A/N: Longest Chapter with 8000 words… Enjoy reading. Cheers…
1 hour 15 minutes later,
Manali Cottage,
Aman and Roshni entered the cottage. The whole cottage was decorated as if some wedding is going to happen. It was grand and still men are decorating the shaadi mandap with flowers. Roshni and Aman are surprised and wondered how within 10 hours, the cottage has been decorated like this. The climate outside is drizzling with snow, but the work is going on non-stop.
Ignoring all that, they took the names of Avni and Neil. No response.
Aman – “Hey Coward! Where are you lost?”
Roshni – “Are you hiding in fear?”
Nayantara appears in front of them. Aman and Roshni looked at each other. Nayantara asked the men who were working on decorations to leave. The men got exited through through back door of the cottage which is located opposite to the front door.
Aman – “Where are those cowards? Did you hide them in your ghost world? Okay, who is going to get married?”
Nayantara – “See Aman. Whatever you’re doing is wrong.”
Roshni – “Nayantara, why can’t you just get lost? You came to know everything, didn’t you?”
Nayantara – “Tara… I mean Roshni…”
“Stop it, Nayan. Now, it’s time for everything to end,” says Neil interrupting Nayantara.
Aman and Roshni turned back and looks Neil and Avni coming towards them. Aman looks at them angrily.
Neil – “So what? Nayantara has reasoned that she cannot go out of this world. What about you both? Staying with the tag of blood relations and betraying us.”
Aman – “Empty vessels make more noise. After all, I am going to kill before I am leaving from this city.”
Avni – “You just have the temper in your head. Not brain, Jijaji…”
Aman – “Jijaji… My foot. Are you overconfident that you defeated me yesterday?”
Neil goes near Aman and patted his shoulder. Aman fumes.
Neil – “Bro, there is no need to be over-confident. I’m still ahead of you in all away. By birth, I am 3 years ahead of you. By intelligence, it is always me. By strength also, there is no doubt…”
Aman smirks, “You’re always ahead of me, bro. And you’re going to die first.”
Saying this, Aman kicks Neil’s neck with his legs and he jumps upside and manage to hold the rod of the ceiling.
Unexpected by Aman’s sudden move, Neil falls down and he feels dizzy. Avni comes near him to check whether he was alright.
Before Neil is about to stand, Aman leaves the hold of rod and jumps on Neil’s shoulders. Neil’s shoulder joints could not carry the weight the Aman and he faints again. Before he lose balance, Aman does a backward jump and lands on the floor.
Nayantara comes to Neil’s rescue.
Nayantara uses her powers against Aman. Roshni comes to Aman’s rescue. Soon, Roshni overpowered Nayantara and made her captive.
Roshni – “I appreciate your guts that being a foolish soul, you came to fight against me.”
Neil, who was lying down, recites a mantra and a small and thick thread comes from blood of his palm. The thread extends faster and he tied Aman’s one leg with that and moved momentarily.
The thread made Aman hit the pillar of the house vigorously and his head bleeds. Then Aman pulled the thread and Aman hit his head with the opposite pillar.
Roshni was shocked seeing that and nullifies the power of the thread with her powers.
Aman falls down with severe bleeding in his head. Roshni runs to him and made him sit on the lap. Soon Avni control Aman with chains.
Aman – “Roshni, don’t worry about me. Go and kill that b*stard!”
Roshni – “No Aman. You’re more important to me. Let me heal your wound.”
Aman (trembles) – “Don’t be adamant, Roshni… Now, he is weak… It is the right time to kill him. Go Roshni…”
Roshni – “Aman…”
Aman, with his minimal strength, pushed Roshni. Roshni cries and look at the others.
Neil is still lying the floor and could not stand up. Nayantara was captured in a cage.
Avni, who is looking all this silently, starts coming to the battle point.
Roshni becomes alert seeing Avni and runs to Avni’s room. Surprised by that, Avni runs behind her. The room was decorated as if ‘suhaagraat’ (nuptial night) is going to happen.
After entering the room, Roshni smirks at Avni.
Roshni – “Loser…”
Avni spells her power on Roshni. Roshni does a high jump and the magic strike the mirror behind Roshni and reflected back to Avni.
Roshni – “Oh! Statue power… Sadly the powers backfired at you. You cannot move now, darling.”
Saying this, Roshni goes outside. Avni could not move her body and was stood stationery.
At the ground storey,
Aman slowly stood up and soon his wounds were healed as he is a Daavansh. Roshni stands near him.
They both lift wounded Neil and donated few powers in his body. They both hold his hands and transmitted few powers to them.
Aman – “Yeah Neil, you’re getting powers. Not to save you, but to make your death more cruel.”
Roshni – “We do not want to kill a powerless guy. At least you need some qualifications to die by our hands.”
Neil gained few powers from them.
Neil – “You did a mistake, brother…”
Neil extends his hand to punch Aman with force, but he couldn’t.
Slowly, big hair strands grow from the epidermis of his whole body. Since the hair strands bulged out, it pained Neil like burning in hell. His skin becomes more rough and hard. Neil shouted.
