" Goodbye...boys.." said Amora as she began tightening her grip...
Both of them tried to move their body but they had no strength in their arms...they could feel the force she applied increasing....
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" GOOD.. NIGHT... " said Hakai in a painful tone and Amora disappeared in the air....it was night...the Sun had finally set....
Both Hakai and Indra were on their knees...they slowly laid down on the snow looking at the night sky , gazing the beautiful twinkling stars...they could still feel the pain in various parts of their body..but ..they survived....
"What exactly happened?" Asked Indra, his eyes still looking at the sky..
" Huhhh....she disappeared " replied Hakai he too gazing the stars...
" I know that IDIOT!" said Indra in irritation and threw a ball of snow at him...
" Hmmm..How dare you?...I don't know why she disappeared....I only know she always disappears as soon as the sun sets..." replied Hakai as he threw a bigger snow ball at Indra ...
" Huh....stop it... it's enough....My body aches like hell..uffff...." sighed Indra.
"You started it , you fool " replied Hakai..
After a short silence---------------------------they started laughing...they still felt it hard to believe they were alive....they wanted this moment to never come to end...the cool air brought comfort to their wounds , the fireflies increased the beauty of that place...
"How's your hand, I heard your bone break?" asked Indra looking at Hakai....
" It's okay for now..thanks to the rice ball...the healing medicine used in it is powerful....it can constantly heal your body for forty eight hours..even broken bones...but since we ate half ..it will be only twenty four hours....and we still need a professional treatment from a healer...." replied Hakai taking deep breaths from mouth...
"Wow...that is why I feel I can move my leg... I would like to meet the person who made these riceballs...and...thank him " said Indra..
" How long have you been in this mountain?" asked Indra rubbing snow over his wounds.....
" It has been almost..one week...we came in a group of ten....but only I have survived so far....our group leader was immediately killed on the first day...then she took other young members one by one with her...and I found their naked bodies next day.....the bodies didn't had any mortal wound...it was like if they were drained of their life energy....but what really creeped me out were the smiling faces on some bodies...it seemed they were enjoying their last moments....this all happened within two days...on the third day I found myself all alone until I met you today ...." said Hakai as he took snow and started rubbing his wounds like Indra...
"Now tell me about yourself...I told you everything about my situation...." asked Hakai in curiosity....
" I don't know how should I explain.... but for now...I can tell you I am a martial artist...I am on the journey to defeat the King...and when I entered this region after a long time...I had to fight one of his chapters that is Sura....I was able to defeat him but had to suffer drastically myself....after that I head towards the mountain in hope to find someone..then I met you" said Indra again looking at the stars....
" It's enough I don't want to know any further about you...there are many who want to defeat the King...everyone who were with me wanted to do the same..but be practical...right now we are having trouble defeating his subordinates..." sighed Hakai with sadness in his eyes...
" But..you sure are something who defeated one of them..." Hakai said with a light smile.
"I don't know about me but you sure are something to survive days in this mountain against that demon..." replied Indra he too smiling and taking deep breaths..
For sometime once again there was a silence .... but Indra liked this silence..it was comforting...it was not the same as when he was locked up....in this silence he could still listen to the light wind , noise made by leaves , the falling snow and the insects...how wonderful it was....
But now he heard a little different voice...it was from his stomach..he was hungry....Hakai too looked tired and drained...Indra pulled two apples from his pouch and threw one towards Hakai...
"Where did you get these from?..asked Hakai taking a bite...
" Before I entered the mountain besides What about tomorrow ? , Do you have any plan..? If only there was a way to defeat her.." asked Indra being cautious..
" You are still at it...our first priority is to escape...I know how you feel....when we all came here we all had the same goal of defeating her but...we miscalculated her power...I want to defeat her too...but...this encounter had taught me how weak I am..and..how strong I need to get...so I am definitely escaping from..here...and one day..I will come here again...and defeat that ...demon..." said Hakai with determination in his eyes....
" I understand you..but...you are so sure about escaping..Do you know something?" asked Indra in a doubt..
" I am not sure it will work or not but I do have a plan....listen carefully.... everynight this place changes....so creating landmarks in this mountain is futile...but there is a pattern in which this place changes...in the past few days I have understood the pattern and can predict the terrain of mountain for the next day....but that doesn't really solve anything....so...here comes a glitch...a glitch in the changing terrain....and that is...the top of the mountain.....no matter how the place changes between ...the top remains same....if we could reach there....I have a plan to evacuate both of us...uffffff...." said Hakai taking long breaths...
" What will happen if we reach there?" Asked Indra in curiosity..
" I will show you once we reach there..." replied Hakai.
" Why don't we go right now before it is morning..?" asked Indra.
" STUPID....I told you the terrain changes during night, if we start moving towards the top right now...we might end up elsewhere..."replied Hakai in irritation....
"And be close to me...we might get separate if we are too far..." Hakai told Indra...
"Okay ..okay...I understood but if we do this after morning we will have to deal with Amora" said Indra moving close to Hakai...
"Not this close idiot...make some distance....and yeah we will have to deal with her and that too before noon...because...the medicine will not be effective after that.....if we don't reach there before noon... tomorrow might be our last day ..." said Hakai....
"Then let us rest and get ready for tomorrow's test..." replied Indra...