Chapter 6

It had been a couple of weeks since Mara had first awoken in the medical center, now- after being released- she lay on the bed in the guest room of the Solo's apartment looking at the ceiling, unable to sleep even at such a late hour. She hadn't stopped thinking about recent events ever since she had awaken, her mind kept thinking about Luke and why he had left, whether he was the father of the child inside of her.

Suddenly her personal comlink that she had retrieved from her and Luke's apartment, beeped from the side stand. She instantly grabbed for it, after fumbling in the dark her fingers found it. "Jade," she spoke into it.

"Mara?" Came a familiar voice.

"Luke!" she exclaimed sitting upright in bed, relief flooding her.

"Mara please, I'm in trouble, I need your help," came his reply.

"What? Where are you?" she asked tensely.

"North spaceport, docking bay 48," he answered. "But please you must come alone, and you mustn't tell anyone where you are going."

"Why?" was all she could say.

"They will kill me if you do." Suddenly there was a burst of static and the comlink when dead.

"Luke? Luke!"

Mara was instantly on her feet getting dressed, grabbing her blaster and lightsabre from the top draw of the wardrobe she headed out the door, not bothering to wake Solo. Luke had said they would kill him if she didn't come alone and she wasn't going to risk it.

It didn't take long for her to reach the spaceport, all the way there she mind was telling her to turn around, that it was a trap, but she refused to abandon Luke. He had always been there for her.

Climbing out of the speeder she quietly made her way to the hanger, dashing behind a stack of crates she peered out and spotted a cloaked figure kneeling between two guards in the center of the bay. She opened her mind stretching out to Luke's mind but could not connect to it, in fact the area around him and the guards was nothing but a big empty bubble.

Damn! She thought, they must have ysalamiri. Thinking up a new plan, she set her blaster to stun, and aimed, firing she hit her target dead center, falling him. As the other guard started to react she fired again hitting him also.

Looking around she waited to see if anybody else would come, but no one showed. After it was clear that they where alone, Mara climbed out from behind the crate and dash across the hanger to the cloaked figure.

"Luke!" She knelt down instantly in front of him.

"Not quite," the figure replied.

In a flash the figure pulled out a syringe and jabbed it into Mara's arm. Mara jumped back, but it was already to late, her senses started to go fuzzy and dark as the drug took a hold of her.

The cloaked figure stood slowly, watching the Jedi woman as she fell unconscious. 'Foolish human,' he thought, lowering his hood to reveal his pale, thin face.

"Alright, hands where I can see them!"

The humanoid looked up to see a middle aged man standing a couple of metres away, blaster aimed at him. "Captain Solo, it is a pleasure to meet you."

"Yeah I'm sure it is, now hands in the air!" Han ordered gesturing with his weapon. "Or I'll start shooting."

"A word of advice Captain, leave now."

"And what makes you think I'm going to leave without Jade," Han replied.

"I don't." The humanoid gave a slight nod of his head. A weapon instantly fired hitting Han square between the shoulders, he went down cold, stunned. "But you should have listened to my advice anyway Captain," the humanoid murmured walking over the unconscious forms to his men. "Pack them into the crates in the cargo hold out of sight, and keep them sedated. Our other guests will be arriving soon."

. . . . . . .

Luke and Leia climbed out of the back seat of the speeder as they came to a stop at the North Spaceport.

"This way," their guide instructed.

They followed in silences as they were lead through the corridors to a hanger bay with a large cargo ship.

"What's going on?" Luke asked as they stopped in front of the tall pale humanoid they had seen several times over the past couple of months around the Dragon's hideout.

"Our Mistress has ordered an audience with you both," it said. "She is pleased with the work that you have done for us and wishes to make you both into honored Blood Dragons."

"Really?" Luke and Leia both asked with surprise.

"Yes, now follow me we are about to lift off." He turned without another word and headed for the ramp.

'This doesn't feel right' Leia sent through their bond.

'I know, but we almost have their leader,' Luke replied as they started to followed the alien. 'Just a little longer.'

Leia sighed inwardly as they entered the ship. 'Alright, but only a little longer.'

A.N

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