Man and leopard walked,side by side,both feeling a sense of some forgotten,ancient bonding,an unspoken friendship and then the leopard stopped and looked up at the human that walked besides it.
' who are you and why did some primeval instinct beckon me to you when all my instincts from the day i was born warned me to walk,run away and hide from your species?'
Rudran crouched down on his knees and looked into the amber eyes of the large cat ' i am new at this game my friend and all these feelings and emotions are new to me and only for the past few months have they stirred and raised themselves from the deep where they had lain all my life.'
Turning his head and staring into the darkness,Rudran's eyes turned green and the cat stirred and growled and rudran turning back to it ' I am sure about just one thing and that is that when my kind walk into trouble and into darkness,there is one from your kind and others that walk besides us.'
Buddha,the leopard ' i have never felt these emotions all my life and here i am with you and it is as if i have been waiting for this day to fulfill my purpose.'
Rudran looked at the leopard ' my friend,i think that beyond us and beneath all these hidden secrets is a rule,a law that is upheld by nature and when that balance is upset,we walk the earth to maintain the balance between good and bad and more importantly between light and dark.'
Suddenly,the leopard hear rudran smile to himself and asked him ' what's so funny warrior? do share it with me for it might just lighten the mood and probably help me understand this strange situation better.'
Rudran looked at the cat ' sorry,my friend,but i laughed at my own observation about me and for i just remembered a story of my kind of warriors and the mark that is supposed to be on their bodies.'
The large leopard looked at rudran in a funny way swatted his arm gently ' strange warrior,of course you wear the mark for i see it shining brightly through your chest.'
Rudran not comprehending these words ' what mark? where in my chest?' and Buddha gently raised his large paw and placed it on rudran's chest where his heart beat strongly ' on your mighty heart master.the mark lies wrapped on your heart.and i can see it shine,beat and beckon to all that is good in this world and all that stands for the safety and well being of this planet.'
Flashback chapter 201 page 134 posted on 28th july
Then he dialed a number from memory and from which he had been called just once and far away in madurai,dhana picked up on the second ring and answered " Rudran" and rudran " dhana,something major is unfolding and all the signals point to india and i am on my way to delhi to find out exactly what is going on and what the true nature of this new,emerging darkness is."
Dhana" rudran,tell me exactly what it is you saw and maybe i can give you my thoughts on it although you are better placed to know more for you have a military background and an eye for sorting out the answer among the maze that is before you."
Rudran quickly but clearly explained to dhana the photos that had been sent by Mossad,the Israeli intelligence for the photos showed a man,many men boarding flights in airports from all around the world."
" But dhana,i don't think it is one man but several who are flyin in to the country and i guess that you know by now who their targets are."
Dhana cursed softly " Rudran,please stay in touch and keep updating me about any new developments and i will do the same.You are getting married tomorrow and somehow this new threat is not just a coincidence and i am wondering if you should postpone your wedding for some other day."
" Dhana,i too was thinking the same thing and there is still time for that decision.I will keep you posted and i will call you the moment i know more.Bye for now."
" Rudy.listen to me for i need to tell you something very important and if i don't do it now,then we might not get a chance to talk about it in the future.I know this might come as a shock to you but i want you to trust dr.otto hauptman when the time comes for he is our ally and has been an important ally for a long time."
Rudran sat still,shocked that dhana would know dr.otto and dhana continued " Rudy,all of us who carry the mark are blessed with powers beyond normal human species but you do not carry the mark on your body and yet you know and i know that you are part of the light.So,where is the mark that bestows,brands and makes it known to the darkness that you are a chosen one,a warrior born to do battle,protect and defend all that is good and kind in this world."
Rudran slightly lost and confused " Dhana,i am not sure what or where you are leading to?But why are these markings so important."
Dhana " Rudran,you haven't had the time to go through our history like i have done these past few years that i have been missing from the public and that time was spent in perumalvaram and in the belly of the mountain,going through and reading all about our world's history from the ancient times.In one of the books,a legend,a warrior came from the light and unlike other warriors his markings were not on his body but on his heart.This was found by a wise old man after the warrior died fighting single handedly, an army of thousand men and he left none alive.But the wounds he suffered were very tremendous and eventually he died or let his spirit slip away."
Rudran " Okay dhana,but how does this legend concern my situation and how does it matter if the markings are on my heart itself."
" Rudran,that is where the story gets lost and becomes confusing for it only says that the warrior was not one but two and that when they thought he had been killed,he rose from the darkness and eventually led his side to victory.I am sorry for i know it is all very confusing but i repeat trust dr.otto if it comes to that."
" Okay dhana,i will do as you tell me but this legend who died and came back and who was marked on his heart,where was he from,our country or from outside?"
" The story is from the land of egypt,nearly four thousand years ago and the warrior is the one who was supposed to have united upper and lower Egypt and his name was Narmer."