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Chapter 3
"So can you tell us what Coruscant is like?" Ahsoka asked Divo, "Ever since Order 66 I haven`t seen the planet or heard any news about it apart from the senate arrests." She added.
"Well after you and the other Jedi escaped the Emperor removed every position of authority except for a few people he trusted, General Veers, Captain Needa, Admiral Piett and Moff Tarkin. The Senators were arrested on the grounds, they were plotting treason. That just left the Emperor, those military guys, Ventress as head of the inter planet relations and Grievous as head of the army." Divo stopped for a bit.
"Once they left the planet people began to rebel, there was riots, kidnapping, theft, damage to public property and with no orders coming in from our leaders we could do nothing about it. Then the droid armies arrived and started executing non humans."
Divo paused as he reflected.
"You okay?" Ichiro asked.
"Coruscant burned. There was fire everywhere; the screams filled the air as the droids mercilessly hunted down every last alien. I found a Twi'lek child alone in the streets and from then on I ordered the police bots to fight against the droid armies. It was war. Civilians of all species and the police fought against the droids. How long that lasted I don't know but we were no match for an endless supply of droids and their warships."
"In the end the rebellion disbanded and people took to the streets to run and hide wherever they could. One of my few remaining squads found that child's body." Divo broke off as he noticed Ahsoka's eyes were filled with tears. Ichiro slowly put an arm around her shoulders.
"Please continue" Ahsoka whispered, she looked at Ichiro who withdrew his arm, "Thank you Ichiro." She gave a sad smile.
"Then it got worse" Divo looked even more upset, "The droids executed the Senators for treason, humans and non-humans. Some Senators managed to escape and avoid the firing squad and we haven't heard from them. One Senator tried to contact us but when we arrived we found her body filled with holes. It was Senator Chuchi. Then the droid armies just exploded every single one of them along with their weapons and vehicles as well. But Coruscant was in ruins. I reformed the law enforcement and used the Senate building as a refugee camp, the police bots were mostly destroyed but our large number of Wookie soldiers managed to rebuild a lot of them. A lot of people from many different species are living there now, we have appliances and food and are beginning to rebuild."
"Ships came from across the galaxy from planets that had been attacked. It seemed anyone who was still alive went to either Coruscant or Tatooine. Things were looking up, until species decided to live separately. Coruscant is divided into territories run by a different species. The Senate is controlled by humans and Wookies. The Jedi Temple is controlled by Trandoshans there are Twilek zones, Zebrak, Dugg and more."
"Sounds messed up" Arella commented.
"Well most of the time we live in peace but there was a small war between Togrutans and Trandoshans, it only ended when Twi'leks and Wookies warned them to stop or they would invade them both. It stopped rather abruptly."
"So I'm going to have to go through the lizards." Ahsoka sighed.
"I'm going with you" Ichiro assured her.
"And we're going as well" Rowan and Arella nodded.
"Thanks guys." Ahsoka smiled.
(CORUSCANT)
The city was in ruins. Only a few buildings remained standing. The Senate and Temple amongst. The ship landed at the Senate and a squad of police bots stepped out to greet them.
"Thanks for the lift" Ahsoka shook Divo's hand, "We can go from here."
"Are you sure?" Divo asked, "There are a lot of dangerous creatures out there and we won't be able to help if you get in trouble."
"We'll be fine" Ichiro told him
They bid him farewell and set off towards the Temple.
(CORUSCANT/ORBIT)
"We apologies for the inconvenience" the tallest hooded figure apologized to the Twi'lek pilot.
The pilot nodded but didn't speak for a few reasons. Mainly because a hooded figure was holding a knife at his throat.
"Roarik, what is the cargo?" the second tallest spoke into a comlink.
"Well so far I've found a lot of explosives and several crates of blasters."
"So you were taking weapons to the Twi'lek on Coruscant" the figure holding the knife whispered into the pilot's ear.
"Marrissa" the tallest sighed with annoyance, "I have told you not to play with your food"
"Come on bro" Marrissa turned the pilot's head towards her and traced the blade slowly down the side of his face, "You know the smell of fear makes me…"
The pilot, who was already sweating profusely, began to tremble as Marrissa reached up and lowered her hood.
