Tara changed her clothes as soon as she reached home, because if Aradhana had seen her wounds she would have gotten more worried.
Guruji was not able to sleep the whole night. He was still trying to calculate the charts. There was something in it which he was not getting. After some unsuccessful attempts he slept thinking, "Maybe I am not thinking in the right direction." Tonight also the Kingdom was in sorrow.
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Next day with the sun's first ray, Mrityunjay wanted to leave for the search of the Prince. For him the Prince was his friend, a way to assure Tara he would not leave her, to bring a son back to his family and to bring happiness back to the kingdom.
But Guruji stopped him saying, "She loves him, she will not kill him so soon. But she will also not wait for a very long time. In a day or two you need to find her, otherwise..."
"How do you know this?" asked Mrityunjay surprised, as this information was something which was not known to anyone.
"You focus on what you need to do Mrityunjay. Your work is to find her and kill her." He said quite rudely, which was not his normal behavior.
Mrityunjay thought, "Possibly he is too stressed" and left. He started from the place where the Prince was last seen and followed the vampire's marks.
Tara, as she was not fully recovered, didn't dare to enter the forest as it was his order. Love changes people and so Tara who was rebellious by nature was obeying Mrityunjay. She left for the palace with her mom. Tara first went to see Meethi and inform her that soon her Prince would be with her.
After informing her she went to the Queen, "Your Majesty."
She entered her chamber almost running, "Queen, Mrityunjay my friend, you remember. He is searching for the Prince and I am sure he will find him." She said all this in one breath.
"Really!!!" The Queen hugged her.
"What a fate! I have my one son in danger and the other one is going to bring him back. Oh Lord!!! Bring both my sons to me safely." A mother in dilemma, she saw the bloodline tree was dull.
Tara returned home but Aradhana remained with the Queen. Tara's bruises were dry by the evening. She wanted to leave for the forest but waiting was the only option left for her as she knew the Vampire would soon find her if she went there.
Guruji was busy the whole day figuring out what he had been trying to from the last two days.
"What is so mysterious in your future Mrityunjay that I am not able to figure out? I can see you defeating the witch but something is happening before that and I am not sure what that is."
Tara left early in the morning for the Enchanted forest. The sun's orange rays had just started to appear in the sky, there was complete silence in the forest. The sound of Tara's each step on the dry leaves was clearly heard in the forest. With birds chirping, only her foot steps were audible. But she was not alone in the forest, someone else was also there. It was Nandini in the forest.
Vampires have strong hearing power, they can hear from a distance and in the silence of the morning it was easy for Nandini to hear Tara's arrival in the forest. She thought, "Today I am going to catch that girl and finish my slavery." She immediately started moving towards the direction from where the sound of Tara's footsteps was coming.
Guruji was up all night recalculating Mrityunjay's birth chart from his birth. After failing to figure out the mystery, he thought to see Tara's chart as she was the one who would help Mrityunjay in defeating the witch. While calculating, he noticed that her life was in danger, and if anything happened to her, Mrityunjay would never be able to defeat the witch and return to his family.
"So this was the mystery. It's her life that will decide his fate. I need to save my daughter and change my country's destiny."
He immediately started collecting his arms when Mrityunjay came there.
"What happened Guruji? Why are you collecting your arms? Is everything fine?"
"No Mrityunjay, nothing is fine. Tara's life is in danger and I am going to save her." said Guruji buckling his belt.
"What! Tara's life is in danger!!!" Mrrityunjay screamed. For a moment he remembered what Tara was saying about separation. For a moment he just imagined his life without her and it circulated an unknown force in him.
"You stay here Guruji, I am going to bring my Tara." Within a blink of an eye, Mrityunjay was on Maria with all the required arms and rode towards the path from which Tara comes.
Edited by Archi21 - 8 years ago