PANDIYAN PALACE

Guru Pandiyan was sitting on the couch looking at the news to see the news channels repeatedly displaying Nandika's picture and talking about her making him throw the remote onto the TV breaking the glass startling everyone.

"Uncle! Control your anger. We've guests" Arjun snapped at him.

"Guests? We're family. And they would react the same if their wives or daughters made it to news" Guru Pandiyan taunted.

"And you think that yelling makes everything right?" CP sassed making Guru Pandiyan glare at his nephew.

"Chandu is right brother. We need to use our brains not our emotions" Varalakshmi Pandiyan suggested making Guru Pandiyan sigh.

"Have you heard anything from the kidnappers?" Rudra asked.

"Nothing! Not even did they call or demand something. It's been a week already" Gaurika answered sitting beside her aunt Varalakshmi.

"Well! That concludes that they are not after money. They want something else" Hima uttered making everyone look at her.

"And what do you think they want?" Varalakshmi Pandiyan asked.

"You should have the answer to that. What did you take from them?" Deva asked.

"True! I mean your family has made many enemies over generations after all" Pallavi supported Deva.

Guru Pandiyan and Varalakshmi looked at each other making Narasimha Raayala frown "What are you hiding from us cousin?"

"Many things. We don't involve in your private matters cousin and I expect the same from you" Guru Pandiyan bellowed.

"I thought you said we're family" Siva reminded him as she walked towards the living room with her son Dhruvansh.

"Always to the point Siva" Guru Pandiyan gritted out making Deva stand straight.

Siva walked to Deva and tried handing their son to him but Dhruvansh just rounded his little arms around Siva's neck looking or more like glaring at Guru Pandiyan making Siva raise her eyebrows and looked at Deva who smirked as he held her waist pulling her close to his side.

"So who do you think kidnapped her?" Deva asked.

"Cholas" Arjun dropped the bomb making everyone frown.

"Aren't they dead like eighteen years ago?" Pallavi asked.

"What did you do to them?" Mahi demanded folding her hands.

"You are so sure daughter in law" Varalakshmi smirked.

"Well we did hear it was unusual. But no one ever dared to search for the so called accident" Mahi snapped out her thoughts.

"And you surviving in that so called fire is just a miracle as you said back then" Siva insisted.

Varalakshmi gritted her teeth as Narasimha Raayala pushed her "What did you do Varam?"

"Fine I killed them" Varalakshmi said as if it's just cutting fruits making them look at her disgusted.

"There were children in that palace for god sake" SP boomed standing up.

"They took our power" Guru Pandiyan screamed.

"That was atleast few hundred years back uncle. Seriously how could you even do it?" Arjun asked.

"And look now your daughter is suffering for it" Gaurika accused.

"Shut up everybody. You are not here so you could blame us. Unless you help us bring the daughter of this family you can't leave" Varalakshmi yelled making Pallavi scoff.

"Who must've done it?" Pallavi asked.

"It's proven that it's Cholas. What more do you want?" Guru asked.

"What I meant is who must have survived" Pallavi said.

They heard footsteps of the assistant of Guru Pandiyan who came running inside "Your Majesty! We got the pictures of one of the kidnappers. He attacked our base in the Nallamalla forest" as he opened the iPad.

Everyone gathered around the couch as Guru Pandiyan held the iPad looking at the picture and his hands shivered looking at the eyes that still haunted him till today from the last eighteen years. The same eyes the Chola king had and the Kings before him.

"Well! No one can save you from him now. The one man who had to survive was your death" Narasimha Raayala scoffed making everyone confused.

"Agasthya Raja Chola. We could just recognise his eyes anywhere" Arjun said.

"Wow! His death survived that night then. So epic" Mahi said making Guru Pandiyan glare at her.

"There were three people that night" Varalakshmi reminded them.

"Must be the friends he made" Rudra said making Deva frown taking the iPad from Guru Pandiyan and started going through the footage on the night of the wedding and strated playing it.

"You guys are fucking idiots! You tried to eliminate Chola bloodline instead you guys left the last descendants of Chola Kingdom" Deva threw the iPad at them stopping the video at a certain point.

"Isn't that the bracelet of Prince Rajendra?" Varalakshmi gulped "But I killed him with my own hands" as she thought back to her wedding night where she stabbed her husband on their marital bed.

"We all know the Cholas always believed in passing their powers down in crests. If the prince died who'd have the crest after him?" SP asked.

"His son! But he never had a son because his wife murdered him" Narasimha Raayala glared at Varalakshmi.

"Then who'd inherit the bracelet if he didn't bare any children?" SP asked again.

"The next in line to the throne. You mean others escaped too" Guru Pandiyan concluded.

"Look at the crests around the neck and the wrist of the other two guys. It must be the Prince and the Raja guru's son" CP explained making them look at the footage zooming it.

"I thought a blood bath would be fine but that motherfucker had to set the fire" Guru Pandiyan gritted out.

"Set fire? You didn't do that?" Rudra asked.

"Why would we? We wanted to torture everyone there but that Aditya Chola, that bloody idiot used his powers for causing the fire and burned everyone down to ashes that night" Varalakshmi Pandiyan explained without any pity or mercy making others look at her with disgust at her lack of remorse.