Aman – “Are you thinking that we’ll give you powers so that you could defeat us?”
Neil looks at Aman with reddish eyes.
Aman – “We felt the same when we got such weird powers because of Angel’s curse every birth. You are feeling, how it pains when hair suddenly bulge from the skin and the heat of blood vessels. I suffered this pain every night during my teenage.”
Roshni – “I don’t know why it happens and all. But my conscience forced me to keep it as secret. Then, slowly I came to remember all the sins you’ve done, Neil.”
Aman – “Have you ever wondered why I slept in an individual room every night in my teenage or college days? Its everything because of this, Neil. I can’t sleep because of this and I don’t want anyone to know about my disorder. But later I understood it is a CURSE. I was cursed not to live my life with my family, my friends or my WIFE.”
Aman takes a knife from his pocket. With his power, the pocket knife becomes longer. Roshni too take a big knife and powered it.
Consecutively, Aman and Roshni stabbed Neil for SIX times.
Blood oozes out from his mouth.
Neil falls down after being stabbed for six times. Still the giant hairs are penetrating from Neil’s body and it adds to the pain of being stabbed.
Aman touched his temples and retook the powers from him. Neil’s pain due to hairs and skin bulges reduced.
Roshni – “We know Neil… You deserve a cruel death than this… But, what to do? We cannot do anything more than this… You were our best friend… We had a good memories with you…”
Aman held his cheek and cries, “Why Neil you turned this cruel! Why? You are my brother… You are the one who saves me when I do any naughty things from my mom… You have sacrificed your favourite toys and cars in childhood for the sake of my happiness… But, why did you do all these things? Why did you kill me and Roshni every time when we try to forget all your deeds?”
Roshni patted his shoulder and asked him stand up.
They both looked at the Neil in the pool of blood. Neil slowly closed his eyes permanently.
Roshni and Aman remembered all their happy moments with Neil and Avni. They felt numb and content seeing Neil’s death.
“Well, you have killed him, right?” says Avni, who just now got released from her own spell after 15 minutes.
Roshni – “Not only him, you are also still pending, Didi…”
Avni goes near Neil’s body and cried terribly. Aman and Roshni felt bad for Avni and even think to console her but they controlled themselves.
Roshni spells a magic on Avni so that a magical bubble surrounds Avni and Neil’s body.
Avni – “What are you doing now?”
Wind blows quite heavily and the snow dust fall inside the room. The wind was drizzling and quite unexpected.
The front door of the Cottage opens suddenly and a bride (Mouni Roy) is standing in a bridal red look. She is standing with a smirk and entered inside slowly.
Roshni was shocked.
Roshni – “She looks like my 1st birth face.. That is, Shivanya.”
Aman – “Hey, who are you?”
Shivanya – “Pathway to truth…”
Aman and Roshni looks at Avni shocked.
Suddenly the back door of the cottage opens and a groom (Arjun Bijlani) is standing in a groom look.
He comes inside with a swag. He comes near the bride and hold her hand romantically.
The bubble slowly sucks off Avni’s energy.
Avni (trembling) – “Shivanya and Rithik’s wedding is going to happen. Panditji….”
From the front door, Gorakhnath entered inside as a Pandit.
Aman – “What the hell is happening! Who are these two people in the form of our faces? Why are you confusing us?”
Shivanya and Rithik didn’t mind Aman.
Shivanya – “As you said, everyone’s heart skips a beat when we are going to marry in the mandap.”
Rithik held Shivanya’s hand and sit on the Shaadi mandap. Aman and Roshni are standing numb. They don’t know what to react.
The Pandit starts reciting the mantras. Shivanya and Rithik are doing the basic rituals.
Rithik and Shivanya starts doing the rounds. From the agni (sacred fire), powers erupt and approached towards the bubble where Avni is inside. But Avni becomes weak gradually.
They completed seven rounds.
Rithik and Shivanya comes out of the stage and looks at Roshni and Aman.
Rithik – “Do you know who are we?”
Roshni nods in negative. Aman just stares at them. When Aman is about to catch his collar, Rithik hold his hands,
Rithik – “We are here for helping you and Roshni. You can assume us as the representatives of your first birth souls.”
Shivanya – “Still, there are many secrets unknown to you, Roshni and Aman. We are here to reveal those things.”
Aman – “How could we believe you both? When you took saath-pheras (seven sacred rounds), some powers is transferred to Avni. So, how do you expect that we believe you?”
Rithik – “We could understand your situation, Aman. But it is the need of the day for you to trust us. We are going to make some shocking revelations.”
Shivanya – “Its all about the mystery man who killed you all these time by fooling you wickedly.”
Aman and Roshni looked at each other and gives permission for them to say. Avni, who is in the bubble, comes out and starts narrating whatever happened.
Suryaprakash taking Neil’s form and killing Rudra and Shivanya… Suryaprakash mixing make-up poison in the flood water…. Surya entering the dark room secretly and stabbing Nandini… Surya killing Avni and Neil after that… Surya taking Neil’s form and brutally killing Udayveer in the water… Suryaprakash taking rebirth as Sanjeev… Sanjeev molested Nayantara… Nayantara being Swastika… Manyata was killed brutally for not revealing the secret.
