Last time: Kyr comforts Cien.

Now: Two more hunters arrive to cause problems.

Chapter 18- Brothers

The sun rose higher and higher as Sasha and Oppie walked along the river towards the mountains. The trail and river were starting to slope up the closer they got to the base of the mountain range. The peaks were also starting to become visible through the canopy as they walked along. After about an hour or so of walking, the trail started to rise higher than the river as it continued up onto a hilled area that went for a few kilometers. But it also dropped at a steep angle back towards the water the higher the trail got. They continued on this path for another twenty minutes until they reached a large clearing. Probably the largest one they had seen yet. It had a couple of fallen trees that surrounded the edges, including the edge that dropped off towards the river, and a few patches of leaves in the clearing. They probably belonged to some local fauna that had camped there nights ago.

Oppie walked tiredly, having gotten little sleep over the last few days anyway, and staying up to let Sasha recuperate, he was stumbling a bit. Especially since he didn't have to Force to call upon to keep him invigorated. A thought struck him as funny as he walked. "Think our cousins might be in on this?" He asked Sasha. "If this is a bounty, maybe they got the contract and they'll be in on it."

"If they were in on this, I'm pretty sure we would have been found by now as they would have called on the others to help and that Von guy would have gotten his just desserts," Sasha pointed out with a smirk as she followed behind him. "But I wouldn't be surprised if they have heard about it or figured out about it in some way by now."

"Yeah." Oppie agreed, "they seem to be coming in weird waves, though. Maybe one of these times they'll come out of the forest and be surprised it's us." He mused. "Also desserts sound good right now."

Sasha chuckled. "Yeah, that would be kind of funny. Then we can get the jump on them for once," she said. "And yeah, I could go for a parfait or some cookies right about now." She groaned. "I'm too hungry to keep talking about food."

"Sorry," Oppie said sheepishly, "although a parfait sounds ni-" He yelped as a net trap pulled him up and away.

"Oppie!" Sasha called out in a panic. "Are you-" Her question was cut off when a couple of blaster shots came from the woods and aimed towards them. The two shots buzzed by, super close to the net and Sasha, but missed Oppie. Sasha pulled out her blaster and pointed it towards the origin of the shots. "Drop your weapons and show yourself," she demanded.

"Kinan! You almost hit her, you dumbass. We need her alive!" A voice shouted at another, and it carried over the fire. He pulled out his stun pistol and started firing at the girl.

"A few blaster burns isn't going to cost us, Vin," The one known as Kinan responded with a huff before switching to stun.

Sasha dodged the stun rings as they fired at her by moving away. But instead of looking for cover, she charged forward towards the hunter or hunters. She fired off a few stun shots at the woods, hoping it would hit a target or two as it sounded like there was another out there with the one who was shooting at her. She needed to provide some form of distraction that would allow Oppie plenty of time to get out of the net as she knew he still had the knives with him. So running head first into a fight was not the best option, but it was the first one she thought of. Viran and Kyr really were rubbing off on her in some regard.

Kinan smirked at the girl trying to come at them and he decided to return the favor. He charged from his spot in hiding and rushed for her. He continued to fire off rounds of stun rings as he unsheathed a long blade from his belt, so he could slash her once he would close the distance. Vin covered him, trying to keep the girl pinned down with his own fire while his younger brother went forward.

Oppie struggled to right himself, and reach for the stolen knife that was in a sheath on his belt. After a few moments of struggle he was able to pull the knife free and slice at the netting. The one nice thing about the knife was that it was, indeed, very sharp, and the vibroblade cut through the netting in short order. He fell to the ground, about three meters with another yelp as he sprang to his feet, trying to right himself.

Sasha struggled to dodge the blasts as she got closer. Staggering slightly to avoid one, she almost slipped on a pile of leaves before quickly catching herself. That allowed Kinan to get close and slash at her with the blade. Sasha leapt back, narrowly avoiding the blade as it slashed for her midsection before producing her spear and swinging it at Kinan's head. He dodged the swing and slashed again from a different angle. They continued this back and forth as he pushed her back.

"Op, there's another!" Sasha yelled as she continued to evade the long blade.

Oppie forgot the rifle slung across his back as he unholstered his pistol, and he kept moving to avoid being a stationary target. The other one stepped out from cover, aiming squarely for Oppie as he walked forward, tightly, taking well aimed shots that Oppie was barely able to dodge and keeping up enough of a volume of fire that Oppie wasn't able to take a moment to fire off his own aimed shots.

