The Abduction
In a small town to the east of the count's castle within the Duranabad county a young man with his guards seems to be moving through the streets towards a particular destination. The destination in question is the house of a respectable merchant who lives within this town with his family. The prince target is the beautiful daughter of the said merchant, about whose beauty he has heard from his watchdog who usually are the ones who gives him information of any beauty that he can have fun with in return for gold mudras. This young man is none other than the Count Almar Durani's son Rayan Durani.
As he barged into the peaceful house of the merchant his guards immediately started searching each room one by one and once they located the target they dragged her out and brought her in-front of their master. Seeing the beautiful girl whose name was Megha in-front of him Rayan had a sinister smile on his face. He looked to the merchant and said "I like your daughter's beauty I will be making her a part of my harem". As the merchant tried to stop Rayan's guards from abducting his daughter forcefully he was beaten mercilessly. The merchant son seeing this lunged at the guards to protect his father and sister, in the ensuing fight the guards killed both father and son, seeing this Rayan just laughed and looked at the girl who was crying over her father and brother's dead body and said "Don't worry its a great honor for filthy khafirs like them to die at the hands of devout slamic noble like us". With this he forcefully dragged the sobbing girl with him and his guards torched the house on their exit to bury the evidence.
In the shadowy corner of the town's street figures could be seen hiding and waiting for someone. As the time ticked by soon the count's son and his escorts where passing through the area. Suddenly twang sound of multiple compact repeating crossbow is heard from within the confines of the streets and in the next moment men covered in coverall attacked from multiple direction on the guards of Count's son. Soon a deadly fight ensued between Rayan's escort and the attackers. As the fight continued there were casualty on both sides soon most of Rayan's men were lying dead or heavily injured to even put up a defense against the attackers and finally he was surround by this unknown enemy. As he was about to say something a hit on his head rendered him unconscious. The girl named Megha seeing the object of her resentment and the killer of her family lying defenseless and unconscious, she grabbed a fallen knife and tried to stab Rayan but was stopped by one of the attacker and she started to scream and struggle to get herself free from the clutches of the unknown man in order to kill count's son as result she also received a hit to the head which rendered her unconscious.
This unknown attacker are none other then the elite squads that the prince has send with agent Vasuki to capture the count's son which they have just succeeded in doing. Soon the abductors retreat from the scene of the crime with their prize leaving behind a pile of dead bodies and a single surviving guard with a letter addressed to the count from the prince. A few hours later the count has furious expression on his face as he read the letter addressed to him. The content is as follows
"Count Durani,
I hope this letter reaches you in good health. Since you sent an entire army to abduct me and kill me, I have sought to return the favor by abducting your son. You have 72 hours to gather your forces and met me in open battle at the location to the east of your castle near Badrak border. Either you take my head and rescue your son or I will take yours. If you do not comply to my demand I will take it as a signal that you do not need you son and will send you his severed head.
Prince Viraja"
Reading the letter Count Durani became furious and started cursing loudly and ordered his subordinates to prepare his forces as this time he will personally go and deal with this insolent little brat of a prince.