CHAPTER 3: THE SILENT REVENGE

As his final year semester is about to come on May, Akhil readily takes his assignment and project reports to his college, in order to submit it to his professor.

While travelling in his bike to Peelamedu, an unknown stranger tries to attack him by blocking his bike. However, Akhil manages to chase him out. After a few minutes, he starts his bike, coming back to the senses besides, having a doubt about the stranger.

He reaches the college and gives his reports successfully to the professor. In the break time, Akhil gets a phone call from one of his friend Rahul Harikrishna.

He tells him, "Akhil. Come to Ukkadam Bus stand immediately da!"

"Why da? What happened?" asked Akhil.

"You come da. I will inform the rest, later on" said Rahul.

Akhil rushes to the spot, which was told by Rahul. There, one of Akhil's school friend Shiva is lying dead. Panicked, Akhil goes near to him. But, he is stopped by the police.

"Sir. Please leave me. I have to see him" said Akhil.

"You can't go there pa. That's an accident spot" said the Constable.

While sitting sad in a place, Akhil gets a sudden call from an unknown caller.

He attends the call.

The caller tells him, "Hello."

"Who is this? Yes. Tell me" said Akhil.

"Asku maaro, aska maaro....looku vitta world uh maarum..." said the caller.

"Hey. Who are you man? Why have you called me now?" asked Akhil.

"Calm down, man. You have saw the accident spot and your dead friend. Didn't you see any other thing like written paper or like such?" asked the stranger.

Akhil goes and meets the Constable.

He asks to the Constable, "Sir. Did you find anything from Shiva in the spot?"

"No pa...nothing was there" said the Constable.

Hearing this, the stranger tells Akhil, "Hey young blood...it's in Shiva's left pocket."

Akhil asks the constable to check Shiva's left pocket. The pocket consists of a small paper, showing the word "Oolf's tame"

Akhil gets confused upon seeing this word and now the stranger tells him, "Akhil. You will understand who am I, days later. But, first find whether Shiva really met with an accident or committed suicide."

The stranger hangs off the call. Later, he proceeds to his college and recollect several of incidents, that are related to Shiva. But, nothing comes into his head.

At that time, Akhil is tapped by someone behind.

"Who is that, yeah?" asked Akhil and he turns back.

"Surprise" said Varshini, in green sari and with a white and cheeky face, wearing a spectacles...

"Oh! Come Varshini. Why came and tapped my shoulder all of a sudden?" asked Akhil.

"For so many days, you never dialed me. You became busy with final year exams and stopped spending enough time with me...Are you a real lover da?" asked Varshini.

"Calm down dear. I have became quite busy with studies and a few problems, recently. That's why I forgot to spend enough time with you" Said Akhil.

Varshini tells him that, "She knew what happened and Rahul have told her everything, including Shiva's death."

"Varshini. I suspect something wrong. Shiva was not killed in an accident. Something is frishy. Can you see this note?" asked Akhil and he hands her that note to her.

After she noticed it, he tells her, "I didn't even show this to Rahul. I am showing this to you at first...hoping for a better answer."

"What do you think about this word Oolf's Tame, Varshini?" asked Akhil.

"I heard about wolf. I heard about team...it represents animal and groups, respectively. What's this Oolf's Tame? Would it be a word representing the word fearless?"

"No. That's meaning for Tame. But, before that it had been told Oolf. I think it's a jumbled word" said Akhil.

"You mean to say that, the words have been jumbled together" said Varshini.

"Exactly the same. Actually I found this out, when a stranger informed me about this" said Akhil.

Varshini is informed about the stranger by Akhil, the attacks before a day and she realizes that, the matter is quite serious.

"Akhil. I think it's quite serious. We have to be much more alert. I think the stranger have some motives. Let's investigate faster about Shiva in Ukkadam" said Varshini.

He agrees and meets Rahul. He claims that, he was okay and cool, even before the accidents. None of his friends told anything, that's suspicious.

Finally when Akhil is leaving, he suddenly recalls about Shiva's close friend Moulish. He alerts Varshini about this. With her help, he reaches his home, located near Peelamedu.

There, Akhil asks Moulish about any suspicious activities of Shiva, before meeting his death. He initially, doesn't recall anything. As a Henceforth, Akhil leaves from the house.

But, suddenly he recalls about the call from Shiva, a day before. He told to him that, "Someone have been following him for the past few days."

He calls Akhil and asks him, "Where are you da?"

"I am now in the College hostel da, Mouli. Anything important to tell me" said Akhil.

"Yes da. It's quite important and useful clue. I will come immeditely" said Moulish.

He takes his Ranger 360 Bike and manages to reach Four roads. As he was travelling towards Aravind Eye Hospitals, traffic arises.

