Lordess Chronicles
Part 12
The Final Showdown Pt. 2/2
" " = talking
' ' = Thinking
(" ") = Talking in different language
(' ') = Thinking in different language
Linora Lordess Holds her Lightsaber in front of her, her blue blade the only defense between her and the two opponents now standing before her. One of them is her old master, Abraxis Carlon, and the other is his new apprentice, Bree Alder. Crouching next to Linora is Fiona Solusar, her FR-58 sniper rifle pointing at Bree.
"I'm surprise you've made it this far." Abraxis says, crossing his arms. "I never knew you were this resourceful."
"You'll find I'm full of surprises." Linora replies, her hand getting sweaty. The last time she and her master fought she barely made it out alive, and he was alone last time, but now he has his apprentice with him, and unless Linora's force sensitivity is screwing with her, then Bree has an amazing connection to the force.
"Master, she's afraid." Bree says, an insane smile appearing on her face. "Can I fight her now?" Linora doesn't like where this is going, not one bit. If she wants to fight Linora all by herself, then she is either very cocky and hot headed, or very powerful.
"Wait! I want some answers!" Linora calls out. If this is the right thing to do to stall for time, Linora is not sure, but the longer she keeps them talking, the more time she has to think of a plan.
Abraxis grins, and then replies, "What harm can that do? What do you want to know?"
Linora looks at Bree, and then back to Abraxis, only one question popping in her mind. "Why are you doing all this? Why are you working for these pirates and betraying the Republic and the Jedi Order?"
Abraxis motions towards Bree, pride pouring off him. "She is why. As you can more than likely sense, she is extremely powerful in the force, the perfect force wielder to use against the Jedi."
"What do you mean? Why do you want to fight the Jedi Order? We're keepers of the peace, and…"
"YOU'RE WRONG!" Abraxis yells, clenching his hands. "The Jedi proclaim they are protectors of the peace and will do anything to protect the innocents, but I found that to be untrue. On my first mission after you became an master, I was sent to try and rescue an few hostages from some pirates, but when I tried to save them, one of the pirates shot a little girl in her ribs." Abraxis swallowed, holding back some tears. "Once I got all of them out of the pirate strong hold, I tried my best to heal that girl, but… but I couldn't save her! She died in my arms!" He looks Linora straight in her eyes, his rage boiling up. "If I could have used a little bit of the dark side, then I could have saved her instead of living with the memory of that girl dying in my arms! But the Jedi Code doesn't allow the use of the dark side for any reason, so now that little girl, who could have been a famous doctor is now dead. Who knows what she could have become? She was only seven!"
Linora finishes her plans, not entirely happy about the small chances of her survival, but the plan does allow Fiona and her crew to possibly get out of here alive. Abraxis calms himself down, letting himself relax into the force.
"So, now that I know how weak the Jedi Order is, I have started my own Jedi Order with her." Abraxis motions towards Bree, pride beaming off him. "She will be much stronger than any Jedi, and with the proper training, she could become as strong as Master Yoda." Linora gulps, fear running through her. She's not as brave as she just was.
"Master, can I kill her now?" Bree asks, wanting to kill Linora very badly. Abraxis smiles, and then puts a hand on her shoulder. "Alright, fine, but remember to hold back. We are not barbarian's, we give our enemies a fair game."
Bree nods, and then activates her Lightsaber, a yellow blade popping out. "Of course, Master." Bree slowly walks towards Linora, twirling her Lightsaber.
"Fiona, listen up." Linora says as she tightens her grip on her Lightsaber. "I need you to leave me to fight Bree and Abraxis, and try to…"
"Fuck that plan!" Fiona yells, looking into her sights. "I'm not leaving you alone to fight these two by yourself! You can barely handle Abraxis, and you want me to believe that you can fight the two of them by yourself? I'm not gonna let you get your ass chopped up while I'm off… what do you want me to do?"
Linora grins. "Kill Groex, and the rest of his guards."
Fiona looks over at Linora, her expression hidden under her bandages. "I continue to stick with what I said before: Fuck that plan!" She looks back into her scope, seeing Bree halfway to them.
