Chapter - Riddle of the ghost town.

Sunya was in the command center and was still working on the riddle in hand. She was searching for any ruins and the locations of gold city Lanka but was able to get much of information.

The rangers on the other hand were sparring. Ansh and Chahat were sparring togather.

"What you think of the riddle? I mean do you too think that the ghost town referred in the riddle is the City made of gold Lanka." asked Chahat.

"Seriously and to be true i don't know? I mean i have a feeling that it is some other place referred here but on the other hand i think Asmin may also be right." said Ansh.

Harshit was nearby sparring with Navya. The two were doing well and had improved a lot.

"Hey can i ask you something? something personal" asked Navya.

"Hmm... Let's try but i am not 'an open to everybody Person' hope you understand" said Harshit.

"Well i...i.. i wanna know about your background" said Navya with a hesitation and then with a quick flow.

"My background. I really don't have a background. You see i don't know who my parents are or are they still in this world. Beside i was raised in the orphanage where i was bullied and there was only the caretaker of the orphanage who helped me a lot. I hope you get it. By the way what made you to question about my life?" asked Harshit.

"Oh nothing just curious" said Navya.

"Rangers you see i was working on finding the ancient city of lanka but all i got is it's devastated ruins. You see as the epic Ramayana says Lord Hanumana had burnt it a long time ago. There was nothing remained. Beside Ravana was killed by Lord Rama an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It is said that whoever is killed by Lord Vishnu or one of his incarnation get's moksha and never attains a ghost life and rebirth. So this means Ravana can never attain a ghost state which means Lanka can't be the place where ashwamedha coins are." shied Sunya.

"Yeah also as per puranas Saptarishis were not even togather at that time." added Seven.

"That means Lanka is not the place we were looking for that means there is some other place in the riddle" said Nik.

"Yeah but which place does the riddle means than?" Navya questioned. All of them were in the deep thought of where the riddle indicates.

"Hey Dipti you are from West Bengal and from what i know they believe in all these spirits and supernatural things right? so have you ever heard of a city of gold?" asked Ansh.

"Yeah we do believe in all this but I never heard of a place like this?" Dipti replied.

"It can be that gold is a metaphor to something" Asmin gave a new direction to search and solve the riddle.

"Yeah it can be. Many poems and riddles do have these kind of metaphors" Chahat answered.

Just as they were about to dig more deeper in solving the riddle the siren went off. All of them frowned but then headed to the place of attack.

At the Beach :-

The rangers arrived at the beach morphed and saw the minons creating chaos. They took out their swords and started to fight against them.

Nik used his speed to go through two of the minons and then slashing them. "Will you be ever letting us to rest for a while" he said while slashing another group using his super speed.

"They won't Nik so we have to make them rest in peace" joked Dipti while she slashed one of the minon and then used her other hand to destroy the whole group using fire.

"I agree with you two" Navya said as she had destroyed her own set of minons.

"Guys more fighting and less talking" Harshit said as he also had dealt with his set of minons.

The other rangers also had destroyed their own set of minons and they all regrouped.

"Isn't it some weird thing" Chahat said as he was suspecting that something is wrong.

"Minons themselves are weird Chahat" Dipti said.

"No Chahat is right. We had never dealt with only minons before. There had been a general with them every time." Asmin said.

"Maybe Asth is lacking monsters " Ansh joked.

"Lets go guys" Nik said as he, Navya, Ansh, Dipti and Harshit stepped to go back a whirlpool was formed in the sand and the four got stuck though Navya managed to came out using her flying powers.

"You should listen to your leader rangers " a voice said as the sand few meters away from them cleared revealing a hippo-human hybrid having sand sliding from his body.

"You will pay for this " Chahat said as he rushed towards the monster.

He slashed the monster and again tried to do the same but the monster stopped him though Asmin came from behind slashing him. The monster was taken back but he then fired sand beam with much force sending all three to ground.

"Huh this is your end rangers. Four of your friends are dying there and three of you will die here." Monster laughed.

Now three of them were seeing red. Asmin signaled the two for something and they nodded in understanding. Asmin and Chahat slashed him but the monster tackled the two to ground but was slashed by Navya. The three again regrouped and Navya headed first as she slashed the monster but was thrown to ground. Asmin and Chahat tried to attack him but he send a sand beam again sending them flying to ground.

"Chahat, Asmin " The blue ranger cried as she saw her friends in danger not forgetting the four in sand whirlpool. She ran towards the two.

Meanwhile the four were trying their hardest to came out of the whirlpool but nothing was working. They were sinking in the sand.

Asmin, Chahat were back on their feet and Navya was glowing blue. The three faced the monster as red and crimson rangers used their powers. Chahat made the monster stationary while Asmin used her powers to weaken monster's body. Navya was still glowing blue as she ran towards the monster and used her flying powers. "Blue ranger multi slash meteor blast" said she as she has background of outerspace and had her sword in Blue energy and slashed it many times sending energy at the monster and then shot at him which turned into a meteor destroying him.

As soon as the monster was destroyed the sand whirlpool to vanished and the four ranger were in sand.

"Remind me of this when event when I ask to come to beach next time." Ansh joked and all teleported back to the command center.

At the Command center:-

Rangers were back and healed and were back to the discussion of finding the ghost Town.

"Where were we before that monster showed up?" asked Dipti.

"We were discussing that gold can be a metaphor to something" said Harshit.

"But what can be that a metaphor for?" Navya questioned.

"Ahh my head is spinning from all this . First this riddle than that monster trapped us in that whirlpool of sand" Nik showed his irritation.

"Yeah man it looked like we were sinking in a pool of golden color" Ansh said poetically.

"That's it you are genius Ansh. We got it" cried Chahat.

"Well I knew I am genius from childhood but what is this about?" Ansh said.

"You see if we all are guessing right then the place is somewhere in Desert. You see the desert can be compared as gold" Chahat said.

"Yeah you are right now we just have to find a place that suits the description" Seven said.

Just as Sunya heard this from them, she rushed towards the main computer and typed some keys on it. The other too followed her.

"You see as soon as I heard that from you I knew the answer for the riddle. The riddle is about the Bhangarh fort. A fort made by Maharaja Man SinghI for his brother Madho Singh. It is said that Madho Singh raised the Bhangarh fort after obtaining due permission from an ascetic named Bala Nath who lived there; having agreed to a condition which said that the shadow of the fort must never fall upon the home of the ascetic. But as fate would have it, one of the ambitious successors of Madho Singh added to the fortifications vertically, thereby causing its ominous shadow to engulf the abode of the ascetic. Lo and Behold, once it came to pass, the fort was doomed within no time. The alleged prophecy stood fulfilled, and the Bhangarh Fort became haunted. It is said that it is the soul of Bala Nath that still haunts the place as if he is keeping something precious from the outside world" Sunya informed.

"That's it. We have the answer for the riddle. We will soon visit this fort" said Seven.

Author's note: so finally the riddle is solved. Sorry for the late update but i was rather busy in some of my works and maybe the discontinuity will be for some more time. As for my other story it will also be updated soon as my beta reader will finish the beta reading as he himself is being too busy. Hope you guys understand. Hope to update soon. Please review and Until next time bye!

Next Time: The rangers arranged to visit bangrah fort but they first have to deal with the newest threat.

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