🔱Mahayudh: War For Balance🔱

49. Last Shot

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The three peaks of Trikuta Parvat stared at them eye to eye, as they neared their destination. The air here, it made energy rush through Umika's veins like nothing before. It was as if every particle in the air had a memory of her and was nourishing her more and more with immense energy. 

Mrityunjay's anxiety was rising like the altitude here. Soon, Bhagwan Shree Hari Narayan will be in front of him. So this was it? The goal of his life will be achieved?

Narayan will be in front of him and will know all the turmoil that goes around his in mind with just one glance. Narayan will have the answer to why a fire rages in his heart when all he can think of is calmness. Narayan will answer him why immortality runs in his veins, why it not only keeps him alive but also strengthens those whom he makes drink his blood.The fact that Umika has not consumed Somras since that night has still not left him.

And perhaps............Narayan will free him from this endless suffering and then tell him who he actually is. Or maybe......maybe he won't be able to take in Narayan's roop. Oh he wishes.....how much he wishes to be liberated from this suffering and this form in which he is born but which he does not even know about.

What is he?

 A human? No humans cannot do the things he does.

An Asur? No, Asuras can smell each other's Asuric identity and neither he felt anything of that sorts nor did his friends.

A Dev? He is not even considering it.

Probably he is a Yaksh, a spirit. Or maybe a Yogi. Or a magician. Or a warrior. 

Perhaps he is everything or perhaps he is nothing at all.

The clouds of thoughts cleared his mind as the clouds in front of him cleared the valley beneath the Trikuta Parvat. 

It was beautiful with all the greenery and some snow. What in Aryavrath is not beautiful? There were small houses scattered in the valley and from above, they could see the happy and joyful people. 

They would have landed in the valley but they did not have time. So they decided to land near the cave itself. The circled the peak of the Parvat until they could figure out the closed opening of the cave. The mountain was burning with a divine heat, each bolder on the mountain had tons of energy in it.

They landed just in front of the cave. The horses stood behind them as they walked closer to the closed entrance of the cave. As Umika, Mheem and Khyati watched from a little behind, Mrityunjay walked closer to the big boulders that were hiding his Narayan from him.......that were hiding Universe's Master from it.

Mrityunjay ran his hand slowly across the rough surface, the immense heat from it, that could kill a normal human being from miles as well, travelled up his hand to his whole body.

A sudden wave of emotions ran over him. How dare these boulders keep Narayan trap inside? How dare they separate him and Narayan? How dare they separate all the devotees from their master?

Mrityunjay backed away, he hurriedly walked away, shocking all of them. 

'Mrityunjay? Mitra Kya hua?' (Mrityunjay? What happened my friend?) Mheem asked him as they followed him with worry but he didn't answer. He was walking very briskly.

'Mrityunjay-' Umika's question got stuck in her throat as Mrityunjay, to their fear picked up another mountain sized boulder, weighting more than 100 elephants together. There was not even one wave of tremble in his arms.

He turned swiftly and they left his way. With great force and a roar that pierced the whole atmosphere, he threw the boulder towards the closed entrance and then they all waited. Umika's heart was racing hard just. Their hopes were high.