The tallest and second tallest looked away as Marrissa kissed the pilot. There was a sizzling sound and the pilot began to spasm as the venom rushed into his veins.
"You are really sadistic you know that?" the tallest turned back as Marrissa pushed the feebly moving pilot onto the floor and took his seat.
"You love me anyway bro" Marrissa put her hood up and changed the ship's course.
(CORUSCANT)
"What a dump" Arella said as she saw the cities building were in ruins and there was even trash on the street. "This Emperor guy really let the place go huh?"
"It wasn't like this before, there was some order here in the city but thanks to Mark it's all gone" Ahsoka said as they headed towards the Jedi temple till Rowan stopped.
"Hey Rowan why did you stop?" Ichiro asked.
"Look at that I see some weird looking lizards attacking that poor man" Rowan pointed down an alley.
A group of the lizards were attacking a person. Ahsoka glimpsed the face of Bail Organa.
"Hey stop!" Ahsoka rushed forward and ignited her lightsaber.
"Jedi!" one of the lizards hissed.
"Fall back" another muttered.
They jumped onto speeders and flew away.
"Senator Organa" Ahsoka helped him up, "Are you okay?"
"Yes, thank you" he straightened up, "Although I'm not a Senator anymore. I was on my way to the Senate when I got jumped. I suggest you don't stay here long, they will be back with reinforcements soon."
"Thanks for the tip" they bid him farewell and continued towards the Temple.
(JEDI TEMPLE/COUNCIL CHAMBER)
"So you have brought us weapons intended for Twi'leks" the Trandoshan leader addressed the hooded figures, while his guards had their guns trained on them.
"We are not interested in this planet, but we are interested in finishing off the Jedi and seeing how your people enjoy the hunt we thought we would supply the means to your victory." The tallest figure indicated some of the weapons the guards were holding.
"Very well then" the leader muttered a few words and some guards left the room, "They will get rid of the Jedi for you, then we will use our new arms to expand into Twi'lek territory." He grinned.
"You won't get the chance" the tallest snapped his fingers and in a split second his five siblings cut down the remaining guards.
The leader jumped out of his seat and fired at the tallest. The lasers left holes in the robe but didn't seem to affect him.
"What sorcery is this?" the leader hissed
"The power of family" the tallest answered as he grabbed the leader by the throat and lifted him off the ground. He slowly tightened his grip until the spine snapped.
"Nice job bro" Marrissa grinned beneath her hood.
"I regret it was not an honourable fight" the tallest lowered the Trandoshan leader to the ground.
"We will monitor the fight between the visitors and the lizards" Roarik turned to the smallest figure, "Come on Ventrika"
"Right behind you" she skipped after him.
(CORUSCANT/STREETS)
"Keep your eyes open" Ahsoka warned as they crept towards the Temple, "Those lizards will be back."
"We can take them on" Ichiro assured her.
The group of the lizards flew past and started blasting at them.
Ahsoka activated her lightsaber and blocked the lasers. The lizards flew past then circled around for another attempt.
"Get out of here" Ahsoka told Ichiro, Arella and Rowan, "I'll hold them off"
"Or we could just do this" Arella picked up chunks of rubble and threw them at the lizards causing them to swerve and some to crash into the rubble. Rowan blasted the bikes with some form of energy that caused the bikes to freeze in mid-air and crash them into the ground.
The remaining lizards formed a circle around them.
"Let's see twenty of them, four of us" Ichiro counted, "That's not fair"
"Yeah, maybe we should put both hands behind our backs" Rowan grinned.
"Charge!" the lizards roared.
One ran towards Ichiro who sent it flying with a super kick, he then turned to block a punch and countered with an uppercut.
Rowan and Arella were throwing everything their unknown energy attacks could pick up. Ahsoka just stared as she watched her friends beat the scales of these guys, who couldn't land a claw on them.
"Retreat" one of the lizards called, just before Ichiro dispatched him with a palm slap to the chest which sent him flying.
