Author's Note: Some of you know the drill, but there are a few extras. -This- indicates that Elaina is thinking to herself, ~this~ is when Kelly-Fyn is thinking to herself, italicized means that it's a flashback, although they will be rarer in this one, and I'll designate changes in points of view and places with parentheses. In this chapter, it won't be in any particular point of view…just warning you. Enjoy!

Prologue: Rescuing the Rescuers

(At the Jedi Council)

"Master Qui-Gon, a mission for you, have we," Yoda stated with his almost frog-like voice from his round chair among the others of the Council.

"Were we not to begin preparing for our negotiations with the Trade Federation at Naboo?" the Jedi Knight, standing beside his twenty-five year old padawan in the middle of the room, queried. Qui-Gon Jinn was a tall, well-built, middle-aged man with past shoulder-length, slightly wavy, medium brown hair and cloudy sky-blue eyes. His padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, was several inches shorter than his master with short, light brown hair, cut in the style of all padawans with the single, long braid, and blue-gray eyes. They both had somewhat identical Jedi robes of hues of brown.

"Leave without help did the Kalonya sisters go. To release Jedi prisoners in two days were they to go, but they could not wait," the short green Jedi went on.

"Kalonya…I have never heard of these girls."

The Knight quickly received one of Yoda's infamous grandfatherly laughs.

"Would not, you would."

Qui-Gon was clearly confused; however, the dark-toned, wise Mace Windu added his own note.

"Qui-Gon, you and your apprentice are to go to the Aikhibba system. Elaina and Kelly-Fyn Kalonya left ahead of schedule on a rescue mission. Three Jedi are being held by Spadda the Hutt there. Use extra caution and bring them all back here safely. May the Force be with you."

"May the Force be with you, Master," the Jedi replied before walking out of the room with Obi-Wan on his heels.

"Master," the padawan began, "why us? How are these two women so important that the Council has to send us after them for their irresponsible actions?"

"Peace, my young padawan learner. You must understand that female Jedi were not allowed until about a century ago. There are less of them because they are only allowed on the condition that their parents are dead. The Jedi Master who invented that rule did not want the female Jedi to have too many worldly attachments."

"It seems a bit harsh."

"Well, the fact is that women, for some unknown reason, are less likely to have a great potential in using the Force, but when they do, they are often even more powerful. The rule was founded on the grounds that the Jedi Order could not risk losing the few women they had to outside affections. In a sense, women have the upper hand over us."

"I still don't understand why we have to go after these two."

"Neither do I, Obi-Wan, but it is not our place to question the will of the Council."

"You don't seem to have a problem with it too often."

"Mind your place, young one."

(On Aikhibba during the deep of night)

The two women were hiding in the underbrush just outside the prison camp. In dim light, their appearances could only be deciphered by close examination. The taller one lying on the left had straight, shoulder-length, dark brown hair nearly covering her somewhat round face and deep coffee-colored eyes. Her fairly tight-fitting black leather pants, long-sleeved, tied black leather tunic with wide grey trim, and grey robe were in the normal Jedi style; however, the black part of it was far from the usual. She also had a baldric, which held her lightsaber and, further up, a specially made laser pistol. The shorter girl by a couple of inches on the right had wavy golden brown hair tied in a low ponytail with a strip of leather, which reached past her waist and allowed her more oval than round face to be seen, and crystal blue eyes that nearly glowed in the dim light. Whatever she was wearing underneath the rough, brown robe was hidden as she had wrapped it all the way around herself.

"The security is tighter than we thought, Kelly," the woman on the right, Elaina, stated. She possessed a voice of a medium-high pitch, feminine, yet not completely. "Maybe we should wait for reinforcements, after all, just to be safe."

"Are you joking?" the other girl asked with a voice of a lower tone than Elaina's. "You're the one who said that you could kill twenty Hutts with one thought."

