The C. N. A. T. - Page 101

Originally posted by: srishtisingh

vrish u should copyrightur ideas! starbharat is stealing ideas from ur cnat! they are going to show chausar played by shuku mama and krishna!

Originally posted by: shyam09

Long, crazy, distorted, possibly demented. Signs of dark humor I think ... presenting:

Ek Maa Ki Do Santhane.

Twip.

The Anjalika astra, decorated with various celestial jewels, flew towards its intended target with the power of the Gandhiva and the strength of the 3rd Pandava prince - Arjun. The target, Anga Raj Karna, just stood there with a smile on his face. He had spread his arms wide as if welcoming the arrow.

Karna had just a few moments ago told his younger brother his actual identity. He was none other than Kunti's first son, the eldest of the Pandavas brothers, Arjun's big bro.

As the arrow approached Karna, his smile quickly turned to a frown and as he was launched into the air by the power of the celestial weapon, he grabbed ahold of it. Landing on his back, he contorted his face, as if trying to absorb the heat of the impact. He was not going to go down in such a non-warrior like fashion. He tried to stand, but the effects of the Anjalika astra had already begun to take place and he could feel the heat inside of him.

He raised his right hand and limply held it in the direction of Arjun. He smiled at his younger brother's prowess.

"Puutttrrraaa!!" a high shrill came not too far away.

He looked in the direction and saw a woman running. He closed his eyes, hoping it was his beautiful mother Radha Ma, hoping that he could see her lovely face one last time before departing towards the land of the Sun God, his birth father.

He felt his head lifted and gently placed on a lap. He smiled at opened his eyes. "Raa---" He stopped abruptly. "Kunti Mata." He swallowed. He expected to see his foster mother, but he lay in the lap of his birth mother. For a second there he was dazed.

"Putra Karna!!! Why are you dead!!" Kunti screamed, beating her chest. Her tears falling all over the face of Karna. "Why are you dead!!!"

Karna blinked a few times. Could his birth mother not see that he was alive?

Kunti, however, was too busy crying to notice Karna was alive. Seeing Arjun still holding his Gandhiva, his face filled with pure rage, she hastely stood up, accidentally forgetting to put Karna's head on the ground.

THUMP.

Karna's head hit the ground. He was already being internally destroyed by the weapon, but to make matters worse, his birth mother shows up to bid him adieu instead of his foster mother. And now his birth mother was being careless too. He chuckled to himself - what a load of crap he thought.

"Arjun!" Kunti screamed, tears rolling down her face. "How dare you shoot your eldest brother!"

"But Mata ..."

"Shut up! I refuse to talk to you anymore."

With that she turned around to Karna, knelt beside him and mustering her energy tried to pull the arrow out. As she pulled, Karna's face began to contort slightly. The pain was beyond imagination, a million times worse than before.

Seeing as nothing was happening, Kunti crouched on her feet, and once again mustering all her energy, she grabbed the arrow and stood up. She thought that the arrow had moved a millimeter out, so she continued to crouch and leap up, all the while not noticing the changes in Karna's expression.

Karna tried to lift his hands, he tried to say a few words, he even tried to make a sound, but the now extremely irritated Anjalika astra had spread to his vocal cords and disintegrated them. The poor guy was paying for the stupidity of his mother.

Kunti licked her sweaty lips. By now, she had probably done this 50 times but the arrow still didn't come out. Hmm, she thought to herself. Her eyes lit up as she thought of something marvelous.

Kneeling once again, she proceeded to punch around the bloody areas around the arrow, hoping to slightly loosen it. To her old eyes, it seemed like it was working so she continued until her fists could take it no more. Her eyes frantically looked about and seeing a sword lying nearby (having fallen when StarKarna's chariot semi-tipped over) she grabbed it.

Arjun could not believe his eyes. He grabbed Krishna's shoulder and used it as a boost to leap in the air towards his mother. Landing in a stylish pose, he exclaimed "Maaata!!" Kunti, having turned a deaf ear to her once favorite son, aimed the hilt of the sword at Karna's stomach area. Laughing maniacally, she thrust the sword downward, but it was expertly parried by Arjun's sword.

