Chapter 10

They encountered a few isolated cells of brigadiers, which were easily taken care of. It took them roughly fifteen minutes to reach the hanger bay. Right before they walker into the entrance however, Jaina suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"There are one hundred or more, Yuuzhan Vong in thet room."

"Is there another way out?"

"Not unless you can figure out how to get off of this asteroid."

"Well, what do you want to do?"

Jaina looked up at him for a minute before replying. "I want you to find a ship before it's to late. And…and blast off this rock and get back to Mon Cal."

"What about you?" Jag asked letting a small amount of his anxiety show.

Jaina looked down and began to walk towards the door. Jag grabbed her arm and spun her around into his embrace, so that she was looking into his eyes. "I'm not leaving you."

"Jag…please, you have to. If you don't then we'll both die."

"Then we'll take as many of those bastards we can with us."

Jaina gave a small sad smile and nodded. Jag brought her head up and caught her lips in a short fiery kiss, with as much passion as her could muster. When they broke away they looked into each others eyes knowing exactly what they had to do.

They turned and simultaneously walked into total ciaos. They stood there in awe, watching as hundreds shamed ones tackled and defeated the warriors.

/A revolt! Jag do you know what this means! There's disarray among the classes, and now the warriors have to fight a war on two fronts. We might have a chance of winning this thing after all. /

"Jeedi!" Before jag could respond a warrior charged them. Jaina ignited her lightsaber, she sidestepped his attack and kicked him in the chest throwing him backwards. In a blur of motion Jaina swung her lightsaber and cleanly cut off his head before he had a chance regain his balance.

When they turned back there attention to the battle the shamed ones had taken out all but eleven of the warriors and more shamed were coming out of the frigate by the minute.

"Okay—so that was easier then we thought. Now all we need to do is," Jaina stopped when she spotted a shamed one coming straight at them. "Urm, hi. Thanks for all your help." Jaina said awkwardly once he reached them.

"No thanks is needed Goddess. You could have easily taken care of them by your self. We are simply happy to help."

/Goddess, that's right I'm a goddess. I knew that. /

/Of course you did sweetheart. /

/Shut up. /

"No I owe you my thanks and gratitude. The gods will always smile upon you," She left the sentence open for him to fill in the rest.

"Ferion." As Jag and Jaina's mouth fell open he smiled. "I take it by your reaction that my disguise was well thought out."

/That's not very comforting. /

/No kidding /

"How did you know it was me?" "Do Wedge and Iella know your Yuuzhan Vong?" Jag and Jaina asked at the same time.

"Once we heard that the war master was coming here to collect his prize we worked it out. And no Wedge and Iella do not know, at least not to my knowledge."

"Right. Uh could I ask you a favor?"

"Of course we would do anything in our power to help the goddess and her paramour."

/Paramour? /

/Yes sweetheart do you have a problem with that? /

Jaina covered her mouth in a vain attempt to stifle her laughter at Jag's expression. "Do you know any way of getting out of here?" Jaina asked still giggling slightly.

"Of course, come we must hurry. Here put these on." Ferion had them cloaks, Jaina immediately became serious as rapped the cloak around her self. Ferion led them through the crowd and into the Yuuzhan Vong frigate.

/This is incredibly unnerving. / Jaina thought as they walked through the corridors of the frigate.

/Yea, no kidding. How do we know that we can trust him? /

/We can't. /

/Great. /

"Hurry more warriors will be here soon. You must hurry." Ferion led them through a door where on of the most beautiful Yuuzhan Vong ship sat. "We grew this especially for you, in hope that one day you would grace us with your presence. It is specially made and will only listen to you, or someone else that it has a connection to.

The ship as a beautiful mixture of colors, and was as smooth as any other ship, very uncharacteristic of a Yuuzhan Vong ship.

"Wow."

"Close your mouth dear." Jag said smiling a subtle smile.

"Is it to your satisfaction?" In what would have passed as a hopeful and scared expression.

"Oh Ferion it's beautiful, it will be wonderful. What can I do to repay you?"

"You being here is enough. But you must hurry it will not take long for them to figure out what happened."

"But what about you?"

"Do not worry, we'll be fine." He gave a low bow to Jaina and exited the chamber. Jaina watched for a moment before running up into the ship.

"Jaina you do know how to fly this thing right?" Jag asked following her into the cockpit.

In stead if answering Jaina just pulled the cognition hood over her head. Jag followed suit and dropped into the copilots seat and pulled the cognition hood over his head. He was immediately aware of the ramp closing and the ship beginning to rise off the ground. After a few minutes he became accustomed to the strange feeling of being connected to the ship, and he began to see what the ship was seeing. He saw the ship headed straight for the closed doors, and the Vong battling on the ground.

