Empire of India: Rise of the Ruthless Prince

Chandrapur, Yadava Kingdom.

"Stand down. Heed to my command. I, Gauri Seuna, shall claim my rightful position."

The declaration roared across the battlefield. The royal army heeded the command and surrendered without a fight. The bloodshed was avoided. She just had to take the final step and kill the bastard who had assassinated her brother.

Commander Bhishma got up and kneeled down.

"I shall acknowledge Princess Gauri as the rightful heir to the throne."

Little did Gauri know, Bhishma knew that she wasn't the imposter the moment he saw her on the battlefield. Despite this, he didn't surrender without a battle because if the princess didn't show her power,.

There would be people clawing for the throne looking down upon a woman ruling the kingdom. So Bhishma initially decided to challenge Gauri for an honorable duel. But she challenged him first.

he tried to hold back and lose in the first few minutes, but the reality was evident to him. She was a strong warrior, not one to hold back against. Bhishma tried his best to win but, in the end, was bested by the princess. This made him come to respect the princess.

She held a power honed through hard work and suffering.

Bhishma's reason for accepting it was to show the power she held to everyone so they didn't look down on the princess because she was a woman in the future.

Meanwhile, at the palace. Ravi Seuna looked at the surrender of the royal army from afar and began packing to flee the kingdom. The squad sent by the Sultan Kasim never reached him.

They were killed before they could set foot in the capital by commander Bhishma. Ravi didn't know this since he had thought that the commander was his puppet. Everything he had planned came crashing down in an instant.

The prime minister had run away, leaving him alone in the castle. He took money and his belongings and entered the tunnel that led out of the capital that was made to help the royal family escape in case of a war.

'Why am I losing? It's all her fault.'

He entered the moss-filled tunnel. The area was dark and damp. The water droplets accumulated by the moss drop onto the wet tunnel floor occasionally. Ravi Seuna held a small lantern and made his way into the tunnel.

After a while of walking into the tunnel, he could feel the wind of the night flowing into the tunnel. He was close to the exit, and now he could finally escape with his life.

The faint moonlight seeped through in the distance, and the exit was close. A loud noise rang in his ears. Ravi lost his balance and fell face first into the wet tunnel floor.

"Just as the princess told, this bas-"

The last words he heard before passing out.

Ravi woke to the bloodcurdling screams of a man. A woman was laughing and speaking something that he could faintly understand. The pain in his head made him dizzy, and the surroundings were a blur. He was unable to move from the chair as he was strapped tight.

As the vision cleared. He turned to the sources of the noise and saw the prime minister cut up into a mess. His teeth and nails were all pulled out. The face of the prime minister was mangled into a mess. His nose was askew at an unnatural angle.

"ARGHHHH!" He screamed again as the woman drove her dagger into his gut.

The prime minister's body was riddled with stab wounds. Blood spilled out onto the carpet. Crazy laughter echoed the room as the woman sliced the neck off the prime minister, killing him.

Ravi shuddered at the sight. How could a woman be so cruel? Her blood-covered face reminded him and sent shivers down his spine.

"Look! My sweet uncle is awake." She said, walking towards him, playing with her dagger.

Ravi's mind went blank as the moonlight fell on the woman. The crazy, blood-covered face of the woman made him shudder to the core.

He recognized her. It was Gauri Seuna, the bitch, that had made all these years of planning go astray in a moment.

She looked at him and, without saying anything, drove her dagger into his shoulder and twisted it.

"ARGHH!" screamed Ravi. His body convulsed with pain as she kept twisting the dagger.

She looked happy, stabbing him.

'She is crazy!'

Gauri pulled out her dagger and stabbing at the same place, twisting it even more violently. Ravi was squirming and convulsing in pain. His screams were getting faint as his vocal chords gave out.

"Uncle. Why did you kill brother?" Gauri asked, pushing the dagger deeper into his shoulder.

"Never mind that! You know I can't change the past!"

Gauri pulled her dagger out. Pulled his hair, exposing his face and pointing the dagger at his eye.

*STAB*

A bloodcurdling scream came out of Ravi. It was like he was possessed by demons. The dagger was lodged into his eye socket. The eyeball was punctured like an air balloon. Blood and mucus spilled out like a fountain.

"Uncle!" She pushed the dagger deeper into his eye socket.

"You know!! I cannot talk to others about this!! But you will die soon, so I don't mind revealing this."

She pulled out the dagger from his eye socket.

"Listen!!"

*STAB*

She stabbed the other eye of Ravi.

Amidst the scream, she kept talking.

"You know! I kept thinking, What will I do after I take my revenge?"

She took out another dagger from her sheath and stabbed his wounded shoulder, severing the joint and his arm off.

"I couldn't think of anything at first!"

Ravi pleas of help were getting ignored as she kept talking.

"Listen!"

She cut his tongue off and kicked his jaw to dislocate at a weird angle.

"At last I found something I want!!"

*STAB*

Gauri stabbed the other shoulder of Ravi. He was experiencing pain like never before. It was hell on earth. He was suffering the wrath of Goddess Kali itself.

'What is this crazy woman saying?'

'Please!! I beg you!! I want to live!'

'Please!'

'Please!'

The pleas never came out; he couldn't even coherently make sounds due to the wounds.

"Uncle, I think I found love."

*STAB*

*STAB*

She continued stabbing him in different places without a hint of mercy.

"Harsha is so cute and handsome! He also said he would accept a tall and strong woman like me!"

*STAB*

"Unlike the other males! He said he doesn't mind ladies with bruises and rough hands."

*STAB*

"But you know, He is a prince of the Vijayanagara Empire, while I am just an exiled princess. So I will use the kingdom to make Harsha mine."

*STAB*

She finally drove her dagger into his chest, an eternity of torture.

"Harsha! Hope we can meet again!"

Ravi died miserably. The coup finally came to an end with Gauri Seuna winning and taking over the throne of the Yadava kingdom. All the family members of Ravi were executed publicly, and their heads were hung on the capital walls for a week to show the fate of those who betrayed the kingdom.

Gauri Seuna finally took her rightful place as the Queen of the Yadava Kingdom.