Avni – “We know it is difficult to believe me… But you can check the facts. You are thinking that Neil and me are the reason why you cannot have intimacy with Roshni. I am in the verge of my death and so is Neil. Now, you check whether you could get close with each other. Definitely, no.”
Aman hugged Roshni and kissed her forehead. Suddenly, Aman and Roshni are thrown to the opposite corners with a thud that even Aman and Roshni got themselves injured.
Aman stands up and healed his wounds. He released Nayantara from his captive. Roshni too come near him. He seemed so numb and expressionless.
He kneels down and shouts louder. Roshni cries holding Aman’s palm.
Neil and Avni are lying opposite without a breathe. Rithik and Shivanya are looking at heartbroken Aman and Roshni with empathy. Nayantara don’t know whether to move away or to console them.
Rithik – “We know, how it feels for you.”
Aman – “I have been betrayed again and again by someone or even by nature. Is it my fate that I have endured all the pains along with the curses? Why is this all happening to me? I have killed my best friends Neil and Avni also without knowing the truth. Who is this Sanjeev?”
Aman said this crying.
Rithik – “We are glad that you understood Neil and Avni are innocent.”
Roshni – “But, what is the use now?”
Nayantara – “We cannot even resurrect them now? They are died.”
Shivanya held Rithik’s hand and moves to the mandap. Gorakhnath continues to recite the mantras.
Aman and Roshni could not understand Rithik and Shivanya. Their entry, their behaviour and everything is confusing Aman, Roshni and Nayantara at all point of time. They don’t even know who are they…
Rithik ties mangalsutra on Shivanya’s neck and applies maang on her forehead.
Smoke comes from the sacred fire and spreads all over the place. Aman and Roshni coughs heavily breathing the smoke. It took 10 minutes for the smoke to disappear from the place.
After the smoke disappeared, slowly Neil and Avni wakes up. It shocked Aman, Roshni and Nayantara. Rithik and Shivanya smirked.
Aman – “Neil, you are alive now.”
Saying this, Aman hugged Neil and Roshni hugged Avni.
Roshni – “We are sorry for our misunderstandings. We don’t deserve any apology for our deeds. But, if possible, please forgive us.”
Neil – “No Roshni. The mistake is not yours. Also, you deserve justice for whatever brutality happened to you and Aman.”
Avni – “We know that you have intense hatred for us and it even blinded your vision. So, we know it won’t work if we say the truth first. So, we executed such plan that your hatred might reduce after killing us.”
Roshni – “So, it is all just drama to fool us again.”
Roshni asked in a authoritative tone.
Avni – “No.”
Flashback – 1 hour 15 minutes before
Neil and Avni are in the cave with the Angel.
Avni – “Thank you so much for all your help. We are leaving now.”
Angel – “How can you leave so fast without paying your due?”
Neil – “What the hell! So, what is your need?”
Angel – “My fees is, Neil and Avni’s death.”
Neil and Avni are shocked to the core. Neil grows angry and is about to fight with her but Avni controlled him.
Avni – “We’ll obey you. But, we can die at anytime we want.”
Saying this, Avni and Neil comes outside fastly.
Neil – “What is happening Avni? We need to first find the location of Sanjeev. But you accepted Angel’s deal.”
Avni – “I have a plan, Neil. Don’t worry. Let us meet Gurudev. Come on.”
Neil just nodded, but Avni again stopped.
Avni – “Neil, you go to the cottage and check the basement, I mean the place where we found Manyata aunty’s photo. There is something we missed out for sure. Take Nayantara’s help too. I am going to Gurudev’s house.”
Avni reached Gorakhnath’s house and tell about Angel’s condition.
Avni – “Gurudev, is there any trick to overcome this deal? Practically, we cannot die now. Otherwise, the chain of game would be continued for long.”
Gorakhnath listened to Avni silently and gets inside and bring some herbs.
Gorakhnath – “These herbs hold a lot of specialties. They have the power of resurrection once you die. But, I don’t know how the herbs work. It is considered as poison if you eat it and drink it by crushing. But, ancient scripts says it is consumed in the form of soul getting into the body. I cannot understand the meaning.”
Avni goes restless and tries to crack the meaning.
Avni – “It means, it is consumed as smoke. The soul gets out of the body in the form of white gas like substance and gets dissolved in air. If we burn and inhale the smoke, it will resurrect us.”
Gorakhnath – “Excellent. But, how could you execute the plan? How will you inhale the smoke after death? And , who will kill you?”
Avni – “Aman and Roshni will kill us. But, still we are yet to plan the execution. We must do that as soon as possible.”
*****
Neil comes to the cottage and calls Nayantara. Nayantara and Neil goes to the basement and start their searching procedures.
Neil starts taking the wooden slabs kept as floor and locate the mud. He starts searching for Manyata’s diary and he even dig deeper into the ground. The mud was so moist and watery for no reason.
Nayantara – “Neil, we have been toiling so hard but we cannot find the diary.”
