❝ ɪ, ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ǫᴜᴇᴇɴ ʜᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅs ʙʏ ʜɪs sɪᴅᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀᴜʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴍᴘɪʀᴇ ᴡᴇ ᴄᴀʟʟ ᴀs ᴏᴜʀs. ❞

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The dark black clouds surrounded the sky while Khan roared in pure anger. His commander in chief fell at his feet while announcing he indeed lost the fort of Chittorgadh.

The news surprised everyone present there including both the kings. The eyes of Khan turned red as if that of a demon and glared straight at Baijisa who still had that serene smile on her face.

"You're mine," he declared madly.

Baijisa just chuckled humorously and replied, "I belong to no one, Khan," she further added," It is I, who decides who can have what level of rights on me and my existence."

A mere lady retorting to the bruised ego of the Khan made him furious further. He scratched the pointed arrow on the stone with brute force igniting sparks of fire on it.

And aimed the arrow towards Baijisa making Maharana and Raja Maanveer startled. Before anyone could react to the happening, he fired the arrow straight in the Jauhar kund behind them making it light up like a holy pyre.

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𝐽𝑎𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑎,
𝐼𝑡𝑖ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑚 𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑢ℎ𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑎,
𝐾𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑦𝑎 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒 𝑦𝑢𝑑ℎ ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑎𝑎𝑟,
𝐾𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖 𝑝𝑎𝑔 𝑎𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑟,
𝐴𝑑ℎ𝑏ℎ𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑦𝑒ℎ 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑎,
𝑆𝑎𝑏𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑚 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑎𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑎

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The people present there gasped in total terror seeing the pyre of Jauhar lightened after more than five decades.

"You lied," he gritted.

"You said, you will take your revenge by helping me against Sher-e-jang," bellowed Khan,"You scorned me, and now I lost my Chittorgadh," yelled him.

With the same fiery glare Baijisa answered," Chittorgadh never belonged to you, Khan," she seethed, "And I took my revenge."

"With every step towards you, against my husband, with every yes to your conditions, I took my revenge from the man, who didn't value me for years," she said.

━━━━❰･❉･❱━━━━

𝐷𝑒𝑘ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑎 𝑠𝑎ℎ𝑎𝑠,
𝑦𝑒ℎ 𝐾𝑎𝑎𝑙 𝑏ℎ𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑔ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑎,
𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑎𝑎𝑚𝑛𝑎 𝑎𝑝𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖 𝑘𝑖
𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑚 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖 𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑎𝑟,
𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑎𝑣 𝑘𝑜𝑖 𝑏ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑖 𝑝𝑎𝑟
𝑣𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑟,

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"I made him realize that without me, he can never win. He can never be complete. If he wants to lead the wars and turn out victorious, he will always need me to guard our fort, our home," she declared.

"I, I am the queen he needs by his side to rule the empire we call as ours," she stated fiercely.

"And moreover, I would never let my innocent subjects take the brunt of what conspiours between their rulers," she said.

While looking straight in the eyes of Khan she declared, "He said he would burn the world for me," her eyes burned bright, shining with promise as she vowed, "But I will destroy it for him."

Her declaration made Khan's breath hitch with all the people present there. Looking at their deep love.

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𝑉𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑦𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑛𝑖𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒,
𝐻𝑢𝑚 𝑙𝑎𝑎𝑗 𝑟𝑎𝑘ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑚ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖,
𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑠ℎ 𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑢𝑚ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒,
𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑛 𝑗ℎ𝑢𝑘𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖,

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Furious, Khan pushed her towards the burning Jauhar chowk which now divided the rest of the public and Khan with Baijisa with powerful flames of holiness.

"UDDIITTTAAAA!" Screamed Maharana Udaipratap Singh Raghuvanshi in anguish.

"BAIJISAAA!" Screamed the ladies of the harem with Maharani Jayvanta baisa.

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𝐻𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑎ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑘𝑎𝑏ℎ𝑖 𝑎𝑢𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑘𝑖,
𝐽𝑎𝑎𝑛 𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑗𝑎𝑎𝑛𝑖,
𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑛𝑖 𝑑ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑘𝑜
𝐾𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖 𝑑𝑒 𝑘𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑖,
𝐷𝑒𝑠ℎ 𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑡𝑖 𝑘𝑎 𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑣 𝑀𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑑 𝑘𝑒
𝑘𝑎𝑛 𝑘𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑗 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑎,
𝐽𝑎𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑎,
𝐷𝑒𝑘ℎ𝑜 𝑗𝑎𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑎.

