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[Zara Nargal]

Having gotten comfortable for the journey, the two women talked quietly while waiting for their host to re-emerge.

 

"So you're going to learn some new moves from him Zara? Mind if I join you? I know I won't have the same weapon, I don't intend to make something like that, but I still have my staff."

 

"I don't mind at all Kara. We've practiced often enough to know each other well, learning another skill together won't hurt either of us. I don't know what the rest of the Clan will think once we get there though..."

 

"Oh, you mean that you'll be accompanied by another man? They'll be fine with it. They understand more than you realise... even if the traditions we follow now are different from home."

 

"You're right of course. They'd also understand why I haven't brought the children this time. We'll have to find out if the rumors are true... find out if the Nightsisters have begun their raids again. Something needs to be done about them."

 

The girls continued their conversation...

[darth shadowlord]

With dinner having been prepared, Draken left the cockpit. He checked to see what dinner was and how it looked before heading to the room where Zara and her female escort was staying. As he approached her door he heard something about Nightsisters beginning their raids once more.

 

He arched an eyebrow at that piece of information, then tapped at her door.

[Zara Nargal]

At the knock on the door, Kara got up, sauntering over to the door to open it, Zara standing at the same time. She almost laughed as Kara made eyes at the Count, though kept her expression neutral.

 

"Yes?"

[darth shadowlord]

Draken glanced past Kara toward Zara. He had a questioning look as his face as to the speed at which Kara had moved toward the door. "Dinner is ready, would you perfer to eat here or in the lounge?"

 

He turned to go then paused. "Did you mention the Nightsisters?

[Zara Nargal]

Zara caught his questioning look, giving a slight shake of her head, her eyes sparkling with mischief.

 

"In the lounge would be fine thank you." She responded to his question about dinner. "Yes, we did mention the Nightsisters. There are a few rumours we'd been hearing from our clan... one of the reasons I didn't want my children to come along."

 

Zara made her way towards the door, Kara looking like she wanted to link her arm through the Count's. The grey eyed woman struggled to keep a straight face at the obviousness of her clan sister's intents to lay claim.

 

"They've began raiding again according to the rumours. I hope that isn't true, though if it is, you may be in danger when we get there. The Nightsisters steal the Clan's men and children whenever they can. You would become a target, no matter how skilled you are in the Force. Guard yourself, even in your sleep when we are there. They have ways of invading your dreams."

[Darth Halál]

Halál recieved a new mission from his master over his comm. He flew as fast as he could for Kashyyyk, and even then it would take a few hours to reach it. He knew that the next mission would not be easy, but it could get quite interesting. He smiled at the thought of the wookie's blood running down his hands. In due time, he thought, in due time.

[Alora]

The Sundered Heart made it's way through hyperspace towards it's destination.

[darth shadowlord]

Draken grinned at Kara, before looking toward Zara with the slightest shake of his head. The Witches actions both amused him and annoyed him. He offered his arm to Zara, he needed to know more of how the Nightsister proceeded on their raids. He would also need to know how they guarded themselve while they slept.

 

He opened the door to the lounge and pulled out a chair for Zara. Waiting till she and her companion were seated, he sat down across from them. Pouring them both a glass of wine, he paused. "How does your clan guard themselves while they sleep and how do they invade your dreams?"

[Zara Nargal]

The look Kara gave Zara when Draken offered his arm to her was one of resignation. It seemed that she couldn't gain his attention after all. Zara just gave her a sympathetic smile as she linked her arm through the one the Count offered her, letting him guide her to the table. Once seated, she took a sip of the wine before answering him.

 

"We use spells. I could teach you one of them, though we will probably have to have someone watch over you on guard duty in case they try something else. One trick is to blank your mind. Keep a 'wall' in place, though this is hard to do while sleeping if you are not used to it."

 

She took another sip of the wine, adding a comment, "This is nice. Which one is this?"

[darth shadowlord]

"Blanking your mind, that would be quite similar to blocking your presence in the Force, I would think. However I thank you for your offer of a guard, so long as she doesnt try to capture me herself. " Draken winked playfully at Zara as he said the last statement, then continued.

 

"I would be willing to learn the spell if you are willing to teach it. Although I must admit I would be curious to find out how the Nightsisters invade someones dream while they sleep. Could it be like a vision I wonder?"

 

Draken paused for a moment to consider the implications of that ability. There were various possibilities that invading someone's dreams could allow. It might even be possible to kill someone while they were dreaming. They wouldn't have as much control over their own body while they slept leaving a realm of possibilities to try.

 

"The wine? It is the newest batch of this past years actually. I oversaw its production personally. It is a mixture of the Red rose and also the rare Black rose."

