Thus, after reading the letter Surajkumar-II and Rashmi started their journey in the route described by his father.

What will happen to the first group? Where is Oodha?

What will happen to Surajkumar-II and Rashmi? Will king Thejkumar march against Agnipur? Is Velaiyya really such a great man?

The answer for all these questions will be available in my next book "THE JOURNEY TO THE ETERNAL LAKE"

Suraj and Rashmi were traveling through forest in guise of a peasant and his wife.

Then suddenly a hawk came to them. Seeing it Surajkumar-II realized that it was from his father who rules the main kingdom.

Surajkumar-II was one of the prince's of Jyothinagar and was handed over the duty of Sundarpur. His father had a total of 5 children whom he loved and adored very much. To learn their talents he had given each a part of his land.

Raj, Ram, Naveen and Leela were Surajkumar-II's elder siblings. They all ruled their parts efficiently and Deepak was happy and proud of their hardwork. While Leela's kingdom was shared by another prince who had married her, the boys were completely under Deepak Kumar. The village where the travelers went was under Leela, and as the information was passed to them her husband asked her to move it to her father as the route was well known by their family.

Thus, after knowing about who the travelers were, the king wrote their information to Surajkumar-II as he was Agni's best friend and was predicted of a heroic/legendary future by their royal priest.

Velaiyya was a hard worker, he believed in ones work and effort more than money and appearance. He knows both the priests and witches of the village. They were all family friends. Though Ramaiyya had problems in speaking, he loved him from childhood. He knew how the people of the village felt for Ramaiyya and wished to have him as his son in law. He always adored the two playing together, even if others around him didn't like it. He even encouraged and helped Ramaiyya to fight against the bullies. Ramaiyya never understood it, while Velli always took all the things jovial.

Velli was one of the wealthy shopkeeper's daughter in the village. She was a beautiful and funny girl. She liked to tease and play with Ramaiyya. He always got irritated by her childish and harmless acts but never reacted as she was not among the bully. On the other hand Velli used to tease or willing invite him for a duel or debates. Ramaiyya felt angry but never showed it to her as she debated with him in a way no one else would. She would say,"hey Ramaiyya dont act like a dumb, I know you are the most talkative person of this village". Ramaiyya would say,"h..h..hey y..y..you are wil..l..ing..g..l..ly p...p..p..playing w...w...with f..f..fire." She would happily laugh at his effort to reply her. Such small talks were common between them from a young age and the villagers loved this. Suddenly she met the guests and asked if she could join them. Ramaiyya was not happy with the idea, but she got the support of the villagers as, Agni mostly had gold coins. The king was happy when one of the wealthy merchants of his kingdom came forward to help them and send his daughter with them. The king thanked Velaiyya for his help.

Suruchi was shocked to see the bottlegourd, it was filled with the holy water and had held captive a bad witch, the witch laughed at them and flew away saying that she was going to destroy the lives of her loved ones. Suruchi was terrified at her words, she was confused, then she made a great tali with Roshan and it was decided that Ramaiyya will be grown by him, while Rashmi by her. Then she also handed him her mother's Suryaprabhai, she asked him to give it to some one related to her friends when they meet him after any bad omen.

Days went by but Suruchi's mother didn't return. She grew into a beautiful maiden and was wedded to Roshan the son of the high priest of Sun temple in Jyothinagar. They were very happy, and were blessed with a pair of beautiful twins, a boy and a girl. But suddenly in happiness, the bottlegourd was broken by Roshan. Suruchi was shocked, what to do now, her life just started with her 2 bundles of joy. Should she leave now?