I don't own Star Wars the Old Republic or it's characters, this is only Fanfiction. Edited by Mandalore the Freedom.


Just as Jack finished cutting off the head of the now very dead clan leader someone just happens to come and check how the now dead leader was. It was pretty ironic that he just happened to ask how he was. Jack was still holding the head in one hand and had the lightsaber on the other. He went into the room where the others were last at, finding everyone had just defeated Gil and his men, finding most of them injured, Gil looked shocked to see head of Mavrix in his hands.

"He is dead, and I am doing just fine, thanks for asking." this had quite the opposite effect that Jack was expecting. He was expecting rage, fury, and lastly a great desire for revenge. Instead, Gil blow his head to him in respect, so did his warriors with him, surprising Jack a great deal.

"You have no idea what is like to be forced to do those things he made us do. I can't possibly thank you for finally freeing us from him. I know how about the data on this cruiser. I have a complete copy of all the data. I also have a few metric tons of armor and weapons. Take them all as our gift to you."

Jack had to mentioned that without a clan leader they had little to no support. The guy looked at him as he cleaned his face and stood up. "I wouldn't worry to much, once you tell Mandalore what this bastard made us do and take this file I have on evidence that we were forced to obey him. Mandalore is sure to let us join a new clan, but before I go on who are you?"

Jack smiled as he obtained the data and the evidence. "Jack Keldau Organa, Clan Keldau. Now it is only appropriate that you introduced yourself." He did and I was surprised to hear his name was Gil Varad . Jack asked him if he was related to the now dead clan leader.

"His son actually, though I loved my father, he only expected the best of our clan members, he wasn't one to forgive mistakes, anyone who didn't meet his high demands either becomes sparring or even hunting practice for the clan's younger members, I've watched good people suffer for that. My children would have suffered that and not know what it truly means to be Mandalorian." Shara was tightening her fist, her anger towards Mavrix only grew from hearing this, she was glad the monster was dead.

Jack told him that if nobody and I mean nobody was willing to give them a chance and Mandalore did decide to give them a chance to join a new clan, then he was willing to put them through the Keldau acceptance test. This seems to relax him somewhat and told him he and the remaining clan that didn't want to do those dishonorable deeds would go and report to the Enclave.

Jack looked at his crew as he saw them smiling, "What? I have to rebuild Clan Keldau. It's not like we got the luxury of waiting for three or four centuries to allow the clan to rebuild naturally." Ceta was at least happy to see that he understood that he did need to consider that possibility and Mako was happy to see that even after all the things they been through he was the same caring, sweet guy she fell in love with.

"Now we only need to do is tell that Republic strive team to take back their ship and we can get back to report to Darth Malgus. I don't think he will be too happy about this but I will have to think of a way to try and smooth things over with him. Yukina you got any suggestions on that regard?"

Yukina was happy that he asked that, "Well I could say that you did it to avoid an incident with the Republic. I know that the Sith Empire is going to brake the treaty eventually, but they most certainly would like to keep it intact until they have enough Sith troops and strengthen our military to win said war. Nobody enters a fight without being ready to win after all." Malavai wasn't too sure about this, but he saw the data will more then make up for this.

As they walked over to the hangar of their ship they met the Republic strike team, getting ready to move out. "Look don't bother telling me. I know this bucket of bolts is property of the Republic, so go ahead and take it back to it's rightful owners. I don't want to cause a war over this thing."

The Jedi was particularly surprised to hear him say that. "That is not the only issue here. I was told by the Grand Master of the Jedi Order to bring you to testify in front of the Council. There has been some serious charges made against a member of the Council of inappropriate conduct and quite possibly treason against the order."

Jack looked at the Republic Strike Team and saw that his crew was ready to make move on a moments notice. "You can tell Satele that I can testify via holoterminal, but I am not suicidal or crazy enough to even consider landing on that planet. You can tell them that if they were so happy that I got the proverbial boot out of the order, then don't expect me to jump for joy when they want me to return."

Even some of the members of the Strike Team were nodding their heads in clear signs of understanding what he was saying. Jack and the others got on his ship as they say a farewell and so did Yukina in her own ship. She told him he would meet her back at the station to report the mission back to Darth Malgus.

The trip was rather quick and without no major incidents, well that is not true for most things. Gault was in the infirmary nursing a few broken bones. Apparently he took the risk of trying to peek at Shara taking a shower. This made said woman angry enough to give the Devaronian the worst beating of his life. "Oooh it was worth it, she has one killer body." Moaned Gault, he grunted in pain as Ceta punched his gut.

