With the successful registration in the FBWEM, Isavaka takes blessings of the elders of his town Tenali, and starts for Aastrana. 

Today was the day of dorm distribution. Every year newbies are given dorms despite their astra, social status or family wealth or fame. Every year students are assembled to the grand hall and one by one move towards the great statue of Jambavanta and touched his foot. The statue of that bear who mentored the vanara sena and the immortal, Hanuman. It is believed that his soul is still alive and it reads the will of the ones who touches his feet and speaks which dorm that he or she shall join. Even in some gruesome situation, the Samastha Pratha has asked advice from this mighty soul. Some legends say that a vanara will mount the back of the Ekha after an hour of he touches the feet of the statue.

Aastrana has seven dorms. The first dorm, Medhavi, the Medhavians are considered to be the best out of the best. In past 10 years, this dorm has given many Prathas. Second dorm, Pragya, this is the dorm right behind Medhavi in ranking. Then comes, Yuva, Bichu, Sakshi, Veera and finally that dorm which might be last in ranking but is one of the most feared dorm. This dorm has given out legends. A fallen powerhouse, Aarambh.

"Namaste chatro, I am your Principal Venu Deva and welcome for your dorm distribution ceremony. This is the most special batch till today because this batch has the highest number of gold yielders, the number is one hundred and six plus one. Wait, wait, wait,... according to the sheet it is one hundred and six and now who is this 'one' is all your doubt, right? If so, the answer is a special one between you who broke the records and took a second chance in the same year by the Ram Mandir trial and survived the curse of the shadow tier. Find who he is my chatro, after this ceremony. I, Venu Deva, the principal of Aastrana, declares the start of the event. I request Khadgha guru to read out the names. The called student to come forward and start the event."

 The event started. One after one, all the students who enrolled into Aastrana went through once in the lifetime opportunity. This year's first Medhavian was Aarav. The whole hall thought him as that hero Ekha and hailed his name loud. This was the first year where out of hundred and six gold yielders, ninety five which is the strength of Medhavi dorm for new comers was filled by only gold yielders. The whole lot was shocked. In the rest eleven, each dorm except Aarambh had two gold yielders but Aarambh was left with only one gold spear yielder, Sahas. Slowly everyone down the dais were done. The last person down there was Isavaka. 

The previous candidate, Omoi, a Japanese native student and an yielder of a golden bow and now, a Medhavian. While stepping down the dais, she kept her leg between such that Isavaka tripped down. 

"Hahaha, is this another sign for him to go back to that bloody Mandir for-ever, hahaha" Aarav commented Isavaka.

"Hey you, shut your ass-" lending his hand to Isavaka, he continued, "Your just another f@#&ing noble's son. Get the f@#&ing shit of yourself in next trip of your bathroom out ass@!#e"

"What the f-" interrupted by the Principal, "Stop this mess! Isavaka come up."

After this much fight, Isavaka came up to the statue, closed his eyes and touched its feet. For a second a he felt as if a current was passing through him. When he opened his eyes, he could find himself in completely different realm. There was no land, no sky; he felt as if he was floating in air. 

"You have come finally Ashwa... I mean Ekha. Within the next hour, a companion, one of that immortal tail will climb your back. Take good care of my student Ash... I mean Ekha."

In the next blink, everything comes to normal, the statue of Jambavanta started to sound, "You may consider yourself as no one, YOU are someone bound to be that what is considered to be someone else. Between all of you is that I see who is disrespected but time. an unbound merciless cycle will bring you down a streak of lose under him. Let everyone of you beg mercy from that over-respected darkness. For the time I, appoint you to the Aarambh...Ashwa..."

Never was that Jambavanta spoke these many words. The event was all done when the students started to their dorms. While walking down the stairs out of the hall, Aarav stops Isavaka, "Don't feel happy that that bloody rusted stone has spoke something. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT USELE-"

"I AM NOT USELESS! YOU are the useless who covers yourself by telling others USELESS, you ass@#!e! Don't make me angry U-S-E-L-E-S-S A-A-R-A-V" Answering Aarav in his way, Isavaka starts moving  towards the left of the walkway when an arrow almost hit his foot, a voice from back in kanji, "You try to intervene and stop getting humiliated from Aarav-" touching his lips and then his chin with soft fingers without any efforts, "You are just another guy fell for my touches, a worthless and usele-" Isavaka pushed her and said, "YOU are a real USELESS who tries to take advantage on men than facing THEM, worthless women!" Omoi, the girl who insulted him in the Grand Hall is not insulted. She grins and walks away. 

