Chapter 3

"They keep coming don't they.. Huff.. huff" Lucian grunts.

Drenched in blood, dragging a body to the gate.

"Cough… How many more years will you keep this up, old man? The henchman exclaimed

"As much as I have to.."

(Front gate of the campus)

"Apudiya, well shit. Then you guys itself bring him i'll be back after I piss"

"Got It boss!"

"Aye listen up! Hand over your kid pavitrine to us and no one will get hurt!"

"Huh what the he-" Mavale drags Pavi before he could finish.

"No time to think, we have to hide."

They move into the classroom and lock the door.

Suddenly the school was in a state of panic. Thugs in lungis stormed the school, there were about 40 of them and all of them armed with Aruvals ( billhook knives ). They start searching the classrooms and when dissatisfied with their findings, they take a teacher as a hostage.

One of them grabs a teacher on the edge of a knife.

"Ya'll heard me! Get the boy out before things get bloody! I'm not joking!"

(meanwhile inside one of the classroom)

"Pavitrine! What is this all about! Why are they all looking for you!"

"I- uh don't know.." he says.

"What do you mean you don't know! These guys are killing people to get to you! I really don't want to die.." says DuPudding while sobbing.

"Listen here, I really don't know who they are and I don't know why they are looking for me. They are probably mistaking me with someone else. Once they dont find what they are looking for they will go away."

The classroom was full of scared students. They were confused and horrified, just a few moments ago everything seemed fine. They were having the time of their life, studying in the most influential school in Chennai they thought everything was going to be okay. But then the thugs came, it all happened so suddenly that they had no time to prepare mentally or physically. There was Cuck Hoose there too, her was separated from his friends and had ended up here.

He was anxious and was looking around the room when his eyes caught pavitrine talking to DuPudding in the corner of the room. He gets up and runs towards him aggressively and holds him by his shirt.

"You fool! We are all in trouble because of you! We should just hand you over to them, that's the only way we're getting through this" He yelled at his face.

"Cuck just listen to me i dont-"

"Stop talking to you piece of shit!"

*SMACK*

Cuck Hoose punches Pavitrine in the jaw and he falls down with a loud thud.

"STOP IT CUCK!" Mavale yelled.

"We shouldn't be fighting now, it's not going to help us in any way!"

There were a few seconds of silence in the classroom. DuPudding stopped crying and was looking at mavale in front of Hoose.

"Even if he has something to do with all of them I don't care.. If you want to get out of this situation alive then be quiet and hide. That's more important now."

Hoose steps back and sits down with an arrogant grunt. Mavale helps Pavi stand back up and tells him to hide too.

( At the front gate )

"You guys don't get it do you? I need you to hand over the kid now! Or there will be some unnecessary lives lost, you hear me?" said one of the thugs holding a teacher hostage.

"Please sir, let me go… I have a family back at home, just please spare me" the teacher pleaded.

"Shut up woman! I couldn't care less about you or your family."

The watchman was watching the whole thing unfold. He seemed visibly shaken. He saw the thugs in lungis storming the classes hurting innocent children. Teachers were being kept hostage and many of the staff were already cut down. The thugs had told them not to interfere with anything or they would end up losing their lives too. He wanted to go and help get rid of the thugs but something he was thinking of made him hesitate.

"So you aren't gonna go?"

The coconut vendor asked him, to which the watchman did not reply. He tried to pretend he did not hear anything.

He exhales depressedly and asks him again-

"Listen Baskar… this is what he would have wanted you to do."

The watchman turned back and looked at the vendor. He was smiling..

"You know what? He would have wanted me to do this.." he said.

He started walking towards the thug holding the teacher hostage.

"Which class is that kid pavitrine from huh? Tell me right now or you are going to regret it! Spit it out, where is he? Where is the- ugh… cough… gasp!" he loosens his grip and lets go of his knife.

He looks beside him and sees the watchman holding his neck.

"Ugh… huff… Get him!"

*SNAP!*

The thug falls down to the ground. Two of the other intruders charge at him, In a blaze their feet stopped followed by an eerie silence. Then they fell where they stood with a thud! breaking the silence. Everyone was in awe trying to grasp what had happened. The gatekeeper cracking his knuckles observed. Right after this, they realised what had happened. One of them charged at the gatekeeper with the intent to kill but before his hands could reach him, he stopped.. He got on his knees and fell down, beside him was a severed head. The thug was beheaded. In front of the other thug, he saw an abnormally massive aruval held by the gatekeeper. He looked down to look at the gatekeeper's face, and he saw the man staring into his eyes.

He is surprised but still goes in to attack him but is immediately slashed with the gatekeepers aruval. He then grabs his body and throws it at other thugs running at him. He sets his foot on the mound of bodies and says.

"Don't ever cause trouble anywhere near pavitrine, or I swear to god you will cease to exist!'

One of the thugs witnessing this was shaken. He recognised who the gatekeeper was.

"T- tha- t stance and that aruval… it can't be.. What is that guy doing here?''

Aaaaaaaaarrrrr!

''Huh?! Who is that now-'' he got knocked out before he could finish. Standing there was the street vendor, rolling up his sleeves. There was a tattoo on his wrist.

''Who are these two eh why are they interfering?''

''You are new so you don't know, the-they are no ordinary people but it doesn't make sense what are they doing here?''

''Whoever they are, they are destroying us we should do something-''

''Stand here, you or anywhere here currently is match for them..we need to call boss here..go!''

''What do I tell to him?''

''Tell him two of the former thalaiva are here..''