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Legacy of the Night-Eater- Chapter 3- Attacks, Explanations, and Good-byes.
As Nalea, Julina, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan reached the Temple's gates, high pitched screeching filled the air. With the ear piercing sound, fire rained down on the city. Fire, a weapon do prehistoic, that the sheilds did not regognize it, and the buildings started to give in. Out of it's smoke. A rainbow of death's colors came into view. The same creatures that most of the people had just learned about not two hours ago, flew among the people.
"What do we do Nalea?!" people around her screamed from around her.
"Grab your weapons! Got for the wings and feet! It won't kill them, but they'll be unconscious! You get one down, go for another! We can tie them later! And EVERYONE be CAREFULLY. DON'T let them bleed on you!" she managed to scream over the screeching. "GET ALL PADAWANS THAT ARE UNDER 15 INSIDE! NOW!"
Fire raged around them. It wasn't long before masters and their students were separated, scattered through the smoke. Nalea and Obi-Wan were no exception. Back to back they took down as many of the creatures as they could.
"Nalea! Look!" Obi-Wan pointed out a path through the fire. In it, they could see Night-Eaters making their way to the far side of the temple.
"Let's go!" Nalea demanded and ran off after them.
Reaching their destination, Nalea spun around. It had become to quite. Slowly they circled the area. Still, nothing.
"It's around here some where," Nalea whispered, " I can fell it."
"Look out!" she heard her companion scream. The next thing Nalea knew, was she was on the ground, Obi-Wan covering her, and a black and silver Night-Eater circling above. Slowly, they stood.
"Well, well, Arianna, we have a protector now." The creature said in perfect English. "I wonder how long it would take for me to consume him. Three, four seconds?"
Nalea hissed. "Leave him out of this Ginto. It's me you want."
"That I do...." the creature flew down to the ground, instantly assuming human form. "But I think you have connected with these jedis, I do. It would be a complete pleasure to have you watch him be ripped to pieces by myself......Just like you did your mother. I must say, I had never had so much fun that night. To see the tears boiling in your eyes, and the anger evaporating them."
Nalea was about to leap forward, but Obi-Wan held her back. "Don't be foolish," he whispered. "revenge comes later."
His words gave Ginto just enough time to switch back into his natural form. Before the two could react, the Night-Eater leader, speed past Nalea, pushing Obi-Wan back against the temple wall.
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Obi-Wan didn't know what hit him until he saw the creature in front of him. There was a burst of light. As he looked over, a purple winged Night-Eater hovered above the spot Nalea had just stood. A almost flute like screech (And yes, I know they don't know what a flute is.) filled the air.
The 'Eater known as Ginto hissed some kind of smoke at Obi-Wan causing him to freeze, and drop to the ground. He could do nothing but sit and watch the battle over him.
Against the fiery landscape, the creatures fought. Their movements were rather barbaric, those of animals. Lunges for the throat, wings, and feet. Each flap of a wing seemed to go in slow motion to his drugged eyes.
It happened than. Ginto's claws pierced the purple Night-Eater's chest. Not a screech, but a cry filled the air as the purple beast fell to the ground. Ginto flew down for the kill...toxin in claw.
"NOO!!" Obi-Wan managed to scream, turning Ginto's attention to the supposed-to-be paralyzed human.
The flute screech filled the air again as the purple 'Eater flew up, taking Ginto's distraction to her advantage. Skillfully she grabbed the toxin out of his claw, and flew high in the air, only to dive down. her clawed feet came into contact with Ginto's throat, forcing him down. The purple creature spread his jaws and feed the toxin to him, against his will.
As the leader of the Night-Eater burned, his death screech echoed. All of the remaining creatures retreated. Obi-Wan blinked. When his eyes opened, Nalea was kneeled down to of him.
"Are you alright? He used a gas on you. It will wear off in a few minuets. Here." As Nalea helped him into a sitting position, Obi-Wan saw one thing. Her now bare feet were covered in blood.
"I'm...I'm fine." he said as the poison wore off. "Nalea....are you.....the..."
"I'll explain later. Now come on, to your feet. Our masters will be worried.
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Nalea helped Obi-Wan to his feet, and walked to the battle front. She couldn't think right. He knows. He knows. Can I trust him? I have no choice. I have to tell him the whole truth. There is no other way.
"Nalea! Obi-Wan!" Trin came running up to them. "You must hurry!"