"Haa... your a man dude-" It was the same voice of that person who gave him a hand to get up in the Grand Hall, "My name is Kai. I yield a gold staff."

"Thanks and hello, I am Isavaka. I yield a shadow bow."

Opened his eyes completely, he turns down to his bow when his eyes meets the shine of the cursed shadow orb. He slowly lifts his eyes to see the face of the curse breaker. "You are something dude ", murmured with Isavaka. Kai put his arm on his shoulder and both of them move towards the Aarambh dorm.

The dorm had fifty newbies this year. This count was considered to be highest till date. Abdul-da, a retired mercenary who had to leave his job after an gruesome battle where after he never could open his right eye. Rumours say that Abdul-da's right eye has a spirit in it which is terrored as one who has devoured more than one hundred demons.

"*ting*Announcement, all the new joiners to assemble to the right of the statue of King Bheeshma and their seniors to the left. The dorm vice-keeper to assemble the new joiners before Dorm Master Abdul-da arriver, that is in the next fifteen minutes. Thank you. *tong*"

It was like earthquake. All the seniors ran down to the left of the statue and stood in Savdhan position. Witnessing them, all the fifty newbies ran down the stairs and stood towards the right of the statue. Aarambh's Vice-keeper, Adirah threw his spear to the middle of the right assembly of the Bheeshma ground from ten yards apart running towards the  statue. The spear had such high impact that it made five lines.

In a serious and fearful tone, sweating Adirah said, "Students, arrange yourselves within ten minutes according to your height. If you think to stand with your close ones and break the rule, Guru-jan will punish you in the very first day, *gulp* fear him else suffer." 

After listening the description given by Adirah, all the students feared. Everyone stood according to their heights but no one allowed Isavaka to stand where he has to. He had no other choice but to go stand at the last of the line.

Minutes passed an suddenly Isavaka felt an blow of cold wind behind him. He was scared to turn back. He gulped down his mouth water ad started to turn back. He successfully turned back when he saw an old man with a black round mark on his face, white hair standing like a mountain range and a white and almost a little of hair near the lower face pointed down.

"You dare break my rules in the very first day. *smirk* After ten years someone tried to do this. I'll watch you're growth brat. You might be that idiot who worked his ass and became the most feared archer in the history of Draryavirda. I leave you unscathed idiot. Soon show me by what are you made of, I-D-I-O-T." concluding by hitting his head. All the junior except few were angry because of the disappointment of not witnessing the wrath of Abdul-da on him.  On the other side of the statue, all of his seniors were trying to stop their laugh. 

Hearing the laugh of a senior, Abdul-da confronted him and said, "You laugh! I punish you by ordering you to clean the Statue for this whole month before I wake up! If even a small grain of dust is present, you will be removed from Aastrana!" Walking towards the newbies, Abdul-da said, "This year we have 30 boys and 20 girls. Boys will accommodate the left tower and girls in the right tower. In the right tower, 3 boys per room and in the right tower, 2 girls per room. If I don't see the count satisfied, you will have to face painful consequences!" Turning to the seniors, "You set of idiots have to help them. If it comes to my ears that you don't behave properly with the new idiots, you all will suffer. You will suffer to that extent that pain will feel pain, idiots. I will meet you in another 15 minutes. Now dismiss!"

After listening to the orders from the Dorm Master, everyone started find their mates. Kai and Isavaka were finding for their third guy but due to an unknown hatred which was made by those Medhavians, no one were ready to make pair with them because Isavaka was in that tag. Isavaka felt a lot bad. He felt bad that for him even Kai has no mates. Minutes started to fly. There was only three minutes left and everything was against Kai and Isavaka. They witnessed a guy getting bullied by a newbie. His case was opened without his permission and thrown out. Kai with a grin in his face was almost going to hit him but even before he winded up his sleeve, a senior went past them and stopped the fight with just one stern look. He was a part of the next graduating batch. When he turned back, Isavaka was shocked. It was the same guy who advised him about the Ram Mandir and the second chance,

He thought that he has to first go and speak with him but his mind and soul took him and following him, Kai to the boy who was bullied. That boy had large round frame spectacles. He was crying. Isavaka and Kai kept all the items back in the case and asked them if he has made any mates till now or else he is still alone. The crying boy told that his mates threw him out because they got someone better than him in terms of skill and confidence. 

