Private Troublesomes Lost

[Ellie Omera]

As far as rescues went, this one ranked pretty low. The dragons were enough of a problem to start with, then add in the need to search the wreckage for anyone else, coupled by a third unforeseen problem. The survivors, rather than waiting for help, all seemed to be scattering away from the crash. Adding wrangling to the list of current tasks.

The sound of someone shouting in panic caught her attention. It wasn't the shouting itself but the direction it was going, up. She quickly spotted a young man in the clutches of one of the beasts as it tried carrying him away. From the looks of things, the young woman that arrived at the hangar was trying to use the force to drag the beast down. Ellie rallied three other rangers and ran over towards Brigh. Together, Ellie and the three other rangers began firing at the creatures wings, careful not to hit Fred Gred .

A small group of medics from the trauma team arrived at the side of Shoden Moz . They quickly set about stabilizing the girl before carefully carrying her to a transport. She would need better medical care back at the base.

@Star Solus Skirae Adara Raxis Tabitha Solus

 

[Amma Dib]

“Hey! My boyfriend!!” That was it! First the shuttle goes down, then a flock or gaggle or murder of dragons messed up around them, then one grabs Fred Gred ?!? No! Adara might be at the bottom of a cliff with some odd and spookily available Echani girl, and an astounding amount of rescuers found them super fast, but... but...

Amma was a DIB. Dibs didn’t crumple up like babies in a crisis! Only Amma did that! Mostly ‘cause most crises were instigated by her penchant to light random things on fire during emotional times. And since when was growing up into a teenaged girl ever not emotional? While instinct taught Amma to search for the nearest table to dive under, the roused rescuers and the advent of Stardust Solus Skirae and Brigh emboldened Rhaegar’s lil Sparky.

“Don’t you dare eat my FREDGRED!” Amma dove forward, after the rescuers blasted the dragon’s wing, which caused the dragon to roar in enough pain to let Fred go. As it flailed toward the earth, Amma dug into the control her father attempted to explain.

“Yes! Rescue has arrived! Wait! HOW did rescue arrive!?” Amma was a DIB. Dibs played with fire from birth. Dibs fought with grins on their faces (although in truth that might be Uncle @Muad Dib’s mental wellbeing put into question), and Dibs certainly did not let some paltry dragons eat their friends. The beskar blade at Amma’s thigh was shaped like a curved blade, fat nearer the tip than the base. It was forged light, to avoid the impediments of Amma’s... well... less than stellar musculature. As she gripped the blade, Amma concentrated as hard as she could to conjure a fireball large enough to toss the dragon into a world of hurt...

... she could do it. She was a Dib...

“AAUUGH! I’m on FIRE! WHY am I on FIRE!?” Someone cried out, and Amma winced.

“SORRY! Wrong one!” She raised her hand, tried to point and a dragon near Brigh combusted. By now, the wounded dragon hissed and caterwauled straight toward Fred. “FRED!”

Amma dove for her young love, hugged her arms around his waist. Her mind flashed back to childhood, how safe and protected she felt when Uncle Dede was there, and her mother’s tuk’ata stood guard. They could play for hours and nothing would ever hurt them...

.... and Amma shut her eyes.

And a tuk’ata of flame roared, consumed the dragon about to devour them. It clacked it’s jaws, slashed at the draconic threats.

 

[Adara Raxis]

49 Metres Below: The Cliff Face

Adara groaned and collapsed onto the snow. Half underneath her, something warm and sticky laid, a still form barren of sound or motion. Every bone and tense spot in her body beckoned to the hunter within, feed and repair. Feed and live.

The body underneath her was too wounded to be anything but a missed opportunity, too weak to drain. Above, speckled dots of carnivorous fauna shunted into her subconscious. All she needed was to roll over. Reach up.

The squeal of pain halted further attempts at motion, until the snow shifted and she tumbled onto her stomach, face tilted toward the form she’d landed upon. It was a girl. Silver hair speckled with crimson, the girl laid in a crumple, knees pushed into her chest. Dazed eyes slowly shuttered closed. Familiar... something in Adara’s mind triggered.