Neil – “There is no choice other than this, Nayan. You go to the room and bring Manyata aunty’s portrait and other things we found already.”
Nayantara goes there and take the portrait and other papers. Nayantara go through the papers that they found near the portrait.
Neil – “I don’t know why the mud is so moist and wet. Looks like some waterbody is located here.”
Nayantara – “I’ll try my powers Neil.”
Nayantara used her powers and digged even more deep and water flow is visible. Neil was surprised to see a waterbody below the basement.
Neil tasted the water and it tasted like a nectar.
Neil – “There are possibilities that there existed some lake. Nayantara try even more.”
Nayantara – “But Neil..”
Neil – “Do what I say.”
Nayantara dug even deeper with her powers. Water level increased to 10 inches. There are some shining rocks. Neil asked her to break the rock as it seemed fishy. After the break of rock, the water disappeared as it moved inside through the HOLE. Neil voluntarily let his hand through the hole. But to his surprise, the hole starts pulling his hand.
Neil – “What the hell! It is a QUAGMIRE (Daladal in Hindi) Nayan help me.”
Nayan pulled Neil but suddenly Neil stopped her.
Neil – “I caught something else. Let me grab that..”
Neil entered inside the Quagmire and grabbed the object. Neil asked Nayantara to pull him now. Nayan did the same.
Neil comes out of the quagmire and his shirt and shoulder are filled with wet mud. Neil is holding a silver box.
Neil opened the box and found the diary and a small bone.
Nayantara – “It looks like spine bone. The smell is just nauseating. Open the diary.”
Nayantara closed the area with her powers and made the basement look normal.
Neil go through the pages but the pages were empty and nothing was written. Neil got irritated by this and threw the diary in anger. Nayantara caught the diary and look through the diary.
Nayantara tried to figure out if anything is written by hidden manner but she could not understand.
Nayantara looked the spine bone and take that. Neil looks at her. Nayantara rubbed the spine bone in all the paper of the diary. At last page, it does its magic.
Since the bone rub the last paper, few letters become visible.
‘Aag ki Roshni’ (The fire’s light) was the message written in diary.
Nayantara – “Aag ki Roshni means…. Neil, please bring a wood stick or baton, cloth piece, perfume and matchstick.”
Neil has no options than to obey Nayantara. So he immediately moved to take the required things. He give the things to Nayantara. Nayantara asked Neil to switch off the lights.
Nayantara tied the piece of cloth on the wood baton, sprayed perfume on it and it fired with matchstick. Fire appears on the wood.
She moved the fire towards the room and when she comes to the wall, the wonder happened.
There are informations written on the wall appears to their naked eye because of the fire light. If the light was off, the wall looks normal.
Neil – “It means, Manyata aunty had written the secrets on walls. Only if the wall is exposed to fire light, the message would appear.”
Slowly, they read the message written on the wall.
Neil – “So this is how we should kill Sanjeev.”
Neil and Nayantara shares a hi-fi. They both conveyed it to Gurudev.
*****
Aman – “Okay. you’re genuine. But, Avni and you killed my adopted parents 34 years ago. Why did you do that?”
Neil – “We are sorry for that. And, we don’t know that they were your adopted parents.”
Aman – “Yeah, I hid that from you as I hated you. But, why did you do that?”
Avni – “As a son of them, you must be knowing that they were working at NGOs. But, they were not genuine and good. They sell young orphan childs to prostituition centres and brothels. I was one of the victims.”
Roshni – “What?”
Avni – “I lost my parents in my young age due to Landslide. Those NGOs came to help us by providing money and food. But, Mayank’s parents took that as advantage, they corrupted the money and sold me and my siblings to brothel. My siblings died due to child rape. I survived because of my fate. I was sure to expose these people. But since there is no evidence, we decided to kill them.”
Aman – “My adopted parents are also betrayers. Either the one whom I loved the most is betrayed me or they were portrayed as betrayers by someone else… What is my mistake?”
Neil – “We could understand what you’re feeling. We are sorry for your loss.”
Aman – “No need of sorries. Avni was served justice. That is fine.”
Avni smiles.
Aman – “What is the secret? I mean the procedure. And, who are these two people?”
Aman says pointing at Rithik and Shivanya.
Rithik and Shivanya removed the face masks and their real face comes evident.
Aman – “Poornima and Jayesh!”
Poornima (Aalisha Panwar) is Aman and Neil’s cousin and Jayesh (Harshad Chopda) is her husband.
Neil – “Yes, Aman. Gorakhnath prepared magical masks of Rithik and Shivanya and we sought Poornima and Jayesh’s help for this plan.”
Avni – “Since Jayesh and Poornima come here for Jayesh’s relatives death rites, it was easy for us to involve them in our plan.”
Roshni – “But, you revealed all this…”
Avni signed Roshni not to worry.
Aman – “So what is the procedure to kill Sanjeev or Surya Prakash?”
Nayantara – “We found the spinal bone in the diary box (shows the bone). It is the weapon to kill Sanjeev. It was sharpened at the wide ends. So, it is used as sword. This bone belongs to Nandini (looks at Roshni).”
