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[Cedric Grayson]

Brimstone , Heinrich Faust , Kasia Celestyne Jegy Sesara



The warriors of the church followed him up into the engineering chamber easily enough.

The smell of rotting flesh and flora filled Cedric's nostrils as he stepped through the portal leading to the upper levels, making his nose scrunch up in distaste. The bodies of crew members were strewn about the chamber, their forms grafted into fleshy masses the shade of red clay. They peered up at him with thoughtless black eyes, the very slight movement of their chest the only indicator that they were still alive.

"What in the Ashla's name..." he muttered, his lightsaber humming quietly in his hands as he examined the room. There were no killiks in the room, only more crew members, all restrained, and all bearing the black eyes of joiners.

"These did not join the mother's hive willingly." One of the friendly joiners muttered. "They have been made to serve. Their knowledge used as a weapon."

"Can they be freed?"

"If the mother is silenced, perhaps."

Only further motivation to continue onward. Cedric moved to tread down the last corridor leading toward the hyperdrive chamber, only to find himself thrown onto his back violently, a pain shooting throughout his body. It was all the Jedi could do to forge a telekinetic barrier around himself, blocking the influence of whatever it was that seemed keen on telekinetically crushing for the moment.

"W-what?!" He stammered.

The Joiners grinned as one. "Your powers will serve the mother well. Submit, become one with the Hive, or be destroyed light kin."

Cedric could barely move, suspended in the air as he was, but from the corners of his eyes he could see that the holy host was suffering similarly. Several had been crushed within their armor entirely. How had they been so foolish as to trust the Joiners?

The barrier began to shimmer, and bits of his armor began to bend under the pressure. He would need to figure out something within the next few seconds, or he'd die on this forgotten ship.

 

[Brimstone]

Brimstone reached the doorway of the hyperdrive room, the door was already open, or more accurately, whatever disgusting material these killicks were producing had grown through it, making it more akin to a gaping mouth than a starship door.

Brimstone scanned the room, the killiks were behaving differently here, no longer raging forward, but bowing in reverence to a creature at the centre of the room, a large creature maybe 7 or 8 metres tall of pulsating cream flesh, its tendrils reaching out from beneath it and into the hyperdrive core itself.

What was it doing? Brimstone didn't care, it needed to die. "Hades team" he shouted "on me, full assault in 3..2..1..."

The team charged, some of the killicks had formed a rudimentary shield wall, but with the huge form of Brimstone at the fore, his eyes set on his target, it would not be enough.

They smashed hard in to the killick, ripping them limb from limb, one of the killick clamped its jaw around the haft of Brimstones energy, electrocuting itself but disabling the axe. Brimstone threw it to the floor and pulled out his vibroblade, a 2 foot long cleaver.

Finally, at long last Brimstone and his team were face to face with the Queen, the last of the killick defending her defeated. As one, the commandos lifted their carbines and opened fire into the face of the beast. Ridding the galaxy of its rotten existence.

 

[Jegy Sesara]

Tags: Brimstone E Eric Vales Cedric Grayson Heinrich Faust Kasia Celestyne

The amount of Killik killed between here and the engineering section was astounding. The more they seem to kill, the more that seemed to keep on coming out. Why was this still happening, how did they breed so quickly? How did they capture so many to join in their collective hive? Trying to listen to Heinrichs answer, the Sullustan stopped dead in his tracks with his green eyes going wide and unmoving.

Fire, great fire. Countless bodies, space in floating void. The cackle of darkness, shrouded in a humans guise. Darkness to Ashla, Death in Bogan. Feast on those to Pasture. Feast on Souls, Feast for Killik!

The Sullustans eyes then returned to normal, the vision only lasting for a full second. Things were soon going to go wrong in the worst absolute way, he can sense and feel it. A moment in time was about to occur, a devastating effect and the Force allowed him a glimpse of what was to come. The Sullustan would exhale as his eyes started to shift from a natural green to a very pale gray, the Force itself started to swell inside him once more to an unbelievable degree. Acting almost as if he was controlled, he started to walk forward behind Brimstone and Heinrich Faust , his eyes starting to become more white on each step with his own pupils starting to fade.

