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| "C'mon Kyp, just give me the cordinates to land" Chera said half an hour later to Kyp Durron, the young man on the other end of the com "No can do Chera, sorry but I have orders from Mara...................." "Kyp, why did your orders come from Mara? Isn't Master Skywalker there?" "Nope, he left to go check out a potential student somewhere in the rims. Don't know where, Mara might" So I came all this way for nothing. "Ok, can you patch me through to Mara then?" She said as pursuasively as she could manage "I can try, and don't try that mind control thing on me again, it hasn't worked in years." "I know." She said grimly "You know, sometimes I miss back when I could manipulate you using the Force. Besides, I'm just practicing the only Force talent I have." "Yeah," He laughed, "well, if it helps you haven't lost the touch, I just gained some streangth." "Yeah, that makes me feel soooooo much better." She said driely "I can still manipulate people, just not the only person who can get me clearance to land. What good does that do me?" "Ok, ok, you can talk to Mara, just please stop." He replied. "Ok Kyp. And I know good and well that you just got permission from Mara to let me land and that was just an excuse to get me to leave you alone wasn't it?" "Ok, so it was, but please shut up anyway." "Ok, I will, untill we land." "Oh-no." They soon landed and Chera proceeded to annoy Kyp for about half an hour before Mara finally got around to speaking to her. She didn't think twice about the things her and Kyp did together, they had always had something of a brother-kid sister relationship. Even though Kyp had graduated the year before she had, he still would hang around at the Academy at times. She wasn't sure that even he knew the reasons, probably because he could help out Master Skywalker there. Kyp was one of the most promising Jedi yet. And almost certainly a future Jedi Master. She was probably always going to be a regular Jedi Knight unless she could pull something special out of her future. Like winning a huge war by herself maybe. But in the end she did get to talk to Mara. She Chera sat across from her, studying Mara's auburn hair, green eyes, and slender figure. She was a few decimeters shorter then Chera. But she was much more cool, and composed. That was maybe the only reason Chera had trouble referring to her as "Mara" instead of her first reaction of "Ma'am." "Hello Chera," Mara said "Kyp told me something about you needing to speak to Luke." "Yes, about a dream I've been having. It's always the same, pure evil, black, allot of it," over the next fourteen minutes Chera explained in great detail the dream she was having, and anything related to it. For some reason she found herself telling everything to her, she wasn't really sure why, but she did. And Mara seemed interested, asking her to go over certain parts again, tensing up every now and then when Chera would mention a particularly disturbing part of the dream. "OK, Chera," Mara said when she had finished the story, "I think I know what?s going on," Mara stood up and walked to the wall and leaned her head against it. "I used to have dreams like that myself, the same recurring dream, the haunting of something, or someone, evil. I was haunted by the Emperor." she stopped talking for a second to give Chera a moment to register what she had just said. And then continued "I never really told anyone this, save a few people," she said, looking down at the wedding band on her left hand, as if remembering the day she had received it and all the people there to share in the moment. "I...I always knew why he haunted me, something lacking from you story," she then turned to look at Chera and said "I was his hand," She paused at that to let the full impact of her words slam into Chera. Chera had never been easy to scare or startle and that had gotten even better since she became a Jedi. But the total horror of what Mara had said hit Chera straight on. She had heard of her of course, growing up on Bakura, with her father involved in the Imperial dictatorship, even though he was just a pilot he was a General and had seen his superiors disappear without a trace. She used to stay up late listening to him talk about a mysterious woman who was always the last one seen with the men but always escaped. That was Mara? She thought to herself. But then another question quickly surfaced into her mind, "So that's why he haunted you" Chera said, "but why is this man haunting me?" "That's what Luke need's to find out." "OK," Chera said calmly, "where is he?" "I wish I knew." An hour later Chera stood in the Academy's library with Tionne studying the Holocron, "Are you sure this thing can find the man from my dreams?" Chera asked, "Fairly sure, if he was killed by a Jedi Knight, during the time of The Old Republic, he's probably in here, just ask." Chera was inclined to not really have a choice about asking, so she decided to make the best of it and just ask. "Holocron," she began, "Holocron search for information about a Sith with a red and black face, and yellow eyes." she said remembering the dream she had, had. "Searching," Adi Gallia said, "One match found. Would you like me to read the name to you?" "Yes" she replied, "and anything else that might be of interest to me" "Darth Maul, species is Zabrak, home planet was unknown at the time of death but has recently been decided was Irdonia..." Adi Gallia's voice faded out of Chera's head as she stomached that last bit of information. Irdonia, I was just there, maybe he's influencing me without my knowing it, and this could be bad. Chera's train of though was disrupted however by Tionne's excited squeals, "Did you hear that Chera?" she asked excitedly "What..." Chera said dully "Holocron," Tionne said, "repeat how Maul was killed to Chera" "Maul was killed on Naboo by a young Jedi Padawan named Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi was later made a full Jedi Knight for his valiant efforts, but at the cost of his master, a man named Qui-Gon Jinn." Adi Gallia repeated "That is all on that subject," he said "anything else?" "No," Tionne said "that's all for now" "Can you believe it Chera?" Tionne asked "Master Skywalker's first master killed the Sith, is he the one from your dreams?" "I can't be sure, I'm fairly certain he is though, but I can only think of one way to find out. "Holocron, are their any visuals on Maul?" she asked, "Only one, would you like me to display it?" "Yes," Chera said, "that would be helpful." Almost instantly Adi Gallia began to fade, and she was replaced by a familiar figure, red and black face, yellow eyes, and horns on top, and a sinisterly evil smile. Chera's sharp intake of breath was all the notification Tionne and the holocron needed, quickly Mauls face disappeared and Tionne rushed over to Chera, "Chera, are you all right?" she asked. Chera grabbed a chair and sat down quickly "That's him," she choked out, "that's the man from my vision." |
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