Disclaimer: Why can't you give George Lucas Star Wars for his birthday? Because he already owns it! On a lighter note, Spring break is here! At least, it was starting when I wrote this. And, thanks to the fact that I have no life, I can work on my story. (Which apparently IS my life)

Cryos floated up the side of the giant building to the balcony of the room where he was staying. More than a week had gone by since the assault on Corosant, and he was still here. It was the longest time he had spent in one Universe in years. He told everyone that he was just staying until Elfour was fixed, but he wasn't fooling very many people. He was staying because this was where Kentra was.

Kentra still told everyone that she was deciding weather of not she was going to go with Cryos on his journey, but she wasn't fooling anyone either. Everyone knew that if Cryos went, Kentra would go with him. They belonged together.

In the meantime, New Republic scientist (They weren't Rebels anymore) were just finishing up the fine tuning on Elfour's programming. Cryos had tried occupying his time waiting for them to finish by getting involved in setting up this new government. But that was one big headache. Working with the captured Imperial prisoners was by far more fun. Even now, Cryos was on the track of a tool that could make even the quietest Imperial pour out his deepest secrets.

"Draco!" He yelled as he came over the railing. "Get over here."

Draco, however, was asleep in the sun on a pillow in the center of the balcony. "Do you know," He squawked, "What the best part of doing nothing is?" He spoke in Basic, the common language of this universe. That was another reason Cryos didn't stay in one place for too long. If he did, Draco picked up the local language. And began using it to cause even more trouble than usual.

Cryos sighed. "No, what's the best part?"

"Never knowing when you're done…"

"Well, you're done now." Cryos picked him up off the pillow. "You've got work to do."

From inside the rather excessively grand apartment, a voice called. Kentra was at the computer console, playing an online game called Starcraft. (Cryos didn't like the game too much, it was eerily similar to a war in another Universe that Cryos had been involved in a few years ago) But when she heard Cryos, she quit the game and rushed out to see him.

They embraced for a moment, then Kentra spoke. "I haven't seen you since breakfast, what's been happening?"

"Oh, not much." Cryos told her. "Just about done with the prisoners. We need Draco to help us make one of the more stubborn ones talk."

Kentra asked, "Can I come too?"

"Are you sure you really want to go back down into that bunker? That is where we've been keeping all the Imperials."

"Sure! I'm getting sick of staying in this place all the time."

"Well then I've got a surprise for you!" Cryos told her with great joy. "Tonight, I'm going to leave early, and we can go wherever we want. I was thinking the Central Sea?"

The Central Sea was Corosant's only ocean. Most of the deeper parts weren't visited very often because of some of the large aquatic carnivores that lived there. Many of them were peoples pets who had escaped. Or they had grown too large to keep and were released into the ocean, where they grew to a monstrous size. Cryos had seen pictures of some of the things, they weren't very friendly looking.

But Kentra wasn't afraid of them. Her people lived on a watery world with many large predators, some of whom could come right up on land after the hapless Ba`Ranians. And besides that, Cryos was a whole lot tougher than anything living in the Central Sea.

Meanwhile, Draco had wriggled out of Cryos's hand, crawled up his arm, and got his attention by biting him on the ear. "Can we go now?" He wined. The sooner we get this over with, the sooner I can go back to sleep."

"We're going to have to get someone to watch Draco when we leave…" Kentra said in a low voice.

"That might not be such a good idea, watch." Cryos points at the railing of the balcony and yells, "Draco! Watch out! There's a spider!"

Draco bellowed out a wild scream and then launched a fireball at the spot where Cryos pointed. The fireball exploded on contact and blew a big chunk of the railing into oblivion. "Did I get it?! Did I?!"

Cryos ignored Draco, "Sometimes he just does that for no reason. It's not a pretty picture if someone's in the way."

Kentra's face went pale as she imagined it. "Maybe we'll just leave him to occupy himself for a while."

Cryos nodded. "That's probably a better idea. Fewer casualties." He wrapped his tail around Kentra and lifted her up onto his back. He was about to jump when Draco beat him to it.

"CANNONBALL!!" The little lizard screamed as he jumped.

Cryos recognized a challenge when he saw one. Making sure his tail was securely wrapped around Kentra's waist, he ran and dove headfirst off the edge.

Kentra gave a scream halfway between fear and excitement and dug her fingernails into Cryos's back.

When Draco looked up above him to see Cryos steadily gaining on him, he went into a power dive, flapping his wings for extra speed. But Cryos wasn't about to let him get away like that, he kicked up some extra speed himself and caught up with Draco in a matter of seconds.

But by this point they were getting pretty close to the ground, and Cryos started slowing down. Draco thought Cryos was getting tired and turned his head around to watch, he didn't watch the ground.

"DRACO! WATCH OUT!" Cryos yelled at him, but it was too late. He and Kentra turned away as Draco smashed into the ground with a loud crack of the duracrete coated ground.

