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The Lost Sister

[member="Sawa Ike"]

DEAD OF NIGHT, ON ATRISIA...

The Royal Palace vas silent... a few Onta makeing there rounds. The night-wind vhistling thru the leaves of a couple trees nearby. Sounds of night-creatures in the wilds. Sudenly... the wind died. Stilness.

A slim, almost ghostly female figure, cloaked in shadow, vas walking up the akcess-path to the main gate. She seemd to just... materialyze out of the night.

Force... it echos vith the last shadow of her prezence... my dear Xi... this vas yor home... I can... I can almost... feel you... my sister.

The guards noticed the figure. They stoped, raizing there weapons, as it aproached. A yong woman, but pale as death, two deep, black holes for eyes, that semed to swalow you in them, as she looked at you. Grey-ish vhite hair braided in twin braids, around a delicate face. Cheeks wet from silent tears. The night seemed to deepen, around her.

"Ah... miss... this is royal grounds of Queen Sawa Ike. Vhat are you---" one of them started. The pale woman just waved one hand.

"I am not here... and open the gates." she speaked in a soft voice, barely above a vhisper, her twin black holes boring thru there souls. Sight-less... yet she culd see more then anione culd imagine, thru the Force.

The two guards just... glazed over, minds completly taken over, by the strange womans power. There eyes culd see her, but there brains wer denied that input. The vas nobody there. And the Force-empowered order echod in there minds. Faces blank, like a pair of zombis, they valked over to the gate control panel, and input the code.

The gates creakd open, and the woman walked thru, a faint scent of sweet decay in her wake. The two Onta stood there, motionles, oblivius. Only vhen she vas gone, and the gates closed agen, did they stir. Her hold on there minds vas lifted. They vent back to patrol, as if nothing hapened.
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

The servants were moving around as she sat there. with her throne there as the obsidian carvings of it were shiningfor the moment. SMall ridges along it like little knives that didn't lose their sharpness. Sawa herself was sitting there in the throne with one knee over the other, the kiono short exposing pale legs that were almost impossibly flawless. Moonkissed skin that went up to her loose hair framing most of her. Concealing and allowing silver eyes to glow from beneath thick bangs, few saw her without her hair in a tight ponytail carefully folded to look smaller then it actually was. She allowed herself to be amused watching the small party that was happening. She had been working to get some of the businesses across the planet improve upon, more credits produced, more enticement to the locals and as she tapped her fingers she thought of Maple and Ni-Ne... both of whom were busy with their works. So she had K1 who whooped next to her. "Oh I know Kay One, sneaking around my palace is not really advised." She didn't say it loud more as a whisper but the energy vampire fed off of the force and emotions around the area. Someone new coming was able to be noticed if only a little when she didn't rise up just motioned with her hand and the droid itself had its weapons ready.
 
The sickly, yet powerful young womans senses wer atuned... she culd sense other decay here, not of her own. Or at lest it seemed like decay, at first...

No... not decay, is it... no... hunger. Hunger for the Force. Hunger for energy of the living. She... this Sawa... my late sisters Mistress... she must be one of thoze rare Force users, who feed on other beings Force. I must be cautius...

Vith those thoghts, the pale woman continued moving thru the halways of the massive Palace. Thru the Force, she culd feel the other power, calling to her. She culd sense the hunger, radiating from it. Un-eringly, she vas drawed to it, like a moth to flame.

As she finaly entered the throne room, she cast her Force vision, on the woman seated at the throne. Thru the Force, she vas a pulsar of energy, a vortex, wanting to abzorb evrything around her.

Interesting...

She ignored the armed droid standing near-by, and the servants glaring at her, and stoped short, just ahed of the throne. Then she took a sligt bow, her sight-less onyx-black eyes never leaving the other womans.