"I did and I probably can, but that does not mean that I am prepared to go in there with no idea of what I'm going to face."

"Well, you can sense how many are in there, can't you?"

"Yes, but I can't tell what kind of weapons they have. Amount is one thing, but size is completely different."

"Oh, come on, Elaina! With my fighting capabilities and your power with the Force, we can easily rescue the Jedi in there."

"It's against my better judgment, but fine, Kelly," Elaina gave in, beginning to sneak around towards the building's front entrance in the shadows.

"It's Kelly-Fyn," the younger twin growled before following her sister as she pulled her lightsaber out of its holder. There were three guards in front the gate.

"On my signal, we take them…no sooner."

"Oh please, sis. Of all people, you should know that I stopped taking orders at the age of thirteen."

"Unfortunately…"

"Now!"

Hardly a second later, one guard was dead on the ground with a lightsaber burn across his chest, while the other two were being held against the wall with the Force by Elaina, who was leaning against a tree, still in the shadow of the forest. Her sister, on the other hand, was on the ground by the door with her purple lightsaber out, which caused her tanned face to glow in its light.

"Show off," Kelly-Fyn scoffed.

"You're the one who makes this a competition," the other woman pointed out, nearing the door cautiously, her fair skin showing its paleness in comparison with her sister's in the dim light.

"Let me see if I can pick this lock…"

"Wait," the older girl warned harshly, "I sense something. I don't know why I didn't feel it before." Seconds went by. "Kelly, run!"

Too late. As she tried to run, Kelly-Fyn ran into a shield of some sort, which knocked her over. While Elaina ran to her twin's side, a resounding laugh ran through the area, followed by about twenty armed soldiers and a Hutt coming from inside the building.

"Excellent!" the Hutt, Spadda, cried. "Now, we have five Jedi to trade instead of three. Perfect!"

Meanwhile, Kelly tested the surrounding shield while her sister faced the Hutt she was kept from killing by the barrier.

"Spadda, and here I thought your slimy rear had been shipped off to Coruscant for questioning about your little scams. I had no idea. Now, if you would just let us and the other Jedi go, we'll be on our way."

"We are not that foolish, Jedi. Now, surrender your weapons or we will kill your friends."

Three men in handcuffs were shoved into sight range with guns to their heads.

"You will release us now."

"Foolish are you to think that that Jedi mind trick would work on me."

"A bit naive, yes, foolish, no," a strange man's voice corrected before two Jedi suddenly swept onto the scene, killing five soldiers before they were able to react.

"The generator!" Elaina yelled. "Destroy the generator!" Once the box nearby had been eliminated by the younger man, the shield was lowered and, with a single hand gesture from the cloak-covered woman, all of the remaining five attackers stopped firing their guns. When only two of them unsheathed daggers and confronted the men, the others ran, closely pursued by Kelly-Fyn. "Kelly, don't…" Her words were lost as the other woman killed all three runners with a simple twirl of her lightsaber.

"What happened?" the younger man queried as Elaina ran over to her sister and began yelling,

"What did you do that for? They were harmless!"

"Elaina, they would have gone straight to their allies…and then where would we be? On the run, again."

"I disabled their guns. You could have simply used the Force to stop them instead of murdering them in their tracks."

"They were still a threat."

"In whose mind? Yours? Forget about it…just try not to do that again."

"Fine."

"Ladies!" the younger man exclaimed. "What is going on?"

"It's resolved. Who may you be?" Kelly almost flirtatiously asked while her twin casually touched the other Jedi's handcuffs, releasing the prisoners.

"You are Kelly-Fyn and Elaina Kalonya?" the older man asked, stepping forward.

"Who wants to know?"

"Kelly, give them a break!" the other girl hissed, standing beside her sister. "I am Elaina. You must be Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. My sister and I have seen you in the Jedi temple on Coruscant."

