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Post by hk47fan on Jun 20, 2007 15:23:52 GMT -4
Naos
I didn't respond to anything when I heard "I had a dream last night". I just stood there, not even moving in the slightest. "A.....dream?" I said finally after a moment of pure silence
I knew it was time to tell someone about the dreams I had. About that dark figure....and if there was one person I should and could tell, it was Nait.
"Listen...I've had dreams too. One just last night, the other a few weeks back on Apatros. The first one, was weird. I was just standing in the middle of the hall...and suddenly I found myself in some other dimension. There was a person in front of me, without a doubt Sith, and they just stood their with lightsabers ignited. I don't know it's gender, it had a mask on and armour. They then struck me down within seconds, and I was back in reality. That dream haunted me...but the other was even stranger. The figure and Scout were standing across from each other, the Sith figure was killing Scout, and every time Scout screamed out and began to die the figure became more powerful...until finally Scout was completely gone...." I explained to Nait, hoping he could even understand a little more, because it was confusing to me
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Post by Force_Flow on Jun 20, 2007 15:29:25 GMT -4
Nait turned towards him, and they both drifted towards the back of the group. Then he explained his own dream to Naos. "Remember what Master Yoda said?" Nait asked. "That, when a Jedi you're close to is in trouble, they subconsciously reach out for help to the people they like the best..."
"She's alive," Nait whispered. "She wants help."
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Post by hk47fan on Jun 20, 2007 16:05:55 GMT -4
Naos
I nodded "Your right....that can't be denied any longer...." I said, finally understanding everything after Nait reminded me of Master Yoda's lesson
"But...where is she?" I said, and then gulped as I tried to make myself say the next thought I had "If she is turned....she could be anywhere...and Vader had to do something very efficient to make her turn....."
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Post by Force_Flow on Jun 20, 2007 16:13:27 GMT -4
"When the person stabbed her, i saw all the memories pouring out of her," Nait said in a low voice. "The dark figure took place inside, so... Scout tried to send us the only message she could: she was being brainwashed or something. That's why we can't feel her..."
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Post by Revan Jast on Jun 20, 2007 19:33:57 GMT -4
Selas sat in the co pilot seat.
"How long till we arrive?"
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Post by hk47fan on Jun 20, 2007 23:52:16 GMT -4
Twelve Hours Later
The two hunters that spotted the Killer flying out of the Palace sat inside a dark, very dimlighted corner of the Cantina they were standing beside just hours ago. The Shorter one sipped a very, very unique and odd drink while the other merely sat there. "You think that guard we heard of will show up?"
"If the gossip is right, of course he will. And we move in to get our informaton." the shorter one said "Just wait a little while longer."
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Another hour passed. The pair continued to sit there, un-bothered and un-noticed. "This is getting worthless. I advise you that we leave now and go to another place for information. We are wasting our time!"
"This is one time I will wait. If it is what we have to do to get these, or at least some, of these hitlist people I will do it. You have much to learn, dear partner." the shorter one said "If he does not arrive within the next hour, I'll go your route."
"Wait...I believe I have spotted something very intriguing." the taller one said and a metal finger could be seen sticking out of the deep shadows and pointing at a regular sized man with brown hair, no helmet but the regular Royal Guard of Naboo suit, walking into the Cantina fairly quickly
"He has just walked into his own trap...." the shorter one said and a slight chuckle is heard
The guard walked up to the bar and sat down, and after speaking to the bar tender breifly the bar tender could be heard by others mentioning to him that two people were waiting for him in the corner. The guard gave a suspicious look but was eventually intrigued and decided to join the two.
"So you finally came." the shorter one said
"What do you want? Who are you? I only came here for some juma juice, now that I am finally off duty for the night." the guard said as he took a large drink of the elegant gup the bartender gave him
"We need information. We can do it the simple way, or the very hard and painful way." the shorter one said as the guard caught him slightly leaning back in his chair
"Let me explain further to encourage you to give us what we need to know. My partner and I have heard from many you have mentioned of what goes on at the Palace of Naboo...and that the Queen had a problem with the Empire." the taller one said
"What are you talking about?" the guard asked with a snarl, his eyes narrowing "The Queen is loyal to Emperor Palpatine...."
"Not according to what you have said previously. But don't worry, we're not focused on her. We're focused on what a Corellian freighter, one that even looked a bit battered from what little we saw of it, could have been doing at the Royal Palace." the taller one said, obviously not backing down "We suggest you tell us, because I have quite a large amount of torture methods."
The man's eyes were beginning to widen, but he quickly tried to cover up with a look of confusion "I don't know what are you talking about. Mabye just some delivery of supplies and a Corellian freighter was being used as transportation. You seem to be grasping at straws for whatever you are looking for. I'm going to go before this gets even crazier...."
