After a bone breaking fight with Harrison, Isavaka patches up his wounds and kicks back on his bed for the night. The very moment he tried to sleep; the loud snores of Kai stopped him from sleeping. Isavaka turned on the light which broke Kai’s sleep and forced him to turn the light off. Again, he lay on his bed when the huge sound of falling books broke his attempt to sleep. It was Sahas’s books which he piled up on his desk. He assisted Sahas to clean up the mess and went back to sleep. 

Sahas still was studying under his lamp at his desk. Isavaka finally slipped into a deep sleep. From nowhere, the sound of stone carving pinched Sahas’s ears. When he turned back to find the source of this sound, he observed Isavaka who became an old rusty rock. Sahas shouted with terror. Kai woke up out of the blue when he saw rocky Isavaka. Anji rushed towards Isavaka’s statue and tried to wake him, but the mere life could not understand what had happened to Isavaka. 

Kai ran out of the room and rushed to the Dorm Master’s cabin to report the incident. The cabin was in complete silence with no knowledge of what to do. 

“Kai, bring Isavaka’s statue out, precisely next to the statue of Bheeshma. Inform Sahas to bring Isavaka’s astra with you having his statue. Hmm... Adirah, go fast and contact every faculty who can assist in this situation and firstly inform the Management and request the Princi. And the Vice Princi. To arrive. Now hurry.” 

Without wasting a second, Adirah and Kai run out to do their duties given by Abdul-da.  

“So we meet again, Ekha.” 

“Where am I?” 

“You can’t forget this soon our first meeting! Can you?!” 

“Oh, now I remeber. You are that Dharmaraja who gave me my astra.” 

“Uh... something. I have called you back because your astra is now feeling that you are ready for knowing why you are different.” 

“Oh, ok. Why am I different from others?” 

“Its because you are Ekha, that hero which will assist the warrior who is fortuned to end the era of those demons. You are the one who will find that swordsman who is right now in pity, but you shall take him where he shall be positioned.” 

“Wait, wait. You are telling that I am a hero?” 

“If it is labelled as ‘hero’ then that is what it is.” 

“Why me?” 

“Huh...*laughing*... I myself don’t get it why it is you. Just understand this much, your destined to do this by the will of time. Still... I give you 2 offers which I also gave to someone like you. Will you be that ‘hero’ and fight for the world, or will you rest in realm of dreams?” 

“What the fuck are you saying you huge topless man! My answer is clear: I will fight for the people! I don’t care a fuck about luxuries!” 

“Wonderful! Come close Ekha!” 

Isavaka walked up the  huge stairs to the greenish skin giant whose right foot was small. A huge buffalo was sitting right to the third step. There was a mace and noose kept next to the Dharmaraja’s throne. He stood infront of Dharmaraja. 

Dharmaraja touched the forehead of Isavaka. His eyes were widened after he left Isavaka’s forehead. He covered his eyes from his palm and laughed out loud.  

Aarambh dorm was completely in tension. Due to some machine error, thye could not contact anyone out of Aarambh. Suddenly Anji starts shouting. Abdul-da ran down to Anji if something happened to the statue. Behind Abdul-da, everyone awake ran behind him. They observed something unexpected. The skin of the statue started to shed. The statue crumbled and Isavaka fell down. They could hear sounds of snoring from him. Kai was frustrated and kicked his ass. Isavaka still was in deep sleep. Kai took him on his back and went back to their room as per the Dorm Master’s order. 

“This night was a EPG graph, what doy you say Adirah?” 

“Yes sir. It was an up and down night.” 

                                      -END OF PART 1: THE YIELDER-