Akash had returned home, and Ray left for his city. After coming back, Akash was engaged in his same daily life: home from the office, office to home. Everything was the same, but now Ganga started living in his thoughts. Akash was an orphan, so he lived alone in his house. He was also a good painter and had a software developer job.
He was so madly in love with Ganga that he made pictures of Ganga on every wall of his house. This incident has now passed for about a month, so Akash decided to take some days off from his office. He decided to visit that river again in the hills of Shivamrut, and the next day, he drove his jeep to Himachal.
Akash already knows he is no match with Ganga because he is not in her world, but once he wants to see Ganga again, he wants to talk to her; he wants to tell her about his feelings for her and that he loves Ganga a lot. In a few hours, he reaches the hills of Shivamrut.
He comes on the same path and sees that river again. He immediately parks his jeep and walks towards the bank of the river. The river is calm, and the situation there is quite strange. He comes to the same place where Ganga and Ramya came from. He does not find anything there, but he sees something at a distance on the other side of the river.
He goes to that part and jumps into the river, then comes to another corner of the river. Akash sees that a mermaid lies unconscious but is not Ganga or Ramya. Then Akash thinks that if Sherkhan or people like him come here, they won't know what will happen with this mermaid, so he takes the mermaid in his jeep and goes away.
Akash brings the mermaid to his house, but the mermaid is still unconscious. He has no faith in any other doctor, so he calls his friend Doctor Aakriti and asks her to come to his home now because he has an emergency. Akash calls Ray and asks him to go home immediately.
Akash cannot understand anything, and he is also worried about Ganga. After a while, Aakriti comes, and she is shocked to see the mermaid in the house. Before Aakriti can say anything, Akash tells her that he does not want to answer any questions right now. Look at this mermaid to see what has happened to it. Aakriti sees the mermaid and notices some marks on her neck.
Aakriti immediately injects her with a painkiller and comes out of the room. Aakriti tells Akash that "There were claw marks in the throat of the creature, as if someone had strangled her throat, and the other thing is that she also fainted due to suffocation in the water. But there is nothing to worry about; she will regain consciousness in the next 2 hours."
Akash thanks her, and Aakriti asks him, "From where did he get this creature?"
Then Akash tells her the whole thing: from the entry of Ganga to Sherkhan kidnapping Ramya, he and Ray save Ramya, and Ganga returns to her world.
Aakriti is unsure about Akash's words, but a mermaid is in front of her, so she has to believe him. After 2 hours, a coughing sound comes from the room of that mermaid, and immediately Akash goes to that room and sees that the mermaid is now in human form.
This is because the portal of Mermaid World was closed from where she came, and she was unconscious before the portal was closed; that is why she was in the mermaid form, and therefore, she becomes a human being as soon as she comes to her senses.
After seeing her human form, she starts crying; then she sees Akash and Aakriti. So Aakriti says, "How did you become a human being, till a while back, you were a mermaid?"
Then Akash says, "Oh, this means the portal to Mermaid World is closed. Who are you, and how do you know about the mermaid world?" that the mermaid says.
So Akash tells her, "I am Aakash. I saw you unconscious on the banks of that river, and that's why I brought you to my home for your safety."
By hearing the name of Akash, she gets up from the bed, moves towards Aakash, hugs him, and starts crying.
Akash makes her sit back on the bed and asks, "Why are you crying?" The mermaid says, "Ganga told me about you."
As soon as he hears the name of Ganga, he gets brightness on his face, and he says, "What did she tell? Where is Ganga now, and is she alright?" So that mermaid says, "No, Ganga is not alright."
To be continued...