we will change all that." He looks to Paul. "Paul I need cash." Paul pulls out his wallet and asks. "How much do you need." "All of it. Thank you." He grabs the cash and picks it up to his face. "Here we are." He shows them different cash of his face on it. "All right, how about this, with the smile?" He smiles just like on the cash. Finally Ajay speaks. "That's you." Pagan nods. "That's me." He drops the cash to the table. "Although I'm not so sure anymore." Pagan then picks up Ishwari's urn. Ajay moves to stand up, but De Pleur stops him and with a look tells him to sit down. Jessica doesn't do anything because if she would be in Ajay's shoes, she would have done the same thing. Pagan began to speak. "Now your mother, your mother on the other hand, she understood me. She knew me in a way that no one ever did." Jessica thought about it for a moment and thought. Was Ajay's mum in love with this man? Pagan continued and he put his finger in the urn and took some ash out of it right into his mouth. Both Jessica and Ajay made a little gross under their breaths. "Mm, that takes me back. The last time I saw Ishwari was years ago. She told me she loved me. Women, they can do that. They can tell you they love you in a moment and mean it, no offense Jessica, men on the other hand. No, men only really love you in hindsight. When too much distance has built that." He stands up. "So, when your mother decided to flee to the United States with you on her hip, I couldn't help but blame myself." He picks up a fork and moves behind Darpan and puts his hands and his shoulders. "Then I realized it, it's not me. No. It was the fucking Golden Path." He pushes Darpan to his own plate and stabs his fork into his back. Under the table Jessica grabbs Ajay's hand out of shock. "Those fucking terrorists, they ruin everything. Like dinner! Did no one every teach you that it's rude to text at the table?" Pagan sees the phone and takes it from Darpan. "Let's see here. Give me the phone. Really guys? We are not checking for these anymore." He then reads the text out loud. "Ah. "I'm with Ajay Ghale and his friend." You will love this part. "Help"." He looks to Darpan. "A text for help? You don't text for help, you cry for help." He takes Darpan to the balcony . "So come on, you're going to cry for help. You're going to do something, you are going to do it right. Here we go! Go on... cry for help. Cry for help!" Pagan pushes the fork little forward and Darpan yelps with slight. "H-help." "Aw pathetic. No. Cry for help." Darpan then screams for help until Pagan tell him to be quiet. "Now we listen... nothing. I'm afraid they are not coming for you buddy." Pagan pulls the fork out and motions to Paul. "Find out what he knows." He throws the fork to the table and picks up his phone. "Terrorists right? Now, please, stay right here. Enjoy the Crab Rangoon. Don't move. I will be right back." He says to Ajay and Jessica and they both stare at him as he is talking with somebody called Yuma. Ajay gets up and picks up his mother's urn and closes it. Ajay looks around and starts to move towards the stairs. Jessica notices this from the place where she sits. "Where are you going?" Ajay turns around and before he can answer a scream can be heard from downstairs. "What the fuck?" Ajay whispers and Jessica stands up. "We need to get out of here Jess." Jessica however shakes her head. "He told us to wait. Maybe he is not that bad." "Look Jess, you saw what he did to Darpan. We need to go." Jessica thinks for a minute and she knows that she has to stay by Ajay's side no matter what. "Alright then. But if I die I'm going to haunt you." Ajay smiles and they both continue downstairs. Suddenly Jessica starts speaking. "Ajay, do you think he was telling the truth about your mother?" Ajay shakes his head and simply states. "No idea." The screams are continuing as they walk around the house. Ajay stops and looks to the door of the basement. "We have to go that way." Jessica shakes her head and says. "Way outside in basement?" She suddenly gets an idea. "We should use that as a last resort. I will go check the front door." Ajay nods but he somehow knows that it will be a lost cause. His thinking proves correct as Jessica returns with a sad face. Ajay smirks at her but she just lightly punches his shoulder. They continue their way to basement. They hear Paul De Pleur speaking. "Whew. Used the fork. Now, you know this can get a lot worse, right ? Actually let's rewind for a bit, because I want to make sure