All the reserved sages and their students gathered in meeting to . some were tensed some were confident and some were nervous. four sages and bheesm sat on the thrones where all their students were standing in an alert position in front them .
First drona started to speak "my gurudakshina is that you have to defeat panchal naresh drupad but only you 106 students (yuyutsu too)" all kuru princes were shocked but others already knew what he was going to ask . they knew how powerful was maharaj drupad was they were a little in dilemma "what are you all scared of mere thought of a war are you all really warriors guru dron are they your students" asurguru sarcastically asked him .
vritika was biting her lip stop smiling she knew her gurupita is more savage than her she turned her face towards gurudron to see his face he was fuming seeing this arjun was the first one to speak "I will give your gurudakshina by bringing maharaj drupad in your feet gurudev" he replied
"even we will give your gurudakshina gurudev anuj you don't need to worry we 101 brothers are capable to bring him to your feet gurudev" duryodhan said gurudrona smiled seeing his students "oh I have to say you failed as a teacher drona you were not able to bring equality in your students you were not able to make them understand that unity is their big strength " bhagwan parashuram said seeing gurudrona now his face colors faded seeing how his own guru is taunting him , now even karn was not able to control his smile both vritika and karn looked eachother helplessly , bheesm was totally blank he was not having any expressions in his face.
"I want all 106 to give their gurudakshina combined not separately this is not any politics understand" he yelled at all of them , they nodded seeing his anger "yes gurudev we will" yudhistir said vritika was totally red controlling her laugh bhagwan parashuram stood up from his seat and went near karn and placed hand on his shoulder
"putr you have to given up your throne of anga this is the first thing you have to do" he said Duryodhan was more than shocked listening to this "app yeh kya keh rahe hai Bhagwan" he exclaimed karn composed himself he thought there might be a reason behind this
"I don't want karn to be dragged into kuru politics and be dragged into dirty games karn and next thing you have to do is you have to wage a war on magadh you have to take over that kingdom " bhagwan parashuram said all in the room gasped listening he have to defeat jarasandh singlehandedly all know how vast and powerful kingdom and not only that jarasandh is so powerful killing him is not that easy "kya hua karn dar lag raha hai kya " gurudron asked him
"I was just thinking way to kill him unlike others gurudron" he replied him "but gurudev why him" karn asked parashuram "because he is performing unhuman acts he has captured 100 kings and is trying to give their sacrifice this is the reason I want you to defeat him" "but gurudev it is said that he is immortal" karn asked him confusingly before bhagwan could answer
"no one is immortal and perfect radhey everyone has their weaknesses and strengths and about jarasandh he does not deserve to live that inhuman creature deserves only death that too like he has killed and tortured many killed many innocents to just fulfil his trust of pride ego and madness" vritika said fisting her hands digging her nails into her palm controlling her anger . all turned to her direction they all saw tears and anger pure hatred in her eyes.
