A Slave who became Emperor Chapter 59

Once the enemies retreated, the unified army cheered . . as Zaffar and his men approached their barracks, the unified army cried, 'Jai Bhavani! ' in celebration . . Pinaka and Samyukta were very happy . . so were the soldiers . . but the war was not over yet . . Zaffar was still alive . . away . . safe in his tent . .

Pinaka and Samyukta were in a tent, kissing intently . . they were happy . . . they hugged each other . . carressed each other . . they kissed passionately . . they felt as if flames would erupt out of their passion . . their souls joined in the act of love . .

. . despite their wounds from the first day of war . . they were happy and satisfied that they could make the enemy retreat . . all thanks to the war elephants . .

Once they were done making love . . they lay exhausted in each others arms . . Pinaka said, 'take rest, I need to go and check on the soldiers . . ' Samyukta nodded, Pinaka kissed her forehead . . . she rolled over and fell asleep . .

Pinaka walked out of his tent, many generals greeted him across his path . . he greeted everyone cheerfully . . he started walking towards the tent of elephants . . . suddenly there was high pitched trumpeting . . there were soldiers running helter skelter . . Pinaka saw smoke raising up . . something was on fire . . men running . . howling with fear . . . . elephants trumpeting at a high pitch . . . confusion all around . .

Pinaka saw Samyukta running, she was running towards the smoke . . there was an elephant which broke free from the tent . . . the huge tent situated at a distance away from the other soldiers was on fire . . there were four mahouts trying to control the elephant that broke lose . . . soldiers were trying to put out the fires . . . . . the elephant lifted one mohout with his trunk and tossed him down like a toy . . everything was out of control . . the elephant rose his foot to trample the fallen mohout . . Samyukta cried fiercely . . 'Enough . . ' the elephant froze in mid air . . her eyes were bloodshot . . she looked like the goddess of death . . . . looking at her ,people felt scared . . it was as if her eyes would rain fire . . . she shouted . . , 'back . . ' the huge berserk elephant stepped back like a little obedient student . . she then went and held the elephant's trunk and said, 'its alright . . everything is fine . . ' the elephant trumpeted in a very different way in response . . she pacified the beast caressing it in a motherly way . . the fierce goddess transformed into a goddess of mercy . . . she soon went forward and checked the tent of elephants . . the soldiers soon put down the fire . . they could save the elephants luckily . . but two elephants got injured very badly,they would not be able to fight . . this was a loss . . but still they had eighteen elephants which were enough to do the damage on the field . .

Pinaka called a meeting with all his generals . . he said, 'what is happening . . anyone has any idea . . did you see any strangers in the camp . . ? where are the soldiers guarding that tent? ' one of the generals said, 'your majesty, the soldiers guarding the elephants are dead . . . their throats were slit . . ' Pinaka looked at him and said, 'how is it possible . . unless . . there is a traitor hidden amongst us . . ' everyone gulped hard at this prospect . . Pinaka said, 'assemble all the soldiers . . now . . '

Samyukta, her brothers, and Pinaka looked at the soldiers . . Pinaka addressed, 'brothers . . we were so good on the field today . . that enemy understood that he can't fight us directly . . I don't know if an enemy broke into our camp to do this damage or if there is a traitor amongst us . . . we can stand together and fight our external enemy . . but if there is an enemy amongst us . . . we are not safe . . we could even lose our lives in our sleep . . I am going to launch an investigation now . . please cooperate with your generals . . if we get evidence and come to conclusion on who did this . . and if the enemy is within our camp . . he will be executed by dawn . . and I have sent a message to Zaffar that there will not be a war tomorrow . . let's work together and sort this crisis . . '

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