: A bright flash erupts in front of you, and suddenly I'm there saying the magic words...:
'Star Wars belongs to Lucas! All characters from the game belong to Lucas! Only MY fictional characters do NOT belong to Lucas!'
: Then as fast as I appeared, I dissappear in a flash, and the screen fades to the divine words that made this fanfic possible...:
Chapter 1: Scrolling text and prologue
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...
STAR WARS
KOTOR: Necessary evil
A shadow of darkness has fallen over the Old Republic.
After Revan, Dark lord of the Sith, turned back to the path of
light and saved the Old Republic by destroying the Star Forge,
the newly returned Jedi went to the Outer Rim, leaving an
devastated Republic in disarray.
The remnant Sith factions took
advantage of the situation, and began to systematically
asassinate every Jedi in their path. The Jedi council grouped with
all remaining allies to the faraway world of Katarr, where they were
oblitherated by a faction of the Sith commanded a Dark Lord named
Darth Nihilus. The Jedi that did not attend the grouping at Katarr
went either into hiding or were killed by the other factions of the Sith.
Riana Adis, the last of the Jedi, had been sent to search for the
remaining Jedi masters by a mysterious woman called Kreia.
After solving many problems on different worlds, the exiled Jedi
managed to bring the masters together at Dantooine, where she and the
masters were betrayed by Kreia, whom revealed she was a Sith and
that they plotted an attack on Telos. She then slaughtered the
Jedi masters, and left for Malachor V.
After bringing balance back to Telos and stopping the threat of the
Sith once and for all, the Exile and her companions now begin
the long travel to the planet Correllia, where long forgotten memories
will be revived...
The small red dot that was the Ebon Hawk pulled away from the remains of Malachor V. A strange sensation it was, to lose yourself at a place like that and then to find yourself there again.
Literally and figuratively.
Riana had barely escaped from Malachor V, and she was relieved to find the Ebon Hawk right in front of her face when she asked for it. When she came aboard however, her mood swifted again at seeing the entire ship in pieces. Almost nothing was spared, bulkheads and tubes littering the floor, one system failing after another and so on...
But that wasn't the worst part. She found Bao-Dur in the corridor, his mechanical arm dismantled. She figured G0-T0 had something to do with it, and coming to think of it, she wondered where the little buzzer was that always followed Bao.
If he wasn't out like a light, she would have asked him. So she moved on, and so she found T3, HK, Visas, Mira, Mandalore, the Disciple and Atton cleaning up the ship and repairing things.
"Could you have taken any longer to kill that old woman? You're only gone for about thirty minutes and the whole damn planet stars to fall apart! Now the damn ship looks like it's crashed into a million asteroids!" Riana knew that Atton wasn't really that mad at her, but, still, she felt like she was to blame. But she knew she had to tell them. She HAD to tell them.
And she HAD to follow Revan.
"She was tougher then she looked, or pretended to be for that matter."she said,"It was strange, you know, she... told me things... about what's going to happen.".
She got their attention, and she didn't know if they were looking at her as if she was crazy or as if they wanted her to continue.
"What I do know is that you can't stay with me any longer. You have all learned from me what you had to learn. So when we get to...". Riana didn't have time to finish her sentence before Atton interrupted.
"Oh no, you're NOT going to drop us off at the next stop! I won't let you just go to... whatever it is you're going to and throw away your life for nothing! I...WE WON'T LEAVE!"
Immediately the rest began to brace themselves as if they expected her to release a Force wave at them again. The last time she did that was in the cantina at Citadel, after a very big fight, and one too many glass of juma juice.
She remembered it very well. Kreia had made another one of those stupid remarks about the crew, and so, they valiantly, but hopelessly tried to insult Kreia, and ended up insulting Riana.
The resulting fight caused her to throw a Force wave at them, sending them and a lot of innocent bystanders flying around the room. Which meant broken bones, which meant getting arrested again by the TSF, which meant another day in the force cage until the administrative paperwork was all done. And so she had a wonderful time using people as ragg dols, and so she spent a day in the force cage, and so, and so, and so...