The traffic confuses Moulish and he loses temper due to the numerous of vehicles. As he is going on in the traffic with his bike, he falls down from his bike accidentally when he looked his gear, down.

He gets severely injured, after being thrown to the other side of the road. After a while, he leaves a sound shrill and dies on the spot.

Aftermath, Akhil is informed about the accident and he reaches the spot with Moulish's parents. Again the same stranger calls Akhil telling him, "Akhil. I think you have lost your other beloved friend."

"Now, what are you going to tell? Should I check his pocket?" asked Akhil.

"No no...go to the Internet website and search this word, "Borg's actatk."

But, it relates to movies and another case, when he searched the word.

"Who are you man? Why are you sending me these clues?" asked Akhil.

"Wait Akhil. You will come to know the answers, when time comes. Until then, be quite...bird's opening have a lots of time to go on...game begins now" said the stranger and he hangs the call.

Akhil is dejected with Moulish's loss and consoles his family members, after accompanying them for the cremation.

Later, Varshini comes and meets Akhil with his father Lawyer Paramasivam, who wished to see him. The duo have a reminiscence about their memorable days...such as how Akhil lost his mother and how he had been raised by Paramasivam as a single father....

While discussing these things, Paramasivam comes up with the chess game, that he played with one of his friends in the house. In addition, telling that he got defeated. Because, he followed some tricks in winning the game. Akhil takes it light-hearted.

At that time while they are discussing, Varshini asks Akhil(after seeing a photo in her phone), "Hey Akhil. Do you remember Nisha?"

"Which Nisha?" asked Akhil.

"Your 8th classmates. Have you forgot?" asked Varshini.

Akhil thinks a while and asked her, "Yeah. I remember. Why did you remind me about them at this time?"

"I have saw a photo, that was sent by your friend Rahul. He have told that, this photo was took, when they studied in 8th. Shall we meet them both? You too used to tell about them a lot, right" said Varshini.

Akhil goes upset and sadly goes back to his room.

"Akhil. What happened? Why are you going to your room without telling anything?" asked Varshini.

His father Paramasivam tells her, "Because he is unable to give a reply for the question which you asked him, ma!"

"Why uncle? What happened?" asked Varshini.

"Both of them are dead, a few years back. He is trying to forget about the incident and you reminded him about it, again. That's why he had left from the place, back to his room" said Paramasivam.

(He opens up the incidents, that have took place, a few years back.)

Akhil's mother Ramya died after delivering him. I was upset and cried a lot...tried to commit suicide too...

But, Akhil gave a glimpse of smile at me. For his sake, I raised him up and as he came to my house, everything came for me...the successful office, popularity and a good image as lawyer.

As I became busy with my hectic time schedules, Akhil didn't find anyone, spending time with him. In school days, only his friends accompanied him.

At that time only, entered Nisha, when he was in 7th std. She was a good, kind-hearted but, a quick and short-tempered girl. They both became friends. Again, the next year, Lavanya entered and completely changed his life to lead a happy and jovious life.

Later as I got transferred to High Court of Madras, Akhil changed his school to Erode BVG High Schools, staying in the hostel. I shifted to Madras.

He studied well and scored good marks. But, the problem is his friends pulled him tk social networks like Facebook and Instagram.

I Initially, warned Akhil not to go into the social networks. Because, it's always dangerous and might put him into troubles...

However, he assured me that nothing would happen like such. Everything was fine until, he goes to his friend Rajiv's house during the tenth leaves.

There, he used his Instagram account in Rajiv's phone and eventually, Rajiv leaked the account to one of his friends. Some of Akhil's friends like Siva and Moulish were vengeful and anger against him.

Since, Akhil have been a threat to several of their bad activities and became a reason for their suspension from school, on multi-basis. Eventhough, they were friendly, they waited for a right chance.

Unfortunately as they shared the accounts, Shiva and Moulish grabbed the opportunity and eventually chatted with Nisha.

They used abusive languages and furthermore, took her photo, a screenshots. They sent her the morphed nude photo and threatened to leak it into the YouTube in Akhil's phone....

Angered, she blocks them and furthermore, commits suicide by consuming cyanide. This angered Akhil and he bashed up Moulish and Shiva, entering into the house. However, they told that, "It was just for a fun, they did like this and didn't do it for serious."

"How cool are you saying like this, you idiots? Because of your playful attitude, Nisha's parents also committed suicide da. Her brother Sandeep is now in Hyderabad as ASP. What answers would we give him now da? Will he let this go, that much easier?" asked Akhil and beats them up again.

