"Go bring the horses here. We need to go to meet his majesty Raksheet. There is no one in this kingdom whom we can trust. The king himself is a murderer."
The soldier looked at him with wide eyes "What?! King Dhishva? Whom did he murder?" After a few seconds of silence, he understood everything and asked "H-His majesty Viraaj?"
Agastya nod "Yes. That's why we have to go to meet his majesty Raksheet and tell him everything and hand over this eye witness to him." He was talking about Shreyansh.
"What about princess Ira?" Ankush asked.
"King Dhishva won't do anything to her as she don't know anything. She is safe for now and Ajit is also with her. Nothing will happen to her." Agastya replied. He again turned to the soldier "Fast, go to sir Cabail's house and bring the horses. We have to leave soon."
The soldier nod and left from there to bring the horses.
After some time, the soldier came back with horses and they hopped on them with Shreyansh on Ankush's horse, infront of him. Ankush don't want to give any chance to Shreyansh to run away.
Shreyansh screamed in pain when Ankush threw him on horse, on his stomach.
"Don't scream. It's annoying." Ankush said, slapping Shreyansh's head.
"Be careful. He might try to run away." Vikram said, while Cabail was sitting infront of him on his horse. Cabail can't ride a horse by himself so he has to sit with Vikram and Vikram is afraid that Cabail may fall if he sits behind him so he made him sit infront of him.
"Don't worry." Ankush said and pulled out a dagger. He hopped on the horse and placed the dagger on Shreyansh's neck and made a small cut, making Shreyansh groan in pain.
"If he dares to try to run away, this dagger will decide what to do."
All of them chuckled and Shreyansh shivered in fear. A cold wind was blowing, making the temperature even colder. He was wearing thin clothes which were covered in blood. Vikram and Cabail were also in same situation. Their clothes were torn in several places and covered in blood too, making Cabail shiver.
Seeing Cabail shivering, Agastya went inside and brought two shawls.
"Here. Take it and cover yourself. It will be cold on the journey."
Seeing the shawl, Shreyansh tried to speak, begging for the shawl to cover himself but instead of shawl, he received one more slap on his head from Ankush.
"You don't deserve it." Ankush said.
Agastya went inside and bought one more shawl and gave it to Ankush to cover Shreyansh with it.
Ankush looked at him with unpleasant look and Agastya said. "He will die if we don't take care of him. He is already shivering. We need his testimony. Just do it."
Ankush clicked his tongue in annoyance and covered Shreyansh with shawl carelessly.
Agastya them hopped on his horse and said to the soldier. "You go back to the palace and inform Ajit about us going to Jwalana-Bayar border. Stay around princess Ira and protect her. If anything happens, take princess Ira and go to Jwalana."
The soldier nod and left from there. Others started their journey towards Jwalana-Bayar border to meet Raksheet and if needed help Raksheet.
Raksheet reached the border in the morning and found his army and family members standing there, waiting for Abel to attack.
"Brother!" Ahil said after seeing Raksheet coming towards them.
Others shifted their gaze towards Raksheet as well. He came towards them and stopped. He jumped down from his horse and asked while taking the binoculars.
"What's the situation?"
"They haven't arrived. But they will soon. I have heard that they asked some kingdom's to help them but everyone refuse but the most disturbing thing is that....he even asked emperor to help him and.... emperor has somehow helped him by giving some of his soldiers to Bayar for war." Ahil explained.
Raksheet clenched his jaw in anger that emperor is such a two face man, more wicked than the previous emperor. He tried to look at the border with help of binoculars to see if Abel's army is arriving or not.
Ahil looked at Raksheet and asked. "Where is king Dhishva? Did he refused to help us?"
Raksheet nod in disappointment.
"Raksheet." Aakarsh said, approaching Raksheet for a hug.
Raksheet looked at him confused and asked worriedly "Grandfather, what are you doing here? You didn't need to come. We would have managed." He hugged him.
Aakarsh hugged Raksheet tightly and said "If your grandfather can go one war then why can't I?" He broke the hug and cupped Raksheet's cheeks "And I have to participate in this war as that Abel is trying to harm my sister's family, her kingdom. Being her elder brother, it's my responsibility to protect her, her family and kingdom."
Raksheet smiled at him and nod. Aakarsh's son and grandson also approached Raksheet and hugged him.
"Nice to meet you, your majesty." Jitesh, Aakarsh's son said.
"You don't call me that uncle." Raksheet said with a smile.
"How are you brother? It's good to see you again." Pratik, Aakarsh's grandson said.
"I am good. Sorry brother, I dragged you in this war." Raksheet said.
"Hey, it's about my family too. You are my family, my brother. Don't say that."
Soon they heard the sound of horses coming towards them. Raksheet looked at the direction of sound with binoculars and saw Abel and his army coming towards them.
"Take the position. They are coming." He said and gave the binoculars to Ahil. "Take your swords out!" He shouted, hopping on his horse and they went towards the border.
The war begins now.
Ira woke up to birds chirping outside her window. She looked around to find her husband but the chamber was completely empty. Thinking that may be he went to meet her father or something else, she stood up from bed and went to take bath.
After taking bath and getting ready, she went out of her chamber to search for her husband as she know he won't leave her alone for such a long time after what happened yesterday. She is completely broken by Viraaj's death and she know that Raksheet won't leave her alone in this situation.
When she stepped out of her chamber, she saw Ajit standing outside her chamber as if he is guarding outside her chamber.
He saw her and greeted her. "Greetings your highness."
"Ajit, what are you doing here?" She asked "And where is his majesty Raksheet?"