Someone...

Yes, her cousin, relationship hidden by the secrets of Darth Carnifex, and the death of her mother... The marriage of Fitz-Kierke and Zambrano, which tied Adara twice to those most hated of villains.

Adara made one attempt to reach out for Raya Najwa Zambrano , the agony of broken limbs halted all but an ungodly warbled yelp. Where was she? Why was Adara as cold as the day she met Skorvek , on Obroa-Skai?

“...St-stab... Shod-shoden...” Shoden... she’d been thrown... hadn’t she? No, that couldn’t be right, Shoden wasn’t there the day Adara met Uncle Sloobieboo. Neither was Stabby, or Fred or Amma... Brigh was, followed behind Adara... “Brigh... sa-save... ssave pi’rerdi...”

Delerium took root, as Adara spoke not in Basic or Mando’a, but the Epicant language. The first language of her House.

Tabitha Solus Shoden Moz Ellie Omera Fred Gred Stardust Solus Skirae

 

[Tabitha Solus]

Tabitha let out a whimper of sorrow as she looked down, down, down the cliff. Adara Raxis and Raya Najwa Zambrano were so far down, and the snow was getting so red, but whose blood was it? Tabitha didn't know, and her blood ran cold as she heard Shoden's words. Shoden would need a lot of reassurance after this, if she thought she was a failure. Tabitha did know one thing even as Brigh pulled her from the edge.

She had to get down there.

Now.

Standing up, Tabitha turned back to look at the scene behind her and felt a hard gust of wind hit her back. Taking it all in quickly, it was truly a hot mess of absolute chaos. Fred Gred had a dragon trying to eat him, and Ba'vodu Stardust Solus Skirae was trying to help him with Amma Dib that... Made a creature made of fire. Huh. Tabitha would need to praise her later.

No time for that right now though.

Tabitha sprinted to one of the rescuers carrying Shoden Moz and looked up at them.

"Do you have any rope? Two lengths of sixty meter length would be best. The wind is going to make flying down to where my friends are with a jet pack too difficult."

"It's in the ship, but you're just a kid, and were just in a crash! You ca-"

"I'm Mandalorian! I'm an adult, not some dumb kid!"

Tabitha growled at the medic, before running into one of the rescue ships, and all but tore the door to a storage cabinet off it's hinges opening it. Lucky for her, it had the rope in it. Sprinting back past the medical teams, Tabitha headed for the small boulder she had tripped over. How she didn't see it was a mystery, honestly.

It would do for an anchor though, and that's what mattered to Tabitha.

Tying two of the rope ends together the way her Mother taught her, Tabitha hooked the knot on the boulder, and threw the rest of the length over the edge. Very carefully, Tabitha stood near the edge of the cliff, and hooked the ropes around her legs, holding the two lengths of rope in her right hand. She took a deep breath, and braced herself.

And just carefully enough went over the edge.

This was supposed to be done slowly, since she didn't have a harness... But there wasn't time to do it slowly, even as the wind whipped at her hair and stung her eyes. Tabitha moved as quickly as she could down the cliff, forcibly keeping her breath steady. When she was about half-way down, Tabitha turned her head down to check on Adara and Raya.

They weren't doing great.

Adara was speaking, but Tabitha couldn't hear her, and Raya... Raya was... Tabitha shut her eyes and took a breath, before turning her attention back to the cliff, and continued her descent.

 

[Fred Gred]

Fred yelled as the dragon kept going, punching it with his free arm. Of all the crap he'd survived, this was going to kill him. Brigh Solus Skirae had seemed to stop it, but it was still intent on eating the young Mandalorian. After EVERYTHING this would be his en.... It let go! Wait.... IT LET GO! Fred fell into the snow, and went to pull his Trayc'kad around to fire, but it didn't budge. He looked down at his arm, which was now deformed and broken to the point of being useless. Oh man Ginnie Dib was going to kill him! At least he was alive. He then heard Amma Dib , looking at Ellie Omera 's rangers.

