A Slave Who Became Emperor

Samyukta twisted and turned in her sleep, she was having a terrible nightmare, a woman, most beautiful, blue eyes . . fair creamy complexion, full red lips . . beautiful figure . . suddenly she turned into a black devil with red horns and white vampire teeth . . she was worshipping evil spirits . . she extracted babies from pregnant mother"s bellies and cut them into two . . most cruel . . then she saw a treasure, dark skinned people . . the evil woman was laughing maniacally . . she became the devil once again . .

Samyukta woke up . . her body was drenched in sweat . . she looked at Pinaka, he was peacefully sleeping . . that nightmare . . it felt so realistic . . she felt that in the morning she should consult the Raj guru about it . . she gulped some water down and fell asleep . .

In the morning even before Pinaka woke up, she went and spoke to Raj guru, she told him in detail the nightmare she has seen . . her voice was shaking badly when she was recounting how the evil woman sacrificed babies forcefully extracted from mother"s belly even before completing their gestation period . .

The Raj guru asked Samyukta to sit down . . he removed a scroll from his study, it was an ancient scroll with names of the planets, names of the stars ,sun,moon etc along with their celestial positions as per Hindu astrology . . he took out some sh.e.l.ls and placed them on the four corners of the scroll . . then he closed his eyes and uttered a chant . . as soon as he completed the chant, the sh.e.l.ls raised in the air and got aligned in a sequence . . each sh.e.l.l fell on a planet or a star . . then the Raj guru looked at the sequence intently and closed his eyes . . he opened his eyes and said, "the country would face huge crisis soon . . that woman would bring great doom to the nation . . " Samyukta looked shaken, she said, "Raj guru . . can we avoid this in any manner? " he meditated for fifteen minutes, Samyukta didn"t disturb him . . he opened his eyes and said, "there is a treasure . . a hidden treasure for which that woman is plotting . . she is being aided by a n.o.ble Lord . . we need to get help . . speak to Zaffar . . "

She didn"t waste any time, she had full confidence in Raj guru"s words . . she rushed to Pinaka, told him everything and said that they needed to meet Zaffar . . he asked Samyukta to stay back, she was adamant . . she said that she had a part to play in this . . she saw the nightmare . . it meant that there was a reason for it . .

Zaffar lost hope . . Mirza must have been gone for months . . the dark cells could break any tough soul . . he was weakened drastically . . he lost weight . . he kept muttering ridiculous words to himself . . it would take only few days for him to become completely mad . . then he saw light . . he couldn"t open his eyes . . he saw two figures filled with light . . angels came to take him away . . he fainted . .