The guard began to stand up but suddenly a metal hand from the taller hunter shot out and grabbed ahold of the guard's hand, and clutched it tight. The guard tried to resist and eventually began to try kicking, but just as the taller one's grasp began to loosen the shorter one stood up and grabbed the guard's other arm and swung him into the wall in the more dim lighted area of the Cantina, even catching a few patrons' attention.
The guard gasped when he saw the shorter hunter in the light, and his taller partner step up behind him. "Zuckuss and 4-LOM...." he said with a look of shock and fear on his face
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Post by Force_Flow on Jun 21, 2007 9:40:42 GMT -4
Clat'Ha, one of her Majesties handmaidens, was dressed in the flame-red gown Padmé remembered wearing during the Blockade of Naboo. But Clat'Ha had taken down her hood, which was allowed outside of the Royal Chambers, and continued to walk on. Padmé noticed that the roots of her dark hair were starting to turn auburn. A bad dye-job, or a good one coming undone. Clat'Ha led them through twisting cooridors, and finally stopped two floors up. The hallway was luxurious, and when they stepped inside their quarters, Padmé was pleased to see that the only metal thing was the communicator.
"Please wait here, Your Excellany." Clat'Ha bowed to Padmé, keeping her head down low in a sign of deep respect.
"But I'm not your Queen anymore," Padmé said.
"Madame, do you remember me? You saved me during the Battle of Theed. You sent Captain Panaka to rescue the soldiers at the camps, and I came. You pushed me to the ground in the Palace so I would not get hit by blasterfire."
Padmé gasped softly."Aienna? You were just eleven, then."
"Yes, I was tall once. Now I'm short. Ironic. Please, let me know if there is anything you need."
Clat'Ha left.
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Post by hk47fan on Jun 21, 2007 9:57:37 GMT -4
Zuckuss said "Don't be too shocked, tell me what I want to know. Who was on board that freighter?!"
"I-I don't know!" the guard said nerviously
4-LOM removed his large blaster rifle and aimed it right in between the guard's eyes, and Zuckuss said "Answer me now. No more games!"
"FINE!" the guard shouted "I was with the guards in the hanger that were to welcome the Ambassadors."
"Ambassadors?" Zuckuss said, intrigued
"Yes! One of them was a woman, she seemed like the main ambassador. There was a Captain, two or three Jedi, another woman in handmaiden robes, and one who looked to be in some sort of hunting gear."
"What were the Jedi, Captain, and hunter's names?" Zuckuss asked as 4-LOM prepared to fire
The guard began to crack even more than he already had "One was Nait Gash, one Naos, one Mariel, one Sora I think, and one Fi. The Mariel girl and Captain left, eventually." he said nervously and then began to breath heavily after the fear of the consequences of what he had just done
4-LOM set the rifle down on the table in the shadows for a breif moment and looked at the datapad "They are all on Vader's hitlist...." he told Zuckuss
The guard's face paled, and he said "No...you wouldn't....."
Zuckuss chuckled several times at this and then threw the guard back into the shadows, and before the guard could even breath five breaths Zuckuss slammed him on the table. "Kill him." he said to 4-LOM
"Certainly." 4-LOM said eagerly and grabbed his rifle, then took aim again and fired, the last facial look on the guard's face being one of shock and fear
"Lets go...." Zuckuss said and continued to chuckle "It's time to take a trip to Queen Apailana's palace..."
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Post by Force_Flow on Jun 21, 2007 13:57:03 GMT -4
It wasn't anything bad, but as Nait collapsed on his bed in the quarters he and Naos were sharing, subtle shiftings in the Force alerted him. The tingling in the back of his throat grew until it hurt bad...
"You feel that?" Nait asked, frowning up at the cieling. His danger-sense kicking in, Nait automatically reached out for the others. Fi was in her and Padme's quarters, Padme was there, Apailina, deeply troubled, was still there in the Thrown Room. Everything was still okay...
Was it?
In the years he had been a Jedi, Nait had come to trust his danger-sense. And somewhere, deep in his gut, he felt that someone, somewhere, knew that they were here.
Oh shit.
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Post by hk47fan on Jun 21, 2007 14:03:11 GMT -4
Naos
I felt something, like Nait. Like a calm before the storm, and clouds had just formed. I got some remote sense of safety earlier, but not now. We were all in danger. Grave danger. "I feel it...." I said "But we can't remain in these quarters. To open, to available to a danger or dark force to just swoop down in to. We have to get Padme and Fi somewhere safer, the safest place in this Palace....."
I looked out the small window. Nothing seemed wrong to the naked eye...but I could feel something out there....
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