Chapter 3 - Parents
Nageshwar Mandir was on Harihar hill on the North side, while Vishnave Mandir was on South side of the hill.
In Nageshwar Mandir,
Shivendra and Shalini along with their new-born entered the temple. At that time, the main pirest, Nahush was taking care of his preganent wife Sunaina, therefore he was not able to come to the temple. In his place, another pirest, Gyanesh was looking after the temple.
Gyanesh- Arrey Nagraj, you are here so early?
Shivendra- Yes, to thank Mahadev for our daughter.
Gyanesh- May I see your daughter?
Shivendra- Why not, Shalini come here.
Shalini comes over there with their daughter. Gyanesh looks at her face and smiles.
Gyanesh- Her face is radiating like 100 moons. Her eyes resemble Ma Shakti's expressive eyes.
Suddenly he notices the mark on the babies right hand. He inspects the mark. It a picture of a king cobra who has wrapped his body around a gem, with his hood hovering above the gem as if protecting it. On his neck, there was trident, which looked like Mahadev's trishul.
Gyanesh- Nagraj, your daughter is really a boon for this entire Nag-Kul and may be the entire world.
Shivendra and Shalini look at him confused.
Gyanesh- (smiles) I will explain, the snake that is protecting this sem symbolizes that any kind of snake poison won't effect her, the Trishul symbolizes that she will not be killed by anyother weapon other than Mahadev's Trishul, and the gem which the snake is wrapped around is the illustrious Nagmani, which symbolizes that she can be saved using Nagmani and Nagmani is the main source of her powers. It also gives her healing powers, through them she can heal her-self and people near her. She will be able to save a lot of lives. If this sign vanishes from her hand that means, she will be no more.
Shivendra and Shalini smile looking at eachother and mentally thank Mahadev and Ma-Shakti for the child. Shivendra asks Gyanesh to start the Naamkaran ritual. Finally, time came to give a name to the baby. Shivendra whispered the babies name into her ears. Shalini looked at him as if asking what did you name her.
Shivendra- Shakti, as she is given to us as the vardaan of Ma Shakti on us. She will be the protector of all the Nag-vansh and I bless her to find the love of her life who will support her like Mahadev.
Shalini- That's such a nice blessing. I bless her to be successful in whatever path she takes.
Suddenly, they hear commotion outside. Shivendra and Shalini go outside to see why the commotion is being created. There they see, Kumarendra, the younger step-brother of Shivendra along with Nevla-Raj (Mongoose-King), Vikrant. The armies of Mongoose and Kaal Nags who were the descendents of Gulika Naag, were causing destruction. Looking at the scenario in front of him, Shivendra got angry, but he was also worried about his daughters safety.
Shivendra- Shail, go to a safe place with Shakti, until then I will keep them busy.
Shalini- But..
Shivendra- (Holds one of her hand) please for the sake of our daughter go to a safe place.
Shalini nods and runs inside the temple. She sees Gyanesh praying to Mahakal to stop the war and protect them. She goes near him.
Shalini- Panditji!
Gyanesh- Ji Nagrani!
Shalini- Here (gives her daughter to him) Take her to a safe place please.
Gyanesh- Lekin, aap..
Shalini- Don't worry about me, now go.
Gyanesh nods and leaves through the back door. Shalini joins her husband in the fight.
In Karkotak Van,
Gyanesh is running through the forest at his full speed. Suddenly he gets warped in snake tail. When he manages to turn, he is surprised to see a Kaal sanik in his half-human and half-snake form.
Kaal Sanik- give the baby to me.
Gyanesh- I will never, even if you take my life away.
Kaal Sanik- Then get ready to die.
Just as he is about to bite Gyanesh, another snake tail takes him in grip. When he turns around, he sees Nahush in his half-snake and half-human form. His grip loosens on Gyanesh. Gyanesh takes a sigh of relief and looks at Shakti who is smiling widely. Nahush kills the Kaal sanik by suffocating him to his death. He then goes in his normal form to Gyanesh.
Nahush- What are you doing here?
Gyanesh- I was coming to your house only, Bhaiya.
Nahush- Why, what happened?
Gyanesh tells everything to him.
Nahush- that's bad, I should go and help Nag-raj.
Just as Nahush is about to leave, Gyanesh holds his hand.
Gyanesh- No, Bhaiya, Bhabhi is preganent with your first child, and if you go to help, then it will make the situation more complex. The best help you can do is taking care of Shakti, and raising her up like a protector. Keep this as a secret, even Bhabhi should not know about this, to protect her.
