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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 4:48:42 GMT
*She sighed with relief after leaving the Mandalorians behind. Another moment spent in the company of Mandalore and she might have slit her wrists.*
"Where in the hell are you, Sable?!!"
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*Arael stayed close to Sable watching her. Her behavior wasn't normal but intrigued her all the same. Could what she have said be true?*
"Sable, where are we going?"
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 5:07:14 GMT
*Sable stared at the stars beyond the window of the cockpit. Essex stoically flew the vessel despite not having a destination. The Sith Witch had not had an easy time of it absorbing Viea's cast off humanity. Each infusion was an emotional and physical torture for her. Only access to her stores of alchemical elixirs have kept her going and kept the worst of it from Arael. She looked over at the girl her question just now sinking in.*
"Going? I'm not entirely sure dear. I'm torn between seeing you to safety and -" She pauses shaking her head at what she's about to say "-Finding a way to stop Viea and Selae."
*She suddenly winced, putting her hand to the bridge of her nose. Despite her desire to remain hidden an echo, like the ping of a sonar rebounded from her mind heading for the sender. Selae*
"I may not have a choice." She whispers.
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 5:17:26 GMT
*She began to have a feeling of where to go. Knowing deep down in her gut not to avoid such feelings, she immediately set course for the other side of the galaxy. Sable was getting nearer. She could feel it. Yet, there was something strange going on. It was like a faint cry of pain or anger echoing through her head. Her curiosity was only peaked further.*
"What are you up to, Sable? Is it fear I sense in you? Fear from the one who loves to bring it? Tsk tsk. Such weakness can be use against you."
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"What do you mean there might not be a choice? What is it, Sable? Please tell me. I can help you end Selae and Viea. Order must be restored, Sable. If it isn't, then all of the galaxy will suffer. You've been alive for how many years? Do you want to see complete darkness overtake all of the galaxy?"
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 5:34:25 GMT
*She leaned close to Essex*
"Bring us down on Tynna. There is as good as any"
*Sable straigtens and looks at Arael. Such fire, such drive. She wondered if she was ever like that? She smiled at the young girl*
"I've been alive longer than any have a right to live. Selae sensed me. I'm losing my ability to hide us from the eyes searching for us. Don't you see? I am quickly growing useless. All of my abilities are based on my knowledge and wanton use of the Darkside. Thanks to my own over complicated cunning I'm not that person anymore and right now I don't want to be. To defeat Selae and Viea I would have to dig deep in my black bag of tricks and the person you see before you now would disappear. I would be back in black and I would lock you up in a room to have you as my own pet seer. Right now at best I can maybe kill Selae if I'm lucky, Viea will destroy me, there is no way for me to defeat her. I'm not a combatant and my grasp of the darkside is failing. The best I can do is save you."
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 5:44:43 GMT
"That isn't true, Sable. The light is strong enough to banish all the darkness from the galaxy. Selae won't hurt me. She can't. Can she?"
*Arael seemed confused about her mother's former self. If Kyra still was deep down inside there, she wouldn't harm her. She could have killed her back at Arkania but she didn't. She couldn't believe her mother was completely gone. No one is beyond help.*
"It doesn't matter. Sable, you can still help bring both down. You don't need the darkness to combat them."
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*She continued to meditate as the ship started heading for Tynna. Soon, she would have the information she needed and she could banish Kyra forever. It then dawned on her that Sable had Arael. Oh this would be such a chance meeting. Kill Kyra and the horrible wench of a daughter. She would be free...well as free as she could be now. Next was Lirreka to take care of.*
"Soon, Lirreka. Very soon you shall be MINE. The tortures I can show you will surpass even your darkness. All you hold dear will be gone. Gone forever."
*She chuckled as she knelt down and entered into a very deep meditation. She would draw the dark energies around her and strengthen herself. Sable won't be able to refuse helping her.*
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 5:52:13 GMT
"If the Light were unified and focused yes Light will always defeat darkness but are the Jedi unified? No. As for me." Sable chuckled as the ship descended through the atmosphere of the planet "Child I was about your age when I became an apprentice to a Sith Alchemist. I've never been a Jedi nor do I have much training outside what I've learned as a Sith. What can I do but darkness? Selae is not your mother, not anymore. I've held her spirit in my hands, I've seen the darkness there, child she will kill you given the chance. When we land I want you to go with Essex and leave, go someplace far away, Go to your adopted mother and tell her that it would be safer if she were to send you back to her home. I know this one act of bravery won't redeem several lifetimes of darkness but blast it Arael, please let it count for something."
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 6:02:00 GMT
"I can't leave you to face her alone. She will kill you. She's killed enough lives. No matter what you've done in the past, you don't deserve death. Judgement, yes, but not death. I won't go."
