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Chapter 10 - 8: Dheriya's Mishap

"Wooooooo Hoooooooo!!! FINALLYYYY" Dheriya and Yashvanth were jumping about. They all had gathered at Dhruv's for IPL Final, and, surprisingly, RCB had won.

"TOLD YA!! TOLD YA ALL!!" Yashvanth shouted, "KESHAVVV, RCB WONNNN!!" Yashvanth Hugged Keshav and gave him a huge kiss on his lips.

Dhruv happily put the coins he won in his pocket. "According to the stars,this IS a year for Underdogs" He smirked.

Tejas hugged Dhruv. And Shaurya joined them.

"I told you we should'nt bet, Rudra Da!" Yashika gave a tight slap to Rudra.

"Dang!! Who shall I call Lollipop now!!" Aman banged the table.

"Threat to humanity!!" Kavya pouted.

"You know what? I really want some blood now" Aman said.

"I think some animal blood should do" Kavya said.

"Wanna go out and look for some?" Aman said.

"Sure"

"We'll be back" Aman said, as he stood up holding Kavya's hands.

"I think it's better not to" Ishaan said, playing with Nikki's hair who was seated on his lap. Due to lack of space, obviously.

"Why? It's night time, we should be fine."

"Ummm... isn't it a full moon night?" Ishaan said, pointing to the ceiling of the cave that was charmed to be able to see outside.

"IT'S A WHAT??" The duo looked outside to see a full moon shining.

"Full moon ni-" Ishaan froze.

"Hold on, does that mean-" Nikki said.

"DHERIYA WHAT HAPPENED??" Yashvanth shouted.

Everyone turned to them. Yashvanth was standing a bit away from Dheriya, who was curled up and had already begun to grow in size, and was growing fangs and long claws.He was growling.

Yashvanth started panicking and looked around.

Aman pointed towards the window, showing the full moon. "We didn't know either" He said.

"Owwwwwwww" The werewolf howled, now completely transformed.

It ran towards the nearest person, Devrath.

"Aieeeeee" Devrath flapped his wings very violently, creating a strong wind, and took off.

"My plants!!!" Tejas shouted, seeing his plants ruined.

The werewolf, now unable to reach Devrath, turned to the next victim- Yashvanth and Keshav.

Yashvanth immediately grabbed Keshav by his arms and flew. The werewolf almost grabbed Keshav's legs. Keshav, who had grabbed a ace from the decorative Lord Hanuman Statue, hit the wolf with it and he stumbled back, landing near the Manjas.

As quick as lightning, they ran to a bed and hid under it, making the werewolf confused.

Nikki and Raghav took advantage of it and flew upwards, Nikki carrying Ishaan. Both of them were flapping their wings vigorously. That's how they ended up extinguishing and knocking down the flaming torch Chandelier.

The werewolf ran towards Aman and Kavya, who were looking here and there, stumbled backwards, untill Aman banged onto a cupboard.

"Fast fast" Kavya opened the cupboard and emptied it's contents. They both got in and locked it.

"I got those plates all the way from China!!!" Dhruv whispered, who was hiding below a table along with Tejas.

"Our house is RUINED today" Tejas whispered back.

"Our life's at stake and you're concerned about the house??" Tejas got startled hearing Yashvanth near him.

"When did you come here??" He said.

"Just now, it was getting really crowded up there. It's not easy to fly indoors, especially not when there are four of us!" Yashvanth said, snuggling Keshav.

"Plus it gets tiring to keep flapping our wings" Raghav whispered from under the bed.

"Raghav when did you come here??"

"After Yashvanth Da" Raghav said. "Devrath Da and Nikki went under the bed"

"We're all here!" Devrath said, curling up with Nikki and Ishaan.

Shaurya had started laying down his runes in a semi circle, encircling them all.

"Is he gionna do that protective bubble thingy?" Dhruv asked.

"I guess so" Tejas replied.

Sure enough, As shaurya closed his eyes, the runes glowed.

"What do we do now? We can't just stay here all night" Rudra said.

"He's destroying our house, we have to get him out of here somehow" Tejas said.

"According to the stars.... Everything should be fine" Dhruv was saying. "There must be a way!"

"We can't kill him tho, He might be a Bheriya but he's our Dheriya!" Devrath said.

"Wait I have a plan.." Yashvanth whispered.