"Well, I don't know where they came from, but they're here!" Fred quickly pulled his weapon out of his left hand, moving it to the right. He couldn't really aim it though. Dang dragon! He tried to see where everyone was, but was soon met by the dragon again. "Are you kidding me! Just die already you lizard bat!" He kept sliding back. No no no! He wasn't food! Then Amma grabbed him. He wasn't sure what would happen, but he put his right arm around her and closed his eyes in fear before... a roar seemed to come from something else.

Fred opened his eyes to see a creature made out of fire attack the dragon. He had to shut his eyes again from the heat, but he soon spoke up, letting out a slight sigh of relief. "Whatever you're doing Amma keep doing it."

Tabitha Solus Shoden Moz Adara Raxis Raya Najwa Zambrano

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Stardust was locked in viscous combat with the big boss dragon of them all, trading blows between the two as her anger soared to new heights. Her new sabers dug into the rock and dirt as she was knocked back yet not down

come on you overgrown ferfek...hutts punch harder!

Clashing again she locked into combat

Meanwhile over to Brigh Solus Skirae

This was the craziest rescue of her life, from shoden being pulled away by medical crews to the dragons fighting them to tabitha grabbing rope to amma making a freaking fire beast! Wait a minute...tabitha HAD a rope and oh by the manda....she went over the edge down to adara and raya!

Brigh ran toward her to stop her, she was over the edge, she couldnt feel what was wrong with adara! She had to stop her!

Swallowing her fear she looked over the edge then back to the others before she took a deep breath

She jumped

She jumped and started soaring down, right past tabitha...she had to remember to slow herself right at the last second...get there before tabs...that's all she cared about

 

[Shoden Moz]

Stable and safe were not the same. Shoden's life hung in the balance, teetering on the edge of death, stabilized only after her life came to nearly end. She needed that medical attention sooner rather than later, in a setting where luck was not a factor... unless those trying to save her wanted to watch a young girl fade away into nothing. One of them might've thought to use emergency first aid bacta on her, though should they they would find an unfortunate incident would occur, with said bacta managing to find its way not to use with Shoden, but cascading off the cliff, down past Brigh Solus Skirae and Tabitha Solus ... all the way down to Raya and Adara Raxis .

And in her mind, delirious and at the edge between life and death, Shoden could see them all. Her cousins, the ones she failed, both Adara and the Arenais twins. She never called, never put forth the effort to see them, and now she was leaving them to suffer alone, or worse, die alone. Though perhaps there was nothing she had to give, she could still feel the disappointment in them, how pitiful and worthless she had proven to be for them. Perhaps this was for the best for them...

That wasn't even to start with how she had failed Uncle Veiere and Auntie Kay. Both of them had been so happy when her dad took her in, and both had left her life almost as quickly. Like the cousins she never went to meet them again, so rarely made an effort to talk. She'd seen Kay once more, but Veiere, Veiere never got to see her again. How he must have missed her, how he must've wanted to say something to her, surely. He never could now. Shoden hadn't let him have that chance, had to hope he'd left this world without regret and yet...

But most of all, her greatest failure was to her dad. He took her in, gave her everything she needed, so much that she wanted. Praised her, taught her, helped her grow strong and well, and here she was dying... failing to protect Adara. She'd let him down, he'd given her the galaxy and she was letting him down. She was supposed to be a good daughter to him, and help him when he and Auburn would finally decide to have real children together, the older sister there to help guide them. She wasn't supposed to die early.. like this.

That failure stung enough to bring tears, even through the veil of dreams.

Ellie Omera :|: Fred Gred

 

[Ellie Omera]

The medics rushed Shoden Moz to the transport as quick as they could. Just as one of the medics pulled out an injector filled with bacta, a dragon swooped low over them. Startled, the medic dropped the injector which rolled across the unbroken snow before falling off the cliff. The small steel cylinder landed not far away from Raya and Adara Raxis .

