Bellamoura – Chappie Ten is up! Hope you like it! Remember, "bold" means Makai language.
Chiyoko was the first to awaken the following morning, around 6:30 Galactic Standard Time. She looked at the sleeping group. Kurama was laying flat on his back, sleeping peacefully. Hiei was sleeping sitting against the wall, his legs outstretched and his cover covering up to his neck, making him look like a little kid. Obi-Wan was lying on his side, his face serene. Kuwabara and Yuusuke, however, were lying sprawled on the floor. Chiyoko smirked, and walked over to Hiei.
"Hiei, Hiei. Wake up." Chiyoko whispered under her breathe.
"What do you want, onna?" Hiei mumbled groggily.
"Wanna get back at Kuwabara for the 'petit chou' incident?" Chiyoko said, and Hiei instantly awoke.
"Didn't even need to ask." Hiei said. Chiyoko tossed him a black marker. Hiei crept over to Kuwabara and wrote on his forehead "Baka Ningen" and drew on his face, smirking. Chiyoko crept over to Yuusuke and wrote on his head "What Now!" and drew on his face, fighting down chuckles. Then, Hiei and Chiyoko looked to Kurama and Obi-Wan, and smiled evilly.
An hour later, a loud scream awakened the others. Kurama and Obi-Wan had woken and had looked in the mirror. Kurama's face was covered in black marker drawings, with "Baka Fox" written on his forehead. Obi-Wan's face was similar, except his forehead sported "Obi-Kun".
The masters walked into the room, both looked tired and miffed, until they saw the Padawan's faces. Gallia covered her mouth with her hand, and Qui-Gon bit his thumb, but it was no use. The two started laughing, and the Padawans tried to glare.
"Hold up, where's. . ." Obi-Wan started, then the group looked at each other.
"CHIYOKO/HIEI!" The group yelled. Hiei and Chiyoko appeared, running, the group splitting up and following them. Yuusuke and Obi-Wan tackled Chiyoko, tickling her.
"Ah! Guys, stop!" She said, laughing. Meanwhile, Kuwabara and Kurama lost Hiei, so they went back to the refresher to get the marker off. They met back in the main hold, and saw that their masters had finally regained their composure. An alarm chime went off, and the group jumped.
"Relax, it just means we have reached Dxun." Qui-Gon said, as he and Gallia went to the cockpit.
"And I thought Makai forests where bad." Chiyoko mumbled under her breathe. Dxun could be summed up in three words: forest, hot, and humid.
"Where are we gonna start looking?" Kuwabara asked, looking around.
"How about the tomb?" Yuusuke asked, and the group looked at him. "Isn't the tomb of Exar Kun on Dxun?"
"That would be good, they said the force sensitives where 'rogue', they might hang out at a Sith tomb." Obi-Wan said.
"What about the old store caches and Mandalorian base from the Mandalorian and Galactic Wars?" Kurama suggested, and the group mulled it over.
"Ok, how about this. We split into two groups, and check in with the other every so often. Meet back here before morning tomorrow?" Chiyoko supplied, and everyone nodded.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Obi-Wan said.
"You have a better idea?" Hiei retorted, glaring.
"How about Master Gallia, Chiyoko, Kurama, and Obi-Wan be in one group, and Master Qui-Gon, Kuwabara, Hiei, and myself be in another?" Yuusuke said. "That way our group has fairly equal fighters and years of training." The group nodded.
"We will go to the Mandalorian encampment." Master Gallia said.
"Then we will go to the tomb." Master Qui-Gon said.
"May the force be with you." The group said, unanimously.
"Don't get killed again." Kurama added.
:With Master Gallia's Group:
"Something's not right." Chiyoko said, looking over the encampment from a cliff nearby.
"Whatta ya mean?" Obi-Wan asked, standing next to her.
"This is supposed to be abandoned since a bit after the Exile came here, right? Then why is it not covered by nature and have wild creatures in it?" Chiyoko said, looking warily at the 'abandoned' encampment.
"Allright, let's go down, but be careful." Master Gallia said.
The group carefully entered the encampment, there hands occasionally straying to their lightsabers. Chiyoko secretly split off from the group to explore a building that caught her interest. Kurama saw her, and split away as well. The building turned out to be what appeared to be the main headquarters, large holomaps of Dxun and its surface adorned the room.
"Kinda creepy." Chiyoko mumbled, going to walk out the door, when something caught her eye on a workbench. It looked like a double-bladed lightsaber. She picked it up and stashed it in her cloak to examine later.
The two walked outside and saw no trace of Master Gallia or the others. They walked quietly down a path, when a rustle in a group of bushes caught their attention. Out jumped three Mandalorians in full battle armor, stealth field generators off, withdrawing Vibroblades. Kurama ignited his green lightsaber while Chiyoko ignited her silver one. The second the Mandalorians saw the lightsabers, they re-sheathed their weapons. One of them stepped out.
