Hastinapur.

It looked majestic just as the name suggests. Dushala was welcomed by a blindfolded woman who was ready with a Aarti platter. The Palace looked so welcoming to Vaishnavi, she didn't know why. Kunti was so excited to meet the Maiden, who was a new addition to the family.

"Vaishu, This is my-", Dushala started , but got cut off by the Alien girl, "I KNOW!! Her highness, Mata Gandhari and Queen Mother, Mata Kunti. Am i right?", She excitedly told. Both the queens were shocked but chuckled at her excitement. "OH MY GOODD!!! Its my pleasure to meet you guys.". She cleared her throat and Dramatically said "Ahem Ahem, Let me officially introduce myself to you, I am Vaishnavi", Both of them realised that this is the Girl the whole Aaryavart was talking about. The infamous Foster sister of Krishna.She immediately hugged them both.

Dushala and Subhadra mentally facepalmed themselves and rushed to pull her back but was stopped by Kunti. "Its okay Putri." They chuckled and Hugged her back. Vaishnavi immediatey realised that this era is not used to hugging stranger people. She bit her tounge and pulled herself back and apologised. Gandhari immediately said, "its okay putri. You called us Mata right? It is a right of a daughter to hug her mother". Vaishu became extremely emotional on the motherly love she is getting in this era and Hugged back both of them again, this time tightly, making both of them laugh heartily and hug her back. She became an instant favourite to both the queens.

She was escorted inside the Palace only to meet with an man, with a crown beside him, discussing something intensely with a man with a closed eye and a man who is completely disagreeing with them. "OMG!! Are they who I'm thinking they are?", She exclaimed in whisper. "Huh? What did you think?", Dushala questioned. Ignoring her Question, She immediately went towards them. But before her, It was Dushala who ran towards her Dad. Ofcourse, the only Daughter of whole Kuru clan, Such a Darling to everyone she was.

"Pranipat Pitashree!", Dushala said and greeted her Father Dhritrastra, The King of Hastinapur. "How are you, Putri", the King asked with adoration towards his daughter. " I'm fine Pitashree. Where is Pitamah?" The princess asked her father. "He went to visit Mother Ganga, pray for everything to go right tomorrow as it will be a big day". The Guy who looked calm replied.

"Pranipat, Kakashree Vidur", Dushala greeted. "Kalyan ho, Putri", Vidur blessed her. She moved to the One eye winking dude, "Pranipat Mamash-", "YES! I knew it. I guessed all of them right", the foreign girl exclaimed, cutting Dushala off. 'God, this girl has a very weird habit of cutting people off while conversing', Dushala thought to herself and chuckled at her Childishness.

"Who is that?", the king asked. "This is Vaishnavi. My nephew Krishna's sister", Kunti answered. Now, the whole attention was diverted towards her. "Hello uncl- uh- I mean Pranipat Maharaj", she almost waved but immediately joined her hands.

"Oh, the great warrior princess who ran away from a battle to seek refuge here, whose father was defeated in a battle!!! That princess? Pranipat", Shakuni, king of Gandhar Said sheepishly. The women had an uncomfortable expression as this might affect the foreign girl. But she was quick to retort back to the sarcastic king of Gandhar, " Yeah the same girl, Gandhar naresh. Who massacred the killer of her father in a brutal way that no one in this aryavart would imagine, while she was held captive because he was saying some offensive things about her family. Oh by the way, Pranipat to you too". The king of Gandhar reciprocated the greeting almost immediately, gulping in fear. She remembered how she thrashed those thugs who kidnapped her due to their enmity with her father.

"Pranipat Mahamantri Vidur, I've heard a lot about you", Vaishnavi greeted the wisdom himself. "Kalyan ho Putri", he said with a small smile.

As soon as she left the place with the women in the castle, Shakuni immediately went on saying, "this new sister of that illusionist Vasudev sure talks a lot, isn't she Maharaj". "It's wrong to talk about someone behind their back, Gandhar raj", vidur told him in calm manner. Frowning at the minister, he immediately jumped back to the conversation they were having before the interruption of the future girl.

The women of the palace went to sit in the Queen's chamber. 'Ugh, this lehenga will for sure kill me one day with its weight. Good thing that I retrieved my bag from Dwaraka, which my mom is believing to have discarded. Once everyone goes to sleep, I'll wear my pyjamas hehehe', She thought to herself only to get interrupted when the Queen started to speak.

