THE SELECTED ONE : Tale of Amaravati

THE RITUAL

Time passed like the wind...., in the reddish sun light Andrews' sword shined like a star. He wiped out the blood and put the sword back in its case, and he looked at Amaravati.., she seems like a queen with shining diamond crown. He started riding horse towards the fort, which closed behind him just before some hours ago. The cloudy atmosphere and setting sun made cover for him.

The city square was busy with priests and their helpers. The huge piller in the city square was decorated very well and around that wooden blocks were placed. Everybody seems hurry with their own work.

Nathan Mc Andrews stopped his horse on the midway, and started walking to avoid the attention of soldiers on the fort. He waited near the rocks till the moon comes out. But the night was preparing itself for the upcoming terror. Andrews started walking in the shadow of darkness. After an hour of walk, he reached near the fort.

The security on the fort seems loose one that night. It made him happy and confused simultaneously. He took out a rope with claws from the bag and throw onto the top. After a little try he felt happy, because of the claws that are stuck on the top of the fort. He started climbing up slowly like a spider. His effort finally came to success.

In that cloudy night, he stand on the top of the fort and looked at the city center. The visual of the city square took his attraction. The entire people of Amaravati was there, and they were chanting some mantras, on the piller, the sacred twelve year old boy was tied up. Time passed by..., the chanting rised more and more loudly. In the end of chanting, Mahaguru set up fire on the wooden bricks around the pillar. The fire started growing bigger and bigger. It jumped onto the boy who chained on pillar.

"No..... cheaters... hate you all....!"

The boy blabbered along with scream and fire. Andrews was unable to move or make any voice. He was drenched in fear.

"Who is that.....?"

The sound from nowhere came to Andrews' ears. Suddenly he turned and get down through the rope and started through the thick darkness. The sound of trumpet on the fort made his heart beat more and more.

"Bloody Indians.... Fucking human sacrifice......"

He blabbered himself while running.
Suddenly the clouds started smiling and crying. In the flash of lightning he realised that the path was wrong, but he decided to go as far as possible from Amaravati. Small raindrops fall on him like a bullet shot, but not enough to stop his legs. He started to climb the mountain. The pocket torch with him guided the man through the rocks. He stopped behind a big tree and looked back, but was unable to see anything through the darkness. But the blowing trumpet was enough to make him more scarier.

The rain came to the ground with it's all force.

TO THE TOP, LET THE HUNT BEGIN.....!"

He ordered his henchmen.

The light he saw on the mountain started to move to the other side of the mountain, but the movements were too slow than a tortoise. Suddenly the light stopped and started walking towards the village. The villagers suddenly stopped and hide under the trees and behind the rocks. The rain looks like it has no other night to rain. The light suddenly fell on the ground and started to roll towards the village and after a big roll and slide the light faded in to the darkness of the valley. After a long time of wait another team of guys came down to the villagers those who were hidden behind trees and rocks and they whistled loudly. The men behind shadows came in front of them and saluted each other. The team from the mountains holding a man, looks like at his fifties and the guy were screaming very loudly of some pain. One of his leg were like a sack and the head was bleeding very badly.

Both team together took the man on shoulders and started walking towards the village as fast as they can, but the rain slow them down.

" Oh... God please kill me........! I regret about my curiousity.......! I don't want any shit. I can't take this... FUCK.....!"

Andrews prayed in a tired sound. They looked each other for some time and one of them clutch his broken leg and started to torture him. He cried like a child.

" YOU WILL SUFFER FOR YOUR EYES, YOU LITTLE RAT"

The guy who clutched Andrews' leg said very angrily towards him again. He saw that guy's face in a fraction of lightening, a black face with scary cut mark was on it and anger reflecting eyes made him silent. Desperately he looked into the sky and there were only darkness, lightning and thunder. The continuing rain was really disturbing him, he closed his eyes tightly and prayed; to reach these people's destination as soon as possible. But the villagers became slow and slow as the journey progresses. It wasn't their problem ; they also wanted to reach the village as soon as possible. But all Gods were against them at that night in the form of rain and its companions. The rain turned the soil into mud, and the travellers took too much effort on their each step. But they didn't seems like to take some rest. They tried their maximum to reach there and finally a small smile came on their face. At some distance far they saw the entrance to their village. A village, circled with huge wall and only one main entrance to the east direction, with a big gate made of some unknown metal alloy. The lightening from the clouds made the gate shine more and more. That shining gave them the exact direction to their destination, like the star in the sky shows way to Capitan.

Suddenly the wolves started to howl from the three sides of the villages. The howling sound get higher and higher, the sea also was too violent. The howling sound made the guys a little scarier.

" TIME UP.....?"

" NO ONE MORE HOUR REMAINING...!"

A guy looks like the leader's reply made the crew members a little tensed. After a few steps the leader said

" RU.......N........."

Everybody started running after hearing that. The man on their shoulders started moaning in pain. Andrews turned his head a little and looked back, there were nothing, only darkness and a grunting sound of some kind of animal was just behind of them.

"OPEN..........."

But that shout wasn't enough to open the door because of the rain. The guy took some creepy thing on his hand tried to light it, but all his try was just nothing in front of the Act of God. Sometimes man can defeat God..., at that moment it happened; he lighted it and throw into the air. That creepy cracker gone to a height and exploded with big sound and extreme brightness.

After seeing that signal the gate keepers on the top of the wall gave alert signal to the others. The archers quickly took their positions to shoot and awaited for the order. Another troop took positions to turn the lever that opens the huge gate. Everybody was too tensed and weather made them very anxious about the situation. The leader took an arrow with fire crackers and ignited it. He aimed it to the air and fired. And he anxiously kept his eyes downwards. Suddenly the arrow explode and the land was like a full moon day.

"OPEN THE GATES......!"

Commander ordered. Villagers turned the lever with a huge effort.

"FIRE.........!"

After hearing that order the arrows on the hands of archers disappeared into the darkness and after a little time a huge moaning sound heard. That sound made everybody frozen like the ice.

"FIRE AT YOUR WILL...!"

The second round command was from the fear inside the heart. But the creepy moaning sound became low and low a long distance.

" STOP. IT WON'T BE BACK, BUT KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN WIDE."

The commander gave the new order and left barrack. Same time the soldiers and villagers from the mountain came in with white guy on their shoulders.

" SHUT THE DOOR.... AND GAVE THIS GUY A GOOD TREAT."

The commander smiled at Andrews like a devil and lead them to the hospital.

The great doors of AMARAVATI closed behind them.