"You are Jedi?" He asked, and Chiyoko nodded.
"Yes, that we are. If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing here? This ruin was abandoned – for the outer rim planets - shortly after the return of Mandalore from his exploration with the Exile?" Chiyoko said, as the two disengaging their lightsabers.
"We returned here after Mandalore was defeated. I am the new Mandalore." He said, and the two bowed.
"We are here searching for some rogue Force Sensitives, and now our other companions. Could you help us?" Kurama asked. Before Mandalore could respond, a loud shout could be heard in another part of the camp. Kurama and Chiyoko looked at each other, and dashed to the sight of the sound. When they got to the sight they thought they heard the sound from, no one was there. Kurama was about to turn around when Chiyoko tugged on his sleeve. He turned around, and Chiyoko pointed to a puddle of blood with a lightsaber in it. Kurama picked it up and ignited it.
It was Master Gallia's azure blade. Chiyoko's face blanched slightly, and she looked to Kurama. "We have underestimated our opponent, Kurama."
"Indeed we have, we should warn the others." Kurama said, and Chiyoko nodded.
After contacting the others, the Mandalorians allowed them to use their resources to locate the possible place where the rogue Force Sensitives could be. They came up with two possibilities; The tomb of Exar Kun, or the tattered remains of a Sith mother ship. They chose the later, and raced over.
:With Master Qui-Gon's Group:
The group was about half-way into the tomb when Kurama and Chiyoko's warning reached them. Hiei looked around, his hand on the hilt of his lightsaber.
"It would be best if we didn't split up for awhile." Hiei said, and the group nodded. They continued down the tomb for some time until they reached the actual area where the sarcophagus was. As soon as the group completely walked through the door, the doors slammed shut behind them, and battle droids appeared from out of nowhere.
"There on stealth-field generators!" Master Qui-Gon yelled as he and the padawans ignited their lightsabers, deflecting blaster fire. The group used their force powers to keep some of the droids at bay while the others slashed at them.
"They just keep coming!" Yuusuke shouted, slashing off the head of one of the droids. It took them at least 20 minutes to clear the room of droids, and by the end they had several blaster burns on their clothing, but that wasn't what caught their attention.
"Hey, where's Hiei and Kuwabara?" Yuusuke asked, looking around. He and Master Qui-Gon looked at each other, before dashing out of the tomb.
When they reached the outside, they saw Chiyoko and Kurama enter from a path in the forest. "We know where they took them. C'mon, hurry!" Chiyoko said, dashing down the path.
The group reached the entrance to the Sith mother ship, and peaked out. "No guard, to easy." Chiyoko said, looking around, spotting a damaged battle droid. "Wait here a second." She said. She sprinted over to the damaged droid and reactivated and repaired it. Before she gave the droid commands, she went near the doorway and place something at certain intervals down both sides, never entering the doorway. She sent it walking towards the door, and leapt into the bushes. The second the droid walked into the doorway, alarms went off, and two people walked out, dressed in Sith Apprentice robes. They saw the droid, and blasted it with blasters before walking back inside. Chiyoko came back and smirked.
"What'd you do?" Yuusuke asked.
"I bugged the droid so that when they blasted it, it would mess up the infrared lasers. We can go in now."
It did not take them long to enter the compound. The few gaurds there where eliminated quickly and efficiently. "Did they seriously think they weren't going to get attacked? The fools." Kurama mutters, his hair gaining silver tints. It may have been easy to defeat the gaurds in the mother ship, but they had made the place extremely confusing to find their way around in. Chiyoko had to look at her datapad five times to find her way around.
The group had finally found the only room they hadn't checked. When they opened it, there where four Force Cages set up, and in each cage a person.
"Kuwabara!" Yuusuke said, rushing forward to the first cage, undoing the complex circuitry to lest his friend out.
" 'Bout time Urameshi." Kuwabara grumbled, looking to the others.
"Obi-Wan! Are you allright?" Qui-Gon asked, dropping the mask on his face for the briefest of seconds before restoring it and working on the complicated circuitry.
"Yes, I am fine master." Obi-Wan said, but a bruise on his left cheek gave it away.
"Hiei!" Kurama said, dashing over to the cage holding his best friend. He undid the circuitry fairly quickly and Hiei walked out, slightly limping. Kurama looked at him worriedly.
"It's nothing major, fox." Hiei said, looking at Chiyoko, who lifted Master Gallia's body out of the force cage. Master Gallia had a large gash on her forehead and a large bruise on her left shoulder visible near the neck of the shirt. Chiyoko pulled out a length of fabric and tied it around Master Gallia's head until they could get back to the ship.
"Aww, look at the wittle Jedi trying to help their wittle friends." A cold voice spoke from the shadows. The group turned around.
Out stepped three Dark Jedi.
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