Disclaimers: The
two main characters look a lot like the ones we are used to, Xena and
Gabrielle, and no I don’t own them, wish I did.
This story takes place in the Star Wars universe that I don’t own
either, that’s owned by George Lucas, along with Yoda who I borrowed for this
story.
Disclaimer 2: This story takes place about 650 years
after ‘Jedi Bri Meets Sith Xara”.
Subtext: Yes this
involves love between two women, nothing graphic however.
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The Sith Empress
by
AJ Marks
Part 4
A young
man came walking up the corridor of the ship towards the bridge to where he
knew their leader was. He had in his
hands the responses that were better than he had hoped for. Their leader knew how to negotiate with other
leaders and crime lords and their numbers had climbed in the past couple of
weeks.
He came up
to the door and waited to be let in. The
guard on duty acknowledged him and went in to inform their leader of his
arrival. The man looked on at the guard
who he had known just about all his life with a bit of jealousy. The man was part of Lord Rizon’s personal
guard and although he held the position of overseeing recruitment it still
seemed to be more of an honor to be part of her personal guard.
The guard
came back and told him that Lord Rison was waiting for him. He walked onto the bridge of the ship and
glanced around. Darth Rizon was standing
with her back to him. He saw her wearing
her familiar dark red cloak that everyone else had seen her in. Her long black was free and flowed around her
shoulders and he knew that even though her back was turned she knew everything
he was doing.
Standing
next to her was the familiar sight of Tyi.
The small man had become her second-in-command and his orders were to be
regarded as coming from Rizon herself.
Only Rizon could counter his orders.
The man wondered how such a sniveling coward had become so
powerful. He then realized that Tyi
would be too weak to rise up against Rizon and that was part of the plan.
“Report,”
Darth Rizon said as she gracefully turned around to face the man.
“Our
numbers are continuing to rise my lord,” the man said watching her cloak
flutter back into stillness around her.
“Our agents report higher than expected recruits from the Core Worlds my
lord.”
A smile
slowly broke out on Rizon’s face as she heard the news. This was far better than what she had
expected at this time. The Core Worlds
would soon fall to her war fleet. “And
what of our spies,” she asked.
“We have
found several willing recruits among the
“Good,
very good, but we must be sure not to let any of them know the true purpose of
their missions. That will be you job, don’t
disappoint me,” Rizon said pinning the man with a glare that he was sure went
right through him. With a quick nod of
his head and a reply he left after he had been dismissed.
Rizon
turned back around to look back out into the vastness of space. Her plans were coming along just as she knew
they would. The Republic and the so
called Jedi had no idea what was about to come.
She would be swift and deadly.
“How does
the training come along,” she asked Tyi not bothering to look at the man.
Tyi
glanced down at his notepad to check on the numbers. “The reports state that it is coming along
quite well. The men are getting used to
the organization and true leaders are emerging just like you said they would.”
“Excellent,”
Rizon replied. She had felt that a few
of the individuals had the ability to use the Force. They would make up a new group of Sith Jedi
that she would begin to train herself.
She had spent the last couple of weeks training just like the ancient
Sith lords did. The only thing she didn’t
do was tattoo herself. She did her
meditations according to Sith records and she could feel herself growing
stronger each day.
Rizon felt
that she was not strong enough to have a few apprentices. She knew that Darth Bane had been wrong to
limit the Sith to just one master and one student. It might have been the right idea at the
time, but now it was time for the Sith to be reborn to take over the universe.
As she was
looking a couple of fighters flew by on their training flights. She would soon have everything ready, now she
just needed on last thing.
Gaia
walked into the Solo residence and looked around for anyone that she knew. She had realized that she had found out
everything that she could at the Republic’s library and had come up with very little. She had the strongest feeling that somehow
the Jedi Master Bri was important to this research. The only problem was everything she had
thought of had come up a blank. It was
probably due to the Jedi Purge that no records existed for her to find.
She made
her way through the house to the living room.
There she saw Han Solo sitting in a chair reading. The sight was something she would not have
expected from his reputation.
“Hey, you
look like you’re looking for someone,” Han said with his normal grin on his
face.