There was no time to breath a sigh of relief when the dragon let go of Fred Gred . The wounded dragon slammed into the ground and burst into flames. Angered and in pain, it flailed around before making its way towards Fred, believing he was the source of the pain. Ellie darted forward, but another girl reached Fred first. The Arsenian slowed down some at the sight of a beast made of fire appear and attack the dragon. With the beast distracted, Ellie ran forward and grabbed hold of the two and pulled them away from the burning dragon. "Come on! It's not safe here!"

Stardust Solus Skirae Amma Dib

 

[Amma Dib]

“I don’t know what I’m doing!” Amma buried her head in Fred Gred ‘s shoulder, tried to grasp at the creation in her head. That tuk’ata of fire... it was Wembley, her mother’s beloved Tuk’ata Ginnie Dib ’d had since she was 12 with her brother, @Isley Verd. Now Ginnie’s daughter was fumbling for the sensation she always thought her mother had. Security, warmth, a modicum of control. Little did Amma know, her mother Ginnie felt no such control at Amma’s age. There was no security, no warmth but the haunting fire.

But! Accidents could be awesome!

Amma continued keeping her eyes shut. Tried to block out the chaos of the draconic rescue, as the tuk’ata of fire engulfed the dragon, its’ flames stabbed in like plasma, as the dragon shrieked in a pained roar... which ended...

... when Ellie Omera grabbed Amma. The tuk’ata dissipated, Amma shook out of her concentration by the well meaning Arsenian.

The gigantic dragon which ripped the wing off their shuttle roared back at Stardust Solus Skirae . It barrelled through the air, a frenetic urge to rip and ensnare the Twi’lek Mandalorian the only impetus. Stardust’s new sabres bit into its’ hide, deep into the meat. It flung its’ tail in a quick snap to unlatch Stardust and send her hopefully veering into the jagged cliffs.

“Frick! No kidding!” Amma yanked at Fred to get toward the rescue ship. “Vanquo! It had to be Vanquo! Next time let’s go to a leisure planet! LIKE BASTION with Beskar’gam on!!”

 

[Adara Raxis]

Adara was home again, cuddled into her bed with the sheets tucked against her chin. Dr. Allard finished another round of the genetic splicing, which grafted Darth Prazutis ‘ DNA into Adara’s genome.

Split apart.

Torn at the edges, condemned to days of frigidity and shaken bones as her body reknit. Destruction was the precursor to all creative acts. Only through the immolation of antiquated or ragged structures could a new foundation, a mighty strength be wrought. It was the penalty and praise of the Dark that the child withstood such drastic measures at all.

Growth spurts recovered the dynasty of her Epicanthix heritage. A shift in DNA gave Adara the ability to feed with ease and minimal effort. There was a hand on her brow, a thumb wiped mahogany hair away from her olive skin... olive...

... not pale as flimsiplast anymore.

Yasha’s child possessed a recessive beauty behind the pallid weakness of her previously fallen state.

Raya swept the hair off her face. A companion during the restoration of Adara’s genome to its’ proper place. Yasha’s children were always meant to be Zambrano-born, regardless of the former Mand’alor’s loves. It was predestined. An absolute revenge against the youth, who too often bit at the hand which fed her Mandalorians their Sith-ground bread. Against the youth who allowed Ancius to perish the day she took her red bathed throne.

All Raya saw was a friend and cousin gained. A girl near her age she could share every secret, every hope and prayer. Tease each other about all sorts of things.

And when Yasha came to Bastion unannounced, Raya and Adara hid in Raya’s bedroom, giggled about the coup, the absolute coup that Adara’d been there all along. She had a living father, who loved her. Who kept and taught her to use her strengths instead of feel the embarrassment of the Force on Manda’yaim.

Laid upon the mountain, Adara’s eyes opened to the harsh light, which burned like temporary blindness. Her eyes shut again, senses in the Force poured through instead.