[Zara Nargal]

"Its a very nice wine" Zara murmured, taking another sip. "It is different from hiding your presence in the Force. Sabian taught me something about that when he hid his presence from me. No, this is different again. They can get you to do things you normally wouldn't do... make you go places while in your sleep." Giving a little thought and looking at her Clan Sister first, she added after an unspoken agreement between the two women.

 

"If you would like, one of us could show you what happens tonight. We are all trained how to do this spell and how to counteract it. It is not only a Nightsister's spell."

[darth shadowlord]

Draken nodded when she told him that his theory was wrong. "Alright Zara. Tonight I am willing to learn what happens with that spell and how to conteract it."

[ObliviousKnight]

Armiena's ship go really fast. Zoom zoom zoom, yeah, yeah.

[Tiana Calthye]

Tiana and her apprentice's ship (and her apprentice) sped through space. The Sith momentarily reflected outside of the travel time that she really needed to get her own ship, rather than borrowing X-wings and other ships.

 

At least she now had a ship owner as an apprentice.

 

That helped a bit.

 

So, Ultros's ship, as borrowed by Tiana (sort of) blasted off towards its destination.

[Zara Nargal]

"Very well, one of us will cast a spell to invade your dreams tonight. We'll let you know what can happen then wake you. Once you are awake, we'll teach you how to counter the spell and protect yourself from it. The Nightsisters are bound to try it once they hear you are there. They will come after you... they've been after a... powerful male... for quite some time now for their breeding program"

 

At the look on his face as she stated why the Nightsisters would be after him, Zara had to laugh. The two women would discuss who cast the spell when they were alone. Each had their own styles.

[Jidai Geki]

*Re-entering real space several times during their journey so as to evade detection, the remnants of the Imperial fleet, accompanied by the Emperor and any other key personnel who decided to go with the bulk of the Imperial remnant, continue towards their new base of operations...*

[Haphaestus]

Using advanced procedures, a homing signal, and the Dark Side of the Force, Haphaestus, the Imperial Inquisitor, intercepts the Imperial fleet during one of its visits to real space between its hyperspace jumps, using his route to place his hyperspace jumps to rendezvous them at a proper time.

 

He signalled the fleet and landed aboard one of the ships--the one that he could sense Geki's presence aboard. As soon as he was aboard, he headed for the bridge and the Emperor. It was a swift journey, and the caped and armored figure soon reached Geki's location.

 

Entering into Geki's presence, Haphaestus bowed. "My lord," he said, awaiting permission to speak.

[darth shadowlord]

As the dinner was cleared away from the table, Draken poured the two of them another glass of wine as he began to regal the ladies before them with legends of his two homeworlds. He started first with a legend from Vjun, the legend told of the beginnings of the planet. His voice took on different changes and tones as he told them of how the force came to the planet and how many Sith and Jedi came from the planet.

 

Long into the night, Draken told them the legends he knew until they all began to grow tired. He offered his apologies to Zara and Kara before bidding them good night and heading toward his quarters. After taking a brief shower, Draken checked the ships navi-computer from a small console in his room. Once he was sure everything was in order, Draken laid down and fell asleep a short time later.

[ObliviousKnight]

Taking a short break in hyperspace jumps to send a brief message to her Rebel allies on Gala, Armiena Draygo traveled to Naboo.

[Zara Nargal]

With the meal over, the girls bade the Count goodnight, retiring to the guest room. Both had enjoyed the dinner and hearing all the things that Draken had told them. Zara showered and changed first, getting herself comfortable while Kara took her turn. Once both girls were ready to retire, they sat on the bed preparing for the spell. The girls cast the first spell to put the wards in place. Zara then stretched out very carefully to touch Draken's mind, not impinging on him, just monitoring him until he fell asleep.

 

Kara then began to softly chant, Zara joining in at certain points until the spell was cast. Because of this being a demonstration, the girls performed it together rather than solo.

 

"Draken... Come to me..." A hooded woman in black robes beckoned him with her finger, her face hidden in the shadows... her voice disguised. He would have the strongest urge to follow her as she backed away from him. He would have no choice but to follow her as she moved through the corridors of his ship...

 

In the training room she stood, waiting for him in his dream... waiting for him to approach her. "Come to me..." The woman beckoned him again, drawing him closer to her, for him to push the hood of her robes back to kiss her...

 

If he were to open his eyes, he would find himself in the training room with a robed woman, her face hidden behind the hood. Out of his vision there would be a second woman, similarly dressed to the first... not knowing which was who...

[Idarah]

Idejjen by tumbling accuracy managed to jettison itself into the deep pockets of space, unaware as to where the autopilot was going to take it...

 

...Idejjen decided not to interfere with the hardware it saw before it though, because the monster had no idea how to run a starship. The monster had already messed with it, and had already managed to get itself tangeled up in a destination that it had no control over...

 

... so Idejjen sat quiet as he was launched off randomly into space....

