His castle was a huge tower-like building and a giant rock statue of a snack was coiled around it; many people cheered him on his way.
When he reached the doors of the castle. An entourage of women was waiting for them . And in front of that woman was her wife, and they all had a puja thali ( a plate with the things for worshiping gods.) And she has a passive expression on her face. And when the king stopped in front of them, his whole army behind him stopped. Varahmi went close to her queen, and she did the aarti ( a ritual in hindu mythology) which was for his victory and his sage arrival at home. It's a ritual in India to do aarti when someone comes home after a long time or some special occasion and war. And when she was done doing it, she took some tilak, and applied it on his forehead with her thumb.
The queen after doing aarti for his husband bent down to touch his feet, but he stopped her and said,
" You are a queen, and I don't need that. " And after that, all the other women behind the queen who held aarti in her hand went to their husbands in the army. And after that the queen garuni clapped her hand, and two servants came and took the weapons from him and then one female servant came and then the queen changed his headset with his crown. Which was a black one with a red cobra on it.
The king had his proud smile plastered on his face and the queen still held her passiv expression .
After some pleasantries. The king went in another direction and the queen went to her room. Her room was at the top of the tower, where she could see the whole city at one glance. And her room was filled with birds. She was looking at the horizon, more specifically in the direction where her child should be.
Soon, the doors of her room open, and varahmi, asked if he can enter her room. And she didn't say anything. And the king realized that she was in her own world, so he scared the poor birds inside her room. By looking at them with his snake skel face. And they immediately sprung into action and started leaving the house in a hurry, and when she saw the birds flying away in fear she turned back. And the king apologized for that. And she still didn't reply to him. Then the king tried to make some small talk, and told her about his victory, then he told her that he is going to attack Lanka next. And she still didn't look at him.
" Garuni, " He said her name, and she turned back to look at him.
" I know you hate me for what I did, and I know I can't change that. But we need to understand. "
And Garuni still. Didn't change her expression. And he noticed that.
" Garuni, every King's dirty is to protect his people, and Akashvani can not lie. It was hard for me as well, but we need to understand that we have to accept what life gives us. I'm gonna do a havan in hopes of getting a child. " And the queen looked him in the eyes, her passive expresion still on. And he got the message.
She clapped her hand and two birds, two female servants the same as before, came, and informed the king that the queen would be in the throne room sometime later ,and he could leave . And by doing this she told him that she won't accept that. The two servants were twins and they work only for the queen and follow her order only.
The king left her room and went to the throne room, and on his way his face grew cold, and when he entered the throne room everybody there stood up, and a person announced his arrival to the men sitting there.
He sat on his throne made out of gold and other precious stones, and around him were some red wooden pillars with snakes carved on it. The majority of the houses in the city were built with red sandal wood and stones that they got from nearby forest that surrounded the city and places nearby. And a big closed snake's eye was behind his throne made out of stone. The eyes were as big as an elephant. And that is visible to all to see.
The king was not happy for some reason, and his subordinate noticed that .
The gathering was a special one , and no one knows the reason behind it. There were limited people, only the mantri and commanding officers or army and some supervisors.
Krivan who is the head mantri of the king and the most trustworthy and a cunning person, who knows the reason being this meeting was looking at everyone. He was a middle aged man, and has a face that shows how confident he is.
The king looked at him and asked the reason behind this sudden meeting . And respectfully told the king that he has got some bad news.
Kiramahi king's younger brother who was second most trustworthy person and the commander of his army, who was built of a bodybuilder, similar to his brother but little less. Asked what the bad news is? .
And he replied. That his sources had informed him that they couldn't enter Lanka. And when they asked how, he informed them that they are getting some resistance. And when the king asked by whom, and his brother boasted that they should have killed them or tried to face them. And krivan replied that they can't fight against nature. The ocean and wind on shore is normal but whenever they try to go there a storm always stops them, and he informs them that it's totally natural and they didn't find any maya( a form of magic and a power level of magic, higher the maya stronger the magic) on it. He told them that his sources have consulted to some astrologers and they told them that alignment of the planets has changed after a certain event and they have to wait at least ten years before entering or advancing of the asur kingdom.