He ends up their friendship, in almost. But, I stopped him to do like such telling him that, "Atleast learn now that, social networks are always dangerous. Forgiving them itself is a big punishment da. They would repent a lot for being responsible with this incident." He was friendly with them.

But, unexpectedly they all gets killed in an accident. However, we both suspect someone being responsible for the attacks.

Paramasivam requests her to keep Akhil happier. Because, he is very happier and joyful since, she is there with him at every means and every time.

She agrees telling him that, "She too was happier for few days after Akhil entered into her life. Since, after her mother died, she doesn't get a good and happy life...she was happy because of him."

Later, Akhil returns to the seats and reminds about the chess game told by his father.

He asked him, "Father. You told some tricks about the chess game! What was it? Can you come again with that game?"

"I lost the chess game with my friend for the first time da" said Paramasivam. When he asked to his friend, "how was you be able to win the game? What tricks did you follow da?"

He told him three things: " Fool's Mate, Grob's Attack and Bird's Opening."

"What do you mean by Fool's mate uncle?" asked Varshini.

"In order for Fool's mate to be performed, White must move their g-pawn up two squares and their f-pawn up one or two squares in the first two consecutive moves. These two moves fatally weaken the e1-h4 diagonal, which Black can move their queen to after moving their e-pawn on the first move.

This is called Fool's mate for a reason—White must make two foolish moves in a row in order for Black to conduct this checkmate" said Paramasivam.

"Grob's attack means?" asked Akhil, recalling the same jumbled words, that he saw in Shiva and Moulish's pockets after the duo's death...

"Grob's attack is one of the few openings that can allow Fool's Mate on move two if White misplays. This checkmate could have been easily avoided if White had played the normal Grob's attack move 2.Bg2—the checkmate above is just another reminder to keep your f-pawn at home at the beginning of the game.

If you are going to move your g-pawn early to fianchetto your light-squared bishop, maybe try moving your g-pawn to g3 instead of the g4 square. We will be seeing the Fool's Mate pattern more in this article" said Paramasivam.

"Then, bird's opening means uncle? Is it like opening a bird from the cage?" asked Varshini.

"Not in exact. But, closely it's related to bird's release from cage. Bird's Opening begins with 1.f4, which takes space in the center and controls the e5-square. Unfortunately, this move also weakens White's kingside. As we have learned many times now, moving the f-pawn early in the opening is a dangerous idea. If Black is aware of Fool's Mate and isn't afraid to gambit a pawn in the opening, then this awesome queen sacrifice checkmate can occur in only six moves" said Paramasivam.

Akhil now scraps the jumbled words, sent by the stranger and confirms that, "The stranger have linked the chess tricks and is now targeting the king(since according according the game, these tricks are followed in-order to checkmate the king).

He now goes to Nisha's house and tries to learn some clues about the murders of Shiva and Moulish with Varshini also, accompanying him. At that time, Akhil notices the medals and awards received by Sandeep.

Varshini notices the targets set by Sandeep in a diary....holding the names of Moulish and Shiva...while the rest are not told in the diary...

However, to Akhil and Varshini's horror, Sandeep enters into the house. He sees him and they both comes and sees each other face to face, with angry red eyes.

Akhil hugs Sandeep and he too embraces him, after a small laughter and hugs.

"Akhil. What are you doing?" asked Varshini.

"Don't you see...I am hugging Nisha's brother" said Akhil.

"He was the one who killed Moulish and Shiva. I don't know, whom all he is going to kill...while, you are hugging him, besides knowing everything" said Varshini.

"After Shiva and Moulish, he is going to murder Rishikesh. What's there in that?" asked Akhil.

Varshini looks gazed.

"Why are you looking gazed Varshini? Are you doubtful how Akhil is speaking like this? He is the mastermind behind these murders...Let me tell you briefly" said Sandeep....

(Goes as a narration by Sandeep)

I finished the cremation activities of Nisha and his parents. After hearing that, Akhil had been responsible for Nisha's death, I kidnapped him as well as his friend, Rahul.

Rahul begged me to spare their lives. Since, they didn't knew that, "The account would be leaked and create these kinds of problems."

But, I was ruthless still more. Then, Akhil had told me that, "He too had the same pains for Nisha's death. But, doesn't able to do anything since, those two are bigwig in the society. In further, he have found out that another guy Rishikesh have leaked the nude photo of Nisha in the social network, besides Shiva and Moulish."

Akhil came up with the idea to kill Shiva and Moulish. But, none of them should be caught by the police. Henceforth, he asked me to pretend as the strange caller, giving clues and divert the police from the case's attention. After completing 12th grade, he closely stayed with Shiva and Moulish and observed their moves, waiting for a right chance to kill them.