Obi-Wan quickened his pace with difficulty. "What's wrong? Is Qui-Gon alright?"
"He's fine but...." Trin started, but it was too late, Nalea has seen. A hard gasp came out of her as she saw Qui-Gon hunched over another figure.
"N..no..." she whispered and rushed to the other side of him. In his arms, a barely breathing Julina turned her head to face her padawan.
"Don't worry, they....didn't bleed on me..." she whispered with what little breath she had. "Don't waste your breath calling for a healer. This is my time."
"No!" Nalea protested. "Not yet, you just...."
"Shush. Nalea. Bring them down, protect...the ..prophecy..."
"Don't waste your breath!" Nalea tried to control her emotions, but it wasn't working.
"There's no need to not say what needs...to be ...said.." With a few last whispers to Qui-Gon, Julina closed her eyes for the last time.
Nalea stood, doing everything she could not to cry.It wasn't fair! Qui-Gon looked up to her, stood, and put a hand on her shoulder.
"She...she was the last person who knew my ..." She choked. "Now their both gone....Both because...because of me..." Nalea whispered.
"Everything has a higher meaning, young one. Even though we don't understand it. The forced willed them to die, maybe, to give you the strength you need."
Nalea looked down at Julina's body. "I will secure the prophecy." Nalea's eyes filled with hate, but quickly dimmed to sorrow. She lowered her head as it began to rain.
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Nalea looked around the ground. The report had said so far there were eighty eight jedis dead, and thirty five Night-Eaters unconscious. The people were working on tieing them up.
"Your the purple creature!" Nalea looked down to see a small girl, about ten, at her feet.
"Excuse me?" she blinked.
"LOOK EVERYONE! IT'S THE PURPLE CREATURE THAT SCARED AWAY ALL THE OTHERS!" everyone turned to Nalea and gasped.
Qui-Gon looked over at her as well. "Is...Is this true?"
Nalea hung her head and sighed. The crowd gasped once more as a bright light filled the air. When the light faded, the purple Night-Eater Ginto had referred to as Ariana, fluttered above where Nalea had stood. Cries of fear came through the crowd.
"What I am, is what your afraid of." Another flash of light came, and Nalea stood in the place she did before. " Yes, I lied to you. I lied, because you would not have excepted me. And, now....your friends, family, and loved ones .....are...dead....because of me." Nalea closed her eyes in shame.
"SEND HER BACK TO WHERE SHE CAME FROM!" some shouted. Even a few "Kill her"s came.
Nalea sighed. "Do what you will, I'll be gone soon enough as it is."
Obi-Wan had been watching silently, but had had about enough. He stepped forward into the center of the crowd. "FRIENDS, listen to me. This woman SAVED us. Yes, they were looking for her, and the death toll on her shoulders is high, but it would have been much worse if she didn't kill their leader! Yes, SHE killed him. I witnessed it. Let her fate be up to the council. But, right now, finish binding these creatures, and get them somewhere before they wake up!"
Nalea blinked as the others went to work. "Why did you do that?"
He turned. "Do what? Tell them the truth? So they wouldn't kill you."
Nalea sighed, "Don't you see? It doesn't matter to me if I live or die? Death is just the end product of birth. If they hate me for who I am, than let me be gone, and this planet will be a little happier."
Qui-Gon stepped up to Nalea. "I see much doubt in yourself. Obi-Wan is right. The death rate would have been much higher. But, You are tired. There is an extra room by our quarters. I would like for you to stay there tonight. I can't have you unsupervised, and I'm not going to throw you into arms of strangers so soon. Go, rest, we will wake you in a few hours."
Nalea nodded and walked off to her new quarters.
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Nalea had just stepped out of the shower when there was a knock at her door. "Just a moment!" she yelled, throwing on a robe. As she walked to the door, she threw her hair into a tie and tied another around her waist.
With out looking to see who it was, she opened the door. What did it matter who was there? Death or life? Obi-Wan pushed his way through, as soon as she did so.
"Come on in." Nalea blinked, closing the door behind him.
"I came on my own. You said you'd explain later, well, it's later, and no one's around, so your explaining." he mumbled, than sighed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I'm attacking you. I just....." he sat down on the room's couch. "I just....Nalea, I need to know."
"Oh...uh...I'm sorry....ah...." Obi-Wan blushed and looked away from her. Nalea shook her head.