And the king said, that's not a big enough problem for all of us in a secret meeting.
And Krivan told him that he was getting to it.
" As I said previously the alignment of the planet has changed after a certain event. And when I looked at it, I found out that event was the day when akashvani happened. " And all eyes widened in realization.
" What does that mean? '' One of the people asked.
" Alignment of planets, the bad and the weather , the akashvani , and God's view toward you maharaj . If that doesn't scream something then I don't know what will."
" You know the weight behind your words? " The king said his anger showing up.
" Maharaj I know the meaning of this, and I can assure you that I have only the best intentions in mind for our people, maharaj. And I found it very suspicious that we didn't get the body of the servant and the kid itself. The gods are well known for their tricks and methods, maharaj. If there is even one percent chance that he could have survived, there will be one percent less chances of our survival maharaj. You have lessened those percentages by defeating Lord Garud, but we still have many enemies left. And seeing that six years have already passed since that day, and the time that we got from the astrologers, we can assume that if what we are thinking is correct, your son will be ready in ten years to do what he was born for. " And the temperature drops.
" I don't have much proof, but it'll be better if we prepare ourselves. "
And the varahmi looked at the top area where her queen was situated behind the curtains . And he can see her looking at his eye with that passive look, and he saw something else in her eyes and that was tear and her eyes pupil turned red for some time.
" Nagina! " He screamed.
And the big eye behind the king opened, and the whole castle started to shake, and the huge snake who was coild to the castle moved a bit, indicating that it was a real snake, under some delusion. And the huge snack behind him gets a little further from that, and he starts to change color, and shows his real white skeles to them. The whole backside wall on his throne came out to be a huge serpent, and then the serpent opened his mouth, and extended his tongue, and from his tongue came a beautiful woman in a white silk dress Who had her face covered with a transparent whiet cloth. And she has a little white snack around her neck .
" Do not come back until it is known whether he is alive or not, or bring his head. " And the little serpent from her neck said in a woman's voice.
" As your order maharaj. " She bowed to him and turned into water.
TEN YEAR LATER.
The way of water was difficult nonetheless. But Nagina has finally reached the city of gold Lanka.
She changed her appearance as soon as she reached the city to a woman walking on the streets. And she changed her clothes just by looking at her, and then she started walking in the streets.
She was looking at the gold towers with interest in her eyes . She saw many people with all kinds of different animals around themselves. Some Of them have birds and monkeys and some of them have rats and other wild animals. So she decided to let her white snake on display. Her eyes have some sort of glow to it, and when a fruit vendor saw them, he immediately got attracted toward them. She asked her a question about how much this fruit cost, and he told him the true price of all it, which was quite different from what he was announcing before, he was selling them at high prices , saying it from far away land . She took one, and gave him a coin and got on her way eating that fruit.
She saw some soldiers practicing on the field with their armor on. They have a golden armor and a tiger symbol on them . She saw them using brute force and power of maya. One of them changed his welon to thin air and the other just vanished from sight for a few moments. A soldier noticed her looking at the training so he decided to check on her. He was shirtless and fit for his age, he looked around eighteen or twenty years old, and had a lean body. He Introduced himself as. Selva, orphan but strong.
And after hearing that she asked what his age is? .
" Sixteen, we all are. " He said pointing at everyone.
" And if that's not enough I can grow old for, " And he in front of her agged himself.
" Villagers say that I might be related to surpanakha, cause she has the ability to change her looks and age, and I'm very good at it. But that's what I'm not famous for. " He said, leaning on the wooden pole nearby.
" What are they doing. " She asked him in his mid-sentence and looked at him it the eyes.
" They are practicing for the tournament " He said immediately and controlled his stomach. He felt like his meal was in his mouth, and immediately apologized to her. And she asked him about the tournament, ignoring his apology. And this time she didn't look him in his eyes, and he felt like she didn't move her mouth.
" Oh this. The king is selecting soldiers. " And he leaned forward.
" And there are some rumors in the town that the king has a secret daughter, and he is looking for a suitable son in law for her. And not to be rude, we haven't had a strong enough king since you know, the Lord ravana. " He said in a low voice.
