Anitha hold her breath as he bent down towards her with a crooked face and an unwanted glee.....
She swallowed hard and shut her eyes tightly....
Suddenly there was a 'whistling' sound, in a very stylish manner, coming out of nowhere, and stopped him who bent towards anitha.
All 4 of them puzzled and looked each other. They searched the surroundings to find out where the sound was coming from.
Behind them, there appeared a silhouette of a 'man' who was standing in the darker side of the street.
"Who is there?" One of them asked.
'The man' took a very few, cool, calm and slow steps towards them, but still standing in the shadow, not visible completely. At this view, 'He' appeared so strong and muscular with broad shoulders and standing like a teak tree. It seemed 'he' was holding 'something' in his hand and that 'thing' extends upto the ground.
"Hey....who are you man?", Out of four, the one who near to 'him' asked and approached 'him' quickly, with raised hand, in order to beat him.
"thrrruppp......"
Nothing visible what happened, in a fraction of a second, within blink of an eyelid,
the gangster fell down like a 'deadbody'.
All the other 3, taken aback on looking at this.
They got furious and the other 2, rushed towards 'him' simultaneously.
Now 'He' is also moving towards them with a deep and slow pacing stance which looked very calculative, dragging the object with 'him'.
The 2nd one threw his heavy hand towards 'his' head, 'He' easily missed it by bending forward, at the same time , swung his object, which must be a heavy metal rod, with such a force, the gangster's legs were smashed by it. He fell down with a loud ' ah......'
Instantly 'He' blocked the raised wooden rod, by the 3rd person, using 'his' object, with the other arm 'He' gave out a heavy blow on his stomach. The 3rd one knelt down with his palm catching his abdomen. 'He' once again hit him on his shoulder and he dropped to the floor.
Anitha tried slowly to get up but caught hold by the 4th one who is standing behind her. He placed a knife on her throat and threatened ' Him' , " don't come closer".
Anitha watching all this, was already half giddy, the tightness on her arms, the knife at her neck frightened her at most, she flipped from his grip and fainted on the floor.
Helplessly, the 4th one got confused and hesitated a minute not knowing what to do next, he quickly decided and approached 'Him' with his knife.
On seeing the knife, 'He' smiled at him, nodded his head and said, " come.., will see" moving towards him. When he came close, with a single blow on his knife holding wrist, the knife was thrown in air, 'He' punched his throat by using 'his' other fist. The 4th one tasted salty blood inside his mouth, and a stirr in his head. With 2 more heavy punches on his face immediately one after the other, he sat on the ground abruptly by holding his head.
When 'He' raised his leg towards him, the 4th one raised his hands in defeat and pleaded 'him'.
By standing firm on the ground, As 'He' looked around all 4 of them, who were moaning in pain, they cleared off the place as fast as they can in different directions.
Then he went near to anitha, knelt down, gently lifted her and brought her into his lap, softly patted her cheek.
She opened her eyes with some difficulty, when his face came into focus, her pupils dilated in astonishment.
"Vi......jay" she stutterd his name. Her eyes closed automatically out of tiredness, once again she fell unconscious.
To be continued.....