“I was
looking for either you or your wife,” Gaia responded. “I just wanted to tell you that I will be
ready to leave whenever you are.”
“I’ll let
Leia know when she gets back with the kids,” Han said to her. “She likes to get away with them every once
in a while. That and it allows me to do
whatever I want without feeling guilty about it,” they both smiled at that.
“Did you
get your research done,” Han asked watching as Gaia sat down across from him.
“Yes and
no,” Gaia replied with a bit of a sigh.
“I thought it would be easy, but finding two Jedi in a pile of
incomplete records is proving more difficult than I thought. I did come up with a name though, Jedi Master
Bri Lightner.”
“Hmm, Bri
Lightner, never heard of her before,” Han said after a couple of seconds of
thinking about the name.
“Neither
had I, but then again I wonder how many Jedi Masters’ names have been erased
from history,” Gaia mused out loud as she thought about it. “She could have been a great Jedi but thanks to
the Emperor most of the information is lost.
We know about a few of the great Jedi, like Lord Hoth, Yoda and Mace
Windu.”
“True, we
have lost a lot of information. I wonder
what else the Emperor destroyed that we still have to find out about,” Han said
wondering about the situation.
“I guess
we’ll never know for sure then,” Gaia replied.
“Why are
you trying to find out so much about this Jedi Master,” Han asked as his
curiosity got the better of him.
“I’m not
sure, but I’ve had some visions of two Jedi.
They seemed real close to me,” Gaia replied trying to recall the vision
as best as she could.
“Could it
have been a master and her padawan,” Han asked trying to come up with some
clues as to who the other Jedi might be.
“That’s
what I thought at first, but I didn’t get a sense that they were like that,
there was more to it, but I just don’t know,” Gaia said trying to answer Han’s
question.
“I don’t
know much more about the Jedi than that,” Han told her. “I guess I should considering that my wife is
a Jedi and my kids will probably be as well.
I do know that Luke is trying some different things that the Jedi did
not do before the purge, like marriage.”
Gaia
looked up at that comment. The mention
of marriage seemed like something that she should research. Gaia shook her head though with the knowledge
that before the great purge by the Emperor that the Jedi were forbidden to
marry except for special reasons.
Ki-Adi-Mundi had been one of the special exceptions because of his
species low rate of reproduction he was allowed. He was the only one that Gaia knew that had
that exception.
Gaia
figured that Master Skywalker had decided to ease up on the requirements partly
because it was those same requirements that played a part of his father
becoming Darth Vader. There were several students who were now Jedi Knights
were already married before coming to the academy. Gaia felt that it would not be changed.
The both
looked up as the door opened and four people came walking, or running, into the
house. Gaia watched as the twins came
running into the room followed by Leia and their youngest child.
“Hello,”
Leia said as she noticed Gaia sitting there.
“How is your research going,” she asked.
“I think
I’ve done all I can here on Coruscant,” Gaia replied.
“Then I
guess that you’re ready to head back to the academy,” Leia stated as she saw
the young woman nod her head. “I just
need to talk with a couple of senators that will be going along with us, but we
should be ready in a day or two.”
“That
should allow me to wrap up my research,” Gaia replied.
“Have you
found out anything that is useful,” the man behind the desk said to the man who
had walked into the room. There was hope
that he would be able to have more information because it was critical to determine
their course of action against such a new threat.
“Yes I
did, and I do not believe that we are in much danger. In fact I believe that the opposite is true
this time unlike the past,” the man replied handing over the data crystal to
the man behind the desk.
“Really,
hmm, that’s interesting. Let’s see,” the
man said taking the crystal and plugging it in.
He quickly glanced through the data knowing what he was looking
for. He raised his eyebrows a couple of
times before raising his head. “A Jedi?”
“That is
correct,” he said with a slight bow of his head. “But that was not the part that I was
referring to,” the man said motioning for him to continue his reading.
“The last
Jedi who knew about us was the Jedi Master Yoda and he took that secret to the
grave,” the man said not looking up.
“I think
that you will find that last page very interesting,” the man said pointing out what
he thought was the most interesting part.