"Pathetic, these guys aren't tough like Ahsoka said they were" Arella said, just then three of the lizards surrounded the girls and they looked mad.
"You little brats you're going to pay for what you did to our rides" One of the lizards said.
Just then an idea came to Arella as how to defeat the lizards without using too much of their powers on them. "Hey Rowan didn't you tell me you were watching some cooking channel on TV on how to make cooked alligators?" Arella asked as she turned to her sister.
"Yeah I think so why?" Rowan asked, confused on where her sister was going with her question.
"Well technically these guys are the same as them right? Despite the gators being reptile the chef said you can cook lizards the same way" Arella said.
"Yeah I guess so" just then Rowan got what her sister meant and knew what to do. "Yay that means I can cook these guys just like the chef on TV!" Rowan yelled as the lizard men seemed confused by what the purple haired one meant.
"All right then Rowan go on then sic em" Arella said as Rowan charged at the lizard men at high speed tackling the middle one knocking the air out of him. Then she head-butted the other one under its chin. She then picked the lizard up by the leg and swung him at the third one and continued whacking the lizard over and over.
"Now then who wants to be cooked up first" Rowan said as she bit down on the leg of the lizard she had in her hand. The Trandoshan yelled in pain and got away from the girl. Then the other two came too and saw Rowan approaching them. "Me going to eat you three up" Rowan said with a scary smile on her face.
"No stay away!" shouted one of the Trandoshans as all three of them ran off away from Rowan.
Ahsoka and Ichiro laughed as they watched the lizards run even faster as Rowan chased them. She stopped after a bit and grinned as they re-joined her and they set of towards the Temple.
"How did you do that?" Ahsoka glanced at Rowan and Arella
"Well our parents were superheroes in our world and they had these cool powers. I guess our mums powers were passed on into us" Arella explained, "We can do a lot more than what we just did."
Ahsoka nodded slowly while making a mental note not to underestimate these guys.
(TEMPLE)
"Well that was interesting" Ventrika remarked, "I like her" she pointed at Rowan and giggled as she replayed Rowan chasing the lizards.
"It seems these visitors are not to be underestimated." Roarik glanced at the monitor showing the remaining lizards arriving at the Temple. "Look away Ventrika" he told her.
"Oh right" she turned away.
The monitor showed the lizards being cut down one after another. Then as the last one fell his younger brother Scar appeared beside the bodies.
"He gets the power to be invisible" Roarik muttered, "Show off"
"Can I look?" Ventrika asked
"Come on" he led her out the door, "We better tell the others what we're up against."
(TEMPLE)
"This place is huge" Rowan gazed around the hall, before noticing Ahsoka's expression, "What's wrong?"
Ahsoka pointed at a symbol carved in the ground. It was a capital 'M' with a lightning bolt underneath.
"The symbol of the Forever Empire" Ahsoka spat bitterly as she strode away.
"Come on" Ichiro led his sisters after Ahsoka.
They didn't see the six pairs of golden eyes watching them from the shadows.
(AHSOKA'S ROOM)
"There you are" Ichiro stood at the doorway, "Is this your room?"
"It was" Ahsoka pulled out drawers and opened cupboards. There was nothing.
"All your stuff…" Ichiro hesitantly began.
"Gone" she snapped as she left the room, "Everything I ever owned is gone."
Ichiro hurried to keep up with her as she strode away from her room as fast as possible.
"Where are you going now?" he asked
"To the training room" she answered as she opened a door.
In one moment of heart stopping horror Ichiro stared at a mountain of burned bodies. The flesh hanging of them and charred bones, there were many different species and children as well. All just dumped here as rubbish.
"They weren't cremated" Ahsoka gasped, "They were just left to rot." She collapsed onto the floor and started to scream.
Ichiro dropped to his knees beside her and felt her forehead. Her skin felt as though it was on fire. He picked her up bridal style and carried her out of the room and as he got further away from the room her screams subsided until she just lay limp in his arms.
"Is she okay?" Arella and Rowan joined him as they arrived in the main hall.
"I don't know" Ichiro looked at them helplessly, "Try and find a first aid or something." They hurried away. "Come on Ahsoka" Ichiro held her hand even though it burned.