"I apoligize for the intruzion, Queen Sawa. My name is Alenka... Alenka Rel'Sora. I am Xi's sister. I sensed her death, and i sensed the last rezidue of her prezence, on this world. The sense lead me direktly here, to yor palace."
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

Sawa looked up at the one who was entering and she remained where she was sitting on the seat. Eyes glowing in the light with a glint before she smirked finally hearing her.... and then she moved. Rising up quickly as she spoke letting the force go through her muscles and her body. She stood there and scented the air for a moment when her voice came out. "Ah Xi, such a sweet child... it is a shame what became of her... so much potential." She ignored the Jen-ari.. they were.... well she had seen them before, she knew she would see them again. The last time they had tried to rise with the one sith around hadn't faired that well, now the other sith groups might go after them. She was curious to see what this one could do though while remaining there with her hand motioning for the droid to stop. "So is this all you came here to do? Tell me she has perished?'
 
"No."

That word hanged in the air betwen them, for a seeming eternity. Thoze sight-less black eyes boring thru Sawa.

"You alredy knowed that. You wer... given something. A... a box..." Alenka slowly clozed her eyes... her voice turning distant, as she streched in-to the Force.

"A box vith the last imprint of my sister. Those... Jen'ari you speak of... they didnt kill her. They... wer on her side... until the final moment, vhen she perished. Someone else did it."

She opened her eyes agen.

"The box... I wish it, if you wil let me have it. It wil lead me closer to the sorce."
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

She looked at her for a moment and grinned, tight lipped, thin and wicked before showing teeth as she moved. "It matter little if I knew or didn't know." She was moving now and walking through the one chamber door to ascend a staircase going up into one of the larger towers with a motion for the girl to come along behind her. "THe box as you say is interesting though I am not entirely one to keep momento's of the past." She said it while standing there and opening the doors led into a chamber, iron vines around the walls that held silk curtains. hanging low and obscuring statues, riches and other smaller things they had collected and brought to be a sort of tribute to her. "Lets see if we can find it."
 
[member="Sawa Ike"]

The pale woman folowed, taking in more of the other womans sense thru the Force. She vas powerful... very powerful. And very old. Alenka suspekted thoze Force-hungering abilitys of hers extended her life-span.

Intriguing... maby vorth more research. If i culd understand the nature of that power, perhaps it culd help me extend my own life... and not let the curse konzume me in the end. That thoghts maked her own lips spred, in-to a slight smile.

Aloud, she speaked: "It wil not be a memento for me. It wil be a key to gathering more of Xi's esence. It wil lead me to vhere she perished. And once i have more, I may even be able to restore her." softly.

As she walked in-to the treazure room behynd Sawa, Alenka continued: "She saved my life, you know. More times then i can count, vhen we wer both training, vith our clan. She shilded me, vhen my siblings wanted me dead. And now she is dead, her-self, and I am not. But i may be able to repay the favor, and restore her life to her. I have spent years, studying the nature of life, and death, and its relation to the Force. I have diskovered that in ansient times, certain powerful Force users culd influence the midichlorijans, to create, or restore, life. I have come acros texts, and holocrons, on several of the ansient Jedi and Sith worlds i vizited. I have pieced together enogh information, to be konfident in trying to re-kreate the ritual."

Then she looked direktly at Sawa agen, her tone turning... evaluative. "And now, meeting you, your highness... you are a Force vampire, arent you? I can sense it. I can sense yor hunger, tugging at me. I have come acros referenses to yor kind, in my studies, as wel. You must know a great deal, about how the Force afekts life. Insights i hav not yet konsidered. Maby we can join our knovledge, to increase the chance of sukcess. You wil have yor aprentice back... and I wil have my sister back."
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

Looking at her as she stood tere and listened. So this one was going to try and work to resurrect her... a dangerous thing and Sawa spoke with a small grin on her face. "Resurrection is dangerous, even with skill. I am over five thousand years old. I have seen two attempts at resurrection and neither were successful even with an entire planet being used to power the return." Maranon's corruption of the force on Kantiss while she and Maple had been there was a think..... Xavier was also one who was tried to be brought back. That failure had torn the world apart when the energy vampire moved and she found the box. "Ahh here it is." She held it for a moment and raised an eyebrow. "Now just what though do you believe I can share with you?
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