"No Mata. I will not allow you to spoil your hands by killing this suta putra!"

"Arjun!" Kunti yelled. Her hurt voice told Arjun that he had said something wrong. "I watched it all happen Arjun! He said he was your brother and you still killed him. Why Arjun Why!!"

"That was this idiot's chhaal mata. He thought he could save his ass by calling himself your son."

"That isn't true. You killed him because he killed Abhi."

Arjun looked down. It was the truth. He reacted rashly, but he didn't regret it one bit. What brother would kill his other brother's son, his nephew. Even Bratha Yuddhi told him that Abhi is like a son to him, but that didn't stop him.

"Well .. tell me ... you killed him because he killed Abhi right!!"

Arjun grumbled.

"What?"

Arjun groaned louder.

"Tell me foolish son of mine."

"Yes!" Arjun looked dead straight into his mother's eyes. "Yes! I killed him for killing Abhi."

Kunti laughed. "And who told you about Abhi's death?"

"Abhi told me. My brothers told me. My poor son, after being beaten around by warriors, he was killed unarmed by this fiend." Here Arjun shot a deadly look at Karna, who had once again regained some composure.

"Did anyone tell you that he killed Abhi to put him out of his misery."

"He told me but I don't believe that crap. Nakul and Sahadev could have saved Abhi." Arjun looked away.

"No." Kunti looked at Karna. "No, Abhi had to die that day."

Arjun looked up in horror. "What do you mean he HAD to die that day?"

Kunti collapsed to the floor and held Karna's hand. "You remember that day I asked you brothers to help Karna after he cut his kavach and kundal from his body."

Arjun nodded his head. How could he forget that day.

"Well ... Nakul and Sahadev weren't actually able to cure him."

Arjun raised his eyebrows. "I never heard this story mother."

"I decided not to tell anyone Arjun."

"Go on ..."

"I didn't know what to do. Karna was in so much pain and his life was slipping before my eyes. I met a tantric baba."

"Mata! You know they practice forbidden spells. You shouldn't have gone to one of those..."

"I know but I was desperate. I asked the tantric baba to save my Karna, and he said that he needed the sacrifice of a youth."

Arjun's eyes opened wide. His mother agreed to sacrifice a youth for the enemy.

"But there were specific rules. Karna's nephews had to be sacrificed. The more nephews that got sacrificed, the more longer he would live."

Arjun's eyes were in disbelief. His entire body shook as he repeated what his mother just told him.

"You mean Mata ... a curse was placed on Karna."

"Curse .. boon .. what difference does it make now?"

"You sacrificed our children so he could live longer? Why mata?"

"Because he is my son too!"

Arjun collapsed next to his mother. He never expected his mother to have agreed to the sacrifice of her grandchildren, just so Karna could live longer.

"So Abhi ..."

"Abhi came to see me the day on the fateful day. I embraced him and stealthily loosed Panchaali's raksha kavach."

"What?"

"He got on the chariot and it fell off."

Arjun couldn't breathe. The world was spinning around him. Karna wasn't the killer of his son nor was the sinful Jaydrath. It was his mother all along.

"But why?"

"I told you ... I wanted to save Karna."

"That doesn't make sense, Karna was healed before Abhi died."

Kunti bit her bottom lip. She was clearly worried and in a lot of stress.

"The thing is Arjun ... I visited Nagalok after visiting the tantric baba."

"I remember that. You went to the Nagas to ask for their help."

Kunti looked away. "I killed Iravan, the son of you and Uloopi, for Karna's sake."

Every muscle in Arjun's body just fell like a rag doll. He didn't know what to think anymore.

"So for Karna, the guy I just killed, you sacrificed 2 children?"

Kunti cried, "3 children! I sent a message to Shakuni to attack our campsite at night so we would have no choice but to summon Ghatotkacha."

Tears poured from Arjun's eyes.

"The deal was I had to sacrifice 4 nephews to make Karna live fully. Babhruvahana was going to be targeted tomorrow, but you killed Karna before then. If Babhruvahana had fallen, Karna would have been undefeatable."

