Star Wars: The Lost Son

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora gave him a small smile. ::I know you are afraid for me, but.... I need to speak with them. If- if possible, I would want their support. And if they condemn me for what I have done, then.... then I need to know that, as well.::

[Darth Randus]

Ben rested his head on top of Aurora's and slowly pulled out a comlink to the Admiral on board of his ship and coldly said "Admiral, set course for Coruscant. Maximum speed."

 

After ordering the course change, Ben once again allowed himself to appear relaxed in Aurora's presence, resting his head on hers.

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora smiled, glad that her love seemed to have finally relaxed. She closed her eyes, just enjoying being so close to him, and pushed aside her worries about the upcoming audience with the Council.

 

* * *

 

Meanwhile, Arion had tried meditating, sleeping, thinking, and most other passive activities in his force cage. None of them had lasted very long, however, and so he turned his attention to his guards. "So, uh.... any of you know how to play pazaak?"

[Darth Randus]

Ben closed his eyes while resting on Aurora's head and was enjoying her company. This was the first time the two of them actually could be together without Darth Kelion watching over his shoulder. Right now the only thought in his mind was I love you Aurora.

 

The guards watching Arion were in no mood to be conversing with this Jedi. One of them snapped "Silence Jedi!" while he engaged the cage's shock emitter for several seconds.

[Aurora Starfire]

Arion winced as the shocks ran through him. "Ow!" he said, with a grimace. He then frowned at the guard. Alright.... no more nice Jedi, he thought to himself. He'd tried patience, he'd tried conversation, now he began contemplating various methods of annoying the guards. He briefly considered using the Force to manipulate his force cage, then discarded that idea. He'd never been very good at mechanics, anyway. Then he chuckled, dryly, and switched off the lighting. Start simple, then we can go from there.

[Darth Randus]

The guards watched Arion with great interest, calculating ways to defeat him if there were a battle and also other ways to torment him. One of them looked Arion in the eyes, "Well then, since you don't want to submit to more... conventional punishments, I guess we need to use some... other methods. Hmm... where is that sister of yours." With that, the one guard turned around and began to walk out of the room.

[Aurora Starfire]

Arion eyed the guard. "Oh, I have a feeling you're not going to be able to do anything to my sister." Idly, he switched off the lights in the rest of the detention area, as well as his cell. "Why don't you go chat with your master about it?" He used the Force to push him out into the darkened corridor.

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron sensed the threat to Aurora while he was sitting with her and reached out with the force into the mind of the incompentent Dark Jedi and started to tear apart his mind while Arion pushed him with the force. Calmly, he said to Aurora "Sorry about that, one of the Dark Jedi on board actually got into their heads that they could come after you, I showed him otherwise."

 

The rest of the Dark Jedi turned to the direction of Arion's force presence and unleashed a Force Scream, inflicting agony on all who heard it.

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora frowned at him, concern in her eyes. "I hate it when you do that," she said, seriously. "I appreciate that you're trying to protect me, but I don't want your protection if it's at the cost of yourself."

 

Arion winced, and clamped his hands over his ears. "Geeze, no need to shout, I can hear ya," he muttered under his breath.

[Darth Randus]

"Sorry, love. Let me see if I can make it up to you." He said softly, as he leaned in to kiss her.

 

One of the Sith guards decided that it was time to work on their hunting skills and deactivated Arion's force cage. Each Dark Jedi gave him five seconds before they began to chace him, hunting him.

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora smiled, and kissed him, tenderly. ::I love you, so very much.::

 

Arion didn't waste a moment. As soon as they released him, he dove for the door, calling the dead dark Jedi's lightsaber to his hand as he went. He expanded his senses, catching a trace of Aurora's presence, and headed for that.

[CSI]

CSI narrowed his eyes, and walked into an abandoned weapon shop. Inside it, he found a big mallet and some cutting tools. "Okay...Time to put my katanas into my mallet."