Roshni – “You mean mine… That means it is 200 years old bone.”
Nayantara – “Yes. When you died, the new Naagraj took your spine bone from your body and did various yagnas with the help of sages and made it powerful weapon to kill Surya if he posess any threat after his rebirth on the insistence of Naag guru. Later, Angel Apsara has instructed about the future events and asked to hide it for years. Then, they give the weapon to mom (Manyata). Mom was the one who supposed to kill Sanjeev but since she sacrificed her powers, she was forbidden. So, the responsibility goes to Mayank, the one who suffered the most because of Sanjeev.”
Aman – “It means, I have to kill Sanjeev with this sword. That’s quite simple.”
Nayantara – “It is not simple.”
Nayantara takes the sword and looks at the floor, which is filled with Neil’s blood. Nayantara applied the blood on the spine bone.
Nayantara – “The blood is of Neil, but it it is mixed with his stomach acid due to vigorous stab on his stomach.”
Due to the acid affect, the bone dissolves an inch and the colour of the bone changes from white to brown.
Nayantara – “This indicates that the bone is physically strong because of acid mixed blood. Avni’s energy is also stored in this bone when Aman arrested Avni in a bubble.”
Neil – “As per the requirements, positive energy of Avni and acid blood from Neil stomach is needed to boost the bone. It is also one of the reasons why Avni and I had to die along with Angel’s demand. We have trickily obeyed her demand.”
Avni – “Marriage of an outsider couple is important because Sanjeev has insulted his marital relationship with Manyata aunty. So, Manyata aunty gets help from the angels who are related to marriage. Those angels empower the weapon that it would confirm that soul of Sanjeev also gets destroyed along with his body. So Gurudev did pooja for Bone also in the agni along wth marriage.”
Neil – “The most important thing is, Today is the day that comes after every 120 years. Today is the day to obtain gandhak.”
Aman – “What about the arrows?”
Avni – “We actually have one arrow out of three. Maybe the other two arrows are with Sanjeev. So, he must come to approach us.”
Nayantara – “Yes, Gorakhnath gave us one arrow.”
Aman – “So, there must be some place where the yagna takes place. We must locate that.”
Nayantara – “There is actually a defect in the weapon. We should use this weapon only after 12 hours of yagna.”
Aman – “Okay, then we need to control Sanjeev for 12 more hours.”
Nayantara – “Before that, we need to do one more thing.”
Nayantara looked at the eyes of Poornima and Jayesh and hypnotized them to forget whatever happened in last 2 hours. They fall unconscious and Neil and Avni locked them in their room with security procedures.
The lights have gone off suddenly.
Roshni – “I am suspecting something is going to be wrong.”
Aman – “Don’t worry. The arrow is with us. So he won’t do anything harmful as for now.”
Roshni and Aman mumbled to each other while Nayantara tries her best to find a candle to light up.
The lights were turned on now.
Neil – “It might be a short-circuit. Let us focus on our plan.”
Avni – “That’s right.”
Nayantara – “He must be in our surroundings only. Maybe in a nearby temple or a famous temple in this place. That’s why he brought you people here.”
Roshni – “Nayan, its not Sanjeev who brought us here. We brought Neil and Avni here in the pretext of the honeymoon but for our plannings. I mean, we suggested this place and we booked this specific cottage for their honeymoon. So, we cannot expect that Sanjeev is in Manali.”
Neil – “Okay, we may do some ritual with the first arrow we have. That might attract Sanjeev to reach here.”
Avni – “It is a fabulous idea. But, this place is relevant. We shall go to the Shiva temple.”
Nayan – “You can go. Since I’m a spirit, I’m forbidden to enter deities.”
Avni, Neil, Roshni and Aman leaves for the temple. Roshni carries a bag which contains the arrow and the spine bone.
They reached the temple.
*****
Manali Cottage
Nayantara is searching all the rooms for Neil. She definitely knew the one who know went to temple wasn’t Neil but Sanjeev.
[FB: Aman signed Nayantara that Neil could be fake before leaving for temple.]
Nayan found Neil in a pool of blood, packed in a jute bag in the storeroom. Nayan torn the jute bag and bring Neil to the oxygen-friendly place. She made Neil breathe the smoke from sacred fire which has herbs.
Nayan – “Are you fine, Neil?”
Neil – “Yeah, Nayan. It is expected that Sanjeev would come in the form of mine.”
Nayan – “Don’t worry, Neil. Aman, Roshni and Avni are aware of it. He might tackle him.”
Neil – “That’s great. Glad you doubted.”
Nayan – “Actually, there is no need to do rituals for the arrows. Neil must be knowing it, but Sanjeev thought us to be fool and tricked us to do some pooja. But we managed to take him to a temple where the security arrangements are done. The Pooja was done by the members of Naaglok. The temple authorities are given leave. So, it is the need of the day to bring gandak at least now.”
Neil – “Let us move, Nayan. I know you’re not supposed to go the temple. But, at least come with me.”
Nayan – “Sure, Neil.”
*****
Temple
Neil hides at a food gallery of the temple with Nayantara which is located away from idol. They informed Avni and others regarding the same.
