Chapter 15
"Arryn!" cried Elantra and Anaria in unison. Arryn was too far away to hear them. "So what should we do?" he called as they followed her.
Anaria shook her head. "Keep running."
Arryn was nearly to the point that she was not visible to Anaria or Elantra. "I wish she was not the fastest runner at the Temple," Elantra grumbled to himself. He noticed that Arryn had stopped ahead of them, which gave her friends the chance to catch up slightly.
"Coram, I think I see something," whispered Annika, peering out from her spot behind a thick bush. He put a finger to his lips to silence her and gestured to his lightsaber hilt. She grasped hers and waited for a few seconds until the pain coming from the light side of the force in her head was unbearable. She sprang from behind the bush and struck her opponent as hard as she could with the hilt of her saber. The Jedi was down in a flash, and Coram was at her side with a blaster in his hand.
"Nice to finally make your acquaintance, Jedi. Now prepare for your death."
Annika ignited her lightsaber and held it at the Jedi's neck. If the Jedi tried to move, it would be killed. Coram pulled the trigger of the blaster and a blue arc shot from it and paralyzed the already unconscious Jedi.
Anaria and Elantra stopped several paces behind the clearing. "Elantra, we have to do something!" cried Anaria, watching as Arryn was sprawled on the ground, unconscious, and in the hands of two Sith.
He held a hand out in front of her as a restraint. "Anaria, if we go right now, they will kill us, too."
"But what about Arryn?" she said.
"When they leave, I'll take the girl, you take the other one. They are expecting us, wait until their guard is down." Elantra had a grim expression on his face. "We won't let anything happen to Arryn. Anything."
Anaria summoned her courage and nodded.
The two Sith picked up Arryn and started walking back to the Fortress. Coram suddenly stopped. "I feel something else. Annika, I think there might be another Jedi nearby."
She froze and opened her senses. "I think you are right, Coram. I feel something…faint."
They placed the fallen Jedi on the grass and ignited their lightsabers, just as two more Jedi came at them. Annika fought the boy.
Coram shouted to her over the clash of the sabers, "Take the stunned one, I'll hold these two off. Now go!" Annika nodded and dragged the fallen Jedi back to the Fortress.
"Master Merian!" she screamed. Arriette came running from the main room. Her eyes widened with surprise as she saw Annika with the Jedi.
"Coram… two others…outside…" she stuttered.
Arriette raced out and met Coram where he was locked in a double-bladed battle with two Jedi Padawans. "Coram, go to Annika now. I'll handle the Jedi brats."
At the sight of the Sith, the two Jedi Padawans turned and ran. "We can't handle a fully trained Sith Lord." Shouted Elantra. "Let Master Siri handle that. Come on, we must get back before its too late!" As he ran, Elantra made a solemn vow to himself that he would get Arryn back and make the Sith pay for what they did to his best friend. Nothing was going to stop him.
Arriette pressed a button on her wrist comlink and seconds after, Emory Tiana appeared in the clearing. He jumped off his speeder bike. "The Jedi? But they were supposed to stay at their quarters until we ambushed them tonight."
"Well, it appears that one of the little brats came close to the Underground Fortress, but fortunately, Coram and Annika captured it. We can start the interrogation immediately."
Emory gave her a sidelong glance. "But what about the other Jedi?"
"If all goes as planned, this one will tell us what we need to know and the Jedi will be defenseless next time we meet." Arriette gave a malicious grin and followed Emory to see their prize capture.
The sky was dark purple by the time Elantra and Anaria found their way back to the residence. They had already given their Masters an emergency signal on their comlinks and burst through the door.
"Master-"
"Anaria climbed a tree-"
"Sith appeared-"
"Arryn-"
"Captured, stunned, who knows where-"
"ENOUGH!" said Obi-Wan silencing the Padawans. "One at a time. You first, Anaria."
"I wanted to climb a tree and I saw someone or something with lightsabers, so Arryn thought it was the other Jedi team and ran to see them."
"Then we saw the Sith who stunned her and took her away!" Finished Elantra.
"Master Darsha, we have to do something!" cried Anaria.
Darsha put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Anaria, Padawan, we will get her back."
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