that you know exactly what I want. Now, do you know why are you here?" As they go closer they see it is Darpan and he is being tortured by De Pleur. "Oh fuck." Exclaims Ajay and Jessica takes his hand as another shock goes through Darpan. De Pleur continues. "Good. You are Golden Path. A terrorist. A "bad guy". And I'm a "good guy". Which mean that I don't really want to hurt you. I only want to listen. And, you know, people tell me that I am a fantastic listener. So if you'll just tell me who your friends are, what it is they're planning, and when it's happen... we can avoid the..." he pauses and another shock and scream is heard. "Jess let's just go. This place is full of psychos." Ajay says and Jessica agrees so they both move further to the basement. De Pleur continues. "Good. Breathe. Now, we already know you have been spying on the compound. So how do you know Ajay Ghale and his lady friend? What does the Golden Path want with them?" Both Ajay and Jessica pause at their mention. Before anything else can happen a phone rings and Paul picks it up. "Sorry. Hey babe. Hey, listen, I'm in a meeting right now, I can't really talk. Yeah, you know it is stressful times over here. We have got a new client and I am not sure he's going to buy in. No I,I will call you soon as it is done. I don't think it will take much longer. Yeah. How are the girls? Yeah? Good, good. Give everyone a big kiss for me, okay? I love you. I love you too. Okay. Bye." Jessica and Ajay stare at the scene with opened mouths. He has a family! Jessica thinks in her mind and still finds it unbelievable that this kind of man has a family. He then starts talking about his home and how horrible it was without a job and he had to find his inner truth. "Ajay let's get out of here. This place gives me the creeps." Jessica says and she and Ajay go to the door. Ajay opens the door and somebody behind it points a gun at him. Ajay pushes Jessica behind him. However the man behind the door soon lowers down his weapon. "Ajay Ghale. My name is Sabal. I'm with the Golden Path." And another person knows Ajay's name. Jessica thinks to herself. Is Ajay famous here or something? Both Jessica and Ajay look at each other and Ajay speaks up. "Golden Path?" The man Sabal explains. "We are friends. I knew your father. We are to rescue you, son of Mohan. And don't worry your lady friend too. If I may ask for your name miss?" Jessica nods. "It's Jessica. Jessica Brown." Sabal nods and smiles. "Honor to meet you Jessica." "What about Darpan?" Ajay asks as he looks back towards the torture room. "You two are now our priority. We need to get you out of here safely, no matter the cost. Darpan would understand. Now stay close." Jessica closes the door and she and Ajay move to go with Sabal. In but a moment there are shouts heard from outside and soon after an alarm. Sabal looks to both of them. "Shit, they know we are here. The door, quickly!" All three of them move to the door and Sabal turns to them. "Ajay, Jessica when these door open I need you to keep your heads down and make a run for the trucks. Each one has driver ready for you. Move as fast as you can. Understand?" Jessica nods and Ajay says. "Yeah, yeah we got it." Sabal starts counting and on three he runs from the door with other two soldiers from Golden Path. Ajay and Jessica go to the door. "See you on the other side!" Says Jessica as she dashes through the door. "Okay here we go!" Ajay says as he also dashes through the door. Shooting is heard from everywhere. Both Ajay and Jessica are running towards the two trucks which are ready for them. Jessica is there first and she jumps in. Ajay quickly jumps into another and they both hear from their respective drivers a command from Sabal. "Get them to safety! Go, I will cover you!" Then through the gate an elephant breaks in. "Oh shit!" Yells Jessica as she and her driver ride through the broken gate first. In the other truck Ajay exclaims. "Fuck!" As the both trucks are riding, they are suddenly followed. "There's a gun underneath the dashboard. Use it!" Says Ajay's driver and he does just that. He pulls the gun out and starts shooting behind him. "Have you ever shot with a gun before?" Asks Jessica's driver and she answers. "Yeah, were is one?" "Underneath the dashboard." Jessica takes it and starts shooting in front of her. This whole escape turns into chase full of shooting from both the royal army and Jessica and Ajay. When there is a silent moment Ajay asks his driver. "Are we save?" The driver chuckles