Chapter 26
Grandma, grandpa, and Hazel were on the chariot moving to the shrine they always wanted to visit. Hazel's eyes were like dry puddles of tears which though wanted to bawl out but couldn't. They were gazing into nothingness, pale and yellow as if the yellow disease was taking over her. She felt impotent as if the fiend himself had planned to deceive her and Aidan's fate. The chariot looked like her coffin and she was like a corpse inside.
On the way to their destination, some kilometres away from the village, the chariot's left tyre twirled with a swing, flipped and detached itself from the vehicle. The vehicle got dis-balanced and toppled over to one side. Thankfully no one was harmed. This was like a boon in disguise for the smitten Hazel. As soon as the vehicle landed on the ground, she caught the opportunity to flee. Using her little brain she told grandpa, grandma,
"I will go to the nearest village and fetch a new vehicle, you may wait here until then."
Her grandparents nodded and soon Hazel was on her way to salvage Aidan, her soulmate. She has known him for the past three years but looked like she knew him for decades and will stay with him for eternity. Her legs took long strides and dragged her to the place where Aidan was decided to be hanged. Was it the end or was it the beginning to the very end? She knew nothing except her soul purpose to save Aidan.
After running about fifteen kilometres she could see her village some leagues away. She yearned for rest and water in that scorching toasted noon, but she raced with her all momentum. She was puffing heavily, sweat drops running down all over her facade. But, she had no time. It was flying from her hands. She was just begging the Almighty that Aidan is safe and alive. Nature also was experimenting with her love for Aidan. Prince sol was hostile today as if something unfortunate was going to transpire and he was expressing his anger to the world from those violent hot streaks.
She reached the bumpy, irregular street where most people are condemned to death. Her heartbeats stood abrupt because she had arrived at her destination armless and helpless. She saw a large mob of people huddled in the middle of the road. Subsequently what she saw trembled her to her core. A man, just Aidan's height stepped in, his complexion covered with a raven mask. He was wearing a red string in his hand, similar to what Hazel donned and that is when she recognized it was him.
Time was seeping like water and she had no weapons or techniques to protect him. She was not that brave to speak and save Aidan from the clutches of those demons. Without giving an additional thought she fled to the crowd. The crowd had only brutal, heartless men, and seeing a woman run into the crowd, their eyes widened. One of them came forward to interrupt her and gripped Hazel from her midriff. She strived but couldn't detangle herself from those giant arrow hands. Then she screamed, "AIDAN AIDAN"...
His face whirled from where the voice was coming and he understood that she was here to safeguard him, to bail him. With all his courage he propelled the men who were carrying him. He removed his mask and rode to the girl who was battling in the grasp of those cannibals. They were eyeing her like a hawk as if they will feed upon her once Aidan is lifeless. A loner green woman was never secure, neither in that era nor today.
As soon as Aidan reached out to Hazel, she felt as if she had encountered all her strength and vigour, she managed to elude those horrible hands and trotted purely to be enveloped by two protective arms. The two were now in each other's hold, safe and sound. They felt as if the realm had stopped and currently it was singly them all solitary to worship and admire each other. They could hear the articulations of their hearts like drum beats. The world appeared serene and merry for an instant as if it was rejoicing in their togetherness. The two flawlessly fit like jig-jaw pieces. Those few seconds felt like an eternity. A euphoria of emotions danced inside their bodies, the sky was also humming harmony in their ears. Before they could comprehend anything, a dagger came plunging from the left side, adhering the two concurrently in the same fork of love. Blood oozed from their mouths, Aidan's blood blending with Hazel's and together dripping down like the divine Niagra's of love, affection, longingness and paying tribute to those Young hearts who selflessly throbbed for each other in trauma, grief or joy. For the last time, they gazed into each other's orbs, for the last time they were cuddling each other tight, and for eternity they got entangled in the Knot of Love. They truly were Soulmates...
Hazel and Aidan served as the epitome of love. They were glorified as the example of unbroken love in every era. Fate had no peace, in every era the two kindred souls were reborn. In every era, they rummaged for each other, they longed for each other. They were futile in finding each other, in this huge race of humanity. Their attempts were as fruitless as searching for jewels in the mudy waters. The deeper they went, the more they missed each other in the abysses of the realm. Their endeavours were unsuccessful until fate conspired them to be born as Scarlett and Liam after twenty-three hundred years.
The universe was on their side and the uncanny love they had was once again on the path to unifying in the tangles of unbreakable holy bonds of love and life. The story which once commenced by Hazel and Aidan was now being wrapped up by Scarlett and Liam, the end being an existing wonderful fairy tale.
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