Nalea sat beside him, pulling her legs up to her chest. "What do you want to know?"
"Well..you said you weren't born a Night-Eater. Was that a lie too?" He did the same as she, leaning against the other side of the couch.
"That wasn't a lie. About a month before they found out about mother, I was infected. Ginto's brother did so. He was killed a month later...."
"What did it fell like, to be infected? What happened?"
Nalea closed her eyes, remembering. "I got very dizzy, I feed from Ginto's brother, but it all came so fast. It was like I took in all his life instead of one part. All the images he had seen, every thing he had heard and felt, I knew it. It didn't hurt him. Night-Eaters,if their stranded feed off each other all the time. It doesn't effect one of the same species."
Obi-Wan stopped breathing momentarily. "Th..that's how I felt when...when I ...touched your..." his eyes widened in disbelief.
Nalea's eyelids popped open. "What?............" she looked down, " Than I infected you....your...your no longer...human...."
"W...what do you mean I'm no longer human?! I'm mean, there's got to be a way to undo this!" He stood up, and took her by the shoulders. "Tell me how to reverse this!"
Nalea looked up. "Weren't you listening at the lecture?" she sighed. " You have to feed from me completely. Drink my blood if you will." She stood up. " I will show you how if you wish."
Obi-Wan backed away. "No...No, that's crazy! I won't drink your BLOOD!"
"Well, you can either do that, or feed of others. You have a month left to change your mind about drinking from me, because after that, it will be to late, I'll be dead. THAT's why I don't care wither I live or die now. It's because I'm going to do so anyway. The cycle begun when I fainted."
"Why don't you feed? There are enough people here for you to feed from only once for the rest of your life! And if you do it once, it won't hurt them that much, right?" Obi-Wan stuttered. "I mean...you just can't sit here and die!" he knew he should be mad at her. He knew he should possibly even want her to die for what she had done, but he couldn't. He oculd see that his infection had upset her just as much or more than it did he.
Nalea chuckled. "There is nothing for me here, no one will ever trust me. They'll always have in back of their heads,she could turn on me. EVEN you and Qui-Gon. You know that just as well as I do. And, if I do feed from others, it would just make me like the rest of them."
Obi-Wan crossed his arms. "Than feed from me. I'm one of you now. You said yourself that it won't hurt me. We can feed from each other."
Nalea shook her head once more. "For a period of time it will work, but only for a few months. My days are numbered. Besides, don't you see. Obi-Wan, I can keep my promise to Julina!"
"How?"
"I turned my back on the people, I fought against them. I ascendantly infected you, now if you feed on me, I will have done all I can, and pray the prophecy was meant for me to fulfill. That you can take those creatures down!" she stood up to face him. " I will feed from you as LONG as you PROMISE that I will train you in their ways, and when the time comes, you will consume me, and you will TRY to bring them down."
Obi-Wan sighed. "If it will keep you alive longer, it's a deal." He sighed crossing his arms. " I have to be out of my mind to agree to this. I mean....Nalea, by all technicality, I'll be killing you!"
Nalea smiled. "No you wont. When some one is consumed, they too are free. They are born normally to go to a new destiny. It is written. If that makes you feel better."
Obi-Wan walked over to her window. "This isn't fair."
Nalea waked to him. "Life isn't fair....this is going to sound ridiculous....but my mother used to sing me a song...." she stopped. "Can I sing it to you?" (A/N : I know this is TOTALLY uncharacteristic. I also know that they have asorted belifes in religon, and most like dont belive in one god,I am completely aware of this, but I just feel a need to put this song in here.)
Obi-Wan turned to her, raising an eyebrow. "I..If you must...."
"Some day, when we are wiser,
When the worlds are older,
When we have learned,
I pray somday we may yet, live,
to live and let live.
Someday, life will be fairer,
amd greed will not pay,
God's speed this bright mellinium,
on it's way, let it be someday.
Someday, our fight will be won than,
We'll stand in the sun than,
That bright afternoon,oh,
Until than, on days when the sun id gone,
We'll wish upon the moon,
Some day god can greet us,
When we have got a prayer,
A prayer for something better,
Is the one thing we all share.
Some day, when we are wiser,
When the worlds are older,
When we have learned,
I pray somday we may yet, live,
to live and let live.
Someday, life will be fairer,
amd greed will not pay,
God's speed this bright mellinium,
on it's way, let it be someday.
