Rudra - The Spark of Justice

Chapter 8

Varsha came to her home and got horrified seeing the broken door and scattered items. She heard a voice from behind, "here are your items mam, we got the thieves, just come for a formal report when you have time today" he said and went off, and the neighboring woman came and told in a low tone ensuring the cop went away "an unknown guy dressed in black caught the thieves... not these cops" she said and turned back, leaving way to Shiva who stood behind with a broad smile. The broken door tried to close with a loud 'thud' as she went off inside without any response.

Shiva went inside silently opening the door and took his clothes with him. He then got down to the street when suddenly a dove sat on his shoulder. He took the bit of paper tied to its leg which read, 'it takes u a week to come back for ur mistake, so do not come again' and he heard a familiar voice behind, "come back soon, what are you doing with strangers" she yelled at the dove. The bird took off again to its owner. He smiled and went off. "He went off... see how bad he is... when will he understand that am missing him? Wait, why should I miss him? Tell me" said she, looking at the bird that stood comfortably in her hand.

He was setting ideas to his next plan of action in the public at he was doing the pull-ups on the blind spot in the hilltop. None of the ideas that cane up at that instant were implementable. He felt that they were too cinematic.
It was two weeks since the first appearance to public and he was waiting for another opportunity. Sitting on the Bean bag, he was rolling the Lens ball in his palm, that he bought recently. Jeeva called him up for a government press meet held by event organizing team that Varsha owned. The plan was simple, Varsha would come and Shiva would convince her somehow. Shiva felt it was a chance to hit two targets if he moved the pawns rightly to get the attention of people and media.

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The meet started and In a few minutes, it was going in a boring manner on the third floor for all but Shiva, who was busy searching for her amidst the huge crowd. It was a huge well aerated building with large sliding windows and neat curtains. The windows were sealed as it was an air-conditioned hall that was nearly a hundred and fifty feet in length and breadth. After a short search, he saw her sitting on the front row. Jeeva was busy in maintenance as Shiva took out the mini petrol can he had in his pocket and held it partially out. He poured it slowly down on the floor and went towards her from the electric box, reaching the destination. He saw her, gave a smile and sat in a seat beside her as the man in it went off somewhere. She turned her face away and looked at the speech. The man came back again in a few minutes and Shiva gave him the seat as if he was going to the restroom. Inside, he heard two men talking "the plan is ready, we can burn the floor easily". 'What?' Shiva got alerted as he ran to the hall and smelled the floor all of a sudden, 'freshly mopped white phosphorous'. Sensing his plan gone dangerous, he shouted up "everyone run away, this floor is mopped with white phosphorus and there are men ready to ignite it" the crowd started murmuring and a man came from the restroom and shouted, "Yes we are" and kicked Shiva out through the window. Breaking the sealed glass Shiva fell down, One of the men closed the hall's door from outside.

Varsha was petrified at the sight. She ran towards the broken window but was stopped by a henchman who pushed her back into the crowd. Only tears could roll down her cheeks as her feelings were curtailed.

The man inside lighted a matchstick and put it down on the floor and jumped off the broken window with ropes. The ropes were set on fire as soon as the men landed on ground.
The floor burned ablaze with heat as the people got panicked. Some of them ran towards the stage while some of them stood on their chairs hopelessly. Suddenly a fully black suited man, except for a triangular screen of fire on the chest, came inside through the window. He ran over the empty chairs from one side to the other side, which had long upright columns of unused chairs. He pushed them down vertically, facing towards the windows. He commanded the men near the windows "tear down the window curtains and let them down. As the men took up chairs to break the windows, the glass flowed behind them like running water, making the windows open. The people were astonished. The glass that flowed from It, got accumulated together at the center of the hall above everyone's head, controlled by Rudra. It became a cup shaped cavity. The people came back to their senses and stood upon the bridge of chairs letting the long curtains flow down. "Ten young men go down first". Jeeva and Varsha felt the voice was familiar, but were less on focus as Shiva fell down already.
'Is he an idiot? Everyone lets women and children out first in situations like this!' she thought to herself. Some men got down.

"Get some ladders or whatever to help women, children and others to get down safely" he shouted again.
She understood his thought now. Since the curtains weren't long enough, it would be inconvenient for women and old people to get down. The crowd got cleared slowly as old people and children were evacuated first. With his cup shaped vessel, Rudra transported some children to the ground safely. He couldn't manage much weight. Some localities gathered up and helped in the process. Media covered up the area before the fire department came and started its work. But the fire didn't seem to reduce as petrol was poured on some places. The plastic chairs got molten slowly and the slow-moving people were lifted by the man in Black and dropped near the window.
All the people were evacuated soon and the man in black jumped out last with the glass cavity changing into a surf board like structure for his temporary balance. The cameras went on to focus on the man of sensation. "You have saved nearly a hundred people and some important VIPs, who are you sir?" asked a reporter.
"Am Rudra" he replied, pressing the SOS button in his smartphone. "Can we consider you as a superhero sir!?" she asked and he said, "of course I am" and got on to his bike which came unmanned. He then went away from the place with a strong throttle. Varsha looked all over the place, but she couldn't find Shiva anywhere.
She immediately made him a call, but he didn't answer the call. She rushed to his home and made calls along the way, but he didn't pick up. She went to his home, but it was locked. So, she decided to come back after some time.

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