Chapter 6: The Quest Begins

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The team is ready to depart when Link, Vega and Batman return to Lon Lon Ranch. However Sheik does not appear until an hour later. It is barely 4am by the time they are finally assembled. Sheik steps forward as the others stand in three spots like a triangle and as she speaks the secret spell golden lines flash out to connect the three and then to connect Sheik. In a flash of golden light they are whisked away through space, time and reality to another world, where they must locate a tiny gem that holds vast powers.

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"I will not dance for that monster!" Oola cries to Yarna as she is thrown into the arms of the six-breasted old dancer.

"Oola, Oola shhhhh, you must dance for Jabba or you will surely be killed, he does not tolerate insubordination. I've seen it happen before over and over." Yarna tells her with a tone of both compassion and seriousness. "You are one of the best dancers I've met so far and one of the most beautiful."

"Get away from her Gargan, she will learn her place now or Jabba will surely feed her to his pet next time." Bib Fortuna spits at Oola as two stout gamorreans beat her unconscious. Yarna can only turn away as her newest protégé cries out several times before she curls up into the corner. As the gamoreans back off, Bib spits one last threat as he leaves the room. "Ill be back for her tomorrow night, she will have her final chance to dance for Jabba then."

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It is a little later when Oola regains consciousness and Yarna is busy talking to three new dancers, one is twi'lek like she is, another is rodian and the last is something she can't identify, all beautiful. Oola lies on her bed in the dancer's room, apparently Yarna had put her here shortly after her beating and she winces as she stands up slowly and makes her way over to the others.

When she approaches Yarna looks up with a smile and the other three dancers turn to see her.

"Oh Oola, these three are back-up dancers for Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo band tomorrow night, meet Lyn Me, Greeata and Rystall." Yarna motions to each dancer as she says their names. Oola greets each of them and each greets her. "Tomorrow night is going to be quite a show, as long as our star dancer decides to perform finally, show us all what she can do." Yarna teases.

"I just can't dance for that creature! I can't, he repulses me and death would be preferable to serving him for about five years and then being fed anyway, its not fair I've been a slave all my life, if only I could get away." She walks off into the darkness of Jabba's hallways.

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Yarna sighs and turns to the other dancers:

"I've seen so many dancers come and go, Oola is the sweetest and most talented of them, she is going to end up in the rancor pit I just know it."

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The Next Day- 9hrs till showtime (7:00pm)

Oola shuffles down the winding hallways of Jabba's palace. She looks around her…everything in this whole palace is the same color rust, rust orange, orange, and rust brown and sometimes tan. She doesn't often venture too far from the dancer's room and the thrown room where all the action happened. She heard from Yarna that there are thousands of secret passageways all over the palace, and that one or two even lead as far as Mos Eisley. Most of them lead to various rooms, hallways and also local caverns and caves in the area. There were dark places in this palace that are so ancient that no one has visited for over a hundred years, in these places there is no telling who you might meet, what kind of creatures that have visited them. But the places she is told to fear most are some of the more popular rooms, where murderers and lowlifes, all the worse scum in the galaxy. She suddenly stops noticing that she is alone in the corridor, she smiles to herself as she begins to dance, slowly rhythmically and sensually. She spins and steps gracefully and easily, slowly and with little effort. With each spin and turn her lekku move with her as one in the dim light. She has always thought that names like "Head tails" and "worms" were ugly and not fitting for the beautiful lekku that served as both communication supplementary and in her case they were like ribbons that flows as she dances.

She slowly comes to a halt allowing her lekku to settle down instead of just dropping like most twi'lek do. She opens her eyes to clapping and she spins around to see Bib Fortuna strolling up to her with a twisted grin on his face.

"Oooooola, you naughty girl, you would rather dance for no one than for Lord Jabba." He says nastily.

"I told you I will not dance for him, why cant you just leave me alone Bib?" She replies.

"It is my job to serve Lord Jabba just like it is yours, you are bantha fodder to him he will not hesitate to feed you to his pet."

Oola slowly turns around away from him as if to cry and then lunges forward into a full run away from him in a desperate attempt to try to at least elude him. However he just grins bearing his sharp teeth and pulls a blaster from his holster and guns her down with a stun bolt.

"No no, you will stay and entertain Lord Jabba, with your life or with your death."

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7 hours until showtime (7pm)

Link and the others had to get into the palace the hardway except for Vega who obviously knew what to say to get into the immense palace. The remaining three had decided to split up to find their own ways into the palace to find the jewel. Link had used his hook shot to make it up this far and he pulls himself up over the ledge to where he was close enough to reach the first crown of the double-roofed palace. He fires the hookshot and it bounces off the mark but snags on a side of the windows that he suddenly notices between the roofs but it is too late now as he follows through with the shot and hits the window hard and slides down the side. The windows are tinted but there is no way anyone inside could have missed that. He quickly shoots again hoping to get out of site quickly, luckily it snags on something and he follows it up and over, now at least he may can draw attention from the others. He hits the roof and makes it to the top finally. At least if he got into a fight he would have lots of room to maneuver. Out comes his shield on the left and his sword on the right and now he waits for the attackers to come forth…but what if there were no attackers?

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