Neringa Ramayana Six!

Chapter 6: Pyrotechnics :)

Ok, 

Quick recap:  old king, no kids, gets kids, eldest is Ram, awesome dude, one queen plots, kicks ram out to place her son at the throne, ram with brother laxman and wifey sita out in the jungle for 14 years, sita is kidnapped, ram is distraught, allies with sugrive to find her. Hanuman, strongman from sugrive's army, flies to lanka, finds sita. assures her safety and gets caught delibrately to recon the city of the enemy. 

So, here we are. in the court of our villian, ravana. A monkeyman, all tied up, is brought into the court. to everyone's amazement, as soon as he is bought in, hanuman frees himself, makes a seat for himself out of a coiled tail, and sits. Sits as if her was sitting on a throne. 

Ravana is furious. Hanuman directly addresses him, tells him he is a diplomatic messenger from ram, and that ravana should immediately release sita. Furious, ravana orders the monkey to be killed. executed. His younger brother vibheeshana along with a few senior ministers immediately rush to him and try to talk him out of it. it is not courteous to kill a diplomatic messenger. against protocol. Ravana heeds their pleas. he has an idea. "Get oil, old rags. Bind his tail and burn it! I wont kill you, but i sure will make you suffer for your insolence."

Sita came to hear this, somehow. She immediately lit a pyre and started praying to the fire god. Meanwhile, the wind god [hanuman's father, also appealed to the fire god, not to hurt hanuman] Moved, the fire god made sure that thoughhanuman's tail burned bright and true, he felt no pain due to it :) [how nice!]

they lit his tail and left him on the sea shore. Seeing that it wasnt hurting, hanuman grew in size [remember he has the power fo changing his size, from miniscule to very huge.] This big hanuman leapt back into the city, over rooftops. spiderman style, he jumped from building to building. Quick as lightning and big as kingkong, no one could do anything. before you knew it, all of lanka was ablaze, on fire. He saw that all was burning, made sure sita was safe, took her leave and dunked into the sea. His fire extinguished, he leapt back and flew to India, back to angad and jambuvant who were waiting for him there.

They bought back this joyous news to ram. Ram literally cried tears of gratitude when he heard this awesome news. now he knew where she was. all they had to go was to go and win her back. 

Sugrive called all his generals, assembled his army and all of them marched down to the sea, to confront the big rakshas, to see if they could get sita back.

to be continued next time :)