"Fiona, please trust me." Linora says, her heart beat going faster with every one of Bree's steps. "I'm not a little girl, or a scared Kath Hound! I'm a Jedi Knight, and I can handle myself! Besides," Linora smiles at Fiona. "I know what I'm doing."
Fiona sighes, and then stands up, looking over at Bree. "I know I'm gonna regret this." Fiona runs to the wall to her left, and then starts running towards the other side of the room, clinging to the wall. Abraxis and Bree doesn't pay any attention to them, probably thinking that she isn't much of a threat. When Fiona reaches the door, she touches a button on the side of the door. The door slides open, but Fiona doesn't run out.
She turns around to look at Linora, fear for her lover creeping through her, and then quickly leaves. Linora watches the door close, and then looks back at Bree. Linora feels her hands getting slippery from the sweat, and hopes that the lightsaber doesn't slide out of her grasp because of it.
Linora prepares herself quickly, and then charges at Bree. Bree stops walking, smiling at the upcoming battle. When Linora is in range to block one of Bree's attacks, Linora somersaults over Bree, jumping over Bree's yellow blade. Linora lands behind Bree in a crouched position, her head below Bree's blade by mere inches. Linora tries to stab Bree, but Bree jumps back, pushing the Lightsaber away with her own.
Bree smiles at the challenge that Linora is presenting to her, and then slashes at Linora's head. Linora brings her Lightsaber up, the two of them locking their Lightsaber's together.
("Open fire!") Garen yells at the three human soldiers in front of him and the two to his left and right as the three doors on the opposite side of the room blow open. F4-T6 emits a series of beeps as it turns its head around to face Garen. ("No, we don't have two minutes thirty seconds!") Garen yells back as the human soldier directly in front of him gets shot in the stomach. ("Try downloading faster!")
Blaster fire zipping all around Garen, scorching the walls, Garen lets out a battle cry, and unleashes a flurry of blaster bolts. The Crimson Dagger goons are not very accurate, but they have numbers on their side.
Garen kills a Rodian with an E-11 blaster rifle, but only to find three more take his place. Garen ducks into cover as a volley of blaster bolts zip by where he once stood, the hairs on the top of his head fringed. ("F4, download faster") F4 replies back with a small sound that sounds like a moan. ("I don't care if you're going as fast as you can! Just go faster!") Garen stands up to fire to see his companions dead all around him, more crimson dagger thugs racing through the door. Garen ducks, grabs the man's blaster to the left of him, and holding both guns in both hands, stands up and starts firing at the goons.
Garen leaps over the two barricades, and jumps into the midst of the crowd of thugs. Garen fires both of his guns, leaping in every possible direction. The goons try to get a fix on him, but Garen's too fast, and when they fire blindly, they kill their allies. Garen just has to hold them off until F4 is done in about two minutes.
Chomp jumps to the left to dodge a raging Rancor, and then rolls to avoid a Rancor trying to grab him. The creatures are tough to kill in a pack, but they're not invincible. Chomp leaps towards the closest Rancor, too fast for the rancor to dodge or try to catch him. Landing on the top of the Rancor's head, Chomp uses his tale to stab the Rancor's right eye.
Jumping off as the Rancors brings its head back, roaring in pain and anger, Chomp lands on the arm of an second Rancor, but only to jump off as an third Rancor charges into the second. Chomp lands perfectly, but only seconds later is grabbed by one of the Rancor. Chomp growls at the Rancor as it brings Chomp closer to its mouth, wanting to eat him. Chomp snarls as his head is almost in its mouth, and then brings its tail around to stab the tongue.
Chomp falls to the floor, the Rancor screaming as blood pours out of its mouth. Chomp quickly turns around to bite the finger the Rancor he stabbed in the eye, tearing off a good chunk of the finger. Chomp is not going to go down easy, he will go down kicking and screaming.
Lyra slowly wakes up, groaning. Lyra's head aches badly, and she feels pain whenever she moves her left arm. ("Oh good, you're finally awake.") Lyra opens her eyes to see the speaker, even though the language is spoken by only one person on this whole ship. ("I was afraid I was too late to save you.") When Lyra's eyes got use to the lighting, she sees Womp Rat standing next to her bed, breathing on her.