The man's long blade slashed upward as Sasha made to block it with her spear. The vibroblade slashed clean through the wooden branch, causing Sasha to stagger back slightly with a piece of the spear in each hand. He then lunged forward trying to get a clean cut on her leg, but Sasha moved fast enough to avoid the stabbing motion as she ditched her broken spear. In response, she kicked out with her other leg, knocking him in the back of the knees causing him to lose his balance and tumble forward. Sasha turned on her heel and readied her weapon to shoot him with a stun blast while he was down, but he moved quickly and used his own kick to knock her legs out from under her. She hit the ground with a thud, lying near him as he was starting to get up and recover himself, blade still at hand. Sasha quickly rolled backwards over her shoulder to her knees to avoid his blade as it came down for where she had once been. She instantly regretted that as it was the wounded shoulder she used. Biting back a hiss in pain, she glared up at the man.

Oppie picked up a handful of debris and dirt from the ground and threw it at the man attacking him. Vin threw his off hand up to try to keep the grit out of his eye, and Oppie ran forward. The man ducked out of the way as Oppie peppered him with blaster bolts, but none of them landed as the man dove for cover. Vin tried to sweep his blaster up but Oppie kicked it out of his hand. He swung his legs around, hitting Oppie in the legs, sending him tumbling to the ground as well, his blaster falling away. Vin rolled over on top of Oppie and punched him in the mouth. The Jedi was dazed for a moment from the blow, and Vin pulled a knife out, bringing it down towards Oppie.

Kinan brought the blade down on her as she glared up at him from her knees. The slash would have been a clean strike to her shoulder that he noticed she was trying not to favor at the moment if she hadn't caught his blade. Sasha managed to drop her blaster for a second and catch his blade mere centimeters from her right shoulder by the hilt. Her hands nearly wrapped around his own as she used all of her strength to keep the blade from moving. She then gritted her teeth as she twisted the blade around and out of his grip before tossing it aside. The discarded blade flew over the sloped edge and toward the river below them. Kinan stood there in shock as Sasha grabbed her blaster and got back to her feet. She then leveled her blaster at him. He seemed to come out of his trance just in time to charge forward and grapple her right arm, seizing the blaster. Sasha cried out in pain as her right shoulder was wrenched. The man continued his grappling motion until he was right behind her, practically against her backside, and her arm was twisted around, pressed against the small of her back.

"Von said you were tough, but I didn't realize you were this tough," Kinan whispered into her ear. His face was way too close for her own comfort. And she could practically see his smirk in her peripheral vision. "I like a challenge. That will make the reward so much more worth it."

Sasha growled and stomped on his foot causing him to release her and her blaster that flew out of their grasps. It was now joining his blade at the bottom of the embankment near the river.

Oppie grabbed Vin's wrists, trying to hold back the advancing blade. In a desperate attempt to fight off his attacker, Oppie kneed him between the legs, and the man flinched heavily as the blow landed. With a burst of strength, Oppie rolled the man off of him, still trying to hold the man's knife at bay. With a savage shove he slammed the man's hand into a stone on the ground once, twice, a third time. The third time the man finally yelped in pain and the knife fell from his hand. He punched Oppie in the face again, dazing him, and with a snarl, Oppie returned a punch at the man.

Sasha and the hunter squared off with each other, both panting slightly from their fight thus far as they looked from where the blaster went flying. Kinan pulled his pistol back out and fired at Sasha. Moving as quickly as she could to dodge it, Sasha charged forward and batted his pistol up and away. As she did that, she grabbed him by the wrist and elbowed him in the ribcage, causing him to stagger back and release his grip on his blaster. She tossed the blaster aside as the two of them engaged in hand to hand combat. While still having a grip on his wrist that was now weaponless, Sasha kicked at his left side. Kinan took the hit, but grabbed her by the leg, leaving them in this unbalanced stance. Using his left foot, he swiped her foot out from under her, knocking her off balance and resulting in her letting go of his wrist. She hit the dirt with a thud that knocked the wind out of her for a moment.

Vin kicked at Oppie, pushing them both apart. They scrambled to their feet, and Oppie brought a handful of dirt up with him again, throwing it at his assailant's face. The man was able to block the debris with his hand and looked at Oppie with with murder in his eyes. "I'm not even supposed to bring you in alive." He sneered, "I'm going to enjoy gutting you." He said, glancing for where the knife had fallen. He ran for it, and Oppie ran forward, landing a savage kick on the man's chest that kept him away. He kicked the knife away as well, into the forest.