“Very
well,” the man said as he skipped to the last part of the report. His eyes froze when he saw what the other man
was talking about. “Are you sure about
this,” he said quickly looking up.
“The
pictures don’t lie my friend,” the reply came.
The man
behind the desk sighed then leaned back in his chair while he pondered what he
was going to do. There was too much at
stake to foolishly rush into a decision.
The wrong decision could kill all of them.
“If I may
say, I don’t think that it was an accident in us finding her,” the one standing
said. “We must help.”
“You may
think so, but if we do it must be cautiously.
If this turns into a trap then our lifestyle could be destroyed,” the
sitting man said thinking about the path that was before them.
“It’s
them, I know it,” the other man said.
“All
right, you may approach them, but be careful about what you bring up. Make sure it is only what is needed at the
time and not before that,” the sitting man said.
“I will,”
the man said before walking out of the room.
“I hope
that you are right my friend, I really do,” the man said to the retreating
form.
“My Lord,
we have arrived,” Tyi said as he walked up to the tall dark figure standing
silently in the middle of the room.
“Good,
have a shuttle prepared for me right away,” the woman replied as she did not
even bother to turn around. Tyi simply
nodded his head and carried out her orders.
He never had to remind himself of the danger surrounding her as she
seemed to exude it. Ever since he had
seen her on Ouspent he had a strange feeling about her. She had changed along the way as well,
becoming even more fearsome in his opinion.
She had
managed to procure a good ship, not really combat vessel but it could hold a
few fighters. It currently had a couple
of leftover Y-Wing fighters from the war against the Empire. They would hold up against a pirate attack,
but against anything stronger they would need better equipment.
Tyi also
wondered when they would begin to acquire more ships. They had more men then anyone knew what to do
with and he knew that without anything to do they would become bored and
dangerous. There had been some
discipline problems early on but Darth Rizon had stopped that very
quickly. She had been brutal in her
punishments and the men were slowly working into a function force.
He
finished his orders and received a reply from the hanger that everything was
ready. He walked back over to Darth
Rizon who had not moved. She was still
looking at the window at something that only she could see.
“My lord,
the hanger reports that your shuttle is ready,” Tyi told her somehow feeling
that she already knew about it.
“Excellent,”
Rizon said. “Do you see it Tyi, it’s
calling for us, waiting for us, ready for us and all we have to do is reach out
and take it,” she said with a smile on her face.
Tyi was
not sure how to respond to what she had just said as he did not have a clue as
to what she had just said. He did not
ask though not waning to risk angering her in any way. He just stood silently beside her waiting for
her next command.
“It’s all
right Tyi, I know that can’t see it,” Rizon said knowing that no one else could
see what she saw. She turned around
making her red cloak swirl around her making her seem a bit more menacing. “Wait for me here,” she said then walked out
of the room.
Tyi could
only nod his head as she walked out of the room. He wondered how long she would be down on the
planet’s surface this time. They had
done this several time before and each time she had been gone anywhere from an
hour to almost a day. The only think
that bothered him was each time she returned she seemed to be stronger than
before.
Jessica
made her way to the hanger where the shuttle was. She noticed that everyone around her seemed
to stiffen to attention. The pilot
seemed nervous at her approach which made her happy at that. Entering the shuttle she quickly told the
pilot what course to set. The pilot
nearly jumped when she spoke even though he knew she would say something. She watched the man and decided that he would
carry out his orders well, but was not officer material.
Jessica
watched as the planet’s surface came into view.
She quickly directed the pilot to a small area on the surface that
appeared to be deserted. That was where
she needed to go.
The pilot
quickly landed the shuttle as quickly as he could hoping that Lord Rizon did
not decide to vaporize him like his predecessor. The rumor was that he had spoken back to her.
“Wait for
me here,” Jessica told the pilot. She
went towards the area that she knew would hold the last Sith Lord Tomb that she
would have to visit. Using the Force she
blasted the debris away from the entrance.
This tomb was an unknown one to others but held the last piece she
needed to begin her plan.
