Part 5
//Master?//
the call had echoed back and forth several times but Qui-Gon knew it was Obi-Wan.
//Obi-Wan? Is it really you?// Qui-Gon received no answer as he forced his eyes open. Obi-Wan is dead, dead and buried; Don't you forget that Jinn, you'll only destroy yourself.
Everything hurt, his robes were torn and there was his own blood on them.; he looked and felt as though he had been thrashed. He looked around he was chained the wall by heavy metal chains, he had some slack but not much.
"Welcome back Master Jinn," boomed a voice that had a familiar sound to it. " I almost feared that you had joined your Padawan in the afterlife, he is no doubt waiting for you as my father is for me."
Qui-Gon focused on the figure: the man was tall and thin, he had disturbingly familiar eyes and an equally disturbingly familiar evil smile. He looked like….Milar Hayes, the man who had kidnapped Obi-Wan and left him to die in a grave like prison. "Yes Master Jinn, I am Jakar Hayes; Milar's son.
Milar had a son!!! He looks more like a twin brother! "What do you want with me?' asked Qui-Gon. He thought is was an appropriate question but Jakar flashed a whip across his arm, Qui-Gon tried to fight the wince that was coming on.
"I think you know," said Jakar, "If Demoiselle Kyra Dulais can claim a right of vengeance for her brother why can't I do the same for my father?" Jakar folded his arms across his immense chest. "Three times I have tried to kill Kyra, three times I have failed. I need to kill you too Qui-Gon. You will die, a lot slower than your late Padawan did I'm afraid." Qui-Gon didn't at first catch the hidden statement in that message.
He needs to kill me and Kyra because we killed Milar, but that means….NO!. "You killed Obi-Wan." Qui-Gon heard himself whisper with a murderous tone.
Jakar smiled his father's evil smile. 'Yes Master Jinn, I infected him with a poison so close to the virus that idiot head healer wouldn't have known the difference. But technically Qui-Gon, YOU killed Obi-Wan; he was still alive when you went out on that boat to bury him. He must have woken up in the casket and suffocated by now."
Qui-Gon couldn't control himself, he let out a cry of rage and grief. He stood and tried to break free of the chains. Damn the Code, he wanted to bring Jakar to justice; actually he wanted to kill him and avenge his Padawan. Jakar grabbed a blaster and stunned him then smiled as he remembered something important: Jakar had placed a hidden holo-cam in Obi-Wan's casket and it would broadcast his death to Jakar's computer. It was time for some entertainment.
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The next day, Obi-Wan, Kyra and Dra'Ka found themselves on a boat on one of the more isolated lakes of Komar. All three of them searched for any kind of a building.
"Demoiselle Dulais, Padawan Kenobi, come look at this." Dra'Ka motioned with his foot. Obi-Wan looked in the direction Dra'Ka indicated; there was a small complex floating on the water. It looked abandoned.
"It used to be a prison," began Kyra, "It was abandoned when Komar became a part of the Republic. The only way in or out is underwater; we won't be noticed." Obi-Wan concentrated on reaching Qui-Gon, he obviously hadn't learned his lesson from the last time. He felt someone shaking his shoulder, it was Kyra. She gave him a stern look, "Save your strength, you're going to need it." She passed Obi-Wan and Dra'Ka a breathing tube and took one herself. Kyra then slipped into the water, followed by Obi-Wan and Dra'Ka.
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Jakar Hayes was fuming. He had view the tape of what was supposed to be Qui-Gon Jinn's precious Padawan's slow, agonizing death. It had been anything but that; Jakar had watched him escape. Jakar had to keep this knowledge from Qui-Gon, he knew, if Qui-Gon were to pick it up through this mysterious Force….everything would be ruined. Jakar had reluctantly hired guards to watch over Master Jinn's cell and telling them to be expecting intruders at any moment. He had recently discovered that Demoiselle Dulais now had a dug bodyguard, no matter. The two Jedi and the Sanderai would die. Even if he himself were to die as a result.