One day, someday, soon
One day, some day, soon."
Nalea finished her song, and shook her head. "Silly, I know, but someday, after the wars that may be, we will live in peace." Nalea chuckled. "My mother sang it much better. "
Obi-Wan turned to her, lifting her chin. "No, that was beautiful....." He leaned down to her....
"Nalea? Are you awake? Have you seen Obi-Wan?"
Nalea sighed and smiled. "Yes Master Qui-Gon, he's in here. You may come in."
Qui-Gon came in and looked at his padawan. "And what are we doing going off without telling me first?" He stopped and looked Nalea over. "And why are we only wearing a robe?"
Nalea's eyes widened. "Oh sith's hell!" she screeched. "I forgot to...!!! Wait a second...." her eyes widened even more if that was possible."....MASTER!" she ran into her bedroom and slammed the door behind her. Qui-Gon raised an eyebrow.
"I take it she didn't know she wasn't properly dressed.....You didn't notice padawan?" He grinned almost evilly at Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan blushed. "Well, to tell you the truth, master, I hadn't until you mentioned it. That was the last thing on my mind. And, to answer your question, I told her what I saw. Well...I was going too..but...you came in."
"I see....should I leave?"
"Yes...no...yes...no....um....?" he thought about it.
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Nalea closed her door behind her, scolding herself for not excusing herself to get dressed. There was no good in this. How was she going to explain. "Oh, I had to tell him he was a creature everyone despises, and I just forgot to get dressed. " would be the truth. No. They already knew about her. There was no need they had to know about Obi-Wan. He wouldn't be one for long. IF he kept his promise.
IF. What if he didn't? She would die in vain. Nalea sat on her bed thinking. Death. What would it be like. She was told she would be reborn, but....yawning, she closed her eyes a bit. She hadn't slept well lately. Before she knew it, she was asleep.
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Smoke. Fire. Screaming. Nalea turned in circles. People screamed her name, begging her to help them. Than :Ginto appeared. He screeched, piercing her ears. the view zoomed around her again, and there he was. Obi-Wan was tied, his skin changing color, as the toxin was slowly being pored on him.
"Noooooo!" she tried to scream, but she couldn't talk. She was weak, too weak.
"See where your little defender is now, Arianna? Can't help you if he's dead now can he?" Ginto's eyes gleamed with pleasure.
Her mother's face appeared. "I'm ashamed of you! How could you......" Than Julina's came, "You broke your promise." Yumil (the only other Night-Eater on her side) "I almost died for you, and look what you did!". The eighty seven who died that very day all screamed at her, one by one. Than, Obi-Wan's voice came, on the verge of death. "Help me, please, help me...."
"No! Stop! Stop! STOP!"
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Qui-Gon tapped his foot. "I know women take longer than us to get ready for something, but this is a little ridiculous!"
Obi-Wan nodded, and walked over to Nalea's bedroom door. "Nalea? Are you ok in there?"
Her voice faintly came from inside. "No...I didn't mean to, no. No!" They could hear he screams.
Obi-Wan looked to Qui-Gon before he opened the door to see Nalea tossing and turning. He walked over to the bed and gently shook her. "Nalea, wake up, wake up, it's only a dream."
"No! Stop! Stop! STOP!" Nalea screeched before jumping awake, instantly clinging to Obi-Wan, who not knowing what to do, looked back at Qui-Gon, who had entered the room, looking quite confused.
"Um...it's alright....Nalea, look at me...." he forced her face back gently. "What ever it was, it was just a dream, ok? Your alright. Your safe."
Nalea still shook. "It was a dream.....only...a dream...." she repeated...." I'm sorry...." she whispered, eventually braking down into tears, a thing she had never done in her life. "I'm sorry.....I'm sor..."
"Shhhh....It will be alright....You don't need to apologize.....for...for what ever it was....you know what...just ..here..." Obi-Wan lifted the blanket off her bed and slipped her under. "Your in no shape to go anywhere tonight...you just stay here, and rest, ok. I'm going to be right outside, ok, me and Qui-Gon. We won't let the bad men get you."
Nalea chuckled. "Your bossing me around again." she tried to glare at him.
Obi-Wan laughed. "I know, I'm evil." he pushed her padawan braid out of her face. "Now try to get some sleep. We'll be right outside, ok?"
Nalea smiled. "Ok...."
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Oh my, getting a tad bit soft *kicks herself* oh well.....
