Chapter 2. Ready to go

Dawn came fast and bright. Kyra opened her eyes and squinted into the morning light. Her window, which was facing east, was bright from the rising sun. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the warmth of the sunrays on her face. She always liked the heat and the warmth. She hated to feel cold. Cold made her feel bitter and lonely. Behind her closed eyelids, the rising sunrays where dancing in the spectrum of a hundreds colors. It looked so serene and beautiful, even majestic.

Then suddenly she remembered of the mission and the Sith Lord and Kyra opened her eyes and the colors disappeared at once.

"Oh well." She thought, while she was getting dressed quickly. "It could be worst, I could be down at the Hall center today giving a rather boring speech lessons about behavior ethics to the younglings".

She grabbed her backpack as well as her lightsaber and clipped it to her belt then left her room.

It was still too early for the others to be awake at this time, so she made her way down to the hangars without running into anyone.

There was a smaller sleek designed T-shaped aircraft waiting at the end of the shipyard next to one of the outer hangars.

Kyra approached it cautiously and was looking around to see if anyone was on the ship.

The ship main door was down, but she did not see the pilot.

Kyra slowly walked up on the door and looked inside of the spaceship. It was rather small but fully equipped. To her right there was a lift, which she thought would take her up into the cockpit of the ship. When she was about to enter it she felt a dark presence behind her.

Calmly she turned around and was face to face with the Dark apprentice.

The first thought popped into her mind that how he managed to sneak behind her unnoticed.

The second was, he was not what she expected at all.

He was about a half foot taller then she. He had broad muscular chest and shoulders, which were draped in a black cloak. On his middle was a wide leather belt where his lightsaber was clipped on. On his hands he wore black leather gloves. Kyra slowly looked him up and down. She even noticed his cool leather boots.

He was in all black, except his rather unique skin colors, which she found somehow intriguing. His skin color was a deep red, just like some Zabraks she had seen before, but the difference was that he had black tattoos covering his face and the back of his head as well, which gave him a rather different look, especially with those small horns crowning his bald head. But the most interesting thing on him, which Kyra found scary and at the same time mesmerizing, was his eyes. His eyes were a stark contrast to his red skin and black tattoos. They were bright yellow with dark red rims and a small black pupil. And the intensity he was looking at her was astonishing. If she had not been a powerful Grey she would have turn away from his intense stare.

He slowly approached her and stopped just a couple of feet from her, looking down into her green eyes.

Maul was also sizing her up. He did see her yesterday from the balcony when she was training the recruits. He watched her with perplexed curiosity and wondered who she was and how similar her fighting technique was to his.

Now, looking right at her just an arm length away, he noticed her beautifully shaped dark green eyes, and long black eyelashes. She had a shapely small nose and full lips. And her long raven hair was a sharp contrast to her milk pale skin. But those green eyes held much more secrets then she would let known. Even if he wanted to, he would not be able to enter her mind that he knew for sure. She was almost or more powerful than he was.

She crossed her slender but muscular arms front of her middle and stood there just looking back at him without saying a word.

A moment had passed then Kyra spoke up first. " Master told me you will inform me about this important mission. It's rather weird that he asked me to go with you" She said. " I never go on missions, so please explain to me why am I here and where are we going"? Kyra asked.

Maul looked at her then he said in his deep voice: " I will explain everything to you as soon as we are on the way to our destination".

Kyra looked at him with an arched eyebrow. "Can I at least know where is this destination?"

Without a word, Maul walked past her towards the lift, he pressed a button on the sidewall, which closed off the outer door with a loud hiss. Then pressed the lift button, the door opened and he walked in.

He looked at Kyra then the lift door closed and he was on his way up.

She just stood there smiling, slowly shaking her head and couldn't believe that Master had to pick this guy for an apprentice. It will be a long trip for sure she thought, wherever is this trip was going to.