and says. "Probably not." The chase continues. When there are at the crossroads Jessica's truck rides normally, Ajay's however. Some Pagan's soldiers hit his truck and that falls from the road. Jessica doesn't see this as she is focusing on shooting. After they arrive at some kind of meeting place. Jessica notices that Ajay's truck isn't there. "What happened? They were right behind us!" Driver however takes Jessica's arm and starts to move towards the other Golden Path members. "Come on we are safe here." She just shakes her head. "But what about Ajay?" The driver stops and says. "Don't worry, Sabal will look for him." So with nothing better to do she follows the driver.
Ajay starts to wake up from the crash. He hears Sabal's voice coming from the walkie-talkie. "Ajay, if you are hearing this, respond. Ajay Ghale, respond, please." Ajay picks up the walkie-talkie. "Hello?" "Thank Kyra! This is Sabal. Where are you?" Ajay looks around and answers. "I don't know. Fuck, the driver's dead." Ajay picks up a dagger from the dead driver and Sabal continues. "Okay, listen to me. Look around, you should be able to see a tower nearby. I need you to make your way there. I'm on my way secure it now." Ajay nods and repeats. "Head to the tower. Okay. And Sabal is Jessica alright?" "She is with us. She is very worried about you. I will tell her you are okay. And you can do this Ajay." Ajay releases a breath at mention of Jessica being okay. He can now easily make his way to the tower. However soldiers from Pagan's army are after him. He has to be quiet even if that's not his strong side. Jessica was always quiet as a mouse. He distracted soldiers with rocks and later used a bait from skinned animal and a bear killed three soldiers. Little bit later he got and interesting call. "Ajay my boy. Are you busy? You don't mind me calling do you? Fantastic. You and your friend really are excellent listeners. Look, no hard feelings about the crab Rangoon, I know it's not to everyone's taste. But you will be pleased to know I had the chef executed for his incompetence, or was it his family we killed? Regardless, next time, I can promise you a better spread. That is the last time I'm kidnapping a fucking TV celebrity chef." Ajay looks confused of how Pagan got his signal but continues anyway. As he jumps the gap in the mountain he suddenly hears someone calling him. "Ajay! Ajay Ghale! Up here!" He continues towards the voice. The woman then throws him a rope. "Use the rope quickly!" Ajay grabs the rope and moves up. When he is there, he is greeted by a woman in clothes of the Golden Path. "It's an honor to meet you, son of Mohan. I'm amazed you made it all the way here on your own. Sabal and your friend are waiting for you near the tower." At the mention of Jessica, Ajay goes rather quickly to the bell tower. When Ajay reaches the tower he goes inside. Jessica notices him first so she runs to him and hugs him with all her might. "Ajay! I was so worried about you! Are you okay?" Ajay nods and smiles. "Yes I'm alright. And you?" She smiles. "Not even a scratch." She awkwardly releases him and takes back her weapon she was holding before Ajay came. Sabal moves with a weapon to Ajay. "Ajay, you made it! Good job, son of Mohan." Ajay has one big question on his mind. "Why are you guys helping us?" Jessica moves to stand next to Ajay. "You are the son of Mohan Ghale. You may not know it, but the name carries a lot of weight in Kyrat. Especially for the Golden Path. And we wouldn't leave your friend behind. Who is friend of Ghale is a friend to the Golden Path." Ajay and Jessica nod and Ajay asks once more. "When I crashed, those army guys were looking for me. Are they still?" Sabal nods. "Pagan Min will stop at nothing to get you back." Suddenly from outside there are heard shouts. "Damn. Some of Pagan's men managed to track us. They will be here any second. We are in for a fight." Jessica picks up some ammo and looks towards Ajay. "Ready?" Ajay nods. "Ready when you are." They both move to help shoot at Pagan's men. They arrive in snow suits and scooters. Because of all that shooting avalanche was released. Sabal notices first and warns them. "Ajay! Jessica! Avalanche!" They both are tackled by it and soon everything is covered in white. Jessica is being dug up first by Sabal and later they both help Ajay out too. "You two are tough people to kill." Ajay chuckles. "That's a good thing, right?" Jessica giggles. "Now I will take you two to Banapur, main base of the Golden Path."