Legacy of the Night-Eater- Chapter 3- Attacks, Explanations, and Good-byes.
As Nalea, Julina, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan reached the Temple's gates, high pitched screeching filled the air. With the ear piercing sound, fire rained down on the city. Fire, a weapon do prehistoic, that the sheilds did not regognize it, and the buildings started to give in. Out of it's smoke. A rainbow of death's colors came into view. The same creatures that most of the people had just learned about not two hours ago, flew among the people.
"What do we do Nalea?!" people around her screamed from around her.
"Grab your weapons! Got for the wings and feet! It won't kill them, but they'll be unconscious! You get one down, go for another! We can tie them later! And EVERYONE be CAREFULLY. DON'T let them bleed on you!" she managed to scream over the screeching. "GET ALL PADAWANS THAT ARE UNDER 15 INSIDE! NOW!"
Fire raged around them. It wasn't long before masters and their students were separated, scattered through the smoke. Nalea and Obi-Wan were no exception. Back to back they took down as many of the creatures as they could.
"Nalea! Look!" Obi-Wan pointed out a path through the fire. In it, they could see Night-Eaters making their way to the far side of the temple.
"Let's go!" Nalea demanded and ran off after them.
Reaching their destination, Nalea spun around. It had become to quite. Slowly they circled the area. Still, nothing.
"It's around here some where," Nalea whispered, " I can fell it."
"Look out!" she heard her companion scream. The next thing Nalea knew, was she was on the ground, Obi-Wan covering her, and a black and silver Night-Eater circling above. Slowly, they stood.
"Well, well, Arianna, we have a protector now." The creature said in perfect English. "I wonder how long it would take for me to consume him. Three, four seconds?"
Nalea hissed. "Leave him out of this Ginto. It's me you want."
"That I do...." the creature flew down to the ground, instantly assuming human form. "But I think you have connected with these jedis, I do. It would be a complete pleasure to have you watch him be ripped to pieces by myself......Just like you did your mother. I must say, I had never had so much fun that night. To see the tears boiling in your eyes, and the anger evaporating them."
Nalea was about to leap forward, but Obi-Wan held her back. "Don't be foolish," he whispered. "revenge comes later."
His words gave Ginto just enough time to switch back into his natural form. Before the two could react, the Night-Eater leader, speed past Nalea, pushing Obi-Wan back against the temple wall.
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Obi-Wan didn't know what hit him until he saw the creature in front of him. There was a burst of light. As he looked over, a purple winged Night-Eater hovered above the spot Nalea had just stood. A almost flute like screech (And yes, I know they don't know what a flute is.) filled the air.
The 'Eater known as Ginto hissed some kind of smoke at Obi-Wan causing him to freeze, and drop to the ground. He could do nothing but sit and watch the battle over him.
Against the fiery landscape, the creatures fought. Their movements were rather barbaric, those of animals. Lunges for the throat, wings, and feet. Each flap of a wing seemed to go in slow motion to his drugged eyes.
It happened than. Ginto's claws pierced the purple Night-Eater's chest. Not a screech, but a cry filled the air as the purple beast fell to the ground. Ginto flew down for the kill...toxin in claw.
"NOO!!" Obi-Wan managed to scream, turning Ginto's attention to the supposed-to-be paralyzed human.
The flute screech filled the air again as the purple 'Eater flew up, taking Ginto's distraction to her advantage. Skillfully she grabbed the toxin out of his claw, and flew high in the air, only to dive down. her clawed feet came into contact with Ginto's throat, forcing him down. The purple creature spread his jaws and feed the toxin to him, against his will.
As the leader of the Night-Eater burned, his death screech echoed. All of the remaining creatures retreated. Obi-Wan blinked. When his eyes opened, Nalea was kneeled down to of him.
"Are you alright? He used a gas on you. It will wear off in a few minuets. Here." As Nalea helped him into a sitting position, Obi-Wan saw one thing. Her now bare feet were covered in blood.
"I'm...I'm fine." he said as the poison wore off. "Nalea....are you.....the..."
"I'll explain later. Now come on, to your feet. Our masters will be worried.
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Nalea helped Obi-Wan to his feet, and walked to the battle front. She couldn't think right. He knows. He knows. Can I trust him? I have no choice. I have to tell him the whole truth. There is no other way.
"Nalea! Obi-Wan!" Trin came running up to them. "You must hurry!"
