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Cryos was forced to watch helplessly as the kidnappers drove off into the distance. His rage was boiling, but he forced himself to be calm. Later he would find who was responsible for this and beat them to a pulp, literally.
But in the mean time, there was a village to save. He sighed in defeat. No matter how much he wanted to save his daughter, it would have to wait.
He spotted Draco sleeping on a nearby rock. It was just like the stupid little lizard to sleep right through a major battle. "Come on! We have a job to do." He said and grabbed the sleeping lizard, then he turned to Pahrac and said. "Make sure Kentra and Tran are all right! I need to put out the fires before the whole town in gone!"
As Cryos flew over the burning town, Draco squirmed in his hands. "I'm so sleepy…" He moaned. "Just let me sleep."
"No, we need to put these fires out NOW!" Cryos yelled as screaming people ran past. He pointed Draco at a burning building. "Ice! You need to put it out fast!"
Draco just moaned and his head rolled back so Cryos grabbed his tail and pulled.
The little lizard screeched and spit out a twenty foot long jet of blue flame. It instantly put out the fire on the one small building. Cryos ran down the street blasting Draco at every fire he could see. Within minutes, the fire was out.
Kentra came swooping down in tears. "Cryos," She wailed. "They took her! And there was nothing we could do!"
As Kentra cried, people started to reappear from the burnt remains of their village.
One man stepped out from the gathering crowd. "We're sorry…" He said.
"About attacking me earlier?" Cryos asked as he held his wife close.
"Well, that too..." The man admitted. "But mostly about some men who came to the village after you. We, eh, kinda told them where you were."
"Why I'm going to kill you!" Kentra roared and tried to grab the man. But Cryos held her back.
"We thought they were going to kill you all." The man continued. "We thought you were here to enslave us again. But after we told them, they took over the village and set mines all around. Listen, we're willing to help. Even going back into slavery would be better than living in fear of people like those."
"Just tell me where I can find them." Said Cryos. "I don't need any help to take care of some thugs in the desert."
"No Cryos!" Kentra said. "I have a bad feeling about this!"
"Kentra, we beat The One together. I think I can handle some Humans."
"No, just wait one hour. Something is going to happen, I can feel it!" She looked so certain that Cryos nodded.
"Ok, I will wait an hour before I go. But I'm going to spend it trying to find out all I can about these guys." Cryos gave her a very serious stare. "No buts: I leave in one hour."
Kentra nodded at him and smiled.
Cryos spent the next hour asking every person in the town what they knew about the thugs, but no one seemed to know anything.
Eventually Cryos found a building with enough food in it to feed a small army and between himself and Draco, it was empty in ten minutes flat.
The hour passed and Cryos went out to the edge of the town to begin his search.
As he was taking his first step into the sands though, something flashed in the sky. The villagers shouted and pointed up at it, fearful that their slavers had returned.
But as the speck of light grew, Cryos saw that it was but a tiny, two-man fighter. It landed right next to the crowd and opened, letting it's passengers out.
The pilot was a MonCalamari, a fish-like alien that looked frightening, but were actually peaceful and quite friendly.
The creature in the back was unlike any that Cryos had ever seen before.
It was small and green with long pointy ears. At first he wondered if it was the MonCal's pet, but then it spoke in passable basic.
"Is this the place, are you sure, Master?" The creature asked the MonCal.
"Yes, I am sure." It answered. "And you simply must work on your basic Yoda, it's terrible."
"Apologizes, this learner does, Master." Yoda said quickly.
Cryos switched over to basic, (The humans in the village were speaking English) and spoke to the intruders. "What do you want here?" He asked.
The MonCal looked him up and down. "We've known for some time that there is a colony of free Humans on this world, I was not aware that there were now other species living here as well."
"We're just visitors, you'd better not be here to enslave these people."
The MonCal laughed. "No, we're not here to enslave anyone! We are Jedi knights. We're here to investigate a disturbance in the Force. Not long ago, we detected a great upwelling of both dark and light energy."
"Find that energy, we must, or the balance could be disrupted, yes…" Yoda added.
Cryos looked at the little creature, trying to figure out why its name was so familiar, finally, he gave up and said, "Alright, listen up. For the time being, these people are under my protection, so you'd better not harm them."
"The Jedi, do you fear them?" Asked Yoda.
"No," Cryos answered, "but I've heard stories about Jedi going bad, and I don't want to see it happen here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to rescue my daughter from some kidnappers in the desert. We can talk once I bring her back."
As he turned to go, Kentra grabbed his arm. "Cryos, let us help! I have a really bad feeling about this! If you go alone, something bad will happen!"
"Kentra, I'm sorry, but I can move faster and more quietly on my own." He grabbed Draco from his sleeping place on a nearby rock. "I'll send Draco back once I find the place. If I'm not back an hour after he gets back here, then you can look for me, and Draco will know where I am."
Cryos shook Draco to wake him up and threw him on the ground. "Come on, sniff her out. I'll give you candy if you find her."
Draco was instantly awake and sniffing on the ground. In seconds, he'd found her sent and took off, scuttling across the ground like a lizard in fast motion.
"I'll be back soon!" Called Cryos as he flew after Draco.
It only took a few minutes, even with Draco leading him in circles for part of the time, to find the thugs' hideout.
It was the only mountain in the desert.
At first, Cryos thought Draco was leading him in another circle, but the lizard suddenly shot straight at the side of the mountain and smacked his head into a large bolder with a loud metallic CLANG!
Clang? Cryos thought. Why would a rock clang?
He landed next to Draco, who was sitting dazed on the ground, and tapped the rock. Sure enough, it was made of metal. Nice trick, a disguised door.
Cryos was in no mood for tricks right now, so he dug his fingers into the metal and ripped the several ton door clean off it's hinges and held it up above his head.
He saw a pair of the thugs running off into the depths of the cave, screaming about aliens.
Cryos dropped the door and darted after them. He grabbed them, threw them against the wall, popped his blades out and swung his wrist. Popping the blades off his arms and pinning both of them against the wall by their shirts.
Sometime after they were pinned, the door he had dropped hit the ground.
The thugs looked at the blades that had missed their skin by bare centimeters and screamed.
Cryos popped a fresh set of blades out of his wrists and advanced on the men, letting his power rise enough to cast a faint glow in the darkness around him.
"Where is the girl?" He asked. "I'm only asking once, so you'd better answer me before I lose my temper. Trust me, you wouldn't like that…"
One man fainted then, so Cryos pressed his blade against the other man's neck.
"Tell me now or I'll kill you slowly…"
He whimpered and spoke. "I'll tell you, but you won't be able to get her back. The master, Darth Karkas has her. He and the other one, they were saying something about the Force, and making her one of them. I didn't have anything to do with the raid! Don't kill me!"
Cryos slapped him with the flat of his blade, KOing him for some time.
"WHERE'S MY CANDY!" Draco roared at the cave entrance. "GIVE IT NOW OR THERE'LL BE TROUBLE!!!" the lizard's eyes were starting to glow, something that had happened when he got very angry and was about to transform.
Draco transforming would be VERY bad, as his transformed state was unspeakably powerful. Back in the battle against The One, transformed Draco had been ripping the powerful and evil alien to pieces. At least, he was until his rage was appeased.
"Kentra has it!" He said quickly. "Go back to her and she'll give you candy!"
"YAY!!!!" Draco shouted and flew off toward the village at top speed.
Cryos prayed that the village had some candy, or they were all in a lot of trouble.