"Oh, man!" Cryos muttered to himself. "I'm gonna have to scrape him off the duracrete again." Draco had pulled a similar stunt several times in the past. Twice in the last week alone. You'd think he'd learn to watch where he's flying after awhile.

When Cryos got there, Draco was stuck to the ground with blue and red feathers scattered all around. Cryos pealed him up and checked him over. He was a bit dazed, and a little more confused than usual, but otherwise all right. There was no point scolding Draco. He was only half conscious, and even when he was fully aware, he didn't pay attention anyway.

So Cryos just carried him the rest of the way to the bunker. By the time they reached it he was back to his usual, annoying self.

Cryos knew how traumatic Draco could be to a normal person, and gave the Imperial one last chance to talk, but he refused to say a word. "You asked for it…" Cryos left the room, locked the door, and shoved Draco through the food slot by the floor.

The Imperial actually said something. "Is this little creature supposed to make me talk?!" There was a lot of laughing from him then, and it kind of trailed off when Draco began laughing himself. Draco's high pitched laughing continued when the Imperial started screaming. And less than thirty seconds later, he was begging for mercy.

Cryos opened the door then. Draco was sitting right where he had fallen when he came through the door. Doing nothing at all but laughing. As for the Imperial, he was sitting curled up in one corner of the room rocking back and forth.

"What did that little lizard do to him?" Asked one of the New Republic guards from the doorway.

"I don't know." Cryos answered. "And I don't ever WANT to know." He turned back to Kentra. "Now I believe we have somewhere else to be." She nodded and wrapped her arms around his neck. The pair rose from the bunker, through the hole Cryos had put into the roof (Which still hadn't been fixed) and they disappeared up into the sky.

They talked little at first, glad to be near one another without anyone bothering them. After a little bit Cryos noticed Kentra watching the people and buildings far below them. "What're you thinking about?" He asked her.

"Not much." She answered. "Just how great it must be to be able to fly like you… I guess it's one of those things I'll never be able to do, like your transformations and all."

"I might be able to teach you how to fly. It's been done. My dad taught someone once. Someone with power level like yours, I mean." Cryos paused. "But it might not work. You'd have to promise not to get upset if you can't do it."

"If you're my teacher, I don't see how I can fail." Cryos was about to say something else, but the Central Sea was under them now, and he had a better idea.

Zipping downward toward the water, he stuck his feet down and started skimming over the surface of the water like a jetskiier. The water sprayed up in every direction. Kentra squealed in delight as the salty spray splashed her. Cryos decided to go the rest of the way to the island like this. He had to keep a watch out for things in the water, and several times saw shadowy shapes, but nothing near the surface.

Pretty soon the island showed up in the distance and a few minutes later they were there. Once on the island, Cryos didn't have any plans other than to wing it and go with the flow, just do whatever Kentra wanted to do. But all Kentra wanted to do was learn how to fly. She was very insistent and refused to even eat lunch until the lesson began.

"Ok," Cryos told her, "The most important thing you need to know about flying is that it's hard to learn, but once you get it, it's incredibly easy to do. The first thing is your body's energy. That's what does the actual lifting. Once you learn to control your energy, the sky's the limit, literally. Don't EVER go too high. When the air gets too thin you could asphyxiate and not even realize until it's too late."

"Got it, don't fly too high. Now what?" She was impatient to begin.

"You need to tap into your energy. This will be the hardest part, and the part I can't help you with. It's a little different for everyone, but what you need to do first is just find your energy. Reach deep in yourself and find it."

It took the better part of the day for Kentra to find her energy, and when she managed to bring it out, Cryos was surprised at just how strong she was.

They worked late into the night, but she seemed to have some sort of block that stopped her from getting off the ground. She could start to rise, but couldn't quite get her toes off the ground.

Cryos tried to stay awake with her, but she was tireless. Kentra never slept, and eventually Cryos had to sit down and just fell asleep.

He awoke to a banging sound. Kentra had a couple of coconut-like things and was trying to bust the bluish shells open with a rock. "I'll get that." Cryos told her as he climbed to his feet. With a twist of his wrist, he ripped the top part of the husk off. Revealing a tasty looking banana like mush inside.

The few coconuts Kentra had gathered didn't last long, but Cryos saw some more growing on the vines on the side of a large standing rock formation jutting right out of the beach. He was about to go get some when Kentra said, "I'll get um."

Cryos watched in amazement as she concentrated, then slowly began to levitate from the ground. Once she had reached a good height into the air, she started to drift in the direction of the coconut vines. Her wobbly flight got her there and she grabbed one and pulled, but it snapped loose so suddenly that she fell backwards towards the ground. Luckily, Cryos caught her just in time.

"I'm impressed!" He told her. "You've been practicing a lot. It took me almost a week to just get off the ground. A little practice and you'll be as good as me." Kentra seemed quite pleased with herself.

