“Oh my God, Khattab” Maqsood uttered as he saw this new guy.

“Yes it’s me” Khattab declared.

“Do you know what your brother has done?”

“First of all” Khattab spoke kind of furiously, “he is not my brother”

Maqsood and Hannan were shocked as they heard this.

“Second of all” Hannan continued, “I am not going to let anyone take the law into their own hands. He has murdered an innocent woman, I know, but I will not tolerate anyone who takes matters into their own hands”

Maqsood was quite impressed as he heard this. Khattab spoke:

“Your father was a saint. He would have never liked this. He taught me how one should respect the law, therefore I am going to take this matter into court”

Even Khubaib was kind of terrified seeing this guy’s serious nature.

Khattab held him through his shoulder and dragged him outside with all his strength. Khubaib wasn’t resisting as he knew that it would be of no use.

Maqsood commented as he saw them leaving:

“Your father would be so proud of him. He is really living up to your father’s teaching”

Hannan was relieved for a moment as he saw that Khubaib was in good hands therefore he sat on the chair and took out the paper from his pocket. He read the prophecies in his heart trying to heal the broken person inside him:

1. A dark period will come to this family.

2. Our father’s grave would be crushed.

3. My daughter will see a lot of pain and torment in her life.

4. A two-faced person will illegally capture the land that belonged to us once.

5. The first phase of the mischief would be different than the last phase.

6. A liar will see several owls in a single night.

 Next day’s evening, Mr. Taha was sitting in his house when he heard the phone ringing. He stood up and went to answer the call. He answered the phonecall:

“Hello?”

“Mr. Taha it’s me Faiz”

“Yes Faiz, what’s up?”

“There seems to be a big problem. Your late friend Tariq Yasar…”

“Yes? What about him?” Mr. Taha asked getting curious and impatient.

“Tariq Yasar had donated a land to some charity, a long time ago”

“Yes, I remember that. He said that he wasn’t leaving it behind for his sons because it could give rise to disputes and mischiefs”

“Well the truth is, some unknown person has illegally taken it. I mean to say that the documents of land are stolen and the charity organization is no longer the owner of that land”

“Oh my God. Who has done this?”

“Oh my God. Who has done this?” Mr. Taha asked getting surprised.

“We have no idea but whoever has done this would be someone who is not satisfied with the happiness of this family”

“What do you mean happiness? This family has hardly ever seen any happiness since the demise of Tariq Yasar. Anyways, I’m hanging up now as I have to look into the matter of land that is illegally captured”

Mr. Taha hung up the phone.

Several hours later during the night, Hannan and Maqsood were walking towards Rizwan’s house. It was quite dark outside. Maqsood asked him while walking:

“Are you sure you want to do this?”

“I’m just giving him an invitation. I’ll ask him to have sword against sword or gun against gun battle with me. Anyone among us will survive. That one survivor will be the last descendant of this family”

“Oh look” Maqsood said to him pointing his finger towards the gate.

Rizwan followed his finger and saw his brother Rizwan standing outside the house. Hannan asked for a suggestion:

“Should I go and talk to him face to face?”

“Right now?”

“Yes, why not?”

That very moment, they heard hooting of a bird. Hannan paid attention and saw that two owls just came out of a bush and crossed Rizwan. Rizwan was looking at the owls. Surprisingly few more owls came over and flew above Rizwan. Rizwan was kind of surprised seeing so many owls together.

“Oh my God!” Hannan gasped realizing something.

“What is it?” Maqsood asked.

“The owls, don’t you see it?”

“Oh yeah” Maqsood understood what Hannan meant.

After watching the owls for a while, Maqsood asked:

“The prophecy, right?”

“Exactly, that is what I am talking about”

“So what should we do now?”

“I don’t know, but we do know for sure that he is the lying person mentioned in the prophecy”

“Yes, he is that liar. But what exactly is he lying about?”

“The murder of our father” Hannan spoke firmly. “He is hiding that truth. I know he is the one who is responsible for that”

They got distracted by the sound of the owls as there were several owls flying above the spot where Rizwan was standing.

They saw Rizwan making his way back inside the house.

“He is gone” Maqsood commented.

“He can’t go anywhere. He is the criminal, he has to pay for his sins. I will reveal this information before everyone”

“What information?” Maqsood asked trying to clarify his confusion.

“About the owls. About what we just witnessed”

“So you mean we are not waging that battle against him?”

Hannan stopped and considered the idea once again. He had two options ahead of himself: he could either tell everyone about what he just saw regarding the owls or he could simply wage a gun against gun war. He spoke out his choice:

“I have decided, I will not involve anyone. I will simply wage a war against him. I have written down the letter. I want you to go and hand it over to him”

Hannan took out the piece of paper and gave it to Maqsood. Maqsood walked towards the house and rang the bell.

 Next day’s morning, Rizwan who was too upset made a call to Mr. Taha. As Mr. Taha answered the call, Rizwan spoke immediately:

“Uncle Taha, yesterday I saw some owls”

“Sorry, you what?”

“I saw some owls. You know I am not lying about anything. I swear I am not lying about anything, and yet I saw those owls”

“Oh, don’t worry about it, I have sorted out that problem”

“What do you mean?” Rizwan asked getting surprised as he was not expecting this reaction.

“I have found something, and I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear about it”

“What is it?”

“Your father’s diary, where the prophecies are written in his original handwriting”

“Oh my God, really?”

