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Chapter 11
20BBY / Wasskah / Island 4
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Dante managed to pluck a few decent sized birds out of the sky using the force, while cleaning the birds together with Lyz on a branch overlooking the jungle she informed him that she wants to hunt down the trandoshans on the hoverpods.
"I can't say I don't agree with the plan but I am not sure if attacking a pack of heavily armed trandoshans is the best course of action." The jedi responds frowning slightly.
sigh, jedi... Lyz thinks, rolling her eyes as she plucks the feathers of one of the richly coloured birds. "Do you want to leave this rock?"
"Probaly as much as you do, I'll take a battlefield over sitting idly on this planet." Dante responds removing the guts from the bird with his hand.
The lethan gives him a glance. "Very jedi-like of you."
In response he snorts at her. "I like a bit of action once in a while, catching dust in a library isn't my taste."
A smirk covers Lyz's features as she starts on another bird, putting the last one on the others next to her.
Dante picks up the featherless bird before speaking up. "How was the jedi temple more than a thousand years ago? Do you think much changed while you were gone?"
The lethan stops plucking the bird and burst out laughing almost clutching her arm hokding the bird to her black lips to supress it. She responds with fits of laughter. "Knowing the jedi... I can probaly find... My own bed... Like the last time I left it."
Dante smirks looking at the way the red skinned lethan is shaking with laughter, her features covered in the light of the sun.
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After returning to the hideout and roasting the birds on a well concealed fire the group of force-sensitives eat in silence, at the end of the meal Lyz suggests moving out to hunt down the trandoshans.
The younglings agree to function as guides. Together they traverse the jungle looking for any sign of their reptilian friends.
After trekking through the jungle for a few hours Ahsoka spots something and waves her hand, giving the signal to scatter, the younglings take cover behind the trees and the older force-sensitives prepare themselves to ambush from the branches covered by the foliage.
A rodian female covered in mud sprints by under them. Suddenly a blaster bolt penetrates the back of her head. Her corpse falls down onto the jungle floor. A hoverpod appears and stops at the female under the waiting ambushers. Three heavily armed trandoshans are perched on the floating vehicle.
As planned Dante gives a mighty force push sending the hoverpod crashing against a tree, scattering the hunters who tumble down.
Lyz jumps down, picking her target. The biggest one who snarls at her as he tries to shoot her with his sniper rifle. With the force she janks the rifle to the side making him miss. Closing the distance she feels her primal instinct to kill kicking in.
The trandoshan, using his mass, tries to ram her to the ground. The sith nimbly sidesteps him, dives under his arm and jams her fist into his side enhanching her strength with the force.
He cries out as a rib or two breaks by the impact. Quickly turning around for someone his size he lunges at Lyz who tries to jump backwards away from him but gets hit straight in the chest, falling with her back against a tree.
Lyz feels her chest and back ache by the impact but grits her teeth and stands back up. She sees the trandoshan trying to shoulder his rifle. Looking up she spots a large branch above him and janks it down with the force. Snapping it at the base.
The large trunk slams down onto the lizard breaking his shoulder in the progress and forcing him down onto his knees. He cries out in pain but the sith doesn't stop, with a malicious smile she rams down the branch again and again. Breaking his bones with sickening cracks, blood pooling from his mouth and nostrils until his head is beaten into a pulp by a mighty slam.
One problem solved. The lethan thinks lifting the log above her head. Looking around she spots Dante snapping the neck of another hunter with the force. Lyz is pleased, seeing a jedi kill someone makes her grin.
Her grin falters as she gets snapped out of her thoughts by Ahsoka's shout. "Don't kill him, it is not the jedi way!"
Dante also hears the togruta and turns towards her. A trandoshan is clutching his neck trying to rip off the invisible hand that is choking him. The disheveled youngling Khalifa is holding the force choke as Ahsoka tries to talk her down.
Dante also runs over to the scene to snap the girl out of her concentration but he doesn't have the chance to do anything as suddenly the jagged end of a large trunk rams through the chest of the lizard impaling him against the tree creating a gory mess.
Swivelling around he sees the Lethan with a a sneer on her black lips wich she quickly composes as she spots Dante looking at her.
She shrugs her shoulders. "Keeping him alive would have been a liability.
Dante sighs. "Atleast be clean about it, the girl has seen enough as it is."
A snort comes from the lethan's lips as she locks her bright blue eyes with Dante's brown ones. "That's how the universe works, it is not a fun place, she has to learn that as well."
"She has time to learn that while growing up in the safety of the temple." The jedi retords stroking the stubble on his chin.
Lyz rolls her eyes at him. "The real deal is the best way to learn acording to my master." The lethan suddenly feels an empty pit in her stomach when thinking about her master but quickly supresses it.
"Uhm guys, your bickering is fun and all but we have a problem." The togruta speaks up.
Lyz quickly walks over ignoring the male's gaze. The jedi knight close on her heels. Crouching next to Ahsoka she spots the blinking red light on the trandoshan she impaled.
"Tracker beacon." Dante nods at the flashing light.
Lyz curses under her breath. "More will be coming. Get up the trees!"
Dante and Ahsoka nod at her before scurying up the trees with the two other younglings that just left their hiding places.
I also start towards a tree but see Khalifa standing there, looking at the corpse, a tear rolling down her cheek.
"Come on girl get it together!" I shout at her.
No reaction.
Rolling my eyes. Why am I doing this... I run at the girl, crouch down in front of her and grab her roughly by the chin forcing her to look me straight in the eyes.
Her wet eyes stare back at me.
"This not the time nor the place to rethink what you have done, that bloody lizard wanted to mount your skin to a wall, hell you didn't even kill the bastard."
She keeps staring at me in shock.
If this blows my cover I'll mount you to a wall myself. I place a hand on her neck and send a very weak electrical shock through her body.
She jolts back up, her eyes brightening up.
No one had seen me use lightning.
"Good girl, come on let's go."
Together we climb up a tree, just in time to spot another hoverpod with three trandoshans rushing into the open, they are alert as one of them inspects the body of the lizard impaled against the tree.
Suddenly one of the trandoshans, the one closest to Lyz collapses, a steel arrow pentrates his jugular creating a small red fountain.
A figure in black sprints towards the two alerted trandoshans who fire at it, the figure dodges the shots and jumps into the clearing, firing another arrow straight through the eye of one of the two hunters with an elegant darkmetal bow.
The figure is a woman completely covered by a beautiful and clean looking black dress wich hugs her features and has a hood hiding her hair and face. The bow is slung over her shoulder next to a full quiver. She grabs a straight dagger from a sheath on the small of her back and twirls it around in her armored gauntlet circling the last hunter.
He fires, she had anticipated the shot in a flash by bringing up her left hand, the shot ricochets off her armored gauntlet, she dives under his arm slashing open his stomach.
The trandoshan falls to his knees with a cry, his guts hanging out. He doesn't have the time to scream for long. The woman rams the blade through the back off his neck silencing him for ever.
Crouching down she cleans the dagger on his leather armor and puts it back in its sheath. She stands back up straight. "You know spying on a lady is a great offence." Her voice radiates authority.
"Not if it's a lady who is spying." I retord jumping from my branch.
She turns around, a small smile covering her lips.
Lyz stares at her, cold red eyes stare back, framed by a pale but beautiful face and thick black hair.
"Call me Duchess."
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Aaand chapter 11 done! Had a small block so I split the chapter so next chapter we finish up to take things into darker places ;)
Btw who do you think is Duchess?
Illiteracy out