As the ship landed on the station, Jack took with him Laine and Ceta since they told him they needed to purchase some things while he and Mako reported the success of their mission. Darth Malgus appeared, not noticing he was smiling behind his mask. When he saw Yukina smile the same smile he knew that the pure blooded Sith had given the Darth a heads up.

"So nice to see that you respected the treaty and avoided tipping the Empire's hand too early. Jack I do hope you got me a few souvenirs at the very least." Darth Malgus was in a particularly good mood it seems.

"Sure, I got a couple of presents. First we got a copy of the entire database off that ships main computer, which included the blueprints of said ship. Lastly I also got you the head of the idiot that stole said ship from the Republic. I am sure it will bring you hours of fun and if not it is a nice enough of a trophy."

As he placed the data to be sent to him and he gave Yukina the head so that she could show it to him. Darth Malgus raise a brow once he saw the grinning face of Mavrix, it creep hell out of Yukina's crew and Mako. "It will appear the stories regarding you are true Jack. You and your crew earned your pay and then some. Be sure that I will give you that bonus and that I shall call on you again in the future." He ended the communications and just as he did Laine and Ceta told him they finished buying the supplies they needed.

Mako asked if that included a muzzle for Gault? That made some of them laugh as they heard that. Jack went over to the terminal and decided to call Mandalore next, he appeared on holo. "Mandalore, I have defeated Clan Varad and Mavrix Varad personally, most of the clan is either dead or captured, the remaining survivors wish to join the other clans to redeem themselves."

Mandalore the Vindicated looked at him and nodded his head. "Indeed Jack, they came to the Enclave and did testify as such, I was surprise to learn they wish redeem themselves. The problem is that none of the clans in the Enclave wish to let them take the test, memories are still fresh from last rebellion. As I understand it your Clan needs to rebuild, so I was wondering if you would allow them to take your clan's test and maybe even join it?"

Jack knew that he was well aware of his answer but thanked him for the courtesy of asking. "My clan will give them a chance to prove themselves, they will have to complete the first training regiment but if they survived the treatment they received from those dar'manda then they should have no problem passing my clan's tests of strength and skill."

Mandalore was happy to hear that, "I am happy to see that you are maintaining the old code alive. I would expect nothing less from the son of Darth Revan, Susan Organa would be proud that she raised a fine warrior, I wish you luck on you're next hunt Reaper." Mandalore ended the communications and Jack decided to return to his ship and see if Crysta had the next target ready or if their little vacation was going to be extended a bit longer.

Mako decide ask Jack something. "So Jack, if the remaining members of Clan Varad will join you're clan, where their gonna go to while we hunt the next target?" Mako brought up a good point, Jack will need a good training ground for members of Clan Varad, though they were unquestionable dangerous as Mavrix Varad demanded the best of his clan, he still thought they need go over matters of being real Mandalorians.

He had the perfect place in mind. "Dxun will do nicely, it will test them good, it has everything we will need for the training, and not many people will want go there since it's so dangerous." Jack also recall a Mandalorian outpost there, where most of rebuilding of the Mandalorians of Mandalore the Preserver held, hopefully it's still there.

Mako nodded. "Alright, so any ideas what we should do with all the credits we have now?" Ceta had a idea, "you could try get equipment for the remaining survivors of Clan Varad? You probably noticed most of clan members weren't wearing Mandalorian armor besides the commandos." Jack thought about it, he figure he could make few calls about that.

"We'll see about that, for now let's go see what Crysta has for us, we are getting very close to end of the Great Hunt." Yeah, things should get very interesting now. They headed back to the ship, now very eager they were now near the end.

As they enter the ship, Hedarr Soongh was there to greet them, he looked very happy. "Very nicely down Jack, Clan Varad has always left a stain on the Mandalorians, their consent raids on many worlds left a bad impression on Mandalorians, maybe now they can truly find what it is to be a warrior." Hedarr Soongh remembered the first time he met Mavrix Varad, he was every bit of a bloodthirsty savage people tend make out of Mandalorians.

He acted more like a Iridonian then Mandalorian. "Glad you approve, any advise on training the remaining survivors Hedarr?" Hedarr place his hand on his chin in thought, "you will need to be harder on them, members of Clan Varad have development to withstand high pain, so they can take tougher parts of Clan Keldau's training. Also be warned, some of Varad's bloodthirsty traits will still be among them, they have had it for a long time and it isn't about to go well so easy." Jack nodded, thankful of his advise.

As Jack went up to contact Crysta, he began to wonder how Mako was doing so he walked over to her and he watched her relaxing on one of the chairs in the cockpit looking like she was daydreaming about something. He decided to surprise her and began to rub her shoulders, which caused her to almost moan.