After breakfast, they relaxed a bit. Enjoying their last few hours on the island before Princess Liea's Awards Banquet. They couldn't miss it since they were the guests of honor.

"Cryos," Kentra began as they sat in the shade of a leafy beach tree. "Where are you going after the Banquet?"

"Kentra, I'm not going to lie to you. I can't stay in this Universe much longer. I've got a quest to get back to, and this whole peaceful thing is starting to make me crazy. I'm a man of action, It's too quiet here."

"Are you leaving me?" She asked fearfully.

"You're still welcome to join me. And I hope you will come. But I won't drag you along against your will."

Kentra looked upset. Maybe on the verge of tears. But Cryos knew how to cheer her up.

"Lets not think about that right now." He told her. "Come on, let's fly." He held his hand out, and she took it, a look of fierce determination on her soft features.

Hand in hand, they skimmed the surface of the ocean. Kentra had gotten much better and could almost keep up with Cryos's normal flying pace. But the flying took its toll, and soon Kentra could barely stay in the air. Cryos took her in his arms and carried her back to the Capital Building.

But when they got there, there was no food. And the one wall of the assembly hall was scrawled with the words: "DRACO STRIKS AGAN!"

"Draco strikes again." Cryos translated for those who couldn't make out the message because of Draco's horrible spelling.

(blacksheep998 comment: Draco's spelling is almost as bad as mine. Thank God for the spellchecker)

So the banquet became a simple awards ceremony. And Cryos, Kentra, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewie and many others all got metals.

But after the ceremony, Kentra still wasn't sure what to do. Cryos told her "I'm going to go pick up Elfour from the scientist team, then I'll go back up to the room to make sure I'm not forgetting anything. I'll be there until sunset. If you decide not to go-" He choked on his own words. "Well, I'll understand." She nodded and he left. And he prayed that he would see her again.

The scientists who had put Elfour back together had done a very good job. A little to good, in fact. Cryos would have been much happier if they had at least turned down the prissiness factor.

Elfour was not a happy little droid. "First you keep my in your pocket for two days, then you take me out and start giving orders, then you let me get smashed when you save that silver haired alien girl, and I'm here for a week and you never even come to check on me, and-"

"I don't suppose you installed an off switch." Cryos asked the scientists, over Elfour's complaining.

"Sadly, no." The one responded. "Volume controls would have been a good idea as well."

Cryos nodded at him "I like the way your mind works." He commented before leaving.

That only left one obstacle before leaving: Draco. Luckily, after cleaning out the kitchens, Draco had come back to the apartment to sleep.

Cryos sat on the balcony, waiting for Kentra to show up. Sunset came and went, and yet he still waited.

"I don't think she's coming." Said Elfour with a very smug tone of voice.

"She'll be here, I know it." Cryos just knew she would come. She had to.

Then, at a quarter of midnight, Cryos had almost given up when the door opened and Kentra rushed into the room. Her face was red with the exertion of running, making her tiny silver scales stand out, and she was breathing hard.

She rushed to Cryos as fast as she could and gasped "I thought you'd left without me. I didn't know what to do so I went to Luke and asked him. But I couldn't understand what he was saying about the power of the Force drawing people places, so I went to Han and Liea, and they said 'Don't ever, EVER walk away from love.' so I ran here as fast as I could." The entire statement was said with one breath. She took a deep breath and said "Don't leave me. I want to go with you."

"Ok, we're going to leave now. Is there anything you want to bring? It has to be something small. We can't go lugging a giant suitcase through the Multiverse."

"No, lets just go before I chicken out."

"Here. You'll need this" Cryos handed her a small capsule.

"What is it?" She asked.

"It's called a Dynacap. They make them back in my Universe. You just push the button on top, and throw it to the ground."

She followed his instructions, and with a puff of smoke, an all-purpose environment suit appeared. "You'll need that because we usually appear in space." He told her.

She was about to put it on when Elfour interrupted. "Uh, Cryos."

"Not now Elfour."

"No, you'll want to hear this." She insisted.

Cryos sighed and wondered again why he had gotten Elfour repaired "Fine, what is it?"

"I've just received a broadband transmission advertising a fighting tournament. Just like the ones you used to have back on Earth. And the prize is ten million credits in rare gems."

Cryos was surprised. "A good old fashioned martial arts tournament? I gotta at least check this out. What do you think Kentra, wanna go see? I can win you a few jewels. I know you like them." And it was true. Most people simply liked gemstones.

Kentra liked the idea, although Cryos suspected that it was partly fear of going through a wormhole that made her want to go.

They woke Draco, who Cryos had let sleep just for the quiet, and had him transform into his spaceship form. They flew into his mouth and into the bridge. From there Cryos had Elfour input the origin of this signal. And a few seconds later, with a rattling and shaking and the flash of light given off by starburst. They were in their way.