His breath smells like he just gargle sewer water and then ate something she doesn't even want to guess at.
"What happened?" Lyra askes, curling up her nose and squinting her eyes. Can't he face the other direction?
("We crash landed, shot down by what I think was a few fighters. When we landed, a small gap appeared in the cockpit, letting in the sub-zero temperature. If it wasn't for the ships automatic heating system, you and Korvas would have frozen to death in a second.")
Lyra looks down at herself, seeing a few tears here and there on her shirt. The main one she is looking at is her stomach, where her child is forming right now. Then it clicks in her head.
"Where's Korvas!?" Lyra practically yells as she shoots straight up, causing Womp Rat to jump in surprise. Lyra's body now aches in pain at the sudden movement, but she ignores it. The only thing that she cares about is her child's father.
Womp Rat sighs, looking down at the ground. ("He was still conscience, but when I tried to save him, he threatened to kill me unless I saved you first. When I got you out of there, I looked back to see if I could help Korvas but…") Lyra puts her hand on Womp Rats mouth, silencing him.
"Please, don't say what you saw." Lyra begs. "I don't want to imagine anything like that." Womp Rat stares at Lyra. Is this really the cold hearted bitch he knew and hated for so many years?
("I understand.") Womp Rat says, and then turns towards a monitor on the wall to his left. ("From what I can tell, your bay is fine, but it's hard to get any readings on it at such an early age of pregnancy.") Womp Rat looks over at Lyra. "You should probably know that Korvas was hugging you when I found him, trying to keep you two alive. His legs were broken, keeping him from saving you two himself.")
Lyra lies back down, resting her head against the pillow. "Can we still fly?"
Womp Rat stays silent for several seconds, but then speaks up. "No, we can't. Our engines are beyond any repairs I can do with what we have, and while there's only one crack and I ray shielded it, the temperature will freeze the whole ship within six hours.")
"Can we shoot our guns?"
Womp Rat cocks his eyebrow. ("Well, only one of them. Why?")
Lyra sits up, and then puts her legs over the side of her bed. "Because we may not be able to move, but we can still fight. Warm the guns up while I bring power to the shields."
Seger We slowly leans back in his command chair, listening to the reports coming in. Linora only has two hours left before Seger will come down hard on them, him and all of his marines. Seger hopes that Linora can prove her innocence. While Seger will like to bring her in, he will never take in an innocent.
"General We, the coordinates are set in and all stations are green." Seger's second in command says. His second in command is Dern Sereta, also known as the 'Hunter' for not letting enemies the chance to retreat. "Shall we make the jump?" Seger turns to looks at Dern, his combed, white hair glinting in the light of the bridge, which also shows his vast amount of wrinkles.
Seger inhales deeply, and then lets it out slowly. "Make the jump." Seger turns around, and then starts ordering the crew on what to do. Seger brings his hand down to his communicator, and then brings it up while turning it on. "Lieutenant, prepare the marines for a quick jump and force capture." Seger uses the term Force capture when referring to capturing a trained force sensitive. Linora will not be able escape, whether she has the evidence or not.
Linora clashes her lightsaber with Bree's, sweat coming down her face. Bree smiles at Linora, and then whispers, "Come on, lesbian! You've been able to last this long, so you must be strong!" Bree push's Linora back using the force with ease, smiling brightly. "Stop holding back!"
Linora gets back into position, gasping. Linora is giving her best, but Bree is acting like Linora is but a mere child. Can she really hold her off until Fiona kills Groex? Or until F4 can send the evidence to Pok and his men? Will Fiona and the rest of her crew be able to get out of here in time?
"What's the hold up?" Bree yells, twirling her Lightsaber. "I want to get on with my life!" Linora starts forming a plan, and then, once she is sure of it, lunges at Bree. Bree smiles at her upcoming kill, and also lunges forward. The two start parrying and blocking blows, Bree messing with Linora.
