Private Lost and Alone on Vile Streets (Leehak Tano-Bonteri)

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

I don't understand this either, Riku, Zenda said softly. This is far different than anything I have ever experienced.

 

[Riku Anima]

As they were talking Zenda Tano-Bonteri would feel as if she were being thrown out of her meditation by some outside force. The ship would start to wobble and shake as Riku was growing tired using the force like this unconsciously was physically draining her and it wasn't that she was losing control but more starting to lose consciousness but from what others would be able to see is she didn't even notice the strain on her body or the fact it was affecting her in such a way.

 

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

Zenda allowed herself to end her meditation, going over to Riku Anima and attempting to wake her. "Riku, get up."

 

[Riku Anima]

When Riku's focus and concentration were broken by the physical touch from Zenda Tano-Bonteri her control was lost and the ship would drop like a brick the few feet it had to drop from how far she had managed to lift it while in her meditative state. Groaning from the impact she looked to the woman who was trying to train her. "I'm sorry" she then passed out her body coated in sweat the heat in her muscles showed the physical fatigue and strain that was put on her body from what should have been a simple exercise.

 

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

"It's all right." Zenda said as Riku Anima apologized, catching her as she fell. She took the girl to Kuxirra's room, laying her down on her bed.

 

[Riku Anima]

Riku slept through the entire trip back to Kysshik though the first night she kept twisting and sometimes thrashing within Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri mumbling about the Star Forge, Luke Skywalker Korriban, and Clan Wren. Riku hadn't stopped sweating the entire trip it was like she had trapped herself within the state she had gone into during training there were even occasional force bubbles that would crop up and pop near Kuxirra's room

 

[Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri]

Kuxirra looked at Riku Anima and shook her awake. "What's wrong?"

 

[Riku Anima]

When Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri touched her she was flooded with images of the past things she could have never thought to of seen she got to see Darth Revan cause Bastillia Shin's fall to the Dark side him taking over the Star Forge. Kyle Katarn Studying with Luke Skywalker. then she was on the red dirt planet of Korriban walking the tombs of the dark lords then she was in the clone wars fighting alongside Mandalorians with the empire.

Riku's eyes shot open in sheer shock and she would without thinking throw Kuxirra across the room into the door. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" she screamed sitting up her clothes soaked the mattress dripping with sweat. Right as she threw her there was a major blast of dark side force energy launched through the ship.

 

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

Zenda sensed it moments before it happened, managing to rush to her daughter's room and open the door in time to watch Kuxirra fly towards her. Thinking quickly, the Togruta spun a web in the doorway using the Mist-Weaving she'd learned, just before the Padawan hit it and fell to the floor. The wind was knocked out of her, but she was unarmed.
The Knight made her way to Riku Anima and sat next to her. "I'm here. I'm here." Her voice had a motherly tone to it, and she gave the girl a hug, humming an old lullaby her husband's family had passed down through the years.

 

[Riku Anima]

Zenda Tano-Bonteri caught her sitting there and just as her daughter had seen the same visions flowed through Zenda's mind Riku laid in her arms shaking and mumbling her eyes open but obviously asleep or in some sort of trance state.

 

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

Riku, Zenda said through the Force, show me what you see.
As she held Riku Anima , the Knight began softly singing the words to the lullaby. "The nexu will heal you, the akk dog will guide you, the womprat will show you the way. The akul will connect you, the hawk-bat protect you, the ruping moves dangers out of the way. The convor watches over all. The black Shili-bat goes one way, the white convor the other, the gray akul keeps them in balance."

 

[Riku Anima]

As she sang the sites she was seeing were the horrific moments of a great tragedy of great destruction and when massive holes burned into the force like the activation of the mass shadow generator. when Darth Nhilis was alive the moment Darth Traya almost manager to destroy the force. They then gave way to the times when there where peace and people were learning at the new Jedi academy that Luke had created. those lead way to more war on Mandalorian front lines on the home planet of Mandalore. they then started flashing wildly almost like a strobe light showing the life and times of three great people from the past some had done great but horrible things others had managed to set in motion things that would forever change the face of the galaxy others showed trips into the depths of space. she would see the rise and fall of Jedi. the one that seemed out of place was when she would see Korraban it was through a first-person view not as if watching a memory of the past through the force but through a person's eyes the amount of fear that was put out from everything near this person was suffocating and was like someone had you carrying 1-ton weights on your body.

 

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

Let go, little one. You are safe here. Zenda continued holding Riku Anima despite the fact that she was almost paralyzed by what she saw, and continued singing the lullaby.

 

[Riku Anima]

Riku laid there twitching in her arms and then finally stopped her breathing shallow her heart was slow but steady and she continued to sweat the visions stopped the oppressive feeling of the force was gone and she just laid there looking like she had just gone through some of the roughest physical training anyone had seen.

 

[Zenda Tano-Bonteri]

Zenda continued holding Riku Anima and singing the lullaby, something she had learned often worked for the younglings.

 

[Riku Anima]

The rest of the trip went smoothly and they were able to land without issue accept she did not move or wake even after landing. she just laid in the bed still breathing and her heart rate shallow but she was alive.

 

[Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri]

Kuxirra and Zenda carefully brought Riku Anima to the healers, knowing they'd have an easier time figuring out the problem.

 

[Riku Anima]

Days passed as the healers worked with her passing information and even concerns that this woman might be a problem. After two weeks of her in their care she just woke up and stretched standing up out of bed and pulling the bacta cuff off. "that was strange." She said looking around confused for a second as her memories came back and her head ticked to one side for a moment but stood up and started to walk out of the medical center. The healers backing away from her almost as if scared and some of the Jedi that saw her seemed to look at her as if she were strange or didn't belong.

For those who viewed the force as light, she would almost be blinding and she just kept walking tell she found a Wookie, speaking in the tongue she asked where the Tano-Bonteri where at

 

[Kuxirra Tano-Bonteri]

"Riku!" Kuxirra exclaimed from a nearby branch, leaping towards Riku Anima and enveloping her in a hug. "You're okay!"

 

[Riku Anima]

She hugged the young girl and smiled. "Yeah, apparently the training on the ship really tired me out because I remember working with your mom then next thing I woke up here. Sorry if I scared you." She was already analyzing the situation marking all possible points of exit and best strategies to make her best move if needed. "So what's a youngling?" she asked having remembered the word from before the ordeal she had gone through.