There was a knock and he looked around to see a bucket of water and several towels.
"Rowan? Arella? Is that you two?" he picked up the bucket and towels and carried them over to Ahsoka. He wet one of the towels and placed it on her forehead. A moment later her skin started to cool.
Ichiro went to get some more water for the towel till he accidently lost his footing and tripped as he was going to fall on Ahsoka. Out of instinct before he fell on top of Ahsoka he had his hands extended so he would keep from falling on her and shut his eyes. Ichiro sighed and was glad he didn't hurt Ahsoka, but then he felt some soft on his right hand and he pressed on it. He looked at where his hand was and blushed red.
His left hand was on the floor but his right was on Ahsoka's breast. Ahsoka soon woke up and saw Ichiro's face was red. Before she asked Ichiro why his face was red she felt something on her breast and saw it was Ichiro's right hand. Her face also grew red from embarrassment as Ichiro realizes what he was doing and removed himself quickly away from Ahsoka.
"Ahsoka I'm sorry I didn't….it was an accident…see what happened was….um well…..uh….." shuddered Ichiro unable to make a sentence. "I got to go" Ichiro said as he quickly ran out of the room too ashamed by what happened as Ahsoka stood there surprised and still blushing.
(KITCHEN)
"Oh this is the kitchen," Rowan wondered around the kitchen. Rowan looked into the food the Jedi used to have hoping to find something to eat. "Hmmm some of this stuff looks like some of the food Aunt Kory makes."
Before Rowan could take some of the food out she heard someone in the hallway. She hurried over to see Ahsoka walk past, "Ahsoka!"
Ahsoka jumped, spun around and bared her fangs defensively until she seen it was Rowan.
"Rowan you made me jump" she frowned, "Friendly tip, Togrutas are aggressive so don't scare one."
"Sorry, but you're up and you seem fine" Rowan smiled innocently.
"Yes I am thank you…where is your sister?" Ahsoka asked. "And what are you doing here in the kitchen?"
"Oh Arella is in the library trying to figure out what the words mean and I'm trying to find some food to make if you don't mind?" Rowan asked Ahsoka with her puppy eye look.
"Sure I don't mind and it seems your sister really likes reading huh?" Ahsoka said who didn't mind.
"Yep she likes reading she is like our mom who likes reading too. In fact she owns a bookstore back home" Rowan said as she told Ahsoka about her mom and the bookstore she owns.
"Wow that's pretty cool I bet Arella enjoys going there to read huh? What about you though don't you like to read?" Ahsoka asked.
"I do but I like cooking more. My mom and sister don't like my cooking but by dad and brother do" Rowan said till she remembered her brother. "Speaking of my brother where's Ichiro I haven't seen him since he went to help you after you fainted?"
Ahsoka blushed and coughed awkwardly.
"No idea…I um got to go see you later Rowan" she started walking again.
'What's up with her?' Rowan wondered.
(LIBRARY)
"There you are" Ichiro smiled as he spotted Arella deeply interested in the large collection of ancient texts.
"Oh hey Ichiro what's up?" Arella asked as she put down one of the texts she was reading.
"Nothing much" Ichiro said when he picked up one of the texts and noticed he couldn't understand the language on it. "Can you really read these?"
"Nope but that's why I am loading them all into the computer. Where I can download them into these discs so I can take them back home to decipher" Arella said as next to her were several discs.
"Are you sure you should be doing that?" Ichiro said who didn't seem to like his sister taking the information off the texts without permission.
"Oh relax I asked Ahsoka and she said it was fine. Oh speaking of our orange friend how's Ahsoka? Feeling better I hope." Arella asked as she browsed a collection of 'Lightsaber Techniques'
"Oh, she's fine yep just fine" Ichiro blushed slightly. "I better go find Rowan" he hurried away.
'Wonder what's wrong with him' Arella thought.
(TEMPLE SECURITY ROOM)
"Excellent" the tallest nodded as his younger brother Roarik and his youngest sister Ventrika finished describing the visitors, "Marrissa and Scar I want you to deal with the darker twin. Do not kill her or harm her unless necessary. Ventrika and Roarik take care of them other one." He glanced at the second tallest, "Katalina and I will handle Ahsoka and Ichiro."