Five hours passed by,
Soon after everyone entered the temple, as they expected the rituals are started. The naag gurus, Naags and Naagins are keen on making the arrangements for the evening ritual.
Fake Neil turns into Sanjeev and hides, “It is really difficult to get over the protective threads. They are so protective that if I try to overpower them, I’ll be caught by them. I need to be as careful as possible.”
While at other side,
Aman – “Roshni, we need to make Sanjeev lose his mental patience. So, we need trigger him as well provoke him. We need to make himself reveal his original form.”
Roshni – “But, how could we do that? Sanjeev seems to be prepared. After all, he has been preparing for it since many years.”
Avni – “Number is not a matter. Intelligence is what we need.”
Aman – “I have an idea. It is simple but maybe it can help us surplusly.”
Aman tells the idea to Avni and Roshni. Though they were reluctant, they agreed to Aman’s idea.
After 6 hours,
Aman goes to Sanjeev who is disguised as Neil and says, “Bro, there is a special pooja for Manyata maa.”
Sanjeev – “Oh, but why?”
Aman – “She is the mother of Roshni in her previous birth. I consider her as my mother too. Also, she is the princess of Naaglok and in fact if she is alive, she is the queen of Naaglok. Also, in previous birth, she had suffered a lot because of her abusive husband. So this ritual may help that abuser get many punishments in hell.”
Sanjeev – “But, what is the need Aman? I am going to air the three arrows which is already with me. From, where this Manyata come?”
Aman thinks, “He is committing mistakes now. Just a bit more is needed.”
Sanjeev – “Aman?”
Aman – “Bro, She is your ex’s mom. Don’t you know how she used to love you ? You even blackmailed her to accept the proposal? But sadly she was raped before death.”
Sanjeev – “Oh, What the hell! Manyata was barred from Naaglok and why the hell, there is ritual for her? And you’re telling about my ex-girlfriend stories?”
Aman – “Bro, cool down. Why are you screaming as if you’re Sanjeev who disguised as Neil?”
Sanjeev looks at Aman shockingly.
Aman – “Just Joking, bro.”
He gives a derisive smile and leaves.
Sanjeev thinks, “How did I forget the fact that Aman knew that I am the Killer? It looks like he knew he found me that I am not Neil. I cannot act anymore.”
Sanjeev – “Bro…”
Aman turns and sees Sanjeev in his real form and not as Neil. Sanjeev smirked.
Aman – “So, you came to know about me. So, you need to die now.”
Suddenly a small arrow hits Sanjeev’s legs and he grew unconscious.
Aman – “Neil…”
Neil comes with a small gun through which he has shooted the sedatives injection.
Neil – “Yeah, Aman. I don’t want to risk your life now. We don’t know how powerful he is. We are seeing him only now after a lot of years. Glad that this sedatives worked. Before he gain consciousness, we need to examine him and also keep him in captive.”
Aman – “You’re right, Neil.”
With the help of Naag-guru and other priests, they tied Sanjeev with a hard and powerful rope made up of bael leaves which are allergic to snakes. But, they could not examine much since Sanjeev woke up after 20 minutes. He was captivated at the big ground of the temple.
Sanjeev – “Cowards, despite fighting with me directly, you chose a tricky way…”
Aman – “Before pointing your fingers towards us, see your condition. You’re no less than a coward. Even worse than a coward. You don’t have any guts to come in front of us so you took the form of Neil.”
Sanjeev laughs devilishly.
Sanjeev – “Are you thinking that you can arrest me for long time? Impossible!”
Aman – “We still have one arrow with us. You are having two arrows. So, if we damage one arrows…”
Sanjeev – “Naaglok would suffer severely. Think about it. Just for defeating me, you’re keeping Naaglok people’s life in stake.”
Avni – “What is the problem with us? If you want only gandak, your revenge must be on Vikramaditya… Why are we suffered?”
Sanjeev laughs louder and says, “I’ll consider this as your last wish. I could not fulfill your last wish previously. But at least, I can do now.”
He laughed again which irritated Aman a lot.
Sanjeev continued.
“You know that I killed only you four people. But, I have killed many people that you don’t know. I am the one who killed Neil’s parents in first birth. You must be hearing that they sacrificed their lives in fire for getting gandhak. But no… I have misplaced the ancient scripts with new one. There I wrote, a couple who is aware of magic concepts must sacrifice their lives in gandhak. Poor Neil’s parents believed that script and killed themselves in a fire but they get nothing in return. Then, I destroyed that fake script.”
Neil was shocked hearing this secret conspiracy. He looks at him angrily. While he continues,
“In second birth, I am the one who disguised as Embassy spy to Neil and provoked him against Nandini. I am the one who mixed poisonous make-up in the flood water so that other citizens died.
In third birth, I entered Tara’s room secretly and replaced Neil’s shells with black magic shells and she suffered facial changes due to that.”
Aman flipped out and is about to beat Sanjeev but Roshni prevented him.
Roshni – “Let that idiot convey the reasons fully. Then you kill him.”
Neil – “What is the reason for all this? Why did you kill my parents?”
