Private Alana In The Mine With Diamonds

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio

Alana froze as the presence hit her; thick, suffocating, horrific. The air shifted, carrying with it the reek of something ancient and wrong. Her grip on her blaster tightened, but her face betrayed the rush of conflicting instincts: fear coiled in her gut, and yet Junko's irreverent tone pulled a startled laugh from her lips.

She muttered, half to herself, though the smile in her voice betrayed her. "Of course you would flirt at a time like this."

The humor was short lived.

The sound came first; deep, dragging claws raking over stone, each scrape reverberating through the cavern until it felt like the walls themselves groaned in protest. Then came the weight: a ponderous, ground-shaking thud as something massive shifted in the darkness.

The crystal glow caught it in fragments: a jagged horn, the slick gleam of leathery hide, the flash of fangs behind a maw built for tearing through bone. When it finally emerged into full view, the cave seemed to shrink around it. The light of the crystals died, as the beast neared.

A Terentatek was a nightmare given form; hulking shoulders rolling beneath hide thick as ancient armor, its spined back bristling like a fortress of bone. Its eyes burned with a feral, unnatural hunger. The pupils were small, but impossibly bright against its brutish skull. Each breath came as a guttural rumble, steaming the chill air. The air of the mine began to grow foul.

The creature's forelimbs ended in talons longer than a forearm, gouging trenches into the rock as it advanced. Every step carried weight, not just physical but in the Force itself. It was a suffocating presence, dark and oppressive, making the crystals around them flicker and hum as though recoiling in pain.

When it lifted its head, horns scraping the cavern ceiling, the Terentatek let out a roar that was less sound than physical force, rattling the marrow in their bones. This was no mere beast; it was a predator forged for one purpose: to kill.

Alana felt her insides freeze, as she raised her blaster, and froze.

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

SHe looked over at her and nodded with a smirk on her face. "YEah, I want to sit on that face and see if your skin is as pale as mine." She looked at her as finally it came out of the shadows... massive, snarling, covered in thick leathery scales and spines. her saber moved forward as it activated with a snap-hiss. The amber blade gleaming a dull color as the dark honey core gave the curved hilt of the blade its own look. "Now come on, lets get some new boots... oh maybe a purse... or a bikini for you not me... I would prefer commando on the beach." She said it and motioned. "I'll distract it, you shoot the vulnerable spots, eyes, belly and mouth." Her grin remained though, fighting one of these alone was dangerous... fighting with more people helped and allowed you to distract it much better. JUnko moved as she looked at the eyes of the things and her demeanor shifted. Feet moving carefully but also confident in her steps where she was going. Her saber in front of herr and ready for the attack and the thing roared again. Her body bracing forr it until she shot her hand out and sent several stones at the creatures gaping maw of teeth to choke it up.

 

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio

The beast lunged forward, scales grinding against stone, spines rattling as it forced itself into the chamber. The ground shook with its steps, dust falling in a steady stream from the ceiling.

Alana's eyes narrowed, the Force humming about her being. She tried to focus on killing this creature, so as she squeezed off on the trigger, she rapid fired her blaster towards the beast; striking across it's head and stomach. She managed a smirk that might have almost matched Junko's, wicked and unshaken despite the monstrous presence barreling toward them. Her shots managed to bruise it, maybe.

She snapped off a pair of blaster shots, crimson bolts slamming toward the creature's nearest eye. "Hell, I'll even buy you dinner if we survive this." She muttered, gritting her teeth as she exchanged fire.

Another tremor rattled her just a tinge, the beast's maw snapping open wide enough to swallow a speeder whole. Alana shifted, awareness stretching around her, fingers tightening on the trigger. "Yeah, hoping it keeps looking at you, maybe I'll blind it before it notices me..."

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

She gave a small nod, tight at her chest as she was ducking under a claw... yeah she could distract it. her body moving in the cave and she felt it... that first stirring of excitement.. the thrill of her heart rate going up when the first inkling of blood rushing to her ears as it pumped came. Her blade humming when she slashed with the sizzle where it was slicing into the hide. Her hand sliding along the hilt as the force activation of the fusion shunt unleashed a burs of energy to make the blade more intense... sharper, hotter and the bit become a slice that went in to the bone. A small twist of the wrist to it as the blade adjusted its direction and was coming up along the arm for a moment with a bony clawed hand in the way as she ducked below it.