Nahush- As you say, Gyanesh.
He takes the baby in his hand and returns to his house. Sunaina gets surprised seeing the baby in his hand.
Sunaina- Whose baby is this and where did you find her?
Nahush- I found her in the forest all alone. Her parents might have left her over there or something bad might have happened. So, I brought her over here to take care of her.
Sunaina- (smiling) Does she have any name?
Nahush- I am not sure, but looking at her, I get reminded of Ma Shakti. So, let's name her Shakti.
Sunaina- that's such a nice name, now give me tha baby, she might be hungry.
In Nageshwar Mandir,
Kumarendra takes Shivendra and Shalini as prisoners, by putting chains on them. He suddenly notices they don't have the baby.
Kumarendra- (looking at Shalini) Where is the baby, Bhabhishree?
Shalini- She is there where she has to be.
Kumarendra- Please tell me nicely, as I won't ask one more time. Where is the baby?
Shalini stays quiet. Kumarendra promptly goes and slaps her. Just then a Kaal sanik enters holding Gyanesh by tail and throws him in front of Kumar.
Kumar- So, you had take the baby to the safe place. Now tell me, where is she otherwise, I will be forced to murder you.
Gyanesh- It's better that I die, as I won't tell where is the baby.
Kumar kicks Gyanesh in guts. He winces in pain but is smiling at the same time. This angers Kumar more and he starts beating Gyanesh. He beats him to this extent that Gyanesh dies in his arms.
Kumar- NAAAHI!
Shalini's eyes tears up. But Shivendra smiles and mentally thanks Gyanesh for saving their daughter.
Shivendra- (laughing) See, now you lost the only source of information to reach our daughter, now what will you do?
Kumar eyes flares up.
Kumar- Put them in Darkest part of Karagrah, now.
The soldiers do as they are told.
In Shesh Van,
The peacock reaches in front of commander-in-chief, Shibi's house. She gently places the baby infront of the house and leaves. The baby soon starts crying. Listening to the crying, Shibi and his wife, Swarna come out of the house. They notice the child kept in front of their house. Swarna picks the baby in her hands.
Swarna- Arrey, who left this cute child over here?
Shibi- I guess this is Mahadev's blessing that we got the child. It looks like a boy.
Swarna- As he is the blessing of Mahadev, let's name him Shankar.
Shibi- That's such a nice name.
Swarna smiles and puts the face on her shoulder and starts patting his back to calm him down. Shibi notices something on his neck. He looks at carefully and sees a lotus surrounded by a circle which looked like Sudarshan. He immediately understood that he was royal family child. But decides not to tell Swarna about it, as there might be some kind of danger on him.
In Shesh Palace,
Just as Mahendra returned to the room, he got surprised to see his new-born not there, instead there was a note kept over there. He quickly picks up the note and reads it.
Nag-raj Mahendra,
I am sorry but I needed to take this step to protect your son from Kumarendra, the step-brother of Shivendra, and a Gulika Vanshaj. He had joined his forces with Nevala Raj, Vikrant, and when he heard that a son from your house who will be the divine blessing of Narayan and a Daughter from Shivendra's house who will be divine blessing of Adi-Shakti and Mahadev, will be his death, he decide to attack both of your kingdoms and kill your new-borns who were born at the same time. I got to know all this through Shani, Kumar's wife. And when I was coming towards your house, I saw him attack Shivendra at Nageshwar Mandir. Therefore I took this step. If possible forgive me and don't tell this to anyone as your child's life is still under threat.
Your friend,
Mayuri
Mahendra felt as if someone had taken his heart out of his body, but he could not break down openly. He needed to take care of his wife and kingdom. He quickly went to war-room and summoned Shibi.
In War room,
Shibi entered the room and saw Mahendra tensed.
Shibi- What happened Nag-raj?
Mahendra- How long does it take a army to arrive in Shesh Van from Nageshwar Mandir?
Shibi- Around 3 hours.
Mahendra- quickly make preparations for war as we will be attacked.
Shibi- By whom?
Mahendra- Gulika and Nevala Army.
Shibi understands the gravity of the situation, he goes to prepare the army.
After 3 hours,
Kumarendra and Vikrant attacked Shesh Van, but they lost the war as the Shesh Army was already prepared. They both quickly ran away from there, along with their armies.
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