Here we are, I am presenting you with part 4. I still don't own any of the characters or the game, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic that this is based on. The foreign language I used in this chapter is a real language, for those who do not know German. At the end of this chapter I will have all of the German words translated for you. Every chapter from now on that has German in it will have translations at the bottom, but once Oak informs the Elders to use Basic, there will only be one or two words in German every few lines. Please read and review! Enjoy!
Once again, I was met with cold air as I stepped off the ship. I looked around, searching for footprints to tell me what direction we had gone in previously. As I started to take a step forward, I heard the ramp lower behind me.
"Oak, what do you think you are doing?"
"Carth, I am going back. I know what I saw and what I saw was some sort of building or something." I turned to look at him, and realized he was taking off his coat.
"You must be crazy. Nobody saw anything but you." He walked towards me and draped the bright orange leather around me. "Here, take this."
"What?" I shrugged and the jacket fell to the ground. "You insult me and then expect me to allow you to let my use your jacket? I think not buddy. I can keep myself warm, thank you." I used the force to warm the air around me and stuck out my tongue as the golden threads of light circled around me.
"Oak, I know you know how to keep yourself warm, but you normally forget. Why won't you just accept help from anyone?" He picked the jacket up off the ground. "Now take it." He thrust it at me.
"No." I threw it back to him, but my hand-eye coordination was not as good as his, so I missed and it landed on the ground five feet away from him.
"Why are you so stubborn?"
"Why won't you keep your stupid jacket and let me walk away?"
"Why are you answering my questions with more questions?"
"I could say the same to you. Now let me walk away." I turned, but this time he grabbed my arm. "Carth, let go." My voice was low and as cold as the ice we stood on.
"No."
"Why not?" I struggled to release my arm from his grasp, but I couldn't.
"Because," His voice was very low, and he said something more than his "Because", but I couldn't hear it, seeing as it was mostly inaudible.
"What did you say Carth?" I stopped struggling.
"Because, you said that…" He stopped talking.
"Because I said…?" I tried to prompt him into telling me.
"On the ship, you said that you cared about me and I realized I sort of care about you too, but you are Revan. And I don't think I can care about you with that running through my mind." He stopped talking and let go of my arm. Then he folded his jacket and placed it in my arms. "Now take it."
He turned and walked away. He didn't look back or say anything else. I'll just drop the jacket. That would show him. Let it deteriorate in the snow. I threw it down and started walking away. Breathing heavily, I started walking away. After going a few steps, I started to have the same sensation as before, and I sat down in the snow. My eyelids were heavy and I let them fall.
I felt 3-fingered hands around me as they tried to life me up. I took a hand fun of snow and threw it somewhere behind me, hoping to hit the person trying to move me.
"Stop, I don't need help!" I tried to say the words, but they came out as mumbled. It sounded like I was saying "Stoop, I'm death nod here."
"Stoppen zu versuchen, mich zu töten verrückte menschliche Frau. Mich Bissen nicht bilden du. Joe, lassen Sie uns sie zum Bügel nehmen. (1)" A raspy voice muttered in an alien language I could understand.
" Left goat oats meat!" I fought against the scaly arms around me. Did I just say 'Left goat oats meat'? No! Let go of me! Don't pick me up! Who are you?
"Joe, nehmen bitte diese ärgerliche Frau. Ich muß voran zum Bügel gehen. Ich informiere den Leiter dich komme. Zu langes nicht nehmen. Und Harry, essen nicht die menschliche Frau, gut? (2)" I felt myself being handed off to another pair of scaly arms and I tried to open my eyes. Am I still outside the ship? Is anyone aware that I am being jedi-napped?
And there I was, curled up in some scaly arms being Jedi-napped and I couldn't open my eyes. Perfect. Canderous, where are you? You with that blaster attacked to your arm. Oh, you are so funny. Shooting things and the such. And HK-47! He would be useful. Always calling me master. I bet he would help me out of a scrap. As I was being transported to some crazy place with these crazy beings I became delirious. My thoughts drifted to things as idiotic as flowers. When I finally passed out, I was thinking about the best way to tell T3-M4 that Jolee would be its new husband.