"And the plan is?" Keshav asked.

"Rudra, you can run fast right?"

"I can run pretty fast, so can Subh and Yashika, we're Manjas afterall" he said.

"So can one of you go and lure him outside?"

Rudra looked at Yashvanth shocked. "How will we come inside?" He asked.

"I'll fly outside, then when the Werewolf runs out, I'll grab you and fly back here, what say?"

"Well I thi-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" They heard a scream from the most unexpected person. Shaurya. Who also ended up knocking his own runes. And since he didn't know a hood about loudness or sound, it was LOUD.

"Owwwwwww" the werewolf charged towards the table. With a single blow he pulled out the table.

Tejas got onto Dhruv's back and they ran, as quick as lightning, to the bathroom and locked the door.

Yashvanth quickly got to his wings and flew again, carrying Keshav.

Shaurya ran away from the wolf, but the wolf was chasing him.

He went and hid inside the bed, but the wolf saw him and lifted the bed.

Rudra, Yashika and Subh dashed to the store room and bolted the door.

"But Rudra, the rest? And what about the plan?" Subh asked.

"At this point." Yashika said "it's every man for themselves" she said.

Sure enough, it was every man for themselves.

Aman and Kavya had locked themselves in a cupboard.

Rudra ran to the store room and so did Subh and Yashika.

Dhruv and Tejas hid in the bathroom.

Yashvanth took Keshav and flew to a safe height. Nikki did the same with Ishaan.

Devrath and Raghav flew too, without seeing anything or anyone else.

The werewolf dashed towards Shaurya, who flintched.

Before the werewolf got a chance to bite him, he was pushed away.

Yashvanth stood beside the Shaurya holding a Gada. (Gada is a Mace like Hanumanji uses)

As soon and he had gotten on a safe height, he had started muttering some mantras, and conjoured the weapon. He went back down. "Stay near me" He had told Keshav as he made him get off him.

He inspected Shaurya's wounds.

Thank you. And sorry

Shaurya bowed.

Yashvanth was busy inspecting the wound that he didn't notice the Werewolf coming right behind him.

"Yashvanth watch out!!" Keshav came in between and gave a punch on the werewolf's face. It stumbled backward. "We gotta execute your plan!" Keshav said.

"But the Manj-"

"I can run!" Keshav shouted before bolting outside.

"Kesh- I'm going to get him, bolt the door, we'll knock!" He shouted as he ran out.

He saw Keshav being chased by the werewolf and dashed towards him.

Keshav was fast, but alas! Not fast enough to outrun a werewolf. Before he knew, he found himself caught by the werewolf.

Yashvanth quickly came between them and pushed the wolf away, holding it's hand and keeping it as far away from his body. "Owwww owwwwwwww" It howled.

"GET ON MY BACK!!" Yashvanth shouted at Keshav, who ran and hopped on his back. At the same time, Yashvanth felt a sharp pain in his hands. The wolf had twisted it.

Keshav had picked up a large rock when Yashvanth was dealing with the werewolf. He threw it at the wolf's face and it got stunned. "GO UP" He shouted at Yashvanth who flew up till they reached a branch not reachable by the wolf.

"My hands... Aaaaah..." Yashvanth sat on the branch putting Keshav down on his lap.

Keshav touched it. "It looks like it's sprained" He said, pressing it.

"DON'T DO IT" Yashvanth said. "It hurts! So much I feel week to fly!" He said.

"Sorry" Keshav said. He lightly held held his hand and kissed all over it. "Feel better?" He asked.

Yashvanth chuckled. "You're so adorable I love you" He kissed Keshav on his forehead. "And strong! And fast!" He said.

"I was doing police training. We had to run 20 kms and do 100 pushups everyday" Keshav said. "I'm Pretty strong" Keshav chuckled, playing with some twigs and flowers.

"I was pretty shocked" Yashvanth said. "But that's my boy"

By now Keshav had made a beautiful flower crown. "This is for you" He said.

"It's so beautiful" Yashvanth said. "Just like you"

Keshav placed the crown on Yashvanth's head. He did a gesture of clicking a photo with his fingers.

Yashvanth tried to pull Keshav forward but his severed hands wouldn't let him. Keshav interwined his hand around Yashvanth's neck and pulled himself towards him, and his lips over the latter's.