Brigh jumped down the mountainside, Tabitha grew nearer. Familiar auras, one powered the other astoundingly and wonderfully normal.

A single bacta shot pinged off the snow, and landed beside Raya, the gift of bad luck from Shoden Moz . Brigh came closer, close enough for Adara to reach out and feel the energy off her darling cousin.

Adara rolled onto her elbows and knees. Pops and cracks echoed up her spine, which bent back into place as she pushed up. Stumbled to her feet with a non-human snarl. Lips pulled back, the elongated canines of Epicanthix females punctuated by the red in Adara’s mouth.

Thought returned to the monstrous girl in ached pulses.

She was Adara Zambrano, daughter of House Fitz-Kierke and Clan Raxis. She would not sully this flimsy place with the agony of defeat against meat with wings. Inside a secret pocket built into her dress, Adara set her one un-gnarled hand.

A cylinder of dark matte metal.

Left arm hanging ill in its’ socket, right hand shaking as it clutched the hilt of her secret lightsaber, Adara tottered and glared at Brigh.

“I need to...” Adara wheezed, fought a wracking cough which would surely send her back to the ground. “... borrow you.... Brigh.”

A shrieking whistle stole the air above them, one of the smaller dragons swooped down to attack Stabitha as she rappelled toward Raya. Adara craned her head upward. She pounced on shaken legs, aided by the Force Adara vaulted into the air. As the dragon swooped for Stabitha, Adara raised her lightsaber.

Ignited a blood red blade.

Cut the small dragon in twain with a single downward diagonal strike. Both pieces of the juvenile beast landed with steaming thunks on the ground a second before gravity pulled Adara down, lightsaber blade still radiating its’ crimson light as the Infernal’s daughter landed in a crouch on Vanquo’s snow.

The dragon-flesh turned to purple ash, curled into Adara’s injured arm. Fingers began to snap in place, with another tottering scream from Vena’s arch-duchess.

Fred Gred Ellie Omera Stardust Solus Skirae Tabitha Solus

 

[Tabitha Solus]

Slow and steady was the way this was supposed to be done, but there was no time for that in Tabitha's mind. Adara Raxis and Raya Najwa Zambrano needed help! So, Tabitha was going as fast as she could without causing herself to-

"BRIGH?!?!"

Tabitha's eyes widened in shock as Brigh Solus Skirae yeeted herself off the cliff, falling down, down, down past Tabitha to land in the snow. She was so focused on Brigh doing her own Force shenanigans, that she didn't even realize a dragon had it's eyes on her until a horrible shrill shriek echoed in her ears. The teen's eyes snapped to the small dragon heading for her, and for a brief moment she glanced down to see how close to the ground she was, and wondered if she would survive the drop.

Was there enough snow to cushion her fall?

Not having the time to consider, Tabitha was about to let go of the rope holding her aloft, until 'dara did her Baby Sith Thing. Tabitha breathed a sigh of relief, and continued her descent. 'dara's scream of agony sent a shiver down Tabitha's spine, and it spurred the Troublesome teen to move faster. Sure, 'dara had a fancy shmancy red lightsaber now apparently, and spooky Baby Sith powers, and could do a bunch of cool things Tabitha could never dream of doing, but...

There are things you can't do alone.

And that's where friends come in, isn't it?

Once she was at a safe enough height to drop into the snow, Tabitha let go of the rope and fell flat on her back into a, luckily, thick pile of fresh snow. She groaned as she stood up, and rubbed her hips where the rope had dug into them.

"Uuuugh... Someone remind those rescuer people to keep a rappelling harness with their rope."

After regaining her stability, Tabitha looked at 'dara with worry, before her gaze turned to Raya. As much as she wanted to help 'dara, Raya needed Tabitha's help more. Tabitha ran past 'dara, and slid to a stop beside Raya.

And promptly slipped in the snow and fell on her behind with a swear.

