Ravanan

Chapter -21

** At the third village**

The deciduous trees were completely wiped out in rain and new vegetations covered the wound of the fallen trees becoming the next generation of verdants. The water made it's way into the forest, rushed to mingle with the river. The rulers of the sky fluffed up their water resistant feathers and began their journey. Ants successfully protected their queen and its eggs. Now it's time for them to conquer the lands and populate. The wasps emerged out from the dead woods after long sleep. It started luring large insects , killed them, laid it's eggs on the body and burying it on the soil. The rain elevated the temptation levels of frogs and toad making them to sing their croaking love song and romanced around the forest.

" Let me go you stupid", Bindhu cried in a rough voice and swinged a tree trunk around Ravanan who were dodging it with a joyful face and enjoyed to be with her.

" Her we go again. Don't they two have any other works to do . This has became their routine. ", Kaali complained about those two to Raj who relished on seeing the bright smile on his brothers face.

Bindhu's hair and her heavy breathe caressed his body. Her brown eyes , her body's natural aroma , her perfectly curved body and the appealing looks of her made Ravanan to go crazy everday on her. He tried to resist himself , but she slowly lodged in to her and entirely occupied it with the thoughts of her.

Bindhu slipped on the wet rocks and grazed her pale white hands. Her sweaty body and wet clothes revealed more than it should. Ravanan asked the woman to treat her and the smile suddenly vanished as he approached his brother who was waiting for his arrival.

"I have the feeling of this isn't going to end well ", Kaali expressed his thought.

Ravanan ignored him and asked ," What happened to the police team? Are they still coming after us? ".

Raj replied that they were still after his fiance and said that they were camped in a nearby place. Ravanan asked Raj to shift everyone quickly.

"We need to shift today night itself . By tomorrow Ragav will be here to rampage the village. Take all of our people and send them safely to the next vil.......Did you heard any sound ? ", Ravanan asked his brothers who were seriously listening to him.

" Yeah it came from the village", the three brothers understood that something wasn't right and rushed to their villlage and noticed the place was in chaos. When the brothers approached the place further they noticed a large group of policemen swarmed the village and beating everyone. They rampaged the place, broke their pots and asked them about Bindhu and Ravanan were. Ragav secretly planned to ambush the village at night time before they escape. He left some of his soldiers at the camp to trick Ravanan's men and silently rushed at night time when no one notice.

Ravanan could see more officers were emerging from the dark and their act triggered the angry face of Ravanan.

" Ravana ! Where are you going ? You are already injured. It's not good to get inside the chaos ", Raj grabbed Ravanan and pulled his back.

Ravanan freed himself with a light push and said," Don't worry brother. My life won't end here."

He thundered in the dark of the chaos and kicked some of the officers and went inside his crude and grabbed his trident. "Bindhu ? ", a loud voice approached the place.

" He's here", Ravanan analysed the owner of the voice and signaled Raj to do something. Raj threw some pieces of wood into the fire and suddenly the entire place was covered in smoke. All of his men did the same and the officers blindly swinged their sticks in air. They didn't even had a clue about what was going on. The voices slowly disappeared in the woods.

When Ragav reached the place, all he could see was white smoke , empty crudes , cattles running around and the bright golden fire . He shouted the name of Bindhu and there were no sign of reply but only a sound of a man laughing.

" Who is it ? If you want to laugh, come out and laugh in front of me", Ragav said as he traced the sound of the laugh. He saw something laid on the tree and jumped on it. He inflicted his own weight on to the thing. When he leaned his head forward, he found it was a scarecrow doll stuffed with grasses. He stood back and noticed his body was covered in some kind of oil.

"I like that frustration, loneliness, disappointment and everything on your face. Look at you ! Your large muscular arms and shirts were glowing", the voice echoed from another spot. Ragav recognised the person and realized the slippery oil was petrol found in the deep wells of the forest.

Evil laugh of Ravanan echoed everywhere in the forest. Ragav dashed to get away from the place engulfed in fire. The removed his jacket soaked in the oil and threw it in the floor.

" Sir ! He is over here . He is jumping from the tree top and moving frequently to confuse us. Now he is standing at the tree behind your back", Bala climbed the tree where everything appeared clearly without any smoke and he kept updating the exact location of Ravanan.

Ragav turned towards the tree and fired his pistol by pointing it above the top. He began to shoot blindly and some of the bullets slightly grazed Ravanan. He jumped to another tree and Bala updated the location to Ragav. Ragav moved to that side and saw blood droplets falling from the sky . He started to shoot ferociously and Ravanan jumped from that place too and vanished. Ragav asked Bala to locate Ravanan. But Bala's response vanished too and the silent filled the place again .

Ragav started to roam around the forest without knowing where to head. He felt like he stepped on to something big and fell on the ground.

There he saw Bala laid on the ground helplessly with a bloody wound on his forehead. Ragav called out for the officers help and the heavy sound brought Bala back to consious and he stated ," Ravanan suddenly started to move fast and vanished from his eyes and I lost the sight of him . But a hand closed my mouth from behind and smashed my head into the tree. He pushed me from the tree. What an i***t am I ? He is really the king of this forest it seems", Bala chuckled with a sore throat.

The officers carried away Bala from the smoke and closed his forehead to prevent the blood loss. The evil laugh started to fill the place again. Exasperated Ragav loaded his pistol and followed the voice . The voice stopped and Ragav lost his way. The final words echoed in the forest was," It's not your time yet. I want to see more of your anger glowing. Until then..... Keep roaming".