"you have said it true putri" parshuram said "karn this is your gurudakshina understood " "yes gurudev but I have a doubt how can we kill him" he asked him "for that you are going to have person to accompany you who will guide you and fight along your side" parshuram said
"who is that gurudev" karn asked him immediately asurguru got up from his seat and moved towards vritika "vritika will accompany you karn" he said vritika immediately looked him is he seriously talking about her
"but gurudev I have promised you that I will not rise my weapons against asurs and in this battle surely he will instigate to fight against us " vritika said "I asked you to not lift weapons unnecessarily to your protection and to welfare you can lift and they are violating the ruled of us asurs that to help in human wars so think that you are not fighting a war with them but punishing them and one more thing
I know unlike other battles this war is going to be hard for you , you should not only defeat them but to defeat those memories which are haunting you dear this is the right time to over come your trauma which you were facing since many years you have to do it for yourself and for others and you know how can anyone kill jarasandh we are bound so we can't say or help you or karn you both have to help your self " he said she thought for sometime and said okay for it
"so it is final all 106 kuruprinces will wage a war against panchal and you both have to wage a war against magadh and one more thing listen all of you carefully that jaha bal ki kam nahi arahi hai waha buddhi ki upayog karni chahiye" devguru said "gurudev I have one condition to wage a war with radhey " "what is it putri" "radhey you will not deal with senapathi susharma I will solely deal with him I have old records to set with him" "accepted" karn said
"now listen this is first battle to all of you and real one except for vritika as she has already fought many battles you have to be full focused and should not underestimate your opponent I think you all have known till now that underestimating opponent can be cause of your downfall so now disperse go to practice area and do your preparations of war combinedly and about your punishment it is canceled" bheesm concluded seeing every one he observed vritika lost in her own thoughts but left her she only has to fight with her fears
Soon all dispersed and made their way towards practice hall . They started to practice with eachother but vritika was again lost ashwattama went near her and tried to bring her back to normal she finally became normal and asked ashwattama to practice with her he gladly accepted it but she said he can chose any weapon he wants he chose sword but to his shock he chose chakra which was not so easy to use (no sudharsan it is an ancient weapon)
they started their duel they flawlessly fought with eachother but vritika was so fast she was moving like wind without sound and notice swiftly and smoothly soon aswattama was tired he sat on the ground itself
"what do you eat how can you move so fast it is really hard to understand from which where and when your going to attack and how are you handling that chakra flawlessly that to against a sword I thought till now only it is used to aim target of far distances and not used to arm to arm combat" ashwattama said
"practice dron putr all is from practice I have practice for so many years to make myself strong day and night " vritika said casually "but I still have a doubt how?" he asked her
"when you have to live in a place where you don't know when you are going to be attacked to save yourselves we will put all our efforts in that only all these ten years I didn't have any distraction or anyone to spend our time with so all my time I used to invest in making me better to face any type of opponent and your skills will be sharpened when you will step into real war field when your own wounds will not give you pain but pride of being a warrior now this is time for all of you when you will see the real blood flow real pain of innocents who inorder to follow the order of their greedy and egoistic king will give their lives in battle field "
"we will try to avoid more blood shed rajkumari we will assure you that less no of innocents will be effected" yudhistir said to her she just nodded
"remember one thing you all have to fight together so please just for one day keep all your grudges aside and fight along and prepare a strategy mainly rajkumar duryodhan and rajkumar bheem " she said eyeing both of them they both looked each other and turned their heads
"do one thing rajkumari why don't you help us in war strategies as you have experience in wars" duryodhan asked her out of blue "if anyone doesn't have any problem then I can but I think some members will have problem" she said glaring arjun and other Pandava
"we would gladly take your views into consideration rajkumari" yudhistir said to her though other pandavs were reluctant but nodded as per order of their big brother all formed a circle she explained everything she knows about war vyuhas formation and breaking all listened her like a obedient child in middle they gave some in puts and doubts which she cleared all were in awe to see her knowledge in warfare even pandavs were amazed to see her how effortlessly she explained everything so clearly karn was indulged himself in blindfolded archery to improve his listening skills .
"rajkumari when you have fought your first war how was your experience and feeling" dushasan asked her hearing this even karn became curious and came near them to listen
"I was 15 I think when I participated in war" she said "whatt? you were so small in that age we still was trying to handle weapons properly" all said at a time "what can I do and the wars I fought were different from mankind full of illusions and backstabbing some times we couldn't trust even our shadow we should be alert all the times they don't have rules and regulations huh even there were times I was nearly dead but now here we are just get ready for war I will bluff everything let's get back to work" vritika said bringing them out of trance she went with karn to their preparations for war
Kuru princes and Ashwatthama were thinking about what she had said "she is quite talented" Duryodhan said making them come out of trance
"she is but she to lost many things and faced many troubles like us maybe this is the reason she is like this think she was just 15 when she fought her first war seriously she lost her child hood in wars and blood shed at least we had each other to share our worries and pain with but she had no one she can trust to share her pain or worries" Sahadev said feeling bad how they have portrayed her in their minds all just hummed in response.
