since I've already made my disclaimers its time for me to commence ...CHAPTER 1 : the fifth mountain ..
the stranger showed vardhaan a piece of paper , which looked like a map 
how do we read it ? vardhaan asked the hooded stranger who also happened to be their guide .
the hooded stranger gave him a crooked smile and told ----- you don't need to . i know how to read it .
vardhaan was confused he did not know if the man could be trusted , he hardly knew him . the stranger observed this and spoke ...
i have lived in this desert for all my life and from what I've learnt about it is that : the desert is like a beautiful but capricious woman and sometimes it drives men crazy ...
i hope you understand that in this desert defiance would mean death . stranger told in a voice which could make any man tremble with fear .
but it wasn't JUST ANY MAN it was vardhaan . he had to get them out of here ... at any cost .
i trust you ... he said giving the map back to the stranger .
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the rest of the dream time was enjoying their time , unaware of the possible threat on them ... and were TOO involved to notice the absence of their mentor .
it was kind of festive atmosphere . the caravan which the dream team was a part of , was leaving for the other side of desert tomorrow , so as of a custom they celebrated this night as much as they could , because the time to come was not easy .
the dream team was sitting near the bonfire with the son of the caravan's leader , who was narrating all the heroic stories of his travels in the desert .i have crossed these sands many times ... he said .. but the desert is so huge and the horizons so distant , that they make a person feel small , as if he should remain silent .
sanyukta was fascinated with his stories ... she gazed the boy with wide eyes .now randhir wasn't liking it a bit . the guy was around their age 18 - 19 yrs . he had a fair complexion which was quiet unusual , contrasting sharply with his father's dark complexion . he was tall and had athletic body . not so hot and happening as randhir but he could be called handsome at least . he spoke hindi well unlike the other caravan members .
i bet these stories are made up . randhir smirked , got up and left towards his tent to sleep . he and his damnn philosophy . he thought only brainless creatures like sanyukta could be impressed with such fake stories ...
the boy narrated a few more stories
by this time jiggy , kaustuki , sahil and others felt sleepy and left ...
sanyukta got up to leave as well . but before leaving she turned to the boy and said ---- don't mind randhir ... he is just like that .
i don't mind ... the boy said . he has learnt an important lesson of not trusting people blindly .
anyway i am sanyukta agarwal .
nice to meet uh ...
would you not tell me your name ? sanyukta asked .
parth ... the boy said .
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( LOL going out shopping with ya BgF is like the worst idea ever -__- ... i tell you never take guys with you for shopping they mess things up )!
anyway lets continue xD
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everyone was sleeping peacefully ... everyone except vardhaan ... he was among the few people who knew about the approaching war . it isn't as good as it looks like . but wait , that's how life is ! you never know what happens next ... he decided to keep the news away from his team . he could not tell them about this ... the simple problem was he did not know how to put that up ... like .. hey ! you know a tribal war can start any time in this remote place in desert and that our lives is in danger . actually we can die anytime . he did not wanted to be too dramatic .
i will do whatever i can to get them out ... he thought .
life had changed a lot during these few days ... he remembered how it all started when they were told that they will have to visit another village for dream team contest . ... it wasn't a big deal although sanyukta's brother made sure that they did not leave without a drama act by him . but finally vardhaan managed to convince sanyukta's father to send her with the team .
the journey was so tiring . they took a plane to reach Jaipur . then a rail to reach jaisalmer, the car took them from jaisalmer to saibara covering about 200 km's . they had to leave the car there as everywhere was sand from then on ... they boarded camels and travelled another good 300 km's to reach their destination.
this so called village , the venue of the contest . it wasn't like a village it was just a few sand dunes, a well and five - seven families living in tents . the people spoke a complete strange language . they were a part of India without knowing what INDIA is . there were no government office/ buildings .
CITE's team also reached there somehow ... the challenge was to create such a device which could make the life of the natives easy . he remembered how sanyukta and randhir clashed and fought . finally they agreed on making an efficient photovoltaic cell as sunlight was in abundance . of course they had to win ... in a team which has geniuses like sanyukta and randhir winning over the crappy idea of making a generator of CITE was a cake walk .
celebrations don't last long . vardhaan came to know about the war through someone and took his team out of the place in time ... he never knew what happened to CITE's team or kabir ... some people told he died .
he made up a story that dean was so happy about them wining that he wants them to go on an exertion and observe the place for a while . everyone was so happy to notice anything fishy in this . even randhir's mind failed to notice how could dean call vardhaan when there were no towers in the region and hence no network in the place .
then he made up that it would be great to travel with caravan as they would get a glimpse of life there when in reality he just did that because they could not go back the old route ... there were no guides and moreover travelling with other people seemed like a safer option to him .
well his idea had worked well until now and none of the members of dream team knew about the apparent danger in which they were .
vardhaan still had doubts about the decision he made .but he knew that making a decision was just the beginning of things .when someone makes decision he dives into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamt of in the first place .
sooner or later the team would come to know , but till then they have the right to be happy . he thought .
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MORNING , 4:30 am :-
the dream team was made to get up at this time which they , especially our infamous sleepy head sanyukta did not like a bit !
the leader of caravan was giving a speech or something before they started out the journey . he was speaking in another language . parth made it easy for them to understand . after each line the leader said he translated it .
I am the leader of the caravan . i hold the power of life and death for every person i take with me .
there were some 100 people gathered there and about 200 animals - camels , horses , mules and fowls .in the crowd , were women , children and a number of men with swords in their belt and rifles slung on their shoulders.
their was a babble of noise and the leader had to repeat himself several times so that everyone understood what he said . only if he had a mike , randhir thought .
there are a lot of people here and each one has their own god . in the name of the god i serve , i swear that i will do everything possible once again to win out of the desert . but i want each and everyone of you to swear in the name of your own god that you will follow my orders no matter what . for , dis obedience means DEATH .
there was a murmur from the crowd . everyone was swearing in the name of their gods . randhir did not say anything , he did not believed in this non sense . the murmur lasted longer that a simple vow would have .the people also prayed to heavens for protection .
a long note was sounded on a bugle , and everyone mounted up on their camels .
wow ! here we go ... yoyo said and climbed up the camel .
i won't go... i don't know how to climb up ... jiggy was hell scared of the hoofing noise of camels .with the help of randhir he somehow managed to get up there .
need help miss ? randhir smirked towards sanyukta .
no thank you i can manage on my own ... don't need an MCP for this ...
well randhir was in no mood to listen ... he took her in his arms and raised her up . she climbed up the camel and made herself comfortable .
everyone was ready to leave !
ADVENTURE ! HERE WE COME ! sanyukta literally shouted her lungs out.
little did they know what this adventure would cost them .
long enough ?
please comment xD
to be continued !
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