Is really Ram?
I blinked and examined the man's features more closely. The eyes belong to Ram but he is clearly Asian while Ram is not. His dimples also resemble Ram's and the way that he was looking at me is somehow convincing me that he is.
But he isn't. This guy is not Ram
"What are you doing here?" Seela stood beside me and placed a hand on my shoulder. I looked up and finally saw his face closely. She has a bruised lips and a cut on her forehead. "Shouldn't you and miss Geeta be at the training center?"
"We were excused for the day. They wanted to prioritize the others." I answered and saw his face furrow with displeasure. "Are you alright?"
Seela nodded. "I have been through much worse situations." She answered. "And besides, I have a strong lemurian gene. It will heal without leaving much of a scar."
"Are you trying to boast?"
"Are you trying to escape the topic about skipping training?"
"I said that I did not skip my training." I insisted and Seela simply folded her arms over her chest and looked down at me with a smirk. She wasn't buying it.
"Really? Then what were you doing all day?"
"All day?" I looked surprised and took a look at my cuff to see the time. It was already 3 hours past noon. Realizing that I missed my lunch, my stomach grumbled.
Seela chuckled. "What made you so busy that you forgot to eat?"
I kept my face stoic as I tried to hide the look of embarrassment on my face. "We visited Kufi." I answered.
"Kufi?" He looked confused.
"princess Brinda 'cute' pet plesiosaur." I scoffed as I remembered the gigantic alligator.
Seela was stunned for a few second before she gave me a lifeless nod of her head. "I see. Alright." Then she turned her back and I thought for sure that she would leave. But then she returned abruptly and grabbed my shoulder. "You were with who and met what!?" She demanded loudly that a few people turned to look at us.
"With Princess Brinda and her pet plesiosaur named Kufi?" I answered uncomfortably.
Her lips curled into a grimace and she closed her eyes. She looks like he is ready to faint. "Are you sure you're alright?" I asked worriedly and looked around to see if there are any medics who are available. "Medics? General Seela isn't feeling well!" I announced.
"No, I am not!" He yelled and denied the offered assistance from one of the medics. "It's just..." He paused. He seemed stress that I saw bags forming under her eyes. I looked at Geeta to see that she abandoned me when she saw that I was with Seela. She had a mischievous grin on her face and gave me a thumbs up before ushering Israr and William away.
That girl is unbelievable. She thinks that she's Cupid!
Seela shook her head tiredly and sighed. "I guess it's okay if it's with princess Brinda." She says and suddenly straightened up to look at the crowd. "All front units!" She announced. Everyone suddenly stopped to look at the general. "To those who can move and are able to move, I want all of you to meet me in the training facility right now. It won't take a while." Seela started to leave to head to the training facility. Others started to follow her, but I stayed for a few more minutes just so I could take a look at the boy, the one who resembles Ram. The medics were hauling him on a stretcher. His eyes were closed and I watched as they dragged him away.
It's not Ram. It is NOT Ram. I kept reminding myself as I followed Seela.
***
"I have a few announcements to make." Seela addressed to those who are sitting in front of her. We were back in the training facility. Geeta and I sitting side by side with the others, who did not come with Seela on her recent mission. The ones who did were standing in full attention behind her. Each with a sullen and sunken face. "First of all, is that almost half of the troupes that came with us on the mission are...dead. The others are gravely injured to the point that they may not be able to join the fronts any longer."
"Trisha?" A girl gasped from our side. Her eyes scanned the people who were behind Seela. I noticed how some of the have their eyes casted down when they heard his name. "General, what happened to Trisha?"
"Sit down, Mr Bhuvan." Seela ordered. "Trisha is fine and is receiving medical help in our hospital." The girl relaxed a bit and went back to crouch down and bury her face to her knees. Her brown hair cascading over her face as Seela continued. "Before I show you the faces of our deceased brothers and sisters, I kindly ask all of you to remain here for a while. I have a few important matters to discuss further." He says and gives each of us a look. Once he was satisfied, he and Tarun nodded. Tarun came forward and raised his cuff. A large holographic monitor flashed in the air large enough to show the faces of the Lemurians there. "The faces that you don't see on the screen or are not present here are injured and are currently receiving medical treatment."
Series of gasp and wails were heard. Some cried and some demanded answers for their death. Others let out a breath of relief.
"That is a lie!"
"Where are their bodies? How can we be sure that they are dead!?"
"My brother!"
"If we have lemurian genes then how could they simply outsmart us?"
"We have the weapons! How could this have happened? Is this a joke?"
The facility turned into a chaos as they are demanded for answers. Geeta was clutching her stomach, and I could only guess that she remembers the death of her unborn child at the pained cries of the people around us. Seela simply raised a hand to shut them up.
"Death could have been avoided. Yes." Seela admitted. "We already had a plan, unfortunately it failed. Not because we were incompetent, but because someone leaked our plan to the enemy. There is a traitor in our ranks." Series of murmur started to form in the crowd. It started from a few harsh whispers and then fingers started pointing.
"It was you, wasn't it?! You keep on skipping training. Where have you been?"
"It was him! There's no remorse in his face!"
"Maybe it was one of those two!" Someone suddenly says and pointed their fingers at me and Geeta. Geeta stopped from mopping and turned to glare at the guy named Bhuvan. The guy with the brunette hair were throwing daggers at us with her eyes. I was able to keep my emotions in check, unfortunately, Geeta wasn't in a good mood either.
"Maybe instead of pointing that finger at us then maybe you can start training so you can join them on a mission and save your precious boyfriend." My eyes widened at his words, and I moved back as Bhuvan lunged himself at Geeta. The two were now strangling each other on the floor in a fit of rage.
And that was the starting point of it all. Seeing the two girls fighting must have triggered something from the others because they started attacking each other as well. I heard Seela give out a command that I didn't quite hear. I crawled until I saw Geeta and Bhuvan again. I got up and tried to pull the two girls apart. "Stop this!" I yelled and attempted to pry their hands off of each other.
"Back off!" Bhuvan yelled and punched me on the face. Her lemurian strength amplified the strength of her hit that I was slammed to the floor, and the back of my head hit the ground loudly.
"You bitch!" I heard Geeta roar in anger, but I could not tell what they were doing. My head was spinning from the impact, and I groaned in pain when someone helped me to sit. My ears were ringing and I don't have to see to know that my nose is bleeding.
"Are you okay?" I could tell that it was Seela. Without looking at her, I nodded my head. I opened my eyes a bit to see that Seela ran towards the two girls. Well attempted too, but she was blocked by other men on the way. I looked back at Bhuvan and rage suddenly filled up within me. I have never been one to seek out revenge when I am hit. Maybe because my head got hit that I wasn't thinking at that time.
But I did remember something. I remembered feeling angry and gritting my teeth as I wiped the blood off of my nose. I remember getting up and fixing my gaze at him with pure hatred. My hands balling into fist as I lunged at him. I let out a loud scream as I ran, pulled my fist back, and threw the very first punch that I ever did in my whole 19 years of existence.
I felt the impact and as my fist collided with Bianca's stomach. I can't exactly remember what happened, but I heard a loud bang and multiple curses and gasped followed. When I looked up, I saw Bhuvan lying unconscious on the ground. The wall above him was bend from the impact.
"Mitt, what did you..." Geeta trailed off and I suddenly became aware of my surroundings the moment that I turned to face her. The fighting has ceased and all eyes were either on me or to on Bhuvan, who's head was now bleeding. I found Geeta's gaze. There were fear and disbelief in them.
"Mitt, what did you do?"