Chapter 30: Defeat

The mysterious visitor had put Ramkrushna into a deep sleep and took the thing that Ramkrushna had kept on the table in front of him. The bastard left the place quickly and now headed towards the Vasusthala Temple. The menace was ready to rise its head now. The lives of millions were now at stake.

Shiva and Mohan reached the home. The boys knew that Ramkrushna was inside the house. They started ringing the doorbell furiously, a few minutes passed but no one opened the door. Their heart sank.

" Oh God no!," Mohan exclaimed. " He's not opening the door,"

" There must be some way in," said Shiva.

" The window!," Mohan spoke in a quick realization.

" Which window?,"

" The one in Dad's room!, it has window with no grills,"

" Show me,"

The boys rushed to the window Mohan told about. Shiva saw the window. It was big enough for a man to sneak inside and leave the house quietly. It was Girish's room. They went inside and checked the whole house and found Ramkrushna fell unconscious on the floor. Thinking of the worst, Shiva checked his breathing.

" His alive," Shiva sighed. " Just unconscious,"

" We should call everyone back to the house," Mohan suggested.

" Yes, you call and Abhishek and I'll contact Mr. Kadam,"

" Mr. Kadam?,"

" Yes, the killer has got the fourth part, now he will rush to the temple to open the lock, I'll inform Mr. Kadam and tell him to check the temple area,"

" Okay,"

Shiva dialed to Mr. Kadam. Mr. Kadam received the phone and quickly hung up saying he will talk later and informed Shiva about the fire that they were facing.

" What did he say?," asked Mohan.

" A fire had broke out in the forest, the police and fire brigade are busy there," replied Shiva in a cold voice.

" What!?, fire, but this is important, the killer has got the key,

" We can't do anything now," said Shiva feeling like a defeated warrior.

" What?, you mean we should accept our defeat?,"

" There's no way that we can stop the killer now,"

" What are you saying Shiva?,"

Just then the boys heard knocks on the main door. The whole family had arrived shortly after Mohan told them what happened. Shiva opened the door and Geeta and Anjali rushed to see Ramkrushna. He was unconscious on the floor. Following them were Girish and Vandana who poured down a heavy rain of questions on Shiva and Mohan.

" How did this happen?," asked Girish.

" We just got and saw the door wasn't locked, we thought someone must be inside so we knocked the door but no one opened. So we went inside through the window of your room and found uncle unconscious,"

" Oh man, what's happening in this village," Girish let out.

" I will call the Doctor," Abhishek spoke.

******

The killer strided briskly towards the hallow Vasusthala Temple which kept a curse buried within it for centuries. But today the curse was going to awaken, again after centuries. The village was not ready for this. The State of Maharashtra was not ready for this. No one was ready to face this curse. The killer had no remorse, no mercy, he only had one thing in his wicked mind. Revenge.

The killer reached the temple and quickly snuck inside. He took out the remaining three parts and assembled them in the shape of square. The 'Key' was now complete. The killer looked at the square cavity on the wall in front of him. It could've been filled with concrete so that the secret compartment could never be opened again but it was not permitted by the villagers as they believed making any changes in the temple would mean disrespecting the Goddess. The killer looked at the idol of Goddess Vasusthala. He knew it was a decoy. The real one was in the compartment, decorated with the ornaments. These were the ornaments that brought the ' Curse ' to this land. It was seized but it was going to be released soon. The killer lifted the ' Key ' and placed it carefully in the the square cavity.

He heard something. It was the floor of the temple. The floor rumbled and the idol of the Goddess shook a little. But it was all. Nothing happened after then. The delighted killer was now confused. Hadn't he placed the key correctly?, or was there some definite pattern to arrange these four parts? He took out the key and tried to rearrange it and placed it again in the cavity but nothing happened. The killer was seething with anger now. How could thus happen?, he had all the four parts now but still the key was not working. Something was wrong.

Just then his phone rings. He picked up the phone and the voice from the other side spoke.

" I wanted to talk something very important," said the person on the other side.

" Not now, I'm busy here,"

" Listen to me, it's important, it's about the Key,"

As soon as the words fell on the killer's ear he asked impatiently. " What is it?,"

" There is a fifth part of the key,"

" What?, fifth part?,"

" Yes, one of those four parts is a hoax, I saw it in Shiva's diary,"

" And you're telling it now," the killer hissed.

" It took me some time to comprehend,"

" And who has the fifth part?, do you know?,"

" Yes, I do, It's Mr. Patil, the man Shiva was asking about,"

" Are you sure about it?,"

" Definitely,"

" Okay," saying this the killer hungs up the call, now he knew what he had to do.

******

Abhishek had called the doctor, Anjali had given him the number of their family doctor. The doctor arrived and checked Ramkrushna.

" Nothing to worry about, he just asleep and will wake up in three hours," the Doctor told.

" Why did he fell asleep?," asked Anjali worriedly.

" Someone had given him sleeping injection or I may say attacked him,"

" Attack?," Geeta gasped.

" Yes, you see here, the mark, someone has forcibly used the injection,"

" Why would anyone do this to him?,"

Abhishek was standing there. He swept his gaze around and saw Shiva and Mohan who were exchanging glances. He found it strange but ignored it.

This incident had left many questions in minds of all the family members. They knew only one person could answer those. Ramkrushna himself. They waited for him to wake up.

Mohan came inside the house, he had to go out to attend a call as there was no network in the house. Shiva checked his phone, there was full network. It was strange but Shiva ignored it. The both boys went to their room and found Abhishek there. His face carried a baffled look. Shiva then looked at his hands which were holding his diary.