Chapter 4

"Boss! Boss! Two Thalaivas have shown up boss! And they are killing our men!"

"Two Thalaivas ah?'' their boss thinks to himself.

"Ethi and Baskar ah, that must be it! So they have finally come back ah? This is gonna be interesting.''

[inside the campus]

Gatekeeper takes out his second aruval and moves into the defensive position. The vendor lowers his arms and grabs onto a manhole cover. His sleeves tore in half as he lifted it up. Seeing this the henchmen took a step back in awe.

"Dei dei! I am just getting started, here catch this!'' he threw the manhole cover towards them with such might it took down two of them clashing with their skull, breaking their jaw and finally crashing onto a pillar. Meanwhile the gatekeeper clenches his fists, tightly latching onto the two aruvals Pushpa and Sangeetha, he starts slicing through the enemies. Blades chopping everything in front of them, bones in two as if they were of clay and muscles as they were papers.

*SLASH!*

Blood staining the ground, watching this display of gore and horror the enemy started to get pushed back.

"How's this possible?! We are more than 80 in number and being out powered by just two old geezers.''

One of them makes it to the bottom of the staircase leading up to the first he's struck down on his legs and stops where he stood.

"Agh! What hit me? Huh a coconut what the hell man!"

"Who said you can run away from a battlefield huh?" says the vendor in a pitching position with a coconut in his hand. He steps back and throws the coconut towards the thug with enough force to knock the man out.

"Take that!" the vendor exclaimed.

"Listen here, both of you! Our boss is on the way here, hurry up and let us take the kid. Trust me you do not want to make him angry unless you are suicidal!"

"Boss ah? Who is this boss kid you speak of? '' asks the vendor.

The thug grins widely with a relieved look on his face. "He's here.."

There was a sound of an opening gate, someone walked in with a torn seruppu (slippers) one could say that just by hearing it. Ethi could suddenly feel chills behind his spine. In front of the gate was a man with a cover in his hand and crumbs all over his chest. Ethi, who had fought hundreds of dons by himself, was shaken by this man's mere presence alone.

Baskar the gatekeeper was also frozen still. He couldn't believe who it was, he hadn't seen that man in ages.

"What is this, Don't tell me.. Your boss is..!" he stuttered.

"Gopesh Pottaidhaaran… the Baadhbringer of madras!" The thug exclaimed confidently

The huge man took a bite of his bajji ('a snack') from his left hand.

"What pa I went to piss and half of you died eh?" He said while chewing the bajji in his mouth.

"Boss, what took you so long! We had no idea there were thalaivas here!" said one of the thugs.

"Ah I was a little hungry so I went on to grab a snack after pissing. It seems you guys can't even handle these geezers"

"Gopesh! What are you doing here? Don't tell me you want to take over this school's canteen!"

"Haha, sadly I am not allowed to do that. I'm just here for the kid but I did not expect to find you here Baskar.. How long has it been?"

"Gopesh that kid.. Why do you want him? Don't you have anything better to do than taking him hostage?"

"Well i don't have anything else to do today, might as well follow some orders.."

"Orders? I never knew there was someone who could give you orders. Well then we have no choice.. We must stop you!" said Baskar while gripping his aruvaals firmly.

Gopesh was surprised at first then paused and laughed sarcastically.

"You dare stand in my way for the sake of that kid Baskar? Who is that kid to you anyway ?"

"It doesn't matter. I don't want the likes of you getting near him or this institute."

"You want to die Ethi ? Your old arse is way past your heyday. Even both of you geezers combined don't stand a chance." said Gopesh while caressing his footwear.

"Don't get cocky, da. You think you can beat us? It's 2 former thalaivas you're talking about, not your average dons." said Ethi.

"Well, I might get a bit worked up, since it's been so long since I fought opponents like you pa." gopesh said.

"You bet" said Baskar while sweating.

"WE have to do this, there's no backing down now Baskar. I know you know that." said Ethi as him and Baskar looked at each other and nodded.

Gopesh finally took both his slippers in his hands and stood in a battle stance as the thalaivas get ready for a clash of the century.

"Blade Bhaskar and Elani Ethambaram... Come, give stimulation to my existence." said Gopesh as he charged forward.