After making plans for two years, Akhil planned to kill them both on the eve of the third year. Since, they could have several dreams in their mind and he wanted them to die, sadly lile Nisha...we executed it perfectly...

For this, Akhil's father also helped us and managed to evade the investigations, by bribing few big politicians. I threatened Shiva for a few days in the phone. He was killed by me in a car(when he was going towards Ukkadam Bus stand). But, we made it look like an accident. Before Shiva was killed, I staged a drama by sending a stranger as to kill Akhil...

Later, Moulish informed Akhil that, he is coming to Akhil's house and he killed him by hitting his backlight with an iron rod(in the traffic, due to which Moulish looked back)...henceforth, he falls back to the to other side of the road and got killed.

(Narration ends)

"Finally we are now going to kill Rishikesh by pouring him the cyanide in his mouth with an injection" said Akhil.

"Akhil. Taking the law in your own hands is a punishable offence" said Varshini.

"If taking the law into our own hands is a punishable offence, then leaking an account too is offense. Because of those two guys, my sister lost peace. Because of him, I lost her and my parents. Where have the law went those times? Did anyone took notice of this? Because, they are all influential men. Akhil. Until she tells us, let's don't kill him. She is also like a sister for me. Just wait a minute!" said Sandeep.

"Ok brother" said Akhil.

"Social media are always dangerous ma. Not only social media like Facebook and Instagram. Even our own phone is a threat, in this present technology. Guys like these are using the technology to their advantage. Not for good things. But, for bad things like having sex, taking nude photos, etc. These kind of people's dead would instill fear in the minds of people, who try to spoil the life of a women. I won't force you. As a girl, think for sometime and tell whether this guy should be alive or not!" said Sandeep.

After thinking a while, Varshini tells, "Brother. Like Nisha, another Nisha shouldn't die. For women's peace and to instill lessons in the mind of people, who try to misuse social networks, this guy should die brutally....kill him to death."

"Superb Nisha. You have proved as a true women now" said Akhil.

"Brother. Now shall we take the direct revenge? So far, we took silent revenge only..." said Akhil.

"Sure da..." Said Sandeep and they enters into the room, where they have tied up Rishikesh.

The guy have regained consciousness and he tells to Akhil, "No Akhil. Please spare my life da...please."

"Nisha died because of you all da...could you bring her back to this world again? Because of you all, several women like Nisha would have to suffer...so it's better for you to die" said Akhil and he injects the cyanide...with tears from his eyes....since, he is killing his own friend.

Rishikesh looks at him, with a painful smile.

Akhil falls down and cryingly tells him, "Why did you do like such da? Such a cheap activity. Because of you, she died da...I considered you all as my own family...but, you all betrayed me...I didn't feel like to kill you at first...but, I killed you because of Nisha..."

"Akhil. I would reach hell if I still more didn't realize my mistakes. I have been a reason for Nisha's death, brother. I am sorry" said Rishikesh, falling to Sandeep's feet. Later, he dies with bloods coming from his mouth....

Akhil have tears from his eyes...unable to control his emotions, he goes and stands in the wall...at the same time, the police officer, who investigated this case finds out Sandeep linked with the case and goes arrest him.

"Akhil. You and Varshini go away from this place" said Sandeep.

"Why brother? What happened?" asked Akhil.

"Police is coming to arrest me...if they find you, then you would get caught. Please..go away from here" said Sandeep.

Akhil is shocked upon hearing this and confronts Sandeep.

Now, he tells him, "He parallely used his another phone and threatened the police officers. They didn't stop the investigation and continued it undercover. I have to linked with this case, due to my Sim card."

Sandeep realizes that the police have almost surrounded the places....to save Varshini and Akhil from them, he takes his gun and pretends to hold them as hostages...

He asks them to move off, threatening to kill both Varshini and Akhil(which he pretends to do so).

Left with no way and none moves back, Sandeep shoots the glass, back to police officer's head. Threatened and as an act of self-defence police shoots Sandeep dead.

Later, when the media people asks about the case, the police officer tells, "Social media have been a huge threat to several children and youngsters. Sandeep is a victim of such networks. His family killed themselves due to Sandeep's younger sister. He became mentally unstable and killed the people, responsible for the cause of his sister's death. As he tried to kill two innocents, we shot him dead. My kind request to all parents. Please don't allow your children to use mobile phones or social networks. Because, they all are taking a silent revenge against us..."

He leaves from the place. While Varshini and Akhil sadly leaves back to their house. After two days, they finished their final year exams and get married under Parmasivan's blessings, after a few days.

Three years later, Akhil and Varshini are running trust in the name of Sandeep with Rahul, supporting them. They are taking care of the children, carefully...being cautious at every point of time...