"Oh, right there. I feel great when you rub my shoulder right there. I been feeling a pain there all day. Oh, yeah right there, just like that." Jack smiled at her and kissed her on her neck and behind her left ear.

"Look mister you keep that up and we are going to need a bed and I mean soon. Don't warm up the bath water if you aren't going to take a bath if you get my meaning." Jack laughed as he saw her blush.

"Mako, I wanted to show you how much I love you. You might want to come to the com room since I am about to contact Crysta about our last Great Hunt target. You might want to be there. So I figured why not tell you before I called Crysta and when I saw you I couldn't very well pass up the opportunity to make you realize that I love you."

She began to blush even more after hearing that. "Come on, let's go and hear about your last target. I am a glad you came to tell me. This will give me a chance to prepare a strategy with Shara to get the last one and then you can become the Grand champion of this great hunt."

She walked a little fast towards the com room, almost like she was trying to get her mind off something.

Jack pushed the holoterminal and he established contact with Crysta. "Crysta please tell me you got my last target. I enjoy vacations as much as the next guy, but if I wait to much longer I might be giving that scumbag Tarro Blood an advantage I don't wish him to have."

Crysta smiled as he said that, "Well then Hunter I have some wonderful news for you. Your last target is a Jedi by the name of Jarro, Kellian Jarro. This guy made his fame racking up quite the body count killing over a hundred Mandalorians during the sacking of Coruscant. The fact is the guy killed a lot of warriors of Clan Spar. In fact it was his slaughter of so many of that particular Clan that made it easy for clan Rook to do their evil deed."

Jack was mad as he heard that, Jedi were supposedly defenders of the galaxy, and yet this one did something that could only be considered a war crime. "Just tell me that my rival is Tarro and where I am supposed to meet my target. I can't wait to teach him a few things about ethics."

Crysta saw the look in his eyes and felt a shiver go down her spine. "You are not going to like this, he is on a battleship orbiting a dual star system. You are going to find a way to get on board and deal with a few battalions of Republic troops, then deal with Jarro and Tarro. So in other words not much different that you had to do before."

Crystal smiled as he continued, "I wish you luck, a side note Mandalore told me if you can get him to admit his wrong doings and get him to make amends he will consider the hunt successful and if it helps Clan Spar, he said he might give you a little something extra."

When the communications were off he looked at Mako and she was looking at a star chart of that system. "Shara do you think you could imitate an order to abandon ship from a Republic officer?" that was when HK decided to make his presence known to them.

"Indignant Response: you ask that meatbag to do something I could do with most of my motor functions shut off. I can imitate any voice and I could most certainly imitate an abandon ship order. You would have to imitate a reason for the order however, I suggest a reactor breach."

Shara had to agree with the Droid it was a plausible idea, and there was a planet in that system where they could evacuate to as well.

"Very well, Mako make them think that their ship if going to blow to space dust, but limit it to the decks below the command deck. If I know how Jedi work they will want to keep the command deck for themselves. HK you send the abandon ship message as soon as Mako starts to make them think the ship is going to blow up."

Jack looked at the group. "For the ones that are coming I want Mako and Ceta to come with me. I know both of you are strong but word of advice, when fighting a force user keep your minds busy with something trivial. A good example is playing pazrak in your mind, or mapping hyperspace routes."

As they arrived in the system Mako and HK began their little performance and sure enough the ship began to launch escape pods to a nearby planet. "Well looks like the troops got off, and we have a way inside the ship." Laine said as they began to plot the course into the hangar of the ship.

Weird thing was that the ship's shields were off and the hangar showed no signs of there being any rush to get to the escape pods. Jack didn't like this one bit. He and the others decided to walk towards the lift to the command center but they had to take a detour through the brig.

Jack could hardly believe what he saw. Tarro was banging the force field that held him captive inside his cell. Jack could only guess that he too bought the idea that the ship was going to explode.

"Tarro, why are you having such anxiety attack? Is there something the matter?" Tarro could not believe his eyes. He was still banging his fist against the force field when he decided to just tell him what an idiot Jack was.

"This ship's reactor is going to blow. You might not be smart enough to realize what I need to do, but I need to get out of this cell and escape. Feel free to stay and become space dust." Jack began laughing as he heard him say that. Tarro demanded to know what the hell was so funny.

"Tarro, Tarro. That whole reactor breach message and the message to abandon ship are as fake as you being a Mandalorian. I wish I had a video of you acting like a frightened child and throwing a fit of pure terror as you began to realize the ship would blow up."

Tarro stopped hitting the force field as he heard him say that. "So all this was to avoid dealing with the Republic troops. Damn, I wish I had thought of that. Then I wouldn't have been caught by that bastard's little padawan. I know what you want Jack and guess what I want it too. Let me out of this thing and we can both fight it out, see who really deserves to be called Mandalorian."

