Kks, this is my first attempt at this thing so please bear with me.
This is an after effect of the whole Star Wars thing. If your not interested…crys I'm sorry!
Chapter 1—Beginning of the Journey
Kasia knew from the beginning, when she was small, that there was something different about her than the rest of her family, something that she knew she shared with someone else far, far away.
Things since the Chosen One's time had changed. Rules in some areas had become easier, while other areas were much stricter. Freedom with limitations. Yes, that described it.
When she was 3 they took her in for training, grumbling the whole time about how old she was. She was conscious of their words, and from then on she showed her years as older, fooling most with respectable ease. She stayed at the temple and learned her ways under the vastly aged Skywalker. When she became of age, she was taken as a padawan by a man named Jinuko, who was kind and showed her the ways of the Force with patience. She had advanced early, and she was now speeding her way to her first solo mission.
Well, semi-solo.
It was a test for the padawans, her and two others, to see if they were ready to be Jedi Knights. There was Kasia, Ace, Niles and Lyndsay, all thrown together without their Masters to guide them. They weren't quite sure what their mission was, the council relying heavily on surprise (Kasia secretly guessed the Council was really just throwing missions out for the fun of it).
A red light beeped on the control panel. She looked up from the pilots chair and over to Ace, signaling for him to go. He nodded and smiled, and she wondered what he was going to do with his braid, for he was going to the back of his ship to answer his Master's call and to change for the mission ahead. Supposedly, no one was supposed to know them as Jedi.
A few minutes later Ace walked out, in street clothes and his braid gone, and called for Niles. He caught Kasia's eye and smiled, a hidden secret dancing behind his eyes. He had dark, dark hair that came to life with its curls and a good natured face, not lined with constant worry as most Jedi's were. He had wildly-colored dark blue eyes, a strong nose, and a stubborn way to his mouth.
She smiled and waved back briefly, keeping half a mind on the controls in front of her and the screen that showed them still in hyperspace. A few minutes and the auto-pilot would jump out of it. They were nearing the planet, Coroscant, and Kasia remembered how the old Jedi Temple had once been there, if she got the chance, she would go look for it.
Her thoughts were rudely interrupted by Niles flinging a bit of cloth with the Force, which hit her in the head. Niles was humanoid, not a specific species, and he had orange tinged skin and yellow eyes, green hair topping his head. He motioned for her that it was her time to go back, and she nodded and scowled.
She walked back into her room, the one she shared with Lyndsay on this ship and quickly changed her padawan robes for a simple green dress (picked out by the much more fashion savvy machines of the ship and created to match her well) that, no matter how much she fussed with it, still managed to cling to her upper body. She walked in front of the mirror and looked, her eyes taking up the strangeness of regular clothes on her body. What she couldn't see was what she had had all of her life: her pale skin, creamy and milk white; her curving body, something easy to tempt any man, human or non; her vibrant, wide, electric green eyes, piercing and enhanced by the green in her dress; her strait, beautiful hair, which was nothing but gold and red streaks, no base color to focus on; her face itself, with its strait, pale nose, high, slender cheeks, and full blood-red lips, bright on her pale face.
She sighed and let out her hair, which cascaded down her back and to her knees. She gathered it again and pulled it up into a bun, this time tucking her braid in with it as well. She walked over to the wall and put her face into an impression in the wall. She closed her eyes and tried not to giggle as the machine applied make-up to her face. This too was something odd, something she had never worn before.
She walked into the holo room and saw her Master waiting on the holo-player. She smiled and stated her greeting, and her Master looked up at her. His face flew from friendly calm to pale and shocked, and he whispered a word. "Shelah."
"Master Jinuko?" she asked, concerned greatly.
He shook his head and his face cleared. "Kasia, don't you look…different. This is not how I am used to seeing you at all. Are you nervous?"
"How could I be nervous, Master? I know nothing of what to be nervous about," she prodded, willing for him to tell her what she needed to do.
"Kidnapping, Kasia, of a princess. Her name is Danka. Age 4. Her older sister is heir to the Naiuvian throne. Her name is Daria. Age 16, same as you. I trust that you can handle a kidnapping? Tonight, at midnight, she is to meet you at a club called Caliclickdelphsnapclick. Any questions?"
"No, Master, I think I can handle this."
"Remember, Kasia. This is a group assignment. You have to—"
"Work as a team, I know." Urg, how many times had he told her that? She could work as a team…couldn't she?