Eventually, Bree disarms Linora, sending her Lightsaber flying behind Bree. Bree plants her hand on Linora's chest, and sent a surge of the force through her arm, sending Linora flying back into the wall. Linora hits the wall hard, surprised at how strong the force wave was. When Linora lands, Bree pounces on her, putting all of her weight on her left arm, which is on her chest.
"You are too easy, but this is still an amazing moment for me. My first kill in an actual Lightsaber duel! This is a proud moment for me!" She brings her yellow blade down to within inches of Linora's throat. "I shall savor this kill, Jedi, and I will enjoy it." Linora chuckles.
"Bree, you are amazingly strong, but you have one flaw." Bree raises an eyebrow at her.
"Oh? What's that?" A gasp escapes her lips as a blue blade goes through her chest. She looks behind her to find that Linora's Lightsaber seemed to act on its own, but Bree knows better. Linora reached out with the force while Bree was mocking, grabbed her weapon, and brought it back to her with the blade on, except Bree was in the way so the blade went through her instead of getting to its owner.
The blade disappears back into the hilt, and Bree lifeless body falls over, her lightabser rolling away from her. Linora picks up her Lightsaber in one hand, and Bree's Lightsaber in the other way. Abraxis growls, and then pulls out his lightsaber. "HOW DARE YOU!" He yells as two green blades pop out of his Lightsaber. "You're more resourceful than I thought, and you're better at thinking on your feet, but none of that matter's now." Abraxis smiles, and then grabs hold of his Lightsaber with both of his hands. "You won't live much longer."
Abraxis lunges forward, and clashes his two green blades with Linora's blue and yellow blades. The long awaited final battle between Linora and her ex-master has begun.
Garen and one other soldier are left to fend off the seemingly endless waves of thugs. ("F4, are you ready?") F4 makes three low whistles and then two beeps. ("Hurry it up, rust bucket! We…") The other soldier lets out a scream as a blaster bolt hits him square in his chest. ("I mean, I can't hold them off forever.") Garen ducks down, grabs a thermal detonator off the soldier's body, and then chucks it into the rank of enemies.
A deafening boom sounds through the room as a giant fireball engulfs half the thugs that managed to get into the room while a third of them are killed from the force of the explosion. An affirmative beep sounds behind Garen. Its F4, and he has just said that he has downloaded the information.
("Send the blasted information already!") F4 beeps affirmatively, and a small antennae with a radio dish pops out of the top of his domed head. Garen continues firing at the thugs who are slowly getting closer.
Garen see's no way out of here except for the door ways that the thugs are coming in, and his back is against the wall with limited ammo. F4 starts happily beeping as it yells out that the information was sent and retrieved by Pok's fleet. Garen growls an acknowledgement, and sends out a flurry of blaster shots. He only hits three Thugs, but those three are quickly replaced by six. How many men are working for Groex?
Soon groex lets out a frustrating cry when his blaster makes a clicking sound, indicating hehas no ammo. When Garen reaches for his belt to get another clip, his hand comes up empty. When Garen looks down to see where another clip might be, he finds he has none left. Garen ducks behind cover, mentally swearing. When he looks at the blasters around him, he sees they have all been hit with the blaster bolts, making them unusable.
Garen growls, and then leans in towards F4. ("F4, we won't get out of here alive, so I need you to activate protocol C-17.") F4 is silent, and then asks a question. ("I'm sure they won't let us live, but we don't have much of a choice. Fiona gave you that protocol for a reason, so now we should put it to use.") F4 gives a long, low beep, and then acknowledges.
Garen closes his eyes, one last thought entering his head. ('Fiona, I'm sorry I won't be there to protect you from any further dangers, but I am giving my life for you. Please don't throw my sacrifice away.')
Then Garen's life ends when F4's body blows apart, the entire explosion filling up the whole room.
Three of Groex's fighter's fly through the air, shooting at one of Pok's outdated X-wings. Laser fire hit the left side of the fighter on the right of their formation, causing it to spin into the fighter on the left side. The two fighter's explode on impact, and the last fighter tried to pull up and out away from whoever just killed his buddies.
He's too slow, though, for the turbo lasers got his ion engines, causing it to spin into a nearby mountain.