Glaring up at the sky as though it wasn't her fault for running in the snow, Tabitha rolled over in the snow next to Raya, her hand brushing against the bacta shot. Grasping the shot tightly, Tabitha sat up in the snow and looked over Raya. She had no idea if there was a proper way to administer a bacta shot. Would anywhere do? Was there anywhere she shouldn't stab it into Raya?

"Let's see if this works..."

Picking a spot of exposed skin on Raya's upper arm, Tabitha injected the other girl with Bacta, and prayed to the Manda it was enough.

Shoden Moz Fred Gred Ellie Omera Stardust Solus Skirae Amma Dib

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Stardust

She greeted the dragon with a roar if her own, repeatedly pulling out her new sabers from its hide and stabbing right back in. However she was greeted with its tail sailing right for her! Deactivating her sabers she took the hit like a champ and rolled away only a couple feet away popping up as she growled and reactivated her blades again and stood up tall

be glad it is me you fight...had you hurt adara in her father's presences

She mused and grinned, however that grin melted away as she charged right at it sending waves of fire for it

Brigh

Adara...she was...by the manda. Her mother had told her about how adara was much much different, that she was born with darkness, baptized in it. She had told her early on in life when she could first start understanding it all

Now? Now she was witnessing it, eyes wide as adara said she needed to borrow her, she stepped back out of instinct unable to read respond. Suddenly she heard a shriek and looked up as she ignited her green Saber as she got ready for a fight when she watched adara leap and ignite a blood red blade and slice through one and...she was absorbing it? Swallowing she gripped her Saber and let her own battle cry out, leaping towards adara blade raised....


Right past her to another as she cut the dragons head off and kept her best friends back watched

No matter what, she would protect her best friend, no matter what. No matter what Adara did she would stay by her best friend, her sister, her kin

 

[Fred Gred]

Fred looked at Amma Dib , amazed that this wasn't something she was doing on purpose. He didn't know the story behind the tuk'ata, but it was there and beat the dragon ahead of it! He was surprised, but soon heard Ellie Omera say they needed to go now. The Mandalorian looked, grabbing his Trayc'kad before turning around.

Star was facing off against a dragon that had... shuttle in it's mouth.....

"Yeah. Anywhere'd be better than this right.... Where's Stabs, Adara, and Raya?" He heard a lightsaber hiss. Wait.... "That was a lightsaber!" And then.... "When did Adara get a lightsaber!?" While Adara Raxis was one of Fred's best friends, he'd be lying if he said seeing her use the Force sometimes scared the living daylights out of him. It didn't take much convincing for him to get to the rescue ship. Especially when his left arm was a bit... trashed at the moment.

Stardust Solus Skirae Tabitha Solus Raya Najwa Zambrano

 

[Ellie Omera]

Ellie quickly ushered Amma Dib and Fred Gred to the transport. Things were starting to really get intense with the fighting, especially between Stardust Solus Skirae and the large dragon. From the looks of it Adara Raxis had also joined the fight, wielding a red lightsaber. The Arsenian turned to the two teens who were now standing at the edge of the boarding ramp of the transport that Shoden Moz had been taking to. "Stay here. At this ship."

She then darted up the ramp before quickly returning with a pole arm. Built like a double bladed axe with a spearhead on the end. The edges glowed a bright blue from the intense energy coursing through it. Ellie raced back to the ensuing skirmish to help put and end to the fight or help the others regroup.

An earsplitting roar caught her attention as one of the smaller dragons swooped down at her. She sidestepped the beasts great jaws and brought the pole arm up in a quick swing. The blade sank deep into the dragons shoulder and cut down it's side with ease as it severed a wing. The creature hit the ground hard and slid to a stop. Before it could recover, Ellie was on it. The spearhead sank deep into the beasts eye and into its brain. Removing the spearhead, she scanned the area for her next target, or next person to aid.

 

[Amma Dib]

“That...“ Amma skidded short of the shuttle, the hum of Adara’s lightsaber threaded into her mind. Into any who could hear with an inner knowledge. “.. isn’t a Jetiise lightsaber.”