"But we could have lost Mata!"

"No. He would have been undefeatable in the sense that he wouldn't be able to kill you and you wouldn't be able to kill him."

"But then the war would result in a stalemate and the deaths of Pitamaha, Gurudev, etc.would be futile."

"I don't care about them. They never cared about my Karna."

Arjun raised his hands and looked back at Krishna who was soundly asleep, snoring gently. Confused at what to do, he just sat there and watched as his mother stood up.

"Now then .. I'm going to pull this arrow out of you Karna. Don't worry." She still thought he was dead, though.

Karna, hearing this, opened his eyes wide as if yelling out to his mother to stop. His body had been in a relaxed state, and although there was still pain, it had calmed down significantly since Kunti's last tinkering.

Licking her lips, she looked around Karna's body thinking about how to pull the arrow out. At first tried tugging once again, but when that failed, she realized it was time to use earth's gravity to her advantage. Grabbing the tail of the arrow, she began to fall. However, her weight was such that it didn't do much. She walked around the body tugging and leaning away from the arrow, hoping to pull it out, but there wasn't much use. The arrow didn't budge a bit.

Placing her foot on Karna's throat, the latter of who was trying very hard to breathe. She pulled with all her might, leaning away from the arrow, and cried out, "Har Har Mahadev!" By the grace of Bolenath, the Anjalika astra immediately loosened and Kunti toppled over Karna's face. Blood began to spurt from the hole.

"Mata Kunti." A toad like voice came.

Kunti looked around everywhere before realizing the voice was coming from beneath her.

"Mata Kunti!"

Kunti was in awe as she saw Karna's mouth move as he spoke her name. His voice wasn't as sweet as before, but she didn't care about that. After all, she was his mother and she just saved his life.

"Please put the arrow back in Mata."

Kunti gave Karna a shocked look as it Karna had asked her to commit a crime.

"I'm dying at a quicker rate Mata. Please put the arrow back in!'

Kunti screamed and closed her eyes. She grabbed the arrow and stabbed Karna numerous times in different places, hoping that once the arrow found it's prior home, it would just sink in like before. But that never happened. Karna's body, at this point, was covered completely in blood. She turned to Arjun and begged him to help her.

Arjun looked away, refusing to aid his mother. However, he couldn't bear to see the hurt look in Karna's eyes and he took the arrow from his mother and inserted it back in.

The astra was angry. First it was tugged at multiple times, then it was untouched, and then it was tugged at again and finally it was forced to loosen it's grip only to be forced to reattach to it. It released toxins into Karna's body that burned his internal organs badly.

"Leave me alone." Karna screamed. He was expecting death, but not this death. This was pathetic to him.

"Karna!! You're alive!!" Kunti buried her face in Karna's shoulders. "You're alive putra! You're alive."

Karna lowered his eyebrows. I thought my vocal cords were disintegrated, yet I am speaking. How is this possible, he thought. Maybe it was StarKunti's charan that saved me or the effects of the astra reversed slightly when it was pulled out!

"Mata! You saved me for some time. Thank you."

"Karna, don't leave me!!" Kunti screamed. "I only just got to know you!"

Karna smiled. "We have known each other for a long time Mata. The only difference was that I always thought of you as my queen, which is a type of mother, and you always saw me as your son."

Arjun looked curiously at Karna. He seemed like a pretty decent guy. He even killed Abhi to put him out of his pain. That was sweet, right?

"Jyesth bratha!!!" Arjun leaped up and embraced his brother. "Forgive me for killing you. I was just so blind because of Abhi."

Karna managed to smile. "It's ok. Honestly, I raised my arms to embrace you. It was a surprise to me that you killed me. I had hoped that we would be able to get along some more."

Arjun's heart crumbled, but not as worse as Kunti's who was now beating Karna's chest out of despair.

T.B.C.

(The dialogue leading to Karna's ultimate death will be continued)

Originally posted by: shyam09

The secret of the UPs and Karna's kiddos will be revealed in Part II.