THE HIDDEN LOVE{completed} - Page 50

A straight dazzling streak of lightening tore the black sky followed by a heavy thunder..I closed my eyes and ears.It must be fallen somewhere near..sure!! I am worried ..where it came down to fulfill its horrible hunger..may be on some innocent people or huts.but Indra who was very brilliant and made an excellent ploy to destruct my husband is always ignoring my head which I stretched voluntarily for the hunger of his thunders.

But I am a strong headed woman.I chuckled once..yes..my head is very strong..which with stood so many thunders one after the other.each one is more powerful than the previous one.Again a thunder!! God I may go deaf!! I turned inside to move but got hit on the lamp stand and gashed under my toes." Ouch!!! " I screamed in pain.I managed to sit in a couch to examine the wound..it was cut half and the remaining skin is torn almost.I tried to peal my cut skin..unbearable pain and my body gave up..

"arya!!! How much you would have felt while pealing your skin??how obstinate you mush be?? You are so stubborn in your decisions whatever it may..just like me!!" A vexation smile spread o my face.The pain made be to squeal..then I realized oh this is not my palace I cannot behave as I wish here.I shut my mouth with my pallu and shed tears silently.The pain in my foot is nothing compared to the pain in my heart.

But what vrushali jiji wrote? Didn't she write that Indra was pleased by his alms and healed his wounds immediately and granted him the most powerful celestial weapon?

What did he want from my husband?? He wished my husband to be powerless by taking away his immortality ..He took away the armors to save his son but granted a weapon which would surely kill his son.In what guts he granted it..whom he appointed to save his son from that weapon?

But!!! But !! what actually happened to him in virat war?? What I heard is true?? There is not necessary for my son to lie.He wrote about that horrible virat war..the death of shone and his father's injuries by arjun's celestial weapons.Shona's death!! God!! How Radhama bore it??and What happened to him..unbelievable!! how come a mountain fall down?? What kind of war is this using celestial weapons against human beings?? Why didn't he use his celestial weapon??

One thing is very clear!! Arjun's father stamped his presence and support for his son.now,who is my husband's father?? Where are you?? What are you doing ?? why you are hiding your face when your son is in trouble? What kind of father you are??

My awkward moaning echoed everywhere in the small traveler's bungalow.

And what now I hear? Soon a great war is approaching in this aryavrath?? And all the sages..omens..and horoscopes say it would be destruction of the whole kuru clan!! The great peace mission of vasudev is also failed terribly.The whole aryavarth is indulged in war preparations..Pandavas are aggressive for their land and revenge.I am choked again while recollecting bheem's oath for panchali's humiliation.They are gathering armies.Again yuvraj lost his conscience completely.He proved himself to be an insane by humiliating vasudev in the peace mission.Now, this is the clear evidence of destruction..complete destruction.

So many days and nights I felt bad for the way my husband has been cheated ..but that is not for virat war alone..here comes the actual war!! This is slicing my heart!! My heart is pounding..Is this the destruction which i scared??Bagwan parasuram curse!! Bhoomi devi curse!! Bagwan indra dev's ploy..Arjun's gained powers..Matha !!! no body has powers to save him or separate him from kuru putr!! Only God can do this..but all of them made him as a toy and playing with his fate.God himself came down and involved in a straight war with him.what they have planned for my husband??

My moaning should have reached the sharp ears of charumitra..there she comes.

"maharani!! What happened!!" she sat beside me.

"how long will you cry maharani!! Instead of crying alone it would be better you go back to Angaraj.You must be in hastinpur now..what are you doing here in interior eastern countries in the name of pilgrimage!! "

" hmm!! When all the possibilities of survival is lost..when all the paths of your life is shut then whom do you call for help?? To whom to you go?? A great unfathomed fear is squeezing my heart.no body could help me except the almighty.i wish to step each and every temple in the whole aryavarth and I am in search of an answer!!

Now she noticed my foot

"It's bleeding" soon she managed to tie a bandage with some medicines stuffed in it.Rain has decreased its terrible hunt now!!

"alright! The rain has stopped!! Shall we move to the temple"

"but how could you walk with this foot"

" nothing serious!! I can manage"

"you are so adamant maharani!!"

While travelling in the sedan chair surrounded by my escorts I felt I am troubling everyone.My life itself a burden for me why should I be burden to others.