She turned to face away from them, and moved slowly to the corridor which led to the cockpit. She had had enough concerns for one day, and she didn't need Atton blameing her for something that had to be done, like so many times before.
"Atton, if you really have to make a drama of this, let me explain to you in person. Get in the cockpit, sit down and SHUT UP FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE!". Riana didn't even know herself where the anger had come from, but she didn't mind at all. She was used to being frustrated. After all her life was all in all a very successful disaster.
As she and Atton made their way to the cockpit, she looked into the communications room, and saw something flashing underneath the pile of rubble that was stuffed in a corner. She was itching to grasp it up and look at it, but the task at hand, which was to get Atton to listen to her for once and for all, had to be done first.
She entered the small cockpit of the Ebon Hawk. The room was illuminated with a soft blue glow that wasn't from the consoles, but from the view in fromt of them.
One big vastness of blue hyperspace.
"So. Care to tell why we have to leave all of a sudden?" Atton's voice interrupted the sense of calmness that the blue vastness radiated into the small chamber.
Riana turned to look at him, when she saw something in his face she hadn't seen before;
A wave of emotions, mostly concern but also love.
She didn't know what to say to him, she was totally dazzled by the way his eyes were focused at her. She wanted to fly into his arms, but at the same time, she hated him, for not telling her before this all.
Dammit, do you have to make things difficult for me? You just had to make things so much more complicated than they already are? Oh, for the love of...
"Are you going to answer or stare me death?"
Now she had to make a choice, and she did.
"I'm going to follow Revan.", She said, "and you can't go with me. I don't want to lose any of you! Especially... Especially you."
Now she had done it, she told him. She just hoped she made the right choice.
Suddenly his look changed. He looked satisfied, and then he stepped closer to her. He took her hands. From there she couldn't control herself anymore and she did what she wanted to do for a long, long time, and something she totally didn't expect.
She tried to puch him.
She tried it so hard, but before the fist reached his face, he had already stopped it with his hands. Anger just poured into her empty soul, making her boil so hard on the inside that she began to feel homicidal urges.
She tried again. This time using all her weight and anger to overwhelm him.
But she couldn't do it. She couldn't get it over her heart to hurt him. She loved him so much, and still she tried to hurt him.
She felt all the pain from the years gone by dropping right on top of her shoulders. She tried to hold it all in.
But she couldn't.
She released it all in one long cry, falling to her knees and sunk into the darkness she tried to fight for so long.
And then, there he was to comfort her, holding her in his arms warming her in this dark oblivion. She never knew she relied on him so much, she never did.
And then she finally gave in to the power she had to fight from the day that they met.
Love.
She kissed him gently on the cheek first, and then she went for real.
For the love of Atton.
"Enthusiastic statement: Master, I have managed to repair the weapon systems and even solved the glitch in the guidance systems!" Riana and Atton quickly pushed themselves out of each others arms and went to work. HK hadn't even seem to notice the pink blush on their cheeks, let alone what happened.
"Enthusiastic statement: Are you not going to test the weapons systems Master?"
"Not right now HK, we're very busy at the moment. Besides, there are alot of things you can do around here right now. Go repair something else." Riana replied.
"Disappointed query: Like what, master? There are only a few things I am specialized in, and the systems that are damaged do not belong in that category."
You sound like a damned five-year old! She thought.
"I don't care! Then learn something new!"
"Relunctant statement: Yes, Master." HK quickly left the room to do something useful, she hoped, but that didn't bring the moment back.
Atton looked at the nav console, and made some adjustments on the panel.
"We'll be arriving at Corellia soon. You'd better take some rest."
Riana decided to take his advice. So she left for bed. Where she could go to a world where noone could hurt her.
And finally be at peace...
Whew... finally chappie one's finished! Stay tuned for the next one: Guess who's coming over?