Balkhand days

The visit

Ram sat on the ground. He had made a tent for Gurudev where he could rest. He was gripping the bow and suddenly it made him think of his brothers. He recalled the incident.

*the incident*
It had been quite a tiring day at Gurukul. They had vigorously practiced the art of archery. Young Ram however, still wanted to practice a little bit. He took out his bow and as he strung it, it broke. The five year old incarnation of Vishnu started wailing. His brothers ran to him and consoled him.

The next day as soon as he got up, the brothers had made a beautiful bow! There were some beautiful carvings on it. His younger brother's faces were beaming with sweat and pride. Ram hugged them only to notice the wounds dripping.. he quickly tied the cuts with a cloth and thanked them.
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His happy thoughts and nostalgic memories were disturbed by a ghastly looking monster coming towards him..

He got up suddenly and reached out for his bow but, he just realised that he left his arrows inside the tent! He must not disturb Gurudev so, he wondered what he should do. He grabbed his bow and went towards the terrible creature.
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Meanwhile in ashram:

Shatrugan lay on his bed alone. He was bored and clearly missed his brothers.. Bharat baiyya was now the eldest in the ashram so he had some responsibilities. He had gone to check on everyone and talk something with Guruma.
Lakshman baiyya had said he had some work to do and ordered Shatrugan not to follow. He complied and just sat there. He had been quite tearful the whole time..

Bharat baiyya came, smiling. Shatrugan politely got up.

"Hello Shatrugan.. Where is my Lakshman?"

"Umm..."

"What?!"
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Ram just realised that he had a small pocket knife. It was not as good as a sword but something was better than nothing.

He stabbed it on the monster's toe and to it he yelled in pain and shreaked. Now he quickly ran up to the tree right next to him and leapt from it. He ended up on the monster's and dug the knife into his neck..

The monster 10 times his own size, tried throwing him down. But Ram quickly moved on him. He was about to kill him when...

An arrow from nowhere came and shot the monster dead. Ram was surprised on how well and precisely whoever ever that archer was, shot. He wanted to know who it was but cut the idea off his mind. He could not possibly leave the tent unguarded just in case.

He sat down on the bark of a tree, sleep suddenly closing his eyes. He just lay there asleep when suddenly a pair of hands was caught pressing his feet. He woke up and adjusted his eyes to see who it was.

"Lakshman?!"

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