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The Thirty fifth chapter.

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 Third POV 

-- 13 hours before the disaster-- 

"Mata Amba." Princess Subhadra grabbed the lady and pulled her in a hug. 
"What are you saying? Please say it clearly. What happened to Badi Bon?" 

"She was kidnapped." Lady Amba cries.
And everyone stares at the lady in various degrees of shock.

"How is that possible?" Princess Dushala was the first one to recover and question Lady Amba about it.

"The fruits, they were drugged." Lady Amba replies. "We got them as gift."

"How come she did not realise about it?"

Lady Amba looked at Karn for a few moments, before she spoke, "Neither you nor her are in the best state of yourselves. You have not had anything since morning, neither did she. Both of you hurt yourselves more than you hurt each other, with these fights. Yet you fight, however much I have tried to stop it all these years. Do you really think she was really paying attention to the fact as to what she was having, after fighting you?"

"You are making me look like a villain." Prince Karn whines. "Anyways, who dared to kidnap her?"

"Do you really need to ask it?" Lady Amba looked done with Prince Karn and his seeming idiotic, un- ending questions.

"Dam that Panav!" Prince Karn cursed before a mask settled on his face.
Every emotion that had been their on his face till a second ago was now gone. He seemed to have composed himself.

"I will go find her and bring her back." Prince Karn says.
His tone was firm and there was no emotion in his words. He seemed calm, too calm for anyone's liking in the room.

"I will come with you." Ashwatthama says, surprising everyone in the room.
When everyone stares at him, he questions, "What? He needs help, I am ready to help him. Also, none of you know forests like I do."

"I think, I can help you there too." Yuyutsu quipus softly from where he stood half hidden behind Prince Duryodhana. "I practically live in the forest."

Prince Karn looks at the two of them, there was a small smile on his face but it did not reach his eyes. His eyes were emotionless, nearly heartless.

"Adi!" Raj Mata Satyavati speaks up suddenly. "What are you doing?"

"Dadi?" Prince Karn turns to his grand- mother. "What are you saying?"

"I am asking about your plan." Raj Mata Satyavati moves closer to her grand- son. "Should you really be going looking for her at this time?"

"We all know who was behind all this, Dadi." Prince Karn says. "I do not think it would be very good to stay back and not do anything about it."

Raj Mata Satyavati sighs, "I am not stopping you from going, Adi. I care for her too. I am worried about her, too. But I do not want any one of you to be hurt."
She gives a pointed look to Ashwatthama and Yuyutsu.

"Raj Mata!" Prince Yudhishthira steps ahead. "I will join them. The more of us, the faster will be able to end this."

"I suddenly feel much better about this idea." Raj Mata looks at her great- grandson Yudhishthira.

"Wait!" Prince Karn narrowed his eyes at his grand- mother. "You trust him more than you trust me, like really?"

"You are a great fighter. He is no match for you there." Raj Mata Satyavati agrees. "But he thinks better in tough situations. Seventy percent of the time around Ananya, you do not think, just act impulsively."

Prince Karn suddenly had an offended look.
But before he could say anything Prince Duryodhana sighs moving towards Yudhishthira. "I am in, too."

"You are?" Ashwatthama looks at Prince Duryodhana funny.
Duryodhana just gave him a deadpan look, pinching his lips together. 

-- 10 hours before the marriage --

When Ananya regained her consciousness, the first thing she sensed was that her hand was tied behind her back and a cloth around her mouth. 
In moments Ananya came to an elegant conclusion, she had been kidnapped. 

Bloody hell! This is going to end in a mess! Without opening her eyes, she tried to feel her surrounding, she needed to know how many people were there in the room with her. 
If she could take them on, there was nothing stopping her from leaving whatever this hideous place she is in right now. 

There were around ten people in the room, she was in. Or that is what she could sense. And she really hoped that was it, because she was going down.

