Aru Shah and the End of Time

Aru and Mini are finally ready to go against the Sleeper. But they have to go to the Pool of the Past to learn how to defeat him completely.

Once they get there, they tried to think of a way to safely look into the pools. Aru trips, and almost falls in. But she sees something that baffles her. She sees her mother, younger of course, with the Sleeper walking across the beach. She sees them pause while walking to kiss.

The pool changes, and shows her mother talking to her grandfather. Her grandfather tells her mom that now that she has stolen his heart, knows how to defeat him, and has his child, that she has to kill him. She doesn’t want to, saying that she can change his fate and maybe actually be the father to their daughter, which is Aru. The grandfather gives her a choice. Either save him or save their daughter. Her mom tells him she won’t kill the Sleeper, and they shouldn’t just be there to breed. The grandfather kicks her out of the house forever for disobeying.

The pool changes again and shows the Sleeper asleep with Aru in a crib. Her mother says, “One day you’ll understand that I’m doing what I must to free you. To free us all.” Her mother goes to the Hall of the Gods and traps the Sleeper in the Lamp. She says this, “I used your secrets not to destroy you, but to hold you. I bind you with my heart, the same heart I gave to you willingly. I bind you with something that is not made from metal, wood, or stone. I bind with something neither dry nor wet.”  Aru knows what they have to do, and the pair go back to Aru’s home.

 

Once at the museum, her home, she sets a trap. They call out to him, and he comes, taunting them on how they are failures and not worthy appointments. But he falls for the trap and is ambushed. They fight the fraction of the army he brought with him, and get ready to kill him. But he does something Aru didn’t expect. He knocks Boo and Mini unconscious and talks with Aru on how her mother is a liar and she only wanted to save herself.  The Sleeper explains he knows that she ignores her, and he felt it through the lamp for the 11 years he was locked away. He says he knows shes cursed, and shows her an image of her Pandava sisters, going against her.He tells her they could conquer the world together,  father and daughter. But she refuses and uses the gift she got from Indra. The glowing ball turns into a thunderbolt and goes to kill the Sleeper. But it stops just a few inches from his heart. She screams for the bolt to strike him, but he just says, “Oh Aru, Aru, Aru, one day, you’ll see it my way, and I will welcome you, my daughter.” He disappears right after.

 

Aru sinks to the floor. Vajra, the thunderbolt, goes back to her hand and turns into a regular ball. When Boo and Mini awake, they comfort her. Mini tells her she thinks it was the curse from The Bridge of Forgetting. Everyone soon comes back from their frozen state, and Aru sees her mother again. Mini goes back home to see her family too. After a few days, they start going to training for Pandavas with the gods. But after a few weeks, something gets stolen. They go home early, but not long after, something mind-blowing happens.

They see a wolf jump out of a stone elephants mouth, as it works as a teleporter, and turn into a girl. Before they can ask, she runs off. Boo then tells her, ‘She’s your sister.’  Now they have to find her and get the stolen object back.

Next book-Aru Shah and the Song of Death

 

Aru Shah and the End of Time

Aru and Mini are on an adventure to save the world after Aru let out a demon called the ‘Sleeper.’ They have to find 3 keys so they can get Celestial Weapons so they can defeat him.

They soon found them all, The sprig of youth, the bite of adulthood, and the sip of old age. They used these keys to get to the underworld. On the Bridge of Forgetting, Mini and Aru were told they had to lose all their memories to cross.

Shakua, the guardian, told them his story. When he was born, he was said to be ugly. He ruled his kingdom in the shadows. But when he was marrying, his wife loved him so much, that every day he grew more beautiful.

But he soon grew impatient that she was getting more beautiful than him and asked if she still loved him. She told him that she couldn’t love someone she didn’t know anymore, and he killed her. Aru had an idea to save her and Mini from losing all their memories. She threw the ball at the 5 mirrors that reminded him of his past, and the memory-stealing snow took them.

He placed a curse on Aru before they left. They are now in a demon whale’s mouth, trying to figure out how to escape and the weapons.