"I'm sorry, it was hinted to us that you were Jedi," Obi-Wan stated. "You couldn't be more than…well, I suppose Elaina, maybe, but Kelly-Fyn is definitely not older than fifteen!"

"We're twins, actually," the dark-haired woman corrected.

"And how old are you?"

"We just turned sixteen a week ago."

"Then you must be padawan learners still."

During the short dialogue, Qui-Gon and Elaina remained silent and separated, yet clearly amused by the argument.

"No, we became Knights a year ago, Elaina before me, though."

"Prove it."

That was a big mistake. With one smooth gesture of the hand, Kelly-Fyn cut Obi-Wan off from the Force, a natural technique only known by the two sisters, and tossed him, unharmed, into a tall tree close by.

"All right, dear sister, that's enough flirting. Get him down from there," Elaina ordered.

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On the Republic cruiser, the three rescued Jedi were sent to the infirmary while the other four went towards the cockpit.

"So Elaina," Qui-Gon began after the captain had taken off on a course for Coruscant, "how did you and your sister become Jedi at such a young age?"

The girls were clearly uncomfortable with the question; however, it was clearer on Kelly's face than Elaina's.

"I don't think now is the time to discuss such things," the latter replied hesitantly as the com link beeped as warning of an incoming message. Windu appeared on the screen.

"Master Qui-Gon," he began, "I assume that you have completed your mission."

"If that mission was to waste their perfectly good time, then yes," Kelly growled before being interrupted by Qui-Gon.

"Yes, we are returning now."

"Since you are already in the vicinity, would you be willing to go ahead with your original mission?"

"Do you not want us to return these padawans to Coruscant?" Obi-Wan asked, still in denial over two women younger than him being Knights.

"Jedi Knights Elaina and Kelly-Fyn will be of great help to you. Elaina is perfect for assisting you in the negotiations and Kelly-Fyn will be there in case of trouble. May the Force be with you."

"How are you supposed to be great help?" the twenty-five-year-old asked the twins.

"Well," Elaina replied, "you saw Kelly's ability with both the lightsaber and the Force. I was the one who disabled the soldiers' guns."

"Why did you try using the mind trick on Spadda? Do you not know that it does not work on them?"

"I was distracting him, giving Kelly a chance to figure something out. In fact, we would have probably gotten away with even less bloodshed if you hadn't shown up."

"Speaking of less bloodshed," Kelly-Fyn said. "Elaina, remember the time we had to go undercover last month on Corellia?"

"Yes, we were helping to negotiate peace between the two countries."

"That's the one…and you passed as my mother."

"Should've seen that coming…"

As Elaina put her feet up on the nearby table, her clothes under the cloak were revealed. She was wearing a light brown, soft leather dress with long, tight sleeves. Its neckline was a somewhat low V-neck which had the lowest point slightly more to the left than the right. Branching off in the opposite direction was a seam which curled down and around her torso, disappearing as it curled to the back of the dress. Beneath the close-fitting cloth of her rather thin waist, even compared to her sister's trim figure, and flowing off of her shapely hips was the skirt of the dress. On the right side, it nearly reached her ankle; however, after slanting up to her left shin, the fabric split up to her mid-thigh. The fair skin on her left leg was covered by another, extra skirt of a sheer, mainly red, multi-colored fabric hanging off her hips. It reached just below her knees and tied on the right side, keeping the skirt flexible enough for plenty of movement. Also, the seam from above could be seen as it curled back around her hips and down her legs. Finally, she had brown leather, petite laced boots which reached her thighs and a black leather belt holding two lightsabers. Kelly-Fyn's figure was also more viewable in the light. Though the tunic covered most of her figure, it could be noticed that she was thin, well-built, and athletic. She was also wearing petite boots, although they were black and only ankle-length. Beneath the still-tied tunic was a soft grey shirt of unknown length. Her face and demeanor was slightly darker than her sister's in general. She had an air about that spelt "danger," while Elaina seemed slightly more welcoming.

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