The claw as it was coming forward catching on the clasp at the back of her underwear as her body moved forward quickly... but it tore through with the loosening clawed digit. Junko adjusting as she spun around to clear it and finish pulling for the moment. Making a little distance when there was a roar and a snap of the teeth. Her footing allowing her to navigate with the force even when she wasn't looking. Eyes remaining on the creatures face and teeth.. the poisoned tusks, spines but she knew how to fight beasts and was mentally chanting to herself when she guided the saber forward like a makashi duelist... the blade the closest to its damaged hand while it snarled. "Come on beastie." She waited for it to charge with a roar.. her eyes never leaving it as she moved.

The feeling and sound of the blood pumping in her ears, hr feet on the mines floor when she pushed forward and tucked in low... squeezing her smaller frame into a roll with only the saber sticking out. She rolled on the floor between its legs and slashed up into the underbelly of it while motioning for Alana to keep shooting at it. Her hands coming out as she pulled the moisture from the air, incantations of dathomiri spells making it green mist that coated the poisoned spines and her hands to protect her before she was crawling onto the beasts back. Her blade driving into its back while she cleaved at the prickly spines to dislodge several with herr slashes.

 

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio

The cavern trembled with the monster's thrashing, loose stone bouncing across the floor. Alana pivoted on her heels, working the blaster quickly, letting the recoil drive her backward while keeping her aim locked. Blaster shots slammed into the monsters body with brutal force, sending it staggering, the roar of pain echoing louder than the gunfire.

She ducked under a swinging claw, jerking the blaster upward to hammer another volley into its exposed neck. The Force guided her, helping her anticipate its moves, letting her stay just out of reach while the heat of the blaster kept it on the defensive.

The monster lunged, jaws snapping inches from her, but Alana didn't pause; she ripped off another controlled burst, rounds digging into the softened spines along its back. Each shot was precise, or as precise as she could make it, making it falter, stumble, and recoil as the cavern shook with its fury.

She rolled slightly, keeping the blaster trained on the creature as it staggered, red arcing blaster bolts carving a rhythm of destruction in the dim mine light. She wasn’t sure how much Junko could keep going with this whole affair, but she was trying not to get distracted by the spectacle her companion was making.

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

The blaster shots going into the creature kept her attention as she slashed more... using her blade like a guide to circle around spines and rive it into sections while she ascended the back of the creature when it thrashed. SHe was moving with it when she got up higher and brought her blade down into an eye. The tusk going wide as she was close and scratching her with a jagged piece that was broken. The blade went from socket to socket as she was being flung to the side. The jagged and broken tusk leaving a thin slash across her chest as it snagged her top with Junko rolling on the ground. Its head convulsing with each thrash for a moment longer... its claws grasping trying to find something with the damaged eyes.

She stood up and finally looked down at the thin line of red on her pale skin and skin. "Look... it uneven poisoned tusk, cut along my perfectly formed chest and left poison residue." She said it gripping the saber while she was focusing the force on her own body. "And it has disrobed out." She was speaking to district the creature as it was coming at her with another slash. SHe glared at him while moving to the side with its destroyed eye and damaged claw... the blades finding a place as it cleaved into the arm letting it separate from its body.... Junko moved to stand next to Alana as she spoke. "The poison it excretes could move to my heart... I need you to suck it out."

 

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio

Alana's pulse thundered in her ears as the Terentatek thrashed, feeling the rage of the beast echoing through the Force; a storm of hunger and rage crashing against her senses. She thought she could feel Junko's reckless movements, every lunge and strike punctuated with the sharp heat of danger.

When the beast reeled back from the strike to its eye, Alana had her blaster already raised, firing again and again into the gaps where its armored hide had been split. Each bolt hissed against its flesh, but the creature kept coming, clawing blind, roaring with fury.

Then Junko's words cut through the chaos. It was brazen, shameless, spoken as if they weren't facing down death. Alana's head snapped toward her, her expression sharp.

