VAni SS: A Path Called Love...

~Rishton Ke Saare Manzar~

"Mere paas Cheel ka dimaag aur Naagon ka sammohan hai. Aur issi dimaag ki wajah se tujhe yahan tak leke aayi hoon. Aur ab, tujhe maarke Adinaagin ki taakat bhi haasil kar lungi. Aur phir, iss sab pe, Naagvansh aur Cheelvansh mein sirf mera hi raaj hoga..." Chandrakala scoffed and said dreamily.

"Hahaha... Yeh khayaali pulao pakana bandh karo. Mein satyug se hoon yahan, aur ye jaanti hoon ki yeh poori shrishti, yeh Bhramaand sirf uss ek shakti se chalta hai.
Wo gyaan,prakash, paramaarth sirf ek hi anant se juda hai, Jay Bholenaath..." Bani said devotedly, wiping off the smug smile off Chandrakala's face.

"Toh cheen lungi mein, usse bhi cheen lungi woh." retorted Chandrakala.

" Pehle mein tujhe khatam karungi, teri shaktiyaan haasil karungi...
Uske baad apne bewakoof beton ko apne ishaaron pe nachaakar apna kaam nikaalungi...
Zaroorat padne par unko bhi khatam kar dungi mein... Phir mein aur bhi shaktishaali ban jaungi aur tere uss Bhole se apna pyaara Chaand bhi cheen lungi...
Ab samjhi tu Adinaagin ?!" retorted Chandrakala shocking Bani to the core.

"Tum jaanti ho tum kya keh rahi ho ? Jal ke raakh ho jaogi tum Bholenaath ke teesre netra se jalkar." said Bani mockingly.

"Aarrghh... Teri itni himmat ?!!" shouted an angry Chandrakala wrestling with Bani.

"Jo Maa apne bete pe hamla karne se pehle ek baar na soche. Jo apno ki sagi na ho, jo sirf logon se thagi kare, wo kucch bhi paane layak nahi hoti hai." said a struggling Bani.

"Marne ke liye taiyaar hoja Aadinaagin... Ye kehke tune bohot badi galti kardi" said Chandrakala throwing her on the stairs.

She chanted a mantra and summoned her servants who tied Bani at the bottom of the stairs. The tandav had drained away Bani's strength yet she struggled to escape from their clutches.

It made Chandrakala's work easier to make her ready for the sacrificial ritual. She started off with the ritual.

Veer and Jay stood there mystified. The land slipped away beneath their feet. They never in their worst dreams would have ever thought that they would be decieved so badly, that too by their... own mother. As soon as they both learnt that they were brothers, they realised that they both had a soft corner in each other's hearts but hid and supressed it.

Even though they had a family, both had a loneliness in their hearts which even their cousins couldn't fulfill and now that the loneliness was gone and this truth was revealed, they were put in this situation.

Had it been any other situation, Veer would have surely embraced and pour out all his love on him not bothering what he was. And Jay being lonely and suffering after his parents' death would have done the same. But alas....

Memories with their Mother crashed down upon them.

Veer reminisced his childhood, how he missed her after losing her and the times he took care of her after she returned, also how he felt a different connection towards Jay, other than hate, which was an unknown attachment and emotion towards him.

Jay reminisced how he devotedly worked under her mother's instructions...in both the eras, without even thinking once about the outcome, how she instigated him against the Adinaagin, ignited the fire of greed of powers, made him a murderer. She didn't even have any qualms to kill both her sons for her advantage.