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Arjun
The moon settled high, the clouds capturing the moon cursing the light dim. Even their romance is at peek. The clouds kissed the moon amd revert back to it's place. Where is my moon? Maybe she is still angry at me for not apologizing. God I will apologise begging on my knees untill she forgives. Please keep her safe.
We are divided into two halfes of the way, thick dense wodden trees, the wavering wind making some withfull noises. "Dhaara ji, Maharani jii" the voices reverted back but with no responses in return. Moving the horses little furture thereby I saw a house, not a house more looked like a hut. Last week I came here, but I didn't view that? Strange right?
Keeping the questions back in my pocket, decending down the horse, walked towards the small broken entrance of the door. The clicheè sound it made, calling it more scarry. Keeping out my sword out of my jacket, no one was there inside the small place. Owchhh, my back arched as the sign burned in a reflex my foot tripped a step behind causing me to fall down. My fingers rubbed in some paste, I smelled it's BLOOD. And across the blood there was a cloth. Pulling it out it was of black colour.
"Bhaiyaa" my jaw tightened at the cloth, I hope the feelings fighting inside me, dont come as true. As soon as bhai came I handled over him the cloth. He smelled the cloth and something is wrong.
He again smelled the grown, his expression unreadable. His eyes and brows stiffen and thick lump of saliva he gulped down made an sound in the quite place. The thickness around us condensed as bhaiya spoke,
"Ye Vrinda ji ka hai" the words left his mouth, and the splashes of some images walked in. Blood on cloth, tension creased more. Our nose stiffen the burned smell of something is burning reached our nose. My muscles stricked up in danger we ran outside our heartbeat raging beneath my limbs. We started running as fast as we can. The more we reached closer to them the more our signs burned. That was the only signal we had.
The smoke reached our nose as the eythums of our foot slowed. Bhai hissed in pain as the sign burned but this timeâthe cloth as wellâ
"Bhaiyaa aap"â the moon reflected his light claiming himself asâ"Aaj PURNIMA HAI" we spoke together and senses bursted out.
We ran as fast as we can, dripping down the branches and ozzed blood from out skin. The smoke, I could see the smoke flared at the air but theirs a rope string the branchâHOLY SHIT MAHARANI JI IS HANGING UP IN THE BRANCH
"VRINDAAA" Bhaii screamed, looking at her brusied head, hands and the flames of hot fire engulfing more. My heart sank looking at bhabhi sa. I really don't know what bhai would be feeling looking at her.
"Vrinddaaa" Bhai scremed more, the heartless screamed I heard today. He almost lost his voice completing bhabhi sa's name. This is only time i saw him so vulnerable for someone.
"Bhaii apne aap ko sambhaliye aap" i don't know how to please people or care for someone, most of the time I fumbled on my words.
Bhai was about to speak something, untill we heard scream. It was maharni ji's scream. She woke up. The danger, the scarrness, her scared expression said all. She was breathing hardly.
Her eyes abruptly woke up, as she opened the eyes, the fire flames initiated more. The flames almost touched bhabhi's feet. She hissed, she was scared. Tears started falling from her cheeks.
"Ahhh haaann bachooo loo koe pleaseee ahhhh" she cried, tears glistening down her tears. All we both were standing down here and couldn't help her out.
"Morphankkk, vrindddaa" bhaiya shouted drawing bhabhi's attention towards him. She was scared she was crying. The screams of being scared the trembles of her voice, veervardhan bhai hissed in reflex.
"Humare pass dekhoo, vrinddaa ji gabrane ki koi zarurat nahi hai. hum hai na yaha" Bhai tried to console bhabhi, she was trembling all over again. The rope started swinging, the sweats started forming on our forehead
Bhai using words like this? That's rarest.
"VEERVARDHAN" "VRINDDAA" Both screamed together and bhai was about to jump almost onto fire till then I pulled him
SOMEONE CALLED BHAI-SA, HIS VOICE. I HAD HEARD SOMEWHERE. I COULD SMELL HE IS SMILING.