Jack looked at him and he knew he was going to try and cheat. "Come on, you know it's what Braeden and Jorry would have wanted." Tarro then smirked, "it's what Revan would have wanted, to see whose the better warrior here." Jack glared at Tarro, "she would have prefer to see you suffer. But then again, she would have also liked to see me beat a inch of you're life." Shara shuts off the force shield, Tarro however didn't chose to attack them.

"Now I get my gear and we finish this, just you and me Jack." Tarro heads over to a crate that was within the room, he opens it up, grabbing his Mandalorian armor. Jack could make out scratch marks on his shoulder guards, showing he keeps his kill count. "I hope you give this man a beating of his life Jack." said Mako, she was glaring at Tarro as he geared up, before grabbing his helmet.

Tarro smirked at Jack. "You idiot, no real hunter would let a dangerous enemy to arm himself." Jack cracked his neck, "no, I just have honor, something you never understood." Tarro scowled, "you sound like that old fool Hedarr Soongh, wish my men could have killed him when they had the chance. You're gonna find that honor is gonna get you no nothing." Tarro places on his helmet, his X visor glared at Jack's t visor.

"Now die!" Tarro takes out his blaster pistols and fires at Jack, however he blocks the attacks with his lightsaber, charging right in, forcing Tarro to take to the air, "take this!" He fires rockets at Jack, Jack used the force to make go back at Tarro, knocking him out of the air, he crashes on the ground. "Grh! of course you're use the force in this!" He surprises Jack with a shock dart, shutting some nerves in Jack.

Mako's eyes widen when Tarro charged in with a knife geared in his wrist, however he didn't realize how tough Jack really was. Toughing out the shock, Jack fought through the pain and grabbed Tarro, throwing him off his shoulder, he hits the ground hard. He tries kick Jack, but Jack blocks it, slamming his elbow into Tarro's head, he grunted in pain. "You're pay for that!" Tarro punches Jack back, forcing him back as he got up, Tarro charged in on him, trying hit him with everything he had, but Jack would block every punch and kick Tarro threw at him.

"His loosing focus." Said Ceta, she was noticing how angry Tarro was getting. Jack brought up his lightsaber just as Tarro punched at Jack, cutting his hand off where his soft area was exposed. "NO!" He screamed in pain, he tried using his blaster pistol but Jack cut it in half and slammed his leg into Tarro's knee, hearing it snapped.

Tarro fell to the ground on his knee, Jack build up the force into his knee and slammed it into Tarro's face, knocking his helmet right off, he threw across the room, hitting the ground hard. His helmet fell off, showing he was bleeding, missing a tooth. "Damn you! I can't die like this!" Tarro glared at Jack, who was going back to the others. "Alright, you win. Now finish me off, I at the very least deserve to be given a warrior's death. Let me regain my honor at least in death." Jack looked at Tarro and he began to hold his open hand in front of him.

He began to count off the many times he did something dishonorable, but the last one was the worst of them all. "You killed my mentor, my friend, and my father in law. You think a dar'manda like you deserves to receive a warrior's death? Mako what do you think I should do with this scum?"

Mako looked at Jack and smiled," I think you should leave him like he is. Let him die like the vermin he is. Oh and Tarro guess who is going to be the proud member of Clan Keldau? That's right the brother you wanted dead is."

Tarro's eyes widen in fury. "NO! Come back here! Finish me Jack! AM TARRO BLOOD DAMN YOU! AM THE FUTURE OF THE MANDALORIANS!" They got on the lift as they heard Tarro screaming if not begging to finish him off. They got to the command deck and he knew that there were just two people on the entire deck. He walked up to the bridge and as he walked up to it the door opened.

As he stepped through he caught something that looked like a datachip. "You said you wanted a video of Tarro acting like a frightened brat? There you go. Nice to see you again Master Jack Organa it has been quite a while since we last met. I think we met in that bar in the Jedi Council building on Tython."

Jack looked at the padawan as he heard her say that. "I am here to make Jarro see reason, his crime can no longer be ignored. I have to intention of harming you but this is a matter of punishing a criminal and thus you must stay out of it."

Jack heard a voice that made him look down and across the room. "And what crime am I guilty off Jack? I don't recall doing something that dishonorable." Jarro was calm, looking at Jack's group with a careful eye. Though he didn't support Ringo's ideas or what he said regarding about Jack, but that didn't mean he approve of Jack's actions as of late.