Some time later, I was thrown to the ground and awoke, listening to some strange conversation that I believed was about me.
"Interessieren. Und du bist sicher, daß dieses das ist? (3)" A voice that sounded surprisingly superior sounded around the circle room.
"Ja Sir. Dieses ist die menschliche Frau, die du uns finden wünschtest. Das, das wir gestern sahen. Sie schaut eine kleine unterschiedliche Spitze. Es gibt ein Glühen um sie jetzt. Sie erklärte uns 'Hafer auch Fleisch'. Was dieses Mittel? (4)" The same voice I heard when I had originally been "captured" spoke this time.
"Ich beachte die änderung außerdem. Es ist der gleiche Mensch. Und, Haferfleisch? Ich habe nie gehört, daß ein menschliches weibliches solch eine Sache sagen. Sehr interessant. (5)" The superior voice spoke again. He must be the Chief.
"Stop talking." I stood up where I was and looked at all of the short creatures around me. They were all blue, and their heads were like hammers. They looked at me in surprise. "Speak in Basic please."
"Basic…that language you burned into our heads last time we saw you. Revan, it is good to see you. I am Chief, but please call me by my native tongue, Leiter (6)." His Basic was rough, but I could understand it perfectly.
"Alright Leiter. How do you know me?" I decided to follow along, but I needed answers now.
"Last time you came to this planet, Kalter Platz (7), you burned your language into our brains and ripped ours out of our brains and put it in your own. You then tricked us into letting you into our temple and we foolishly let you in, seeing as you told us you were going into the Star Forge to shut it down. But did you? Nein (8), you did not. You made everything so much worse. Now, what is it that you want?"
"I would like to know what you call your species."
"We are the Älteste (9) but you can call us the Elders. Anything else?"
"Yes," I paused. "Leiter, I hate to ask this of you, but," My eyes flickered to the ground.
"Please, Revan, ask us what you want. I will try to answer."
"I need you to let me into the temple again." I looked up at him to seem him making some strange face with an equally strange sound coming out of his mouth. Well, maybe his mouth.
"Into the temple? Nein." Oh, I know what sound he's making! That's how he laughs! He sounds funny.
"Please?"
"Well, actually, you might be let in if you can do something for us. There are many things wrong with the area on Kalter Platz. For one, Mandalorians are running around near the temple." As Leiter listed things I could do, I started making a mental list.
"How many of these things would you like me to do for you?" I asked when he had stopped talking.
"All of them. Now, go back to your ship and don't come back until they have all been completed. Auf Wiedersehen (10)."
One of the Elders led me towards the exit of their compound and outside. "There is a path right there that leads back to your ship. Do not go off of it and you should be fine." I smiled at him and walked the way he instructed.
I got back to the ship only to find the whole crew standing outside the ship in a total panic.
"Hi guys." I waved at them and they ran towards me. Most of them where angry.
After explaining what happened, I discovered I would be stuck on the ship for 2 days and would be unable to save the galaxy. Jolee grounded me.
Translations:
1. Stop trying to kill me crazy human female. Do not make me bite you. Joe, let's take her to the temple.
2. Joe, please take this annoying female. I need to go ahead to the temple. I will let the Chief know you are coming. Don't take too long. And Harry, don't eat the human female, alright?
3. Interesting. And you are sure this is the one?
4. Yes sir. This is the human female you wanted us to find. The one we saw yesterday. She looks a small bit different. There is a glow around her now. She also told us to "oats meat". What does that mean?
5. I notice the change as well. It is the same human. And, oats meat? I have never heard a human female say such a thing. Very interesting.
6. Chief
7. Cold place
8. No
9. Elders
10. Good-bye