What is there !! shinning in the middle of the forest!! A tower of a temple!!

"stop" I ordered.

" I wish to visit that temple which is inside the forest"I just informed to them and started walking towards it.it's very hard to walk in the muddy soil in the forest surrounded by thorny bushes.I must have gone insane..why i am running to that isolated temple now??I believe my answer is hidden here!!

Why he is bending down with worried face?? Why i couldn't get up?? He is stretching his arms ..I am again got struck by those eyes and stretched my arms.He helped me to get up.i examined my body..Thorns thorns everywhere..I have fallen on the thorny bushes.He joined his palms.

"pranipat matha! I saw you unconscious here.I would be very happy if you let me to help you" he said politely.

Now I examine him from top to bottom.He is young and tall.His attires are different made of the skin of some rare animals.He was decked by golds and pearls around his neck and head.he is standing with an innocent ..gentle smile with joined hands.

"please come with me!! My mother is living nearby..please come to our place you need some medical treatment now. My mother would take care of you!! Please"

I tried to walk but my legs disobeyed my commands!! And what the hell of pain??

"matha!! Your leg is strained .you cannot walk now! Dusk is approaching and soon there will be a heavy rain fall..If you don't mind i can carry you"I hesitated but cannot refuse..

"please!! Consider me as your son" he grinned.He bent down gave his hand under my knee and lifted me.he started walking deep in the forest.

Soon we reached the banks of a river!! He walked through the banks and reached a cave..he bent down and entered the cave where i saw some two or three ladies ..a vast hall with all basic amenities.

He made me to lay down on a stone bed covered by warm thick animal skins.There came another woman of my age.she looked royal with neat but simple attires and ornaments.He referred her as matha and said something to her,She saw me once and smiled at me..the same deep green eyes.She gave some orders to the other ladies might be her maids..one came with warm water..one with medicines..soon all the thorns in my body were removed and medicated.he examined my leg and cleaned it.i felt extremely shy..I don't want anyone to touch my feet.

"putr!! No!! Leave it"I tried to drew back my feet but he clutched it tight..

"at last you spoke to me!! " he grinned..which made me to smile too.

Soon an old man entered the cave and examined my leg." Nothing to worry ..a muscle strain..rest is mandatory" he imitated the vaidhyaraj..The old man laughed and nodded the head "yes !! yes!! You are right!! These medicines should be applied in time."He handed over the medicines and left the place soon a lightening tore the sky and started pouring heavily.

Now i feel little comfortable here..He looks like a fun filled boy and she is friendly.I feel warm in between them.Now I cannot resist my eager to know about them

"Thank you very much" I said

"oh! It's a small help which we can do..how do you feel now" she asked.

"feeling better..Is he your son and you live here"?

"no matha! He came up with the answer!!

"we have our palace quite far away from here.i used to come here for war practices. My mother used to accompany me.Today I saw you when i was practicing archery while picking up my arrows"

War !!war!! every where war!!! The word archery made me to sit erect.I thought he is a hunter.

"what archery??"

"yes !!don't you know a great war is approaching..so every one is preparing themselves fit to participate in the war"

Are you going to participate?"

"of course!! On behalf of my father.I would definitely join my father's army"

He said it proudly.

"who is your father"?

Mother and son stopped speaking suddenly.

"He is not with us.i haven't even seen him once" he downed his head.i saw his mother.She blinked her tears..and said "yes!! He is a royal prince of a great dynasty.He has so many duties and commitments.I fell in love with him and pleaded him to marry me.He granted me two boons..one he accepted me as his wife and the other is my son..soon he left." She caressed his head.He clutched her arms and signaled not to get emotional.

"that is not his fault..It was his situation and I too didn't force him to stay with me"

"though!! I never saw my father..I have grown as a warrior just for him.i believe that my father would definitely come here to meet me and take me to the war field with him.i am going to see him soon..i am going to live with him..my father ! The greatest incomparable archer in the whole aryavarth and i am going to join his army soon"he bit his teeth in enthusiasm.his muscles got rigid.

The rain is pouring heavily outside..I am stunned and speechless..The greatest archer?? Whom he is referring to?? Pandav kumar Arjun?? Then he must be..

"what is your name?"

He saw me strange for my sudden eagerness..