It was dark. It wasn’t a day or a night, it was just dark. Through that darkness, appeared a man with anklets on both his feet. One could hear the slight movements of those anklets in the silent atmosphere as they mingled with the golden earrings. It was a damp evergreen forest area through which the person walked off, waving his long white hairs.

It was a giant gate, about the size of an average communication tower. It looked even more overwhelming when compared to the size of the man standing in front of it. The gate was quite wide made of pure gold with silver linings, without a knob. The person closed his eyes and touched the gate with his left palm. Soon after, the silver linings shone brightly, tearing apart the darkness around and opening the way to the temple.

There was a large stone statue of a god inside with terrifying demeanor. It was as if the sculpture looked right through the dark parts of your soul without flinching a bit.

“Its been two hundred years since I last visited your shrine, Lord ‘SHIVA’.” The person said as they rang the iron bell in front of the sculpture.

“I don’t know what I am here for…but I think you do.” He said as he looked around the temple with his ruby eyes. “Its about time that you end what you started. It’s about time that the clogs start to move and turn the world back to its original state.” He bit his thumb and poured the blood on the feet of the sculpture.

Suddenly, the walls behind the sculpture lightened up as it highlighted the five symbols. His eyes contracted as he started smiling cynically. “Haha, so it was already set in stone. I will be waiting patiently my god, for all of them. The heroes, the villains, the tragedy that we all are supposed to suffer, I will waiting for all of it. Let’s end it once and for all, lets conclude this never ending, ‘Mahabharata’.” He started laughing like a maniac as the climate outside changed simultaneously covering the shrine with heavy rainfall and thunder blasts.

*

Athara
A town under Brahma Kingdom

“Its so hot today.” A fat lady exasperated while removing the flies swarming over her sweets with one hand and fluttering her paper fan with the other.


[NAME - SARLA, also known as Tun Tun]
[OWNER OF A SWEET SHOP]
[AGE: 33 YEARS OLD]


She was standing inside her shop, waiting for the customers. “Its not even the peak day and the Sun’s already over my head. How is my sensitive skin going to survive this misery?” After looking around, she went inside her house, connected directly to her shop.

“Oh Lord Krishna!!” She shouted in dismay as she looked at the empty sweet baskets that were filled with the ladoos to the brim a few minutes ago.

“What happened, Mom?!” A girl also ran after her mom as she heard her shouting.

[NAME - AASHIA]
[DAUGHTER OF SARLA]
[AGE - 13 YEARS OLD]

“Its that Bheem again. That little prick stole all of my sweets again. I won’t let it slide this time. Let her mother come, I will talk to her personally, raising such a troublemaker.” She was in rage but comparatively, her daughter was calm just a little nervous.

“Mom, Bheem would never do such a thing, believe me.” She said with a lot of conviction.

With a frown on her face, she said, “No, Aashia, you know nothing. I will have to teach him a lesson.”

“B-But, he has bought those sweets, Mom.” She shouted in desperation.

“Then where’s the money?”

“That’s…yes, yes, he gave it to me in the morning. I just forgot to tell you.”

With a sigh, her mom said, “Stop taking his side, Aashia. And if you insist, get me the money quickly.”

“Its the truth, Mom. Give me a minute, I will bring you the coins.” She said as she ran inside the inside, to her room.

“You just have to make it worse for me, huh…” Aashia said as she took out all the coins from her piggy bank and gave them to her mom.

“Where did you get them from, Aashia? Don’t lie to me.” She asked.

“I told you, he paid me Mom. Here take it.” Aashia gave the money to her mom.

“Here, keep your change. You will regret taking his side someday, I am telling you.” She said with her palm on her forehead, showing pity to her daughter.

*

At the outskirts of the town, near the forest

There was a boy standing in the middle of the barren ground with his eyes tied up and his hands aiming at something with the bow and the arrow.

In front of him was a small box, about ten meters between them and some moving tubes as obstructions. The boy had no hair so all the light rays reflected back without hindering him much or so was his conception.

He finally took a firm stance and exhaled some air as he let go of the stretched wire and the arrow left for its destination. There were three tubes to cross and reach the wooden box.

-First tube crossed, the arrow lowered a bit.
-Second tube crossed, the arrow almost dodged the tube.
-By the time it reached the third tube, the arrow grazed the ground and stopped before hitting the target.

“I was so close, damn it!”

[NAME: LAKSH]
[AGE: 12 YEARS OLD]

He said while throwing off the black band he used to cover his eyes.

“Are you still doing this, Laksh?” Aashia asked as she entered the field while fastening her blue-indigo hairs.

“What do you want, Aashia? I am a little busy right now.” He asked while setting up the target once again.

“Bheem is missing.” She said.

“What? Lol, even you know that’s not possible. He is probably going around Tun Tun aunt stealing her sweets again.”

“I am coming from there only. His mom is looking for him. I have some news to convey to him.”

“I see. There’s only one other place then.” He said.

“The forest.” She replied.

“Well, it will be a good practice for me, the reincarnation of Arjuna himself. Let’s go.” He said with a smirk on his face.

“You? That gandhivdhari (title given to the one who wields the master of all bows, Gandhiva), Arjuna? Keep dreaming.” She said as they moved towards the forest.

“Shut up. You don’t know about my inner capabilities. I have something in me that you normal people don’t. I am special.”

“Yes, alright. You and your superficial thoughts. Try calling yourself special in front of Bheem.” She said with a chuckle.

“Well…that’s not important.” He said as he ran in front of her and looked around the forest, “Bheem! Where are you?!” and started calling out the name.

“Bheem! Can you hear us? Your mom is looking for you!!” Aashia also started shouting.

“Bheem!”

“Bheem!!”

All of a sudden, there a loud noise of something growling as the ground around them started shaking. The birds chirping around flew away in an instant as if acting cautious of something.

The noise increased significantly as both of them hid around the bushes to have a look at what was coming towards them.

“Its a bear.” Aashia said.

“No, its a lion.” Laksh said.

“A bear.”

“Lion.”

“Stop arguing, no bear growls like that.” Laksh said as he pushed his forehead to her.

“That’s the same with the lion. Go clean off your ears with some scrub.” Aashia retaliated with the same tactics.

*

Well, as you can see, both of them were foolish, brainless idiots. At the time of such peril, they are this careless…May god help them with their situation or is it going to be someone else?

Ah, before ending this, lemme introduce myself. Smart? Handsome? Sexy? Yes, that’s me. Till then take care, tee-hee.