Arindam:- No, no, dad! I am not in a mood to get married
right now. Give me some time to settle down. I am planning to take the job of a
guide for the tourists of our Tabernia kingdom.
Ptalone:- I am not saying no to it. Choose whatever
profession you like to chose, but, it is my wish that you participate in the
Swayambar Contest at the Royal Palace of Tabernia.
Arindam:- But, dad !
Ptalone:- My words are final in this regard. Either you
participate or you don’t stay at our house.
Arindam:- Ok! Fine! But, don’t blame me, if I fail to win the
contest. I know that I will not succeed in it.
Ptalone:- I have faith on the astrological predictions of
Priest Jubilion. I am quite optimistic that you will win it. Maradon, Tendula
and Panduram will accompany you in your journey towards the Royal Palace of
Tabernia kingdom which is around 15 kilometers away from our house.
Arindam:- Ok! Not an issue! Tonight, we will start our
journey.
Siusa:- Son, be careful while swimming at midnight.
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Maradon (A childhood friend of Arindam):- We have already
swum around 9 kilometers at a stretch. Come on! Let us pluck some sweet
roseberries from these roseberry plants.
Tendula (A childhood friend of Arindam):- Oh! Yeah! Yeah!
Rozario (Sea Horse):- Wait! Just hang on! This is the
territory of sea horses. No one can pluck any fruits, flowers or berries from
any plants or sea weeds of our territory without taking prior permission from
us. My name is Rozario. I am the Head Gardener of Sea-Plants of this Kingdom.
If you pluck anything, I may arrest you all to give some punishment at the
Royal Palace of Tabernia. I am a very loyal follower of our majesty, King Fola.
Panduram (A childhood friend of Arindam):- We are on our way
to the Royal Palace of Tabernia only. Our friend Arindam is going to
participate in the Swayambar Contest of the princess of Tabernia.
Rozario:- Ha ha ha…it is better to commit suicide rather than
participating in it, because a loser of that Swayambar Contest never comes back
alive.
Arindam:- What! What do you mean by that?
Rozario:- You will get to know about it once you enter inside
the Royal Palace of Tabernia.
Tendula:- If we sense something like that, then we will not
allow Arindam to participate in it. It is as simple as that.
Maradon:- Ha ha ha…Yeah! We will just watch the contest and
come back to our own village.
Panduram:- Rozario, we are feeling very hungry now. We need
to eat something to get some energy to swim another 6 kilometers or so.
Rozario:- Don’t worry; I am a strict gardener but not so a
cruel sea horse. Just wait here; I will give you a basket of roseberries of
high quality. By eating those, you all will get energized.
Arindam:- Oh! That’s really a nice gesture from your side.
Thank you.
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General Damus (Army General of Tabernia Kingdom):- It is a
great honor for us that for the third and the last time, we are going to
conduct this Swayambar Contest for our Princess Mirinda. As you all know that 3
years ago, Vikrant, the one and only son of our Great Emperor, Kakrasa gave the
marriage proposal to Princess Mirinda, but she declined that proposal. Emperor
Kakrasa with a good gesture gave Princess Mirinda a chance to select her groom
by organizing a Swayambar Contest each year. The maximum limit is of three
Swayambar Contests. If Princess Mirinda gets no winner from the three Swayambar
contests, then Princess Mirinda has to marry Vikrant. As per the agreement, if
Princess Mirinda gets any mermale from the Swayambar Contest, then King Fola
will remain as a lifetime prisoner of Emperor Kakrasa. Emperor Kakrasa and
Prince Vikrant are our chief guests. All the spectators present here; please
give a big round of applause to them.
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Tendula:- Emperor Kakrasa is really a very cruel Emperor.
Panduram:- Kakrasa is very shrewd. It is his calculated
strategy. He ensured it from all ends that no mermale can ever win the
Swayambar Contest.
Maradon:- For two times, there has been no winner. I think
that the history will repeat again here.