Jack walked up to him and he was glaring at him. "The outsiders can say all they want about Mandalorians, but one thing you need to know, is that we value family a great deal. You killed a lot of Mandalorians that day on Coruscant, for every Mandalorian you killed, you left a family member without a love one. Clan Spar, the clan you fought that day, is no more, only member is still alive. You left them weak enough to all killed."

Jarro frowned, his padawan looked bothered alright, she could tell Jack was telling the truth." I killed invaders to the capital world and nothing more. You do well to remember that the Jedi are the defenders of the Republic. I ended a threat to the Republic and that is all I did. You on the other hand are here to kill me for a pile of credits, plain greed." Jarro took out his lightsaber. "Though I can regret their looses, it is the sad fact about war Jack, you should know that more then anyone."

Jack got closer to him and he spat on the floor. "In a way you're right, but it is still not something that can be ignored, the Jedi are also about justice and peace right? well am still doing that, just not in the Jedi's fashion. I challenge you to a duel. Winner decides the fate of the loser. Are you man enough to fight against someone who is able to fight back?" Jarro thought about it for a moment, he did still regretted about lose of Clan Spar, he had felt their lost through the force.

It was still something that haunts. "... Very well Jack, I accept you're challenge." His padawan however was having different ideas, "wait master! you don't need do this alone!" Jack gave the young woman a look, she had some guts at least to stand up for her master, however Jarro shook his head. "Be still padawan, I carry the burden, not you. Please, let me and Jack do this." The young Jedi looked unsure, before nodding.

Jack and Jarro looked at each other, they blow to each other, taking their lightsabers out. The duel soon began, Jack dropped into a battle stance Jarro had never seen before. He ran trying to punch his lights out instead he caught his hand and flipped him up in the air and slammed him hard against the deck of the ship.

He got up dazed and immediately Jack tripped him up and caused him to fall again on the deck, this continued time and time again. He would try to get up he was kissing the deck again, try to punch him and kissed the deck again, on and on until he finally realized that he was not going to win and accepted his loss.

"Alright Jack, you win. Go ahead and kill me. That is what those bloodthirsty monsters you call yourself one of them want. Go ahead and take my head to that monster in the Sith Capital World."

Jack was laughing as he said that, "No Jarro, it is not going to be so easy as that I am afraid. First you are going to take response of you're actions against Clan Spar. That is right, you will join and help rebuild the clan you nearly destroy."

Jarro looked at Jack and didn't understand why he would want him to do that. "So your not happy with my death you want to humiliate all the Jedi Order is that it?" Jack looked at Jarro as he finished saying that.

"No Jarro, this is not about humiliating anyone. This is about justice and a chance for you to learn what it means to be a true Mandalorian. This is your chance at regaining your honor. You should thank me for doing this, others would have just killed you but I am giving you a chance to learn and to regain your honor. "

That was when he realized that it was as true, others would have just killed him. His padawan was grateful that he didn't kill his master. "If my master is going, then so will I. I may not know of you're culture Jack, but I will do what I can to help Clan Spar." Mako smiled, that was some loyalty there, Ceta cross her arms, though she had mix feelings about this, she did however at least enjoyed seeing Jarro getting his ass kicked like that.

Jack asked why couldn't they take the ship they were on. Mako told them that the ship had a fault in the reactor and even though the message to abandon ship was fake, she merely showed what was bound to happen in a few hours. That was when they decided to take the lift down to the hangar and get out the death trap that was that ship.

They managed to get away for the ship when the ship began to break apart and lastly imploded on itself. Jack decided to have Jarro face Akaavi Spar. He then sent a message to Akaavi who was more than happy to reply to his request for a friendly chat.

"Akaavi Spar, meet Kellian Jarro. Jarro meet the last member of Clan Spar. Akaavi Mandalore has given me permission to have him join Clan Spar and help you rebuild your clan. As fate would have it his padawan is also joining your clan. This is meant for them to make amends for what he did against your clan and to have him learn what it means to be a Mandalorian. Do you agree with this proposal?"

Akaavi was glaring at Jarro, her cold green eyes stared at Jarro's brown eyes. Akaavi would have personally killed Jarro if there was any other chance, but she did needed all the help she could get regarding Clan Spar. "... I agree to to that proposal. They will have to face the tests of strength and courage as dictated by Clan Spar customs. I am sending you coordinates to a meeting point. I will see you when you bring them to me. See that they don't fail." Akaavi cut off from there.

Mako rub her neck. "Well that could have gone better, almost thought those eyes of hers were gonna kill Jarro." His padawan was sharing the same thoughts, never she has met such a woman that could put so much fear into a person just by looking at them.

Jack on the other hand was laughing as they saw and hear those very words. "You think that is bad? You should have seen mom stare down a Hutt. I swear this is nothing compared to that. The Hutt did die of a heart attack after all."

