"Mina?"
"Mina?!"
"MINASWEN!!"
"Sorry you were saying?" The dark haired noldo looked up at him, as one do if one have been sleeping and just awoke.
"Are you going deaf or something? This is the third time I called you, and you didn't react until now!" Qui-gon was glaring at her, his irritation obvious.
"Calm down hot-head, I was only listening." Mina seemed totally ignorant of her companions feelings, on the other hand, she usually were.
"Listening? To what? The grass grow?" She gave him a glare-of-certain-death.
"No rock-for-brains. I was listening to the trees, they are much more open hearted then at home." At his surprised face she continued. "You mean you can't hear them! Jeez Qui, they have been chattering since we got up from the water, and probably before that but I wasn't listening."
"How in the name of the force can trees talk?" asked Qui-gon still uncertain if Mina was joking or not. She seemed serious to him, but you could never know...
"Well they don't have mouths do they? They are talking with their minds, or at least I think they do, I hear them… well inside my head. It's hard to describe, I've always heard them. Not exactly this clear thou, I think it has something to do with the environment, the trees at home do not like the city." She looked around them. The forest there was thick with large trees, but there was yet much room beneath the trunks, at least were they were walking close to the river not to lose it. In difference from Qui-gon who was very fond of Coruscant, Minaswen always favoured the far away planets with almost no civilisation.
"Well I have never hear them, maybe that has something to do with that I'm human and your not." He said and shrugged. That Mina was not 100 % humanoid was something seldom spoken of among her friends. The most obvious signs were that she was slow in growing, and had better eyes and ears then her human friend. But otherwise, it was just the pointed ears that made her different from the other humanoids in the temple.
"Maybe, but I do still think it's strange." Mina fell silent, lost once again in voices Qui-gon could not hear.
They walked for a time in silence, just feeling the force flow around them made the padawans once again peaceful and calm. Then suddenly Minaswen stopped dead in her tracks.
"Qui-gon!" she hissed making the brown haired human halt and look at her.
"What? What is it?" he asked, lowering this voice to a whisper.
"I don't know, but the trees say we are in trouble…" She looked around. They were standing a bit in to the forest, thick bushes at the beach stopped them from going by the riverside. Qui-gon straightened up and laid a hand on the hilt of his sabre.
"What kind of trouble?" The Padawans moved closer to each other, eyes scanning the area for any signs of movement.
"I don't know but…" she swallowed as a low snarl was heard in the bushes by the river. "That does sound familiar." Qui-gon took a deep breath to calm himself.
"Can we run?" he asked, trusting his friends senses to come up with a solution as they placed themselves back to back. Mina shook her head.
"No, they are to many, and it didn't work last time, but..." She furrowed her brows in thought. "If we show them that we won't go down easily, maybe they will sneak of to seek an easier pray, they are not that many." Qui-gon didn't mention that if this were the same pack of force-forsaken beast, they were not going to run for a couple of burns.
At that moment, the beasts in question showed themselves.
The beast, because that was the best words to describe them with, was huge, as a bear on four legs. In fact, it looked very much like a bear in body, but except this being had no fur, but thick leather looking skin. The head was small, but the jaw was full with razor sharp teeth that dripped of saliva and force-knew-what else. The eyes seemed to shine with pure evil, or at least hunger. The beast snarled and growled as they closed in on the padawans. They were at least twenty, and they were hungry.
"Well.." said Minaswen and activated her white light saber with a gaze at the nearest beast. "Let's dance."
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before you say it, yes I know it's short, but I've discovered that it's easier to write shorter chapters so it doesn't get so boring… Anyway R&R!