"I would be more concerned about getting inside than showing affection"

The boys were startled upon hearing a voice above them. They looked up to see two boys hanging upside-down opposite branches. The sides of their upper body stretching to form wings, ears larger than humans. Their extremely foggy eyes seemed to be staring at a distance. Or staring at nothing at all.

"What are you guys doing out on a full moon night?" The one with lesser foggy eyes said.

"We got stuck here" Yashvanth said. "Long story" He said wrapping Keshav with his wings, afraid he would catch cold.

"It's so unsafe!" The other boy said. "I don't even let Mhok come with me on full moon nights, super scary, right Phi Night?"

"Yeah Nong Day, I would rather stay inside too if we didn't have to go get food" Night said.

"Who's Mokh, now?" Yashvanth asked. He could feel Keshav's drowsy form leaning more on him.

"Not Mokh, Mhok! He's my Boy- Wait why do you even care?" Day said. "You need to be inside. Me and Phi Night can go out since we're"

"Bat Fairys,I know, I'm a fairy too" Yashvanth said. "But I'm Injured"

"Fairy? What type?" Night asked.

Day sniffed the air around him. "I smell Eagle... OH MY GOD" Day frantically got off he branch and flapped his wings."I'm sorry for being rude, Prince of Birds!" He said. Stating all over. Yashvanth's sharp eyes caught the "Invisible" waves he emitted. It reached him and bounced back to Day. Day came right in front of him. Night followed him.

"Do you need any help, Our Prince, to take you home?"

Yashvanth usually hated asking help from anyone. Let alone someone who changed their attitude towards people like chameleon changing colors. But well if him being a Prince was getting him help while injured, so be it.

"That'd be great" Yashvanth said. "One of you carry Keshav" He said waking Keshav up. Keshav sleepily and reluctantly got off Yashvanth and was carried by Night.

"I'm completely blind tho, could you guide me, Prince-"

"Yashvanth" Yashvanth said as Day gave him a piggyback. "That's my name. I'll guide you, It's not that far." He said.

"And I'll follow you. I'm only partially blind, I can see a little" Night said.

Day and Night left as soon as Yashvanth knocked on the door of Dhruv's cave.

Devrath rushed towards them as soon as they entered. "Yash! Keshav! What took you so long" He said, touching Yashvanth to check if he was fine. "Your hands! It's swelling and red!"

"Bheriya twisted it" Yashvanth said, crashing out on a make shift bed. "Slow Bhratashree, It hurts"

"Seems like it's sprained" Keshav said lying beside Yashvanth.

"I'll make the remedy" Tejas said, gathering herbs that he had grown in the cave and smashing them in a large mortal and pestle.

Raghav and Nikki were repairing the plates. They would put the broken pieces together, and do some magic, and the plates would get fixed, and the crack would be a beautiful golden colour. Tejas and Shaurya used the wood elf magic to make the twigs and stems wrap on the furnitures to temporarily keep them in place. Ofcourse they would need a dwarf to make new furnitures now.

"Aishhhh I'm so gonna make Dheriya pay for the furnitures!!" Tejas said.

"He so has to!" Dhruv said. "HOW COULD HE FORGET IT'S A FULL MOON NIGHT!! EVEN THE STARS ARE DISSAPPOINTED!"

"Maybe he got too excited for RCB" Yashvanth said, earning a glare from Devrath who was applying medicines and bandaging his hands.

"Aaaaahhhhh Finally!!" Nikki said as they fixed the last cup. That was the last thing Yashvanth remembered before falling in a slumber.

The next morning, he was woken up after hearing some knocks on the door of the cave. Tejas went and opened the door.

"Did I leave anyt--- why are y'all staring at me like that?" Dheriya said, he was wearing nothing except a banana leaf wrapped around his pelvis. "Oooh, this?" he said, pressing on a large bump on his forehead "I woke up near the lake with this bump" He said. "Geez, what happenned, what's all this mess?"

"You should be paying for it, According to the stars!" Dhruv said. He said. "You wrecked havoc last night!"

"What happened last night?" Dheriya said. "We were celebrating victory then- OH SHIT DID I TRANSFORM?????" He asked.

"YES YOU DID" Everyone shouted.

"I cannot move my hands for two whole days because of you!" Yashvanth said.

"I'm so sorry... really am... I should have..." Dheryia had begun tearing up. "I don't deserve to be near ya'll!!" He said as he ran away.

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