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"WE'RE NOT THROUGH YET!"

I took a deep breath and looked outside. He'd taken his cloak off, revealing his features for the first time. He was a human, about 30 years old; he had no hair on his head, and had orange pupils that seemed to shine with hate. I felt a chill run up my spine, as I leaped out of the window to face him once again.

"How did you find us?" I questioned drawing my light saber.

"It wasn't hard," he smirked. "The Hutts love someone willing to kill Jedi as much as they hate Jedi's themselves."

"Well," I said in a resigned tone. "I've got a payment to get refunded."

"He's already got it in use," he laughed.

"That only makes it a little trickier." I shrugged.

"I think that's the least of your worries," he spun his light saber around and held it in front of him in an attack position.

I leaped into the air and landed in front of him. We clashed light sabers as both of us pushed against each other with all of our strength in an attempt to try and flatten the other. Suddenly, I felt a flash of heat on my neck, as I realized it was in danger. Not knowing what was coming, I ducked instinctively. A split second later I see a pink blade slice above me, missing the Sith who'd managed to flip away in time. I stand up in amazement, wondering where she'd come from. We both turn towards our enemy as he finished flipping onto his feet. We both moved in simultaneously and the battle ensued intensely. The Sith combated Raena and I expertly, and I was astonished to see how fast he could move against two Jedi. Between my intense offensive and Raena's unrelenting attacks, that seemed, in truth, more like a planned pattern, his blades flashed back and forth so quickly that they seemed to be a wide shield he spun back and forth between us. I myself was sure he would give himself whiplash as fast as he turned his head back and forth to watch us. Several times, he managed to even make Raena and I clash blades, as he would duck away from simultaneous attacks and back up to catch his breath. I moved in frustrated at his impenetrable defense with a wide swing that he intercepted, smacking it away quickly. Raena landed behind him and he turned around quickly attacking her, pressing his attack on her. He seemed to learn that she had to be on the defensive, or he would have no chance against her perfected offensive techniques. He decided to take initiative and isolate her from me. I ran after them, but had to stop every few seconds as he would spin around and flash his blade in front of my face dangerously. I watched as Raena ducked another attack. This time she had a plan to get back to her comfortable fighting style. As she rose up from her duck, she preluded her head with her light saber and cut his own double blade in half leaving him with one working blade. Seeing my chance I moved in viciously, eager to get into battle and help Raena. I swung high at his head from the right side. As soon as he went to block it, I pulled back my blade and extended the red side of my light saber, using it to get a jump on him as I swung for his lower leg. He wasn't ready, as my initial strike was far more convincing than his, but he still managed to deflect my attack enough to only singe his leg. However, he winced in pain, giving Raena a window open enough to slice his head neatly off of his body. His corpse, still standing, leaned over and fell to the ground. I heard an applause rise up from the tenants watching from their windows. I felt great joy to see the little boy, whose room I'd landed in, walk out of his house first as everyone filed out to thank and congratulate the pair of us. Someone unlocked the two doors that had been sealed to keep us in. As the two of us clipped our light sabers back I turned to Raena and kissed her deeply.

"Now," I said to her. "We got to go get my wasted crystal back."

"Excuse me," Raena shouted to the crowd-turned-admirers. "We need transportation back to the Hutts."

"I can give you a lift," an older looking man told us. "It won't cost a thing, no strings attached."

I walked up to the dor cautiously as I heard screams of pain and swooshes of a light saber behind me. I ignited my own light saber, the red side this time as a sort of omen of my plans to come, and shoved it gingerly into the door. As I'd expected, from the Sith's words earlier, it didn't go through. I was repelled a few steps backwards. I frowned in frustrations as I heard Raena's killing of the guards stop. She joined me by my side and looked at the small hole in the door.

"No dice?" she asked.

"He clearly knew I would come back for him." I answered.

Immersing my mind in the Force, I search for the crystal I'd made a sort of bond with, from my use of it in my old light saber. Finding my answer I turned to the side and stabbed my blade into the wall to the left of us, and cut a large hole into it. We stepped through it, and I felt a wave of relief as I saw the crystal in a large containment jar in the middle of the room. The green glass made the clear crystal look like an emerald as it floated in the middle of the room, held up by the many electric strands attached to it. I figured that the glass was protected by the crystals power itself also and turned to the seemingly endless number of consoles. Raena walked around me and began to scan the buttons, switches, and levers. Deciding on one finally she put her hands on the lever and turned to me.