Looking at her as she stood tere and listened. So this one was going to try and work to resurrect her... a dangerous thing and Sawa spoke with a small grin on her face. "Resurrection is dangerous, even with skill. I am over five thousand years old. I have seen two attempts at resurrection and neither were successful even with an entire planet being used to power the return." Maranon's corruption of the force on Kantiss while she and Maple had been there was a think..... Xavier was also one who was tried to be brought back. That failure had torn the world apart when the energy vampire moved and she found the box. "Ahh here it is." She held it for a moment and raised an eyebrow. "Now just what though do you believe I can share with you?
 
The pale womans expresion turned stuborn. Her black sight-less eyes glazing thru Sawa.

"How do you sustain yorself, Lady Sawa? How do you exist for so long? Vhat metods do you use? Is it just the draining of the Force, or is life-leeching involvd as wel? I have to know. Since i suspekt that the same metods can be used to power Xi's spirit to re-conect vith the living world." she stated, as she took the box from Sawa.

For a long moment, she holded the box, abzorbing her sister's imprint from it. Then she continued:

"I am more dead then alive, Lady Sawa. Im sure you can feel it. The blood-curse sickness is slovly destroying me. But that same sickness is opening me to the Force, more then any other living being i have ever feled. As i hold this box, i can sense thru time and space, and see my sister's last actions in my minds eye. I projekt past the limitations of flesh and blood, since i am almost a living dead as it is. But I can not imprint life in-to another. I have almost none, as it is. You... you are so full of life, Lady. Yor own, or drained, it does not mater... thru the Force, you are a pulsar of life energy. Your power is key to restoring my sister."

Looking Sawa straigt in the eyes, regardles of her blindnes, Alenka's tone turnd earnest: "I can facilitate the ritual. It wuld not rekuire any kind of draining, or planetary destruktion. It wuld be very similar in funktion to the ritual of banishment i have gone thru, vhen my people exiled me, just in reverse. They destroyed my life force, I know how to re-asemble it, by reversing the proces. I can re-asemble Xi's life force, but i can not imprint it vith life it-self. You can, my lady. You have so much life, it is oozing out of you. That is why a planet wuld not be rekuired. Your life force over-reachs that of most planets. And you have the power to chanel it any way you wish."

The woman realyzed vhat she vas asking of Sawa. She vas asking her to give away of her life-force, to restore her sister. It wuld drain Sawa. Masively. But it wuld also indebt Xi to her forever, if it worked. The other metod wuld be the one Sawa her-self mentioned, draining a planet or two, to facilitate the ritual. It wuld leave Sawa intact, but it wuld destroy worlds.

Finishd vith making her case, the pale woman stood there, watching Sawa vith antisipation, stil fingering the box in her hands.
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

She remained there and listened watching the girl... feeling no deception.. she at least believed in what she could do and oh compliments... she knew just how to butter her up. Sawa finally was moving and went to a seat in the room as she listened to the rest. "Hmmm how intriguing then." THe possibility of bringing one back was always.... good she supposed. Though bringing back her apprentice might be questionable... still she was always up to try new things and if it failed well the amount of force energy required to be used even if it was her own would still make for more then enough of a meal. "Set up the ritual and lets us see what we can do. I do so love experimenting with new things.
 
[member="Sawa Ike"]

"It isnt that simple, unfortunatly. Here... all there is left of Xi, is this black box. And this world... its own energy wuld interfere vith the ritual. So many slaves, dependants... all bonded to you, my lady. Any suden drain on your life force wuld un-doubtedly kill them. We need to go to the sorce. To the place vhere she perished.That is vhere the imprint is the strongest. I can feel it... at the very edge of the galaxy, near a system caled Ivelisse." the woman replyed, streching out vith the Force.