"I am going to enjoy this" Marrissa licked her lips as they dispersed.
(TEMPLE/LIBRARY)
Rowan entered the library where she saw her sister Arella who was still downloading the info off the text into the computer and then into her discs to take back home. "Hey sis you almost done with getting all the info?"
"Almost it took me a while but I was able to almost get them all. Did you find the kitchen all right?" Arella asked as she turned to her twin sister.
"Yep and more, I think there is something is wrong with Ahsoka" Rowan told Arella as she joined her. "When I talked to her about Ichiro I could feel some sort of embarrassment feeling from her."
"I noticed something with Ichiro as well" Arella commented, "They seem to be avoiding each other for some reason."
"Why do you think that is?" Rowan asked.
"Not sure but whatever it is it's becoming annoying. I think we need to do something to get those two to get over what their problem is" Arella said.
"Then let's put them together" Rowan grinned mischievously.
"Hmmm what do you have in mind?" Arella asked as she had the same mischievous look on her face as her sister began to tell her about her plan.
(SEVERAL MINUTES LATER)
"Hey Ahsoka can you show me the Council room?" Rowan asked with the puppy eyes.
"Sure" Ahsoka led Rowan to the Council Chamber.
They arrived to find Ichiro dart into the room.
"Where's Rowan?" Ichiro asked, "You said she was hurt?"
"What's going on?" Ahsoka stepped into the room.
"You'll thank us for this later" Arella used her powers to push Ahsoka into Ichiro as she and Rowan conjured a shield around the door.
"Let us out!" Ichiro shouted as he banged on the door.
"It will wear off in half an hour so we suggest you two get over whatever issues you have" Rowan called back.
"Well I'm off to the library" Arella told her, "See you later"
"Bye sis" Rowan started walking towards the kitchen for something to eat.
(COUNCIL CHAMBER)
"Darn it we can't get out until that wears off." Ichiro who gave up trying to open the door.
"Here let me try" Ahsoka said as Ichiro moved out of the way. Ahsoka then closed her eyes and concentrated on the door. Soon she tried using the force to open the door but the spell Ichiro's sisters used caused the door to remain close.
"Darn it that spell of your sisters must be pretty strong. I can't believe the Force couldn't even got the door to budge" Ahsoka said surprised that the Force had failed.
"That's my sisters they got their powers from my mom and I got mine from my dad. Though my powers aren't exactly as cool at times as theirs" Ichiro said as he sat on one of the chairs.
"That was Windu's chair" Ahsoka muttered to herself, "I remember him scolding me."
"What happened?" Ichiro asked
"Well…" Ahsoka sat on Ki Adi's chair, "It all started when we went on a mission to a planet called Felucia where it was being invaded by the Separatists"
"The who? And the planet of what?" Ichiro asked who didn't know much about the war Ahsoka was in.
"Oh right I didn't tell you guys the full story did I?" Ahsoka said remembering she didn't tell the others about the Clone Wars. "Okay well the war began when several planets from different systems left the Republic to form a confederate organization. The leader was a former Jedi named Count Dooku who became a Sith lord."
"A Sith is the opposite of a Jedi right?" Ichiro asked who guessed what a Sith was.
"Yes that's right, a Sith uses his or her powers for evil while we use ours for good. Dooku then paid a bounty hunter to try and kill a good friend of mine named Padme Amidala" Ahsoka said.
"Why?" Ichiro asked.
"Because one of the Separatist leaders wanted her dead and would join Dooku if she died. They tried to kill her but my former master Anakin Skywalker and his former master Obi wan Kenobi kept saving her" Ahsoka said as she remembered what Padme and Anakin told her about how Dooku tried to kill Padme.
"So what happened next?" asked Ichiro wondering what happened next.
"Well Master Kenobi followed the bounty hunter which led him to a cloning facility. There he found out the people of that planet were making a clone army for the Republic and the clones were cloned from the same bounty hunter who Obi wan was after" Ahsoka said as she explained the clone army they used during the war to Ichiro who seemed surprised.