"Bhaiyyyaa" I shouted at him, is he not onto his sense?? for now I have to focus on them both cause bhai sa is not upto his sense, watching Maharani ji tied on the tree.
"Arjunn- tumhari bhabhii, waha upar hai maut se-" Bhai trembled over his words, which was rare. The mini sweats were visible on his forehead. His fingers and palm being wet. My attention dralwed towards his breathing. He wasn't breathing properly.
I don't know, if bhabhi sa is here. Where is dhaara jii? And how is she? Is she all good? Sslllaeeee, owchhh, my sign burned. Today after so Long, the sign showed the fire freckles. The smoke it showed.
"Haan bhaii, hum panni late hai naa, aapyaha rukiye hum aate haii"
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VEERVARDHAN
My body stood frozen, heart pounding like a war drum as my gaze locked onto Vrinda, her body bound tightly to the tree, her screams piercing the cold, moonlit night. The flames licked hungrily at her feet, casting a cruel, flickering glow over her tear-streaked face. Misery clawed at my chest like something i cant name of, each anguished cry from her lips twisting the knife deeper into my soul. And thus the sign burned. But these time it didn't burn I found myself froze, don't know what to do? The burns in my back intensified as her screm grew louder, my heart felt something.
"Bhaiyyaaa" vision blurred. I could only see Vrinda, but a known touch I know it from years. Rubbed against my skin. Making me feel something and sudden stroke of my body, as someone was making me come out from the delusions. I could hear the voice, I looked around and found arjun. He was saying something but couldn't hear those.
The hot flames reaching us, the high energy as the wind blew higher. Morpakh screamed and my heart twisted with that. I looked upwards. My hand shaking trying to catch something firm. Cause I can't see her like this. Hanging up with hot flames covered? My hand tried to hold something till then arjun holded me with his hand at my arms. I don't know what actually happening but I can't see her like this anyhow.
"Arjunn- tumhari bhabhii, waha upar hai maut se-" I try to speak, but words? I have lost that. My eyes not leaving her, she trying to hold the rope more tight, her face. Her twich eyebrows, the way she is trying to get up, climbing up the rope but her attempts fail. She screaming. Those cries, didn't satisfied me. I don't know how could I used to say? "Yearns of cries satisfies my inner peace?" Peace? After hearing her cries, my heart has stopped bumping. My heart feelings 1000s times strangle looking at her, as it feel someone has strangle the knife inside my heart, more than that.
How could i have ever despised her? The thought was like ash in my mouth now. The urge to kill that FUCKER, makes an rage run inside my blood. It was fine untill he was playing with us, but he has started a game where he tried to pawn her? She is my breath, my heartbeat, the peace but she isn't my weakness. I never saw her in weakness.
"Bachaaaooo, baachaaaooo" my thinking process blurred and came back to reality, the amount of sorrowness I heard from her. Made my heart clench at her screams. Wet? I saw my cheeks getting wet, my fingers rubbed my cheeks, and found water on those. I am-cry-in?- crying?
"Vrinddaaaaaa ji, morepankhh" I scremed, i don't know if she could hear me. But I want to make her look at me for once. Just one please Vrinda look at me. Please. I am here. Look at me. I kept calling her.
"MAHARANII, HUMARE TARAF DEKHEIYE. HUM YAHA HAI. MAHARANII JIIII. VRINDDDAAAAAAAA" I screamed, my breath getting high as I saw flames burning high. While she is not looking at me. I don't know how to draw her attention towards me.
Hey prabhu, humei nahi pata ki aapse kaise guzarish kare,kaise pratna kare par humei ek cheez gyat hai apke charno tare hum gir jayege, humne kabhi kisi ko apne aap ko samaprit nahi kiye. Par-
This woman, who i once thought of as a mere duty, had become something more. The thought of losing her now was unbearable, a wound that would never heal.
"Aahhhhh-haaaann, veer-ver--vaardhaan" my sense stood alert, I heard Vrinda ji's voice.my heart started pounding, I stood up from the ground. My head flipped upwards her. She was looking at me.
