Chapter 3: chapter 3

One day while searching for Anantsen's dream girl, Anantsen and Chandravardhana reached the end of the village. The place had a miraculous serenity. Lots of large pine trees all around have made the place even more magical. Although sometimes the silence got broken by the cry of some unknown birds, it was an enthralling place. After walking a little further, they saw an ashram where some boys and girls were taking weapons training. Who are these people? Why are these people running weapons training camps outside the village? Many such questions started shooting in Anantsen and Chandravardhana's minds.To solve the mystery, Anantsen and Chandravardhana went near the ashram. To their surprise, Anantsen's dream girl was training the boys and girls with weapons. Both of them were astonished to see the brutal and killer moves in the soft and delicate body of Anantsen's dream girl. The curves of her body smoothly swung as she transferred her weight to swing her sword. Her tightly tied, long hair swayed like a snake with each move of the sword arm.'What a woman!' surprised Anantsen, said spontaneously.They were so astonished that they did not notice what was happening around them. Chandravardhana was alerted by a soft movement in dried leaves. Chandravardhana turned and saw that a girl was about to hold a sword on the neck of his prince, Anantsen. The girl seemed to be the disciple of this ashram. Before Anantsen could respond, Chandravardhana pulled his prince behind him. Now instead of Anantsen, Chandravardhana and that girl were face-to-face. Before Anantsen could handle himself from the sudden jolt, the girl's sword was on the neck of Chandravardhana.'Who are you, and what are you doing here?'Chandravardhana smiled and lowered the sword effortlessly from his neck. The girl tried hard to hold the sword on his neck but could not resist his power. Chandravardhana looked straight into her eyes and kept smiling. It made the girl angry. She raised her voice and asked, 'Answer my question. Otherwise, I will not spare you.'Chandravardhana was shocked to see the courage of that girl. He had taken off her sword from his neck, yet her eyes and voice did not lose courage. Continuing his smile, Chandravardhana said,' Calm down, the future great warrior of Agyatpur. We are not enemies. We are the students of pottery master Balabhadra. We were roaming around and enchanted by the beauty of this place we came here.''You are lying. A pottery student cannot have so much power.'Chandranardhana started enjoying the conversation. So, he thought to tease her more. ' You are too young. With time you will learn to handle this.'At this, the girl got very angry. This time she raised the sword to hit even harder, but Chandravardhana stopped her with agility.Anantsen felt that things might get worse. So, he interrupted, ' Actually, we have never seen female warriors. In our society, women do not learn to wield weapons.''The girls of Kumbharwada are not helpless. They know how to protect themselves.' The girl replied.To stop the conversation, Anantsen agreed to her, ' Yes, you are absolutely right. We are surprised to see the power of the girls practising the weapon.'An old man was watching them from the ashram for a long time. He called out, 'Rudrani, bring them here with due respect.'(Continued ....................... )