"I have come to this world on a comandeered cargo ship. It is moored in your capital city. It is simple and un-asuming, it shuld draw no atention. I belive it shuld do for our purposes. Unles you prefer more lavish transportation?" she asked.

Then, as if sudenly remembering another detail, the pale woman added: "We wil also need a human... receptor. A body that is ready and able to recive my sister's life energy, once the ritual is complete. Preferably a willing receptor, or one vith a weak mind, that we can easyli destroy vhen the time comes, to make room for my sister's esence. Perhaps one of your slaves wil do? Or perhaps we can capture one on-route?"

She sayed this is a completly dis-pasionate tone, driving home the fact that Alenka vasnt above sakrificing other people, to restore her sister.
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

Looking at her Sawa raised an eyebrow but shrugged for a moment. "Hmm perhaps we'll head off and see to it." She said it and walked bringing out a small disc when she spoke into it. "COntact Rae." THere was a moment and a small hologram of the woman. Standing there in a black tank top, tattoo's that looke similar to sith markings but she wasn't a darksider in general... just one of the underworld contacts that Sawa fostered to handle certain jobs that might be beneath her. "Lord Shojo." She spoke and her voice was rough with curves but she had defined muscles visible even in the hologram and a blaster on her hip.

"Ah good, I require something from you Rae. I am in need of a very specific body." She said it and flicked her eyes for a moment towards Alenka but then she was looking back. Her head not turning when her voice came out. "It has to be alive but preferably weaker willed and simple.... lets say young but not child like more mid twenties preferably in my tastes at least." She watched the womans face and Rae seemed to be making the notes for it. "To be delivered to my ship along with a small escort of your Dark Angels who will mostly serve to monitor the equipment while we preform the ritual." She got nods of the woman's head. "It will be done my lord."

Sawa turned back to look finally when the hologram cut out and spoke. "I'll take my ship where it is needed and once they come through for their credits we should have everything needed to properly do what you want." THere was a grin though on her face as she walked forward. "THough you have not seemed curious about what my pound of flesh will be from all of this?" Her grin was wider and eyes flashing almost wickedly with amusement. "I am doing a great dead and you don't seem as interested it the possibility it isn't without strings attached." But she didn't need mor ethen that just walking around a little in the room and finding her own lounge seat to relax.
 
"String are alvays attached, Lady Sawa. I wuldnt expekt anithing else." the pale woman replyed softly. Benefit of haveing dead eyes... Sawa culdnt see a flash of her own, in them. Alenka vasnt born yesterday. She realyzed full wel vith whom she vas dealing vith here.

But her mind vasnt on it... her mind vas on the one Sawa refered to as "Rae". She culdnt see the other woman, but her voice, her atitude, the sense she got thru the Force... it reminded her of hearing Xi speak. Very interesting, especialy under the cirkumstances.

"I vonder if her body is as... suitable... as her voice and atitude? Mmmm.... probably not as wiling mind to break, but such a body wuld be most suitable, for my sister." she thoght, carefuly hiding that thoght from Sawa, thru a powerful mental block. Out loud, she only added:

"I look forvard to meeting you at the randes-vous point. And your... fixer. I do hope she finds a suitable body. She seems like a very capable woman." her soft voice just a touch more... expresive... then normal, lips twitching into a enigmatic smile.

Then she nodded in fare-well, and left the room. The only thing left behynd, vas that sweet, sickly scent of decay.

***

A FEW DAYS LATER...

The old Koensayr Bulk Freigter droped out of hyper-space, at the randes-vous point, Alenka at the helm. The few crew-members she leaved alive, after taking over there ship, wer siting straigt-postured at there seats on the bridge, pale faces and eyes on the instruments. There minds wer mostly gone, as the woman turned them in-to a litle more, then living extenzions of her-self.

"No sign of kontakts on the scopes." One reported, in a mono-tone voice.

