Harsh content ahead, too much of blood and mind disturbing contents. Please read at your own risks as it has some fights and things which may not sit right for some. 

So alert for that in advance.

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Vaidharbhi...

I closed my mouth and held him tight to me. Vamsi was still sleeping which was really god's grace. Every step Kalia takes my heart jumps a beat. His eyes were sharp, his hands were dirty but covered with scars. His nails were all tainted but it was purely with the blood of many lives he has taken. He howls as a wolf making me finch in fear. I made a small voice of fear and held vamsi so tight to me. Vamsi was sleeping peacefully and i would protect my son at any cost.

When i peaked through the window i could see the Kalia now in the middle of the street and slowly the footsteps were increasing. How many are here now ?

"Prabhu.." (lord) they all said and bowed their head and kneeled down. He acknowledged them with a nod. His body was covered with tiger skins and so was the others. They were so harsh looking and their bodies were covered with either tiger's skin or deer's skin. It is said that the one who is wearing tiger skin is someone who is a fighter and the one who is wearing deer skin means they are the subordinates the one who follows the orders. I hid myself from them to notice me. Even a small sound would alert them. The steps were fading and i released the breathe which i was holding for long time. I was about to hold Vamsi but he was not in my lap now. My eyes widened. He is just a deer who is few months old. They will hunt him down and i would be noticed. 

Before i could even call him he screamed on his top of his voice making them halt their walk. My heart stopped. They heard him, they heard us. I rushed outside to pull him to me and when i stepped my leg out of my house i found few shadows growing. Sucking a harsh breathe i pulled Vamsi with his back leg. He tried to make noise but i was successful in pulling him to me but before i could hide i heard those harsh foot steps nearing us. I grabbed Vamsi and rushed to my hide out behind a huge vessel which was hidden and no one can find them. 

Holding him to me i gasped for air but made sure not to make even a single noise. One wrong move our lives will be turned to narakam (hell). "Hey mahadev save my son and me. What will i say to his appa when he comes back home ? He loves Vamsi as his own son. I want my little one to grow into a great deer. I want to see my son grow up not to get perished in these blood sucking Kalias. Save us mahadev. Save us." I thought and held my eyes shut tight wrapping Vamsi on one end of my dress with the extra cloth. Everything around me was so silent. It made my heart to beat faster. I could see few shadows but i made sure i am not moving even a muscle. Vamsi was struggling hard for me to leave him but now this is not the time for me to leave him play. Before we can even know what was happening i heard a crash sound. They were now so near me. They are here inside my house. "Hey Madhusudhana (lord vishnu) save us, please save us." i prayed. Every time something gets broken, the sound would make me to jump and finch in fear and i would gulp harsh breathe. 

Vamsi started to wiggle in my hold but i held him too close to me. He made a small painful tone made me hiccup a cry. He is in pain so was me. We cannot do anything now as i know the Kalias as now destroying everything in my house. Clutching my chain which was my amma's the one Mukundh got me from vihari and praying for my appa to come. Yet another time everything was now silent. But this time the silence was suffocating me. Until now i had no feelings like this i am having right now. Something is about to change. Something is about to change the entire life of mine. I curled myself to the darkest part of my hide out which was nothing but a grain depot of my house. The sound of the footsteps were nearing us and was making me to go to the near end of the room. I know if they find me here i can never survive. 

A harsh hand clutched my hair making me scream for life. I was pulled out of the room and i was been thrown in the main hall of my small house. There were two people. One who held me the other one standing in front of me. I was about to run but a hand held my hair yet again tight. 

"Leave me..." i begged them while they laughed mockingly. I held my hand holding his hand which was holding my hair tight. He came to me and smelled me making me cringe in disgust. A hand held my stomach where i wrapped Vamsi in it. 

I left my hand from Kalia's hand i made a protective shield for my Vamsi. Who knows they might even eat him. Until i am alive i will take care of him. He shook my hair making me cry in pain. The other Kalia pulled Vamsi from my hold. 

"Leave him you pathetic Kalia's " i yelled at them. Before i can even blink one Kalia fell down. I blinked and saw what happened ? 

Was my appa back to me ?

But the figure behind the falling Kalia made me gasp in surprise. It was none other than the virahi who stole my mother's chain. "Vihari ?" i whispered. He nodded his head and before he can speak anything the one who held me rushed to him. I took this as a time to run for my life. 

"Run for your life little one. I will stop this. Your father is in the main street. Run faster." he said making me stumble on the sand floor. I pulled Vamsi to me and rushed to the main street where everything was burnt. 

Their screams were now really audible and the heat emitting from the fire was making the coldest night to sweat. Holding Vamsi to me i ran to see where my appa was. When i neared the main street many where trying to stop the fire by pouring the water from their pots. The Kalias has done their damages and now our village is been destroyed. I thought they left but why should i be so wrong all the time. A sudden scream made me turn to my left. They were just there waiting for us to come out so that they can destroy every one in the village. 

"Vaidharbhiii..." i heard a call for me. My eyes widened. My lips parted and my chest contracted with the way his call was. He was in pain my appa was in pain. I heard his frantic calls again and again and i yelled calling him but he was just yelling my name. Clutching my little one with me i rushed to him. My appa was looking at me and once he finally saw me his eyes gained life and hope. But today was not the day for us to hope for anything. A dark voice made us to halted us for a minute. From the shadow  there he stood, the prabu of the Kalias holding my appa as a bait for this raid. When the prabhu spoke my life left my body.

"Let us start our sacrifice of tonight to the gods of Kalias with the human sacrifice. Jai maata...." he said and pulled the large sword and made me scream. Everyone turned to see me and the next minute the one i am looking at. 