"Whoa an army of clones were your soldiers?" Ichiro said was surprised that the Jedi used an army of clones as their soldiers.
"Yep it was…now then where was I?" Ahsoka asked as she continued to explain more about the war.
(KITCHEN)
"There is some weird food in this place" Rowan opened several cupboards looking for something to eat.
There was the sound of clattering and she spun around to see a hooded figure crouching on a table.
"Who are you?" Rowan asked as the figure sprang forward and landed in front of her.
"I'm Ventrika" the figure lowered her hood to reveal a cat girl about the same age as Rowan. She had golden eyes and fiery red hair that hung over her shoulders and brown fur. She smiled shyly as Rowan examined her, revealing sharp fangs, "Nice to meet you."
"Same here" Rowan smiled, "I'm Rowan. So why are you here?"
"My family has been following you" Ventrika sighed, "Since you arrived in this dimension."
"Why?" Rowan asked as they sat at a table.
"Curiosity" Ventrika answered honestly.
"Curiosity killed the cat" Rowan hinted.
As they took in the statement they started to laugh.
"So your family are cat creatures?" Rowan asked.
"Yeah, our mom was a humanoid cat and our father was a human, he died before I was born." Ventrika looked upset.
"I'm sorry" Rowan reached out and gently stroked Ventrika's head. Ventrika tensed up but after a moment she relaxed and Rowan scratched her ears.
"Thanks" Ventrika grinned as Rowan stopped.
"You're a big kitty" Rowan grinned, Want to get something to eat?"
"Sure" Ventrika's nose twitched, "There's ice cream in there" she pointed at a side room.
"You can smell it I assume" Rowan headed into the side room.
"Ventrika" Roarik dropped from the ceiling
"Roarik, I think I made a friend." She grinned excitedly.
He sighed affectionately
"When the others find out" he warned
"Well maybe they won't" she suggested.
"You talking to someone?" Rowan asked as she returned carrying two tubs of ice cream and found Ventrika with her mouth open and no-one around.
"Nope" Ventrika mentally kicked herself for lying, "Let's dig in"
(COUNCIL CHAMBER)
Back in the council chamber Ahsoka had just told Ichiro about how the war began. From the first battle on Geonosis, how Ahsoka became a Jedi Padawan to Anakin, her first mission which Ahsoka received some smirks and snickers from Ichiro when he heard Ahsoka almost got her master killed three times.
Then she continued telling him almost all her missions until she reached Felucia where she told him how she disobeyed orders and almost got her troops and herself killed. She told Ichiro how she was scolded by Master Windu because of her actions and how she let her own ego get in the way of the mission. For Ahsoka though it wasn't the first time she disobeyed a direct order, she even told Ichiro about the time she got her entire squadron killed during the mission of Ryloth.
As time went by Ahsoka began to forget about what happened earlier and started to enjoy telling her story. Ichiro sat in rapt attention listening to every word, making her feel flattered that he wasn't bored out of his mind.
As she arrived at the part where Mark IV had made his first appearance in the pub she felt a deep hatred towards him and his demented creator. But looking at Ichiro Ahsoka felt the anger fade away and something else take its place.
"You okay?" Ichiro asked
"Um yeah, let's see, oh yeah so Master Plo and I ended up being captured…"
(LIBRARY)
"Ah ha a translator" Arella opened the book on a table and scanned each page which transferred the information onto a computer. She filled several disks with the language translator and information about the galaxy they were in.
"I'll have a look at these later" she stood and stretched.
"There won't be a later" a cold voice whispered in her ear as she felt an arm around her throat.
Arella brought her elbow back and felt it hit the stomach of whatever had grabbed her. The figure lost its grip and she moved away and turned to face… an empty room.
"Invisibility" Arella remarked, "Too cowardly to fight face to face are you?"
A hooded figure materialized rubbing his stomach. His hood was down revealing a young cat creature with brown fur and a long scar running down his face and over his left eye.
"The name is Scar" he glared at her, "And I am not a coward."
