Tahl's Tabloid

Chapter 7: Mace's Shrine

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Mace sat in the council room surrounded by the other council members. Adi had gotten off easy. Turns out she has friends in the senate as well. She asked Mace about her shrine he denied knowing anything. However she was on to him and to make it worse. Tahl had published articles without his knowledge. And what's worse is the latest article was about him! Something told him she was getting back at him for forcing her to submit her articles to him before she could publish them.

Yoda was sitting next to him reading the tabloid and HIS article! A smirk played on the green troll's lips.

Mace sighed. "So what are we going to do about her?"

"I don't see a problem…" Adi said looking at the photoshopped picture of Mace with an Afro.

She knew didn't she… that he took that shrine. "Well, what happens when she writes an article about you?"

"We women have very tough hides. Unlike you men!" Ouch. She knew he had it.

"Right well uhm… I have to go check on some things." Mace scurried out of the Council room and bamboozled up to his room. He whipped open his closet and his entire shrine was gone. "NOOOOO!"

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Back in the Council room

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"Nooooo!!!!"

Yoda looked up from where he was reading the Tabloid.

"Did you guys hear something?" Ki-Adi asked.

"Nope…" Adi said coolly.

Everyone looked at her kind of nervously. She was getting as psycho as Tahl. Was it a woman thing? Or was there an illness going around?

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Tahl was going down the hall in her swivel chair being pulled along by Too-Jay and Bant who where on roller blades… well Bant was on roller blades.

"Sir! Stairs 3.456907 meters ahead!"

"Then go faster!" Tahl commanded.

Bant and Too-Jay exchanged a glance.

"WAH!"

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" Tahl went flying off of the swivel chair and went head first into a decorative bush/tree thing.

Masters ran forward to help Tahl out of the tall bush.

"Tahl are you alright?" Qui-Gon asked from where he was beneath her.

She looked down from where she was hanging over a branch by her abdomen. "Yeah why?"

Qui-Gon sighed. Was she back to her crazy stunts and pranks again? "Why were you doing that?" He asked helping her down.

"Because it was fun!" She said in a 'DUH' manner. "And because I thought I'd get some inspiration for the next few articles."

Qui-Gon sighed again.

"AND… because I'm on my way to meditate with Yoda."

"But what does that have to do with-"

"'Nuff Said!" She said holding up her hand and getting back into her chair to be dragged away by her two servants-I mean aids.

Bant sighed and continued on.

Qui-Gon watched as Tahl turned a corner and nearly wiped out again. He looked up into the bush/tree thing and saw something strange. It looked like a shrine of some kind.

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Obi-Wan and Garen watched as Tahl crashed into a tree like Fred of the Jungle. They nearly laughed so hard that they busted a gut. Instead they busted something else.

They were watching and laughing as Tahl was taken off by Bant and Too-Jay. Qui-Gon pulled something out of the tree where Tahl had landed and walked over to the boys. He placed it on a pedestal nearby and walked off. The boys however weren't paying attention and they stepped back and bumped into the pedestal. They turned just in time to see it fall and shatter into a bajillion pieces. They looked at one another. "Oh sith spit!" They looked around to make sure no one was watching and Garen quickly picked up the pieces. Obi-Wan replaced it with a book on HTML and they scadoodled out of there.

They ran to Garen and Clee's apartment and slammed the door behind them.

"What did you do?" Clee asked from where she sat on the couch. A 'Tahl's Talk' Tabloid was sitting in front of her.

"Master, we broke this and we don't want to get in trouble! Will you help us fix it?" Garen asked.

"Hold on, let me get some glue." she said calmly.

"You do NOT want to put that back together." Everyone looked up and saw the ghostly figure of Xanatos at the kitchen table.

"Why not."

"Because… It's an obsession shrine…"

"Of what?"

And Xanatos explained.

"EWWWWW!!!" Garen and Obi said in unison clinging to each other in fear.

Clee just shook her head. "Some people…"

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Mace and Adi were at war. "You took my shrine!" Adi accused.

"Well you stole it back along with MY shrine!" Mace pointed.

"What no I didn't!" Adi pulled forth her light Saber

"Look fishy squid head-"

"Baldy-locks!"

And so they continued on like this for a while… meanwhile Tahl sat in her safe little room smirking all the while. (That's a lot of whiles…)

Little did they know that SHE was the one who stole it and planted it in that tree for Qui-Gon to find and place away for the boys to break so they could destroy it once and for all with the help of a ghost that Tahl had not predicted in her calculations.

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