"Junko-!" The name tore from her throat, somewhere between exasperation and disbelief. "You are not doing this right now?!?!"

Even as she said it, Alana moved closer, covering Junko's side with rapid fire to drive the beast back, every shot precise despite her quickened breathing. "I-I’m a little busy right now, but thanks for the idea."

A smirk cracked through her grim focus. "But if you really expect me to suck poison out of your chest wound while this thing is still breathing-" She ducked as a claw smashed rock to powder beside her "-then you're more insane than I thought."

She braced herself, planting her feet as the creature charged again, switching out a power cell as she prepped for another burst towards the monster.

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

She kept a smile on her face as she moved when the creature charged. "Is it insane too..." She trailed off as it blindly swiped.. the eye destroyed.. the damage to its head there as it kept going and she moved grabbing a section of the wall for a moment.... then she kicked off and sliced into the wound to drive the blade deeper as her voice came out.... "Too well enjoy..." She got distracted for a moment at the roar tearing through the creature when she used her blade to slice into another tusk. "To enjoy the moment." She got it out as she wasn't worried... she was moving behind the creature with a slash along its size and it slowed down.

SHe stood there as she rose up and below it... keeping her eyes focused on the creature when she heard more blaster shots... her blade coming out again to slash at the legs of the creature when she managed to slash into one tendon that cause it to topple over and down with a stubby leg. She was moving and came back around with her saber hel out in front of herself when she looked at Alana and only held a grin. "This is exciting come on... the killing part sucks but nothing gets the juices flowing like a good fight or burst of activity... imagine what might have been in here before the creature took over? There could have been so many other things in the mines."

 

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio


"You're unbelievable.” She muttered under her breath, voice tight with adrenaline. Junko must not have known of the Echani, as Alana did enjoy fighting. Quite a bit actually, but fighting these sorts of monsters was, a bit outside of her ballpark.

Her hands moved fluidly, guiding the blaster in tandem with her other senses. The Force tingled, warning her of each twitch of the Terentatek's remaining limbs. "Yeah, exciting, sure.” She said, ducking a swipe of a talon. "I like surviving just as much as the rush!"

Alana's lips twitched into a grim, half-amused smirk as she watched Junko move within the chaos. Her blaster never wavered, bolts tearing into the Terentatek's exposed flanks as she circled to flank it alongside Junko. As the beast faltered, Alana drained what was left of her energy cell into the beast, and let out a small sigh of relief as it stopped moving.

She let herself glance at Junko, catching that impossible grin, and couldn't help but feel the same spark of exhilaration; terrifying, yet addictive. In a way it was a curse to be so bold. "If you're imagining what might have been in these mines, I'm imagining getting out of here in one piece." Alana added with a sharp edge of humor, keeping her focus as the creature twitched, dead, but perhaps in the last bouts of life. Sparks of crystal light danced across its broken, hulking frame, as the two had a moment to breath.

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

"The force has woven the threads of your life Alana. Fight it, run from it or embrace it but you will have what any of us get." She said it while moving but she made sure her blade was still pointed at the creature when she spoke. "You get a lifetime." The smile was on her face though while she walked and finished off. One hand coming out while she placed it over the creature for a moment. THen she was rising up as the sounds of approaching people came and she looked up. Her handmaidens fanning out as she spoke looking at them. "And where were you?" A smile on her lips though as Phaidor Nobuna stepped forward with a look. Her broze skin glowing in the light of the crystals.

"Princess, come on one creature we knew you could handle it yourself." SHe said it with a shrug. "I mean if you couldn't handle it then you were really slipping... and we would have to like get you to exercise more... get that flab off." There were more laughs as Barca Djarin nodded from the back presenting her rifle. "There was also a bet if you were going to get naked princess... I won." She said it as Junko looked at the two of them and the large Maandalorian showed several ingots of darakar. "Great, my life could have been in danger, alone in aa mine with someone you don't know who could have taken advantage of my nubile body and you two are making bets."