"This one," she said.

"You sure?" I asked.

"I read Hutt Déshawn." She smiled. "I just don't speak or translate it."

"Pull it," I answered confident in her abilities.

The jar began to rise from out of the floor and I suddenly felt a flash of heat in my lungs and nose.

"Hold your breath," I said taking a deep breath.

Immediately after we held our breath a gas from the defense system began to pour out of the ventilation shafts. I heard an alarm go off somewhere in the room Jabba was in. I pulled the crystal free of the electric bindings with the Force and leaped out of the room joining Raena in front of the, now defenseless, door to Jabba's room. I let out my breath taking in much needed oxygen from the atmosphere as I prepared to face the feared Hutt and all of his guards. Raena plunged her blade into the door and cut a hole for us into the room. We swiftly moved into the room as the alarmed guards moved in to stop our progress. I ducked under the dangerous point of an electro staff. I felt a flash of heat on my back, and did a back flip dodging my rear attacker. I kicked him in the back, causing him to clumsily plunge his own electro staff into the first guard that attacked me. I grabbed the second guard by the head and slammed his face into a wall immediately knocking him out. Then I pulled the electro staff out of the first incapcitated, guard and faced off with another two guards. I saw Raena easily cut her way through all of her foes and turn to look at my progress. I spun the spear deftly on my hand and slapped the nearest guard across the face, viciously twisting his head to the side. I followed up with a rotation of my own body, jabbing the side into his jaw. I ducked under a swing from his partner, and leaned back avoiding the second slice. I blocked, what would soon become, his last attack. As fighting off my staff distracted him, I drew my light saber to my free hand with the Force, and ignited the red blade neatly cutting my opponent from his lower right waist to the left side of his neck. I dropped my commandeered electro spear on top of the broken guard and put my light saber back onto my clip. Then I advanced on Jabba violently, who looked horrified at our arrival. It seemed, that had he the athletic body we possessed, he would have ran for his life.

"How many did you tell about us?" I yelled in as intimidating voice as I could muster.

"What are you talking about?" the fear in his voice was apparent. But I sensed his surprise at our survival.

"Give it up Jabba," Raena said in a calmer voice. "Your Sith gave you up. I guess he thought he could win."

"What Sith? I've sent no Sith." I felt a plot in Jabba's mind. But I was unsure of what was coming.

"You know," I said looking at my feet for any sign of a trapdoor. "You probably thought he would be successful."

"I said I would hide you, why would I give you up?" Jabba defended himself.

I saw his hands sliding around slightly as if a blind man were searching for a light switch, and I sensed incoming danger from below us. Then I felt the ground rumble and leaped to the side. I'm guessing that Raena felt it too, as she matched my movements and we leaped to opposite sides of the pit avoding falling prey to one of the monsters he's been known to feed his subjects to. Looking down into the hole I saw that there was nothing but a dirt ground in the hole. I couldn't see the monster we would have had to fight. I looked back at Jabba's surprised face and almost laughed, none of the people he'd thrown into the trap could sense impending danger. I felt a flash of heat on my side and reacted by flipping over the charging guard. He missed his attempt to push me in and began to fall himself; but his hand reached out and he got lucky in his attempt to pull me into the hole with him. We landed in a tangle, with me hitting him as much as possible until our contact broke us apart.

"Déshawn!" Raena screamed. I looked up to see her hanging off of the edge of the hole having barely avoided the guard sent to push her.

"Hang on!" I pulled the Force from within my being and pushed it out of my hands.

The resulting wave pushed Raena back onto the floor above me and she decapitated the guard during her rise. "I'll be there in a second."

I leaped onto my feet and drew the red blade on my light saber and held it out to the squirming guard, who had been trying to recover from the pain in his back, and my blows to his gut. I put the tip of the blade in front of his throat and looked around the room. The walls were smooth steel, no way to climb it, and were circular. It was about 20 feet across and 10 feet from the large, garage like door to the wall across from it. From the small size of the room, I hoped whatever attacked from behind the big door was not to big itself. I felt a flash of heat on my arm and leaped back instinctively. I saw a small dog-like alien leap from the ceiling and pounce on the downed guard. I felt grateful I had pulled my arm back as it surely would have gone with the "dog's" first victim. I held my blade out to it and circled it carefully as it watched me intently. The animal was red, it had fur that seemed to be made out of steel, and the eyes almost glowed blue. By the way it had hit the first guard, I could tell it was powerful, and as quick as Deuce's light saber movements. I held my arm out extended at the dog as it circled me also. Suddenly I felt a flash of heat on my face. Instead of ducking, as I should have, I raised my blade to block the dog's attack in hopes of cutting it open in using my light saber to defend myself. However, it hadn't leaped at me, instead it spit out some kind of vile, mucus colored, liquid at my eyes. Most of the saliva was dissolved by the fatal red glow from my light saber bldae, by some of it splashed onto the right side of my face. It was acidic and burned my cheek and eyes. I yelled in pain as I hurriedly wiped as much as I could off with the sleeve of my robes.