"Give it time." the pale woman mutered, half-clozing her dead eyes, and streching thru the Force. She culd feel Sawa, out there, aproaching... in hyperspace. It wuld not be long now.
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

She looked at the woman leave and headed out. her Onna were standing there and around as she listened to one fo the captains. "Lady Ike we have been woprking to route out these... problems. To your specifications." THere was a look on the siths face as she sat there in what looked like a throne on her ship. The ones around her the Onna were armored but the Dark Angels were something else. A nurtured gang she had worked on for decades to improve and have something. Rae was the latest in leaders as it were but she was useful standing there in the halter top style outfit. Exposing a mid riff with tattoo's that were visible.

Around her there were others in the gang, male and female yes but in normal looking outfits. Well if black leathers and weapons were normal. Rae stood there with Ruby whom Sawa remembered as the girls hair had been placed pver her face. "Ahhh Ruby, why hide such a pretty face." She was there and sneered a little but moved her hand to reveal it. Scarred and melted flesh that showed white bone and nerve. A synthetic skin covering was over it to prevent infection but it was by design meant to give her a grisley display for everyone who might question who is in charge. Sawa sat there and drank in the anger.

"Oh sweet child.... careful now lest I do the other side of your face." She said it and the ship was heading to meet with the woman for her sister as the small capsule they brought in held the body requested. A little longer but specifications were important.
 
[member="Sawa Ike"]

The other ship droped-out of hyperspace. It vasnt any kind of design Alenka vas familjar vith, she asumed it vas a custom job from Atrisia. No matter.

"There she is... move in-to pozition to extend a umbilical and dock vith them." she ordered her thrals.

"Yes, mistress." one of them replyed in that same mono-tone voice. Truth be told, Alenka didnt particulary like vhat she did to theze people, but it vas necessary. If she leaved there minds intact, it migt lead to rebelion, and in such a delicate and critical projekt as she vas in, rezurekting her sister, she culdnt aford to worry about any outsyde concerns. She needed them obedient and relyable, and this vas the best way to do it.

Even so, she stil feled a smal pang of guilt, as she thoght about it.

"Doez that make me much diferent from vhat my people did to me? My people destroyed my body, but i destroyed theze peoples minds..."

And of corse, vhat she wuld do to who-ever she picked to embody her sisters essence... wuld be even vorse. But she rationalized it like she always did: "It is necesary. Besydes, my sister is worth alot more then some in-significant person, or a lowly criminal like this Rae."

This dichtomy betwen Alenka's darkness and her concience, vas why she never chozed to clasify her-self as a Sith. She vasnt a Sith. She vasnt like, for example... Sawa. She dabled in the dark, but deep down, she vas a person vho stil had a trace of moral code left.

"...nhhg..." she let out a smal pained sound, as she raized from the chair, to walk to the umbilical. Her broken, dizeazed body akting up agen. The pain vas flaring in her side, and it took a efort thru the Force, to sooth it, and shore-up her failing kidneys... once agen. She sighed in relief, as she feled the welcome wash of the Force empowering her.

Vithout it, she wuld be dead, long ago. She decided to pay a vizit to a doctor, some time ago, just to get a profesionals opinion on how far her body vas gone. The doctor vas stumped that she vasnt dead. The Exile's Curse usualy kiled its victim, vithin a year, in un-speakable agony, as ones body simply falled apart. She managed to extend it to... almost 11 years now, since she vas exiled, thru her mastery of the Force. She inhaled the air in front of her, fokusing on a suden tang of amonia mixed vith decay. She didnt even vant to think what in her body produced that, but she knowed it cant be good. Vith another efort thru the Force, she supresed the stench, Force-transforming it to a neutral smel, as wel. As she maked her-self prezentable, the Force swirleing around her like a cloak, It vas time to meet her... partners.

Valking thru the umbilical, a kvartet of her thrals behind her, blaster rifles held acros chests, she culdnt help but apreciate the other part of it. As weak as she vas phyzicaly, the Force vas so strong in her. And her curse only amplifyed it. She streched out thru the Force, feeling the ebs and flows of the universe around her, on a intimate level. She vas blind, yes, but she culd "see" so much. She vas weak, yes... but the Force maked her strong. That vhich dont kill you, make you stronger.