Kinan had released Sasha's leg and moved over to pin her to the ground. Grabbing her by her forearms before she could attack back, he pinned her to the damp soil. Sasha struggled under his grip for a moment before she was able to get a leg between them and vault him over her. With the Force, that task was normally easy. Without it, Sasha grunted at the sheer weight she had pushed up and over herself. Kinan yelped as he flipped over her head, releasing her from the ground. Sasha scrambled to her feet and turned to face him as he kipped up to his feet a moment later. They faced each other down before sending a series of punches and kicks at each other that the other managed to block with their legs or arms, most likely going to leave some nasty bruises behind.

Sasha swung out to punch him in the face after a couple of sharp blows she had blocked with her arms towards her ribcage. Kinan caught her punch by the wrist and jerked her arm up. Sasha tried with the other arm, her right arm, and he did the exact same thing. This one resulted in a sharp intake of breath from Sasha as her shoulder protested the jerking motion. He pushed himself forward, which eventually pushed her back until her lower half hit the fallen tree trunk that happened to create a railing or barrier to the slope beyond that led down towards the river.

"Give up, wench," he growled as he pressed himself uncomfortably close to her, almost as if he was trying to get her to fall backwards. "It'll make my payday that much easier."

Sasha struggled to get away from his grip and this tight situation. She glanced over her shoulder towards the river where she could see her discarded weapon lying by the shoreline and then back to him. She had an idea. A dumb idea. She smirked at him.

"Not a chance," Sasha responded bitterly. "If I'm going down, you're going with me."

With that, Sasha managed to switch her arms around and grab Kinan by his forearms. She then pulled back, leaning away from him, and sending them both tumbling over the log and down the hill towards the river below.

Vin got to his legs, too engrossed in his fight to have noticed Kinan and the girl go over the edge, and Oppie was likewise too focused to see what happened since their fight had taken them too far away, and they were in a fight to the death. Vin took another knife from somewhere, and Oppie looked at him with a glare as they squared up. Oppie took his jacket off before Vin could reach him as he pushed forward. The jacket went around the blade of the knife, bundling it up securely as Oppie used Vin's momentum against him and pulled the bundle away, elbowing him in the jaw as Vin was pulled through, his grip still on the knife. Oppie elbowed him again in the throat and the chest before Vin finally kicked Oppie's thigh and wrenched his grip away, his hands still tangled up in the jacket, away from the knife. Oppie pushed forward while the hunter tried to get his hand untangled, and unsheathed the knife he had, the one from the first hunter. Oppie snarled as he savagely sliced at the man, and Vin finally got his hands untangled and squared up against Oppie.

Sasha will admit that wasn't her best idea, but it did get her closer to her blaster below. However on the way down, she was sure that she bruised or potentially broke a rib or two as she had rolled and tumbled over a few piles of rocks that were hidden under the grass. She was also sure that the fall had caused her wounds to reopen as she felt something wet coming from her shoulder. She couldn't tell if it was blood or mud or water, but it hurt nonetheless and wasn't her concern at the moment as she reached the bottom. That's when the worst pain came. When she reached the bottom of the embankment, her left leg collided with a large boulder, breaking or severely bruising something from the knee down. That had stopped her from continuing into the water, but it was something she was already regretting her decision on when it came to sending them over the edge as she gasped for breath. She bit back tears as her leg, her ribs, and her already injured shoulder were screaming at her in pain.

Hearing shuffling nearby, Sasha looked up from her pained state to see the hunter getting up from where he had stopped. His left arm looked broken and his head was split open just above his right eyebrow. And he looked pissed. And in his hand was the long blade that had been discarded earlier on in their fight.

"That's it," he groused. "I don't care how much Von plans to pay us for you. I'm ending you right here and now, you little bitch."

Sasha stared up at him in panic as she tried to scramble back, away from him and the blade as she was weaponless. She was also in no position to avoid that blade successfully as she was sure her injuries wouldn't let her, but it would be enough to not get killed if and when the blade would strike. But she did try to get away by crawling backwards as he approached and raised the blade high to strike. Sasha felt fear set in at that moment as she realized she might actually die here, in this instant, and would never see Viran or Lana or Cien and Kyr or Oppie again. She slammed her eyes shut as her hand grabbed something that didn't feel like a rock or grass or mud as she continued to back away. It felt like her blaster. Without a second thought, Sasha raised the blaster, opened her eyes, and pulled the trigger as the sword came down.

