When Scarlet woke up it was in the middle of the day. She didn't realize how tired she really was or how hungry she is. She got out of her bed and went to the refresher to fix her hair. She walked in and looked around then she realized she left her brush in her room. She walked back into her room and grabbed her brush and her knife out of her bag and went back to the refresher. She looked in the mirror and saw her blonde pigtails were frizzy from her sleep and her padawan braid was sitting on her left shoulder. She took her braid and held her knife to the end of it against her head. She hesitated remembering her friends and then cut the briad from her hair. She then put her knife down and pulled her hair out of its position on top of her head and brushed her hair until it was nice and soft once again and put it back into it pigtails. Then she left the refresher and took off her white Jedi tabards leaving her white jumpsuit, black finger gloves, and red tunic on and then walked out of her room to find Shin sitting at the table in the small dining area. Shin at first doesn't realize Scarlet is there, then she feels something is off and turns to see Scarlet standing there.
"How long have you been standing there?" Shin asked Scarlet.
"Only a couple minutes." Scarlet replied with a smile.
"Are you hungry?" Shin asked.
"Yes!" Scarlet said loudly.
Shin stood up and pulled a chair out for Scarlet and went into the kitchen and brought out the rest of the food from earlier this morning. She set it down in front of Scarlet and Scarlet thanked her and began to eat. Shin sat back down and picked back up the holopad she was reading and continued to read. When Scarlet finished eating, she took her food ware back to the little kitchen and then came back to sit with Shin. Shin looked up at the little blondie and just laughed a little.
"Do you always but your hair up into little pigtails?" Shin asked.
"Yes! Why?" Scarlet responded.
"I'm sorry it just makes you look so cute. And I guess I am just a little more used to seeing human girls wearing their hair down or only pulling is back." Shin said.
"I guess I just have to be different." Scarlet said.
"That makes you more special then." Shin said.
"I guess so." Scarlet said with a cute smile.
Shin turned off her holopad, stood up and said, "Go get geared up we have a bounty to retrieve."
Scarlet jumped up from the table and ran into her room. She picked up her belt and put it back on and grabbed her two white lightsabers and attached them to her belt and walked out of her room meeting Shin near the front door. Shin looked at Scarlet's outfit and went back into her room and came back out with not one but two LL-30 blaster pistols in belt attachments and a black vest. She handed both items to Scarlet and said, "Here, sorry if the vest is a little big but you are a small girl. Also these pistols will be a better weapon for the time being."
Scarlet threw on the vest and attached the pistols to her belt. "Thanks!" Scarlet yelled as she hugged Shin. When Scarlet stopped hugging Shin, they left the small apartment and Shin lead Scarlet to her ship, which means they were going off world. In Scarlet's life she had only been off world three time, once when she was first brought here, once when she went on her first mission, and when she went with Dark Night to Corellia. Leaving Coruscant was rare for younglings and was always a new experiences due to them not being able to leave because they had to train. Scarlet was more than excited, she was ecstatic and overwhelmed at the same time. When they entered the ship Shin started the ship's engines and they started into the atmosphere. Once they had fully left the planet, Scarlet found that time on their way to wherever they were going, would be a good time to ask some questions.
"Soooooo….. Where are we heading?" Scarlet said trying to start a conversation.
"There has been a bounty placed on an outlaw on the planet of Daxan Beta. The Queen Azara Laur wishes for peaceful bounty hunters to attempt to retrieve him." Shin said.
Scarlet thought to herself about the name Azara Laur. "I know I have heard that name before…. Now I know Elza's last name is Laur."
"Does Queen Azara Laur have a daughter?" Scarlet asked out loud.
"I believe she does… Princess Elza Laur I believe." Shin said.
"Elza is a princess!?" Scarlet said out loud instead of in her head.
Shin turned to look at Scarlet and said, "You know Princess Elza?"
"Yes! She is… well was one of my friends when I was a Jedi." Scarlet responded.
"Well that might just help us get the job." Shin said.
