Blood Band Brothers

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn nodded sadly.

 

"Yes, I've lost friends," she said. "Lots of them." She bit her lip and closed her eyes, but she didn't cry. She had never cried since the day Kai Lin was murdered.

 

The twin suns were dropping towards Tatooine's horizon, casting her shadow onto the sand, a mockery of a girl on a speeder lengthened and distorted almost beyond recognition. She flew slowly in the general direction of the house, kilometers away and undiscernible in the distance. That was when the wave hit her, shaking her through and through.

 

"Kai Lin?" she gasped. "The hell just happened?" She gunned the engine and flew towards the house at blinding speed. As she approached, a figure on a similar bike sped off into the distance. Dismounting at the back door, she flung it open and stepped inside.

 

Kai Lin lay on the floor, gasping for breath.

 

"Who, what... what happened?" Jynn asked, kneeling beside him and raising his head.

 

"What happened," Kai Lin said, a touch of his dry humor apparent even in his dying breath, "is I'm about to make a premature and unscheduled departure."

 

"No you're not," she said. "Everything's going to be fine. You'll see." Everything had to be fine. She couldn't imagine living any other way. But everything wasn't.

 

She closed her eyes sadly, a single tear burning its way down her cheek. Running out of the house, she watched the figure of the murderer recede into the distance.

 

"Like hell you're going to get away," she spat, jumping onto her own speeder and following.

 

She caught up to him with little difficulty, at the bottom of a narrow canyon. He obviously wasn't expecting anyone to follow him. One glance into his eyes and she knew her suspicions were right. Reaching for her belt, she realized she had left her blaster back at the house. Without a word, she twisted her speeder suddenly to the right, trying to slam him into the canyon wall. He dropped back almost as if he had known what she was going to do.

 

The next thing Jynn knew, her speeder's course had changed dramatically, hurtling straight towards a rocky outcropping. She cut the engine, activated the brakes, and jumped off at the last moment. The bike exploded in a brilliant flash as she crashed into the sand, digging a furrow as she skidded through. She stood up and yanked her goggles off, watching the murderer disappear into the distance, then started running.

 

Of course, the person on foot will never catch up to the one with the speeder... but minor difficulties had never stopped her. Her lungs were burning and her throat was as dry as straight alcohol when she pounded into the spaceport - just in time to see him fly away.

 

Ever since then, she had dismissed crying as a waste of time and following someone wthout a weapon as incredibly stupid.

 

((Sorry about the very very long post))

[Master_Archon]

((No problem, I like em long.))

 

Geag looked at Jynn, and saw she was holding something back, "why you no cry? It lets the mind rest..." he said to her, a strangeness growing in his voice. "Crying is expression of loss, and helps heal the broken heart..." he said to her, more tears coming out of his eyes. "If you have known loss, then crying, not for sadness, but for honoring, and remembering..." at this the strangeness in his voice became known, it was wisdom, proud, and unlooked for wisdom, "come new friend, let us honor our fallen together..." he said, though these last few words seemed simple, a great weight went with them, and they showed Geag's unseen wisdom, his age, and his true self; though he was a species much less intelligent than others, he had something that surrpassed all intelligence, and that was the knowledge of loss, which is greater than any knowledge that any super sentiant being could hope to have. At these words the very air seemed to change, and a mood which was apparent through out the ship could be felt.

 

Geag bowed his head and closed his eyes, letting the tears run down his small cheeks. Ulgoy now had slowed to a shuffle, and he too bowed his head, and though no tears fell, he felt just as much sorrow, and showed it through a strange chant, though no noice was made, they could feel him vibrating, as he hummed inaudibly. At this, all was silent, except the pitter patter of tears striking the metal floor, and the sound of silence, and sorrow.

 

((Sorry for the over-dramatic moment, just wanted to set a bit of a mood (and make your character cry! Muahahah!) ))

[Dark_Lady]

((You're gonna make me cry lol. Not really. But this is going to be great in the fic. How did you like the prologue that I PMed you?))