The way Adara used it... Amma shrunk. The tuk’ata of fire rose hotter, darker with flame. Protect... she had to protect the shuttle. Didn’t Raya send them both over the cliff to protect the others?

“We have to get Stabby and Raya!” Amma dove backward, away from the onslaught of Stardust, Adara and Brigh. Shoden looked.... less than lively. She couldn’t fight dragons, not really. “Maybe not!”

“Fred? Make sure I don’t set the ship on fire?” But she could fight bodily wounds. Amma sunk down on her knees beside Shoden, her hands aglow. Lacerations, smaller cuts, broken bones... that Amma could heal. One by one, Amma laid her hands on the wounds of Shoden Moz . Closed them, burnt shut in tiny lines, which would heal without scars in time. The break was harder, Amma licked her lips. Eyes shut, Amma did not see how her sparks congealed into a 3D representation of Shoden’s body, nor did Amma see how the injured reds and yellows shifted to flickers of blue spark.

At least she could do this.

 

[Raya Najwa Zambrano]

The snow stopped being cold, and I knew. Daddy’s disappointment seethed into my ribs from here. In his eyes, I should have let the others die. Who were they to Adara? To the daughter that couldn’t find the Dark when I tried? The disappointment shifts to a turbid bit of grace.

Daddy won’t let me die, I’m not allowed. Doesn’t make falling off a cliff any less like outrageous pain. I feel my father’s reproof and mercy, the constant strain of distain for my Light but pride in his well-meaning daughter.

‘Aw, Ray’a’sunshine. Got yourself in it, didn’t you? Always trying to find the good in him, even broken on the bottom of a cliff.’ Manu’s feet make no sound on the snow, ‘cause he’s not here. Just the ethereal form of my brother on his haunches beside me in the reddened snow.

‘Lil help...’

‘Physician, heal thyself.’ Manu’s grin burns into my cheeks. I can’t move, nothing works. My silver eyes roll, or I think they do in this grand hallucination. ‘And next time an out of control deathling drains people around you, remember.

We are the Living Force, little one. Death is finite, life is infinite. What makes you think you are too finite to fill such a void?’ His thumb touched my forehead, and I couldn’t feel the pain or the cold. My lungs don’t fight.

“Mrrrgh...” Elegant, Raya. What a wonderful impression. A pinprick floods my bloodstream with Bacta. I choke out a breath and shift to my side, as bits of me reknit. I reach out, grab for... Stabitha. “H-help me up... he-ooogh thasmyspinejusasecdon’thelpmeup...”

‘What’s a little spinal damage between friends, Ray?’

‘I hate you, big brother.’

‘Lightweight. I fought your Dad with a leg ripped off. You can’t get off the ground with a few shattered vertebrae?’

‘Uh you know he’s your step-dad, right?’

‘Naw, I live in a wonderful state of denial.’

I groan as another beam of light hits my face, a bit of the sun to guide my own abilities to self-heal. Probably Manu somewhere with a hand mirror giggling as he tries to get it right i-yep! There it goes! Right in my eye! At least the Bacta is working!

“Oooohkaaay take two... he-help me... help me up, Stabby?”

Tabitha Solus

 

[Adara Raxis]

“Anchor me, Brigh. Remind me which ones are friends.” It was easier with her eyes shut to feel the life forces around her. Delicious... they were...

Some felt scant. Thin. Others crackled with energetic compulsions. Fear. One was rife with fear. Adara stumbled into Brigh’s back, let her cousin take some weight off her reconstructing body. Amma... felt like.... a meal. Brigh’s aura sunk into Adara’s spine, a level and merciful presence. Her beloved tether to the realm of the humane.

The Arsenian defence higher up left dragons on the ground. They turned to ash with the killing blows, scaled down and rejuvenated Adara’s wounded body. She staggered again, shook her head as the crimson energy which crackled around continued to seep through consciousness.

Death. More of it.