Lyra chuckles as she watches the last fighter explode. "Womp Rat, more power to the weapons and targeting systems! I had too much trouble targeting those fighters!" Womp Rat walks up behind her, where Lyra is sitting at a terminal used to control the guns in the captain's quarters.
("If you want more power to the guns, then I will have to divert power from the shields, which means all that zero degree temperature from outside in here, freezing us to death. Our shields are the only reason we haven't died yet from the cold!") Womp Rat walks away, muttering under her breath.
Usually, Lyra would yell at him since she didn't care for her safety, but it's not just herself anymore. Lyra puts her hand over her stomach, where her and her deceased lover's child is forming very slowly. Lyra wishes that he was saved instead, but is glad her child has a chance to live. She and Korvas never even got the chance to choose a name together!
Lyra puts those thoughts aside, and back to the terminal in front of her. These bastards have killed her husband, the father of her future child, and she will kill them for everything they have done!
Linora blocks an lower cut from her master that was aimed at her knee caps, and then immediately blocked the other side of his blade. Sweat comes down Linora's brow, using everything she can to keep from being butchered by Abraxis.
Linora is pushed down to the force by a sudden burst from the force. Abraxis brings his blade down towards Linora, aiming for the death blow, but Linora rolls out of the way, away from her superior opponent. Abraxis doesn't let Linora get back up, continually assaulting Linora. Linora then did something unexpected, something Abraxis didn't think of. Linora rolled again, but not away from him, but TOWARDS him!
Linora, catching Abraxis off guard, brought her foot up, kicking him square in the chest! Abraxis falls on his back, completely surprised at her sudden offensive. Linora springs up, and brings both lightsabers down on her former master.
Abraxis brings his Lightsaber up, blocking both of Linora's Lightsaber's. Abraxis twirls his Lightsaber sending both of Linora's Lightsaber's in two separate directions while the one that was Bree's was chopped in half while Linora's Lightsaber was sent somewhere to the other side of the room.
Abraxis sends a surge of force energy out towards Linora, sending her flying to the wall. Before Linora could move, she feels a sudden pressure on her, stopping all of her movements. Abraxis slowly walks towards her, rage on his face. Linora tried to do the same strategy she did with Bree, trying to bring her lightsaber towards her and stab her opponent in the back, but she finds that Abraxis is putting the same pressure that he is putting on Linora he is also putting on her Lightsaber.
"You have ruined my plans enough already, Linora, and while I've been going easy on you, but once you killed my one and only apprentice, I have decided that you have had your fun." Abraxis puts the tip of his lightsaber inches from her heart, whispering with pure hate in his voice, "You will pay for this." Abraxis seems to consider something, and then looks down where his Lightsaber is. "Actually, I have the perfect way for you to pay while also having an great honor."
Abraxis grabs her belt, saying, "I need my legacy to continue, and even though you're not my first choice, I can't wait to find a proper mate." Linora stares at her master, absolutely shocked. Linora knows that he has fallen to the dark side, yes, but is he actually willing to do rape?
"Don't act like you've never done this before, Linora. I sense the feelings between you and that pirate scum, and knowing her checkered past, you two have probably already done it plenty of times." Abraxis tears the belt off, a lustful look on his face. "Don't worry, though, I'll make sure you have an excellent time."
A familiar sound echoes through the room, abraxis's eyes widening, and then they close as his body falls over, the pressure on Linora's body disappearing. Linora grabs the belt, and looks on the other side of the room where, in an open doorway, stands Fiona Solusar, smoke coming out of her recently fired FR-58 sniper Rifle.
"Stay the hell away from my girlfriend, you son of a bitch." Fiona says as she walks into the room.
"Fiona? I thought I told you to…"
"To go on without you? Sorry, but that will never happen! As long as I'm around, I'm now your guardian angel!" She looks at Bree's dead body, and then at Abraxis. "Seems like we've done our fair share of carnage here."
Linora stands up, and reaches out to her Lightsaber. The Lightsaber flies towards her, and she grabs it with her right hand. She looks at the Lightsaber, sighing. It is absolutely crushed. "Whoa, what happened to that!"
