I stumbled upon a story I had written on a piece of paper on a boring summer afternoon. Most of my childhood writings were lost, so this was like finding a treasure. I laugh at the naivety of the writing - but not ashamed of it. Putting it up verbatim. First, the synopsis :
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Once, like often there was a kingdom and a princess who was,
you guessed it right ‘captured by rival kingdom’ – who possessed modern warfare.
One day an unknown warrior braves his life and rescues her and takes her back.
He goes by the name ‘Azad (freedom)’. He is in actuality an agent of the rival
kingdom and the escape attempt was just a charade. Once inside the kingdom, he
is touched by the people’s simplicity and culture. They surrender to the lord,
have loyal attitude. The kingdom has its own spies in the rival kingdom and
hence discovers Azad’s true identity, The commander in chief tries to claim
pride by trying to take down the warrior single handedly but gets slayed. The
rival military attacks kingdom. The warrior proves his change of heart by
blurting out their strategy and acts as double agent. The kingdom has strong
protection due to a wall around it. But their ancient temple is outside the
walls. The king falls in a quandary. But the warrior gives a terrific speech
that sacrifice is characteristic feature of warrior and that fighting within
the compound would mean destruction of their history and the world would look
upon them as cowards. The kingdom is saved. Predictably, the warrior marries
the queen and they have a son- ‘Balidaan’ (sacrifice). He becomes friend with
the son of the slain commander in chief, who secretly desires to kill him. But
on seeing the nobility of the warrior and realizing that he had slain his
father as a self defence, he is thankful that his father fell down from the
hands of a great warrior. Both grow up. Many years later, again the kingdom is
under threat – from a larger force of coalition. Everyone realizes that only a
miracle can save them. The council decides that they would fight back. But Balidaan
has other ideas. He gives a speech about how people’s lives is what matters and
where culture is and not on stones and monuments. He says that a warrior isn’t decided
by number of people he kills but by the number f people saves. Honour and glory
do not necessarily come by killing. The
primary objective must be to save the people. The walls have the ancestors
buried in them and leaving it on the mercy of enemy would mean its destruction.
He realizes this and yet decides to take the contentious decision of leading
his people away from the walls, eventhough his own parents are buried there.
They use the compound as a bait and lure the enemy in and then use it’s stones
as weapons to attack the enemy. He also stops the daily services of gods in
temples to conserve milk and other essentials. He uses the weapons of god as he
says that they are more in need of them and that surely god is powerful enough
to make do without them. One day he learns that the enemy has stored most of
its weapons in the sacred temple lying outside the walls – believing that they
would never attack it. He hatches a plan and discreetly destroys the sacred
temple along with the weapons in it. The temple which his parents dies saving.
He knows this deep in his heart, yet he does so for the larger good. Furious,
the enemy does a full frontal attack. He had predicted the hysteria and
prepared secret tunnel leading out. They use these and surround the enemy,
creating disarray and confusion. They have also been in contact with
surrounding tribal, nomads for help and they get the help. The enemy is
attacked on all fonts and decides to retreat away after falling for internal squabbles.
The warrior dies during the battle. He reunites with his parents. His father’s
last wishes came true – he fell as a martyr, but not as expected by him.
Attaching below the story I wrote when I was in 9th grade
