Disclaimer: I'll make this quick. I don't own Star Wars, and I don't own any of the star Wars characters: Jacen Solo, Vergere etc, except for my own creations: Jayen Liau, Abriwan, and others that will be added later on.
I know it's different from the NJO books, and yes, I have read nearly all of them, including the very last one. This is technically an AU now, since I started writing it before Traitor was released in Australia. It is also a non Zenoma-Sekot AU.
Please bear with me, as it takes a while for me to get a chapter (let alone a story) put together, and I am also studying for my school Exams, so I don't have that much time. I'll update when I can. Please read Chapter 2: Strange Conversation
The First 3 Chapters are up. Please, Please, Please review!!!
Regards, Jenna-Jayen
Jacen shook his head to clear his thoughts. "What's going to happen to me?" He asked.
"We'll just have to wait and see." The woman said, smiling grimly, her white teeth starkly contrasting with the darkness surrounding her. "Follow."
Turning abruptly in the darkness, she became all but invisible, and only the sound of her robe enabled Jacen Solo to follow her. Not even the force could help him, for whenever he reached out towards her through the Force, he encountered a Void. 'Just like it used be with the Yuuzhan Vong' he thought, and grimly set aside the unwelcome thought.
The woman he was following was strange. She hadn't given a name, or told him where he was. She had just 'appeared' as if from nowhere and begun to talk to him about nothing in particular. And thinking back on his meeting her, he realised how much like Vergere she was.
'Except Vergere isn't here, and this woman isn't her, and most probably isn't here either. I'm probably seeing things again.'
Then the whispers began. Like voices, only too quiet to be voices. And he could feel eyes, boring into his back, and into his head, down to his soul.
Looking all around, searching the darkness for any telltale sign of life other than himself and the woman, he thought he saw a bit of movement to his left. Stopping abruptly, he reached into his sleeve and withdrew his Lightsabre. Switching it on, he waited a second for his eyes to adjust to the brilliant green light.
Before he had time to react, his Lightsabre was whisked from his grasp, and he looked around once again, noting the grey walls of the cavern, and was astonished to see hundreds, of Lightsabre bearing people, all of various species, but many who appeared to be of the same species as the woman.
"I thought I told you to leave all your weapons in your ship." He heard the woman say behind him.
Spinning around, he gaped at her. For in one of her hands she held his light sabre, still switched on, and in the other hand, she held another Lightsabre with a purple blade on each end. But it wasn't the Lightsabres that made him gape it was her beauty. He had never seen a more beautiful woman; even Tenel'Ka couldn't match up to her beauty. 'She's the most beautiful being I've ever seen. But who are all these others? They couldn't be Jedi...'
"It's too late to worry about that now. And since you've seen what you shouldn't have seen..."
Jacen interrupted her, "You aren't going to kill me are you?"
She laughed. Her tinkling laughter filled the cavern, and reminded him of trickling waterfalls and birdsong. "Of course not, child. Why in the Force's sake would you think that?" Her expression became serious.
"Well, usually when someone says what you said, they mean that they're going to kill you..." Jacen said, trailing off for a lack of words. "You're Jedi, aren't you? All of you I mean... You have Lightsabres, and you wear robes, like all Jedi do..."
"What makes you think we are Jedi? I could have killed a Jedi to get this Lightsabre, and then taken it apart to see how it was built, put it back together, and then shared the knowledge of how to build a Lightsabre with these others..."
"Or, you and the others could be Jedi and have been taught how to make Lightsabres by your Masters." Jacen interrupted.
"Hmm, good imagination you have. You are only partially correct, child. I will answer your questions, should you have any, when we get to the Haven. In the meantime, you will be blindfolded, as we cannot allow strangers to know the path to the Haven." After saying that, she signalled to a young man who appeared to be of her kind. The young man smiled shyly at Jacen, and signalled for him to bow his head. Jacen obeyed, since he didn't have any other choice, and allowed the young man to tie a strip of soft fabric over his eyes, blinding him temporarily until they reached this 'Haven' that the woman had talked about.
Jacen tried once more to reach out with the force, but found the space around him 'blocked' so that he couldn't sense a thing. 'They think up every precaution don't they?'.
It seemed to take forever for the woman and her many comrades to lead Jacen from the Cavern and its off-shooting tunnels, but when the cool breeze brushed against Jacen's cheek, he welcomed it with relief. As they left the tunnels, the woman stopped beside a rock, and touched some hidden control panel there, making sure that the hologram image of a cliff-face was intact before continuing on after the large group of people.
Jacen didn't know where he was being taken, but when the blindfold was finally removed, he found himself in a comfortable room containing a single bed, a desk with a chair, a table with two chairs, a couch of sorts, and a cupboard with clothes of the right size to fit him. There was also a door, but the pad beside it wouldn't activate, no matter what he did to it.
