CHAPTER FOUR

3,655 BBY

The jungle got denser and hotter as they moved on.

"Shouldn`t we find the Rodian?" Zylon asked.

"He` already dead." Alphosine scoffed, charging ahead through the jungle.

"What will we do once we get to the outpost?" Zylon asked.

"You will be my slave, until we get off this hellhole that is. Then, we go our separate way at the nearest neutral space station." Alphosine said.

"Great, just my luck." Zylon muttered following Alphosine.

The track to the Imperial Outpost took the rest of the day, until it was too dark to travel.

"We`ll camp here for the night." Alphosine said sitting against a tree trunk.

"I will take first watch." Zylon said, settling down on a nearby rock.

Alphosine fell asleep in fifteen minutes. Five minutes after, that Zylon` s master appeared in a beam of light blue light.

"She knows, she knows about the map." Master Welion said.

"What about the codices?" Zylon asked, feeling them in his pocket.

"They weren`t discovered, yet but will soon be." Master Welion declared.

"What is in them, the codices?" Zylon asked in interest. "Do they deal with the new galaxy?"

"They deal with it yes, but it tells how we created it." Master Welion said, his ghostly form showing his sadness.

"Created it?" Zylon asked.

"The Jedi created the galaxy we protect. It was created by a successful Jedi scientist, Gau Eslion, after creating it he killed himself, so now the Jedi protect." Master Welion said, plunging the jungle in silence. "Those codices contain the research on how to create a galaxy, but Master Eslion made a solution to destroy a galaxy. That is why it can`t get into enemy hands."

"What must I do?" Zylon asked.

"Get back to Courscant. Destroy the codices. No one must know on how to destroy galaxies; it will cause even the stoutest of men to go mad with power." Master Welion said and disappeared into the jungle gloom.

The sun rose over the Imperial Outpost as Alphosine and Zylon walked up it.

"That`s odd, it should be filled with Imperial soldiers." Alphosine said scanning the site. That is when they saw the first body. He was mangled up with large gashes along his sides.

"What the-"

"AHHHHHHHHH!" A large scream pierced through the air, coming from the outpost.

"Um, I don`t think we should go in there." Zylon said, fear entering his voice.

"Thanks for the suggestion but, we need a ship to get off this rock," Alphosine sarcastically remarked, entering the outpost, Zylon sighed and followed her.

The Outpost was empty except for bodies, Imperial soldiers and officers all cut up.

"What happened here?" Zylon asked, his hand grasping his lightsaber.

Alphosine never answered him, just kept on walking down the corridor. Zylon used his holo to access the Outpost mainframe, bringing up the map.

"The hanger is down to the left." He said pointing.

"Which is right where the fighting is?" Alphosine said.

Zylon never heard it until now, the fighting: blasters being fired and sounds of battle. Alphosine and Zylon rushed into the hanger to see hell break loose.

The Imperial soldiers were fighting against a small lithe form with large claws. The soldiers were fighting to no avail. The beast never took damage; the bullets seemed to bounce off him.

Instead of going to help, Alphosine went to the ship in the far corner of the hanger, opposite of the fighting.

"What are you doing? We should help them!" Zylon protested, when he caught up to her by the ship.

"This Outpost is lost. If a whole platoon of soldiers can`t defeat this jungle monster, then how can we?" Alphosine commented, entering the ship.

"But, we have lightsabers and the Force!" Zylon said.

"Yeah but, you are a Jedi and this is an Imperial planet, after we defeat it, they will arrest you!" Alphosine said, gesturing to the fight.

Alphosine went to the front of the small ship and strapped herself in, Zylon sat next to her in the co-pilot`s seat. Alphosine started to power up the ship, it failed.

"Blast! We are out of fuel!" Alphosine exclaimed.

"I`ll get some." Zylon said, walking out of the ship. He saw the fuel tanks but in the wrong place. They were in the same corner where the beast was. The fight was still raging on, maybe I can reach it. Zylon thought when the beast turned around and Zylon saw is armor. The same armor the Rodian was wearing when the ship crashed. The beast was the Rodian….