Temple of Life

Moon Palace

Emperor moon was sitting on the throne carved with transparent jade. Moonlight was coming from moon shaped hole from the back wall Illuminating the throne.

"Now is the best chance to get the hold of sun Dynasty that we have been longing for from the long time". Emperor Moon said to the person standing in front of him.

The person was bare chested with the visible scars on his whole body showing the experience and the training that he had gone through. He had the big build and muscular body and was giving the fearsome aura like the hungry beast. There was a giant axe on his right hand from which the blood was dripping dying the floor in red color.

He was the previous Commander of the Moon Dynasty that lost to the Commander Vajra and then went to the forest for training. He came back after 10 years and had become the Grandmaster in the art of fighting with gaint axe. He was given the nickname of wolf.

He gave a faint smile " Now we have two grandmaster and victory is already in our hand we should directly attack the Sun Dynasty and start the full scale war."

Moon Emperor also had the same thought and he gave the orders to prepare for war.

Sun Palace

Shiva was reading the history of Sun Dynasty and all the upheals that it had gone through. Sun Dynasty was only a mid tier dynasty but due to its geographical advantage it had never been defeated. It gave birth to the many Emperors that were respected and feared by the neighboring dynasties. Suddenly he heard the knock on the door. He got up and opened the door.

Emperor Sun came in and told him to follow him. He silently followed his father. They took a horse and Shiva sat on the same horse with his father. They went through the city , the villages, they even went to the huts, the lake , the mountains and then his father took him to the peak of a mountain also called mountain of life. There was a small temple on the top called the temple of life. It was empty inside and had many holes in the circular order from which sunlight was coming inside. There was no floor only the natural sand covered with green grass in whole temple. They sat down in the middle of the temple.

"What did you see" his father asked.

Shiva was immersed in this whole trip and the purpose of it. He was confused why did his father bring him for this trip.

He described what he saw to his father ' from city life, to village , to the lake and the mountains.

His father again asked 'what did you see?'

He had no answer this time , he had already explained everything before.

His father was very patient and after waiting for 10 min he told what you saw was the life. From the city to the village , from lake to the mountain everything had one thing in common that was life. The sand , the water ,the trees ,animals ,human everyone is filled with life and we pray to the sun that gives the life to every being. So is built the temple of life. It has no statue, no god, no priest only and only life.

"Non killing is in accordance with the temple of life but if these life that you saw has been threatened by some greedy people what will you do. What will you chose ?"

Shiva was baffled by this question and after some pondering he answered " I will fight to protect the people , I will kill to protect the people from selfish people.

"Then why didn't you kill the tiger" his father asked.

"Who am I protecting by killing a tiger and what right I have to kill it when it has not provoked me. I think it needs protection too."said Shiva.

His father was surprised by the wisdom of the 5 year old boy. He was also questioning in his mind " what right do I have ".

Meanwhile...

Two scouts were lurking in the border of sun and moon dynasties when they saw that the large number of birds have flown away from the forest at moon dynasty boundary. They climbed up the watch tower and what they saw took their breath away.

There were 20000 soldiers fully armed coming towards the sun dynasty behind them were 5000 elite cavalries. There was a gaint black chariot behind and there were 2 large elephant on its side and each one had a person giving the feeling of master and grandmaster.

Scout's immediately took out the fastest pigeons to sent the message to the capital.

"Moon dynasty is coming for the full scale war".