 

-= unkown to Idejjen.. his fortune was about to turn sour, because his spaceship was headed to its last destination before it came to courscant, which was a popular space casino called... the golden link. =-

[Kakuto Ryu]

((OOC: I totally have to give you props for the strategy, it's really quite brilliant, but I've got a bag full of tricks you could fit a dozen dead hookers in. Even if you got to Myrkr, KR's Chaos powers would be unaffected by the Ysalimari bubble. I'd probably be going full daemon prince for a while.))

 

Kakuto smirked at the ray shields appeared around him, the ship already in hyperspace. The crew looked horrified, but slightly relieved now that KR was "captured." The Former Dark Lord lowered his head coyly, chuckling at the thought.

 

"It's a very cute effect, let me tell you, but you're forgetting who you're dealing with. You see..."

 

Kakuto lectured through the mechanical filter of his mask, his eyes closing secretly as the grin spread across his face. His fists clasped together as he summoned the force--sure that he needed to do it quickly before they reached their destination.

 

"...I am Daemon Prince Kakuto Ryu."

 

Kakuto let out a triumphant howl as a torrent of force energy began ripping through the Bridge. Like a tornado, the Force Storm began to twist around Kakuto Ryu--who sat perfectly safe in his own Ray-shielded bubble. The Security officer's head burst like a water balloon, the cloud of blood, bone and gray matter that resulted getting sucked into to vortex of the Master's hate. The storm raged on, hitting each of the other members of the crew with a similar rapid expansion from inside their bodies. Limbs were severed, chests burst, necks evaporated--leaving rolling limbs and heads to churn about in the great cloud of gore. Force lightning appeared in the core of the wind gusts, electrifying the crew as well as the she ship itself as the storm raged on. The bridge was physically wrecked by flying body parts, which embedded into consoles and unloaded a charge of lightning into the computers. The last to be targeted by Kakuto's wrath was the Ray Shield projector, which was easily disabled--as most things are--by ripping it into shreds. When the shield lowered, so did the Force Storm created by The Great Ryu, who stood in the only clean part of the room. The rest was caked in a thick layer of the blood of a dozen eviscerated men.

 

Kakuto reached to the back of his head, removing his pressurized mask to reveal the Cybernetic plug in the back of his skull. He pressed a small button to deploy a data cable--which he casually extended to plant inside the data port on the Hyperspace transit console. With the manual controls wrecked, he felt assured that when he used his Cybernetic implants to stop the hyperspace flight and turn it back around to Cardia, it would stay on that route.

 

The Lord of Lords stood in the center of the bridge, his sterling white armor dimly lit by the light of the hyperspace transit that shone through blood on the forward bridge window. He put his mask back on carefully, raising his hammer and holding it in strike position while locking his eyes on the shattered doorway. Lightning arced around the hammer, illuminating the horror of the bridge with the eerie light of his hatred. He waited, anxiously, as the ship began its return flight to Cardia, for anyone else to make the mistake of charging the bridge...

[Rihn]

((nice one... but I'm not going to let you get out of it quite that easily... of course, Rihn is most likely in trouble. He doesn't know about the daemon king thing. Only the sith part. ))

 

Rihn watched from a console as he viewed the destruction. He knew that it wouldn't have made sense to engage the sith until they reached the planet. Suddenly, though, the sith had attempted to change those plans. Rihn wasn't having it. Rerouting the bridge controls to his current terminal, Rihn reinitiated the original destination. He also set up a force feedback should Ryu attempt to hack into the system again. More importantly, though, he locked and encoded the destination. Now only his authorization codes would be able to override the autopilot.

 

He would battle the monster at Myrkr. He would make sure of that. It was obvious he didn't stand a chance otherwise. He was currently three floors below the command deck. Entering the last bit of coding, sending off a message, and initiating a distress call, Rihn made his way towards the original location the sith had came from. He needed to keep his distance as much as possible until then. They were almost there. Just a little more.

 

Rolling into position, 10 droidekas, 10 droideka mark II's, 10 battle droids, and 5 C-B3's now blocked the bridge exit. The Droidekas initiated their shielding while the rest of the droids opened fire. More were on their way. Rihn, of course, realized that they would serve as nothing less than a diversion. Formidable for sure, but with what he had seen so far he had no doubt that the sith would be able to handle them. Maybe if he was lucky they might even wear the sith down a little or even hurt him. However, he didn't expect them to accomplish much more than that. He just needed time and that's what they could give him. This was it.

 

((Ok... now to Myrkr. ))

[darth shadowlord]

Draken opened his eyes slowly, his mind realizing that something was quite wrong. He looked around to find out that he was inside the training room. He was rather confused, he had been certain that he been inside his quarters a short time ago. "This is clearly not my quarters." He looked down at himself to find that he was wearing nothing but a tight fitting pair of shorts.

