Chapter 3: Night Assassin - Part II

Darth Vader came to a dozen meters behind the mysterious woman with his lightsaber in his right hand. He then pointed his finger at the back of the woman and said, "Then who are you?" The woman turned slowly and faced the Sith Lord. This time Vader saw clearly that the woman is a human race in the early twenties. If you look at her from the appearance, you can hardly find a woman that can compare to her in beauty among the whole galaxy. The woman has milk-white skin that smooth and delicate as a newborn baby, which shows that she paid great attention to keep her beauty. Her long black hair was tied into an elegant bun at the back of her head with an ancient Japanese oriental silver hairpin on its top. At one end of the hairpin, there were many artificial ornaments of butterflies and dragonflies. Her two temples were woven into many braids by gold threads and ornaments that looked like ancient Egyptian women. The woman was wearing very exposed black tights, a pair of fishnet wristbands, a black-and-white plaid belt around her waist, pure black high-heeled boots, and fishnet tights. The outlook of this female assassin reminded Vader of the Twi'lek dancers beside Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Vader also noticed that the woman had a closed fan in her right hand.

"Congratulations, you catch up on me!" said that woman.

"Your insect control ability is indeed impressive." Vader commended to that woman. "You made a surprise to get so close to us. Who are you? Which planet are you from?"

"Well…" The woman smiled when she was opening the fan in her right hand. Then she raised the fan to her mouth and covered her lower face. She also stooped a little further and carried some of her white tassels that waving on her left with her left hand and said, "I am the Fangs of the Reaper of Oarburgh. My blade of death and I will pray for peace and order for you in the afterlife."

Since then, a "buzzing" sound recalled. Two large groups of black insects came down from the sky in a spiral flight path and circling the female assassin. These insects are the same kind of creatures as the group of insects that appeared in the Imperial Palace. They are all immune to the Force.

"Impressive!" Darth Vader said and turned on his lightsaber, "You would have created some Force resistible creatures for battles."

"Surprised isn't it?" Said the female assassin who made a commanded movement with the fan in her right hand, "these are Wrigglers, the generic term used for insect-type Danger Beasts that the leaders of the Oarburghs have passed down for generations. These insects can mobilize according to the will of their operator."

"Mmm…" Vader didn't say a word. This was the first time he heard a calling of Danger Beasts. He also noticed that on the center of the woman's fan, there was a symbol that looks like a propeller with three blades that in central symmetry. The fan has two different colors on each side, and it looks like the fan was totally made of metals.

"There is something wrong with that fan." Vader thought. He just felt that some mysterious power came out of that fan. The power felt like Kyber Crystals. However, it mixed with a lot of unidentified power. Some power felt like Force, some felt like beasts, others even Vader himself was unable to identify based on his knowledge.

Vader then sounds out and said, "You are a fool, assassin. You have explained everything about your weapons to your opponent!"

"Oh…" The woman then wiped her eyes. To Vader's surprise, the female assassin was tearing! "I rarely lie to a matured and iron-willed man like you." The woman said, "It's times like this I can't help but think of my line of work as a curse."

"Inexplicable!" Vader seemed impatient. He then outstretched his left hand to this female assassin.

"Ugh!" The woman suddenly straightened out. She gripped her teeth and grabbed her throat with gasping. She felt something invisible choked her neck, made her unable to breathe.

"Your insects can prevent Force, but you don't have this ability," Vader said when he was torturing the woman with Force Choke. "Now I give you a chance to live. Tell me who hired you and swear to serve the Empire. Or, die!" Vade gave this woman his ultimatum.

"Hrrrk!" the woman twisted her body very painful, but her conscience was still awake. "No hesitation, decisive moves, I like you more and more!" The woman thought.

Suddenly, the pain came from Darth Vader's left foot. The Sith Lord looked down and found some stag beetles were crawling on his left lower leg and biting his boot.

"Impressive!" Vader didn't afraid of these attacks at all because his limbs were made of machine. However, his armors were connected to his nerves which made him able to feel the pain caused by attacks. "Tough they are Force resistible, but they made to sneak into the shadow of my cape…" Then he suddenly found that a large group of this kind of beetles had surrounded him from the back.