Obi-Wan quickened his pace with difficulty. "What's wrong? Is Qui-Gon alright?"
"He's fine but...." Trin started, but it was too late, Nalea has seen. A hard gasp came out of her as she saw Qui-Gon hunched over another figure.
"N..no..." she whispered and rushed to the other side of him. In his arms, a barely breathing Julina turned her head to face her padawan.
"Don't worry, they....didn't bleed on me..." she whispered with what little breath she had. "Don't waste your breath calling for a healer. This is my time."
"No!" Nalea protested. "Not yet, you just...."
"Shush. Nalea. Bring them down, protect...the ..prophecy..."
"Don't waste your breath!" Nalea tried to control her emotions, but it wasn't working.
"There's no need to not say what needs...to be ...said.." With a few last whispers to Qui-Gon, Julina closed her eyes for the last time.
Nalea stood, doing everything she could not to cry.It wasn't fair! Qui-Gon looked up to her, stood, and put a hand on her shoulder.
"She...she was the last person who knew my ..." She choked. "Now their both gone....Both because...because of me..." Nalea whispered.
"Everything has a higher meaning, young one. Even though we don't understand it. The forced willed them to die, maybe, to give you the strength you need."
Nalea looked down at Julina's body. "I will secure the prophecy." Nalea's eyes filled with hate, but quickly dimmed to sorrow. She lowered her head as it began to rain.
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Nalea looked around the ground. The report had said so far there were eighty eight jedis dead, and thirty five Night-Eaters unconscious. The people were working on tieing them up.
"Your the purple creature!" Nalea looked down to see a small girl, about ten, at her feet.
"Excuse me?" she blinked.
"LOOK EVERYONE! IT'S THE PURPLE CREATURE THAT SCARED AWAY ALL THE OTHERS!" everyone turned to Nalea and gasped.
Qui-Gon looked over at her as well. "Is...Is this true?"
Nalea hung her head and sighed. The crowd gasped once more as a bright light filled the air. When the light faded, the purple Night-Eater Ginto had referred to as Ariana, fluttered above where Nalea had stood. Cries of fear came through the crowd.
"What I am, is what your afraid of." Another flash of light came, and Nalea stood in the place she did before. " Yes, I lied to you. I lied, because you would not have excepted me. And, now....your friends, family, and loved ones .....are...dead....because of me." Nalea closed her eyes in shame.
"SEND HER BACK TO WHERE SHE CAME FROM!" some shouted. Even a few "Kill her"s came.
Nalea sighed. "Do what you will, I'll be gone soon enough as it is."
Obi-Wan had been watching silently, but had had about enough. He stepped forward into the center of the crowd. "FRIENDS, listen to me. This woman SAVED us. Yes, they were looking for her, and the death toll on her shoulders is high, but it would have been much worse if she didn't kill their leader! Yes, SHE killed him. I witnessed it. Let her fate be up to the council. But, right now, finish binding these creatures, and get them somewhere before they wake up!"
Nalea blinked as the others went to work. "Why did you do that?"
He turned. "Do what? Tell them the truth? So they wouldn't kill you."
Nalea sighed, "Don't you see? It doesn't matter to me if I live or die? Death is just the end product of birth. If they hate me for who I am, than let me be gone, and this planet will be a little happier."
Qui-Gon stepped up to Nalea. "I see much doubt in yourself. Obi-Wan is right. The death rate would have been much higher. But, You are tired. There is an extra room by our quarters. I would like for you to stay there tonight. I can't have you unsupervised, and I'm not going to throw you into arms of strangers so soon. Go, rest, we will wake you in a few hours."
Nalea nodded and walked off to her new quarters.
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Nalea had just stepped out of the shower when there was a knock at her door. "Just a moment!" she yelled, throwing on a robe. As she walked to the door, she threw her hair into a tie and tied another around her waist.
With out looking to see who it was, she opened the door. What did it matter who was there? Death or life? Obi-Wan pushed his way through, as soon as she did so.
"Come on in." Nalea blinked, closing the door behind him.
"I came on my own. You said you'd explain later, well, it's later, and no one's around, so your explaining." he mumbled, than sighed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I'm attacking you. I just....." he sat down on the room's couch. "I just....Nalea, I need to know."
"Oh...uh...I'm sorry....ah...." Obi-Wan blushed and looked away from her. Nalea shook her head.
