Week 6: Dark Hapans
26. water
Water was for purification. It was ironic how a watery world like Hapes was so polluted with politics.
A drop hit the ground. That was somebody's tear, a tear shed for a young queen who now floated atop the water. A young, Sith queen was about to be washed of all of the actions that she had committed with her father.
The woman had a glorious future, the prospect of ruling the known galaxy, ahead of her, but that now belonged to her heirs simply because she inherited some gene from an unknown great-grandmother. The heirs had killed the queen.
27. fire
For Jacen, leaving the Jedi Order to live on Hapes was a trial by fire. But why? He was Darth Infinite, afraid of nothing at all. But he was afraid, not of abandoning everything he had lived for before, but of revealing his daughter. Still, what choice did he have? Tenel Ka's fate was unknown, Isolder was dead. Hapan law required for the father to step into the light, choose a regent, and raise the child in such instances. Since Allana was the heir and could not leave, he had to come and stay. She was going to be Sith.
28. earth
A tear slid down the young queen's face as the prince's body hit the earth with a thud. She killed her crimson blade and rushed over to check his pulse. There was none. She mourned, not for the death that had to be but for the alliance that could have been. If only he wasn't a Jedi fool. The Jedi's place was back in the earth, where everything came from.
A few days later, the young woman drew the cloak around her body as she watched their father scatter the ashes. She did not want to face her angered father.
29. air
The air was not the Sith Lord's battlefield, but it had to end there. Tempestuous winds whipped the aging Sith's thin form as he climbed into the Hapan starfighter. It was too ironic how the Swords of the Jedi and Sith had to duke it out with each other with their respective starfighters rather than their lightsabers. He would have preferred the latter, which was his strength. Still, there was pleasure in forcing his ultimate rival to travel to the world that he came to call home. As if to dispel the violent weather, the engine expelled its own wind.
30. spirit
Voices whispered into Tenel Ka's ears, but she ignored them. She was not one to listen to spirits, even it if was her own mother's speaking. The Nightsister was here, now, right before the Queen Mother with the best offer in the galaxy, while Teneniel Djo was a mere specter from the past.
"You're tired of the nobles, aren't you, Queen Mother?" asked the Nightsister, a woman clad in black armor.
"Yes. What help are you offering me?" Tenel Ka narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
"A technique to create and hide life, but it only works with Force-sensitive slaves."
"Teach me."