That got laughs from all of them as she looked at the creature and then at Barca. "Have the makies section it, we can use the hide for something and the poison is potent enough." She said it while Phaidor brought her robes over and gave a nod of her head. "Understood." She said it and looked at Alana as Junko laughed and the droids went to work. "Do you want some of it, can make nice boots or pants?" Junko said it with a smile on her face while she was wearing the robes and slipped her feet back into her shoes. "There might be more or other things so... Barca might waant to have your war droid on stand by."

 

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio

The cavern was finally quiet, save for the hiss of scorched flesh and the faint hum of fading crystals. The Terentatek lay twisted before the pair, the weight of its corpse landing sent faint tremors through the stone beneath their feet.

Alana kept her blaster raised for a long moment, chest heaving, ears ringing. Only when the Force settled, its oppressive tide ebbing away. She lowered her weapon. Her hand trembled faintly, though she hid it by holstering the blaster at her hip. That cold sensation clung to her still, but it was slowly letting go.

She turned toward Junko, trying to avery her eyes from the woman’s current state, but the heat rising in her cheeks was impossible to mistake. "You…you are something else.” She said, voice breaking halfway between accusation and laughter. "Flirting the whole time, then practically stripping in front of a Force-spawned nightmare…you don’t seem bothered at all…I’m impressed."

Her fingers brushed over the fabric torn across her own chest, finding she had torn part of her outfit in the process. Least she wasn’t indecent. "I don't know if I should thank you for keeping me… distracted, or give you a kiss for keeping my limbs intact."

Despite herself, the edges of her lips curled into a reluctant grin. "Don’t suppose you still need that first aid, huh?"

The handmaidens trickled in, and Alana tried to steel herself, very flustered at this whole situation. She had a crush, she could admit that much.

She crossed her arms, as though that would shield her from the warmth in her own voice. "I mean, I don’t see why we can’t see each other after this, I mean, if you want? Like, some place more romantic?” She let the suggestion float there, looking to the handmaidens, rubbing at her arm, trying to work out what she was going to do now.

She had a sinking feeling in her gut. She forgot about the crystal for the time being.

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

She looked at her and offered a smile. "Why be scared, these aren't as bad as some treat them and in a fight they are only dangerous if you lose your nerve." There was a small smile while she walked and looked at the crystals. She motioned with a hand. "But there are crystals, which ones do you feel fit your fancy?" She asked it with a smile on her face as she stretched out and her belt she slipped on as her saber went to it. She remained there a little longer as the droids and handmaidens were getting pieces and hide from the creature. Her walk going forward. "And what is your idea of more romantic then fighting creatures in a mine?"

 

[Alana Calloway]

Tags: Junko Ike
Gear: In Bio

"Not everyone thinks hacking apart a beast bred to kill Jedi counts as a romantic evening, Junko," She said dryly, though her voice carried a little laugh she couldn't smother.

She stepped lightly across the stone, senses brushing against the crystals that shimmered in the cavern walls. The hum of the Force here was calmer now, resonant and deep, and for a moment she let herself breathe in its rhythm. Her hand hovered over one of the formations, fingertips tingling at the pulse it gave back.

"Crystals… I'd say I want one that doesn't remind me of almost dying," She teased, then softened, her tone shifting. "But truthfully? I dunno."

She angled her head toward Junko, smile crooked and wry. "And as for romance? Let's see…" She pretended to consider, tapping her chin with mock seriousness. "Dinner without some claws trying to disembowel us. Or maybe just a walk somewhere quiet, where the only thing trying to make my heart race is you. And I don’t know, maybe not some nightmare creature from Sithspawn legends."

The smirk broke into a softer smile, betraying her fluster. She was so fething bad at this. "Though… I suppose I'll admit, you do make surviving a little more thrilling."

 

[Junko Ike]

Alana Calloway

She looked at her for the moment with amusement on her face at it all. "Half the fun is showing your skill, these things are ancient legends and deadly which is what makes the taking down of one all the more important... all the more memorable. Any date, any dinner can be lovely but the details might fade unless something big happens to make it stay in your mind forever." She said it with her handmaidens as she looked at the crystals. "But finding a crystal is something that is all you. I can show you where they are but they are bonded to you, they are found by you. So it will have everything you need beyond what you say you want."