A Slave who became Emperor

Samyukta twisted and turned in her sleep, she was having a terrible nightmare, a woman, most beautiful, blue eyes.. fair creamy complexion, full red lips.. beautiful figure.. suddenly she turned into a black devil with red horns and white vampire teeth.. she was worshipping evil spirits.. she extracted babies from pregnant mother's bellies and cut them into two.. most cruel.. then she saw a treasure, dark skinned people.. the evil woman was laughing maniacally.. she became the devil once again..

Samyukta woke up.. her body was drenched in sweat.. she looked at Pinaka, he was peacefully sleeping.. that nightmare.. it felt so realistic.. she felt that in the morning she should consult the Raj guru about it.. she gulped some water down and fell asleep..

In the morning even before Pinaka woke up, she went and spoke to Raj guru, she told him in detail the nightmare she has seen.. her voice was shaking badly when she was recounting how the evil woman sacrificed babies forcefully extracted from mother's belly even before completing their gestation period..

The Raj guru asked Samyukta to sit down.. he removed a scroll from his study, it was an ancient scroll with names of the planets, names of the stars ,sun,moon etc along with their celestial positions as per Hindu astrology.. he took out some shells and placed them on the four corners of the scroll.. then he closed his eyes and uttered a chant.. as soon as he completed the chant, the shells raised in the air and got aligned in a sequence.. each shell fell on a planet or a star.. then the Raj guru looked at the sequence intently and closed his eyes.. he opened his eyes and said, 'the country would face huge crisis soon.. that woman would bring great doom to the nation.. ' Samyukta looked shaken, she said, 'Raj guru.. can we avoid this in any manner? ' he meditated for fifteen minutes, Samyukta didn't disturb him.. he opened his eyes and said, 'there is a treasure.. a hidden treasure for which that woman is plotting.. she is being aided by a noble Lord.. we need to get help.. speak to Zaffar..'

She didn't waste any time, she had full confidence in Raj guru's words.. she rushed to Pinaka, told him everything and said that they needed to meet Zaffar.. he asked Samyukta to stay back, she was adamant.. she said that she had a part to play in this.. she saw the nightmare.. it meant that there was a reason for it..

Zaffar lost hope.. Mirza must have been gone for months.. the dark cells could break any tough soul.. he was weakened drastically.. he lost weight.. he kept muttering ridiculous words to himself.. it would take only few days for him to become completely mad.. then he saw light.. he couldn't open his eyes.. he saw two figures filled with light.. angels came to take him away.. he fainted..