"My sons are returning tomorrow. I haven't met them in years. I wonder what skills they have acquired by now", Gandhari was visibly excited. 'Yeah sure. Deceiving People, Being jealous, trying to kill an innocent boy.. They sure have acquired great skills', Vaishnavi thought. "What are you thinking, Putri?", Kunti asked a lost Vaishnavi. "Ah! Nothing Mata. Aren't You excited to meet Your sons too?", She asked.

"I sure am waiting to meet my sons, Putri. It's just that I don't know why, My heart is indicating that something will happen tomorrow", Kunti sighed. "Something as in?", Subhadra asked. "Is it something bad Mata?", Dushala Joined. Kunti softly chuckled and said, "No Putri. Not anything for us to get worried. It just feels like something lifechanging will happen tomorrow", Kunti concluded.

Vaishnavi was listening to the whole conversation, started wondering what could it be. Just then, Subhadra started to hum the song from morning. Gandhari and Kunti were quick to catch up to that, mesmerized in the tune.

"Subhadra, where did you learn this song from? Have never heard of it. Sounds heavenly", Both the queens told with an admiring expression. Subhadra immediately pointed towards the Foreign girl and said, "Its her, who sang this today morning in the temple near the outskirts of the city". "Wow, Putri can you sing that song for us", Gandhari asked in a sweet way. Now, how can she not fulfill her Mata's wish? She started singing, managed to make everyone mesmerized who are present in the radius. Everyone started to hum in response to the song.

It's not just them, the Archer boy, who was in the Gurukul, was also humming the song since he heard that. He was laying down with one of his hands behind his head while the other was on his chest, with his fingers drumming to the tune. He still remembered how soothing it was.

If not for his brother calling him, telling that his Gurudev was calling him, he would have definitely asked for the whereabouts of that mystery girl. "Who are you? I just want to hear your song again. I just want to hear you", he was speaking to thin air, while starting at the sky.

"You just want to hear whom, Bhrata Arjun?", a boy who was practicing with a sword for tomorrow's event, asked mischievously. "No one Nakul". Arjun retorted. "Ahaaa, my brother is talking to himself, Did you see that Bhrata Bheem?", Nakul asked a very huge muscled guy, who was trying to break a rock by his mace. "Yeah Nakul, he has been acting weird lately." Bheem replied. "Today he ran like a mad man to the temple, just to stand there looking like a lost child. And the other day, he was talking about some weird weapon, which will have tiny ball shaped steel, which will kill anyone. When I asked him to explain about the nonsense he was talking about, he just said I DON'T KNOW", Bheem mimicked Arjun.

Arjun immediately told them, "I just thought it would be great to have a weapon like that, what is wrong with being Hypothetical? Tell me Sahdev". He turned to the youngest one of them all, for moral support. "Bhrata, all these symptoms imply only two things", Sahdev said and looked at Nakul, winking at him. Nakul understood the assignment and continued, "it's either my Bhrata has gone mad, or He has fallen in Looovveee 🎵🎶🎶", Nakul sang the last part, in the same tune as the song from morning.

Arjun swiftly responded saying, "I have not fallen in love or anything. I just liked the voice, so I went to see who was singing". "But we never mentioned singing or anything such, Did we Nakul?", Bheem asked laughing out loud, while the younger ones joined him. "Arjun, are you in Love?", the calmest and eldest one of them all asked with utmost seriousness. "Bhrata Yudisthir, you too?", Arjun asked in disbelief. The eldest one also joined the laughter.

" How can a person fall in love just by hearing voice. I just want to make things clear, I'm not in love. I have so many important things to do other than that", Arjun announced. He met with a series of 'oh's. Sahadev asked, "So, You are not in love. Is it?". Arjun replied sharply, "Yes". "According to symptoms, If it's not love", Nakul was standing in a position to run before saying, "Then Mad it is" and started sprinting. Arjun immediately chased him, making the others laugh out heartily.

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Huff! The longest chapter so far!!

I've decided that I'll update one or two chapters a day rather than uploading them all at once, as I have them on my drafts ready. Editing takes a lot more time than expected.

So, How did you guys like the chapter? Please do vote and please do comment. Your comments mean a lot to me.

PS: Pandavas to Arjun: