The Winds Shape
Chapter 15 : Job Application
I own not those situations I borrow from Disney Properties, Lucas, Mechalich or Thomas Benjamin DeMayo. This is a dramatization from my mind on a character created from the meld of table gaming and so on. Special thanks to ideas Drew Karpyshyn and Tim Lebbon fermented. Special thanks to Morihei Ushiba who formed Petre with his wisdom. Like any mind construct this is an exercise and my own work building on other ideas from the past.
This is a Zeison Sha story, set in what is known as the Star Wars EU.
Serenno
2.8 BBA
"But first, we will take your names, for the memorials." Leo Organa said solemnly, a stylized pendant showing on his chest.
"Kua Wan" announced the candidate in Mandalorian armor. "Dunc T'racin" one girl announced, the next also female said "Karolly D'ulin" said the next. "Jensen" answered the next guy, a Zabrak "Bal Emari" said another then a Trandoshan announced "Bluud". A Weequay called himself "Krusch" a woman announced herself as "Zeen" and a huge Kiffar called himself "Deathstalker" before Jahn realized it was his turn. I wonder if he realizes that is the Sith symbol for "MINE" on the chain Jahn thought and remnants of fury, anger and hatred flowed from it and some items on Adrianna, probably earrings. Then he understood it was his turn to answer "Jedidiah Smoak" was his cover ID and answer in a gravely mechanically aided voice.
He noticed his hesitation had granted him the full attention of Leo Organa, the only adopted son of the Senator of Alderaan and Adrianna's frequent boyfriend on the party circuit his intel had told him. For "hard Partiers" they had surprisingly only been rumored to dabble in spice. Their appearances, both visual and through the Force, were hale, hearty and clean if opulent.
Jahn looked around the arena looking at the design which offered him little help. His gloved hand touched the soil and his senses from psychometry told him there had been thousands of deaths in the past here, most for the sport of the Dooku clan. He dropped the soil struggling with maintaining his composure.
However this suit and his gear would be his biggest advantage, especially reducing the signature he had in the Force. However it did not hamper his ability to passively listen to the Force, and so far it sold him as "nothing fancy" to his "evaluators" which were modestly trained sensitives, powerful but too noisy for having had real life lesson training like the Sha go through. That said Jahn's singularity was the kind that raised hair on the unsensitives and he was noisier naturally in the Force than either one of these two. He still sensed it try to get in and rush to fill his senses urgently….
He took cleansing breaths and casually walked toward one of the doors, the sound of the gundark on the other side did not break his calm as he took his butterfly vibroblades and attached them to his electrostaff methodically before energizing the entire weapon and his suit as the creature rushed out.
As he expected, the Mandalorian clad candidate went right after the ackley given Jahn's choice while the remaining seven began attacking each other. Jahn felt the thrill from the observation deck keenly but suppressed any reaction. He simply had no time as the gundark was quicker than he had researched.
The Mandalorian began using his rifle and jetpack to try to manipulate the ackley. Jahn merely decided to guide his gundark out and maintain its attention so others could engage it while he used his now double ended electrified spear with changing velocities, varied angles, power and precision. The gundark lunged looking to grapple and was met by controlled two stab strikes as parries then a dervish move so the other two arms closed on air while he dodged and forced it to dodge as well. Over and over this happened until all of its limbs and most of its torso were leaking blood at a large rate from the electrified vibroweapons. It roared in frustration each time it missed in this slowing battle dance as the ackley screamed in frustration as well at the expert shooting and jet dodges of the Mandalorian.
More thrills from the gallery alerted Jahn that someone had died in the battle royal among the rest of the bodyguards. As expected by Jahn, the Mandalorian gave ground to let the Ackley feed on the dead. Jahn however had pissed the gundark off enough he was not going to be redirected by non moving food so easily. Another brief flurry by the gundark gave him an avenue straight for the corpses, two wounded female fighters taking a breather, the ackley feeding, the Mandalorian and the candidate who called himself Deathstalker who was lightly wounded.
Jahn took offense to the moniker so …. After his last dodge of gundark arms he sprinted with the double spear in his right hand straight toward the Deathstalker and the body before him he was mutilating.
"This contest has been thrilling so far right?" Adrianna said fixated on the Deathstalker opening up the chest of his fallen opponent.
"Don't look now but it is about to get much more interesting." Leo pointed to the strange outlander his eyes had not left with the electrified suit hustling toward her "favorite".
The Deathstalker looked up when he heard the proximity of the gundark roaring closer even as he had flexed his hand on the warm, still, heart of the fallen before him. The wiry outlander was charging him holding his spear as a lance. Deathstalker dropped the heart and drew to begin to point his pistol at the charging foe. Just as he brought it to bear the outlander threw from his left hand what looked like an expanding mudball without breaking stride. It enveloped his weapon just as he fired it, blowing off his right hand.
Deathstalker also took three blaster bolts in the back as he fell, and armor or not the warrior began to fall screaming from the pain as the "outlander" dashed by deftly snatching the pin of his last grenade with the tip of his bobbing spear, almost seemingly by accident. Deathstalker mouthed thanks and thought "I have failed you Alon" as he fell over backwards the gundark who grabbed him, pulling him to the mouth for the killing blow. The explosion caught him and the gundark mortally wounding it.
Adrianna squealed in appreciation while Leo wondered at the outlander and Mandalorian. The outlander had run nearly the length of the arena, threw a jar that shattered when its contents were exposed to air, misfiring a blaster. And not satisfied with that had picked a 2 centimeter ring on a foe's body to flip off the only thing that would kill the gundark in one shot left on the field.
That is good, and while he identified the two women left as Mystral Shadowguards, this outlander must be Jedi, Sith or untrained. The other was definitely Mandalor.
Then 3 grenades exploded under the ackley made him reconsider the last thought a bit as the two remaining wounded candidates combined forces with the Mandalorian to wound the crustacean on its weakly defended underbelly critically. It landed on its back and the outlander parried his way past the flailing legs to deliver a spinning coup de grace decapitating the beast.
Jedi soresu, he thought, though the choice of double bladed spear was distinctly Zabrak with a flair of Sun Guard thrown in to boot, hard to tell what race he was with the way this outlander selected his nondescript grey flowing garb. He almost looked like he could fly if he wanted to.
"Excellent!" Shouted Adrianna "We have our four bodyguards now!" she clapped in appreciation.
The four aspirants looked at each other, the Mandalorian shrugged and they lined up. Jahn was at one end and the Mandalorian as the two females who had banded together stood in the middle.
"You have done extremely well." Adrianna announced savoring the destruction and blood flowing before her. "Time for a shower, to take your bioscans, to make you ID's."