 

For all his normal pomp and bravado, Draken could honestly say that he was embarressed and it showed with the way a slight blush crept up to his cheeks. He shook his head for a moment and looked at the robed figure in front of him. He shook his head and stepped forward and lowered the hood of the woman in front of him.

[Zara Nargal]

One thing Zara had been glad about was that he had at least some clothing on... if he hadn't of they would have had to modify the spell so that he put clothing on before leaving his room...

 

As he lowered her hood, Zara remained still in front of him, apologetic that he was embarrassed. Kara stepped forward from where she had stood by the wall.

 

"We can teach you the spell to counter this one. The one thing is that it must remain secret."

 

Zara lent forward and whispered the words into his ear that would allow him to counter the spell they had just used on him, giving him the example of what the Nightsisters could do. What they had done was very tame to what their enemy would have done. Zara also added an apology.

 

"I apologize for embarrassing you."

 

She stepped back from him, keeping her eyes on his face.

[darth shadowlord]

Draken grinned and began to laugh as he looked at Zara and her companion. He stood there for a moment in the center of the room before crossing to a small compartment on the west wall. He typed a brief code into the wall, then removed a long black robe from the compartment. He smiled and slipped it on then slowly walked over to Zara, bowing lightly. A quick look of mischief colored his eye for several seconds before disappearing.

 

"My my, and here I thought I was the one that was embarressed. Lady Zara, your blushing puts me to shame, I should be the one that is blushing." Draken moved closer to her and brushed his fingertips against her cheek and in a voice that was almost a whisper so that only the two of them could hear his words.

 

"May the world weep forevermore for that heart of stone that could not be melted and turned to flesh, has been made flesh. But woe was that heart, for that which made it flesh did not know what it had done."

[Zara Nargal]

Zara felt her face heat up more, even though she had only had a slight tint of a blush before. It was the teasing that made her blush more. She had breathed out a sigh of relief when he put the robe on, her thoughts returning to the last time she had seen a man without much in the way of clothing. That had been with Sabian, when he had helped her with some of her fears amongst other things. She had been able to forget what had happened for a time, though those memories were hard to keep suppressed.

 

The words he spoke affected her in a way that she didn't expect, though she hid it well, keeping her expression neutral. The words were moving, her eye lashes lowering as she looked downwards as she inwardly composed herself. Bringing herself to look back into his eyes, she murmured softly, "That was sweet." She didn't know what else to say.

 

Kara saved her from trying to come up with something else though, by moving to her side. "We will see you in the morning Lord Draken."

[darth shadowlord]

Draken nodded and bowed as they left the room. But as she left, Draken reached out and lightly brushed her mind, not in an intruding way but more as a way for her to see what was in his heart and mind. After they left draken lowered himself down to the floor and opened his mind fully to the Force. He allowed himself to sense the feelings of the galaxy, he could feel hatred, anger, passion, rivalry, fear and various other emotions.

 

At the same time he could feel peace, happiness, love and contentment from people in the galaxy. In the secret parts of his mind he was unsure of his path. He remembered what his parents had been told a month before he had been born. A wanderer he shall be. The galaxy will be his path. That is why his sabres had ancient runes that said The wandering shadow.

 

Long into the eternal night that was space, Draken meditated. His mind remained open but highly alerted should anyone try to attempt attack his mind.

[Slicer]

It never mattered of people knew where he was going, since he really didn't fear much in the galaxy. However, always securty mined he still took the nesscary precautiosn to make him pretty mcu h untrackable to any and everybody. Unless he had, had some sort of tracking device plaed on his ship, he was in the clear. Naturally a man such as himself, always took care to make sure no silly tracking devices were on any possession of his.

[Zara Nargal]

Zara found herself blushing once more as she felt his mental touch, having him show her how he felt. She paused in the doorway, glancing back at him before following Kara back into the guest room. Sitting on the bed, Zara tried to comprehend what he had just shown her, only it left her more confused than anything else. With all that had happened to her, she guarded her heart fiercely now. Sure she flirted... but that didn't mean anything... did it?

 

Giving herself a mental shake, Zara stood up again, removing the robes she had used for spell casting. Her bed clothes were a set of pajama pants and top, black in colour. She slipped into her side of the bed, lying there for a moment listening to her Clan Sister. Kara murmured how hot she thought he looked in those tight shorts and how she had figured that he didn't want anything to do with her... "You on the other hand... I think it will be you guarding him Zar..."

 

Shaking off the other thoughts that threatened to emerge in her mind, Zara murmured the spell that would protect her mind while sleeping. At home in the Casino, she didn't have to perform the spell often, having set wards in place so she wouldn't have to. She could sense Draken's presence as she drifted into sleep, her thoughts confused...