" Are you going to take part in that? " She asked, looking at him.
" Of course." He said and his friends called him over. And he went to them. Saying his goodby to her.
A tournament. She muses to herself.
And she did that same process whenever she saw a person with a red flag. And, she also spotted some in black as well. She figured out what color belongs to whom.
She heard him saying that he smelled a snake.
And vanishes from there leaving a snake in her place. She didn't wanna mess with a guy like him, he has a calm face and a calmer expression.
And then she went to the King's castle which is a work of art, and so huge that she could look at it completely without turning her head. Then she looked at the clouds above, it was all cloudy and rain type, it was going to rain. She taught herself. And then she spotted the river flowing from the castle, she saw some machinery that she hadn't see
It was weird for her, and she saw several wooden boxes and a thing that was filling it, she didn't have the word for it, she saw some people purifying the water by maya, and destroying the germs from it, they were pouring the water, and transferring them to a huge well there. She wasn't allowed to go there, and when she tried to send her snake , it got stopped by a guard there. And she recovered from that.
She once again looked at the sky and spotted a hill which was piercing the sky. And she started to walk in the direction of the hill.
And far from Lanka, and his calm nature, a boat was heading toward it, fighting against the bad weather of the sea.
The boat was made out of wood and has some golden lines and stripes here and there, and has the flag of Lanka on top. The captain of the ship was telling the man to hold tight the sail, and hold their ground. The wind that came was so strong that they barely managed to stop it. The captain told the King's messenger that if the weather kept on going like this they wouldn't be able to reach Lanka in time. Said the captain of the boat, who was Kevat. The same boatman, who was now a little older with some grown hair on his face, used his water manipulation power to help a fellow boatman from falling on the ocean.
" Sometimes I wonder, I better be catching fish there. " He sighs in resignation. And then asked the king's man and close friend to go in with his family. And For some reason Lord Varuna and Lord Indra are very happy. " And the king's man asked how can he say that, if it's anger or happiness? In total confusion, because in his standpoint it was total anger .
" If they were angry we would not be having this conversation underwater. They want to check us." He said to him loudly.
And then a huge wave hits them, and the boat almost submerged into water, but came out little harmed.
" If it's happiness, I don't wanna see the anger of God. " The king's man said.
And inside of the boat in a Royal room sat out for the king was occupied by someone, and that someone was sleeping in this storm very peacefully. The room was shaking like a rollercoaster and things were falling here and there, but the person on the bed was still asleep like nothing was happening around her. And in other rooms, where other people, huddling to each other screaming.
" Is she still sleeping in this storm? . '' Kevat asked the king's man who was trying to hold lunch in his stomach. And he asked who? In confusion.
" The girl that I said to stay away? " And the King's man looked confused a little and then he remembered .
" That terrible girl? " He asked
" Yes! that's the same one " Said Kevat, trying to help his people with his maya ( a kind of spiritual power) .
" We can definitely use someone like her. " A sense of disappointment on his face. She was beautiful and he was thinking of arranging a marriage between his son and her, cause he immediately took a liking to her beauty, but that arrogant girl didn't even shed an eye on them, they were royal. Their family was a renowned Asur family , close to Rakshak , and part of Daitya, but their patronel were mainly Rakshak, they were the smartest one, and Daitya were strong in maya. And there family was quite good and well known, so a no name wanderer refusing his son made him a little angry, his was powerful in hand to hand, decent in weapons and knows the politics good, and his maya power was decent and above average, his name is Kalital , a proud asur, and he has show his ancistory by using maya as such a young age , , he wasn't a brute, and well off, and but now when I think about it, it's better that he stayed behind in the land, in the days with her make them realize that it's better if his son stays away from her. He knows that if he was here, he could definitely help better than her. And when he was thinking about all this, They got hit by a huge wave again, and this time the boat got submerged totally. And kevat used all of his power to use water to get them back on the surface panting and King's man choking on water, they got some air in their lungs, and when kevat looked at his arm, he saw his boatman ring missing, a sense of dread filled her seeing this, but he has not much time dreading in it, he can see a huge water wave coming at there direction, there boat going down because of the influx of water. And Kevat, seeing his death, used all of his power ignoring all of his dread from a moments before, and separated the wave with a yell. And a lot of focus. But when he was done using that, he panted, and knelt down.