"Abraxis was putting a lot of pressure on it to make sure that I couldn't call it towards me. It seems like he put a little too much pressure on it." Linora looks back at Abraxis, and his Lightsaber flies towards her. When she grabs it, two green blades pop out. "I know how to use one of these well enough to finish this job."
As the two lovers walk out of the room, Fiona asks Linora an important question. "Linora, your master has just died, the man that has framed you for betraying the Republic. This must be hard for you, right?" Linora looks back at Abraxis's lifeless body, and then back at Fiona.
"Let's just kill Groex and get the hell out of here."
Pok's four sub-zero carriers finally punched a hole big enough for them to get in. When the sub-zero carriers all got in, the shield got enough power to close up the hole again, stopping the zero-degree weather from getting in.
The back of the carriers open up, and thirty soldiers run out of each sub-zero carrier. A female Gamorrean exits out of one holding two E-11 blaster rifles, one in each hand. ("Let's move, you rancor-loving Hutt's! I want ten soldiers to stay out here to defend the carriers! I then want half of those left to come with me to hold important locations while the other half move out and weaken the enemies numbers!")
Ten humans with heavy machine guns stay back with the carriers while forty of them go up to the main doorway. They all charge in, guns ready to fire and kill any survivors. The female Gamorrean leads the other forty soldiers in two minutes after the first group went in, and starts towards the power generator. The battle is already won, they just don't know it yet.
Groex swears under his breath as Abraxis fails to pick up his communicator again. What's going on? He's too strong to have been killed by Linora, so is he just too busy right now? "What the fuck's taking him so long?" Groex says under his breath.
He looks around his room where fifteen bodyguards are armed and ready to give their lives to defend him. Hopefully they won't have to, but with the way things are going, that will probably be the case. "Damn it all! I can't take this anymore! We've lost the battle, but this isn't our last bbase! We're going to the hanger everyone! If I get out of here alive, then whoever is left will get a very good award, one that no one can say no to."
As Groex stands up, the door to his office opens, and a lone figure with a double-sided green lightsaber charges in, cutting his men to pieces. As Groex ducks behind his desk, he sees the wielder is not Abraxis, but is that Jedi bitch Linora! Was she actually able to kill Abraxis and his bitch of an apprentice? The Lightsaber continues to deflect blaster bolts and continue to kill his men for the next ten seconds until the Lightsaber turn off. Groex looks over his desk, and he see's his men lay slain all over the ground, but no Jedi in sight.
Groex inhales deeply when he feels something cold and metallic go up against his back. "Don't move or you're dead!" Linora whispers into his ear. "If you think I'm lying, then call my bluff!"
Groex raises his hands in the air, saying, "Alright, I surrender! Please don't kill me!" Fiona enters the room, looking at the mess of dead bodies everywhere.
"You sure don't show any mercy, huh? That's fine by me." Fiona walks up to Groex, smiling underneath her wrappings. "You shouldn't have betrayed me, Groex. Those who try to back stab me get screwed in the end."
Seger We exits the drop ship along with ten other Clone Marines. They quickly surround the almost empty courtyard along with twenty other Clone Marines. Three figures are in the court yard that aren't Clone marines. Two are standing while one is on his knees.
Seger walks up to them recognizing all three of them as Linora Lordess, Fiona Solusar, and Groex Gal. When Seger reaches them, which took about seven seconds, his Clone Marines have completely secured the courtyards. "Linora, I received the information from Pok and his fleet. I'm glad that you're innocent, but I'm sad to hear about Abraxis. I'm guessing he's dead?"
"He didn't give me any choice." Linora says, looking unphased as she tells Seger the news.
"Well it's better than letting him live. If you want, you can come back to Coruscant with us and testify, or I can with all the evidence I now have. Either way, you're home free." Fiona walks up to Linora, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Well, it's been fun and all, but it seems like this is where we part our ways." Linora sees the sadness in her eyes, and can tell that she doesn't want her to go away. "Have fun being a Jedi and all, and who knows?" Fiona brings her hand back from Linora's shoulder. "We may see each other again. After all, this galaxy isn't as big as you think."
