The Winds Shape

Chapter 19: Reveal the Sha

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.

Serreno Bellasavian Cliffs

2.8 BBA

"We need to go so turn that damn thing off and put it away, we have much to learn." "Jedidiah" said to them with a phrik will.

When she complied he deactivated his staff, pulled off his gloves, they hung by material from his wrists revealing his hard working blue hands. "I know you have a ton of questions but… take my hand both of you… and he held out one hand as he reached for one of the assassins aiming to touch an exposed hand and gun.

Leo grabbed the thumb while Adrianna his fingers and immediately was pulled into a surreal dream. The young man they held hands with was bright white, another by his side brilliant and old and the interplay of time falling backward as the slave was tasked to come to a bar in Carrania and a scene played out. The slave was summoned by the slave's owner's relative to come to this place with other slaves they sat at a table while a pair of females in black cloaks with electro whips waited and a Zabrak minion spoke. You nine are on the Bellasavian cove kill team. A group of joggers are going to pass there two days hence at this point on the map, slaughter them. You four are to reprogram the guardian's droids tomorrow night and her ship as well so the navicomputer is just a little off. We must kill Adrianna and Leo by sundown of the second day or you all and your families die…

The vision ended and Jedidiah let go of them putting his gloves back on. "You have had four attempts on your life before you hired us and then, overruled Kua Wan and I when we told you this jog was a damn tough thing to cover. It is right hard to protect someone trying to die from privileged stubbornness or do you call it noblisse oblige? I would have tied you up and stopped the nonsense if not for this one lesson. Force adept or not, people like us die even with good training, and double fast if we act invincible. Those are Yanibar's rules, not mine."

"Who are you?" Leo asked and Jahn sighed before taking a deep breath, Leo could see a decision he had avoided so far had just been made in one cleansing breath. Jahn removed his goggles, then the contact lenses changing his eyes from Pantoran yellow to a brilliant green spiked hazel.

"I am the child of the Jedi who was hidden and escaped from the Empire's trap on Yanibar. Thus I am Zeison Sha and half brother to Adrianna. Anything else can wait as our compatriots return." He said putting the contacts back in "But they suspect I am Jedi blooded, here is the plan." And Jahn handed the sketch on the cloth napkin to the couple, only to watch them enter Force rapture without him to guide them out. A light touch of his returned them to the here and now. "Sorry, but your Sith earrings did the same to me earlier, which helped me pierce the shroud of the dark side and craft this vision." The looks of confusion as the two jet setters absorbed this was written all over their faces.

Kua Wan walked up while the two Mystrals carried a limp man, grumbling at their burden.

"He is out cold but may talk." Kua Wan commented.

"Awesome shot! Parted his hair just right!" Karolly enthusiastically added. Jahn brushed her hand and was assailed by another vision. He submitted to it before coming out and touching the captive. Jahn looked through the man as he touched him lightly "He will not talk willingly at first but" Jahn took out a tool and swiftly pulled a tooth before using another bit on the other end to reach inside his neck pulling out the explosive charge that the master could trigger to kill the slave before throwing the tool and device over the cliff side with a blast of Force rend causing an explosion "now he will be able to speak freely as this one" he brushed the man's hair out of his eyes "is an orphan. We can relate to that feeling eh Kua?"

If Kua had a reaction inside his armor no one could tell. Jahn watched Adrianna extend roughly her presence to affect him and when there was no purchase drew back confused.

They bear Dam-Powl's gift. The adepts heard in his Padre's voice. They cannot be manipulated by the arts of influence as it is part of their being.

"Employees to employer, next task? What are we doing? What is the plan?" Kua Wan asked as the three adepts had tuned out.

"Kua, this man is your charge, your apprentice, your responsibility to be released safely later." Leo responded rocking the Mandalorean suited man back on his heels. However, he did pick him up to carry.

"I get paid extra for this you know." Kua Wan responded.

"I believe we need to leave Serreno." Adrianna said with a sigh obviously still loving her life, celebrity and home world. "We leave now, did you find any sort of transport the assailants used to get here out there?"

"Do you think we would be so dumb as to carry a booby trapped slave if there was?" the Mystrals snarled as three drones were flying a search pattern over the windswept plateau.

Then Jahn pointed as they started circling an area. "Over there, a camouflaged speeder sled."

The looks he received as he started trotting that way from the other five were of disbelief.

"How are you doing this?" Karolly asked when she had caught up to Jahn.

"Psychometric interfaced Mecha Derro Force technique." Jahn said flatly back in his gravelly mechanical voice. "I interface with technology by touch, a latent talent of my bloodline that is an alchemical study. I have worked hard on improving as it is a non corruptive Sith discipline and dovetails into sanaah ya ubunifu, the art of creativity lost long ago in the Temple of Bodhi."

"You are a Sith?" the Mystral both said in shock.

"I am Zeison Sha, we adapt, overcome and survive in the light without prejudice for the safety and health of community." He answered to their shock "Those are Yanabar's rules, not mine."

"Yanibar's rules?" Leo Organa asked puzzled hearing it for the second time.

"Yanibar is harsh, it suffers not the wicked or the rigid dominant mind, you adapt to it symbiotically as a population or perish swiftly. Rule 5, Lesson of the Voorcat." His voice then changed into his tenor as his language changed to Yanab "Yan'eebar ai kei no vogel. Ashla an ti var do vida. Kia te kaha ki a koe." He said still trotting as one drone landed on the speeder while one hovered as a beacon and another gained altitude to search for threats.

"What does that mean?" Leo and Adrianna asked in unison.

"Use your insight initiates." Was his direct response "And tell yourself before you answer me." He said ominously "Your belief must infuse the choice of interpretation for it to have the power of that interpretation. Guessing?" his voice rose in pitch at the question "does NOT." He finished firmly.

"I know what it means." Kua Wan added menacingly "A bigger bounty from the Empire at the end." He paused as four heads turned to him "Provided you three up your value, right now you barely cover equipment expenses." At that he hopped and avoided a large vine that tripped the shocked celebrities and the mystrals tumbling them to the ground.

"Always be present even when ten seconds ahead!" Jahn barked "We have only 100 minutes left to leave Serreno safely." Jahn said in his mechanical voice loudly as he had not broken stride "Keep up! Yanibar's rules, not mine." As the four scrambled to their feet to jog and catch up grumbling about ganking Yanibar rules.