Arindam:- Hussh! Let us first listen to the announcements.
Then we can talk hours after hours.
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King Fola (King of Tabernia Kingdom):- I like to address to
all the contestants of the 3rd Swayambar Contest of my daughter
Mirinda. Welcome to the Royal Palace of Tabernia. I wish all the contestants a
very good luck from the core of my heart, because I want a real warrior to
become the life partner of my only daughter. Now, my better half, Queen Lucy
will tell you about the rules of the contest.
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Kakrasa (in a whispering tone):- How many contestants are
there today?
Vikrant:- Only 11.
Kakrasa:- Oh! None of them will make it. You will get married
to Mirinda.
Vikrant:- Yeah! I hope so.
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Queen Lucy (Queen of Tabernia Kingdom):- In the 1st
round, it is a not so a romantic race. You all need to swim through a zone of 1
kilometer where some warriors of Emperor Kakrasa will be hiding themselves and
shooting poisonous arrows randomly at the contestants. If you survive after
swimming for 1 kilometer, then you qualify for the 2nd round. In the
2nd round, you have to kill Alligator Ali to win the Swayambar
Contest. In the 1st Swayambar Contest, not a single contestant
survived in the 1st round. In the 2nd Swayambar Contest, one
contestant got qualified for the 2nd round, but got killed by the
Alligator Ali. The 1st round will start after a few moments. All the
contestants are requested to take their position on the Starting Point.
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Arindam:- My dad is a real fool. He didn’t know about all
these things, otherwise, he would have never told me to participate in this
deadly competition. I will not participate in it. Come on, let’s go back home.
Panduram:- Sea Horse was saying the right thing.
Maradon:- Look there! General Damus is announcing about
something again.
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General Damus:- Contestants, before going for the 1st
round, don’t you like to have a glimpse of Princess Mermaid? Please give a big
round of applause for Princess Mirinda. Princess Mirinda, please be seated on
that seat, especially made for you.
Princess Mermaid:- Oh! Thanks! General Uncle!
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Arindam:- Wow! What a beautiful mermaid she is! Look at her
white dress! Look at her lovely shining tail fin. Long black hairs with beautiful
eyes! Aah! Am I dreaming? I have never seen such a beautiful mermaid in my
entire life.
Tendula:- That’s why; she is a princess, buddy. So many
mermaids take care of her as beauticians and style designers. Our poor mermaids
of our village are not so lucky enough to have such privilege to become too
fashionable.
Arindam:- My dad has done the right thing to send me here.
Thanks to dad! I will participate in this Swayambar Contest. I want to marry
that beautiful mermaid. She is mine.
Maradon:- What! Have you gone crazy? Your dad is a crazy mermale
and you are crazier than him also. We will tell your dad that you have lost the
contest. Now, come on, let’s go back home. As your friends, we cannot allow you
to die like that.
Arindam:- I don’t know about the 2nd round, but, I
am very much confident that I will clear the 1st round because I am
expert in swimming. Thanks to my master, Dolphin Darwin. Better, I suggest you
people to make a nice sword for me or steal it from somewhere.
Panduram:- Ok! Guys! Let Arindam participate in the Contest.
I have an idea. Just a few meters from this Royal Palace, there is a place
where I have seen some Guin Corals while on our way here.
Maradon:- So! What?
Panduram:- If you kill any fish and keep it on any Guin
Coral, then those Corals give the smell of human blood. My dad is a Shark
Hunter. Many a times, I have seen my dad applying this strategy to attract the
sharks and then killing the sharks with automated electrical harpoons.
Arindam:- Yeah! It is a good idea to distract the warriors of
Kakrasa. Anyway, I am going to the Starting Point. Do whatever you feel like
doing.
Maradon, Panduram and Tendula:- Best of luck to you, Arindam.
Arindam:- Thanks.
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Panduram:- How many small fishes have you killed, Tendula?
Tendula:- Well, 14 small fishes. I have tasted one of them.