"Could've fooled me" Arella retorted.
"Be glad my older sister didn't hear you say that." Scar smirked.
"Oh, so you're going to hide behind your sister?" Arella scoffed.
"Is there a problem?"
Arella looked up to see another figure perched on top of a bookshelf.
"Marrissa" Scar grinned
"I heard everything" Marrissa jumped down to stand beside her little brother and lowered her hood to reveal long shiny black hair and brown fur. "No-one insults my family and lives." She hissed.
"Bring it on" Arella beckoned.
(COUNCIL CHAMBER)
Ahsoka finished her story. "Now you know why, I let my own ego get the best of me and it nearly got my men and I killed" Ahsoka said as she lowered her head. "It was my second failure and it will be one that will never leave me."
Ichiro felt bad for Ahsoka so he put his hand on her should which caused her to turn her head back up and face Ichiro. "Don't blame yourself too much Ahsoka, these things happen sometimes when you're a leader. Trust me I know I made my own share of mistakes as well."
"Really?" Ahsoka asked.
"Yep I led a mission one time and I nearly got my cousin and Rowan killed. It was the first time I led a team and I almost got someone killed because I let my own ego get the best of me" Ichiro said remembering how he nearly got his cousin and sister killed.
"So what happened next?" Ahsoka asked eager to find out how Ichiro got through that failure.
"My dad talked to me and told me I shouldn't look at this as a failure but as a chance to improve. He told me Rowan and Mikazuki weren't mad at me and they didn't want me to feel bad for almost getting them killed" Ichiro said as he continued. "I didn't want to be a leader again but my dad told me that a great leader will sometimes make mistakes but once he learns from those mistakes he will be back on track."
"So did it work?" Ahsoka asked.
"Oh yeah I did some missions when I led the team but that's only when Ryu wasn't around. Ahsoka we all make mistakes but once we learn from those mistakes we can learn to better ourselves to make us better leaders next time" Ichiro said as Ahsoka nodded and understood what Ichiro was saying.
"Thank you Ichiro" Ahsoka said as Ichiro smiled glad he helped Ahsoka. Just then they saw the dark aura on the door was gone which meant the spell wore off allowing them to leave the room. "Thank goodness that wore off" Ahsoka smiled as she stepped out of the room, "Although it did give us a chance to talk" she added
"Yep now then let's go find those two and give them a piece of our minds" Ichiro smiled
"Hold on" Ahsoka stopped, "I can sense several beings with Arella, they're in the main hall"
Ahsoka and Ichiro sprinted to the hall and found Arella holding her arm while she glared at five robed figures. Two of them had hoods lowered and smirks on their faces.
"What's going on?" Ichiro demanded as he walked over to Arella and checked on her. "Hey you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine no thanks to those two" Arella said pointing at the two figures who didn't have their hoods on.
"You must be Ichiro" the tallest glanced at Marrissa and Scar who were still smirking, "I told you not to harm Arella."
"Whoops" Marrissa adopted an innocent child act that fooled no one.
"I'll deal with you later" the tallest scolded
"Who are you?" Ahsoka stepped forward, "I met one of your species before, and her name was Katalia. You know her?"
"Yeah, she's our mother" the second tallest lowered her hood revealing the usual brown fur and long deep brown hair, "I'm Katalina" she smiled, "Pleased to meet you."
(OUTSIDE THE HALL)
"Those are my brothers and sisters" Ventrika glanced around, "We should sneak back to our families then meet later?"
"I'll meet you in the library when this is over" Rowan whispered.
They split up and snuck to different doors before entering on the same side as their family.
"I'm Roarik" he lowered his hood. His crew cut black hair and stance which was 'at ease' made him seem like a soldier.
"Youngest to oldest. Ventrika, Scar, Marrissa, Roarik, Katalina and then myself." The tallest lowered his hood and his face was remarkably like his father, which Ahsoka knew all too well, right down to the short black hair, "I am Markala" he grinned.
O.O The kittens of Katalia and Markoneous. What will happen next? Will they be friends like Rowan and Ventrika? Will they fight? Stay tuned and please review.