It was yet another day for the villagers to go without water. So far the villagers had kept the foe at bay but another day without water would mean either that they would have to surrender or would be defeated. Woe had come to the land of these remote tribes when the king sent his sons on the mission to capture all the neighbouring lands and include them as part of a nation. Most of the secluded tribes gave resistance to the advances of the princes but most were either defeated or surrendered. But the courageous tribesmen of the village of Gumanna were not ready to give in so soon. After nearly twenty days of fighting the might of the king they had not yet given in. The young and brave prince Mateen was then dispatched for Gumanna when the king came to know of the immense resistance shown by the tribe. The king was furious over the everyday news of the tribe's resistance and hence Mateen's mission to Gumanna was to wipe out the village completely of its male members.
It was now nearly the fourth day since prince Mateen was fighting the tribe and he had no better lead except that he had captured the part of land which housed the pond, the only source of water to the village of Gumanna. Food had already run down days before, but now the community of Gumanna was worst affected due to the lack of water and able young men who could fight the enemy and get water from the acquired territory. Women and children were most affected and the old were dying of thirst. It was under these circumstances that a young and brave soldier decided that he would get the precious water. He disguised himself as a woman and walked towards the enemy with an empty bucket in hand. He gambled that the prince and his bunch of men would not kill a woman in cold blood. He walked past the shelter and had hardly taken a hundred steps towards the pond when an arrow from the prince's army pierced his heart and proved his belief wrong.
"The disguise - it failed," signed an aged leader of the survivors.
"There is nothing now for us, we have lost the last of our braves to the enemy, we will all die of thirst, that is our destiny," said another elder of the community.
Just then a mother burst into the tent with her sick child in hand, "Please someone, get water for my little one, tell the enemy that we have surrendered, get water for my child someone or he will die..." and she burst out crying.
"I shall go for water," volunteered the young and beautiful virgin of Gumanna village Joiba.