The
entrance was exposed under her power as the wind whipped around her. The entrance had not seen the light of day in
over two thousand years. The doors
opened with a heavy protest but her will was stronger than the doors were. As if understanding her intent to enter the
tomb the wind whipped up even more making her cloak flutter in the wind along
with her hair. Through it all she
ignored it and continued with her task.
With the
entrance opened now she made her way inside the tomb. Dark power flowed all around her as she
walked through the catacombs. There
would be traps, which she was counting on.
She listened to the flow of the Force as it told her which way she
needed to go. Turning around a corner
she ran into what she was expecting.
Two Sith
assassin droids were waiting for her.
Both droids opened fire at the same time as they went about their
mission of destroying anything that came into the tomb. Jessica simply used the Force pushing the
droids against the wall destroying them.
With the
droids taken care of she continued on her way to the tomb. She was not disappointed as she waited once
she entered the tomb. A figure appeared
in front of her. She knew that it was
the spirit of the dead Sith Lord protecting his tomb.
“You know
why I’m here,” Jessica said simply as she looked at the spirit.
“Then you
know what you have to do,” the spirit replied.
Both of them regarded each other for a moment as they knew what was
about to happen.
Gaia
walked into the library to check out one last piece of research before heading
back to Yavin IV. Han had come up with a
good idea and she was not on her way to check out for any married Jedi. She hoped with this search she would have
more luck.
Gaia
decided she could really only do her searching in the morning as she needed
some time to prepare herself to head back to the academy. She also had to go over what had been going
on lately. Master Fie-Tel had kept her
mostly up to date with events back at the academy.
She had
learned that the shuttle that had been headed to Yavin had crashed on
route. There were also reports of a new
group of Dark Jedi under the command of Tavion.
Tavion had been Desann’s student who had been defeated by Kyle
Katarn. Fie-Tel and Luke Skywalker along
with the help of another recruit, Jaden, had been investing the reports.
Fie-Tel
had mentioned that Tavion had sent her loyal troops to areas that were know to
have an affinity for the Force and draining them. Gaia had reported that she did not feel that
her mystery would be uncovered once she had figure out more about the Jedi
Master Bri. Fie-Tel had given the name
to Master Skywalker and any information he uncovered would be waiting for her.
After two
hours of searching the archives for any listing of the Jedi Master Bri and
marriage Gaia finally conceded defeat.
She was about to head out of the library when she began to feel
something familiar to her. It was not
something from the Force or at least she did not think it was. The ferocity of it took her breath away as
she began to feel dizzy.
She barely
was aware that there was a hand on her shoulder gently guiding her to a sitting
position. She was concentrating on
something that was slipping away from her.
Something that was important to her.
“No,” Gaia
whispered only loud enough for someone standing next to her to hear.
“Relax
little one, concentrate,” a calm voice said near her. It seemed to help ground her in what she was
feeling even though she could feel it slipping away and despair began in her
chest. “Ask it not to leave,” the voice
said again to her.
Gaia was
not sure what the calm voice was asking of her.
She was not even sure what she would be asking to now leave but there
was a part of her that knew exactly what to do.
It was the strangest thing that she had ever been through. Gaia seemed to know that she had to do
something and with the advice of the calm voice she mentally tried to keep
whatever it was here.
A moment
later a rush of dark energy swept over and through her leaving her feeling
quite weak after it was all over. Gaia
finally opened her eyes and glanced around.
Sitting next to her was an older man who appeared to be keeping an eye
on her. Part of her wondered is he was
the one who had been talking to her just a few minutes ago.
“How do
you feel little one,” the man finally asked.
“Like a
whole herd of nerfs ran over me,” Gaia finally replied as she regained her
senses. “Who are you?”
“My name
is Percy,” the man replied with a smile.
“What just
happened, you seemed to know what was going on,” Gaia asked a bit confused by
what had happened. She was sure that it
had just felt the Force but there was something else with it that she could not
figure out. It had been happening more
frequently lately and it was beginning to scare her. Each time she felt it the energy seemed to be
gaining in strength.
“I don’t
know,” Percy replied but he seemed to be hiding something.
Gaia
frowned in thought for a bit as she went over what had just happened. “I think that we both know that you know
what’s going on here,” Gaia told him looking right in the eye.