"It got my eye!" I shouted to Raena.

My vision darkened in my right eye, and intelligently, the dog circled towards my blind spot. This time, it leaped at me directly, as soon as it was outside of my vision range. I felt a heavy impact as I was toppled and looked up to see the dog biting at me. I rolled as far as I could under it, causing its initial bite to miss. I kneed it's back leg joint, generating a loud snapping sound followed by a pained yelp, and slid out from under the dog. I summoned my light saber to my hand with the Force and re-ignited it, and faced the dog. It limped towards me, this time it spit another round of acid at me, and I ducked it smartly this time. The dog kept up this rapid fire of acid at me until I was forced to stop one round with the Force. I pushed it back at the dog hitting it in the face, but it kept going seemingly immune to it's own devices. I sent another wall of Force at the dog sending it against the wall of our makeshift arena, knocking it out. I flipped into the air and landed next to the dog, plunging my light saber into its ribs. Yanking it out the side, I decapitated the dangerous creature quickly, and turned my good eye back to the hole thinking of how to get up to Raena.

"Raena, I think I'm stuck," I confided.

"Hang on," she answered me, and turned disappearing.

I heard a light saber ignite and the dangerously quiet voice of Raena talking to a frightened Jabba. I heard him say something but I couldn't make out any of the words. Then her head reappeared with a smile and she pointed towards the door.

"Just follow the hallway out there, it circles around back to the door we came through to get into here." Raena said.

"Be careful, he may have some more doors in that floor." I advised Raena.

Turning to the door from where I thought my attacker would come, I advanced on it cautiously and put my hand on it. I sent out a probing wave of Force through the door and sensed about four guards behind the door. I smiled; Jabba thought they could kill me, so he set up a little trap. I ignited my light saber and dug into the steel of the door, cutting a hole open and kicked it in as hard as I could. The chunk of metal slammed into one of the security officers and pinned him to the wall. I walked through the hole, deactivating my light saber and putting it onto my belt, and waved my hand letting yet another solid wall of Force from my being. The remaining three guards were knocked out immediately. I took a deep breath as I was starting to feel fatigued from the large amount of Force I'd just used in such a small time, and began to run up the hallway.

I finally stopped, panting from a lack of breath, and wiped the intense sweat from my forehead. I deactivated my thoroughly used light saber, and clipped it onto my belt. Walking into the room, Raena rushed to my side seeing my distressed state.

"Déshawn what happened?" she asked in a shocked voice.

"I'll give you one thing Jabba, you are very good." I said discarding more sweat from my forehead. "You definitely had me working back there."

"What?" Jabba acted innocent, but I could sense his satisfaction.

"Raena, I had to cut through this huge room," I started to explain. "And it had, what must have been, every monster he owns."

"I applaud your surviving," Jabba laughed. "But there is a hall that goes around it."

"A little notice would have been nice," I responded annoyed. "You know, like a notice that you planned on sending a Sith after us to keep us on our toes."

"I sent no Sith after you," he denied again. I could sense his lies however and refused to believe him. "My transport operators are the only other ones who knew where you two were, you probably should talk to them."

"Stop lying," Raena waved her hand in front of Jabba's face with a sly look in her eye.

"He offered to kill you two," Jabba's eyes suddenly glazed. "I simply had to agree to a low price."

My mind was suddenly overwhelmed at a new presence. It radiated pure power, wrathful revenge, and hatred. However, amongst the sickenin power and emotion I felt an unexpected sensation: one of pain. It was then that I realized the frightening truth. I swayed on the spot as my head spun, causing Raena to notice my state.

"Déshawn?" she walked next to me, leaving Jabba in a silence.

"We have to leave," I said slowly. "We're in danger."

"In danger?" she didn't sound as worried as I thought our situation deemed.

"The Master," my voice was not my own. It sounded hazy to my own ears, "mourns his Apprentice."