 

Jynn looked on in sadness for a moment, remembering all the Jedi they had lost, then buried her face in her hands and started shaking as the mental barriers she had built in her mind collapsed into ruins.

[Rexraptor2000]

You must do this, Reclaimer. If you don't, then the Flood will take your vessel and spread. There is no choice, you must follow containment protocole and activate the ring.

 

Those before knew the consequences. They had lost all, but you have not. Do not make the error they made, or all will perish as they did before. The voices increased and Shadow couldn't wake up. He saw many different scenes from his memories, and they were all painful. He never cried though.

 

Yoda had told him that the expression of emotions was not good, especially grief and anger. Mourning and anger lead to making the wrong decisions. He had learned from a clone commander that mourning for his men was wrong because they did not wish to be mourned. They had died doing what they were born to do, and they couldn't have for anything better than to fill their lifes purpose. It would be disrespectful to do that.

 

He wanted to cry quite a few times, but always shoved it back. He now felt a wave of emotion released and instantly woke up. He didn't know what it was, but he could follow it. He got up from his position and followed it. It was very close.

[Master_Archon]

A strangeness had settled in Cyphon's unknowing mind, a feeling of someone talking, but he could not here it, not yet. But the nightmare that had plagued him his whole, neverending, life, had come back, only worse! Something had invaded his dreams, and the picture of corpses was gone, in their place was emptyness, nothing, but in the distance he could see them, alive, or were they? But before his horrid nightmare could be fullfilled, he woke up, in an empty room, on a table. "Jynn?" He questioned the dark air, "hello?" He asked the walls it seemed. Then from the door infront of him came a tall alien, Cyphon raised an eyebrow.

 

"Hello, human," it said in it's old, yet proud, deep voice. "Hello..." said Cyphon, as if he knew that this alien was of no threat to him. So they talked to eachother, wondering the halls towards the dwelling place Geag had been taking Jynn, discussing things, only leaders could talk about.

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn looked up as she felt Cyphon's approach. Concentrating on her emotions, she calmed herself down.

 

"Wow, he's up already," she said. "Jhon must really be good."

 

-edit-

(Gotta go, sorry. I have schoolwork. I'll probably be back in about 7-8 hours.))

[Master_Archon]

Cyphon rounded the corner and came upon Jynn, and the other two. He stopped and studied each one, first Geag, then Ulgoy, and finally his gaze rested on Jynn. Cyphon grinned at Jynn, he saw she had been crying, and it looked funny the way she was perched on Ulgoy's shoulder. He let out a weak chuckle and walked over to Ulgoy's side, and looked up at Jynn, "well hello there, you look like you've been having fun," he said with a friendly, but weak smile. "You like it up there? Or would you like to come down and say hi to me, seeing as I am the recovering patient?" He teased, with a look of jesting on his face.

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn slipped off of Ulgoy's shoulder with a grin.

 

"Glad to see you up and about," she said.

 

((Bye now))

[Master_Archon]

((It's okay, I understand, I've gotta go soon too! And Bye!))

 

Cyphon looked carefully at Jynn, then turned to Jhon, "she dosn't look in pain?" Jhon just looked at the ceiling with a sheepish look, "I said she, was in pain, during the operation, she looked like she was in a world of torment," he said, and walked out of the hall, Geag and Ulgoy following. Cyphon looked at them leave with an arched eyebrow, 'oh great! Jhon has my robe and shirt too!' he thought after feeling a cold blast of air hit his bandaged chest. Turning back to Jynn he asked, "world of torment?" He asked with an even higher arched eyebrow, and a look of concern, and curiousity on his face.

[Rexraptor2000]

The emotion had stopped, but Shadow was still able to follow to where it came from. The emotion wave had stopped the voices temporarily for some odd reason and allowed him to wake up, but now they were pressing in his head again, painfully. He was tempted to stop again, but he decided against it.

 

He now heard other voices nearby and headed towards them. They were getting louder to the oint where he should have been able to here them, but they were drowned out by the other voices in his head, getting more painful.