Percy
glanced to the floor for a second as he thought about what had just
happened. His talk with their leader
earlier had resulted in a strong warning that caution might be the best course
of action. What had happened earlier was
proof to him. He had to somehow tell her
what was going on without telling her what was going on, but how.
“I can’t
tell you much I’m afraid,” Percy said hoping that she would not use any Jedi
powers on him.
“What can
you tell me,” Gaia asked wondering what he would tell her.
Percy
opened his mouth to reply when an idea suddenly came to him. “I have an idea of what to tell you, but I
need to talk with someone first. Will
you be around later today,” he asked her.
Gaia was
quiet for a few seconds while she thought about it. She still had to pack which was not much and
any reports she had to read she could do on the way back. She figured that she had did have the time
and gave Percy a number where he could reach her. He nodded his head then walked out of the
room.
Gaia
wondered what type of secret organization Percy was a part of. She knew that there were other secret groups
out there that worked in the background of the Republic, the Empire and even
the
Jessica
dodged the first couple of Force blows that the spirit of the Sith Lord sent
her way. She then sent her own attack
which the spirit easily blocked. Seeing
that from the spirit Jessica knew that she had her work cut out for her. This spirit would prove more formidable than
some of the others.
The two
combatants attacked and countered attacked at will. Jessica was trying to find a weakness in the
Spirit’s attack. She tried a couple of
combination moves which the Sith Lord spirit easily dodged again. This just made her concentrate even more as
she doubled her efforts.
“Not bad
little girl,” the spirit said after blocking her last attack. “But you’re not good enough,” it told her as
it gathered more energy and attacked with speed that Jessica had never seen
before.
Blue
lightning bolts of pure Force energy crackled around Jessica before sending her
to the ground in pain. The spirit’s
Force energy had burned right past her defenses like they were not even there.
“So you
thought you could challenge me did you,” the spirit said in a mocking
tone. “I have defeated many like
you. None of which are worthy of the
title Sith Lord.”
The spirit
took that moment to renew its attack on Jessica. The spirit was actually silently amazed at
the amount of punishment this woman was taking.
It had never seen anyone take so much before without succumbing.
Jessica
could feel the Force energy cursing through her body as the spirit began to
overwhelm her. She could feel herself
begin to slip away when something strange happened to her. There seemed to be another voice in her
head. Someone she had never heard before
asking her to stay.
For reasons
that Jessica could not understand she could not ignore the request that was
being made of her. She fought to stand
up in the face of the Force energy that the spirit was punishing her with. Finally she was able to stand up to counter
attack with energy that she was not even aware that she possessed.
“Impressive
little girl,” the spirit said as it began to gear up for another attack. Force
energy from both combatants pulsed throughout the tomb making the ground
vibrate. Noticing that the woman that it
was facing seemed to be getting stronger it decided that it was time to end
this. The spirit attacked again but this
time was amazed as Jessica quickly dodged it.
The spirit
was caught off guard by the speed and power of Jessica’s attack. The spirit tried to fight the power from the
woman but she seemed to be getting stronger with each second that passed. Its Force shield finally gave way to
Jessica’s power. She pushed her last
attack with all the energy that she was able to muster.
The spirit
shrieked as the Force energy defeated it.
It began to fade under the attack that Jessica was throwing at the
spirit. She was beginning to get the
feeling that she was going to win this battle.
“Welcome
Sith Lord Rizon,” the spirit said just before it faded into nothingness.
Jessica
stood in the center of a Force storm as the last energy of the spirit
disappeared leaving her alone in the tomb.
When it finally died down she looked around a bit for something that
would lead her in the right direction.
It did not take long for her to find what she was looking for. A small icon carved on the wall in the small
corner of the tomb.
Using the
Force she opened the secret panel and pulled out the box that was inside. Taking a few things out of her pocket she put
them together with the object and waited a few seconds.
The object
began to float in the air as it hummed with an ancient power. It grew brighter as it continued to power up
until the entire tomb was filled with a blinding light. Jessica remained looking into the light as
anyone else would have been blinded by it.