A slice sound was heard and the next minute a head was rolled on the ground. It was none other than my known vegetable seller the one who i used to call mama. "Mama...." i whispered and slowly i turned my head up. I gasped when i saw a Kalia looking straight to my eyes. His lips were dark, his eyes were shaded with black and brown which were definitely bloody. He was surrounded by fleshy smell and his teeth where anything but white. He smiled at me making me take few steps back. He was gaining on me when i walked back with my front facing him. Before he could take yet another step appa sliced his head. I gave a sigh of relief and rushed to him and held him as my very life. Suddenly there was arrow showers from all the four sides. Panicked i ran holding appa but before we can even find a hide out he was been tossed towards a tree making me look at what has happened. 

"Run my child. Run towards the kingdom, the main kingdom where you will be safe with your Mukundh and Rama. Go you have my blessings" i cried and saw them approaching us. He held my hand and stood up with the other hand which had his sword as a support. Spitting the blood he held his sword tight and lifted his head to face the fight. 

"Vaidharbhi never loose your thoughts in adharma, even when you are surrounded by adharm stand on your dharma which will save your life even when you see death in front of you. Ayushman bhava purthri (long live my daughter). He said and ran towards them to stop. I cried and was about to stop my appa but no only his one ear ring slipped from his ear. Picking that as a memory of my appa and looking towards him where i saw him being tossed by the Kalias i ran towards the kingdom as i was instructed. Mukundh will take care of me and so was Rama anna. I turned to see my appa is being brutally murdered by them. I chocked a cry when i saw a Kalia placing his leg on my appa's neck to stop his breathe but his eyes were fixed on me and before he can close his eyes he saw me captured by one of the Kalia's who was there from the behind the one who was kept in this direction if anyone escaped. I was been held by my back neck. Appa saw me with teary eyes. Our lives were now going to end but still i had hope of saving Vamsi. The Kalia stepped from appa's neck and walked towards me. Grabbing my hair from behind he made me see him. I breathed through my nose and saw him. He was no different from the others. They were all animals. All here are animals. 

He smiled at me and that made my anger ten folds. Collecting the saliva from my mouth i spitted on his face. He twisted his head and wiped them with his angavastram or should say tiger's cloth. He shook my head but i am not budging at all. I am Vaidharbhi daughter of Megnath the supreme court doctor of dharma desam and wife of my Mukundh. I will not die without fighting. 

A harsh hand pulled my Vamsi from me. I yelled and tried to grab him but was held by my hair. 

"Leave me you rakshasa...." i yelled and tried one step forward but i was been pulled back by the Kalia. 

"You spit on me and i would split you." he said and showed his eyes to some one. From no where an arrow punchered Vamsi's stomach. I yelled calling his name while he was suffering in pain. Many people's yelling was heard behind. Everyone where either being captured or being murdered but few were also being molested. 

"Oh oh oh see how beautifully he is coloured isn't he" he mocked and laughed. I cried and saw my appa who was barely breathing. Atleast let him be alive. The other one who was in my house came with half dead virahi. His one eye was plucked but with the other one where he saw me cried at me. My eyes were tearing up either. Shaking me yet again with my hair he made me see what these Rakshas were doing. Taking a knife the other guy plucked into Vamsi making him scream in pain. 

"Leave him , leave him...." i struggled and tried hard to bite his hand. But he slapped me making me loose my conscious. Yet again shaking my head i saw Vamsi's head now being hanging with no life. But a small hick-up was coming from him. A tear rolled down my eyes. My son is dead. He hick-up ed one more time and this time i slowly sat on the sandy road but not being left by them. One last time he hick-up ed and everything around me stopped when i saw the life leaving his body. 

My son is gone, the one who i took care off from the first day is gone, he is gone and so is my life. I could feel i was being pulled by my hair up. They were with the help of some sharp knife they were tearing my hair. It means i am now their slave who would be used for anything, they can even molest me, sell me, do anything they want and no one can question them as this village comes under their control now. 

I slowly turned to see my appa who is now dead by soul but he was breathing. I could see the one who is holding me placed his foot on my appa's neck and he was struggling hard to breathe. He placed his hands around the foot trying to take that away but he was strongly pressing the foot on the neck. I tried to stop him by hitting him and bite him again but one more slap made me loose my sense and i fell down and a sound of crack was heard. I snapped and saw my appa is now just a corpse. 

He held my hair and pushed me towards the wodden cage where many females of our village was held captive. No one spoke as we know there is nothing left for us to speak. We are no more humans here. All we are, are just a living corpse who have to dance to the tunes of our swamy (master) who is going to buy us. From the gap i found a guy skinning my Vamsi. A tear slipped from my now empty and exhausted eyes. What is going to happen to me ?

Will i be able to survive from what ever going to happen to me ? 

Will my future holds any good life for me or am i going to be a doll for the other's pleasure ?

Will the mahadev open his eyes for me or just shut them tight ?

Will my Mukundh could come and find me or will he settle with another woman forgetting me that i am still alive ?

Will i be a human again ?

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Hope this is long enough if not i'm sorry. 

Finally made it guys. Writing this was honestly so disturbing for me. I felt was this too much but this was something which i had in my head from the beginning of the story. If you feel disturbed please apologies me. If you feel it was not upto the context yet again apologise me. 

Sorry again for a late update. Tried hard to write them but i couldn't do that. So here it is. Please do share me your views and also please make yourself an artist by painting the stars. 

Until next update (will try as hard as i can to write them soon)

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