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Chapter 7 - Bhishma Saves Vichitravirya(Part 2)

[After 25 years in KAMPILYA, the southern capital of PANCHALA kingdom]

Thousands of city dwellers are sloganeering and shouting on the ground: Punish him, my King! Punish him!

The king orders them to be calm down by showing his hand. And at the very moment, there is a deep silence.

The King (pointing towards a captured young boy ): City dwellers, look at him. The heir to the Kuru empire, Prince Vichitravirya, a drunk boy tied in the rope.

The king with anger: He has miserably dared to break our limits. He entered into our kingdom by being drunk. And it was not enough for him, after that he burned our fluttering farms. City dwellers, burning the farms is a worse sin than homicide. I have only one penalty for him, the Death penalty.

City dwellers shout "Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty!"

Vichitravirya: You can't kill me because elder brother definitely will come to protect his younger brother.

The King: Whose father was taken away by the God of death, Yama. His brother Chitraangad was killed by the King Daksh and this is the future of Hastinapur(pointing towards Vichitravirya).

Vichitravirya smiles.

The King grabs his hair and said: Your imbecility gave an opportunity to Panchala. No one can protect you now. Your death is certain, you idiot!

Vichitravirya smiles and spits on his face. The king slaps him on his face for his doing.

King orders: Kill him.

As Executioner goes towards Vichitravirya, an arrow comes by flying and penetrates the heart of executioner.

The king turns back to see who did this?

He sees a sturdy man riding a horse coming toward him with a longbow in his hand.

Bhishma jumps from the horse and says Panchala King, you hadn't had any right to capture my Prince. If he had done something wrong, he will regret that. But not here, there in Hastinapura.

The King: Bhishma, Your Prince made a mistake at the time when he had entered in Kampilya. I am just taking advantage of this situation.

Bhishma: Don't you dare to burn my heart otherwise the whole Panchala will burn with it. I am going to save my Prince. Do you have power? Stop me.

The King orders to attack. And suddenly Bhishma's large army comes there and the battle starts. Bhishma moves towards Vichitravirya but the King tries to kill him from the back. Bhishma grabs his hand and punches him on the face. The king falls down on the ground. Bhishma helps Vichitravirya to stand up.

The King: Bhishma you will pay for my insult. "ONE WILL BORN HERE IN THIS LAND OF PANCHALA WHO WILL BE THE REASON OF YOUR DEATH", Bhishma.

[According to the King someone from Panchala will become the reason of Bhishma's death. Who will he or she be? How he or she will kill him? Who and how one can defeat the invincible Bhishma?]

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