He calmly went back towards the cockpit and told HK to set course to the destination he was taking the new recruits of Clan Spar. He then when to a nearby seat and sat down. "So why was your mother so upset she killed a Hutt with a stare?" Mako asked him as she saw him sit down.

"The scumbag was head of a slaver ring the Mandalorians used to sell their captives. In fact we rescued quite a few Cathar in his slave exchange pit on the planet of Taris. He kept some of them in the undercity so I had to fight through some heavy rakghoul populated areas to get to the slave warehouse. That is how I ended up losing my ability to wield two lightsabers after all." Hedarr scowled at this, he highly disapproved at how his people during Mandalorian Wars did slavery.

"Since I suffered such an injury only because he lied about the actual location of the warehouse, you can imagine mother was quite furious when we finally made it to his estate in the upper city of Taris. Guess as long as you had money the law turned a blind eye to the fact he wasn't human."

Laine asked what did Jack mean when he said he wasn't human and why would that matter? Jack looked at her and smiled. "Most people remember Taris in a very distorted sense. Taris was no paradise world let me tell you. The government made a law that only humans may own or live in the upper city, non-humans were forced to live in the lower cities which were pretty much lawless, and under the control of various swoop gangs."

He got up and took off the gauntlet on his hand to show how it had gone through the skin transformation caused by the rakghoul disease. He began to scratch it a little bit and he put his gauntlet back on. "Sorry scales itch when they get too dry." Jack always hated how it did that.

"Now where was I? ah yes! lovely Taris. The slaver had a warehouse in the undercity he intentionally made it in a part of the undercity that was known to be heavily infested with rakghouls, it was practically a modest size rakghoul city of sorts."

Gault looked at me a little shocked when he heard me say the words rakghouls and city in the same sentence. "So the rackghouls aren't a new thing on the planet. I was kind of wishing they were."

Jack laughed as he said that and told him that the rackghouls on Taris would probably still be around when the Republic and Sith Empire were just a memory. A adult female rakghoul had at least over twenty baby rakghouls in her lifetime, or so was believed by the people that lived in the Undercity. "A Female Rakghoul eh?" Gault thought about that for a moment, trying picture what a female Rakghoul was like.

HK told Jack that they were about to reach the space station and that the ship would dock momentarily. Jack got up and walked over to the guest quarters and knocked on the door. He wanted to make sure that they weren't doing what was rumored some Jedi did with their padawan.

"We are about to reach the station. There is beskar in the cabinet on the wall. I would put it on and get ready. I would highly suggest you put it on to at least make a good impression, but seeing how Akaavi reacted that is unlikely to happen anyways. And yes that armor is my gift to both of you."

He walked away as he heard one person putting on the armor, Jarro's padawan was standing outside waiting for him to finish get dressed. "I didn't expect you to provide armor for us." She looked at me almost with a surprised look on her face.

"I am a Mandalorian, and you will find out we Mandalorians care about our own like they are family, because they are. Wear armor, defend yourself and those you care about and care about the welfare of the other clans. Do this and you can say you are a Mandalorian. Now when you get done changing I need to take you to a place on the station for a little training." She nodded, she followed Jack outside.

She could feel all kinds of creatures of this planet through the force. "Alright kid, enough glazing around the place, let's get started." She had a feeling this was gonna be very tough.

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"Gah!" she was breathing hard, she and Jack were sparring after couple hours of work, she was too survive and ignore the pain and keep fighting. Though it was like hell for her, she was able complete the test. Jack was on the floor getting up and dusting himself off. "You survived the initial training regiment of my clan, so I imagine you will do well in Clan Spar." Jack turns to a tree.

"Akaavi how long do you plan on just looking at us from up there, come on down and greet your newest clan members."

Akaavi jumped down from where she was looking at them train. "You did good work Jack, I guess you aren't a Keldau for nothing. Do you have any suggestions where I can take these two to train." Akaavi looked over the female Mirialan, she did good for a beginner.

Jack looked at her and smiled. "I am having some members of Clan Farr taking care off the training and testing of my new clan members. I am sure they will have no problem giving you a hand. Dxun will do, this place will test them greatly. Besides, this place brings back memories. I can still remember all the fun I had when I was a kid."

Kellian came walking through the clearing, now wearing the classic blue set of Mandalorian armor. He looked at Jack with a shocked look on his face. "You mean to tell me Susan Ann Organa took her son camping on Dxun when he was a child?" Jack laughed and told him they went camping there once a year at least before the Mandalorian Wars started.