Raw power
shook the room as white streaks of light shot out towards Jessica who stood
unfazed by it all. The light finally
died down and the object came to rest silently on a rock. Jessica bent down to pick it up before
walking out of the tomb.
Jessica
boarded the shuttle where a nervous, pale and quiet pilot waited. She glanced at him before saying anything.
“Back to
the ship,” she ordered then went back and sat down.
“Y-yes my
lord,” the pilot replied more than anxious to leave the planet’s surface. He had felt the surface of the planet
trembling violently for a while with only a few moments of silence. Then there had been an intense beam of light
that had shot up into the sky which had scared him even more.
Then Lord
Rizon had returned and he thought that he could see energy coming off her in
waves as she had walked out of the tomb.
He briefly wondered what had happened down in the tomb then decided that
he did not want to know.
Jessica
sat back in her seat as the shuttle began its ascent to the ship. Soon she would have a warfleet of her
own. The Republic and the Jedi had been
foolish to allow such things to pass into legend and fade away. It did not take long until the ship docked
and she made her way to the bridge.
“Head
here,” she said to the captain pointing out where she wanted to go.
“My lord,
that’s uncharted space. We don’t have
maps to safely navigate there,” he told her honestly.
Rizon
merely pulled a data crystal out of her sleeve pocket and placed it in the
computer console. “You do now captain,”
she coldly replied. “We head there now.”
The
captain merely nodded his head as he looked at the data on the crystal. There would be no arguments from him at the
moment that was for sure.
“Tyi, let
me know when we are about to arrive,” Jessica said then turned and began to
walk off the bridge.
“Yes my
lord. Ah, there is one thing I’d like to
discuss with you,” Tyi said having received a report when she was on the planet.
“Very
well, what is it,” Jessica said implying that her patience was not something to
be tried right now.
“Our spies
report that Tavion, Desann’s student, has regrouped with the remains of
Desann’s followers. She has started her
own attack. Would it not be best if we
joined with her,” Tyi asked cautiously.
“Tavion is
a weak fool,” Jessica replied. “Have our
spies begin recruiting from her group as well.
When she falls they’ll come willingly to me. It will be just as I have seen it,” she told
him then walked out of the room.
Tyi
wondered what else she had seen that she would not tell him. He walked across the bridge to inform the
spies before they went into hyperspace towards an unknown part of space. He and the captain exchanged glances as he
went about his work.
“Do you
think she really knows what she is doing,” the captain asked him.
“I think
she does,” Tyi replied slightly afraid that she would hear this
conversation. “I think she has all the
pieces that she was looking for. It’s
just a matter of time now.”
“I don’t
care what she does with the
Tyi looked
on thoughtfully at the captain. Most of
the crew did not care for either the Republic or the remains of the
Empire. That would probably be to their
advantage, that and the fact that they had managed to nab a few officers from
both sides that were disillusioned by their superiors. That is where they had found their current
captain. He had been a captain the
Tyi
finished his work and nodded again to the captain. The crew had finished imputing the data from
the crystal and now only needed the captain’s orders to execute the
command. The captain gave it and the
ship’s hyperspace engines sprang to life.
“What do
you think will be waiting for us,” the captain asked Tyi.
“I don’t
have a clue captain,” Tyi replied.
Percy
walked back into the office where his leader was with more news. The man behind the desk glanced up and
wondered what had happened in the short time since Percy had been gone.
“What
happened Percy,” the man asked.
“She’s
one,” Percy replied.
“Convinced
me then,” the man replied along with a wave of hand for Percy to sit down.
Percy sat
down and went on to tell him all about what had happened in the library. He had spotted the woman and was trying to
figure out a way to introduce himself with arousing any suspicion from
her. The woman had been walking when she
suddenly stopped and her eyes had gone wide.
“She was
getting something very strong from her connection. Whatever had happened she almost lost her
other half,” Percy told the man.
“Are you
sure about that,” he asked wanting to make sure that Percy was right about what
he saw.
“Yes, she
looked just like you did last year in the hospital,” Percy replied bring up the
fact that the man’s wife had been very ill last year and had gone to the hospital.
The man
sat back and pondered this new information.
Whatever was going on a connection was already strong, like it had been
with the other ones. He closed his eyes
before finally making up his mind.