But a stun blast didn't fire out. Instead an actual blaster bolt came out. Sasha stared in shock as she was sure that the weapon had been on stun the last time she used it. It must have gotten switched back when they grappled or when it fell. Either way, she just shot the man before her. Sasha looked to where the mark hit true as Kinan did the same. The shot hit the dead center of his chest. Kinan gasped and dropped the blade, it clattering to the ground near her feet. He then wavered for a moment before looking up at her. He cursed something foul in Huttese. Something she understood and shuddered at as it was something rude towards her directly, and something that should never be uttered in basic. Then his eyes rolled back as he fell sideways into the river, dead.

Sasha stared in horror as he fell, her entire body frozen in place as she watched.

Vin and Oppie, who were both squaring up with their knives, turned when the blaster shot rang out. Vin's face turned in fury at Sasha as he saw his brother fall, dead, into the river.

"You bitch!" Vin yelled, forgetting entirely about Oppie, "You killed my brother, I'll kill you!" He yelled with a horrible fury as he started stalking toward her.

Sasha came out of her frozen state as she looked up towards the top of the hill, dropping her weapon in the process as her body trembled. She struggled to say anything as she remained where she was. She stared up at the angered man as she remained an open target to him. Normally, she would react and defend herself. But it was as if every muscle and joint her body was locking up, keeping her in that spot and frozen with fear.

But he was shot, quickly, three times in the back as the sound of a blaster rifle rang through the now silent forest. He fell to his knees with a look of shock on his face before he fell to the ground. Sasha stared in horror as he died.

Oppie ran over to Sasha. "Are you okay?" He asked frantically.

Sasha trembled as she looked between the two dead men. The two men who were tasked with hunting them. The two that almost killed her. And two that were dead because of her. "I'm okay," she said barely above a whisper after a moment.

Oppie ran to her side and knelt next to her. "Are you hurt? Can you move?" He asked.

"I'm not sure," Sasha said, uncertain. She tried to sit up from where she had been propped up on her elbows and winced at her shoulder and her ribs. Tears stung her eyes as she unsteadily sat up, an arm around her midsection. "Yeah, I'm fine. Are you okay?" She asked, trying to change the subject.

"Sasha, don't move." He commanded, "what's hurting?" He asked more gently.

Sasha tensed and stopped trying to move. "I'm sorry," she apologized before clearing her throat. "Umm… I think I bruised a couple ribs and my leg hurts," she said quietly, her body still trembling.

"What happened to your leg?" He asked, as he started trying to examine it. He started gingerly feeling along her shin, trying to feel if anything was broken.

"It… I…when I fell down the hill, it hit that boulder over there," Sasha explained, grimacing at his touch.

"Does it feel broken?" He asked. "Can you move?"

"I don't know," Sasha said before trying to move her left leg. She winced as she carefully moved it to the side. "I don't know," she said again through gritted teeth.

"Let me go up and find you something to use as a crutch, we need to get out of here." Oppie said worriedly. And for the first time in this whole situation, he started feeling a little tinge of fear in the back of his mind. He stood up, and went into the forest to try to find an appropriate branch or piece of wood.

Sasha didn't watch him go. She just sat there with her right arm around her midsection. Her body was in so much pain, but that wasn't what was making her tremble. It was the look in that man's eyes when he died that shook her to her core. The trembling wouldn't stop as she tried to calm herself down. She wasn't a killer and she just killed a man. Of course, he was trying to kill her too, but that shouldn't justify what she did and the guilt she is feeling. She pressed her left hand to her eyes trying to rid the image of what happened, but it was still too fresh. She was also so mad at herself for letting herself get into this situation as now she was a liability to Oppie. She felt like a burden and felt guilty. And that made her shake more as tears threatened to escape. She didn't want to feel like a burden to anybody and now, in her current state, she was one.

Oppie came back with a branch that had a forked top to it, and was about the right length. He paid no mind to the two corpses in the area. "Let me help you to your feet." He said as he came back to her.

Without any protest, Sasha nodded as she dropped her hand, sniffling. She held out her left hand to him. Oppie wrapped his arm under her armpit and helped her up. Sasha bit back a yelp as he helped her to her feet, her ribs protesting the movement. Once on her feet, she tried putting some weight on her left leg. It immediately gave out from under her as she fell against Oppie, whimpering in pain.

"Easy." He said, worriedly.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled as she slowly straightened, shifting all of her weight to her good leg. "I'm sorry."

"Stop apologizing." He said, trying to put a grin in his voice and, probably, failing miserably at it. "Just need to get back up the embankment, I'll gather the supplies and we can be off." He said.