"Veer-vaar-" she scremed, holding up the rope.
"Vrindddaaa jiii, aapp dariye mat, hum kuch karte haii" I told her, trying to reassure her. To make her feel safe. I know my words won't do anything cause she doesn't trust me after all. But I am litearrly fine with that. I want her safe. Just I want to save her. And I will save her. And I have litearrly no other hope. I will send her to her own century from where did they came from. I want her safe that's it.
"Please-plea veervardha-ann. Owwwchhh owwchhh. Please jaldi kijiyee, raass--ssii diilli horaahi haii" she crossed her fingers on the rope , for the firmness on that to do loose it. I gulped a. Heavy saliva thinking what to do next? To save her. Not to reach any flame on her skin.
"Aahhhh haaaaann-vee-vaardhaaann, raasii"
Each second felt like a lifetime as Vrinda's screams grew weaker, her strength faltering. My chest ached with a newfound clarity, a realization that had been creeping up into my skin but now struck with the force of a blade.
I turned around to look for somthing. Before I could pull out any actions, I heard her LARGEST SCREAM. MY HEART TWISTED. As Vrinda's grip on the rope loosened, time seemed to slow. My eyes widened in horror as she plummeted into the raging flames, For the first time in my life, fear gripped me with an iron fist, my senses felt paralyzed, moment before his heart roared to life, beating so hard it felt like it would shatter my chest.
AUTHORS POV :
Vrindaâs agonized screams tore through the night, ripping through his very soul. She was surrounded by the merciless flames, her delicate frame beginning to burn. The sight of her writhing in pain, her consumed by the fire, she standing between the high rages of fire ut was unbearable. Veervardhan couldnât think, couldnât breatheâthere was no room for logic or hesitation. All that existed was the primal urge to save her.
Without a second thought, he ran into the wildfire, the heat scorching his skin, the burns of signed intensified. The signs burned veervardhan side burned as Vrinda was already burning but this time. The sign showed the real agonish thing, the inner and outer cloth of veervardhan started to burn. The cloth over the sign torn out, cause of the Vrinda burning.
the smoke clawing at his throat, as he ran towards her. But he didnât care. Nothing mattered except reaching her.
She screamed louder as the flames licked at her skin, her body trembling with pain. Veervardhan reached her, his arms enveloping her in a desperate embrace. The peace he wanted but this time it was different. Vrinda's cries grew higher, a mix of agony and shock as veervardhan shielded her from the fire with his own body. Her fragile body trembled against his, and he tightened his hold, on her waist.
She was entirely covered in his body, well scripted arms, her scream didn't last longed but the fire grew higher. The burns they felt were surreal for them.
And then, as of driven by an uncontainable force, he tilted her face upward to look at him. His eyes met Herr, one thing he saw in her eyes was, she was scared earlier but now her eyes says something else. That made him scare to mention. Their chest bewing with less of oxygen, veervardhan looked into her eyes and then lips. Nothing sound more profound for him. As Vrinda gave him permission by nodding her head.
VEERVARDHAN, crashed his lips onto hers. It was wild, raw, and desperateâa kiss born out of fear, anguish, and an overwhelming need to reassure her, to reassure himself, that she was alive. Her screams quieted against his lips, her body still shaking in his arms, but he refused to let go. The flames roared around them, a fiery hell threatening to consume them both, yet in that moment, nothing else existed but herâher pain, her survival, her very existence.
âVrinda,â he murmured hoarsely between the frantic kisses, his voice cracking under the weight of emotions he couldnât name. He felt her lips, that made his heartbeat slow between the high rages of fire. The way he kiss her, made her sure that she is safe with him.
He murmured between the kiss, âI wonât let anything happen to you. Never again.â and again kissed her passionately.
Tears streamed down her soot-covered face, mixing with his as their foreheads touched, both of them trembling in the heart of the inferno. For the first time, Veervardhan felt the sting of vulnerability, the ache of loveâa love that now burned brighter than the fire around them.