Sanjeev starts telling the reasons.
“I was Suryaprakash, the son of Naagraj of Naaglok. Neil’s parents were magicians who are loyal to the my father. The truth is, I am an adopted son of the Naagraj. I am the biological son of Naagraj’s brother. So, using this Neil’s parents tried to manipulate my father to give throne to Neil over me. They went to many extremes to degrade me to glorify Neil.
So, first I finished them off. Neil was also eyeing the throne.”
Neil – “Yes, it is true that I eyed the throne but I left the wish when I become mature by age and experience.”
Sanjeev – “Maybe yes. But my situation hasn’t changed. When you did something helpful, all these folks of Naaglok are degrading me that I am the useless son of Naagraj. Even though they don’t know that I am adopted, but their meaningless hatred is all because of you. Especially when you saved 10000 snakes from my father Bhairavnath.”
Neil and Aman got remembered of the FB where Rudra cut Bhairavnath into pieces and Neil fought with Bhairavnath when he hypnotised Avni and all other snakes.
Aman – “Bhairavnath?”
Sanjeev – “Yes. My Dad and Naagraj were biological brothers. Naagraj abandoned my dad from Naaglok as he did some mistake. Since Neil was too young that time, he don’t remember and Naagraj has ordered others not to reveal this.
Bhairavnath was not only my dad but also my Guru. It is true that he is evil but I don’t care all that. He is very intelligent. When Rudra killed my dad, my mom who was also equally a powerful lady found about Swastika aka Nayantara’s magic in it. After Rudra cut my dad into pieces, my mom asked me a promise to ruin Vikramaditya, Swastika, Neil and Rudra ‘s life to the extremes.”
Neil – “Vikramaditya is rotting in hell for his punishments. Nayantara has become a powerless soul who don’t remember anything about her birth because of Shivanya’s curse. But, why did you kill Aman, Roshni, Avni and me?”
Sanjeev – “My mom got a promise that I am the one who obtain Gandhak from the sacred fire. Neil was the reason why Gandhak missed out first time. That time I revenged Avni and Neil for revenge for making me wait for 120 years. The reason for Neil’s distraction is Shivanya and Rudra.
Aman has foiled my plan many times when I am going with flow. I have tried a lot to kill Neil before actual time but Aman spoil the plan unknowingly and knowingly. Then, I decided to separate this Neil and Aman. Aman provoked my ego when he gave me a tough fight in second birth and he challenged me that he would be the reason for my death in all births. I took this as a challenged and made his life as hell. I killed other people who came as hinderance to my mission.”
Aman – “Of course, this time I am the reason for your death, Sanjeev. For whatever you did to me, Roshni, Neil, Avni, Manyata maa and Nayantara… You are going to get a cruel death.”
Sanjeev – “Let us have a challenge. Release me from this captive and I’ll give you the arrows. Then, you fight with me with your group and defeat me… If you could able to defeat me, the game will get over. If you couldn’t, you all will be my slaves in all the births.”
Aman – “Why should we release you from the captive? After all you’re the most powerful….”
Before Aman could complete, Sanjeev tear the ropes with his surplus powers and comes out. After reciting a magical phrase, two arrows appears and reaches Naag-guru. He keep that safely along with third arrow.
Sanejev – “I know you provoke me in a terrible manner. So yeah…”
Aman – “There is no need of others. I am just enough to kill you. Avni and Neil, go and look after the rituals. The time is not surplus… The auspicious time may come anytime.”
After Aman’s forceful sayings, Neil and Avni leave to the ritual space…
Sanjeev – “You did a mistake by sending all your friends. You’re going to face a cruel death now.”
Saying this, Sanjeev turned into a snake and tried to caught Aman in its tail. But, Aman spits fire from his mouth hurting Sanjeev.
Sanjeev – “These tricks won’t harm me.”
Aman attacked Sanjeev with rocks and debris which has injured Sanjeev.
Sanjeev, with his powers, broke the pillar of the temple and hit Aman with the gigantic pillar he fell down with a thud.
Soon, Sanjeev put the 4 feet pillar on Aman’s leg and he shouted in pain.
Roshni – “Aman…..”
With the help of her powers, she threw the pillar and healed Aman’s leg.
Sanjeev – “Someone said that he will give competition only to his status but you’re taking someone’s help.”
Sanjeev mocked and laughed at Aman. He pushed Roshni with his powers But Aman held her.
Aman – “Roshni is another half of me. I am a half man without her. But, anyways keep those mocking to yourself, Roshni won’t be helping now.”
Roshni – “Aman, are you…”
Aman – “I understand, Roshni. But, I won’t change that I will fight in single if the enemy is single. I am strict with that.”
Sanjeev – “Enough of your lectures. First try to beat me…”
Saying this he moves fast like wind and disappears from the temple and moves to the nearby forest. Aman looks at Roshni
Aman – “Go to Avni and Neil. I am having the spine bone with me. So don’t worry.”
Saying this, Aman runs rapidly to the forest. There is a closed factory in the middle of the forest. Aman gets sound from the factory and he enters inside. There are a lots of machineries in the factory and the factory looks dark along with the night darkness.