Ananya, as inconspicuously as possible takes a deep breath and fills her lungs with air, she was going to need it while fighting right now. While at the same time she was wriggling her hand out of the bounds. It was so easy to do the same, the rope was very loosely present.

Idiots. Either they are too cocky or they think I can do no harm to them.
Well, doom is going to be theirs.

Ananya opened her eyes and caught the eye of the man standing guard in front of her, her first prey. She continues to stare into his eyes and gives a half smirk.
He is dressed in black overall kind of thing. Stupid looking, actually.

Ananya kicks him in the head while she was jumping up from her position.
Instantly making him fall down, unconscious.

This caught the attention of other three guards in the room.
Ananya's half smirk just widens as they come towards her. This was just beginning to getting exited in all.

She knocks the sword of the soldier in the air just as she punches the guard that had reached her in the gut. Making him bend over, in front of he, in the same moment she bashes her knee in his nose.

The crunch makes her satisfied as the guard turns away trying to ease the pain, he was feeling due to his now broken nose. His hand already was overflowing with blood that had shed from the same.

She catches the sword and immediately uses it to stop the attack of one of the guard while ducks to save herself from another.
She maneuvers herself in such a way so that the person attacking her from other side should hit his own team member rather than her.

The guy was smart though, because he stopped himself from causing a serious injury to his team mate. But it certainly distracts the former. Good. 
In a swift motion Ananya knocked the sword out of his hold and turns him around while moving at the same time so he stood in front of her. This aids her block the strike from the latter guy.

Pushing the former away, her pars the latter's sword attack with her own.
She would have to do something other than sword fight with this man. For the sword in her hand was not comfortable, it did not feel right in her hands. And if there is one basic rule in sword fighting it is to use a balanced sword.

Well, she could cheat a little. Her smirks widen when she sees the chance coming for the same. When he swipes low at her, she jumps. Twice.
Once to get away from the attack, she flips completely to the right side. And second time she jumps and turns her body in middle of the same to land behind me. In an instant she has knocked the man on the head with the back of the sword in her hand, rendering him unconscious.

Ananya looks around the room, it would be moments before someone walks in to the room, she had to be ready to escape. She needed to know in which part of the whole dam Aryavarta is she truly, in. And also, what time had passed she had been unconscious. Hopefully it would not be too long.

Ananya slowly and cautiously walked towards the gate of the room, for there was no other way to escape the room. The room was completely sealed off to the outside world, it had no other way out.

Ananya peeped out of the small almost inconspicuous hole, present on the gate, as she held her breath to not let guards who could be out there of her.
But the scene that she could she was not one she was expecting. There seemed no one in the small vicinity that she could see.

Suddenly something come in her eyesight and Ananya could only take a step back in surprise when the door burst. It had broken into pieces because of someone kicking it down open.

Ananya flew back in the room due to the wood of the door that hit her. A few pieces of wood pierced her skin, scratching her at some places.
Her head lurched to the front before falling back as her back hit a metal chest kept in the back of the room. The sharp edge bruising her skin of back.

A chuckle made Ananya's eyes snap open to look at the owner of the evil laugh. Ananya was not ready for the sight she was greeted with.
She had believed that the one to kidnap was Pranav. But right now standing in front of her was neither him nor any of Pranav's lackey Ananya knew.

No this was someone she never would expect to take such a step. He knew exactly her and Karn's relation, and how much he cared of her. This man was not an idiot to take such step.
So, how could he do this? What did he in this? And the biggest question of all why?   

Because it was Gandhar Raj Shakuni.     

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How was the update for the day? 

Karn has Ashwatthama, Yuyutsu, Yudhishthira and Duryodhana with him. 

Raj Mata Satyavati is letting this happen, because Yudhishthira is going. 

How are the other brother's going to react? 

Will the other Pandeva's let Yudhishthira go? 

Ananya is a pro fighter!  

She it hurt, oh no! 

Kidnapper is Shakuni. 
But is he really, huh? 

Or like she had assumed before it is Prince Pranav?  

(1700 words.)

--Sxxxxx