"Evrything is a trade-of, in life. Yes, I'm dying, but... I am more powerful then most people can even dream of. I am a master of my own destiny, and i have mastery of life and death. And i wil use it, to bring my sister back! How many people can claim to be able to do the same? Cheat death?! Even Jedi or Sith? Not many."

Thoze thoghts did wel in driving away her suden melankoly mood. Vith a smile on her face, she steped thru the far end of the umbilical, to meet the reception comitee there. She expekted to see Sawa, but also this Rae, and the supozed body they captured. She culd sense plenty of people tho. Not just Sawa and Rae, but plenty of there minions.
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

Sawa looked at her arriving and ther was some attention to the details here. Rae stood off to the side... one of the others with her Sarge stood there older looking and he was letting himself go but as a human he was more then earning it. Seventy years old but he was one of the more dangerous as they presented the capsule and the body for inspection not knowing she couldn't really see who it was. The body was there though before Sawa was rising up and she looked at the woman with a smile on her face. Moving quickly and turning to stand next to her. "Ah lovely is it not, she should serve perfectly for your sister to return and I shall see what can be done. Now lead the way for us to get down there and I'll show something very nice."
 
/ lol funy how they come-up vith exacly the kind of body Alenka vas looking for :p you must realy dont want Rae to die hehe... /

The pale woman streched thru the Force, to "see" and feel the insyde of the capsule. Her smile widend, just a notch.

"I am impressed... you managed to find precisly the kind of body I envizioned for my sister. I can not imagine it vas easy... she doez look like she can put up a fight." Alenka declared.

Then her smile died down... as she examined the sedated woman some more. There vas no Force there. None at all. True, her sister vas never particularily strong in the Force, but she did have it. This body... had none. No midi-klorians at all. If Xi vas to inhabit it, she wuld not be able to touch the Force, at all. That vas one element she neglekted to konsider. And now, it vas too late.

"Oh wel... Xi, you never did put much stock in the Force. Perhaps it is for the better." she thoght. But she didnt like it. Alenka vas a perfektionist. And this vas her sister, after all. If she wer to bring her back, she wanted to make her as good as she vas before. She owed her sister that much, in her mind.

She then fokused on Rae... hoping agenst hope, that there vas Force potential there. But no such luck. The only other Force senzitive around, vas Sawa. The expresion on the pale womans face speaked volumes. But then... it vas her own lapse that lead to it. And besydes... subduing a mind of a Force senzitive wuld be near-imposible. Alenka shruged at that... it vas for the best. Xi wuld just have to learn to get by vithout the Force, if this vorked. But for her, it shuld not be too hard.

Out loud, she didnt voice her disapointment, but fokused on Sawa: "Vhat do you have to show me?"
 

Sawa Ike

The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
[member="Alenka Rel'Sora"]

She held up a hand with a small rock between her fingers. "Blue stones it can offer a little jump start and..." She trailed off while one of the younger girls held up their wrist. Sith style runes on her skin that hummed with force energies and had been blood marked to connect to her. "My mark, something to feel and find those who serve me. Your sister didn't have one, she didn't need it which could have been a a benefit. It allows me to find and feel them and empower should they need it." She grinned and the magics to enhance and share force energy were something she had learned among the sith... more so while she was moving now they could get the rest of the body.

"We'll be able to draw energy and place it for the ritual but it will rely on your sister to be able to come back as well. THe netherworld of the force is chaotic and we have torn holes in it before but...." She trailed off while the others were getting around and she could have a number of others brought in for them. To channel force energies and let her use them with the ritual itself. She was focusing on the force itself to generate and focus the power itself from the planet. "The power will work itself for us and we'll just have to see how she is when she returns now won't we." She knew several sith.. well most of the sith who were in power usually body swapped and or died and got a new one regularly so anything could happen.
 

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