Chapter 13

Chapter 13


Karadiammavan slowly opened his eyes after the sleep, he starts looking around to find someone. But no one is near him. He wonder, where does the Kittukurangan go? He starts walking through the small way, full of white flowers, before him. The forest is full of beautiful butterflies, but the humming sound of their wings make him uncomfortable. At the far end of the way he can see a big rock, he starts walking swiftly to reach there. Both of his eyes were focused on the big rock and the humming sound of butterflies starts to hypnotise him. Now he feels like flying, his ears starts hearing whispering from the butterflies "Please don't go there.... don't go there..." But all he can do is to walk towards the rock. Finally he reach near the rock. It is a huge, brown colored rock and  strangely there is no butterflies near the rock. He feels like, he is infront of a mountain. He slowly looks at the top of the rock and see Simhathamburan. His eyes cannot believe that! Simhathamburan is looking at him. He can see a cruel smile on his face. He wants to run from there, but his legs are immovable now. Simhathamburan slowly starts climbing  down from the rock towards him and when he reach infront of him, he made a huge roar. The whole forest get trembled in his roar. And all Karadiammavan can do is to cry as loudly as possible...


"Aahhh...." Karadiammavan jumped out of his sleep like a frog and opened his eyes. "Oh it is a bad dream!" he whispered.

He looks around him. It is still dark, and today the shining moon and the twinkling stars are absent in the sky. He feel that they may have disappear after hearing his loud cry. Karadiammavan looked at Kittukurangan, he is sleeping near him.The monkey with half tail sleep with an innocent smile in his face. He want to sleep again, but the dream made him uncomfortable. He has been away from the Ariyankavu forest for atleast a week now, but still he is dreaming about Simhathmburan. Now he is worried about Kaallettan, his father. Is he safe there?


He slowly rise from there and walk to the pond near him. He sit near the pond just looking at the water. His mind is still worried about the Kallettan...Slowly a cool wind hugged him, it may be the hug of Mother nature. He sit there waiting for the sun to rise.

The sun is rising slowly and it's warm rays made Kittukurangan awake. He slowly rubbed his eyes and nose and starts whispering, " Oh, Sun rises this much fast!" He reached the pond and washed his face. He go near Karadiammavan and asked "What's the plan for today?"


"I don't have one, do you have any?" Karadiammavan replied.

Kittukurangan stand there for a while looking at the sky and answered. "Yes, I have a plan. We can go to the Theankunnu and eat some honey for breakfast. What do you think?"


Hearing the word "honey" Karadiammavan become interested. "Okay, let's go..." He replied.

"But there is a problem, to take honey from Theankunnu is not easy." Kittukurangan said. "I just give the plan to cheer up you. Actually Theankunnu is a dangerous place. There we have to face honeybee sting and the wasp sting at the same time. They are ready to attack anytime."


"Don't worry, I am an expert in this." Karadiammavan said.

Theankunnu is dangerous place, where the bees and wasp stay together. They have made a colony for themselves. No intruders are allowed there. Even the lions and elephants were afraid to go there. Last month they have even made an alliance with the ants. Now all the ants in the Chenkotta forest also live their. Small organisms with a huge army. No one ever survived their force. Kittukurangan explained all these things to Karadiammavan while they are walking to Theankunnu.

While they are walking to the Theankunnu, all the animals stared at them. They all wonder why these two animals go in the direction of Theankunnu. Some old birds start praying to the Vandevatha, the Forest God, after seeing Karadiammavan and Kittukurangan. They all believes that, these to animals are walking to their death.

Finally Karadiammavan and Kittukurangan reach near the Theankunnu. They can see big piles of soil and huge honey combs. Kittukurangan pointed his finger towards a board. It says:

                                       "Theankunnu- No intruders allowed.
                                               Enter at your own risk."