"If things get too out of hand, feel free to contact me. The Council will be keeping their thoughts on you."
"Yes Master."
"Good-bye, Kasia."
"Good-bye, Master Jinuko."
She stepped out of the holo room and walked back out to the cockpit of the ship.
"Lyndsay, your next." She said. Lyndsay was a Teevan, tall and thin, a fluid motion in her step. She had a silvery skin, which glowed as the moons in daylight, and she had dark eyes which slanted slightly. Her hair was deep, dark, and was long and shiny. Lyndsay smiled and nodded, smiling in approval at Kasia's new look.
Kasia walked out farther, and she caught Ace's gaze from where he was sitting in the co-captain's chair. He did a double take and froze for a few seconds, his hands lingering over the controls. She, feeling a bit self-conscious, walked over and began to talk with him.
"So the mission, what do you think about it?" she asked, and he blinked and looked up.
"Oh, it sounds simple enough. Strange though, how easy it is to steal a princess."
"Yes, pity. How long have we been out of hyperspace for?"
"Umm, about five minutes after you left. We should be there in ten minutes time."
"That sounds fair enough. Do you think this mission will be tough?"
"Nah," he responded. "I think it will be a bit of a breeze by, actually."
"Umm, guys," Lyndsay's voice came from behind. Kasia turned around, and her heart almost burst.
Lyndsay, poor thing, had on the most hideous dress, bright red-orange and pink. Her shoes were orange with huge pink flowers, and her eyes were lined in pink and shadowed in orange. On her lips was the most revolting chartreuse-orange-pink sticky lip gloss Kasia had ever seen.
"I swear, the machine picked it and I couldn't stop it!" she cried.
Kasia, holding back silent laughter, looked up as calmly as she could manage and said, "I suggest you go back in and try again." Lyndsay agreed and left.
As soon as the girl moved into the other room, Kasia burst into a fit of wild giggles. Her laughter rang out pure, and it took her a split second to realize that Ace and Niles were laughing as well. Her legs became weak with the humor of the situation and she collapsed on Ace's lap. Ace grumbled, his laughter making his words hard to come out, and he finally managed, "Get off, Kas-haha"
"I'm trying," she gasped, still giggling madly.
Suddenly, a large jolt rocked the ship. Kasia, sobering fast, managed to slip over to the captain's chair, her face falling into impassiveness.
Another concussion hit the ship, this time harder. Lyndsay screamed from the back. "Guys. Guys, something just blew up!"
Kasia's hands gripped the controls, turning even more white than usual. The safety cords flung around her and dug into her skin. She could hear Ace distantly talking into the com to the grounds of Coroscant, telling them of the emergency landing and that they would be more than happy to offer a search when they landed.
She finally got the correct trajectory for the planet and hit the atmosphere hard, furiously hoping that whatever had been hit wouldn't affect their landing. She rocked and rumbled quickly down, the ship begging to roll under her hands. She tightened her hold on the controls, saw the landing platform, and tried to turn to ease their speed. Nothing happened.
"Tell them I can't turn," she yelled to Ace. She tried another button, more desperate attempts to control their speeds. Again nothing. "Tell them I can't stop either. Hold on!"
3.4 seconds later, they hit, and hard. The cords around her tightened and dug even further into her flesh. She could hear Lyndsay bouncing around in the back, and she winced.
"I'm alright!" Lyndsay yelled from the back. "I'm alright."
"Kasia Vleiss, requesting systems check. Evaluate system damage."
A cool voice from the computers answered back. "Request accepted. Voice recognition affirmed. Systems damage to: landing gear, steering gear, momentum sustaining drive, hyper drive, force field deflectors, tracking mechanisms, and cloaking mechanisms."
Kasia groaned. "Deactivate all safety restraints and open the working door, if any."
The restraints popped of with a hiss and Kasia stood up, her body throbbing. She looked around, checking that Ace and Niles were alright, and then headed to the back to check on Lyndsay. The girl was on the floor in the middle of piles of clothes, but she had managed to change, and she didn't seem to badly hurt. However, the ship, she guessed, hadn't fared so well.
She helped Lyndsay up and got her to grab the bag with the money the Council had given them. She walked out, saying, "Ace, Niles, deal with the officials, please. Lyndsay and I are off."
"Where to?" Ace asked.
"For some place to stay."
Erm, ok, I hope you liked it. Again, this is my first story, so, please. Be kind, rewind (oh wait, wrong thing…) No, really, please read and review!