Gault was leaning on a tree, he was watching the sparring match. "You have everything you need here on Dxun, food, plenty of wildlife and most importantly privacy. Trust me a few months here and you will feel better and happier to be alive." Gault said that Jack sounded like one those cheesy advertisements for a vacation resort. That was when Jack turned around and said that he could send him too if he didn't mind what he was saying.

This made the others laugh as they saw Gault become quiet in a hurry. He said his final farewells to them and as Jack entered the ship, he heard Kellian wish him good luck. They met as supposed enemies and now they said farewell as brothers. Indeed the Galaxy was full of strange and wonderful days.

As he called Crysta, Mako could not help but to try and reign in her excitement of what was about to happen. Crysta answered his call and looked just as happy as Mako it seems. "Jack Keldau, you just done the impossible. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw a Jedi apologize to the Mandalorian Enclave and Mandalore for his about in near death of Clan Spar. He said that he left the Jedi Order to make amends to Clan Spar. You need to get back to the Enclave for the award ceremony and do try to wear your best armor."

Jack nodded. "We'll be there, see you soon." Jack thought about what Crysta said about wearing 'best armor', he looked at his. "Hey Mako, there any spare paint around the ship?" Jack figure it was time for a new paint job.

000

Little did Jack know that at that exact time, Ringo was sitting in a meeting of the Council. A particularly angry looking Jedi looked at Ringo and was shaking his head. "To think that the exile of Jack Organa would have these consequences. One of our respected heroes and his padawan have left our order to join a Mandalorian clan."

Ringo looked at them and was smiling, "See, this once again proves me right. Jack is a traitor to the code and the order. He now convinced one of us to abandon the order just for his unjust revenge against us for punishing for his crimes. Even the investigation he more than likely suggested proved him wrong as I am still a member of the Council."

Little did they know that the only reason he was found innocent was because he sent his new padawan to track down and kill anyone that could testify to his wrongdoings. Satele was looking at the video again and finally decided to speak.

"Jack is a Mandalorian of Clan Keldau. We have run several exams on DNA records we have on file. I believe that instead of him being a traitor he is very much the same man we once knew. He is still following his code of honor and making sure criminals pay for their crimes."

She stood up, "He is even merciful to us. As a Mandalorian it would be easier for him to simply kill Kellian Jarro and his padawan, instead he helped him realize the wrong he did and even provided them with a way to make amends. Should they later return to the order we will also gain a better understanding of Mandalorian culture and customs." Salete kept a better note of the Mandalorians then most of Jedi Order would, given Canderous Ordo's part in the Jedi Civil War and Dark Wars.

Ringo wanted to say that she was just saying that because the one being accused was her alleged lover. The only thing that stopped him was when she looked at him he would receive a cold glare daring him to try and make that accusation based on a fabricated rumor. Her stand promised that she would not let mention of that rumor go without punishment.

Ringo scowled though kept quiet. 'Soon Jack, you will no longer be safe.' Ringo was gonna be making his move soon.

000

As Jack walked through the Enclave entrance, he was told to go to the stage where the final melee was fought. The assistant Huntmaster and the Huntmaster were there as was Mako and the rest of his crew watching. Jack walked towards him, his armor was now black and gray, he walked through a roll of Mandalorians.

"Hunters, brothers and sisters. Jack Keldau Organa has successfully completed every single of his objectives and beat every single one of his rivals. He stands today as the Grand Champion of this Great Hunt. Do anyone dare to question that this is so? Speak now and you better make it good."

The people in the stands were silent, so silent in fact that you could hear the wind flow. "So it is with great honor for me to formally congratulate Jack Keldau Organa for achieving what many only dare to try, I declare that Jack Keldau Organa is the Grand Champion of this Great Hunt and as such Mandalore himself has granted him an audience aboard his ship the Vengeance."

As Lek said that everyone present began to cheer and show that they too congratulated him for his achievements. "Come on, this calls for a good old party." Said Gault, getting Jack and the others follow him to where the bar was at, he caught site of it on the way in. However as they walked, they see a familiar face, "Well, well. Nice to see you Jack, good to see you're alive." Waiting for them at the bar was Adenn, drinking Mandalorian ale.

He wasn't alone either, with him were Vort Norman, Oren Ward, and the Mandalorian couple from Balmorra. "Hey vode! what you guys doing here?" Jack would have figured most of them would be busy with other jobs, Mirdala smirked behind her bone mask, "and miss the Great Hunt champion? I don't think so, come on, we should let you have a taste of black ale." Jack liked sound of that.

Soon most of his crew and the others started small party up, soon other Mandalorians and few bounty hunters like Crysta joined in, enjoying themselves.