Stardust’s brawl with the dragon sung to Adara. Black and red eyes glanced up, up to the sky. Another wave of grey and purple ash filtered to Adara. Her fingers snapped back into wholeness, wrist and forearm followed.

Up... the dangers, the draconic food was up. Adara grabbed Brigh’s hand. Sped toward the cliff and with three bounds up the rock face to the plateau near Ellie’s shuttles. She breathed heavy, teetered back into Brigh as the swell of souls called to her.

Raise her hand and take... Adara shook her head. Barked in a wild roar. Remaining dragons flocked the bloodied and wounded thing. A wing slapped across her. Adara tumbled and landed in a low crouch.

She shook her head. The energy from the shuttle pulsed in her mind. Amma’s heartbeat, so staggered and scared. Fred beside her, a shift in his energies. Stardust, a fountain of anger and power... Ellie, new to her but perceptive... Raya. Brigh... Adara growled again, gnashed her fanged teeth and raised her hand.

“ENOUGH.” The words spoken echoed out of her chest, an old language as dead as the last Master who spoke it. Dark Tendrils struck from her fingers, one for each of the dragons still swarming the ships. Each, when struck caused the smaller dragons to writhe and scream, flop to the ground in wretched agony.

Adara stood. Tore the life energy out of each dragon and absorbed them. Corpses laid strewn before her, as the final blows dealt to the massive dragon by Stardust found their mark.

The dragon broke against the mountainside, and tumbled to land near the cliff. It would move no more. Stardust reigned victorious. Inhumane eyes stared past Brigh to the shuttle, yet the bastion of Brigh’s familial love kept Adara from continuing her rampage. Stabby’s act of healing for Raya helped centre Adara as she depowered her lightsaber and set it back inside the hidden pocket in her dress.

“We have to get Raya and Stabby, then leave this place. Aunt Star, who leads these rescuers?”

Shoden Moz Fred Gred Tabitha Solus Ellie Omera Stardust Solus Skirae

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Brigh

i will adara...

She caught her with her back, standing tall to hold that weight, hands tighened around her blade as she kept batting off dragons that came, leaving their corpses to be absorbed by her best friend

i will hold you up whenever you need

Adara had the undying loyalty of her best friend, one who did not judge for what she was but who she was. Soon they were up the cliff face adara holding on tight before she planted her feet and held adara up as they observed the carnage before them...then suddenly brigh witnessed something shed never seen adara do and only stared in aw

Stardust

She struck the final blow, moving back as she herself panted letting her anger slowly bleed off as she raised her sabers and let a roar of victory out before she extinguished her blades and turned walking towards adara slowly with a look of being impressed and disappointment

this one... Ellie Omera I belive she is called

The time for scolding would be later after everything had settle...for now they needed to get back

 

[Tabitha Solus]

Raya Najwa Zambrano made a noise.

Noise was good when someone might be dying right? It meant they were still alive! It was when they weren't making any noise at all that was bad!

But Raya was making noise, and Tabitha let out a breath she didn't know she was holding as the other teen rolled over and actually spoke. Tabitha gently reached out, but flinched back when Raya seemed to be in too much pain to move. The sun shone down on them, breaking through the clouds that had hung above them since even before the crash.

A light to shine on them, and let them know everything would be okay.

Everyone was gonna be fine.

Battered and bruised, but fine nonetheless.

"Yeah, 'course. Take it slow though, I can't do all those Force Shenanigans you and 'dara and Amms do, ya know?"

Tabitha laughed nervously, gently helping Raya to her feet. Now that Raya was seemingly better and mobile though, they had a new problem. Raya didn't have the energy to get up the cliff, and Tabitha wasn't sure she did either. The cold was starting to seep into her bones, and she could feel her fingers getting stiff even as the sun shone on the two teen girls.

"So. Any ideas on getting up the cliff?"

Adara Raxis Fred Gred Stardust Solus Skirae Ellie Omera Amma Dib Shoden Moz