"How are we going to get through the door?"

In response to his question the ship shuttered slightly and the door erupted into flames.

"Never mind."

The speed through the now open doors into the emptiness of space. The ship was as fast as it looked and was already heading into hyperspace before any coarlskippers could be released.

"Huh." Jaina slumped back into her seat and pulled off the cognition hood.

"Are you all right?" Jag asked kneeling in front of her.

"I'm fine, just a little tired. But we'll have plenty of time to rest later. I've told the ship to make 4 different jumps of different lengths before making the final jump back to Mon Cal just to make sure. It'll take about 6 days all total to get back."

"Can we last that long with nothing?"

"The ship has got enough supplies for a human to survive for almost 6 weeks."

"Are you sure it's safe?"

"Ferion was telling the truth about this ship. It'll be fine."

Jag nodded his head before standing up. "Come on."

"Where are we going?" Jaina asked allowing her self to be dragged along by Jag.

"Where ever there's something that will pass for a bed."

"I'm fine Jag. Really."

Jag just glared at her and kept walking; Jaina planted her feet down on the ground refusing to move any farther. Jag wasn't taking no for an answer however and turned around to face her. "Jaina you've just battles the Yuuzhan Vong war master and escaped a peace brigade base. YOU. NEED. TO. REST! You said it your self that we'll have plenty of time on this trip to talk and work things through." When she didn't move her just picked her up and headed for the bedroom. Amazingly she didn't put up a fight and when he looked down he saw her eyelids fluttering trying to fight off sleep. He carefully placed her on what passed for a bed.

He took off her boots and put the on the floor. He looked back up to her and smiled slightly as he gently pushed back her sweet soaked hair and kissed her forehead. As he turned to leave Jaina's hand grabbed his and pulled him down next to her with strength he didn't know she still possessed.

"Jaina what are you doing?"

"Sleeping but only if you promise to get some too."

"What about the ship?"

"It can handle it self."

"Jaina,"

"Shh. Go to sleep." She rapped her arms around him, and placed her head in the crook of his arm. Jag sighed and pulled Jaina closer to him before falling into much needed sleep.

Jaina woke with a start as the ship lurched knocking her to the ground.

"What in all Corellian hells was that?" Jag asked picking him self off the floor.

"I think the ship just came out of hyperspace"

"Where are we?" Jag asked following her into the cockpit.

"Somewhere near Yavin."

"How long were we asleep then?"

"Roughly sixteen hours." Jaina said with a shrug.

"SIXTEEN HOURS! Kriff I don't think I've ever slept that long."

"I wish I could sleep that long all the time."

"It did feel nice." Jag admitted as he watched Jaina put the ship back into hyperspace. She pulled the cognition hood off and turned to face him.

"Come here." He said softly as he held out his hand. Jaina took it smiling slightly as he pulled her into his lap. She snuggled into his embrace feeling comfortable in the safety of his arms.

"This is a…a little-- weird." Jaina paused in between words as Jag kissed her neck.

"What is?" Jag asked not even looking up.

"Um…Just every thing that…happened, being on this ship, being captured, fighting the war master, uh…are you even listening?" Jaina said pushing back from Jag.

"Every thing is a little weird. Fighting the war master, being on this ship. Now can I get back to what I was doing?"

Jaina just smiled shaking her slightly in disbelief. /Since when is he this straight forward? /

"Since I almost lost you." Jag said aloud into her neck.

/You were never about to lose me, I'll always be here in one way or another. /

"Wait did you say that aloud? Ah, this is so confusing…wait what is this?"

"I don't really know. It's kinda like the link between Luke and Mara though."

"That's all well and good darlin' but I'm not a Jedi."

"You sounded just like Dad there." Jaina said laughing.

He raised his eyebrows and brought his lips to hers. Jaina rapped her arms around his neck, but before she could deepen this kiss he pulled back suddenly.

"But what did they mean by Paramour?"

Laughing Jaina shook her head. "Are you still thinking about that?"

"Yes I'm still thinking about that. Being referred to as a Paramour is not something I would normally take as a complement."

"Aww, it can't be that bad. Come on think about it, if that's what the warmaster AND the shamed ones think then we could work into the hole goddess thing. Which would mean that we would be able to spend more time together, and not just in locked conference rooms." Jaina said getting more excited with each word she said.

"I'm not sure that your father would be to happy with me spending any more time with you then I all ready am."

"I don't care, I'm a goddess and there's nothing he can do about it."

/I think this Goddess thing is getting to her head. /

/I heard that. /

/Stay out of my head Solo /

/You must like imitating my relatives, now you sound like Aunt Mara. /

/Oh be qui / But any coherent thought was thrown out the window as Jaina kissed him.

End Chapter 10