10 Chapter 10 : The Royal court meeting.
Everyone standing there just stared at the empty space , Where just a moment ago Apoorva was submerging in a dark blue light , But now there were only quietness remain , and the people standing there could see only , the very high roofs and by hanging to the roofs the gem-encrusted chandeliers could be seen there.
Bali and Sugreev stand there with their mouths opened in surprise and puzzled at the same time , After a while standing there frozen just like that Sugreev started to cry .
"What ... What happened to mother?."
Vriksha was too staring up , but when he heard the voice of crying Sugreev , Vriksha sat down near him and while patting Sugreev's back , he tried to calm him down.
"Hey ... hey .. hey ... shhhh ... did you not hear her , she said she will be okay , And I believe in her , Do you not believe in her too, Sugreev ?!"
With eyes still full of water and still sobbing Sugreev replied ,
"Yeah... Uhh... Yeah I believe mother."
Vriksha patted Sugreev again and looked around the expression of everyone while thinking deeply ,
'Apsaras are called by this type of summon only ,When in some type of emergency or if there's trouble happening in heaven , I don't know what that is , but I think she will return safe and sound .... But for now I have another problem to take care of .'
Vriksha raised his body up and stood up , then in a very high tone he said.
"I know you all are confused , puzzled and astounded at the same time , After seeing this untoward incident and also a very strange incident , But don't worry , For now relax and ... After enjoying fully this ceremony , If you want ,You can freely leave the castle , "
Vriksha tilted his head to Chetanya,
"And as for , What I said before , The ministers and commanders please come to the royal court with me."
Then ,Vriksha looked at Bali and the other kids,
"You are the girl who saved Bali and Sugreev , Right?!"
"Yes , I'm Prakriti."
While placing his hand on Prakriti's head , Vriksha with a bright smile said that,
"I see , Prakriti ... You are a student of Mahsam school and you seemed like a responsible person , Can I leave both the Prince's in your care."
Prakriti while nodding her head
"Yes , Absolutely , Sir!!"
Vriksha looked at Bali with assuring eyes,
"Bali , take your brother and your friends to the garden , I will see you after finishing the meeting."
"Yes , Father."
All the three ministers and the three commanders started to leave the hall with Vriksha .On the other side Bali and his friends left the hall slowly walking outside .
The guests chatted a bit but after a while they understood it would be better to leave the castle for now.
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Inside the royal court , A throne was placed in a bit higher position , then the other chairs that were placed on the thrones left and right sides , facing each other , Vriksha sat down on the throne and on the right side of the chairs the three present ministers sat down leaving the other two chairs empty , And on the left side the three commanders sat leaving the one chair empty.
Before even sitting Vigr talked in a hurry.
"Just tell me what the news is..?
Vriksha looked at Vigr and chuckled .
"Oh , So you know?"
Vigr leaning backward on the nearest chair to the throne and gloating accounts of himself.
"What do you think , I wasted my whole life on doing nothing."
Vriksha sat down on the throne and in a very serious tone he talked ,
"Well ... The news is from .. Kosala kingdom's capital Darsana ... Five of our civilians are killed and one soldier is being held captive."
Slamming his fist on the corners of the chairs , Vigr angrily said that,
"Those ... puny humans ? , They have the guts to do something like that ."
Vriksha still talked in a very serious tone while grabbing his palms in one another and bending ahead a bit , That was showing his concern about this matter.
"Unfortunately , Yes ... and it seems behind all of this is , non other than Kosala kingdom's prince himself."
Silenced occurred for awhile in the court , Then Vigr aggressively talked ,
"If that's the case , Then we should get ready for war , Why are we having this useless meeting ?, Let's attack those scums now and erase them from the face of this earth forever."
Kesari took a deep sigh then talked while looking at Vigr.
"We shouldn't make hastily moves , Commander Vigr do you perhaps forget the Forged promise ? between the Adipuru race and humans , Our previous king promised the humans to protect them not to harm them , And why should we punish the entire Kosala empire for the mistake of just one foolish prince."