"Humei maaf kaardijiye, morpankh. Humse bhool hogai, hum aapse shama mangte hai, humei pata hai ki hum maafi ke kabil nahi hai. Aap-aap hamei chodke maat jaiyegi, aapko jo chheye wo Kar lijiye. Jo saza dena chheye de dijiye Paar, humei shama kardi-jiye" veervardhan's voice broke at last, the words which were longing for a brief month of time, came out. His chest felt lighted, as Vrinda said nothing but patted his back while, resting her hand on his neck.
He doesn't know about her answer, and neither he expect her to forgive him for the mistake they did, but still a part of him regrets all those things he did for her out of control.
The fire intensified, they burned. Two live people burning between the fire. The screams beholder back as the kissed again. But the signs didn't stopped burning.
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DHAARA
My eyes abruptly woke up, everything seemed blurred for a second. My head feels dizzy. I tried to look around, keeping my hand over my head, as it was aching alot. I stood up, where I am? I scanned the whole room. It was a -karkhana- everything closed and I can't see anything. Everything is black-out.
Hell where I am? And these doesn't sound right, even my senses are screaming. Something is wrong here. I tried to touch something to find something but I didn't got anything after many attempts.
Nothing will go wrong dhaara, breath. I try to calm my heartbeat. I should not be scared, if I will be scared I will loose something which I shouldn't.
"Haaaauhaaann" my ears shook up, I heard someone's breath near me. His-ss breath landed on my back. As soon I realized I flipped back and tried to hit the person.
The attempt failed. My chest felt heavier now, I know one thing, someone is there in this room. I can't see him but he can see me. He is watching me from somewhere in these darkness.
I need to be aware and, no matter what. I roamed around the room, keeping my hand on the wall. I have great senses if someone is near me, my body tells first before reacting to it. And thus I will make myself aware.
Keeping my hand on the wall, I tried to measure the room, how big is the room as is there any furniture in the room? I was stepping my foot by thinking twice.
I could smell something, eww it smells yuck. As I kept the same hand from which I was tracing the wall near my nose.
"AAHHHAA" A low-not not much, screamed left my mouth, my hand shivering with blood. Fresh blood. I know, I have seen fresh blood. My senses went alert and soon as I related I kept my both hand on my mouth.
Someone smiled, I could sense, someone smiled. Who is it? And why he has conquered me here? WHERE THE FUCK IS VRINDA? WHY I DONT REMEMBER ANYTHING, THAT HAPPENED SOME WHILE AGO?
"Dhaarrra, rani dhaaraa" slowly I turned my head back, my chest blewing with a certainainty of scareness. My throat wobble, I shouldn't be scared, usko pata chal jayega.
"Ahaan, ARJUN KHATRANSH ki BIWI, JO INSAAN KO KISI SE FARAK NAHI PADATA, uska gayab hojana usko arjun khatransh ko bawra Kar dala." Unknown voice, I mean I have heard somewhere I don't remember this voice, but I have heard it. I gulped my saliva, at the words of this man.
I don't know anything, I breath, I inhaled along breath. Not because I was scared. Because MY SIGN BURNED. Arjun is near me.
I know even arjun is a monster, but atleast I know him. I don't know why a sudden rush of something I cant name, ran through me. I thought arjun is near me. I can feel him. Though i tend to hate him.
"Bologi nahi? DHAARA ARJUN KHATRANSH" My body trembled out, each senses felt alert. I just don't feel to answer him. I try to hear his voice and navigate myself to that way. Now I thing I should answer him. Or else-
"JI-HU MEI RANI DHAARA ARJUN KHATRANSH,"
I replied, my voice low but firm. Enough to know him. He smiled but these time, itbwas a different smile. A victorious smile. A sly smile, planned something.
"Khubsurat, MANNA PADEGA, arjun ko bada mehanga Noor bhaya hai" a eww taste of blood, tossed on my tongue. As my teeth pressed against my lip. How dare he say somethingâ like this.
Calm, dhaara. We can't loose these chance. You have to run from here. It's not easy. So don't loose your mind.
