mahishmathi watches the future

chapter - 13

Scene shifts to

Kunthala rebels

Third pov

Avanthika POV

Avantika tells her friend the place where she took a nap. She says,"I dont know who it was, but im sure he drew on my arms when i was taking a nap, here."

She continues," Kashi, He will come here again. You should dress up like me and lay down here. I'll go climb that tree and i'll keep a watch on you. As soon as i see the guy, we'll catch him."

Kashi does accordingly and lays down near the river letting her one hand in the water.

And Avantika was waiting for the guy to show up. She was sitting on a branch of a tree,not too far from the river.

She kept waiting for him,but she didn't realise that he was sitting right above her.

Shiva POV

Shiva smiles at avanthikas attempt to catch him and takes out a box where he trapped a baby snake. Without making any noise, he takes out the baby snake and let it slide onto Avantika's shoulders.

   Avantika stood still as she felt the movement of a snake. The snake crawled towards the arrow.

      Her full focus was on the snake and how to get rid of it. Meanwhile Shiva takes out his paint brush, and starts drawing designs once again where the tail of snake was moving.

     With her being distracted avanthika  again did not noticed the touch of the paint brush as she thought it was the movement of snake's tail. She then pulled her arrow and shot to the front.
     The snake went along with the arrow. She looked up to see where it came from, there was nothing. Shiva has already escaped.

When bahubali saw this he was send into a laughing fit.

Avantika comes down and meets her friend. They both say that there was no sign of the guy they were looking for. Suddenly Kashi notices something and says,"Avantika, look at your shoulder. He was there somewhere near you!"

Avantika was shocked to see designs on her shoulder. She told Kashi to stay and Avantika left to find the guy. She walks out of the forest. The area was snow covered. She sees marks of footsteps and follows it. Among the tree she sees Shiva under a shelter sitting beside a small bonfire.

        She pull her arrow against the bow and shooted at the tent he built for himself. Shiva immediately ran from that place and hid behind a tree. He slowly turned his head and smiles as he sees Avantika.

To the people of the past watching their young princes attempt at wooing his beloved was hilarious

Avanthika shoots another arrow which hit the tree in which shiva was hiding behind. He runs and hides behind another tree and screams,"Are you trying to kill me? How about a hello?"

Avantika shouts back,"Who are you?"

Shiva turns around and starts walking towards her and starts talking,"That's how you start a conversation! My name is Shiva. I live in the Ambali village and- "

Avantika shoots an arrow at him again, but Shiva bends immediatly.

As Avantika tries to shoot more and more arrows, Shiva runs towards her, avoiding the arrows and then finally hides behind a tree near her. Shiva saw a trap hole beside him and he expected her to fall in it. Soon he heard a sound of someone falling.

       Shiva turned around smiling as he believed Avantika can't attack him anymore. But she wasn't there in the trap hole. He turns around to see her holding a sword pointing towards him.

Avantika clenches her teeth and says,"What do you want?"

"Nothing, i climbed all the way from Ambali village to here"

Avanthika replied angrily "Bullshit. Only Lord Shiv can do that"

"Exactly I am Shiva!"

Hearing that, Avantika tightens her grip.

"Tell me honestly! Where do you belong?"

Shiva replied slowly "Okay i'll tell you everything. But first tell me who you are."

Avantika remained silent. Shiva continued,

"Serious face, eyes full of anger, blah blah blah. I dont want to know the outside. Who are you inside all of this? ......I'll tell you. You are a girl. And I'm a boy. And i am here to give the love you deserve"

Hearing this people began to laught loudly. Mahendra had a small smirk on his face.

Hearing this Avantika gets more angry and she tried to attack him again but before knowing, they both falk down and roll down the slope. They finally reached a grassland. Avantika manages to get up while Shiva holds her hands and quickly removes the knots of her jacket and pulled it out with one move.

    Avantika was left with just a blouse and a long skirt which she wore as a pajama pant. Without even realising he removes the knots tied at her waist letting her skirt open. While fighting, he makes her walk towards a small waterfall.

  It cleaned her muddy face. She looked more beautiful than ever. While turning back to fight again, she stops as she sees her own reflection in the waterfall. She was shocked to see herself beautiful than ever.

Avanthika remembered looking at herself a day before. She was disappointed back then. Today, she felt beautiful. She felt like that for the first time in her life. She turns back to face Shiva with teary eyes. Shiva was playfully hiding his face with her mask.

She says,"This mask... i accidently dropped it and it fell down the waterfall.... You really did climbed the waterfall? For me?"

Shiva says,"Yes, i wanted to see the smile behind this mask.... speaking of which, i haven't seen it yet!"

Avantika started crying and hugged Shiva tightly. She never felt loved by someone, like this before.

After hearing this kunthala king cursed himself believing to be the cause f it. But was assured by avanthika that he was not the cause.

 
Avanthika asks shiva,"How did you know belonged to me?"

"I saw every one in your rebel group with masks. And yours was missing", He winks.

Avantika smiles at him, she knew she fell for him. Shiva did too.

They were madly in love with each other already.

And soon, they made love love to each other beside a beautiful waterfall.

Suddenly the past devasena asks mahendra to come to her . when he reached her she suddenly catches his ear and pulls it while scolding him for not respecting her future daughters in-laws personal space.