Within a day they arrived at Daxan Beta and went to greet Queen Azara Laur. When they exited the ship onto the planet, Scarlet saw things she didn't expect to see. She had always thought Elza's home was a forest planet, not a very desolate planet with small amounts of grass. When the Queen approached them on their landing pad, Scarlet noticed that all of the people had either white or really really pale skin and their markings, that the Togruta have, were not visible just like Elza's. Also their Montrals come in all sorts of colors compared to the Togrutas which typically come in the colors of blue. Queen Azara walked up to Scarlet and Shin, her floor length dark blue dress dragging behind her with her silver head piece moving with her every step and her light blue and white montrals shifting with her shoulders. She walked very regally and when she approached she stood up even straighter than she was already. Both Shin and Scarlet bowed to the Queen with Azara's approval of their greeting.
"I have never seen Bounty Hunters so polite before. Where are you from?" Queen Azara asked in a regal tone.
"We are from Coruscant, and both of us were previously Jedi." Shin responded. "I am Shin Melne, and this is Scarlet Saturn."
"That explains quite a bit." Azara said. "Jedi are always polite to us for the most part."
"We have come before you, Your Highness, to answer your call in searching for an outlaw." Shin said politely.
"Well, I can see you two will do just fine. But please don't harm or disrupt any of our people." Azara said regally once again.
"Our?" Scarlet asked.
"I apologize." Azara said while a male with a teal color on his montrals stepped forward. "This is my husband Dados Laur, the King of this planet."
"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." King Dados said.
"How come you are seen as the only ruler?" Scarlet asked.
"Our people's tradition has it where the Queen and only the Queen is seen as the leader of the people. The King is seen has the Queen's loyal protector and his job is to protect and love the Queen." King Dados said.
"Oh, that makes more sense." Scarlet responded.
"If I may, where exactly was this outlaw last seen? Also, what is the person's name and what do the look like?" Shin asked.
"His name is Taso Syla, here is what he looks like." Dados said while handing them the device with Taso Syla's image on it.
"He was last seen in the outskirts of the Capital city." Queen Azara stated.
Scarlet and Shin bow to the two royals and head out to look for this outlaw.
"So where do we start looking?" Scarlet asked.
"We start with where he was last seen." Shin replied.
The two rent a speeder and head out to the outskirts of the Capital and in about ten to fifteen minutes they arrive at the last place Taso Syla was seen. Scarlet and Shin ask around to see if anyone is willing to give information about him. One of the ladies said to them that they have to find him before one of the guards finds him.
"What does she mean one of the guards?" Asked Scarlet.
"I believe something else is going on that even the Queen has no idea of." Shin said. "I sense something off on the planet."
"Oh, so we need to figure it out?" Scarlet asked.
"I guess we do." Shin said very unsettled.
The two continue to ask around and they finally are given information that Taso Syla is hiding in a bar because royal guards don't go in there. So instead of asking which bar, Shin asks someone else where are the bars are on the planet, only to find one located on the outskirts of the Capital and is given instructions on how to get there. Shin and Scarlet head straight there. As the two walk in and look around. The only thing in the room that stood out to Scarlet was the togruta sitting at a table in the corner wearing a yellowish jacket. All of Scarlet's senses were saying that was Taso Syla.
"I think the man in the yellow jacket is him." Scarlet said hinting to the man.
"I think so, too." Shin replied.
The two carefully walk over to to the table, but before they were able to get close enough the man stood up and started towards the door. As the man passed Shin grabbed his arm and looked him in the eye. The man gave an angry look towards her and attempted to rip his arm out of her graps. Since Shin was holding on tightly the man pulled out a small knife to cut her hand, but luckily Scarlet pulled one of her sabers out and cut the knife out of his hand and force pushed him back against the wall. Scarlet walked towards the man and pointed her saber towards his neck and asked, "Are you Taso Syla?"
"Who's asking?" The man questioned her.
"We're asking." Shin said.
"Then I guess the Queen really thinks I did it." The man said.
"Did what?" Shin asked.
"I'm Taso Syla." Is all the man said.
End of Chapter 2