Part 3
Qui-Gon sat beside the window on the transport that just sped away from Komar on it's way to Sanderai. The friend he was going to see was 16 year-old Sanderai warrior Kyra Dulais. 8 months ago, Qui-Gon had awoken from a coma to discover Obi-Wan had died saving him, he later discovered it wasn't true. ( He wished that was the case here.) Qui-Gon had traveled to Simpla-12 to find out the truth. There he met Kyra, she knew who had taken Obi-Wan and where to find him. The same people had recently murdered her twin brother. They had rescued Obi-Wan together along with one of the people who had taken Obi-Wan named Lars Merkin, who was sadly murdered during the rescue
Qui-Gon felt he had to see Kyra, she was the only one who understood how it felt to lose someone close to you. The transport jumped to lightspeed.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi knew he had to be dead. He had felt himself slip away in front of his Master, yet he had felt the kiss and heard his last words. He had also felt himself being lowered somewhere. But it wasn't possible, he was DEAD!!
No I'm still alive thought Obi-Wan. He forced his eyes open and saw water, he didn't! thought Obi-Wan in surprise. Obi-Wan saw his lighsaber next to him and thought of cutting through the glass, he then realized that he would let the water in too fast. He turned his head and saw the fasteners on the side of the coffin. He concentrated hard and reached out with the Force, the fasteners opened. Obi-Wan kicked the lid up with his feet and held his breath.
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Something was very wrong. Qui-Gon the approximate time it took to get from Komar to Sanderai, they were almost 2 hours late. There could be millions of reasons why but Qui-Gon knew something was wrong. He made his way to the cockpit, the doors slid open. On the floor were the pilot and co-pilot, they were dead. Qui-Gon felt a disturbance in the Force but was knocked out cold before he could react.
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The water pressure made pushing the lid of the casket off extremely hard, Obi-Wan used up most of his little strength just doing that. He fought to propel himself to the surface. He felt faint but kept kicking, soon enough he broke the surface with a shaky gasp for air. Still feeling unbelievably faint he saw a boat nearby, he was too weak to swim and tried to call out. The boat came closer and someone pulled him out.
" By the saints!!" stammered Obi-Wan's rescuer, " We all thought you were dead!" Obi-Wan could feel himself fainting but asked for the identity of his rescuer. " My name is Arcro. I was the healer assigned to your case. I've got to get you to the Med Center, I've got to know how you survived!!"
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The next day, Obi-Wan watched, in horror, the events that had taken place after he had gone into a seizure. He had allowed himself to cry when he saw his Master lose control and had have to be subdued. Obi-Wan heard Arcro enter the room, he was swearing violently. He grabbed an empty glass and began to fill it water, he drank it then threw the glass across the room to shatter on the durasteel wall. Obi-Wan turned off the recording and, as calmly as possible, asked what was wrong.
"Well, we re-scanned your blood sample and it showed that you didn't have the virus to begin with. It was a poison so close no healer would suspect the difference." That explained Arcro's mood, he was furious that he hadn't been able to identify the poison.
"But how do you explain the seizure and…everything else." Obi-Wan asked. If looks could kill Arcro's could have killed everyone in the Med Center.
"Firstly, the heart monitor was defective, your heart never stopped beating. You just got knocked out by the poison. Secondly, the crash cart wasn't even charged when we tried to resuscitate you, but the indicator lights said that it was charged."
Obi-Wan was going to ask another question but started coughing violently and gasping for air. Arcro snatched an oxygen mask and pressed it to Obi-Wan's face. "The only side effect of the poison is difficulty breathing; you'll have problems like that for a few more hours." Obi-Wan caught his breath, thanked Arcro, then asked where Qui-Gon was. Arcro's anger left him in an instant, as he answered he began to clean up the pieces of the glass he had thrown.
" Your Master said that Coruscant was 'the last place he wanted to be.' He said something about visiting a friend on Sanderai." Obi-Wan frantically tried to think of anyone Qui-Gon knew from Sanderai. A memory stirred, Kyra Dulais. The young girl who had helped him save Qui-Gon, and in turn had rescued him.
" Arcro, I know exactly who he's seeing."