Disha paced forward but her movement was interrupted by Hrida, who held her arms with a strong painful grip, Disha smiled more wickedly. Ambar spoke on her behalf, enjoying her suffering, " Disha, look at the pretty doll, she looks possessive for her dear best friend, tch..tch..
Does it make our pretty doll sad that her only best friend is being stolen from her? So, unfair it is, but not for us, we love to be fairly unfair. Heheeeuse.
Hey, I have another suggestion for you, Disha, why don't you make Soma, her other friend, your pup-pet?
He looks like an ice-cold prince, I am sure Hrida won't mind after all, it wouldn't be fair if Hrida kept them both, hmm? "
Hrida twists her arms and then throws Disha over them causing them to gravitate towards the ground, before they can stand up, Hrida sits over them, pining them underneath her.
Everyone is shocked by her move, they are surprised, Shashi and Soma both gawk at her like fish, Hrida states in a heated tone," Shashi and Soma, both are my friends and I don't share my friends with unworthy people.
And, if they want to make friends, they're free to do so, they don't need my permission., I consider them as friends and not some pup-pet like you.
I care about them both. If you inflicted even just a little damage upon them, your torture will get worse and you would pay for painting my elder brother's body with injuries, you won't be spared at all. "
Drishya imitates her in a mocking way, she ignores their shameless banter and sneakily snatches their knives from their dress belts, she doesn't give them time for warning, she raises her hand holding the knife as a sword, intending to stab them without a chance of mercy.
Those three girls tried to push her away but Hrida remained adamant and burdened them under her suffocating cage, they looked at her with fearful gazes. Lakshman and Shashi screamed a big ' No' simultaneously, her hands froze in mid-air, her breath was getting heavier, and her wrath was at its peak but she couldn't ignore their voices.
She threw the knife far away from them, but she wouldn't spare them, so she slapped those girls so hard, that their cheeks became sore and red, and they scowled at her.
Hrida's eyes were glowing with such light that they became blinded by the light, they couldn't look straight at her eyes, her aura was screaming danger to them.
A loud shriek distracted her, she glanced over her shoulder and found Shashi being tormented again by Divit, and Jivan alongside him somehow appeared inside the bubble even after being knocked unconscious.
Her ears caught a loud commotion noise beyond the layer, and the huge crowd consisting of police officers and civilians was setting up speakers despite the shadow attacks, Soma's mom and Dhansi ji were leading the masses to enact their existing plan immediately.
Within a second, the whole mass sang in their loud voices, chanting holy mantras in perfect symphony, creating wisps of courage in the air, and its effect was slow but effective, the shadow minions were hissing and staying away from the crowd, the speakers amplified their voices, adversely affecting upon Shawmys.
Kali fed up with this long-awaiting game, steps inside the warzone, he exposes himself in his real humongous form, Navya advises them to not stop singing even for a second, which everyone agrees upon, understanding the hidden warning behind the statement.
Kali towered over Hrida, who was currently rushing towards Shashi but he blocked her path and created a wall between Shashi and her, he expanded himself into a wall, the darkest wall, even a single speck of light or air couldn't pass through it.
Hrida bumps purposefully into the wall to crumble the walls down but her arms pained like a thousand needles being placed on her body.
She bangs her fist against the wall desperately and every time her fist comes in contact with the wall, she felt a part of her being sucked into it, but she still didn't care.
She shouts at Kali with a teary tone," Let him go, remove this wall, he won't be able to breathe if you don't move your wall from his lifeline.
Why all of you are targeting him mostly, what has he done to you?
I know it's all because of me. Kali- The King of Inner demon, I didn't expect you to be such a coward to face me, that's why you are targeting him, if you wish to control me, then remove the wall and charge your specially trained Shawmys at me.
Then we will see, who will win this battle of control. Do you agree?"
Kali ponders for a moment, then declares, " Fine, I just want the results but it would be fun to watch the light shaking, flickering, and burning herself out in this battle.
You both like video games, right, let us play in video game mode.
There are no rules in this game, so enjoy. So, the game is simple but hard, your dear Shashi would be blocked by 5 blocks, one in front of another, standing between you and Shashi. Break the block or swat them away if you can, otherwise be prepared to be badly bruised.
And remember, Shashi won't be relaxed since I would host on him without taking control over him since I am not interested in his soul at all, instead I want yours, which would eventually, be my darkest light.
Oh yes, since you are my favorite, I can offer you another option that might give you a temporary moment of happiness still you can still consider it.
You and all others would be released from my control and influence for a few days but then you and all others would have to surrender to us regardless.
But for that, you would have to give up your precious person to me and no return. and you might have already guessed, who that person might be, still I insist you to consider this chance."
Hrida straightaway rejected his offer and asked him to proceed with the game, she requested him to remove his wall this instant, and he accepted her request and drifted away from her path and pounced on Shashi, causing him to groan in pain.
