Ties That Bind, Chapter Four
They arrived on Bespin twelve hours later. Lando met them on the platform with a medic team. He watched Kyle follow the team to the med bay.
"He's taken with her, isn't he?" Lando asked in his private quarters a few minutes later. Jaina was meditating on a couch, and Luke sighed.
"Yes, he is. He's trained her since she was thirteen. She's what, twenty-two?" Luke told Lando. Lando shifted in his seat.
"She turns twenty-three next month. Same day as Jacen and my birthday." Jaina opened her eyes as the door hissed open, and a weary Kyle walked in.
"Jaden's stable for now. Apparently, she's in some sort of self-induced coma, to heal, I'm thinking. I was talking to her, and she told me to rest." Kyle slumped down on a couch.
" How were you-oh, right." Lando answered his own question.
" While Jaden is recuperating, I suggest we try and figure out who this Alora person is." Luke leaned forward, calling up a terminal from the table.
" There's no need for that. I can tell you" The spectral form of Anakin Skywalker shimmered into veiw. Lando stumbled back, and Jaina smiled.
"Hello, Grandfather." She murmered, before going back into meditation.
"Father..." Luke said, astonished. Kyle sat up, and Anakin walked forward.
"Alora is the new servant to Sidious. He is indeed alive. Obi-Wan, Master Yoda, and I fought him, and his past apprentices. Darth Tyrannus, Darth Maul, and many others. Alora is a shady figure, and isn't too reliable. She was a Force Valkyrie, along with her sister, Erin, who you should meet soon. Erin and Alora were supposed to protect the Skywalker family, but Alora decided to gain more power. And she did. Sidious only thinks he's controling her, and when he becomes usless, she will kill him and ascend to the throne of Dark Lord of the Sith." Jaina's eyes poped open, and she went to the terminal, searching for something.
"I've read about the Force Valkyries. I've also read about the Skywalker and the Solo family valkyries. Erin and Alora Sevrance for the Skywalkers, and Damen and Banastre Moorland for the Solos. Jacen, Anakin, and I get double protection. Damen and Banastre Moorland are the main reasons Father isn't dead yet, why his bucket of bolts still holds together." Jaina pulled up something, and showed the four.
"Bright one, isn't she?" Lando commented
"But Erin and Alora look alike. How are we going to tell them apart?" Kyle asked, and Jaina pointed something out.
" See here. Erin's got diffrent colored eyes, and she has lighter hair. The silver streaks are diffrent, too."
" Right. Now, I can only help you for limited amounts of time. Obi-Wan will also help. Oh, and Luke." Anakin looked at his son.
"Your mother will appear to Leia. You might want to warn her, so she doesn't get frightened." Anakin shimmered out of veiw.
Luke called Leia and told her, while Jaina, typing on the terminal hastily, brought up other Force Valkyries.
"Kyle, look. This is the Valkyrie protecting you." She showed him a human with dark chocolate hair, and sapphire eyes.
"Amara Naberrie. Interesting." Kyle leaned back in his seat.
" Wait, Naberrie? My mother's maiden name was Naberrie."
"I thought it was Amidala" Jaina closed the terminal.
"That was her formal name. Her maiden name was Naberrie. Padme Naberrie Amidala Skywalker. This is curious" Luke stood, and started to leave the room, when someone came over the comm unit.
"Baron Calrissian, there is a woman here to see you. She says her name is Erin." Lando's receptionist told him.
"Let her in"
" I'm looking for Luke Skywalker" A tall woman dressed in black and violet leather stepped into the room, with two lightsabers hanging from her belt.
"I'm Luke Skywalker. Are you Erin Sevrance?" Luke asked and the woman nodded.
"It's come to my knowledge that you have a problem with my sister. Now, usually, I'd stay invisible, and protect you in any way I can, but you're dealing with my sister, so your gonna need all the help you can get. I've summoned your Force Valkyries, and they will meet us where you wish." Erin told them, and Kyle sighed.
"Jaden will be fine. Her Valkyrie is in there, healing her as we speak. She will be well enough to fight in day or so."Erin informed him, and he looked at her funny.
"What?"
"You look like your sister. How can we be sure you're not her?" Kyle asked, and Jaina shook her head.
"Because if you search your feelings, Kyle, that you wouldn't find anything negative about her, except maybe her outfit." Jaina stood and stretched.
"And we still have to rescue Jan" Luke said, and looked at Kyle, who was deep in a conversation with someone.
"Let's get back to Yavin IV. Jaden should be awake by now, and well enough to travel." Kyle said after a moment.
" I wanna see Jaden. I'm sure she'll want to see me." Jaina followed Kyle out of the room, followed by Luke and Lando. Erin followed last.
"Kyle!" Jaden smiled when he walked into the room. The nurse looked unhappy about all of them in the room, but said nothing.
" How are you?" He asked, sitting on the bed.
"Good. I'm a bit sore, but, otherwise, I'm up for anything. I could feel something speeding up my healing." Jaden swung her legs oger the edge of the bed, and tried to stand. Kyle stood behind her, one hand on her arm, another on her back.
"Let's go. I'm ready." Jaden said, a smile on her face as the group walked out of the medbay.
On the Landing platform sat two X-wings, The Raven's Claw, and Erin's ship, a YT-1300 freighter, Valkyrie Profile.
" Nice ship," Jaina commented, climbing into her small craft.
"Thanks." Erin walked up into her ship, and soon, the five of them were on their way to Yavin IV.
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