Isavaka and Kai could not stop them selves and asked them if he would join them. The crying boy accepted the offer made by them. 

"Thank you for taking me in between you. My name is Sahas and *low voice* people say that I lack sahas, that is confidence."

"Nice joke. If you lack confidence, you would not accept our offer."

"Hey crybaby, don't worry we will not bully like how they did. Now which astra do you yield?"

"I yield a bronze shield. What do you?"

"Dude I yield a gold Staff and my name is Kai. This guy next to me, the so called, IDIOT is an shadow class survivor, yielder of an bow."

Hearing that in clean shock, Sahas lose consciousness. Somehow waking him up makes the time fly and the deadline of 15 minutes ends. Abdul-da arrives and witnesses the 10 trios. Abdul-da starts handing the keys to the rooms. Everyone pushes Isavaka and their trio away. Even though watching this, Abdul-da does not speaks a word.

Finally Isavaka's trio get the key. "I see that no one like you Isavaka. In my early days, I was hated the most but once I battled the sprit of Bheeshma released by those buggers, those demons, I became a hero. Remember that the world will insult you, degrade you and label you as the worst. Once you come out of this, this loop of watching you as an unwanted life, when you attain eternal knowledge about the country and who you are, you'll get the respect what I got, what my student who broke the loop got. This is your room keys and... this is the dirtiest one. You need to clean and catch the monkey in that room first. Now dismiss!"

After learning about their room, the trio barges into their room. A frightened monkey holds the torn curtain and shouts at them. Kai gets angry and Sahas hides behind Kai. Isavaka steps forward. The monkey screams more loudly. Isavaka keeps his astra down shadowy colour was still on his fingers. He kept going forward when the monkey threw a nearby article on him. The article fell on his head in such a force that his head started to bleed. Ignoring the bleed, Isavaka went forward and touched the head of the monkey with the finger having that shadowy colour.

The monkey's eyes opens wide. It acted in such a way that some soul has entered in its body. After acting weirdly for few minutes, the monkey fell movement less. Isavaka lifted the body of the monkey and made it sleep on his shoulder as if the monkey was a baby. In the meantime, Kai and Sahas cleaned the whole room and now it looks as if it is a newly built room. Isavaka laid the monkey on his bed and started arranging his luggage in his storage when suddenly the monkey screamed.

All the three of them went near the monkey when thy witnessed an symbol present on the skin above his heart. This symbol was of a person holding a bow targeting it towards somewhere in an aspiring position. Seeing that tattoo, Isavaka took his bow and loaded it with an arrow and stood in the same pose, that is, he kept his left leg in front of his right leg. HE bent his right till when his left leg was like a straight slant line and stretched his bow to the fullest. At the same time when the monkey woke up and opened its eyes, the first thing it could witness was the completed pose which was as in scribbled on it.

The monkey was shocked and jumped down the bed and went running towards Isavaka and climbed on him and hugged its neck. Isavaka released the arrow. The arrow went through the open window.

"Now what to do with this small dude?"

"I guess it will be our roommate. What do you two think about it?"

"I have no issue dude."

"Is it allowed to tame an animal in the institution dorms?"

"The rule book says yes."

"Then I don't have any problem."

"So I guess finally we have completed everything related to our room?"

"But naming the little dude is left. You have decided to keep it so, name it."

"I name it Anji."

"This looks ok. Now what about the room name which the senior came here to tell us. We need to put it on our door."

Kai and Sahas were fighting between themselves about what should we name the room. Isavaka turned around the room when he witnessed that the room was pitch black in colour on which neon paint is present for lighting the room without any electricity requirement. It was like the shadow of the neon paint was giving light to the room. 

"Chaya, it means shadow. This room is lighted by the shadow of the neon light. So, I thought to propose this name before you."

Kai and Sahas saw the face of each other and nodded their head. They turned towards Isavaka and gave out  a big smile and shouted their relief saying, "YES!!!" Finally they are now settled in their room, Aarambh dorm, Room no. R-4/10.