Kari's Message

It was a massacre.

After Alison had beaten Rick, she had challenged the others and then had left a room full of groaning bodies.

"Where did she get those skills? I can hardly breathe!"

"You'll be fine, Kevin. Here let me help you sit up."

"Who cares where she got that knowledge? I think she broke my arm."

"Well of course it would have been broken the way you keep blocking her blows with your arm, Kail!"

"Thanks Padme, when I ask for painful criticism, I'll let you know."

"You're welcome, Kail."

"Thank you, Rain; I guess we better help the others out now."

"She had the strength of the great Bacca himself… Kashyyyk does good to honour the Stareth family."

"Torne? How are you doing?"

"I'm fine, Rain, just fine." Torne's eyes flashed black as he spoke and his wounds healed without a second thought.

Everyone looked around at the carnage in the cargo hold and then at each other. Rick spoke through a slightly swollen mouth.

"No one better get on her bad side."

"Agreed."

Everyone in the room spoke as one and nodded as they started to trudge to the appropriate dormitories. It was going to be a long night.

Rain tripped herself just in front of Kevin as he walked out of the room. "Rain!" Kevin exclaimed as she gasped when her side was rudely met with the floor, "are you okay?"

"That hurts." Rain hissed as he picked her up and carried her to the medical room and locked the door behind him. He placed his hand as gently as he could on her side and began to heal her with the Force.

Moments later after applying a kolto strip to her waist, Rain healed most of Kevin's injuries, the more serious ones she left for the kolto to deal with.

They were in the middle of a kiss when a voice interrupted them.

"Ahem."

Rain and Kevin looked up but did not break or fly guilty apart. And then Rain and Kevin's mouth dropped open.

"What the hell are you doing here!"

"We need to talk."

"Right… so why are you talking to me and not your sister? I had thought you and her would me more inclined to talk to each other. You've never talked to me and Kev."

Kari's eyes where filled with pain and amusement as she stared back at her two targets, two of the only people aboard the Ebon Hawk, that she could talk to now, excluding the others.

"I can only talk to you, Kevin, Torne, and the droids." Kari informed Rain and Kevin, "everyone else is corrupted or slowly being seduced, slow enough that they will not notice it until it is too late to stop it."

"But how are they being seduced!" Kevin blurted out, "We've hardly been near any place of great Sith power, anything related to the dark side!"

Kari laughed softly, "Dxun is powerful in the Dark and the Light side of the Force, young Kevin Vao Onasi. You have traveled to Derallia, my mother's home planet; that place as well holds powerful Sith and Jedi artifacts."

"And all those other places?" Kevin challenged his cousin boldly, his eyes determinedly staring back at her with power. "What of them?"

"What of them indeed, Kevin…" Kari smiled as she sat down on the bed, crossing her legs as she looked at him intently. "Dxun, Tantooine, Derallia, Manaan, and now you're headed to Mykr."

"Mykr?" Kevin shook his head, "that place is blind to the Force, why would Alison tell the droids to fly us there?"

Kari laughed and smiled, her eyes twinkling; "the one thing people always forget to remember is that this is my mother's ship and she installed more than anyone could imagine. Ever imagine," she sighed, "that is."

"What's so crazy about Mykr though? Why would Alison go to Mykr if she's possessed and controlled by a Sith Lord from the ancient times?"

Kari shrugged, "from everything I know and have seen; I suspect that the spirit of Alyssa Krast has not been able to fully control my sister because of…"

Kari trailed off as Kevin and Kari stared at her and stopped speaking and looked away at the wall intently.

"Because why!" Rain demanded and jumped up. "Kari, we need to know why if we're to free the others from this possession!"

Kevin nodded grimly, "I've seen possession first hand in the forms of my parents and others, isn't pretty. Rain's right, Karigan, you have to tell us!"

"Or what else will you do, young Kevin?" Kari replied her eyes flashing with anger, "what will you do? I am already beyond your reach; you cannot hurt me or kill me."

"That matters not with the Force as my ally." Kevin raised a hand and a ball of electricity appeared, glinting dangerously."

Kari laughed bitterly, "Padme was first and Alison second, Kinraar's anger was and is loyal, but misplaced. Kail's slowly following Padme with his heart of blind love. Rick's going to fall as well with Alison and their love."

She paused, "are you following as well? Become the fourth to be possessed by the Sith spirit?"

Kevin glared at Kari before he reluctantly let the white-blue lightening fade from his hand, though his anger did not fade as easily as he slammed his fist into the bulkhead besides him.

Rain restrained him gently and turned back to Kari with a mixed expression, "when Alison tried to choke me, that was Alyssa breaking through her barriers, wasn't it?"

"Yes, and that is partly why you took so long to recover," Kari revealed, "because Krast was trying to take you over and partly because I interfered as well, and on your behalf."

Kari arched an eyebrow at the two shocked youths. "This trip to the planet Mykr shows me several things," Kari nodded her head slowly as she recited all the details. One, Alison feels the need to distance herself from the Force for a while. Two, Krast is not in full control and Alison is able to be present most of the time.

There was another awkward silence and Kari spoke briefly.

"At least in control, more or less…" Karigan trailed off, yet again as the two youths stared at her.

"And what's the third option?" Kevin asked curiously, as Rain healed his hand to perfection.

"Three, you must learn to trust in the most unusual allies, for those who may be your enemy, might find a common ground when together you destroy another enemy of theirs."

Karigan turned to leave as soon as she finished speaking when she was stopped …again with more questions.

"That's it? Nothing else you can tell us?" Rain shouted and Karigan turned around gravely to face the young Jedi Knight.

"Your brother, though he seems different and surely mad, to some …is not under the Sith possession. He has undergone a transformation that you would not understand."

"Tell me!" Rain screamed.

"Power beyond light, and growth to death, this is what he shall be. For he no mere being; by night, he is as black as evil, and by day, he is as pure as light. Beware, for this no longer, the child, you once knew."
This time Karigan left them alone as Rain slumped dejectedly onto the bed, "what's that suppose to mean, Kevin?"

"It means I'm different."

Kevin and Rain turned around at the new voice, and thier mouths dropped open in shock.

"What's happen..." Rain thought untill the intercomm beeped shipwide.

Alison's voice interrupted Rain's thought as the intercom echoed throughout the ship. "Everyone buckle in, we're landing in ten minutes."

Alison turned the intercom off and smiled as she eased the yoke up, "lock and load, HK, JAINA – this is going to be a smooth ride."

"Cautious Statement: Master, I do hope that you are not being sarcastic?"

"Of course not HK, my Mom and Dad taught me. I know what I'm doing." Alison grinned dangerously, and the Ebon Hawk dove into Mykr's orbit without warning suddenly.

She flipped and spun the Hawk through the air skilfully as the ground roared up to meet them. With not a moment to lose, Alison brought the Hawk out of her steep dive and hovered gently onto the ground.

"We're here. Landing complete." Alison called out over the intercom and smiled at the droids. "See that was fun, wasn't it?"

Neither of the two droids replied.

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