Vigr Denied Kesari's opinion in a more fierce tone and he talked nonstop ,
" Do you think that the lives of our people are expendable? What are you suggesting Kesari?.... do you mean , we just sit ideally here , while they can slaughter peoples of our kind , And what promise are you talking about , When the promise was made, At that time humans were weak , And they didn't had 'Shakti' , that's why they needed protection , But now humans have became more than enough capable , to kill us Adipuru with their newly found Mantra powers , And I'm telling you , If we ignore the fact that humans are growing stronger , In upcoming time they will conquer this world and we will be erased from this earth without a trace."
All of them looked at each other's faces for a while to think about what Vigr just said.
but on the other hand,
Agreed with what he said minister Maatanga nodded his head and said that,
"I believe what Commander Vigr is saying is true , In recent times humans are evolving faster , They even made weapons that can destroy Adipuru's 'Shaktibindu' and also in the west , the humans is started conquering other spice's Kingdom or even Empires."
Tikshana who was silently observing everyone's point of view for quite a while , Breaking her silence she said to Maatanga ,
"What you are talking about is true but , I think we as a civil beings should talk it out first , it could be possible that the King of Kosala didn't have any hand in this incident."
Maatanga, still in a mood to argue on this, with Tikshana, was about to say something.
"But..."
But he was stopped by Vriksha midway,
"It's okay ... I understood .. When I myself heard the news , at that time I had the feeling of... burning down that entire empire myself , So I can understand your emotions , uncle Vigr and Maatanga , But I made a promise to my father , that ...I will raise weapons not to harm others but only to protect my peoples , And now that the lives have been lost , And its possible they didn't mean to do any more harm , But if that's not the case , I will go myself and found the reason behind all this ."
Chetanya stood up in a clutter ,
"Are you planning to leave today sir , But today was the ceremony of the Prince's and tomorrow , they have their first day at school , I will go to the Kosala kingdom and check myself , why are you bothering with this matter when we ministers of this kingdom are here."
Showing his hand to stop Chetanya to talk further Vriksha said that ,
"Chetanya , If I don't go there myself , Then things will not go well for both Kingdom's ..."
And then Vriksha looked at Vigr with sharp eyes,
"Uncle Vigr , Do you have other plans after this meeting?"
Standing from the chair Vigr replied ,
"Oh.... Yeah , I want to visit your father's place of samadhi."
Nodding his head Vriksha turned his face to Chetanya again and ordered him ,
"Oh ! Okay then , Chetanya , I want you and the other three ministers who were absent today during the ceremony to come with me to the Kosala kingdom, And for the Prince's school matter .....,". Vriksha tilted his head to Tikshana and said ", Tikshana they are in your care ."
Bowing in respect Tikshana said in affirmative,
"Understood my king"
Chetanya asked to Vriksha with a surprised expression,
"Sir you didn't want to take Maatanga with you? He's called the mind of our Kishkindha kingdom."
Vriksha chuckled a bit.
"Well ,I think He should stay by uncle Vigr's side for."
Maatanga hearing this in a ado manner said that,
"Oh yeah... yes sir thank you ,
"Oh okay ,So then I will call the absent ministers."
The one who didn't say a single word in this entire conversation, commander Aditya , talked in a hurry while leaving the court.
Everybody started each other for awhile to process what Aditya just did , then they just laughed it off , Meanwhile Vigr curiously asked Kesari that,
"Kesari what are you and Aditya , well he just left but still ...what are the both of you planning to do after this meeting."
Kesari replied quickly that,
"I think The king will resolve this issue easily , So our plan is to go back to the fort's , I think we should not leave the borders without the commanders for too long."
An awkward silence occurred for a while between Kesari and Vigr , then they both chuckled and started to leave the court with Maatanga,
and the three of them left the Court while chatting on the way.
"Yeah ... yeah .. Kesari you are right , Commanders should be guarding the borders , Well enemy's always came from outside , Right?!"
"Hahahhaha... that's ridiculous.. if commander Vigr believes that ."
"Hahahahaha"
Now in the Royal court only Vriksha , Chetanya and Tikshana remained , They all looked at the leaving Commanders and ministers for a while and when they all could not be seen from the hallway anymore , The three of them (Vriksha,Chetanya,Tikshana) took out a deep sigh at the same time.
**sigh**
<Chapter 10>Ends
