The Next Epic

Work work and Work -Pari

The Aacharya came out of his hut, moved quickly towards Vish, and said, "Hey boy!! I know that you people are not here to serve me, what I intended to build was a team.. for that, you people have to work together for the same objective. Hence, start working."
Said so he went inside his hut.

That's when Vish got an idea, he said, "Let's divide the work, one group will build the house, the second will build the fence, the third will cook.."

As expected, Aadi and Aditi were in charge to build the fence, Pav and princess went to get food, and I was supposed to build the hut along with Vish.

Princess transformed herself into a serpent and Pav sat on her. They departed for the forest then went to the nearby village. The rest of us went to the forest to get wood. After a while, we managed to get an ample amount of wood. Aadi and Aditi started their fence and we started building our house.

After 4 hours, our house was completed.
Even the fence was ready and so was the food...

We called Aacharya and served him the food. After our dinner, Aacharya summoned us. He said, "Students, we shall start the training from tomorrow, you are not allowed to use your holy weapons here, instead of those holy weapons, I'll give you these unenchanted weapons. Preserve those holy weapons for the battle. Train with these normal ones. At the end of you training, Pandavas will come to asses your progress. You people have to make your training worth it. It's late, for now, go take a rest. Tomorrow at sharp 5:00 am, your training will commence. Here take these clothes, you are supposed to wear them for training. Do not wear your casual clothes for training."
He gave us some old traditional clothes. After giving us these unenchanted weapons, he went inside.

Princess also departed to her hut and so did we...

The next day at 5:00, we all were outside, wearing those traditional attires of dhoti for the boys and some kind of a saree for girls. As a fact, these were comfortable attires for a battle. Aacharya came outside and started, "Students, as per our culture, you should offer respect to your weapons, after doing so, I'll give you instructions that you people have to follow.."

After the prayer, Aacharya, "You guys should always be on time for the training, i.e. 5 am. Until you are on my island, you have to wear these clothes for training compulsorily. Before we begin, let's have a mock duel. Anyone can challenge anyone with any weapon. But there must be not a single drop of blood fell on the ground. Who would like to challenge whom first?"

There was an awkward silence...

Aacharya: "Well then, the princess shall decide who will fight with whom and with what weapon."

We all looked at the princess, she asked Aditi to combat with Vish using bow and arrow.
Vish couldn't even tie the sting of his bow. Seeing the failure, she asked Pav to combat with Vish using a mace...

On one side, Pav- a well-built guy who was a master in wrestling. On the other side, a teen who's touching the mace for the first time, it's obvious that Pav won. Next, I was called on combat with Aadi using a spear. Spear is my area of expertise, hence I had an easy win. Next Aditi V/s Aadi using the trident. To be honest, Aditi wasn't the master of the trident, but still, she won and I guess I don't need to explain the reason. Next, it was ME v/s Pav using the sword. Now, this was a very tough match but I won. TO summarize,
Me- 2 Wins
Vish- 0 Wins
Aadi-0 wins
Aditi-2 wins
Pav 1 Win

Seeing the poor performance of Vish and Aadi, Aacharya instructed them to do intense workouts before and after the training. This means that both had to wake up at 4 am, Jog the entire forest, do heavy workouts in the forest, come to training, again intense training then after training, they had to swim 10 Kms to the next village and get rice.

In the training sessions, Aacharya had said that we had to master all the 5 weapons and so to start with, we had to master the spear and its training will go on for a month. So for one month, it was just spear and nothing else.

The same thing repeated for a month. At the end of the first month, we all were experts in the spear.

So, the Aacharya called for another friendly duel,
Pav v/s Me- I won,
Pav v/s Aadi- Aadi won
Aadi v/s Vish- surprisingly Vish won
Vish v/s me- surprisingly Vish won again
Aadi v/s Me- I won

We all were impressed by Vish's performance. His behavior was also changing slowly. He had become more serious, more fit, more concentrated in training. Impressive!!