They all have retired to their works respectively arjun was trying to recall chakra vyuh formation but soon Subhadra came inside the room she was about to go towards arjun but he stopped her "Rajkumari watch your step if you step into chakras you will fall into patalok" arjun said in order to prank on her
"oh Rajkumar then how will I come there" she asked him innocently he couldn't control himself he smiled looking at her "you come according to my directions you can reach here" he said she nodded he was giving her directions she was coming in the same way at last she reached near him "you dance well Rajkumari"
"what that means it was a prank" she asked him with puff face he laughed seeing her seeing him she too joined him and started laughing "why are here Rajkumari your sister and angraj oh sorry he renounced his title are practising outside in garden area" Arjun said "but I am here for you Rajkumar" she said with a shy smile which caught his attention
"oh bhrata Rajkumari is here for you" nakul said in a teasing manner which made them blush even more "shut up nakul and rajkumari what is the reason for your visit"
"actually my brother said me to to give you this" "what's this" he opened saw five blue stones studded with pearls "this is so beautiful but why has your brother given this to me" Arjun asked her "don't know he said to keep them with you always and don't go over my brother's words they have different meanings" "good" "Rajkumar can I ask you something are you going to lead the war"
"yes Rajkumari" her face immediately fell but composed herself and smiled again she was about to leave then
"Sorry Rajkumari" he said she turned back with confused look "why Rajkumar" "hmm I have talked bad about your sister I have hurt you with that so sorry I hope you forgive me"
"Rajkumar you have said bad about my sister that made me hurt that is true but when I talked about this to my sister she said holding grudges is not good it will spoil our mind and peace of our life she said me to forgive you all at that moment only and also said that nothing matters to her what the world thinks about her for her ,her family and friends only matter you may taunt or hurt her she may forgive you easily but if you hurt her dear ones she will not forgive you her whole life" Subhadra said in normal yet cold tone arjun nodded he understood she was saying about karn he understood the bond both of them shared it will be obvious her to show anger on him
"you love your sister a lot right" he asked her a bright smile appeared on her face "yes more than anyone in my life for you jyesth bhrata is like father to you right you will not say no his words but for me my sister is everything she is my father mother friend guide sister partner in crime sometimes overprotective brother she is my world" she said to him he saw a glint of happiness in her eyes
"I think even she loves you a lot I have seen in her eyes too" he said "more than anything you know she was four when I was born I heard from mata devaki that when she took me in her arms she vowed to herself to protect me with her life she always took all my mistakes on her head and used to always get scoldings from mata Rohini but she wouldn't utter a word against her but one day
she was trying to protect me from a boy she bet him black and blue this was misunderstood by my mata Rohini she even slapped her in front of all the members that was the first time I saw my sister speaking back to my mother that too for me
I was so scared at that moment that day I almost lost my sister that day she locked herself in her room if dau and Bhrata wouldn't broke the door I would have lost her still that guilt and pain is there in me when I saw her lifeless on bed" she said with tears in her eyes he understood what relation they both share he was in guilt to accuse such person like this all present in the room we're listening to their convo all were sad
Soon a voice came from behind "Bhadra what are you doing here" they saw vritika and karn coming into the room Subhadra ram and hugged her sister and sobbed in her arms
"hey my little Lilly what happened has anyone said something to you say I will kill them this instant" she said overprotective side was roaring in her
Subhadra nodded negatively she looked at karn "please take of my sister promise me that you both will be safe Bhrata" she asked karn he was taken aback when she mentioned 'bhrata'
"sure Rajkumari although I must be the one who has to be careful travelling with your sister she can eat me alive at any moment" karn tried make her smile she smiled a little but when he saw vritika she narrowed her eyes and looking at him he smiled sheepishly
"jiji take care of my bhrata too don't eat him alive okay" Subhadra joked vritika looked at them with her widen eyes karn and Subhadra hi -fied each other and laughed seeing her but soon she to started laughing with them
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