The Cursed Shell

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There was nothing new in what Brute was reading. He had already read the manuscript, translating each and every line with complete attention. Krystene was there with him. Whatever he read, he translated it to Krystene so that there was no way of missing something.

He was on the sixty-fourth page, which showed the devotion of Raavan for Lord Shiva. Although Raavan was a demon who kidnapped Goddess Sita when Lord Rama had gone out for bringing a golden deer which attracted Sita, and is also the main antagonist of the most read Hindu epic, Ramayana, he is considered to be the greatest devotee of Lord Shiva.

The page described the time when Raavan wanted Lord Shiva to live with him forever in his city of gold, Lanka (present day Sri Lanka). But Shiva denied as this was not possible. As the Tridev has the responsibility of the whole world, and living in the city of gold, far away from those people who needed his help, would not be wise for a God who is a part of the Tridev. This would have stopped Shiva from doing his duty towards the universe.

So Raavan decided to lift the entire Kailash mountain, where Shiva lived, and bring it to his city of gold, so that he could live with him forever. As Raavan was powerful enough to lift an entire mountain, he picked the Kailash mountain. But as soon as Shiva got aware of this, he got angry, and pressed the mountain by setting a foot on it with a huge force. This force pushed the mountain Kailash down and now Raavan's hands were sandwiched between the ground and the mountain. Raavan felt an incredible pain, as anyone could imagine when their hands are stuck between the ground and an entire mountain.

Then Raavan was suggested by other Gods to sing a song for Lord Shiva to calm him down as Lord Shiva is very fond of music.

Raavan started singing a very beautiful song which described the greatness of Lord Shiva for Lord Shiva. This song came to be known as Shiv Tandav Stotram. This song mostly describes the dance form called Tandava performed by Lord Shiva whenever he is angry. That is why this is also called the dance of anger.

Brute loved this song. Although he was never able to learn or sing it because of its fast rhythm and complex terms which seemed much like tongue twisters. This song is actually very soothing and is very popular among the Hindus.

Brute tried to speak a few of its lines aloud to Krystene. Of course, not in the rhythm or perfectly pronounced.

"Jatatavigalajjala pravahapavitasthale,

Galeavalambya lambitam bhujangatungamalikam,

Damad damad damaddama ninadavadamarvayam,

Chakara chandtandavam tanotu nah shivah shivam."

Then he translated it to Krystene. "Saluting the great Lord Shiva, whose hair is as dense as forest, and throat is wet by the flowing water of the holy Ganga; the snake Vasuki is resting around the neck of Shiva like a long garland. Damad-damad-damad  is the sound of Damru that describes the passionate dance of the fearless Lord Shiva."

Then he continued reading further.

Dunkirk was marking arrows on the walls towards the direction where the three walked so that they do not lost in the maze.

"Now this corridor seems new," said Dhawan as he could see the corridor's cameras still not disabled. "I didn't come here."

They walked further in the corridor, until came an entrance of a room in front of them. They entered the room and saw the one responsible for all these happenings, standing there at a corner of the room near a semi-domed structure beside a table with Devaant on it.

Dhawan, soon after seeing Josh, raised his spear to throw at him.

"Dhawan," Josh said before Dhawan could throw the spear, "you will have to put that spear down if you don't want to be responsible for the fall of economy of hundreds of countries all around the world."

Dhawan crossed his eye-brows but didn't perform any action.

"You all must be knowing what this is," Josh picked a grey coloured remote-like thing with a black button from the semi-domed structure. "This is not a walkie-talkie. This is TeE, a device powered by the satellites of the site called CoFFe. This was created by NSA in 1987, but now it is available in almost all the intelligence agencies. This is generally used for sending messages from one agency to another, but my brilliant mind has used this to contact the best assassins across the world. Now the question is - how did I get this? Every agency has some holes in it, and some of such holes are in my contact. And these holes were the people who informed me about the tracker inside you, Dhawan."

Dhawan now lowered the spear.

"And now Dhawan, all those messages of mine for the assassins are saved as drafts," Josh said, "and with a single click," he hovered his thumb on the button of TeE, "the American assassins in Pakistan, the Chinese assassins in India, the Indian assassins in the UK, and other countries, will be notified with a message of assassinating the major political leaders of several countries within five minutes."

All the other three had their eyes opened wide.

"I don't have any intention of doing this, Dhawan," said Josh, "but you will force me to do so, if you don't put that spear down."

Dhawan turned his head down, and unwillingly, left the spear.

Josh grinned. "And as I had promised, I will prove you that whatever written in the manuscript, is true."

Josh walked towards another table in the room, with TeE still in his hand, he picked a photograph and faced it towards the three. "See this."

The photo was an image scanned by high-tech radars. It showed a crater on the sea-floor in the shape of a gigantic turtle.

"This is the proof, Dhawan," Josh said, "this radar image is of the place which is just a few metres away from this tower. The milky ocean and a gigantic turtle. Both at one place! What else proof do you want that the Samudra Manthan happened here?"

"This is fake", Dhawan immediately stated.

"No it isn't", Dunkirk said in a low voice.

Dhawan turned towards him with his eye-brows crossed. "What?"

"Yes, Dhawan," Josh continued, "this is why he is here. As CIA was aware that the event of deaths of the scholars is somehow related to this place. And not only this, even other agencies like RAW, Mossad and ISI are aware of this fact! And I also got to know this from those holes in the agencies"

"This isn't possible," Dhawan was still in a great shock. "Why didn't RAW tell me about this?"

"Because you are not a permanent member of RAW," Josh told him, "you cannot be trusted."

Dhawan was feeling weak now. All of his atheism died at once. 'HOW THE HELL IS THIS HAPPENING?!?'

"Now you would agree that I am going to perform the biggest crime till date?" Josh grinned. "Just a little more. We have to wait for the sky to become clear. There still are some clouds in the sky. And in the manuscript, it is clearly written that the shell needs to be blown under a clearly visible full-moon, but it's not necessary to do it under a roofless sky."