When Brimstone breached into the main engineering section, he could hear blaster fire echo around him. Starting almost a mad dash, he started to run past the Killik, the Joiners and the others around him as he quickly went towards the hyperdrive chamber. Noticing a few Killik through the hallway, he grabbed the lightsaber on his right hip and flung it like a boomerang, it activating with a blue hue as it cut through each one before jamming itself into a nearby doorway. Grabbing it, he deactivated and re-activated it as he kept dashing down the hallway.

Seeing the chamber at long last, he went up towards the left, going to find a nearby console, only to find a blade almost striking to his side as the Sullustan turned with the lightsaber with the tip pointed towards the darkened skinned Killik. The Endless Night. The two would stare down at each other, almost encircling the other as the Sullustan turned carefully to have the Endless Night go near the glass showing the inside of the Hyperdrive Chamber. Flicking the blue lightsaber up, he would hurl it like a Javelin straight past the Killik into the window, cracking it. There was a quick glance back from the Killik and a small cackle before looking forward and seeing the Sullustans hands together.

With a tremendous amount of power through the Force, the Sullustan Force Pushed the entire side where the Killik was with all his might, the glass shattering with a tremendous explosion along with several pieces of metal and circuitry exploding around them. The Endless Night would be flown across the hyperdrive chamber in one fell swoop, smashing into the wall and rolling down with the section having a power failure and the lights going out. The Force felt extremely out of focus now in this small area, parts of it feeling drained or being vastly controlled. In the darkness, there was a small bit of wheezing, as if struggling from breath. There was a loud cry in the darkness before there was a snap hiss sound and the red glow of the lightsaber filled the room, the darkened Killik having stabbed barely in view with a wooden like dagger while the Sullustan had stabbed straight through the Killik with his lightsaber, holding it in his left hand.

There was a bit of coughing from one of them before the Sullustan lifted his left hand weakly, feeling the immense pressure still in the room and proceeded to pool nearly his entire Force energy into his palm. A bright light started to shine in his palm, the Aura of Ashla started to surround the area and cleanse it of Bogans Darkness. The light started to grow brighter as the Sullustan in gritted voice, spoke out in a shouting chant, looking through the dying Killiks eyes.

"Through Endless Night, my Light Shines Bright! Your Evil shall not Succeed, for We are of Light! Through Bogans Darkness, Ashla Brings Light! ​

With that final shout, the Force Light in the Lorekeepers right hand shined the brightest it ever has been, filling the entire room with almost blinding light. The aura of the light side, of Ashla bathed the entire room as Bogans reach would not come, those of wickness and hate filled in their hearts could not stand being close to it and the Killik before him screamed in pure agony, the eyes wide as the skin started to molt a blackness as it tried to stab the Sullustan again but could not. Then, in almost in instant, the entire Killik turned to ash, the Endless Night was no more. Bogans control would slip drastically and with the Queens death hopefully soon after, the incident would soon end.

All that remained, was the Sullustan holding his left hand up with Force Light still going but it started to go dimmer, the lightsaber in his right hand starting to relax. Soon it would deactivate as the Sullustan body started to smoke, breathing a bit heavily as he slowly limped towards the main door towards the area and with one swift movement, used his right hand to control the Force with another push, blasting the door outwards violently. Giving a small gasp of breath, he finally let go of his immense control in the Force and leaned partly into the door to rest, sliding down it as his power faded. Giving a bit of a grunt, he kept the Force Light going just in case, but his strength started to wane, not knowing the dagger did a bit more damage then expected. Sitting there, his eyes starting to go back to its greenish color, but a more pale green, like it was so many years ago.

Gently, he started to tilt his head to look over towards the one individual he saw in his vision, the one he wished not to have fate changed. Glancing over the armored individual, he spoke with the gentlemen like voice again, as if nothing had happened beforehand though his body still smelled as if he been cooked out on the inside.

"Ashla sends her wishes... Cedric Grayson . You may...want to start moving again. I am a bit...drained right now."