“Yes, and I want you to come and collect it”

“See that’s the thing” Rizwan replied getting disheartened once again, “I can’t. Hannan has called me today to some place. I received a letter from him yesterday. He wants me to fight against him, gun against gun or sword against sword”

“I was expecting this sooner or later”

“What?”

“I’m sorry but I had seen this coming. I should have told you earlier. But you know what; you don’t have to worry about it. I’ll come with you. And trust me no one will die in this battle. You just go and fight for your own defense”

“Isn’t there any other way we can call this off?”

“Trust me, there won’t be any harm. We have to go there and do whatever he is asking. The truth regarding who killed Sidra might be revealed today”

Rizwan’s eyes opened wide and he was kind of provoked now, so he answered:

“Alright I’ll go there and fight him to prove my innocence”

Two hours later, at some empty parking lot, Hannan was walking with Sirtaj and Maqsood. Sirtaj was holding some file. Hannan said to him:

“Don’t drop anything”

Maqsood’s phone began to ring. Hannan asked him getting surprised:

“You have a cell phone?”

“This is not my own phone. This is my brother’s. I was expecting a call today, that’s why I brought it”

“Whose call were you expecting?”

“The doctor who has examined the bottle”

“Oh I see”

That very moment, Rizwan along with Mr. Taha came to the same parking lot. He was holding a sword in his hand.

“Well, look who’s here” Hannan spoke looking at them.

Hannan took out his gun and exclaimed:

“Mr. Taha, please leave. This is between me and Rizwan”

Rizwan took out his sword and walked towards him. Hannan aimed his gun towards Rizwan and said:

“Alright stay back”

Rizwan kept on coming towards him until Hannan fired the gun. Rizwan however dodged the bullet but rushed towards him.

As Rizwan got closer, he threw the sword aside and jumped over Hannan’s body making him fall backwards. The gun dropped from his hand as well. Rizwan started hitting Hannan with his clenched fist but Hannan fought back pushing him aside. Hannan who was standing up kicked Rizwan on his chest several times. Rizwan however managed to stand up and fight back by knocking Hannan down with his leg. Hannan fell backwards but was still conscious.

Maqsood who had missed the previous call answered the phone as it began to ring for the second time:

“Hello?”

“Sir” the doctor spoke from the other line, “I have examined the bottle in detail. I can give you the details but the end result is that the bottle had no poison at all. It had nothing that could harm a person who was suffering from Asthama”

“Oh my God” Maqsood uttered.

The two brothers were fighting physically; Rizwan was injured from his face and Hannan was injured on the elbows. Mr. Taha slowly made his way towards Sirtaj and as he crossed the two brothers, he immediately snatched the file from Sirtaj and asked him:

“What is this?”

“I don’t know, Hannan gave it to me”

Mr. Taha looked at Hannan who was on the ground with suspicion and then opened the file. He read the documents for a minute and commented:

“I knew it. I knew what was going on”

“What do you mean?” Sirtaj asked him.

“You guys have no idea what Hannan is putting you into. This document was stolen. These are the papers of ownership that claim that some charitable organization owns the land that once belonged to Tariq Yasar”

“Oh no, really?”

“Yes, and now he is planning to take over the land” Mr. Taha spoke. “If you remember the prophecies then you must know that a two faced person was supposed to capture this land illegally”

“Yes, I know”

That moment, Maqsood interrupted and said to Sirtaj:

“I have just received a call from the doctor. He had sent the bottle to the lab and he has stated that the bottle never had anything poisonous”

Sirtaj wasn’t much surprised as he heard this. He was expecting this since he had just discovered the ugly truth about Hannan. The two brothers were still fighting, until Rizwan held Hannan tightly and asked him:

“Why did you kill my wife?”

“I had nothing against your wife. I never sent Khubaib to do that. But you murdered our father. I know that you are lying. I saw you yesterday. The owls were flying around you during the night”

“How do you know the prophecies?” Rizwan spoke cunningly. “This means that you were the one who stole that paper through Khubaib. Khubaib was working for you all along”

Hannan pushed him and let himself free of him. As the two were standing face to face, Hannan spoke out:

“I had nothing to do with Sidra, I swear I had nothing against her”

Rizwan shut his eyes as he was not willing to accept this fact. Seeing the sword nearby, Hanna picked it up and spoke:

“I haven’t killed anyone in my life. But what you have done is still not justified”

“Everything is justified now” Sirtaj spoke from behind.

Hannan turned and looked at him. Sirtaj continued speaking against him:

“We have discovered the truth. It was you all along who was not doing justice”

“What are you talking about Sirtaj?”

“The bottle, it has been examined thoroughly; there are no signs or traces of poison. This proves that Rizwan has not poisoned our father”

Hannan was quite shocked as he learnt this. Sirtaj continued:

“And secondly, this file, this document did not belong to you. It belonged to your father once but he had donated it some charitable organization. You have captured it illegally”

“I have not captured it” Hannan replied raising his voice with anger.

“That’s enough Hannan” Mr. Taha spoke as he joined Sirtaj.

Hannan looked at him with astonishment then he spoke:

“Now I get it, you all are involved in this conspiracy. You are not sincere with Tariq Yasar’s blood”

“You are not his blood” Mr. Taha declared. “Everybody knows it, but you have proved to be a criminal today. Therefore, as a head of the family, if not the head then as the eldest person of all, I exile you from this family. The reason behind is your illegal seize on your father’s land”

Maqsood stepped ahead and spoke bravely: