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<blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 1802489" data-attributes="member: 4151"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Lots of action in this part...things'll slow down in the wrap up. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The group roused as the swirling darkness outside the ship's porthole began to lighten. During the long night, Toba, too restless to sleep, had configured one of the ship's scanners to create a map of the local area. Coupled with some planetary data he was able to bring down on a spotty holonet connection, they had a rough idea of the area they were to find this 'guardian.' </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Sounds like you've been busy," Arani, her eyes bleary and hair in disarray, said after the Gungan had briefed them.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Wanting to get this over with," Toba said, eyeing the caustic storm outside. "We probably needing to take the ship there." </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Strange that I feel nothing," Sia-Lann said, distractedly. "This...node. It should give us something, shouldn't it?"</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"I feel it," Rann said. "Like a void out there." </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Are you okay?" she asked. "We can't let fear guide our actions." </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Rann nodded. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The two padawan were already on the ground before the Polestar's engines had wound down. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Rann limped slightly; the effects of the creature's poison still plagued him. He sucked hard on the breather, trying to calm his raging thoughts. The void out there seemed to call to him. To mock his ineffectual grasp on the Force.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Toba and I will set up a perimeter at the base of the hill," Arani said over the comlink.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"If we can sneak up and draw this...whatever it is...out, we may be able to surround it," Sia-Lann said. "Keep your eyes open." </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Rann put a hand to his chest as if to calm his heart, which suddenly began to race. A feeling of dread gripped him and even through the raging marbled dust storm, he could see a pocket of black appear. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Too late," he said simply. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The dust storm seemed to flee away from the creature, a tall humanoid in thick fluttering robes. Beneath its cowl, twin green points flared, and then it MOVED.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Rann dimly heard Sia-Lann's cry, but all other sounds seemed to fade into the background. Pure raging hatred rumbled in his head, an almost physical wave of it that rolled off of the creature as it descended the hillside in a flash. It held a massive blade, jagged and glowing a sickly purple. The padawan barely brought his lightsaber to bear before the thing was on him, slashing quickly from the left. Their weapons met in a flash and boom of arced energy, and Rann flew back, stumbling slightly on the loose gravel. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"This is not good," he said aloud, preparing for the thing's next attack. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Sia-Lann was in the middle of her instructions when she felt the full force of the Dark Side slam into her senses. Reeling, she called out to Rann who seemed to disappear in a sphere of black energy. Before she could move to help him, two canine horrors seemingly appeared before her. Their arched and spiny backs towered over her, and slavering jaws whipped at her legs in blood frenzy. Jumping into the air, half-blinded by the dust, she flipped over their backs, igniting her lightsaber. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"Arani!" she called over the comlink. "Now would be a good time." </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Laser blasts immediately lanced from the direction of the ship, crackling through the green wall of sand with an almost arcane energy. One of the creatures took the bait and charged off toward its attackers. The other whirled and snapped at its padawan foe. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Sia-Lan's overhand slash seemed to glance off the creature's hide. Dodging a quick slash from the monster's claws, she double backflipped and took a position on a more defensible point. Trying to control her gasps in the confining breather, she checked her balance and watched as the creature moved steadily toward her. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"They bouncing off!" Toba yelled as the stream of bolts from his rifle careened off of the charging creature. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"This won't. Down Gungan!" Arani called over the comlink. She heaved a thermal detonator and dove for cover.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The creature howled as it flew into the air above a billowing fireball. It landed heavily, but scrambled to its feet, shaking off the effects. Toba followed up with another burst of blaster fire and the creature bellowed, its thick hide streaked with smoldering patches. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The thing spoke no discernable language, but on its waves of hatred, images formed in Rann's mind. The very ground where they stood became black and lifeless, hovering in a starless void. Its flashing blade snaked around his lightsaber and he felt a painful chill as it pierced his stomach. His flinch backwards prevented the thing from eviscerating him.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Images assailed him, breaking his concentration. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon"><em>....Wei-Lun standing in the corner of a close darkened room as the young padawan struggled with his meditation. </em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon"><em>"If you grab for it, it will slip through your grasp," his master said. "You must not seek the Force, padawan. Let it grasp you."</em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon"><em>He felt the frustration growing in him as he attempted for the millionth time to sink into a reverie with the Force. In that instant, he wished to drop his training. To walk away from Wei-Lun, the man that had taken him in as an orphan. The Jedi Master that had believed in him, but now seemed to berate him with mindless prattle.</em></span></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">I can find power without this old fool, he thought.</span></span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Rann cringed at the remembrance and guilt washed over him. He could almost feel the creature laughing as it struck again and again. He evaded its blows, backpedaling and reaching out for the calm that would keep him alive. The thing was on him before he could recover, and the cold purple blade opened a deep wound across his chest.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Sia-Lan's lightsaber finally bit through the creature's defenses, and it howled and lashed out at her, as she again leapt over its back. So far, her expedient strategy had been successful. She cut across its flanks and dodged to avoid a vicious back kick, surprised at her own calm. With a quick glance toward the coursing void that Rann had entered, she whirled the lightsaber in her hands and impaled the creature’s head as it spun to attack her. She kicked its twitching form and then raced off to help her fellow Jedi. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The growling monstrosity charged toward Toba, and he stood his ground firing bolt after bolt into its tough hide. At the last moment, a blaze of fire lanced from Arani’s position, striking the side of the massive tusked head. In moaning death, the horror slammed into Toba, knocking him back into the dust.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Arani raced up, firing into the still creature, just to be sure. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">“Toba!” she called, eyeing the swirling storm. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">“I'm okay,” he called weakly. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Another bone-numbing chill pierced the young Jedi, and he actually cried out. Rann felt his life draining from him. Inside the cowl, the twin green points flared, and Rann knew true fear. His sabre arm drooping and breath coming in crying gasps, Rann prepared for the end. There at the edge of his mortality, a peace settled over him and the Force filled him to near bursting. In this haze of calm, he glanced off the creature’s raining blows. The lightsaber slid up the blade of his foe in a shrieking explosion of energy, slashing into the sleeve of the apparition’s robes. The creature struck low, and Rann leapt over the blade, his sabre sizzling into the hand that held it. It dropped its weapon casually, backpedaling as Rann advanced. The padawan felt a change in his opponent and dove under a flashing, double-handed attack; short jagged blades had appeared out of creature’s sleeves. Rann snapped the creature’s head back with a high kick and tried to take its arm with an uppercut slash, but it seemed to flow around the attack, slashing down and through back of the Jedi’s ankle. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Rann screamed and collapsed, his lower leg dead below him. Narrowly glancing away another quick strike meant to take his eyes, Rann rolled to a kneeling position. The creature slashed him again, and kicked the padawan hard in the chest. Rann sprawled, his lightsaber flying away.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">He heard its laugh, this time. It was the cry of a thousand souls. A chorus of rage, fear and pain. He knew then that he would soon join those souls, but he still held onto that peace.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">The creature stepped on his wrist and dug it into the ground. It crossed its crackling blades, and then raised one for the kill. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Out of the void, Rann saw a bright light flash across his vision. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Sia-Lan Wezz let out a wild yell as she left her feet and slammed into the creature. The combatants rolled together, the padawan jamming her fists into its tough hide and creature attempted to slash her with its wrist blades. Sia flipped off of the thing’s chest and ignited her lightsaber, glancing off one snaking blade and slashing its other hand off at the wrist. Never pausing, the thing gashed Sia-Lan across the thigh and kicked her in the stomach, knocking her flat. Bringing its good arm around for a killing blow, its head left its shoulders. Rann jammed the sizzling blade into the robed back to be sure, and kicked the body away.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">“What in the blazes was that?” Sia-Lann murmured as she painfully rolled onto her back and pulled herself to sitting position.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">“Hopefully it’s the node that Uduz was gibbering about,” Rann moaned, sprawling on the marbled green sand. “Otherwise, just kill me now.” </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ragboy, post: 1802489, member: 4151"] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Lots of action in this part...things'll slow down in the wrap up. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The group roused as the swirling darkness outside the ship's porthole began to lighten. During the long night, Toba, too restless to sleep, had configured one of the ship's scanners to create a map of the local area. Coupled with some planetary data he was able to bring down on a spotty holonet connection, they had a rough idea of the area they were to find this 'guardian.' [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Sounds like you've been busy," Arani, her eyes bleary and hair in disarray, said after the Gungan had briefed them.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Wanting to get this over with," Toba said, eyeing the caustic storm outside. "We probably needing to take the ship there." [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Strange that I feel nothing," Sia-Lann said, distractedly. "This...node. It should give us something, shouldn't it?"[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"I feel it," Rann said. "Like a void out there." [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Are you okay?" she asked. "We can't let fear guide our actions." [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Rann nodded. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The two padawan were already on the ground before the Polestar's engines had wound down. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Rann limped slightly; the effects of the creature's poison still plagued him. He sucked hard on the breather, trying to calm his raging thoughts. The void out there seemed to call to him. To mock his ineffectual grasp on the Force.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Toba and I will set up a perimeter at the base of the hill," Arani said over the comlink.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"If we can sneak up and draw this...whatever it is...out, we may be able to surround it," Sia-Lann said. "Keep your eyes open." [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Rann put a hand to his chest as if to calm his heart, which suddenly began to race. A feeling of dread gripped him and even through the raging marbled dust storm, he could see a pocket of black appear. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Too late," he said simply. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The dust storm seemed to flee away from the creature, a tall humanoid in thick fluttering robes. Beneath its cowl, twin green points flared, and then it MOVED.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Rann dimly heard Sia-Lann's cry, but all other sounds seemed to fade into the background. Pure raging hatred rumbled in his head, an almost physical wave of it that rolled off of the creature as it descended the hillside in a flash. It held a massive blade, jagged and glowing a sickly purple. The padawan barely brought his lightsaber to bear before the thing was on him, slashing quickly from the left. Their weapons met in a flash and boom of arced energy, and Rann flew back, stumbling slightly on the loose gravel. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"This is not good," he said aloud, preparing for the thing's next attack. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Sia-Lann was in the middle of her instructions when she felt the full force of the Dark Side slam into her senses. Reeling, she called out to Rann who seemed to disappear in a sphere of black energy. Before she could move to help him, two canine horrors seemingly appeared before her. Their arched and spiny backs towered over her, and slavering jaws whipped at her legs in blood frenzy. Jumping into the air, half-blinded by the dust, she flipped over their backs, igniting her lightsaber. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"Arani!" she called over the comlink. "Now would be a good time." [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Laser blasts immediately lanced from the direction of the ship, crackling through the green wall of sand with an almost arcane energy. One of the creatures took the bait and charged off toward its attackers. The other whirled and snapped at its padawan foe. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Sia-Lan's overhand slash seemed to glance off the creature's hide. Dodging a quick slash from the monster's claws, she double backflipped and took a position on a more defensible point. Trying to control her gasps in the confining breather, she checked her balance and watched as the creature moved steadily toward her. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"They bouncing off!" Toba yelled as the stream of bolts from his rifle careened off of the charging creature. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]"This won't. Down Gungan!" Arani called over the comlink. She heaved a thermal detonator and dove for cover.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The creature howled as it flew into the air above a billowing fireball. It landed heavily, but scrambled to its feet, shaking off the effects. Toba followed up with another burst of blaster fire and the creature bellowed, its thick hide streaked with smoldering patches. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The thing spoke no discernable language, but on its waves of hatred, images formed in Rann's mind. The very ground where they stood became black and lifeless, hovering in a starless void. Its flashing blade snaked around his lightsaber and he felt a painful chill as it pierced his stomach. His flinch backwards prevented the thing from eviscerating him.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Images assailed him, breaking his concentration. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon][i]....Wei-Lun standing in the corner of a close darkened room as the young padawan struggled with his meditation. [/i][/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon][i]"If you grab for it, it will slip through your grasp," his master said. "You must not seek the Force, padawan. Let it grasp you."[/i][/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon][i]He felt the frustration growing in him as he attempted for the millionth time to sink into a reverie with the Force. In that instant, he wished to drop his training. To walk away from Wei-Lun, the man that had taken him in as an orphan. The Jedi Master that had believed in him, but now seemed to berate him with mindless prattle.[/i][/color][/font] [i][font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]I can find power without this old fool, he thought.[/color][/font][/i] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Rann cringed at the remembrance and guilt washed over him. He could almost feel the creature laughing as it struck again and again. He evaded its blows, backpedaling and reaching out for the calm that would keep him alive. The thing was on him before he could recover, and the cold purple blade opened a deep wound across his chest.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Sia-Lan's lightsaber finally bit through the creature's defenses, and it howled and lashed out at her, as she again leapt over its back. So far, her expedient strategy had been successful. She cut across its flanks and dodged to avoid a vicious back kick, surprised at her own calm. With a quick glance toward the coursing void that Rann had entered, she whirled the lightsaber in her hands and impaled the creature’s head as it spun to attack her. She kicked its twitching form and then raced off to help her fellow Jedi. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The growling monstrosity charged toward Toba, and he stood his ground firing bolt after bolt into its tough hide. At the last moment, a blaze of fire lanced from Arani’s position, striking the side of the massive tusked head. In moaning death, the horror slammed into Toba, knocking him back into the dust.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Arani raced up, firing into the still creature, just to be sure. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]“Toba!” she called, eyeing the swirling storm. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]“I'm okay,” he called weakly. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Another bone-numbing chill pierced the young Jedi, and he actually cried out. Rann felt his life draining from him. Inside the cowl, the twin green points flared, and Rann knew true fear. His sabre arm drooping and breath coming in crying gasps, Rann prepared for the end. There at the edge of his mortality, a peace settled over him and the Force filled him to near bursting. In this haze of calm, he glanced off the creature’s raining blows. The lightsaber slid up the blade of his foe in a shrieking explosion of energy, slashing into the sleeve of the apparition’s robes. The creature struck low, and Rann leapt over the blade, his sabre sizzling into the hand that held it. It dropped its weapon casually, backpedaling as Rann advanced. The padawan felt a change in his opponent and dove under a flashing, double-handed attack; short jagged blades had appeared out of creature’s sleeves. Rann snapped the creature’s head back with a high kick and tried to take its arm with an uppercut slash, but it seemed to flow around the attack, slashing down and through back of the Jedi’s ankle. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Rann screamed and collapsed, his lower leg dead below him. Narrowly glancing away another quick strike meant to take his eyes, Rann rolled to a kneeling position. The creature slashed him again, and kicked the padawan hard in the chest. Rann sprawled, his lightsaber flying away.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]He heard its laugh, this time. It was the cry of a thousand souls. A chorus of rage, fear and pain. He knew then that he would soon join those souls, but he still held onto that peace.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]The creature stepped on his wrist and dug it into the ground. It crossed its crackling blades, and then raised one for the kill. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Out of the void, Rann saw a bright light flash across his vision. [/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]Sia-Lan Wezz let out a wild yell as she left her feet and slammed into the creature. The combatants rolled together, the padawan jamming her fists into its tough hide and creature attempted to slash her with its wrist blades. Sia flipped off of the thing’s chest and ignited her lightsaber, glancing off one snaking blade and slashing its other hand off at the wrist. Never pausing, the thing gashed Sia-Lan across the thigh and kicked her in the stomach, knocking her flat. Bringing its good arm around for a killing blow, its head left its shoulders. Rann jammed the sizzling blade into the robed back to be sure, and kicked the body away.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]“What in the blazes was that?” Sia-Lann murmured as she painfully rolled onto her back and pulled herself to sitting position.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=lemonchiffon]“Hopefully it’s the node that Uduz was gibbering about,” Rann moaned, sprawling on the marbled green sand. “Otherwise, just kill me now.” [/color][/font] [/QUOTE]
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