Week 3 Storytelling: The Meeting

The Meeting

Rama after defeating Ravana. Source

Rama defeated Ravana at the Battle of Lanka. This was a celebratory moment for everyone, even the gods that sent him. While Rama and his army were returning to the kingdom, there was a strange feeling in the air. The air started to feel heavy and the sky turned dark. The storm appeared to be a hurricane in the sky. Rama and Hanuman felt a strong wing all of a sudden. However, this was not a wind but actually a gravitational pull coming from the storm in the sky. The gravitational pull picked Rama and Hanuman off the ground and into the eye of the storm. The storm opened into a portal and the two disappeared into the dreary night sky.

A storm appears that transforms into a portal. Source

Time and space warped around them and when they landed back on the ground, they noticed that it was a completely different setting. The two had traveled through space and to a modern-day metropolitan area. There was a crowd of people around them dressed in suits and carrying briefcases. The hero of the city, Wonder Woman, approached them to question who they are and what they are doing. Rama and Hanuman were not sure what they were doing there because everything happened so sudden. Due to their hesitation and farfetched story, Wonder Woman believed that the two were lying and were actually there to cause trouble. She placed the two in a cell in the county jailhouse. 

A few hours passed by before people from Rama’s era started falling from the sky as well. However, these people falling from the sky were enemies of Rama and instantly started causing terror in the metropolis. This was an extension of Ravana’s army but strangely, it was led by Sita. Due to Ravana’s death, there was a curse put on Sita that finally turned her against Rama, which is what Ravana was constantly trying to do. The curse was placed on Rama by Mandodari, Ravana's widow, to ensure despair on Rama since she now lost her loved one. Wonder Woman knew that somehow this army was related to the two people that she threw in the county jail hours ago. She went to Rama and asked who these people were and what they wanted. He convinced her that he was on the good side and needed her help to get rid of them.

Rama meeting Wonder Woman. Source

Rama was telling Wonder Woman how the leader of the people attacking was his wife but it appeared that she was under some type of curse to seek and kill him. Wonder Woman, Rama, and Hanuman went back to Wonder Woman’s office to get supplies. One of the weapons that Wonder Woman gave to Rama was the Bow of Vayu, which Rama believed was just some type of fancy bow. When they returned outside, it was the three of them versus the army in front of them. Wonder Woman was able to use her trusty lasso for attacking multiple targets, while using her gauntlets and shield to protect from sword and archer attacks. Hanuman was a master with hand-to-hand combat and able to take on a crowd of enemies at once. Rama and Sita were left alone to a one versus one battle. Rama was hesitant at first because this was the love of his life. However, due to the curse, Sita had no remembrance of their love. She used her strength and threw him into a nearby building within the blink of an eye. This is when Rama was trying to verbally reason with her and she once again pummeled him with her outstanding strength. Rama finally gave in and started to fight back. He noticed that anything that he tried would have zero effect on Sita. The curse was somehow making her invincible. Rama pulled out the Bow of Vayu but when he went to reach for an arrow, there were none left in his quiver. Sita forced Rama into the ground. He realized at this moment that the Sita he loved was no longer there and that he must destroy this being. Sita pulled her fist back and was about to swing it into Rama, which most likely would have killed him, when suddenly Wonder Woman lassoed Sita’s feet and swung her on the floor. Due to the emptiness that Rama felt, a glowing arrow appeared in the quiver. The Bow of Vayu was the exact opposite of Cupid’s bow. The fact that he knew that he could not love Sita anymore made the arrow appear. He loaded the arrow in the Bow of Vayu and fired it at Sita. It hit her right in the stomach and she instantly turned into dust. The battle was now over but it left the entire city devastated.     

Rama deals the final blow, saving earth with Wonder Woman and Hanuman. Source

Author's Note:

When I was doing research on Rama, I found a page where DC Comics used Hindu gods in some of their comic issues. The source had a few comic scenes from the issues so I took those and wrote a story around them. Because Ravana was always trying to convince Sita to get rid of Rama in the Ramayana, I wanted to incorporate where after Ravana died, it caused Sita to turn against Rama. Who knows, maybe Rama and Wonder Woman will fall in love! I like adding the twist that Rama and Sita aren’t together because throughout the epic, it seems that they are destined to be together.

I really like this style of writing or reading something like this in stories because it is a mix between two cultures. The story, Ramayana, is an old, traditional epic from India. Wonder woman is a character from the 20^th century in America and the style between the two is different yet related. Both of them seem to have some sort of relation with supernatural elements. I feel like DC comics had the similar thought when they first started to introduce the Hindu gods into their comics. They produced with stories with multiple Hindu gods with one of the other well-known ones being Kali.

Public Domain Ramayana, link to the reading online.
Pikapost. link to the website.