Robin reached New York next day and met Abhay and Pia. They went to the old Claudia's house to catch Maya's scent and Robin easily got the scent of the new witch and also a sense of the aura of her building up powers. They started tracing her and Robin concentrated to find where did Maya made her next stop after this place as that place was sure to have a stronger aura than other places crossed in transit. He found that they had made their next stop in Geneva. All of them booked tickets to Geneva and next day they all reached Geneva by air. The concentration of aura was coming from a hotel. They reached that hotel and enquired about arrival of two women in last few days, but nobody knew anything about it.

They thought that maybe they made some mistake in their guess but Pia reminded them that Maithili surely would have compelled them and then wiped off their memories. So, Robin concentrated some more and found the aura coming a room in that hotel. He concentrated and found the room no. to be 912. Abhay compelled the manager to give them the keys to room no. 912 and they all reached the room without wasting any more time. The room was empty as the entry in the register showed that it was vacated yesterday only. Maithili was always one step ahead of them. They ransacked the room to find any clue but could not find any clue. Pia was feeling dizzy as she was tired of travelling and stress. She sat on the couch for comfort and her hand lazily slipped on the couch. It was then her hand brushed across a piece of paper in the gaps between the couch seat and back. She pulled the piece of paper out and unfolded it.

Before Pia could see what was there in the paper Robin snarled and lurched towards her with a madness in his eyes and his fangs out. It took all Abhay's strength to control Robin. Pia was shocked to see this sudden change in Robin. With great difficulty Abhay calmed down Robin and then shouted at him: What was that? Since when did you start attacking humans?

Robin who was having great difficulty controlling himself said: No Abhay, I was not attacking Pia.

Abhay: Then what were you doing?

Robin: Witch Blood Abhay. That piece of paper has witch blood. I can trace white witches because their blood attracts me. I can control myself around them as long as I don't get to smell their blood directly, but if a white witch bleeds in front of me, then the beast in my wakes up. And that paper which Pia is holding has white witch blood on it.

Abhay and Pia were shocked to know this. Abhay asked Pia to speak out what was written on that paper while he controlled Robin. Pia looked at the paper again and read out the words written there in blood: Dehradun – Pandher Palace!!!

Abhay cursed himself for being so stupid. He should have guessed all along. Where else could have Maithili gone? To the same place where it all began ages ago, and where it all supposedly ended a few months back, but now she was hell bent to revive the past from the same place. She had used her black magic to preserve Siddhartha's soul after Abhay killed him. And now using her black magic and sacrificing a werewolf and a white witch to the devil on a full moon night, she was all set to revive Siddhartha back, this time in a much powerful and invincible form. He would be completely indestructible by any force of nature or super naturals and he would be enslaved to her thus giving her an unbeatable weapon to fight everyone. And if that was not all; her magic would also bind her soul to him, thus making it impossible to kill Maithili. And so they had to stop the ritual and rescue Maya to save themselves, save the world and stop Maithili from becoming more powerful than she already was.

They started to rush but Abhay found that Pia had collapsed on the couch. He went to her and tried to make her come to senses, but he felt that her body had turned extremely cold. Abhay was scared and angry at himself for subjecting her to so much action in this fragile condition. He had even forgotten to take care of her eating needs. He tried waking her up but Pia did not respond. Meanwhile the hotel crew came to the room having heard strange sounds from the room. The manager shouted at them as to what they were doing in the room, but Abhay shouted back: Can't you see my wife has collapsed? And instead of calling a doctor, you are shouting at us! Is that how you treat your customers also?

The manager was taken aback and he quickly called for a doctor who came with his BP monitoring machine. He took Pia's BP and it was found too low than normal. It was only 70/40. The doctor advised immediate hospitalization but Abhay and Robin were tensed. Robin tried to take hold of the situation and said: I am afraid Doctor, but we need to leave for India urgently! We just cannot hospitalize Pia. Is there no other solution to make Pia at least well enough to reach India?

The doctor: Absolutely not! I just cannot allow the patient to take air travel in this condition. She needs at least 24 hour medical supervision and immediate saline drip to stop her blood pressure from lowering further. We may also need to check if her baby is alright by doing an ultra-sound.

But Abhay cut him out: No, we don't want any ultra-sound. I can still feel my baby's kicks. And Pia had her 3rd trimester ultra-sound done just last week. I have heard that too many ultra-sounds can harm the baby, so we won't be getting any ultra-sound done.

The doctor reluctantly agreed and Pia was shifted to a hospital and put on saline. But even after 24 hours Pia's BP had risen to only 90/50. But she was in her senses now so Abhay requested the doctors to discharge her, but the doctor refused saying that atmospheric pressure can create havoc with her system in this condition and so till the time her BP is less than 110/70, he won't allow her to leave. Abhay and Robin were both getting impatient as time was running out. Finally after another 24 hours, the doctor discharged Pia. They all took the very next flight to India. And took the fastest train to reach Dehradun. They had only 3 days left to find and stop Maithili now. 

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