Year 2048 (Vikram Samvat)

"Yuvraj, you are going to be a father soon."

Said Rajeshwari, lowering her timid gaze, placing Yuvraj Vishnuvardhan's hand over her insignificantly swollen belly.

"It's high time, Rajjo. My family needs to accept you now. You have our heir inside you."

He blurted out, drawing away his hand from her belly.

"I don't need the palace, nor do I want the status of a Queen. I only want my child to survive. I want our small family to be happy, Yuvraj. Please don't let anyone know about my pregnancy."

Rajeshwari mumbled in a low feminine voice, mugging Vishnuvardhan's bicep, who seemed to be lost in some other world.

"Uttering such words is a simple task for a priest's daughter, but his destiny is to rule. He will sit on the throne of Agnivansha one day, ruling over lands and hearts."

He declared, holding Rajeshwari's waist, kissing her forehead lovingly.

"I wish I give birth to a daughter."

She muttered, enraging Vishnuvardhan a little. She went inside the temple after uttering those words, leaving Vishnuvardhan all alone over there.

Flashback!!!

"Your child will rule the seven oceans and the lands that cover this planet. He will transform the ruling system and will emerge out as the only ruler on the Earth. He will be admired and dreaded by the people at the same time."

Narad Muni blessed Prince Vishnuvardhan in his dreams one night. The palace asked him to forget this since it was 'just a dream', but somewhere Vishnuvardhan was sure that it wasn't a dream.

Vishnuvardhan is a great Vishnu devotee so he often visited the nearby Vishnu temple for offering the prayers. This was the place where he had seen Rajeshwari for the first time.

She was the prime reason why he began visiting temple on a daily basis, becoming a devotee eventually.

Rajeshwari Bhagwat - the eldest daughter of the Vishnu temple's priest, and now the love interest of Vishnuvardhan Pratap Singh, the Yuvraj of Chahmana dynasty, who was going to be the King soon.

Their relationship was forbidden because of the difference between Varna, but love doesn't know boundaries, so did they.

They decided to marry secretly, as per Gandharva vivah ritual and began living together near the temple itself, until in 2048, Rajeshwari was pregnant.

Back to present!

Sitting close to the lotus pond, Vishnuvardhan was immersed in the thoughts of his palace, which is now no more than a devastated historical site.

The palace of Maharaja Adhiraj Prithviraj Chauhan is what he was pondering upon. The place is a tourist spot now, devastated and shattered.

The lineage was totally disturbed, and the members hid their identity from the world to save this sole lineage because of a boon. Lord Brahma had blessed Vishnuvardhan's father that one of his sons would give birth to that great Prithviraj again, who will also have amsa of Bhagwan Vishnu and Bhagwan Shiva in him.

His father - Visnuyash, was afraid of this information. He didn't want anyone to know about this because this could invite trouble to the unborn. Unfortunately, he passed away when his elder son was just nineteen, and younger one was fifteen.

Veerendra, the younger brother of Vishnuvardhan lusted over the throne and respect that was destined for Vishnuvardhan, but naive Vishnuvardhan was unaware of evil intentions.

The scattered family was scuffling to build a reputation all over again like the other royal families, but the sufferings that had fallen over this family was far more than any other one.

Vishnuvardhan had plans of launching an industry that could help them gain the lost popularity, but Veerendra had different plans. Within the closed doors of his miniature room, Veerendra was planning to murder his own brother so that he could ascend the invisible throne that he thought that he could build all alone.

"How are they doing?" Veerendra asked his friend, Rupesh.

"I got to know that the priest's daughter is pregnant with your brother's child."

Rupesh informed Veerendra, who smirked at this information.

"We need to wait for nine months to execute our plan."

He elucidated, continuing to paint the portrait that held the power to terrify Rupesh.

Rupesh observed Veerendra, who seemed to be possessed by some evil entity as he kept pouring the black colour on the canvas.

"Are you okay, King?"

Rupesh managed to ask Veerendra, who did not reply him at all.

"The Dark shall rise, the Light shall perish. The Demons shall win, the Gods shall lose. This is KALIYUGA - the age of darkness."

This is all Veerendra could reply, glancing at the mirror, where a dark black coloured entity stood before him, smirking devilishly, his crinkled hand, with rough blackish fingers rested on his head.

"This is how I rule. I don't win over the body, I enslave the minds of human beings - the most favourite creation of Paramatma."

Demon Kali muttered in Veerendra's ear, gradually dissolving into him. Veerendra's eyes turned pitch black, but it turned normal within a moment. Veerendra was under Kali's effect now, the demon who was promised by the Gods to rule this age of darkness.

I won't let you survive during my era, Narayan! Nor will your Shakti be able to defeat me. I live in many minds now - somewhere as ego, while the others experience me through lust. I am the greed, jealousy, intoxication, illusion and destruction.

I AM KALI!!!

On the other side, Rajeshwari's belly was growing. Vishnuvardhan remained by her side, taking extremely good care of her because only he was aware of the entity that was developing inside his wife's womb - the destroyer of Darkness!

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