Oh! Such a bitter taste! All sea fishes are not so delicious.
Maradon:- I have plucked almost all the Guin Corals from the
seabed. Give me those dead fishes one by one.
Panduram:- Take these Holka Thorns. Pierce the body of those
dead fishes to take out the blood and then stick the fishes on those corals
with those thorns only.
Maradon:- Ok! You people start swimming to the spot and
locate a feasible location, where we can install these Guin Corals.
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Queen Lucy:- 7 out of 11 contestants have qualified for the 2nd
round. That’s a record! We will have our
2nd round tomorrow where you have to fight either with Alligator Ali
or Alligator Alisha. As the contestants are more, so we have made two panels.
In Panel -1, it is Alligator Ali and in Panel-2, it is Ali’s younger sister,
Alligator Alisha. We request all the 7 contestants to stay at the dormitories
of our Royal Palace with your respective guardians or friends. See you all
tomorrow again.
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Vikrant:- How is it possible? Dad, your warriors cannot even
kill 11 contestants. Shame on your warriors!
Kakrasa:- I have talked with General Monduka (Warrior Head
cum Army General under Emperor Kakrasa) regarding this matter. It was
unfortunate that some sharks attacked our warriors. All the sharks have been
killed. Our 5 warriors died in the encounter against the sharks. By the time,
our warriors killed all the sharks; the 1st round of the Swayambar
Contest was almost over. Still, our warriors managed to kill 4 contestants in that
circumstance. Don’t worry; not a single contestant will be able to win against
Alligator Ali and Alligator Alisha.
Vikrant:- Don’t underestimate the mermales. Alligators may
fail also. If any mermale win against any alligator, then let him be killed by
our warriors at a secret place. When the spectators will ask about the winner
of the contest, then we will say that due to severe injuries in his body, he
succumbed to death.
Kakrasa:- That’s a nice idea. We will surely execute it.
Relax and start dreaming about your honeymoon with Princess Mirinda.
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Arindam:- Really, I am grateful to God that I have got you
such friends in my life. Thanks for saving my life.
Maradon:- Ok! Ok! Don’t get so carried away. We are not so
good mermales.
Panduram:- Ha ha ha…Look at me. I have stolen one of the best
swords. A warrior of Kakrasa died of the shark attack. I picked up his sword.
Do you know how my dad always sharpens the harpoons? Look at those blue colored
flowers! These are known as Briton flowers. Inside the petals of these flowers,
there are Briton juices. Rub the petals of Briton on the sword from top to
bottom to sharpen the sword.
Arindam:- Ok! Ok! Keep this sword hidden under the seabed
here. We will come here before the 2nd round to take the sword from
here. Now, come on, let us go back to our dormitories at the Royal Palace of
Tabernia, otherwise, the warriors of Kakrasa may doubt us. By the way, what the
hell is Tendula doing inside the dormitory?
Maradon:- He collected the skin of a dead shark. He is sewing
body armor for you with that shark’s skin. After all; his father is a tailor.
So, Tendula knows how to sew up everything.
Arindam:- Oh! What a fool! Tendula is a fool. An Alligator’s
teeth can even bite through the Shark’s skin.
Panduram:- We are not scared of Alligators but Kakrasa’s
warriors.
Arindam:- Ok! Got it! Tendula is a very smart mermale. That’s
great!
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Queen Lucy:- Out of 4 contestants in Panel-1, the 4th
contestant was able to win against Alligator Ali. Markov, the mermale killed
Alligator Ali. Markov is badly injured now. Markov is going through some
medical treatments. Now, in the Panel-2, out of 3 contestants, the 3rd
contestant, Arindam was able to kill the Alligator Alisha. Arindam, the mermale
is also badly injured and the warriors of Kakrasa are taking him for some
medical treatment. In the meanwhile, we have got the news that Markov has died
due to severe injuries on his body. We have to wait and see whether Arindam
will survive in the medical treatment or not.
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