She controlled her emotions by clenching her fist hard. 5 blocks were placed before her, and stood between Shashi and her. She doesn't care about the number of blocks between, her focus is only on saving Shashi as soon as she can.
She takes long deep breaths, calming her restless anxious mind and heart, mentally and physically preparing herself before crashing all the blocks down. While, among the crowd, one of them breaks into a non-stop cough, his dry throat itches painfully even gulps of water don't soothe his throat and this invites one of the Shawmys to attack him.
As soon as he is affected, he is put to sleep by the police officer's dart gun for the civilian's safety. But then a strange thing occurs, the shadow instead of returning back to other Shawmys, gets absorbed into Shashi's body, he gasps in pain, but this doesn't go unnoticed by the people.
Hrida warns him with the rudest tone, " Kali, don't increase his pain, because he is already filled with scars, you have to play fair, otherwise, I swear you would feel twice as much pain as Shashi experiencing right now. "
Kali snickers and breaks into mocking laughter noise as if she is cracking some joke at the moment, this fueled her anger to a great extent, her anger took the form of hot tears burning her cheeks as those tears raced down her cheeks.
She ignored her pain, and her emotions and set her eyes fixed on the first block, giving one glance at the first block, she felt like she was dumped into the garbage bin. She neared the first block of the chain, her lips set in a deep frown.
She confronted those three girls, who held a new pair of knives in both hands pointed in her direction with the widest smirk curved on their lips, she tried to knock off their knives but their hold on them was too strong to waver.
She kicked in their legs and threw punches at them but they successfully dodged her moves, something popped up in her brain, she used her nails and scratched their arms, leaving red strips of line decorating their arms.
Those girls shrieked in pain and annoyance and used razors spontaneously scraping her cheeks with blood patches, which she couldn't avoid.
Despite the scratch, she smirked instead of being angry, " You only got this much, tch...I can do more than that to make use of the knife against you but I won't cause even the knife has some dignity to maintain its purity and not slide through impure beings."
Her statement infuriated their vengeful heart and damaged their ego to a great extent, three of them attacked at the same time, leaving her no space to defend, but still, she managed to defend some of their moves.
But she did get cuts on her torso, her clothes torn at random places, Hrida grunted and took out something from her dress pocket, a familiar pen still stained with dried blood at its tip.
Lakshman chuckles despite the heaviness on his shoulder, " A dangerous weapon indeed, I am well familiar with it." Kritak's memory resurfaced of the day when they saw Lakshman sir being bruised on the stomach by just a pen.
Hrida's fiery eyes scared them, they tried to scoot away but she blocked their way, and stepped closer leaving only space for a foot between them, she leaned closer to their faces and her rigid face softened a bit, noticing fright, the vulnerability in their posture and fear of pain reflecting in their eyes.
She put back her pen into her pocket and whispered in an audible tone with gentleness, " I never meant to hurt you at first but you forced me to raise my weapon towards you. But still, I didn't because I saw something, which I saw for the first time in your eyes, and that is fear of pain and guilt buried deep in your soul.
Hear me out clearly, let me help you show the mirror, the reflection of your sinful shadowy acts, you did whatever you could to hurt those animals beyond the line of humanity. And for that, you would have to pay the debt although you can't turn the dead ones alive but at least express grief for the animals that you killed without a thought.
And, now I can see why you walked on this path of shadow because you were weak inside and no one cared about you. Loneliness and ignorance led you to find/seek entertainment in wrong direction.
You weren't enjoying their pain rather you enjoyed how powerful and confident you felt by torturing those animals. You were wrong, whatever you did until now was unfair and injustice to those innocent souls. Even if you have been wronged or faced worst sides of life, that doesn't permit us to be heartless/merciless to others.
You are weak for sure because only a weak person can hurt others. I suggest you to be a little brave inside.
Don't look for other's insecurities to hide yours, be courageous nough to accept and embrace your weakness like art, then only your soul can be truly strong.
I too became weak at some point in my journey as I kept running from my truth in search of truth itself but I had to be strong and face it ultimately.
Hope you don't waste your chance again and revert back to old ways after fulfilling your punishment."
Her words hit them straight at their heart, they were shocked how accurately she saw through their facade and even showed mercy even when they didn't expect from her after the damage they had inflicted on her.
They stepped aside, a faint sense of peace sneaks in their hearts and their shadows jumped to Shash and those three girls fainted out of a sudden. Shashi's pain increasd but he didn't hiss and numbed his voice to lessen Hrida's worry.
Now, she headed to the second block: Manan Bhaiya, whom she didn't liked a bit since from the start, she couldn't deny the fear she felt as she approached him. Her legs stilled when she noticed his creepy smile, his eyes observing her every move, she felt uncomfortable by his strange gaze.
She shook her head and reminded herself of how this bhaiya has used young girls as play dolls for his own entertainment.