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*She breathed deeply and could sense fleeting thoughts within Sable's mind. She seemed as if she was going to try to destroy her. This didn't make sense. Why would the one person that brought her back only seek to destroy her creation? She kept trying to probe further into the mind of Sable trying to get a glimpse into what the woman was thinking. There was faltering darkness there...and.....light? Her eyes flashed open as she hissed with hatred towards that light.*
"So the dark woman has been fading. Interesting...most interesting."
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 6:10:40 GMT
*She closed her eyes struggling to keep her mind sealed from Selae's probing. She cursed herself and her failing ways.*
"Oh we just had to be clever didn't we?" She grumbles to herself before opening her eyes and focusing on Arael once more.
"Soon all I'll be is a liability and that is something I swore never to be to anyone least of which to the only person I've thought of as a friend in the last hundred years. There's more to think of than me. My lairs, they have to be destroyed. If Selae or worse Viea finds them they will be unstopable. Arael you need to destroy them. Essex knows where they all are. I want you to destroy them, promise me that and also promise me you'll not go digging through them. There's darkness there that would make the brightest Jedi darker then Selae or Viea even dreamt of being." She puts her hand on Arael's shoulder "Please promise me those two things."
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 6:16:42 GMT
*Arael didn't know what to do. She couldn't risk anyone getting their hands on the dark information Sable had collected for all of those years. Yet, could she leave Sable here to face Selae again? Not knowing what to do, she paced back in forth in the small room evaluating both possiblities and the repurcussions of both.*
"How can she find them if only Essex knows their locations? Why not have one of your servants destroy them for you?"
*She could be so hard headed at times.*
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*She could feel herself drawing closer as the ship exited hyperspace near Tynna. She looked out across the viewer at the planet and smirked. Her hand instictivly went towards her lightsaber as it cooed words to draw her hatred forward even more. It was hungry and demanded blood.*
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 6:28:03 GMT
*Sable walks through the vessel picking up pieces of some technology, putting them together as she goes*
"Because I cannot trust them, Arael. I know them well and darkness owns them. I saw to that. Even Essex is darker then any droid should be. You know what will happen if any of that knowledge gets free."
*Soon she has a lethal force pike that mounts a blaster pistol at one end and a saber blade at the other aside from the axe head.*
"She's landing. Now promise me Arael, you have to do this. Please." Sable's eyes fill with tears, she felt like a ninny but the tears came regardless.
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 6:52:49 GMT
*She reluctantly nods her head.*
"I'll do it. Only to protect more from harm....but Sable....be careful. Selae has powers not many have seen before."
*She was speaking of the Danthiri powers.*
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*Her craft started it's descent to the surface while her sensors were alive scanning for the vessel that Sable was inside of. She would set down easily and sneak up for her attack.*
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 7:03:31 GMT
*Sable grins at Arael, the load lifted from her shoulders.*
"Oh I'm certain of it. Thankfully I have a trick or two she hasn't seen before. When you tell others of me, remind them I was once a fearsome woman who once inspired terror in the hearts of all that opposed me and not this.." She winced ".. brave and noble person." She smiled and went to exit the ship.
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 7:08:57 GMT
*Arael turned to watch Sable move out of the ship and followed a short distance. She could feel Kyra's presence near. It was strong and darker than it had been in the past. Sable was right. Selae was not her mother. She couldn't believe her mother was dead though.*
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*She stepped out of her ship and sniffed the air. There was a stench about it that only came from those that followed the light side. Moving forward slowly and quietly, she made her way towards the source. She felt like a cat on the hunt for dinner. Licking her lips she grinned and tried to hold back the low chuckle of laughter that wanted to escape. Fear was growing stronger. It was feeding her. She stopped for a moment and sniffed the air like a primal beast. Her eyes opened up with delight.*
"Arael..."
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Post by Seirra Darque on Oct 12, 2005 7:23:49 GMT
*She cycled the hatch closed locking it infact. Sable walked away from the ship and and held the force pike in her hands. What fear she had was not for herself, she'd long ago lost any fear of death. She knew it intimately. If she fell here so be it. Arael would not let her collection of darkness fall into anyones hands and that left Sable free to fight without constraint or hesitation. She felt Selae's focus shift*
"It's me you want Selae, remember? If you go after Arael you'll just be leaving your back open to me and you know what I can do to you. Besides she still thinks there's good in you where both you and I know that isnt' the case. If you're afraid to face me I do understand, afterall I did create the body you now wear. Can you really afford not to give me your total attention? Hurry up and decide, I'm an old woman and an impatient one at that."
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Post by Lady Zahra/Jules on Oct 12, 2005 7:26:23 GMT
*She moves towards the woman as her eyes glance at the ship and then back at the woman, her creator. She paces back and forth looking at both with a snarl on her face. A deep growl can almost be heard eminating deep from her chest.*
"I shall have it all. Where are you sending her, Sable? TELL ME!"
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