 

He walked in right after Cyphon had asked about the world of torment, but he couldn't hear the words and just stood staring at them through his helmets visor. The voices in his head were getting louder and much more painful.

[Dark_Lady]

"Oh, that," Jynn said. "Nothing. I tried... never mind. It's done now."

 

Shadow walked in and stood staring at them.

 

"Shadow?" Jynn said. "I thought you were on the other ship." He didn't answer. "Shadow? What's wrong?"

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow only saw Jynn's lips moving as she talked. The voices got louder and more painful as they filled Shadow's skull. They said things, things that Shadow couldn't tell wheither or not were true. They were argueing, one droning on about protocal and the other about the mistakes of the past. He tried to block them out, but they came back harder and more painful.

 

"Can you help?" Shadow managed to get out. He couldn't even hear himself.

[Dark_Lady]

"Can I help what?" Jynn said. He still didn't seem to be able to hear her, so she tried using the Force to communicate with him.

 

What's wrong?, she managed to ask, before the wave reached her through the Force link - two voices, speaking in normal tones, but so loud all the same.

 

"Frak," she muttered, staggering backwards as they slammed into her head.

 

Can you hear me? she shouted through the Force. The hell happened to you?

[Jason Skywalker]

The droid, R3-T5 couln't find people of sorts, the ship was dark, and he could not guide himself. He started sliding faster and faster, and crashed into a woman. The droid fell to the ground, his circuits confused.

[Master_Archon]

Cyphon was more confused than ever, Shadow wasn't responding, Jynn spoke of voices, and then a droid comes out of a hole in the ceiling and crahes into Jynn, Cyphon wouldn't be surprised, with the luck they were having, if Jynn was unconcious from the impact.

 

Cyphon acted as fast as his recovering limbs could carry him, quickly slipping Shadow's helmet off, he lay his hands on his forehead, making a connection through the force.

 

Walking through Shadow's cluttered mind he heard the chaotic voices, they must have been the ones he heard in his own nightmarish dream. "Shadow, fight them, if you hear them, they can hear you, debate them, you are stronger, you are a Jedi, a master of the force! Fight them," he exclaimed this with a tremendous shout in Shadow's mind, and soon he could hold the connection no longer, what happened with Shadow after, he had no control over; he only hoped he would take his advice.

 

Cyphon felt even more drained now, and he stumbled over to Jynn, looking down on her, "are you okay?" He mumbled weakly, hoping she was concious.

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn sat up dizzily.

 

"I'm fine," she said, tilting the astromech droid back to an upright position. "I wonder where he came from."

[Master_Archon]

"I don't know," said Cyphon, holding his head in his hand. "Hey, little guy, where you from?" He asked the droid stumbling a bit, barely able to hold himself up, as he felt more and more energy sapping from his body.

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn gripped Cyphon's shoulder, holding him as steady as she could.

 

"You don't look too good," she said. "You need to take it easy for a little while."

[Jason Skywalker]

"Greetings," The droid whistled, "My Master is in a Jedi Starfighter on the top of this ship and right now. He wanted to know what's going on, and sent me."

[Dark_Lady]

"Ummm," Jynn said, after the droid had finished chirping its message. "Okay. This is the one and only time a protocol droid would come in handy. I get the part where someone sent you, though. Is there any way we can communicate with your master?"

[Jason Skywalker]

"That was what my Master was trying to do in the first place," The droid beeped.

[Dark_Lady]

"Can he hear me?"

[Jason Skywalker]

"I don't know. He didn't hear anything at first, but due to him being a Jedi, i guess he can hear you through that thing you call "The Force," R3 booped.

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn couldn't understand the droid's beeps and whistles, but she could feel the presence of another Jedi nearby. She reached out to him through the Force.

 

Hello, she said. Who are you?

[Jason Skywalker]

Alex was startled, but imediatly calmed down and reached out through the Force.

 

Greetings. I am Alex Skyrider, Jedi Knight. I assume you're one as well, Alex told her.