Aman gets into a lonely room. He hears someone running like wind. He starts focusing on the person and wind direction. With his power, he changed the direction of wind that Sanjeev got collapsed and fallen down.
Aman hold him and starts punching him so that blood comes out of his mouth. He didn’t give even a second to Sanjeev to recognise and beats him profusely.
Suddenly Sanjeev kneels down from getting punched. Sanjeev tightly held Aman’s leg and threw it towards the generator which was set on the top… He carried Aman’s body and thrashed it on the generator that Aman’s head bleeds and also the generator starts weak and it may fall down soon.
Aman, now used his power so that animal hairs penetrates from his body so that his skin becomes thick and strong to get injured.
With the help of it, Aman hold Sanjeev and hit him on the generator. The generators burst on his legs and knees. Still he healed those wounds and start to attack Aman. He attacked Aman with the sharp tools in the factory and he pierced the five knife in Aman’s both legs and Aman’s stomach.
Both are now in the pool of blood.
Roshni, who is hiding from Aman, removed the knifes from Aman with her magic and healed the wounds. Aman noticed and smiles emotionally as he knew it is Roshni’s help. But his extrenal appearnace with blood doesn’t change so that Sanjeev won’t doubt doubt Roshni’s presence.
Aman kept his leg on Sanjeev’s chest. He recited the magic and the powerful spine bone appeared.
Aman – “Now I can use the spine bone since it is been 12 hours.”
Aman said in a trembling voice.
*****
While in temple,
Avni and Neil are doing the before-hand rituals.
As per the procedure, when Sun and moon appears above the temple’s void space at top, Neil would aim the three arrows towards the midpoint of the eclipse after getting orders from Naagpandit. The arrows are thrown at such a way so that it would strike each other and as a result of that, fireballs are created in blood red colour which superpose the sun’s shadow in the atmosphere. Then, the divine Gandhak would appear from the fire.
Naag-Guru – “Its time now, Neil. Get ready in your position, Now.”
Neil gets ready in his position.
Naagpandit – “Aim the arrow.”
Neil aims the three arrows towards the eclipse. As a result, a gigantic fire ball superposed the sun shadow in the atmosphere.
The divine gandhak appears from the fire. The Pandit recovered the Gandak from fire.
Naag-Guru – “We achieved it…”
Neil and Avni smiles heartily and hugged each other.
But soon, the smiles disappear as they know Aman is fighting with Sanjeev.
Neil and Avni searched for Aman and Roshni. Nayantara comes to them and says they were in the factory. Neil, Avni and Nayantara goes to the factory.
*****
Aman wiped some blood from Sanjeev’s mouth and creased on the Spine bone since it is also one of the prime requirements.
Aman stabbed Sanjeev on his stomach.
Aman – “Know one more thing too… I took the help of my wife to kill you. She healed my wounds. This is my betrayal to you… Better taste the betrayal now.”
First stab…. For making his friends look like betrayers….
Second stab…. For killing Nandini….
Third stab…. For killing Neil and Avni by fooling them
Fourth stab…. For killing Udayveer’s parents and all the members of Pataliputra and using them for his revenge motives…
Fifth stab… For killing Udayveer cruelly….
Sixth stab… For killing Mayank’s foster parents…
Seventh stab… For making Tara mentally unstable…
Eighth stab… For making Aman and Roshni not to live as couple.
Roshni comes to Aman and hold his hand to stab him…
Aman – “Now, the stab is on his eyes…”
Aman moved his hand and both stabbed his eyeballs…
First stab for raping Nayantara…
Second stab for killing Manyata brutally…
Sanjeev left his breathe for last.
Roshni felt dizzy and horrified to stab his eye but it is necessary.
Aman forward his hands to cut him into pieces but Neil and Avni stopped him…
Avni – “Enough Aman. He is dead now. There is no need to dirt yourself with his blood. You both become a complete humans and can normally live as a couple.”
Aman and Roshni held Avni and Neil hands and says, “We tortured you both for our misunderstanding so at least as a compensation, I took revenge on them on your behalf too. But still we don’t deserve any apology.”
Neil – “Don’t say like this… You both are so special to us. Why should we have grudges? You both are golden.”
Saying this, he caressed Aman’s face. Aman hugged Neil and cries. Roshni hugged Avni and cries.
Nayantara interrupts, “My revenge was also satisfied because of Aman jiju and Roshni didi. My curse also ends with the help of few priests. It is time for leaving you guys.”
Roshni hugged Nayantara.
Roshni – “Please forgive me, Nayantara. You’re the one who suffered the most because of the revenge.”
Nayantara – “I got what I deserved. But for what I don’t deserve, you got revenge for that didi. Thankyou.”
Saying this, Nayantara vanishes from there permanently with a smile.
THE END.
Author’s note:
Hello dear readers, I am sorry for making the chapter very lat. But I hope you all enjoyed the chapter a lot with a little action, adventure and emotions.
I am extremely thankful to all my readers for supporting me constantly throughout the end. This FF is definitely a lucky charm for me which has earned me a lot of readers than my previous FFs.
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