Jishnu's bones began to snap, crackle, and twist violently with loud, terrifying crunches! His arms and legs began shrinking and receding inward, vanishing completely into his body under an uncanny magical force! Within seconds, his fair, aristocratic skin was covered in coarse, thick, greenish-black, and yellow circular scales!
Jishnu's face elongated and flattened out like crushed meal; his eyes froze into fixed, feline orbs glowing with a sinister yellow hue, and a massive, flickered, split-red tongue darted continuously from his mouth! Before anyone's eyes, in a matter of mere seconds, the five-foot-tall Jishnu was transformed into a fearsome, lethal, twenty-foot-long, gargantuan python!
THUD!
The monstrous python crashed heavily onto the damp stone floor of the dungeon!
Having turned into a monstrous python, Jishnu could no longer utter any human words; only a spine-chilling, raspy "Hissst... Hissst!" echoed from his mouth. Thrashing madly on the ground, he coiled his massive body into loops, writhing in agony.
Unable to speak in his serpentine form, Jishnu was weeping and screaming inside his mind in sheer horror and panic—
'Oh Lord! Good Lord! What has happened to me, Mother! Where did my arms and legs vanish to for real? I've turned into an ugly, rotten python coiling on the floor! Scales have sprouted all over my body! Oh Lord, I couldn't imagine even in my wildest dreams that this old tantrik possessed such deadly, fiendish magic inside him! Messing with him was the biggest mistake of my entire life! I must never talk back to him ever again! What do I do now? Am I going to spend the rest of my life coiling and writhing as a snake on this filthy floor?'
Witnessing her groom-to-be, Jishnu, transform from a living human being into a terrifying, monstrous python right before her eyes, cold sweat trickled down to Snigdha's feet! Her hands and legs froze completely cold, and her heart pounded violently in terror!
Snigdha collapsed heavily onto both knees right before the iron bars of the cell. Joining her palms in desperate supplication, she burst into tears.
In a tearful, pleading voice, Snigdha cried, "Oh Tantrik Boudi! Oh most revered Boudi! Please, have mercy and spare him! Bring him back to his human form, Boudi! I fall at your feet and beg for forgiveness on behalf of that uncouth Jishnu! He didn't understand, he is an absolute foolish dog! Please show supreme mercy, Boudi, turn him back into a human like before!"
Meanwhile, seeing a living human being turn into a twenty-foot monstrous python in a split second, Sushila's heart trembled in terror inside her cell! Her palate dried up completely like wood, and she began swallowing hard repeatedly. Sushila had already been trapped as a crane-bird in a cage due to this very tantrik's magic in her past, and today, witnessing a flesh-and-blood human turn into a lethal python right before her eyes, she retreated in sheer horror, shrinking into the farthest corner of her room! Not a single sound escaped Sushila's lips!
The sweet princess Prabhasa was also deeply terrified by this fearsome sight. Stepping forward with joined palms, she said, "Tantrik Uncle... please spare Jishnu Jamaibabu! Please turn him back into a good human being like before!"
Holding up his ghaghra with one hand, the tantrik distorted his face hideously and snapped, "Hey, sweet girl! Why do you keep calling me Uncle, Uncle? Can't you see my supreme, handsome form? Call me 'Boudi', got it? Call me Boudi!"
Biting her tongue in extreme fear, Prabhasa stammered, "Um... my mistake, Boudi! Please fix Jishnu Jamaibabu, Boudi!"
Seeing everyone trembling in fear of his dark spells and begging frantically for mercy, the tantrik's vanity and anger cooled down somewhat.
Tossing his chin up, the tantrik said, "Very well! Since you are all begging with joined hands, I shall restore this wretched, foolish brat back to his human form!"
Saying this, the tantrik raised both hands in the air once again and uttered a fierce magical chant—"Om Punashcha Manava Roopam Bhavatu!"
With a loud, booming "THUD-BOOM!", a dense cloud of smoke erupted, and in the blink of an eye, the gargantuan python vanished! And Jishnu, half-dead in his human form, crashed heavily back onto the stone floor!
Having regained his arms and legs, Jishnu's chest was still heaving in violent panic. Like a lunatic, he began touching his hands, legs, cheeks, and nose to check if all his body parts were intact.
Now in absolute terror and with a trembling body, Jishnu got down on his knees and looked at the tantrik. The very Jishnu who was mocking him as an 'evil old man' just moments ago was now flatteringly addressing him with utmost reverence and humble honorifics out of sheer terror!
Bashing his forehead repeatedly against the floor in deep bows, Jishnu cried out, "Oh Lord! Good Lord! You possess such deadly powers? Such infinite magical might? Apnamoni... you are truly a living god! Ten crore bows at your lotus feet! Forgive me, Apnamoni, my supreme reverence to you!"