These beetles' appearance disturbed Darth Vader's Force Choke and the female assassin freed herself. "Do…don't you notice that…I was leading you to this place?" The woman said when she was grasping. She then used her fan and pointed at Vader. The insects circling around her received the order and all flew towards the Sith Lord. It seemed that she had already hidden a lot of insects around this area.

Noticed the insects coming from both sides, Vader didn't even resist and allowed the insects to surround him from both sides. "Childish trick!" the Sith Lord said.

"You're so dead, but still clam I see! Show me how you can stove off this attack." The woman said and clicked her fingers. The insects then narrowed the siege and fully covered the Sith Lord.

Suddenly, the floor near Darth Vader tracked automatically. Two strands of steam came out of the crack and covered the Sith Lord. It was because Vader destroyed the hot ducts of this building with force.

"What!?" The female assassin never thought this could happen. She then controlled the insects to come back. However, only some of them made it. After the steam scattered, Vader stands at the place without a scratch, but most of the insects that covered him were steamed.

"You underestimate me," Vader said. "No, I didn't." the woman replied. She then clicked her fingers again. The rest of the insects fell on her body and crawling all over this female assassin's skin. With the protection of this insect armor that can resist force, Darth Vader was unable to catch this woman with Force right now.

"Die!" Vader then threw his lightsaber to the mysterious female assassin. The lightsaber spun at a high speed and turned into the red disc again. The woman was staring at the red disc flying towards her. When the lightsaber's blade almost touched her body, she suddenly raised her slender right leg and kicked up hardly. Her boot tip just kicked at the hilt of the lightsaber and directly kicked it to the upward.

"Impressive!" said Darth Vader. He then lifted some floor tiles of the ground up into the air with force and threw them to the female assassin. The objects that accelerated by Vader's force can be as fast as missiles. Looking at the building materials flying to her, that woman raised the fan in her hand without hesitation.

The female assassin waved her fan at an incredible speed. The steel sector of the fan cut through each of the floor tiles that flying towards her and cut them into pieces. The woman leaped back, twirled, and destroyed several tiles with her fan. Then she spun and kicked the last file into fragments. "Throwing things won't work on me!" said that woman.

"Then I will attack by myself!" Vader said and exploded into motion. He rushed next to the woman within a fraction and threw a punch to the female assassin.

"I'm waiting for this." the woman thought herself with an unusual smile on her face. She raised her left hand and pushed aside Vader's attack with defense. She bowed a little and obliquely waved her fan to cut the Sith Lord.

Vader drew back and dodged this cut. However, the female assassin rushed forward and continuously swiping the fan at the Sith Lord. Vader was avoiding and pondering the mysterious energy came out of the fan. It seems that the woman was using the fan as a normal weapon at this time.

The female assassin gave another kick from side to Darth Vader. Vader blocked it with his left arm and then he stroked the woman's stomach with his right knee. The woman resisted it with her fan at the front. Because of it was a heavy strike, the woman slid backward for several feet.

"Agile movements. Elusive." Vader commended to the woman, "It's a great loss for those assassins like you who do not work for the Empire."

"Well, we Oarburghs have our own traditions. It's no matter 'good guys' or 'bad guys', we will take any jobs if we get enough payment because death comes to all people equally." Said the woman, "The only thing Oarburghs cannot tolerate is being lied to by our clients."

"In fact, you are working for the weak." Vader taunted at the female assassin. "For those flabby money bags!"

After hearing what Darth Vader said, the woman stood surprised a moment, then she burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at?" Vader started feeling this woman had unusual neural activity.

"What a coincidence! My sister loves a person with the same idea as you!" said that woman.

"What the hell is this!?" Vader was almost confused by the woman's words. The woman then said, "I wasn't cheating you. My sister loves a general whose name is Esdeath. Like you, Esdeath serves the supreme power holder of my Empire. It looks to me that your Empire is not better than mine!"

"What!?" Vader was totally shocked by the woman's answer. However, this gave his opponent an opportunity. The woman suddenly rushed in front of the Sith Lord and cut Darth Vader's neck with her fan.

