Taran came to five mintues after the ship came down. He looked around at the unconscious bodies in front of him. All around the place were wrecked cannons, twisted metal, cast away weapons, and bodies of troopers who would never see the light of day again. Blood and oil streaked in places and the charred or cut off remains of tentacles littered the place.
"This is horrible," he thought. Then, he remembered what Dooku had said in the base.
"And the only way to stop it is to either surrender or sacrifice the boy. And then later "Tell Cyneran that your blood is in his hands." Taran looked at the dark mark imprinted in the palm of his right hand. Now he knew what Dooku meant, themark was a way for the Kraken to target him. It wasn't after anyone but him. The others had resisted and some had paid for it with their lives, and Ahsoka had almost been eaten. Taran knew what he had to do. He walked out of the gunnery deck to finish what had started. A few minutes after he had left Obi-Wan and everyone else came to. The loudspeaker crackled on.
"General, the ship is damaged and we have a 30 degree list," said Wulffe.
"How are the engines?" said Obi-Wan.
"Not looking good. Our only way is to contact the Mon Calamari and have them make repairs. We still don't know where the Leviathan went," said Wulffe.
"If it comes back, we won't have anyway to stop it," said Anakin.
"Sir, we still have the turrets," said Rex.
"And what good will that do Rex? That thing took laser cannons at point-blank range. nce thoses are gone then we'll have nothing left to fight with," Anakin.
"Where's Taran?" said Ahsoka. The loudspeaker cracked on.
"General, there's someone walking on the deck," said Wulffe.
"Who?" asked Obi-Wan.
"Cyneran." said Wulffe. Ahsoka gasped and rushed to the deck, followed by the others. When she got there she saw Taran sitting cross-legged near the edge.
"Taran, don't do this," she pleaded coming up to him.
"I have to, otherwise you guys are goners too," said Taran sadly. "This fight is between me and beastie."
"Padawan, listen to Ahsoka," said Obi-Wan.
"Master, that thing is after me," said Taran motioning to his hand where the imprint was. The water in front of him started to bubble and a tentative tentacle came up.
"Go now!" he shuted. He blew a gust of air that sent everyone back into the ship and activated his lightsaber, looking at the Kraken. It's mouth showed and was level with, it's rows of teeth posing menacingly in front of him and tentacles waving in the air.
"Hello beastie," said Taran and then he charged. The fight was on.
Taran cut away at the tentacles attacking him. He watched as the monster shireked in pain, it's arms now cut in half. It sen a volley of more tentacles at Taaran, who dodged them all and jumped in the air to shoot off some gusts of air at the creature to infuriate it. Taran bended some water into ice to land on and turned off his lightsaber to waterbend. He sent a sahrp wave at the Kraken that cut some of it's arms off and a part of it's body. The moster shrieked and heaved two of it's biggest tentacles at Taran. The tentacles smashed down onto the ice, but Taran was in the air and landed down on top of the tentacles. The Kraken heaved and twisted it's tentacles to get him off, but Taran jumped off and landed on the creature's head. He turned on his lightsaber and begin to cut pieces of the head off. The Kraken got it's tentacles and smashed them down on Taran. He dove out of the way and the tentacles smacked in full force on the Kraken's wounds. The creature let out a tremondous roar and it's eyes shown red with pain and anger.
Taran leapt onto another tentacle and started to cut some more away, but he didn't notice a tentacle slithering in the water behind him. The tentacle came out and grabbed him, wrapping itself around him and lifting him uo in front of the mouth. The others ran out in order to help him, but before they got there the tentacle flung Taran into it's mouth.
"Taran!" yelled Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka. They activated their lightsabers and attacked some of the tentacles laying on the side of the ship while Rex and Cody shot their guns at the creatures head. The creature turned to them and howled, and everyone saw that Taran was clinging on to dear life on one of the creature's teeth. He saw the creature swatting at his loved ones and began to get angry. Little did he know was that that anger was triggering something else inside him. The monster closed it's mouth to protect from the blaster fire hitting it, but then it stopped it's attack on the others and it's eyes got wide. When the others saw this they wondered what was going on. Then the creature opened it's mouth again and they saw a whitish-blue glow. They knew what it was becuase they had seen it on Telos IV (The first story New Apprentice). Taran's eyes and tattoos were glowing and he let go of the tooth he was holding on and floated in the air still in the vicinity of the mouth. Then his hands burned with fire and he dove into the monster's belly.
The monster closed it's mouth again and looked like it had swallowed a cold pill. Then flames streaked out from all over it, charbroiling it and causing it to howl in agony. Then air was sucked in through the holes and and nothing happened. Then the Kraken blew up into pieces as if a bomb had went off in it. Chunks went flying everywhere and a few landed on the partly capsized Resolute. The only thing left of the creature was floating pieces of flesh and a bit of the body. Taran was nowhere to be seen.