"Okay," Sasha said quietly.

Oppie helped her up the steep embankment, to the clearing where they had just fought. He set her down as gently as he could on one of the logs that seemed to surround the area. "Don't run off." He said quietly as he went to go gather their packs and the various weapons that had gotten scattered in the fight, and scavenge what he could off these new hunters.

"Okay," she said again, distantly.

Oppie's first thought was to see if there were any more first aid supplies they might use. Oppie grimaced and started looking through the pouches off the two men, first one then the other. The younger man had a few ration bars and a fire starting kit, which Oppie said a silent prayer of thanks for. The older brother had a small first aid kit that looked like it had a couple of bacta ampules in it and a few ration bars too. He breathed a sigh of relief for the bacta, and rushed back to Sasha's side.

"The one guy had some bacta." He said as he got to her side and sat heavily down on the log next to her.

Sasha's head perked up at that, bringing her out of her dazed state. "Really? How many?" She asked as she looked at the kit in his hands.

"Three." He said, "We'll have you take a dose now, and save the rest for later." He said as he pulled one of the ampules out. He noticed it wasn't the stuff they usually had from Haven, it was cheaper, less effective.

"Only three?" She swallowed before shaking her head. "I'm okay. We should save it all just in case… in case one of us takes a turn for the worse or something," she added that last part quietly as she was sure it was going to be her at this rate. She cringed inwardly at that thought.

"Sasha." Oppie said quietly. "You've got bruised, possibly broken ribs, and some kind of fracture in your leg on top of the injury to your shoulder. You're taking some bacta now." He ordered gently.

She wanted to protest more about it, but the thought of having bacta in her system sounded like music to her ears. She nodded as she turned her gaze to her lap. "Okay, but just one." Sasha said after a moment. She reached over and rolled up her left sleeve, exposing her arm.

Oppie injected it in her shoulder and rubbed the site to ease the pain. "Are you okay?" He asked, more asking about the man whose life she had taken.

"No," Sasha answered after a moment, knowing what he was referring to. "I killed that man… I killed him, Oppie." Her voice trembled as she said that. "Now I'm all broken and injured and..." She paused. "I'm sorry." She covered her face with her hands.

He hugged her across the shoulder. "You had to." He said quietly, "you didn't do anything wrong."

"Then why do I feel this way?" She asked, her voice cracking with emotion.

"Because you're a better person than they were. And me." He said quietly.

"What do you mean?" Sasha asked, looking at him in confusion.

"Because I don't feel nearly as bad about their deaths." He said, "you shouldn't have had to have done this."

Sasha frowned at that before looking away. "But you saved me. You keep saving me. And I failed to save you," she said simply. "I mean look at me, I'm becoming a liability to you each passing day." She clenched her fists as tears threatened to fall worse now. She hated feeling this way. She hated this planet. She hated all of this.

"You're not a liability Sasha, you're my sister. It's my job to look after you, just like you look after me." He replied.

That caused some tears to escape, but it was starting to make her feel better. "I'm sorry. I just have been feeling like all I have done while we have been here is get into trouble and get hurt. I guess it was all just weighing on me," she admitted.

"This is a tough situation." He said, "I've been here before during the Clone Wars, you thankfully haven't had to deal with this. Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect out here."

Sasha nodded. "Okay, okay." She sniffed. "Thank you," she said as she wiped her face. "You really do know just what to say to make me feel better, huh?"

"I'm your big brother, that's my job." He said with a slight smirk despite the circumstances.

That made Sasha smirk slightly. "Still thanks," she said before taking a deep breath, calming herself down. She flinched as it hurt her ribs, but the pain was starting to lessen as the cheap bacta was setting in.

"I'm going to gather the stuff." He said, getting up, "then we need to go, do you feel up to it?" He asked.

"I think so, but even if I'm not," she trailed off as she looked over the corpse nearby. She shuddered. "I don't want to stay here tonight."

Oppie just nodded as he went off to collect the various knives, blasters and their packs. Sasha grabbed that branch that was going to be her makeshift crutch that Op had left there for her. She looked at it for a moment, frowning slightly, before attempting to use it to help pull herself to her feet. She struggled slightly at it, but she managed to stand on her own. However, she was leaning rather heavily on the crutch.

Oppie walked back over, the two packs and the rifle slung over his shoulders and one of the pistols in his holster. "Do you want this back?" He asked, holding her pistol out to her.

