Rudyash's POV
What were the brats thinking? They kept me in a position where I have to fight myself from blushing from her beauty, personality— the way her face scrunchies up when she is struggling, the way she laughs. So that's basically her whole existence makes me feel in this way.
I looked at her as she approaches me in her Dusky Rose Halter necked dress.
She looks—stunning?
My heart dances out of my chest as my face turned into a tomato.
She comes up to me, I got up, "Amudha, can we go?"
She looks away as she nodded yes.
I took out the bike from the parking spot, then stopped it in front of her. She sat sideways as it is a bit hard for her to sit normally in a dress.
She held my shoulder the whole time.
Oh god!! I might turn into a tomato if she does anything more.
We reached the beach. She ran towards the shore like a small child and asked me to click photos.
Amudha's POV
I strike poses as Rudyash takes them, smiling like he saw a wonder infront of him, which is rare.
After posing, I took the phone from him and took a selfie as I wrapped my arm around his, making him look at me and smile slowly.
He looks good in the dusky pink shirt and beige pants that Shyamkeerti chose for him. She chose mine as well as she wanted us to have matching outfits.
We walk up to a nearby café as we did not plan on ruining our dresses. I accidentally brushed his fingers and held his hand.
Rudyash's POV
This girl has no idea about what she did to me. She is doing the first move as her grip tightened as I looked at her.
She was smiling shyly.
We sat down in the café, ordered some food, enjoying as she looks at me, "Rudra, I want to tell you something."
I looked up from my plate, which I had completed and reached out to the waiter giving me the bill, "Say it, Darling."
She looks confused as she asks what is up with the darling fantasy and insisted on paying the bill.
But I won the argument!
Looks like the sun is gonna set.
"Now—" I smirked at her as we walk to our bike, " Tell me what you were going to say."
Her face turned red as she turned to me shyly and was about to speak as I got a call from Indeever.
He was all jolly on the phone as the news of ME going on a DATE reached him and he informed that he was in Kakinada.
I just touched my forehead rolled my eyes "So what!" And I cut the phone.
I immediately turned to Amudha, "Say it, Bangaram."
I leaned in, stepping closer as she placed her hand on my mouth, " I will say it when we get to the bike."
As we reached the bike, the same scarlet force which had attacked me, Krish and Ishaan tried to hit me and Amudha. We barely missed it as we stepped aside when it was about to hit us.
Amudha's POV
Woah! We almost got attacked!
Immediately, we were alerted, standing with our backs facing each other, with hands in a fist.
Then a crimson arrow cut the air like a fluffy cloud as it approaches Rudyash, I held it, making it to a stop.
"Thanks Bangaram." Rudyash turned back, stood in front of me as he created a black-Smokey shield, protecting us from the attacks.
The arrow was still in my hand as he asks if I wanted to say what I was going to say. I replied that it's not the time for these stuff.
As the shield lifted, we saw a man in a crimson cloak. His smile sent a shiver down my spine.
The man lifts his hood, revealing his face which was scarred at his left eyebrow and at the right coner of his mouth.
Rudyash lifts his hand to summon lightning as the man in the crimson cloak raised his hand and waving it to stop him, " Before we get into the fight, why don't we introduce ourselves?"
The man smirks looking at me.
Ishaan's POV
Aarush looks up to the sky, "It's getting dark, we should head home."
"Yea, you are right." Kriday added, "Let's go home."
We all took a step forward and were stopped in our places as an invisible force had glued our legs to the floor.
Then, Aarush spotted a woman in a Crimson frock and a black cloak at the edge of the street as she let's out an creepy smile at him.
Aarush's eyes filled with terror, "I think that Aarudhra is here!!!"
Every one's eyes widened as she suddenly appeared infront of us,lifting Aarush's face, "You catch on quiet fast."
The wind lifted her hood like a veil, revealing her pale skin that was similar to a corpse, her bloody red irises and her jet black hair.
"Let's deal with you later." She examines Aarush's face and leaves it dramatically, "I have taken something precious from you." She still looks at him as Aarush faces her in anger as a terrifying smile took over her face.
She releases Mriganka and me from the force.
We did not waste any time in attacking her.
Firstly Mriganka did her Chandra Natyam with her lunar blades which shimmered beautifully against the red light. She managed to hit Aarudhra's arm before Aarudhra lifted her hand.
The strange thing is that Mriganka was lifted into the air too.
As Aarudhra dropped her hand, Mriganka fell down, suffering a severe injury on her head.
"MRIGANKA!!" I grabbed her in my arms as she fell and rolled over due to the force. She lost her consciousness.
I looked at Aarudhra red eyed and placed Mriganka on the side as I got up and shot an arrow at her but she grabbed it and then my legs gave out as the invisible force acted on me.
"Poor girl," she sighed, " Let's get back to what we were talking about." She looks at Aarush, "Your brother, what's his name ?"
"Viraansh."Aarush whispered, not looking into her eyes.
"Is that his name?" Aarudhra asked him and he replied that it's his brother's full name.
"Interesting," she grabbed Aarush's chin, " He's dead."
Aarush's eyes watered, shook his head in denial as he screamed that she was lying.
"No, I am not!" Aarudhra snapped back, " I saw him on my way here with his blood gushing out of his body and I was tempted to drink his blood but, I resisted it as he was a child, I left him there to die."
Aarush's tears steamed down his face as Aarudhra smirked in satisfaction, " I gatered some blood from him in order to control you."
(Bangaram generally means gold in Telugu but it is used as an nickname which acts similar to darling.)