If Jack was not expecting someone to come to this little party, it was most certainly not people that either were part of the Imperial establishment and most certainly not any Sith. That is where the surprise hit him like a ton of bricks. Not only did Thalia show up, but Rurika and Yukina too. If the scowl on Malavai's face was any indication he didn't come willingly.

Jack was however if anything unhappy to see his friends so he decided to greet them and welcome them. "Thalia, good to see you. Rurika I hope Khem is doing alright, where is he by the way? And let's not forget Yukina, I would think Vette would love to come to this little party instead you bring the one person in this party unhappy to actually be here."

This earned Jack quite a few different reactions. Thalia said that her companion was actually here also to scope out the competition as it were. Rurika told him Khem had gone through some changes and he was currently enjoying some black ale. Yukina just laughed and said that her companion could never enjoy something that didn't involve some sort of military planning or movement.

Jack was shaking his head as he heard that last part. "Sorry to hear that, as you might have heard I finally got to punish that worthless dar'manda and got declared champion of the Great Hunt. All in all I am as happy as I can be. My girlfriend might want to share a few embarrassing stories with you fine ladies, but she wouldn't tell me the specifics." Jack didn't pre say liked what will his girlfriend will be telling him.

Maybe he shouldn't have told her all those stories about his time with Revan.

Yukina was laughing as he said that and told him that it was all a part of trying to add suspense to the stories. "If you knew what you would be told, it wouldn't be as exciting now would it?"

Jack argued that if it was a meeting he would want to know the specifics in order to prepare in case the situation changed. He couldn't count the times a supposed friendly meeting turned out to be an ambush in disguise. Malavai was actually happy to hear him say that. "I tend to agree with Jack, and enemy would always use a moment of false security to launch such an attack. It is the reason your kind always wears your armor after all."

Jack decided to do something that would make the man laugh, "Actually I always wear armor for two reasons. First it is part of our code, and Second once you wear this armor it is very hard to find something that feels as comfortable as your armor. If my bed would stand the weight I would probably go to sleep wearing it."

This of course had the obvious reaction that we would expect, some lady Mandalorians laughing and some men agreeing that it was true. He decide to take some time to talk with his friends to see how their were doing and also to see if they needed some help.

Thalia was by the bar and he decided to see how she was doing. "If you are going to ask me how am I doing the short answer is bad, the more in depth answer is that I am hunting down a band of terrorist that want to destroy everything in the Galaxy. So yes I could and would appreciate some help if our missions happen on to be on the same planet."

Jack asked if something was making her mad. "You can be happy about one thing. At least you don't have a Sith constantly watching over your every move." Jack decided to tell her of his resent mission and that it was a contract ordered and signed by Darth Malgus no less.

That made her feel a little better. They shared a few happier moments with each other and in the end they were laughing as if they had been friends for most of their lives. "So where is Kailyo? I lost track of her when you came in." Jack didn't like the idea of letting that woman out of his site, not while she could ambush him.

Thalia pointed to one table, Jack now could see Kailyo flirting with Oren Ward, it looked like it was kinda of working. "Well, longest she isn't causing too much trouble, I guess she's off the hook." Said Thalia, though Jack had different thoughts there, he still didn't like her one bit. Jack however then noticed Rurik sitting next with Khem, she had a concerned look on her face.

"Well thanks for the talk Thalia, I better check with the other guests of this party." Thalia nods and lets Jack head to Rurika.

Rurika was having a different sort of a problem. Jack had to agree that something was definitely different with Khem and it was not just his voice either. "Rurika did Khem get hit by stray blaster fire to the head? Why I barely recognize him." Rurika laughed as Jack said that.

"All with good reason, you see the one that is doing the talking is none other than my former master, Darth Zash. Zash I do believe I told you of Jack The Reaper didn't I?" that was when Khem did something unbelievable, he actually bowed.

"I heard quite a few things about you from my apprentice. She however did not mention you were so dashing. It is nice to have someone close to ones own age to talk with. So tell me Jack is it true that Darth Malak used to love to sing and dance or are the manuscripts I been reading wrong?"

Jack looked at what supposed to be Khem and told him that indeed he did love to sing and dance. Specifically the band he loved to sing songs from was one called the village people. He spent a few hours either confirming or flat out denying several things about his brother, mother and even about HK who was mysteriously a absent.

Rurika told him about his master's grand plan of stealing her body. Zash was quick to remind her that she might want to do the same as her own death drew near. "We all understand that we all die eventually Zash, but let me ask you something is there nothing in your life that you can say makes your life feel fulfilling?" Jack cross his arms, he shrugged.

"Eh maybe, just be ready when Death will be coming, wanting to take your soul. You know he or she doesn't take well to people escaping him right?" Zash for a moment, had a concerned look on her face.