Vader responded promptly and caught the woman's wrist of her fan hand. He then gripped the woman's neck with another hand and threatened, "You! Who are you!? What made of your fan!?"

"Hrrrk!" The woman gripped her teeth and shut her eyes tightly. She suddenly pulled out the hairpin on her hair and stabbed at Vader's arm with the sharp point!

Vader loosened his grips quickly and drew back several feet. "Dodged I see!" the woman said with an unhappy face.

"What did you spread on it!?" Vader asked angrily.

"I rarely lie to a man like you." The woman held the fan and hairpin with a different hand and crossed her arms in front of her chest and said, "They are insect eggs!"

"When the insect eggs entered the human body, they will hatch and grow into imago in a short period. I see how you breed those bugs!" said Darth Vader.

"Not bad!" The woman said and smiled, "As your reward, I'll show you the power of Teigu, Violent Storm: Zephyrs!" Then, the woman fully opened her fan and waved it to the direction of Darth Vader.

A powerful storm came out and narrowly blew the Sith Lord away. Vader managed to the defense before the storm achieved him. He put his hands in front of his face and held him firmly on the ground with Force.

"Strong wind!" Vader said to himself. The fan which was called Teigu could make a strong wind. It looks like this woman is a very dangerous person!

Vader suddenly expanded his arms to both sides. At the same time, the wind independently separated into two waves and flow to each side. Vader was using Force Shield and changed the directions of the wind.

"What about I myself attacks?" a sound came behind Darth Vader. The female assassin had come behind Vader and stock out her head out of the Sith Lord's armpit and asked.

Vader didn't answer but made a grab with his left hand. Some little rocks blew up by the wind suddenly shoot at the woman's face like bullets.

The woman shifted her head swiftly to the right and dodged these little rocks. This time the storm wind had stopped.

Vader turned around quickly and wielded the lightsaber which already came back to his right hand. He swiped the lightsaber blade to the woman's chest. The female assassin swiftly to use her fan to resist.

The lightsaber blade cut the fan but caused no damage to it. "Even lightsaber cannot cut through it, is that so-called Teigu?" Vader was also surprised by the consistency of Teigu.

That woman seemed to know that she should not continue the fight, so she pointed her hairpin at Darth Vader. All of the insects on her body received the order and flew towards the Sith Lord. Vader saw this and raised his lightsaber.

While Sith Lord fought with these insects, the woman rushed to the edge of the opposite side of the building. By the time she achieved the edge, the woman turned around and raised her Teigu again.

"Furious Storm!" the woman shouted and waved her Teigu vigorously with both hands to the Sith Lord who had killed almost all of the insects. Darth Vader noticed her attempts and turned on Force shield again.

A much stronger storm came out. It destroyed the glasses of one side of the financial building behind Vader, swept several skylanes nearby, and scattered most airspeeders here and there…

Vader held himself on the ground with force, he was totally fine. However, he found that the woman was already disappeared. This was because Furious Storm not only can attack the opponents but also can help the user to escape.

After the storm subsided, Darth Vader came alone to the edge of the apartment building and looked at the direction the woman ran away. He just experienced so many tortuous and monstrous things during a short period tonight. First, a strange masked man who called him "grandpa" met him in his meditation. Next, a sudden assassination to the Emperor occurred and brought a mysterious female assassin who called herself the leader of Oarburgh and controlled insects called Dangerous Beasts that can resist Force. Then, the woman talked about an Empire and a general called Esdeath who assist the ruler of this Empire… Are there any relationships between these? Vader was puzzled.

Hello everyone, the second part of chapter two is ready. I like the Obarburgh Clan in Akame Ga Kill Zero and interested in the leader Merraid and her maid servants Gilberda and Cassandra. I also found some similarities between Merraid's insects Wrigglars and the bugs used by Yuuzhan Vong, so I decide to write the Wrigglars were created by Yuuzhan Vong. In my story, the Obarburgh Clan will raise again and becomes an evil organization. Many survivors of Obarburgh Clan that are original characters will show up later. I have to keep this female assassin's identity in secret and publish it in the further story.