 

----

 

After several hours' hard work, CSI went out of the weapon shop, holding a big mallet, with white robe. He waved his mallet, and walked to the spaceport. He needed to take care of Aurora's ship.

 

Walking on the street, he suddenly realized the Coruscanti sky was never so beautiful. The skyscrapers decorated the sky with vibrant colors.

 

CSI smiled, and entered the spaceport's main gate.

 

"How can I help you, outsider?" One of the officials asked CSI.

 

"I'm here to retreive my ship." CSI replied.

 

"Number?"

 

"578-57-331. Thank you, sir." CSI smiled when he took the permission to board.

 

When he was about to get to the main docking bay, he noticed two thugs were guarding the gate. CSI frowned, and walked up to greet the thugs.

 

"What brings you here, Jeeeeedddddiiiiii?" One of the thugs sneered.

 

"I'm about to ask that question, not you." CSI growled, "Get off, or..."

 

"Yeah, we do that!" Another thug answered and slashed his axe at CSI's head.

[Darth Randus]

Ben returned Aurora's kiss and responded through the force, ::Oh, Aurora, I love you so much. What would have happened if I never found you?::

 

The Dark Jedi followed Arion relentlessly, shooting lightning at him, throwing lightsabers, even shooting at him with blasters.

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora shivered. ::I don't even want to think about that......::

 

Arion flicked the stray blaster bolts back at his pursuers, parrying their sabers with his "own". Going to take more than that, he thought, grimly amused. The tip of his saber severed an electrical conduit from the wall, sending a hail of electrical sparks flying at the dark Jedi behind him. Whoops, hope that wasn't something critical. The thought briefly flashed through his mind that if it was something important, it wouldn't have been in such an obvious place. Either way, he wasn't going to worry about it just now, he had more pressing matters at hand.

[Darth Randus]

[Leia Starfire has asked me to take over Darth Kelion since she has requested to leave the RP]

 

Darth Kelion had just arrived in the Navarre System when he felt Darth Saaron's darkness wash over him through the force. However, then he felt it fade a short while later. Once he sensed his son faltering, he immediately ordered a course change to his Darth Saaron's ship. Nice try, my son. I will soon have you back as my survant. Then we will finish your training.

 

* * * *

 

Ben held Aurora tighter, sending his love for her through the force. ::Aurora, you will never have to worry about that. I love you and I can't be happier right now if I tried.::

 

* * * *

 

All of the Dark Jedi chasing Arion began to fear for their lives because they were failing to catch the Jedi. One of them took a shortcut down one of the access corradors and kicked Arion right in the thigh. "Jedi scum." He muttered while all of the rest of the Dark Jedi surrounded him.

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora was feeling very peaceful, glad of the chance to be with Ben. She felt very safe, just being held by him, and wished that it would always be this way.

 

* * *

 

Arion suddenly felt his leg kicked out from under him. Sithspit! he cursed, silently. By the time he regained his footing, the dark Jedi were closing in around him. He eyed them, looking for weaknesses or opportunities he could exploit. "You think you're pretty clever, don't you. How about we have a little contest, one-on-one? If one of you can best me, I'll go peaceably back to my cell. If I best each of you, however..... then you leave me alone." He stared at each of them in turn, challengingly. "Who wants to go first?"

[Darth Randus]

All of the Dark Jedi surrounding Arion chuckled. "Cell? Who said we would take you back to your cell. Perhaps we will take you to our master instead and have him punish you." One tapped a command into a datapad and suddenly, a forceshield surrounded Arion on all directions, including the floor and ceiling. "Or perhaps... you will stay right here at our mercy." Then where Arion was standing became electrofied, the pain level set to maximum.

 

* * * *

 

Darth Kelion felt Darth Saaron's peacefulness and scoffed... Peace, we will see how peaceful he is when she is with the council being detained or exiled, or even when she is sent to bring him before them. Feeling that both himself and his son were now almost to Coruscant, he could finally start planning his next move.