Nalea sat beside him, pulling her legs up to her chest. "What do you want to know?"
"Well..you said you weren't born a Night-Eater. Was that a lie too?" He did the same as she, leaning against the other side of the couch.
"That wasn't a lie. About a month before they found out about mother, I was infected. Ginto's brother did so. He was killed a month later...."
"What did it fell like, to be infected? What happened?"
Nalea closed her eyes, remembering. "I got very dizzy, I feed from Ginto's brother, but it all came so fast. It was like I took in all his life instead of one part. All the images he had seen, every thing he had heard and felt, I knew it. It didn't hurt him. Night-Eaters,if their stranded feed off each other all the time. It doesn't effect one of the same species."
Obi-Wan stopped breathing momentarily. "Th..that's how I felt when...when I ...touched your..." his eyes widened in disbelief.
Nalea's eyelids popped open. "What?............" she looked down, " Than I infected you....your...your no longer...human...."
"W...what do you mean I'm no longer human?! I'm mean, there's got to be a way to undo this!" He stood up, and took her by the shoulders. "Tell me how to reverse this!"
Nalea looked up. "Weren't you listening at the lecture?" she sighed. " You have to feed from me completely. Drink my blood if you will." She stood up. " I will show you how if you wish."
Obi-Wan backed away. "No...No, that's crazy! I won't drink your BLOOD!"
"Well, you can either do that, or feed of others. You have a month left to change your mind about drinking from me, because after that, it will be to late, I'll be dead. THAT's why I don't care wither I live or die now. It's because I'm going to do so anyway. The cycle begun when I fainted."
"Why don't you feed? There are enough people here for you to feed from only once for the rest of your life! And if you do it once, it won't hurt them that much, right?" Obi-Wan stuttered. "I mean...you just can't sit here and die!" he knew he should be mad at her. He knew he should possibly even want her to die for what she had done, but he couldn't. He oculd see that his infection had upset her just as much or more than it did he.
Nalea chuckled. "There is nothing for me here, no one will ever trust me. They'll always have in back of their heads,she could turn on me. EVEN you and Qui-Gon. You know that just as well as I do. And, if I do feed from others, it would just make me like the rest of them."
Obi-Wan crossed his arms. "Than feed from me. I'm one of you now. You said yourself that it won't hurt me. We can feed from each other."
Nalea shook her head once more. "For a period of time it will work, but only for a few months. My days are numbered. Besides, don't you see. Obi-Wan, I can keep my promise to Julina!"
"How?"
"I turned my back on the people, I fought against them. I ascendantly infected you, now if you feed on me, I will have done all I can, and pray the prophecy was meant for me to fulfill. That you can take those creatures down!" she stood up to face him. " I will feed from you as LONG as you PROMISE that I will train you in their ways, and when the time comes, you will consume me, and you will TRY to bring them down."
Obi-Wan sighed. "If it will keep you alive longer, it's a deal." He sighed crossing his arms. " I have to be out of my mind to agree to this. I mean....Nalea, by all technicality, I'll be killing you!"
Nalea smiled. "No you wont. When some one is consumed, they too are free. They are born normally to go to a new destiny. It is written. If that makes you feel better."
Obi-Wan walked over to her window. "This isn't fair."
Nalea waked to him. "Life isn't fair....this is going to sound ridiculous....but my mother used to sing me a song...." she stopped. "Can I sing it to you?" (A/N : I know this is TOTALLY uncharacteristic. I also know that they have asorted belifes in religon, and most like dont belive in one god,I am completely aware of this, but I just feel a need to put this song in here.)
Obi-Wan turned to her, raising an eyebrow. "I..If you must...."
"Some day, when we are wiser,
When the worlds are older,
When we have learned,
I pray somday we may yet, live,
to live and let live.
Someday, life will be fairer,
amd greed will not pay,
God's speed this bright mellinium,
on it's way, let it be someday.
Someday, our fight will be won than,
We'll stand in the sun than,
That bright afternoon,oh,
Until than, on days when the sun id gone,
We'll wish upon the moon,
Some day god can greet us,
When we have got a prayer,
A prayer for something better,
Is the one thing we all share.
Some day, when we are wiser,
When the worlds are older,
When we have learned,
I pray somday we may yet, live,
to live and let live.
Someday, life will be fairer,
amd greed will not pay,
God's speed this bright mellinium,
on it's way, let it be someday.