" Leave the boat. " Yelled kevat. And everyone looked at him, he used his Asur power to straighten his voice. All the boatmen understand that , and some guard in their little blackened gold armor, showing their heavy use and lack of care. But knows King's man not knowing what he meant ,
" Who will come? " The King's man asked. And just as he said that, they saw several spider like legs coming from the depths of water from both sides of the ship, , and a sound of insect warning there prey came in a cricating voice, a small but high pitch like a dying lynx, and they make a show of there spider legs, waving in the air and then two huge black sepented head size of football shot up from the both end sides of the ship , and many backed of, and the heads scritched at them showing there fish like gills and flaring fish like fins in the place of ears. And with that scritch all spider-like arms hit the boath, shredding the woods, making dents and wooden splinters. And the King's man immediately recognized him or it.
" Sursa " He said and gulped .
" We are dead. "said kevat.
And the legs of the spider made their hold tight, and then shook it with another scrik, and everyone fell but Kevat managed to stop himself from falling. And the other head of that sursa came from behind, and King's man saw that yelled at him to look out, and when Kevat looked behind the serpent-like head attacked him, and he immediately closed his eyes, knowing he would never see the beauty of the sea again, and hopped that he'll die a peaceful death, he was waiting for the pain to come, but it didn't.
" Open your eyes mr boatman. '' came a very beautiful and feminine voice. And a beautiful smile appeared on his face after hearing her voice and he opened his eyes believing he was dead, and to see an angel of heaven. And when he did, he saw the open mouth of that huge snake, he scricked like a little girl and jump back falling on his butt, when he saw a girl holding the head of sursa that was attacking him in her bare hand, one in the nose, and one in the lower jaw, making it impossible to close it, and just as he saw the girl, she snapped the head of the snake, by opening it wider than possible, and other heads scritched in top of their lungs, and the dead head of the Sursa got dragged back. And then several heads started to come from the front of the boat. But that wasn't the only thing that came two more tentacles came into the view, and a huge head that looked like it can swallow the whole ship in one go, and the other smaller heads were around her head like a her hair, and her main head has a huge golden crown, and she looked really pissed, and she looked at them, but her attention shift to hair, and her hair which was bunch of snake like her, pointed at the dead snake in the left side which they were trying to wake up, but soon they realize that it was dead. Now the relife they felt when she turned her gaze away became one of dread. And then like the fall silence that was created in her arrival broke, and scritched like a mad woman, including all of hair. Which makes the rain water flow in the direction of the cockpit . And when she stopped, no one said anything accepting their fate, and Kevat and the King's man thought it was all over. When both heard a yawn coming from the girl, they looked at her in disbelief. And the girl who didn't look older than sixteen and wore a full body dragon scale body armor in color red and black, yawning like there is nothing wrong, and when she saw them looking at her, she said in a sleepy voice, a simple, what? And the boat shook, she dashed the boat with her head. And three man fall in the water, and one of the heads looked at it, and went to attack them , and Kevat yelled at men hoping he wouldn't fall when he heard a rustling sound on his left, and when saw the girl dashing like a arrow in the direction of the falling man.
One of them was a boatman and two of them were soldiers. The boatman immediately went up, and both soldiers started to go down because of their armor which he was trying to get off. When he saw one of the heads of sursa coming from the left, his eyes bugged, a wigger in his steps now. The head came faster than he came free himself. The monster's whole body was on their left, which was covering the boat, when someone else hit the water, grabbed him by the collar and tossed him above the water like a bag, and they all landed in the water with a thud in the deck. And both Kevat and King's man looked at them with surprise, when they came back, but what happened next was more surprising, one by one the spider legs started to broke and falling on the deck lifeless and one of huge tentacles fall in the water and the huge Danav looked at his fallen hand and yelled in pain, and tilted boat by her other hands, making it tilt and making it sink. And they were not drowning, the ship stayed submerged for some time when Kevat saw in bubbling water, the girl fighting the huge Danav underwater. And then by some miracle the boat starts to rise up by itself. And then with a sound of splash, the boat came back to the surface. And the kevat spat out some water from his mouth with fully drenched clothes.