Before Linora could speak up, Seger breaks into the conversation. "Fiona, your ship has been picked up and is currently under repairs on my ship. Your ship and the two crew members are okay and in perfect health." Fiona looks at him squarely in the eyes, not able to hide her shocked expression even under her wrappings.
"Don't you mean THREE crew members? I have Lyra, Korvas, and Womp Rat still on that ship when we left!"
"I'm sorry, but when the ship crashed Korvas didn't survive. Lyra and her child are alright though, and Womp rat, other than his smell, is just as healthy. Also, your pet Chomp is also on the ship, saying he is full because he ate a few Rancor corpses. Where he'd find Rancor's here I don't have the faintest idea."
Fiona chuckles to herself. "That's just great! I've lost my engineer, my best friend Garen, my pilot, and my astromech droid. All I have left are the second best now." Linora smiles, and then hugs Fiona.
"You still have me." Linora whispers into her Fiona's ear. Linora can feel Fiona fill up with happiness, and then she returns the hug. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Linora and Fiona walk into the cockpit where Lyra sits in the pilot's seat with Womp Rat standing next to her while Chomp sits next to the co-pilots seat. "Well, what's our plan? Who's staying and who's going?"
Chomp walks forward. 'I will like to be dropped off at a nice, forest planet with no life on it except for wild life. That will do me just fine.'
"Alright, I know just the place! Anyone else want to back out?" No one spoke. "Great! Now let's get out of here, drop Chomp off, and then head off to Nar Shadda! After everything we've been through, I think we all need some time to relax. Besides, we need to start recruiting new team members, and Nar Shadda is the best place to do it!"
Linora smiles, and then sits down in the co-pilots seat. "Linora, put in the coordinates for the forest moon of Drefert. No one lives in that sector." Linora nods, and then finishes putting in the coordinates. Pulling a switch, the stars turn into long lines, Linora's new life as a pirate beginning now.
Horuck Falco enters his house, smiling. He cannot wait to see his pregnant wife, Sarli Falco. She is eight month's pregnant, and they are expecting a baby boy. "Horuck?" Horuck looks over to his right, and smiles when he sees his pregnant wife in an bathrobe, her long, black hair let down and wet. "I didn't expect to see you back so soon." Sarli walks up to Horuck, who embraces her in a nice, gentle, loving hug.
Horuck smiles when he feels his son kick. "He sure does have a strong kick." Horuck whispers into Sarli's ear.
"He's been kicking a lot for the past two days, I think he's ready to come out and meet his wonderful father." Horuck chuckles.
"More likely he wants to meet his mother, but let's not get into this conversation again. How are you feeling?" Sarli smiles, and then lays her head on Horuck's chest.
"I just finished taking a nice, long hot shower. Also," She looks over at an empty plate on the kitchen table. "I just finished eating three nerf steaks with a kark load of peanut butter on each one. I've also had four cups of milk." She feels his arms go down to her waist, pulling her in closer. "Then I still had enough room for desert. I feel so fat."
Horuck whispers, "You're not fat, that's just the pregnancy talking. You're eating for two now, remember?" Sarli doesn't answer, she just snuggles her head on Horucks chest. They stay quiet for a whole minute, the two enjoying one another's company. Finally, Horuck speaks up. "You wanna go to bed? Just sleep for the rest of the day?" Sarli nods, and as they start walking upstairs, Horuck remembers some very important information.
"Sarli, you know the Council are trying to decide who the new galactic guardian should be, right?" Sarli looks up at Horuck.
"Yeah I do. So what?" When Sarli see's his smile, she can't help but feel over joyed. "You mean you're…"
"I'm one of the candidates, yes. You're speaking with the possible new galactic guardian!" Sarli giggles as they enter their room.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing, It's justthat, well, I'm happy." Sarli puts both of her hands on her stomach, saying, "If you do become the Galactic Guardian, just imagine how proud X'lor will be of you." The married couple lies down on their bed, and snuggle close to each other.
Horuck puts his arm over her waist as Sarli puts her hands on his shoulders. They fall asleep like this, the both of them hardly able to keep their excitement and happiness hidden.
In just one month, they are going to be parents!
To Be Continued In Falco Chronicles # 1 New life, new journey