One day, someday, soon
One day, some day, soon."
Nalea finished her song, and shook her head. "Silly, I know, but someday, after the wars that may be, we will live in peace." Nalea chuckled. "My mother sang it much better. "
Obi-Wan turned to her, lifting her chin. "No, that was beautiful....." He leaned down to her....
"Nalea? Are you awake? Have you seen Obi-Wan?"
Nalea sighed and smiled. "Yes Master Qui-Gon, he's in here. You may come in."
Qui-Gon came in and looked at his padawan. "And what are we doing going off without telling me first?" He stopped and looked Nalea over. "And why are we only wearing a robe?"
Nalea's eyes widened. "Oh sith's hell!" she screeched. "I forgot to...!!! Wait a second...." her eyes widened even more if that was possible."....MASTER!" she ran into her bedroom and slammed the door behind her. Qui-Gon raised an eyebrow.
"I take it she didn't know she wasn't properly dressed.....You didn't notice padawan?" He grinned almost evilly at Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan blushed. "Well, to tell you the truth, master, I hadn't until you mentioned it. That was the last thing on my mind. And, to answer your question, I told her what I saw. Well...I was going too..but...you came in."
"I see....should I leave?"
"Yes...no...yes...no....um....?" he thought about it.
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Nalea closed her door behind her, scolding herself for not excusing herself to get dressed. There was no good in this. How was she going to explain. "Oh, I had to tell him he was a creature everyone despises, and I just forgot to get dressed. " would be the truth. No. They already knew about her. There was no need they had to know about Obi-Wan. He wouldn't be one for long. IF he kept his promise.
IF. What if he didn't? She would die in vain. Nalea sat on her bed thinking. Death. What would it be like. She was told she would be reborn, but....yawning, she closed her eyes a bit. She hadn't slept well lately. Before she knew it, she was asleep.
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Smoke. Fire. Screaming. Nalea turned in circles. People screamed her name, begging her to help them. Than :Ginto appeared. He screeched, piercing her ears. the view zoomed around her again, and there he was. Obi-Wan was tied, his skin changing color, as the toxin was slowly being pored on him.
"Noooooo!" she tried to scream, but she couldn't talk. She was weak, too weak.
"See where your little defender is now, Arianna? Can't help you if he's dead now can he?" Ginto's eyes gleamed with pleasure.
Her mother's face appeared. "I'm ashamed of you! How could you......" Than Julina's came, "You broke your promise." Yumil (the only other Night-Eater on her side) "I almost died for you, and look what you did!". The eighty seven who died that very day all screamed at her, one by one. Than, Obi-Wan's voice came, on the verge of death. "Help me, please, help me...."
"No! Stop! Stop! STOP!"
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Qui-Gon tapped his foot. "I know women take longer than us to get ready for something, but this is a little ridiculous!"
Obi-Wan nodded, and walked over to Nalea's bedroom door. "Nalea? Are you ok in there?"
Her voice faintly came from inside. "No...I didn't mean to, no. No!" They could hear he screams.
Obi-Wan looked to Qui-Gon before he opened the door to see Nalea tossing and turning. He walked over to the bed and gently shook her. "Nalea, wake up, wake up, it's only a dream."
"No! Stop! Stop! STOP!" Nalea screeched before jumping awake, instantly clinging to Obi-Wan, who not knowing what to do, looked back at Qui-Gon, who had entered the room, looking quite confused.
"Um...it's alright....Nalea, look at me...." he forced her face back gently. "What ever it was, it was just a dream, ok? Your alright. Your safe."
Nalea still shook. "It was a dream.....only...a dream...." she repeated...." I'm sorry...." she whispered, eventually braking down into tears, a thing she had never done in her life. "I'm sorry.....I'm sor..."
"Shhhh....It will be alright....You don't need to apologize.....for...for what ever it was....you know what...just ..here..." Obi-Wan lifted the blanket off her bed and slipped her under. "Your in no shape to go anywhere tonight...you just stay here, and rest, ok. I'm going to be right outside, ok, me and Qui-Gon. We won't let the bad men get you."
Nalea chuckled. "Your bossing me around again." she tried to glare at him.
Obi-Wan laughed. "I know, I'm evil." he pushed her padawan braid out of her face. "Now try to get some sleep. We'll be right outside, ok?"
Nalea smiled. "Ok...."
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Oh my, getting a tad bit soft *kicks herself* oh well.....