Episode 9 – “Ashvak: Flame of the Forsaken”

🌌 Surya: Aag Ka Saya

Episode 9 – "Ashvak: Flame of the Forsaken"

Scene: Ruins of Vault 9 – Firestorm Ground Zero

Ashvak stood tall amidst the molten steel and ash clouds. His golden armor crackled with unstable energy, runes across his chest glowing erratically like a dying sun. His left hand twitched involuntarily. His skin bore burn scars—not from combat, but from his own uncontained inner fire.

Antrika stepped back, her ember-wings shielding Surya. "He's fractured."

Surya narrowed his gaze. "Not just fractured. Condemned. He's what happens when fire is forced to obey without a soul."

Ashvak's voice was jagged, torn between madness and memory.

"You took what was mine, Surya. You became the vessel… but I was the first breath. I was born of the fire before names. And now, I return to claim all flame!"

Flashback: 24 Years Ago – Deep Research Facility: Agni Cell

A younger Haranath, Vaibhav, and two unknown sages stood beside a glass cocoon. Inside writhed a creature—Ashvak, the first human ever fused with flame core DNA.

He screamed day and night. His body rejected empathy. His heart absorbed flame but couldn't contain it.

They called him Project Purvaj—The First Flame Host.

Vaibhav once argued, "He's still alive! We can refine him."

Haranath had responded: "No. He lacks the center. Flame without a spirit becomes destruction."

Ashvak was sealed away—until now.

Scene: Present – Vault 9 Battlefield

Ashvak raised his hands, conjuring black flame constructs—spiked chains of scorched metal that flew toward Surya and Antrika like serpents.

Surya entered Lotus Flame Stance. His body shimmered with balanced chakra fire. He caught the first chain, redirected its path into the ground, where it burned harmlessly.

Antrika, meanwhile, countered with her own fire-blossom technique—whipping petals of heat that disrupted Ashvak's grip.

But he was relentless.

"Balance? Connection?" Ashvak snarled. "I was given none. You live with choice. I live with curse!"

He pounded the earth.

A wave of corrupted flame spread in all directions.

Surya screamed, "Get back!"

But they were caught in it.

Scene: Inner Flame Realms – Surya and Antrika's Consciousness

The attack wasn't just physical—it dragged their souls into Ashvak's inner realm, a scorched wasteland where memories burned and time twisted.

Surya looked around. "This… isn't real."

Antrika gasped. "It's his pain. His memories forged into a mental prison."

Ashvak appeared again, this time as a boy—alone, trembling inside a burning cradle, crying out for warmth that never came.

Surya tried to approach, but flame walls surged up.

"You think I wanted to destroy?" Ashvak's voice echoed. "I begged to be held. But fire without guidance turns inward. It feeds on itself."

Surya clenched his fists. "Then let us help you!"

"No," Ashvak screamed. "You pity me. But I will make you feel my birthright."

Scene: Real World – Outer Battle Continues

In the waking world, their bodies floated mid-air, surrounded by unstable flame signatures.

Monitors at Vaibhav's command center lit up with warnings.

"Inner Flame Pressure Reaching Terminal Level"

"Spiritual Sync Disrupted – Multiple Hosts Intertwined"

Vaibhav smirked. "Good. Let him tear them both apart."

But just then, something happened he didn't predict.

Scene: Back in Flame Realm – Surya Finds Ashvak's True Heart

Surya dug deeper into the realm, tracing each burning path of memory. Finally, he reached a frozen moment—a single untouched image of Ashvak holding a wooden lotus carving.

It was the last gift from a mother he never met.

Surya whispered, "You were loved once."

Ashvak appeared, eyes molten. "I don't remember."

"Then let us help you remember."

Surya touched the memory. Flames wrapped around him—but instead of burning, they glowed softly.

Antrika joined him.

Together, they channeled their combined Lotus-Core energy into the memory.

Suddenly, the fire turned gold.

Ashvak's inner self screamed as the pain began to melt.

Scene: Real World – Flame Reversal

The flames around the three bodies swirled upward like a cyclone—red, gold, white, and black mixing in one chaotic storm.

A single explosion of light shook the earth.

When the brightness faded, all three lay on the scorched ground.

Ashvak opened his eyes.

Tears slipped out—fireless.

He whispered, "It… stopped hurting."

Surya helped him sit. "You don't need to burn anymore. Flame isn't meant to consume—it's meant to warm."

Antrika added softly, "You were never forsaken. Just forgotten."

Ashvak broke down for the first time.

Scene: Vaibhav's Hidden Chamber – Panic Grows

Monitors blinked erratically.

"Project Purvaj – Reconciliation Successful"

"Lotus Synchronization Exceeded Predictive Bounds"

Vaibhav roared, smashing the table.

"They've broken the cycle! No one was supposed to survive that merge!"

He turned to his last screen.

"Time for Project: Divya Shunyam."

Scene: Navgarh – Meanwhile, Darkness Awakens

A new problem brews.

In the city's old catacombs, monks of the Order of Cold Silence begin their final ritual—summoning the last layer of the Shunyam Protocol, a wave that will silence every awakened fire in Navgarh.

Their chant grows:

"No emotion. No flame. No memory."

A massive underground transmitter begins to pulse.

Its countdown: 72 hours.

Scene: Final Scene – The Three Warriors Reunited

Surya, Antrika, and Ashvak stood atop Vault 9's ruin.

Ashvak, now calmer but scarred, knelt before them. "Let me fight beside you. Let me protect what I once cursed."

Surya placed his hand on Ashvak's shoulder. "You're one of us now."

Antrika looked toward the city. "But Vaibhav won't stop. And the Order… they're waking something deeper."

Surya's eyes glowed faintly.

"Then it's time we awaken something even older. Something beneath the fire."

Camera pans out slowly, revealing behind them…

A map carved in flame-stone—marked with seven sacred flame temples across India.

At the center: Temple of Anta-Aag – The Endfire.

Surya pointed. "We begin there."

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🔥 Coming Up Next: Episode 10 – "Temple of Endfire"

Surya, Antrika, and Ashvak embark on their journey to the forgotten flame temple, hidden under desert sands. But deep beneath the ruins, something older than fire waits—an ancient guardian who once judged the gods themselves.

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