"Aapka kehene ka, ascharya kya hai?" My feets slow narrow, no voice. Keeping my voice moderate from each place I travel. It shouldn't come less or more.
"Aur aap kon hai? Mujhe yaha kyu rakha hai?" His response didn't came, so I throwed another question at him.
"AHHAA, AAPKO TALVAR BAAJI BHI AATI HAI" I flipped my back against him, removing sword from my skirt pocket. My senses already said he is back, cause his voice suddenly came low to high volume from my back.
He removed his sword and even I did, flipping back. I am a RANI though I know the circumstances but I learned this sword fighting. Staring from the window and learned how to use sword. It's self protection.
He was more skilled then me, I knew this. He is man and he will have more physical power, but if I tried to play with brain. Then it will work.
"Manna padega, arjunn ke jagah aapko humari biwiâ" before he could complete the sentence, I use my muscular strength to push his sword the opposite side. And he smiled and sudden feeling grabbed my chest.
"EK SHABD NAHI,âAGAR ASLI MARD HOTE TOH, HUM RANIYO KO AGWA NAHI KARTE AUR ASLI MARD PEET PICHE WAR NAHI KARTE. HUMARE ARJUN NE KABHI PEET PICHE WAAR NAHI KIYE. HUMEI FAKRA HAI UNPEâ" I completed the sentence starting the next soon.
"âKYUKI AAPKO BHE HAI DAR HAI, KI HAAR NAHI JOAGE? UNSE? ISKELIYE DAR KE MARE HUM RANIYO KO AGWA KARKIYA AAPNE" I breath high, more like swallowed the breath. I knew after saying that, Maine sher ko khud shikar karne bol diya Hai. I didn't had option.
The grunts, I heard from him. He was jeolous or something hurted him. I guess I hurted his ego.
Oops.
"RAANII DHHAAARRRAAA, AAPSE HUM AACHE SE BAAT KARR RAHE TEHH ABHâ" when he said this, I took my one step back. Playing while thinking. I have to keep up my strength untill I don't come out from this place.
"ACCHE SE BAAT? HUH, KISI AUR KI BIWI PE APNA HAQ JATANA KUCH ACCHI BAAT NAHI HOTI. BRATASHREE" that's when unknowing I hit his that nerve that I shouldn't. WHEN I called him bratashree. Which means brother. He growled, and that time I realized againâ
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"ITNA BADA DUSHASAN, AAPNE HUMAIE DEVRAJ VISHWAKARMA PE HAATH UTHAYA?" a feeling of provoking played in my chest, I moved back near the door Knob. Trying to pull the door.
Yes I found it already. I was waiting for him. I almost opened the door, I could hear his footsteps, opened the door finally, a sense of relief gathered in my chest.
Without wasting a time, I tried to run
"AAHHHHHAAAAAA, OWWCHHHH, CHOOODOOO" he pulled my hair. His grip was tight. I tried to unleash my hairs from his grip. But it didn't work. He pulled my hairs. Screams left from my mouth. Before I could react anything, my head yank up as he took all my hairs. A cry escaped from my mouth. My hands scrambling to loosen his grip.
I try to shout, WHAT IF?
"BACHAAAOOOO, ARJUNNNNNNN. ARJUNNNN" my voice almost breaking, I was grasping at the moment. When he tried to pull me from hairs. My heels making a sound. I knew he is here near me, I try to call him out. Even the sign is burning high.
"AHHHHHH" he slammed my head againts the unyielding wall, my breath Stucken, tears almost dripping out from my eyes. I didn't allowed myself to be this weak. I took my tears back. Not giving him a satisfied look.
I took a heavy breath, keeping my hand over my hairs, my head was feeling heavy. BLOOD.
"DEVVRAAAJJ, TUMARI YE JO HIMMAT HAI, MEI PRAN LETI HU. TUMHARE YEHI RAKT SE MEI APNE BAAL DHAUGI" VRINDA AND DHAARA SCREMED, CRIED OUT THEIR LUNGS.