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The crowd gasped realizing that the badi kuwaranisa of Awadh is none other than their Baijisa who is the mother to them all.

The crowd was filled with cries and whimpers of pain and anguish seeing their beloved Baijisa falling in the Jauhar kund.

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𝐾𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑦𝑎 𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑎𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖,
𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑘𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖,
𝐽𝑒𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛 𝑘𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑒
𝐶ℎ𝑎ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑘ℎ 𝑘𝑖 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑘ℎ𝑎 ℎ𝑜 𝑦𝑎𝑎 𝑑𝑢𝑘ℎ 𝑘𝑖 𝑏𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑖 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑦𝑒,
𝐴𝑠ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑜 𝑘𝑖 𝑒𝑘 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑏ℎ𝑖 𝑎𝑎𝑛𝑘ℎ𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑒 𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑒,
𝐽𝑎𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑗𝑎𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑘 𝑑𝑢𝑗𝑒 𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑣 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑎,

𝐷ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑎 𝑏ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑔𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑟𝑒,
𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑎,

𝐽𝑎𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑎,
𝐷𝑒𝑘ℎ𝑜 𝐽𝑎𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑎.

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Khan laughed madly and mounted the horse on which his Commander came fleeing.

Suddenly there was a thunderstorm and a powerful neigh of a horse pierce through it. On the top of the palace wall a dark bluish-black horse jumped majestically on his hind legs while his elegant rider sat atop him regally.

All the people present there except Maharana Udaipratap Singh kneeled in front of him.

"Datke Chetak," roared the rider while he flung the rope towards the Jauhar kund and stopped Baijisa's fall mid air.

A wind of terror passed through the area when he fastened the rope around Chetak, the magnificent horse's neck and unleashed his sword dripping with blood.

The flames of his wrath engulfed the area with goosebumps of terror. No one even dared to lift their eye-lashes in the wrong way.

"Har Har Mahadev!" He roared and jumped down the perafeet of the palace with his sword unleashed and directly tore Khan into two halves in bilateral symmetry.

His power and force was terribly brutal that it not only tore apart the metal helmet and armour of Khan, but also it tore half of the horse into two parts in the same plane of it's rider.

The onlookers shivered at the brutality and amount of the blood showered upon the area while the thunderstorm roared loud in the sky highlighting the severity of the situation.

The soft hearted ladies began to faint one by one witnessing the cruel nightmare while the males were shocked and frozen in their places.

"I," the rider seethed slowly, "Adhrik Rana Udaipratap Singh Raghuvanshi," he said, " Warn each and every enemy of mine, to be aware," he declared.

"I ought no mercy," his eyes red burning in rage. And with that he approached the Jauhar kund and pulled Baijisa out from the fire.

The corners of her clothes burned with fire while her eyes were closed with no indication of breaths.

Adhrik took her in his arms, his movements harsh with utter rage and madness. He settled between the fire at the top parapet of the palace in a way that he would be visible and audible to everyone present there.

And with a strong thunder, there was an onslaught of heavy rains around them that began to douse the fire and wash the blood in rivers surrounding the couple resembling Shiv and Sati after the havan of Daksh-prajapati.

He patted her face harshly while the cruel rain drops forced themselves on their bodies with a sting.

"How dare you?" Adhrik seethed looking at the unresponsive body of Baijisa.

His tone and unadulterated rage made the subjects tremble in their places like leaves on stormy night.

Maharana Udaipratap Singh closed his eyes in silent prayer to protect his daughter from the rage of his seething son.

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sʜᴀʙᴅ-ᴋᴏsʜ :- ᴅɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴᴀʀʏ.

ᴅᴀᴛᴋᴇ :- sᴛʀᴏɴɢʟʏ.

ᴄʜᴏᴡᴋ :- ᴠᴇʀᴇɴᴅᴀʜ.

ᴋᴜɴᴅ :- sᴀᴄʀɪғɪᴄɪᴀʟ ᴘɪᴛ.