“Bring
her, we will tell her a bit of what is going on,” he finally said to Percy.
“You won’t
regret it,” Percy replied.
“I hope
not Percy, for all of our sakes. If not
we will have to relocate again,” the man said as Percy nodded and left the
room.
He did not
have to wait too long before Percy came back with the woman in question. Gaia walked into the office wondering what
Percy and whoever he had talked with had to say to her.
“Welcome,
please have a seat,” the man behind the desk said with a smile as he motioned
to a nearby chair. Gaia replied with a
thank you and sat down waiting for what he had to say to her. “Only a few select people are allowed inside
our society. We have learned from
experience that exposing ourselves to the outside world can have dire
consequences.”
Gaia
wondered what type of secret society she was about to be introduced into or if
she even wanted access to it. Gaia could
feel that the man had some sort of hidden agenda behind all of his words and
decided to wait to see what else he had to say.
“We only
allow those like us to have access to our group,” the man told her.
“Who are
you,” Gaia asked not sure what the man was going to say.
“Before I
go any further I need you to understand that what I tell you must be held in
the strictest silence. It could mean the
death for a lot of people,” the man told her.
“I will,”
Gaia said without hesitation. She would
never do anything to risk the lives of others.
“Why were
you looking for Jedi Master Bri Lighter,” the man asked her.
“I had a
vision of her and another woman, who I thought was also a Jedi. I think it might be important to whatever is
happening,” Gaia replied.
“Yes there
was another woman with her. They shared
a special connection to the point that they were connected by more than love,”
he told her.
Gaia was
not sure to think about this. It meant
that the two women were connected by something stronger than love. She was not sure what that could be. “So they were a couple,” she finally asked.
“Yes, but
also so much more,” the man said to her.
“Then do
you have any information about her,” Gaia asked with hope that he might be able
to help her out.
“The man
sat back in her chair as he debated what to do next. “There really is not much information on
them, but we do know where they were buried,” he finally told her.
“Perhaps
there is something there that can help me out,” Gaia said wondering if the
academy would allow her another trip.
“Perhaps,”
the man replied slowly. He handed her a
data crystal that contained the information.
“I need to
get back. I’m headed back to the academy
soon,” Gaia said standing up and thanking him again for the information. It was not much but it was more than she had
hoped for.
“I
understand,” the man said rising with her.
“Oh yes, please come back and see me when the time is right.”
Gaia
looked back at him not sure what to make of that comment but nodded her head
and walked out of the room. His
statement confused her a bit and figured that she would have to come back to
ask what he meant.
“You
didn’t tell her,” Percy said as he walked up.
“No, with
Jedi it’s dangerous, she will have to find out for herself,” the man replied.
“But she’s
already connected,” Percy told him.
“f she was
then she would have already understood Bri and Xara’s connection,” the man said
putting the file away.
“Do you
think that she will find what she is looking for,” Percy asked after a few
minutes of silence.
“Yes, and
if the files are right the sooner the better, for all of us,” the man told
Percy.
Tyi
watched the streaks of light go by as the ships sped through hyperspace towards
an unknown sector of space. He and the
captain had been wondering about what they could find once they got there. Darth Rizon had given them an order to head
there and then let her know when they arrived.
“Tyi,
we’re about to arrive at our destination,” the captain said to Tyi.
“I’ll let
Darth Rizon know,” Tyi said as he went over to the intercom system to relay the
message to Darth Rizon. She told him
that she would be on the bridge shortly.
Tyi watched
as the ship came out of hyperspace.
Glancing around he did not see much around until he saw a ship floating
silently in space. It was unlike
anything he had ever seen before. The
ship looked like a cross of an Imperial star destroyers and a large claw. There were two halves of the ship that were
shaped about the same but with a space in the middle of the ship giving it a
claw shape. As he looked on he noticed
more and more ships.
“There
must be hundreds of ships out there,” Tyi stated in shock.
It was at
that moment that Darth Rizon entered the room finding everyone looking out the
windows. She turned to see the fleet
that she knew would be there after hearing Tyi comment.
“A thousand ships, my ships.”
End Part 4