" What the name of the heavens happening here ?" King's man asked with a shock clear on his face.
Then all of a sudden some feathers came from both sides, and then they all synchronite into one feather, and then that feather went in the direction where he saw the fighting was happening. All of the ship went in the direction where the fighting was happening, they came see many limbs of sursa waving in the air and some time lighting make them clear and some time one of the legs and tentacle came up in the air like someone hit his from inside, and they can feel that battle was happening there. And then the tentacles shift there direction, and started to come at there direction and the head of the huge Danav started to appear in the water, it started with small head's fins and then the fin of the big head came, and soon the snarling head of the sursa, which wasn't happy at all. She opened her fears mouth , and when she was about to crash , a red bluer hit the side of her mouth, and she and she in a scream, fell in water including the girl. And Kevat looked at the direction where the girl and the sursa went.
And soon they heard an ear-pleasing scream, and then all the sound of the sea and fighting stopped. And everyone looked at the direction where the scream came, they were gah-smacked .
" What are you looking at? " And Kevat screamed like a little girl. And everyone looked at the girl who just came out from nowhere.
" You still scream like a little girl. " Said the girl now yawning again. I'm going to sleep, wake me up when Lanka arrives. Said the girl and started to remove her dragon armor. Starting from the chest area, And she leaves like she didn't fight a ship swallowing sursa. And everyone stood there shell shocked and the King's man pinched the hand of kevat. And he hissed in pain.
" What. " Just confirming that wasn't a dream.
And there in the sleeping area, she saw the family of four still crying, and she ignored it, now almost over her armor. She opened the door and saw her bed was gone, and the ship was fixing itself.
" No! " She yelled in anger. And the family of four scremes thinking the monster has come back. She looked at the party where her bed was supposed to be, and then at the broken ship, where my bed is, she yelled like a little girl. And soon Kevat and King's man came in her direction looking worried and a little scared.
" What happened? " Kevat asked, looking all worried.
" My bad " , she pointed at the place where her bed was supposed to be. And they looked at girl, acting like her age.
" What. " The King's man asked.
" My sleeping bed. Bring it back. " She said pointing a finger at the direction on the whole.
And Kevat and the King's man looked at her with disbelief..
" We lost half of our ship, and almost got killed by the protector of the sea of lanka and you worried out a stupid bed. Said kevat still has that look of disbelief.
" Doesn't matter, bring me to my bed. " She yelled.
" Took mine. Kevat said, looking a little annoyed.
" No, I want mine. " She yelled
" Shut up. " He said in annoyance. And then with a flick of his hand a bed appeared in the middle of the room, and she immediately dropped in the bed face first, a dreamy look on her face.
" Ok, wake me up when we reches Lanka." she said to him, with a muffled voice.
" What an uncultured woman. " Mumbled King's man,
" I can't believe I was admiring her. " He mumbled again. And Kevat answered the question.
" The weather isn't good enough, it'll take more time then we know. We're gonna miss the festival." And Ramna's face grew serious.
" We won't . '' She said and released the feather, and it multiple in many, and went toward the back of the ship, and they all started to push the ship by their combined effect., and they started pushing the ship very fast. And both kevat and the king's man needed to bresh themselves from the sudden increase in speed..
" Keep the boat in the right direction, how far are we? '' She asked, looking in the direction of Lanka. And kevat told her that it'll be like 80 or 100 miles, they are quite far.
She nodded and said.
" The feathers will take you there in less than a day or so, I'll be waiting there for you. " And Kevat tried to ask what she meant' she was already at the edge of the broken ship , ready to jump, and somehow she transformed into her battel gear . And the king's man seeing this instantly told her to stop and told her that isn't safe .
" I respect your words, and praise your dedication, but I want to meet my mother as soon as possible, and I'm just gonna swim a bit, and maybe find something .'' She said that and then jumped into the ocean, and next thing they saw, was a huge splash of water, and she was gone.
" Rammnnnna. '' Yelled the boatman.
