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Chapter Seventeen: An Explosion

When River woke up the next morning she walked into the bathroom took a shower walked to her dresser and put on a pair of grey pants and a pink blouse that the sleeves were long and at the wrists the gathered into a cuff around the wrists. She painted her face because she had a feeling that she was going into battle. She dried her hair and pulled it back into a ponytail leaving two strands to frame her face. She slipped her boots on and put her cloak on and set off to what she didn't know.

River made her way to the observatory room and when she walked in she saw Daniel standing at the window looking out. He turned around and smiled.

"Good morning warrior chick!!" he said rather cheerfully.

"Good morning dude!!"

"What so I'm not a warrior?"

"Nope."

"Ah come on be somewhat lenient."

"Sorry can't do that."

"Fine." he said turning his back to her with a pout on his face.

"Fine." and she turned her back to him smiling.

"Hey can you help me sort through this stuff and decipher if it is going to help me?"

"Why should I?"

"Because you don't want to be classified as a grumpy cyborg!"

"Fine what ever you say just don't classify me as that."

"Okay."

They started sorting through the boxes.

River started to hum and Daniel thought it was nice.

"Where did you learn that?"

"Me and five friends wrote it at twelve because we wanted to have a theme song to sing when we became warriors."

"How's it go?"

"Like this:" and she started to sing.

I'm a warrior; I'm a warrior,

I would die for you, for you,

My love is fierce; I'm a warrior,

I would die for you, for you,

I'm a warrior with a warrior's heart,

And it burns for you, for you,

My love is fierce; I'm a warrior,

I would die for you, give it all for you,

I won't give up; I won't give up on you,

I won't give up on you,

I will sing your name until my heart caves in,

Until my heart caves in,

On her second time around she started to get crazy and I mean crazy. And when she started again guess who should walk in General Grievous. Daniel started to make funny motions and was having a hard time breathing trying to get Rivers attention but River thought he was laughing and didn't pay any heed.

When she finished Daniel had recovered enough he said, "Don't look behind you."

"There's something bad behind me isn't there."

"I wouldn't say bad I would say very "unfortunate"."

When Daniel said this she felt a metallic hand grab the front of her cloak and slam her hard against the wall. She closed her eyes in pain and tried to squirm free even though she knew her attempt was futile.

She opened her eyes and was looking directly into Grievous' eyes and to her dismay she could read what he thought.

"What in tarnation do you think you were doing?" he demanded slamming her into the wall again.

She groaned in pain and replied, "I know your not going to like this but I was having fun."

She was right he didn't like it "Warriors don't have fun."

"Oh yeah! Well you used to get into a load of trouble back when we were in the army because you were having fun."

"That was then this is now!" he hissed as he let her go.

Daniel rushed over to her to see if she was all right.

"Are you alright?" he said in a low whisper so the Grievous wouldn't hear him because he was giving a lecture.

River eyes grew wide as Grievous turned around and Daniel had his turn at being slammed to the wall.

"WHY DID YOU INTERUPT ME?'' demanded Grievous as his grip tightened.

"Because I wanted to see if she was all right."

"And what makes you think that you have that right?"

"Because I love her!!"

Grievous let Daniel go and walked over to River and stood in front of her, she grabbed his hand to steady herself as she got up, she felt his hand wrap protectively around hers.

"If you as much as look at my apprentice again I will kill you, in fact since I know your not going to listen to me I will just kill you now."

Grievous split his hands in two and pulled out four sabers and ignited them, Daniel pulled out two double bladed sabers and red blades descended out of each end on both of them.

To both of their astonishment River pulled out her double bladed saber and walked up to Daniel and stood next to him as she ignited her saber. Grievous was hurt that his own apprentice sided with his nemesis, even though he was out numbered by two sabers he could easily defeat them both.

Daniel made the first move and River followed. Daniel and River worked together as a team and they gave out their share of attacks, but had to block even more from Grievous.

This went on for a very long time Daniel was getting worn out but River was getting to her strongest point. She was not only feeding off of her weariness but she felt that she had to defend what she held close to her heart. When things took a turn for the worst Daniel was knocked clear across the room and was knocked unconscious. But River kept on.

"Looks like it's just you and me." said Grievous trying to push River so that the same thing would happen to her as had happened to Daniel.

But River was smarter than to let an old attack be the cause of her downfall.

"It appears that our unfinished duel now continues," she said with a mischievous grin on her face.

"So it does." and Grievous lunged at her.

River knocked two of his lightsabers out of his hands and he made it so that he had two arms. Daniel stirred at the other end of the room; this distracted River and she joined him on the floor.

As she made contact with the floor her saber switched off and her wrist hurt really bad which meant that it was either broken or sprianed, she could move it which meant it wasn't broken, she had landed a few feet from Daniel.

Grievous walked over to them with two of his many sabers ignited. He lifted them for the deathblow but River flung herself on top of Daniel before he could harm him any more.

"If you want to kill him you have to go through me!!" said River without quavering.

Grievous stopped, he didn't want to kill River he just had a feeling that Daniel was no good.

Grievous turned around and without looking back he walked out of the room. If he had turned around he would have finally remembered that emotion that he kept feeling because he would have seen River and Daniel wrapped in a warm embrace and kissing.

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