"Yeah, thanks," Sasha said, taking the pistol. Her hand trembled as she held it initially, but then she slipped it into her holster.

He just nodded and stood at her side. "Ready?"

"Yeah, let's go please," Sasha said as she adjusted the crutch. She then started moving away from the corpses and towards the mountains. She moved at a very slow pace as she tried to get her bearings. Oppie followed at her side.

First Tanda failed, then IG-14, and now Vin and Kinan. Von sat there in shock and frustration as he stared at the monitors. He expected Tanda to screw up and he hoped that the droid would have been more of a threat. But Vin and Kinan were some of the deadliest hunters he had ever worked with. And probably just as sadistic as his mysterious client. Yet, here he was staring at the screen where he could see their dead bodies lying there clear as day. His own body shook with anger that resulted in him violently shoving the empty cage off the desk and into a heap against the wall. Thankfully, Tex was no longer occupying it as he let the ysalamiri out and ran around his desk, doing its own thing for the past couple days. Now, though, Tex was startled awake from where it had been sleeping near the monitors and scurried away.

He stood there, fuming, as he ripped the cheroot out of his mouth and smashed it against the desk. The still hot tip burning his hand slightly. But he didn't notice or care as he started pacing the room, trying to calm down and trying to think of what to do next. He had two bounty hunters left. Two. And as much as he would love to take the credits all for himself as the Jedi would potentially keep killing off his men, he was pissed at the fact that the Jedi were killing some of his best bounty hunters. The ones who would take on the big jobs and give him a piece of reward. And now they were dropping like flies.

But that was the interesting part. The Jedi didn't kill Tanda. He met a more unfortunate end before Von's droids got to him in time to bring him back, but they still did defeat him and left him for dead. As for IG-14, they managed to disable him and that caused his self-destruct sequence to activate. This, however, was different. The girl, Sasha, killed Kinan without a second thought. He didn't expect that from her. In fact, he was informed that she had a small, accidental kill count and was too much of a goody good to actually take anyone's life intentionally. He knew that the other Jedi was more likely to kill than her, but watching her kill Kinan was a shock to him. Von wasn't quite sure if it was an accident or intentional, but either way, that girl just killed someone and it was tearing her apart. Her reaction in the footage told him that she felt guilty for killing Kinan and that… was perfect.

With the girl in such a bad state physically, he was shocked it was taking this long for this whole hunting thing to get her emotionally or mentally. However, this fight hit the nail on the head as the mere thought of the brothers dying was causing her to break. And he could see that clear as day from the monitors. Hopefully by the time she was captured when this would be all over, she would literally be a mess inside and out. And Von knew his client was going to get pure enjoyment out of that. Hell, probably out of this whole thing when they get a look at the footage. He just needed that Oppie guy out of the way first. Or at least no longer alive. That extra million was not going to waste here.

A villainous smirk came to his face as he stopped pacing and noticed something interesting on the monitors. At the pace these Jedi whelps were moving at, which was slower than before due to the girls current physical state, Essk and his ace in the hole were closing in on them. Meaning this could all be wrapped up in the next day or two. Perfect. And hopefully before then, the girl would reach her breaking point.

Their helmet indicated that the Jedi had been through here in the last day or so. The figure moved at a reasonable pace as they retraced the Jedi's steps so far. Easily spotting where Von had hidden his cameras early on allowed them to hack into the stream and watch the feed live from their helmet. Watching the Jedi's every move while they pursued. Allowing them ample time to prepare before making their move. So they waited for the Jedi to exhaust themselves before they would take their opportunity to strike. They were also allowing their fellow hunters to be taken out one by one. Less competition to deal with. And so far that proved to be the case as they witnessed the killing of the brothers.

They heard the explosion earlier in the day that most likely belonged to that IG unit. And now those brothers were dead. The Weequay, however, had disappeared from their scopes late last night. But whatever happened to that guy didn't matter as now they only had one other hunter to go up against for the reward money. However, that hunter was no joke. Their species was used to doing this exact kind of thing to everyone from humans to Twi'lek to Rodian to even young Jedi like this girl they were all hunting. So they prepared for the potential stand off against another deadly hunter… just in case he got in their way. Because if anyone was going to win this hunt and claim the reward it was going to be them.

Passing through the foliage, the figure stopped when they spotted the mangled and mostly eaten corpse of the Weequay. From the bite marks, it looked like a vornskr had gotten to him and made him its meal. So that's what happened to that simple minded fool. They smirked under their helmet as they kept moving, amused by the horrid fate the Weequay had met.

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