The Dark ROSE

The story of a tyrannical king.

The tyrannical king Louis, who had just consumed the bodies of adult girls, tied them naked to trees in the deep forest on a new moon night and killed them one by one with poisoned arrows.

Then, after bathing with their blood, the lifeless bodies of the girls were buried in the deep forest, and where they were buried, a rose tree was planted. The rose trees here bloomed, but their color was black. These flowers were never visited by bumblebees, wasps, or bees, and it was said that the honey from this black rose was terribly poisonous. And King Louis had people collect these flowers, then he squeezed these black roses and extracted their juice and applied that juice to the tip of each arrow. This juice was so poisonous that as soon as the arrow entered someone's body, the heart would fail and death was inevitable. In this part of the forest, except for the rose trees, all the other trees, grasses, and vines were almost dead. There was no bird chirping. The silence of the city of death is all the time. The nature here seems to have lost its life long ago due to the cruelty of King Louis. Next to it is an old small house from the ancient times, with moss and weeds hanging on its walls. In that house, Louis cruelly devours the bodies of girls all night long. He devours the bodies of ten girls for ten consecutive days and then kills them on the night of the new moon.

Just ten days before the new moon, young girls start disappearing from different parts of the kingdom. No one knows where they go to this day. And no one has been able to solve this mystery. It will happen or not. All those involved in Louis's activities are very loyal. And they know very well that if anyone betrays Louis by mistake, his head will be severed from his neck. King Louis is a worshiper of evil gods, to satisfy those evil gods, he bathes young girls in their blood and buries their bodies in the dead forest. No one has ever been attacked and saved in Louis' palace, when someone comes to attack Louis' palace at night, their wounded bodies are seen lying around the palace in the morning. It is said that these are the work of those evil spirits, they are the protectors of Louis' palace.

Rahim is a woodcutter in a small village north of the palace. He makes a living by cutting wood in the forest and selling it. That morning, he goes out all day long cutting wood in the forest, tying it in bundles and selling it at the market in Ganj. He spends the day struggling with whatever little income he gets.

Today, he wanders around in search of wood and goes deep into the forest. And on his way back, he sees a black rose while passing by a dead forest and stops. After looking for a while, Rahim slowly approaches and picks a black rose from the tree and takes it in his hand. The girl turned eighteen, the beloved little girl Ayesha has grown up today, but as a father, he could not fulfill any other wish of his daughter except feeding her two handfuls of food twice a day. Ayesha's skin is milky, her long black hair is an ocean of love, her eyes are an ocean of love. It is as if the creator has sent a fairy from heaven to Rahim's house as a daughter.

Rahim picked a black rose and took it in his hand, thinking that he would be very happy if he took it and gave it to Ayesha.

But the strange thing was that in the blink of an eye, a terrible black snake came and bit him. So seeing this, Rahim started running in fear, the snake was also chasing Rahim. After running a long distance, Rahim got his foot stuck in a tree root, and his foot was cut off a little. The rose fell near his foot and as soon as blood came out from the cut, the black rose absorbed that blood, but Rahim did not notice.

Rahim picked up the rose and noticed that the snake was not there. Rahim walked slowly through the forest and came to the village with the rose in a bundle slung over his shoulder.

As soon as Rahim entered the house, Ayesha appeared with a smile on her face, holding a jug in one hand and a glass of water in the other.

With a smile on her tired face, Rahim said, “How did you know that I really am, mother? Are you waiting for me to return?”

Ayesha smiled sweetly and said, “I will tell you later, father, I am pouring water, you should wash your hands and face first.”

After washing his hands and face, Rahim leaned against the pole on the open verandah in front and rested for a while, closing his eyes to relieve his fatigue.

Meanwhile, his beloved goat Lakshmi was roaming around behind Ayesha in the yard. The flower that was stuck in Ayesha's crotch suddenly fell and turned into a butterfly and started flying in front of the goat Lakshmi, and Lakshmi started running after it to catch it.

Ayesha grabbed the flower and whispered - Maya Pari, now is not the time to be naughty, father is resting!

The butterfly turned into a flower again in her hand. Ayesha went home with the flower in her crotch and brought a bowl of muri and a glass of water and placed it in front of her father.

After eating the muri, Rahim took out the black rose from the potli and handed it to Ayesha with a smile and said - The rose is very beautiful, isn't it, mother, have you ever seen anything like this before.

As soon as she took the rose, all the hair on Ayesha's body stood up. The flower that was stuck in Ayesha's crotch suddenly turned into a butterfly and flew away. And the goat Lakshmi suddenly started behaving strangely.

Meanwhile, the tyrannical king, having stripped a newly brought girl naked, jumped on her body and started to enjoy her body, suddenly stopped, due to the evil power, he realized that the black rose had fallen into someone else's hands. He cut his finger with a knife and drew blood and poured two drops of blood on a small old-fashioned mirror, and Ayesha's face appeared in the mirror...

To be continued.