Petrichor - Time Travel To Mahabharat Era

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"What? What are you saying, Duryodhan? Are you out of your mind?", Balram rose up and asked, astonishing Duryodhan. Dhritarastra rose up and shouted, "Mind your words about my son, Shreeman Balram! This is MY son you are talking about!". Balram retorted back, "Do you really think I care about who I am speaking with, King Dhritarastra? If you really care about your son's pride here, you should have taught him how to be intelligent beforehand!", they all soon got into a verbal fight. Duryodhan couldn't speak anything or couldn't even fight with them, as his mind was filled with what was about to happen now, if it wasn't for Arjun to interrupt. He would've gotten married to Subhadra instead of Arjun.

He looked at Vaishnavi, who was holding her head with her head, and looked like she was done with everyone. "Silent!", Duryodhan screamed, making everyone go silent and look towards him. He looked at Vaishnavi and said, "Anyways, Now that my Bride has eloped, compensate that with your other sister, Make Vaishnavi my bride!", and smirked. Shakuni joined as well, "Yes! Make your other sister the bride! Shreeman Balram! You at least can do this right?", he said and smirked but it died down as he saw that Krishna just entered the scene.

Vaishnavi, who was facepalming, started laughing out of nowhere. Krishna was glaring at him and Duryodhan and went to Balram and nodded his head, closing his eyes. Balram understood that he was behind all this and kept quiet, not speaking anything further. Vaishnavi continued to laugh, making Shakuni to get ick, "Hey, Yadav woman? What are you laughing at?". She said while laughing, "Haha! I- I can't believe how stupid the people are here! Haha! It's like, people don't get to make their own decisions!", and stopped smiling, glaring at Shakuni.

She continued with a fierce voice, "You really think that you demand me for being your bride, huh? You really thought that I would marry you? I? Duryodhan! Change your ways first! If you had come to me and spoke with me properly, I would have given some attention to it! At least some! Otherwise, Why would I even think about you? Huh?", making Duryodhan go wide eyed. He said, "I don't care! You have to be my wife! I only know that!". She laughed at his stupidity and said, "If you only know that, then go learn something useful, you filth brain!".

Karn interrupted, "Lady! Don't talk to my friend like that! Just listen to what he says!". She looked at him and scanned his whole existence there, "Hey Outsider! As I said, stay out of this! And I would not give a shit about your friend, why should I listen to him?". Karn went back humiliated again, making Duryodhan's rage go out of the roof, "Mind your tongue, Vaishnavi!". She retorted back, "You too! Duryodhan! Haa! One thing I wanted to ask! If you can't even touch me, how did you even think that you can marry me? Huh tell me? You thought you could touch me once you married me, huh? Let me tell you, Mr. Dumb brain! It doesn't work like that! If I love someone very dearly, they can touch me, regardless of marriage! And clearly, I don't love- what love? I don't like- tch tch tch! I don't even give a damn about you!".

Bheeshm stood up and said, "Putri! This is not the way you speak! And what your sister did is unacceptable!". She turned towards him and smirked, "And this is not the way you use your power to get any woman you want, And you are pretty experienced in that area, am I right Pitamah? My sister likes someone else, and if you forcefully make her marry this dude- You know how consequences were with one certain woman!". He held his head down, still feeling guilty about Amba. She turned towards everyone and screamed, "Everyone, OUT!!!!", and stormed off the place, leaving Duryodhan flabbergasted.

Balram ordered his soldiers, looking at Duryodhan, "Make arrangements for my sister and her husband's arrival! Now!", and left the place. Duryodhan just hit a plate of kumkum with his leg, which fell into the hawan's fire, and left the place cursing everyone, with his brothers, friend and uncle following him.

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Vaishnavi was showering flowers at the couple, who were getting wedded with a blank expression on her face. Arjun wasn't able to concentrate on what he was doing, he was just looking at his first wife. But, he couldn't betray the girl who came to him, trusting him, so he finished the marriage without breaking down. He was totally ashamed at what he did to Vaishnavi, the one thing she asked from him, he couldn't do that. So, he decided to respect her decision about him.