[Aurora Starfire]

Arion flinched, and his face twisted with pain. He reached out, automatically, for Aurora through their bond. ::Aurora-- augh.... a little help here would be nice....::

 

Aurora's eyes snapped open, and she frowned, feeling Arion's agony. "Ben, your dark Jedi are torturing my brother. Could you please tell them to stop?"

[Darth Randus]

All of the Dark Jedi around Arion began tosmile cruelly, "Good, Jedi! The only thing you need to do to end the pain... is join us. Its that simple."

 

* * * *

 

Darth Saaron gently pulled away from Aurora and gestured for her to follow him. ::Play along, my love. It is the only way they will treat you as you should be.:: he sent to Aruroa through the force on their way to see Arion.

[CSI]

After a while, CSI threw the axe away, and smiled at the thug: "Didn't your mother tell you not to mess up with a Sith Marauder?"

 

The two thugs ran away with profound horror.

 

Entering the gate, CSI noticed a horde of bounty hunters was attempting to take over the ship. When he walked towards the Jedi Phoenix, several bounty hunters spotted CSI. One of them shouted to CSI: "You Jedi scums was been posted a large sum of bounty. The sum is so large that we can be VERY rich and..."

 

CSI interrupted him: "I think I'm going to take the stupid one who prefers to talk rather than shoot me when he gets the chance." Then he started to gain the power. With a shout, he jumped and swung his big mallet and it smashed the ground right beside the "stupid one". "Critical Strike! Now get out of here before I change my mind."

 

With various noise of weapon dropping, these thugs wet their pants and ran off. CSI picked up a blaster pistol and sighed: "So uncivilized." Then he threw it at the thugs: "Hey, you forget this!" The thug slumped down when the blaster pistol hit his head.

 

CSI entered the ship and lie down on the chair in the cockpit. "Yawn...Time for some rest."

[Aurora Starfire]

Arion glared at the dark Jedi. "Join you? Only if you return the favor, huttslime," he bit out, mockingly. "You know, you're not quite as dumb as I thought you were. You actually managed to realize that I'd beat you if it came to a fight, so you chose to torture me from afar, instead. Smart move. I wouldn't have expected you to discover your own incompetence by yourself."

 

Aurora eyed Darth Saaron for a moment, then followed him. She had a pretty good idea what he was up to, but wasn't sure if she would go along with it or not.

[Darth Randus]

The leader of the Dark Jedi glared at Arion and pushed up the intensity of the shock emitter in the force fields past their maximum levels, creating a near fatal shock into Arion. "Well then, since you will not join us, then I guess we get the pleasure of watching you suffer." he said coldly.

 

* * * *

 

Darth Saaron and Aurora were about half way to Arion when the Dark Jedi increased the intensitiy of the shock. ::Aurora, I need to know. It could go very badly if I do not know before I address them. Your brother's fate depends on it.::

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora hesitated, then reluctantly nodded. ::I'll... I'll play along with your plan. Please... save him.::

 

* * *

 

Arion fought intensely to maintain a stern expression, and bit back a cry of pain. His last thought before he passed out was that he would not give the dark Jedi the satisfaction of seeing that they had managed to hurt him.

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron and Aurora finally found Arion and instantly, all of the Dark Jedi knelt before them. Darth Saaron looked coldly at them and said "Execelent work, my survants. Through this Jedi's suffering, his sister has agreed to join us! Deactivate the forcefield and bring the Jedi to my quarters." Several of the Dark Jedi got up and did as they were commanded, not daring to ask any questions. Gently, he guided Aruroa back to his quarters and walked over to Arion. Placing a hand on Arion's forehead, he said "He is still alive. I do not know much about healing, you may want to take a look at him."

[Aurora Starfire]

Aurora knelt by Arion's side, concern in her eyes. "Oh, Arion....." He was covered in burns from the shocks, and likely was on the inside, too. She began to meditate, slowly healing the worst damage, so that his injuries were no longer life-threatening. Gently, she eased him into a healing trance, and looked up at Darth Saaron. "He... he'll live. He needs a bacta tank, though, ideally. When will we get to Coruscant?"