Private Wonderful. I got just the job for you my dear

[Adrian Valerius]

While the two heavily armed soldiers kept a overwatch of the surroundings, Adrian looked at Yenna expectedly, almost as if he was thinking of something. "Padawan Yenna" he started, kneeling beside her to get to her eye level, so to speak. "Never doubt your capabilities, my friend. Be proud of what you just accomplished. You are stronger than you know and even though you might doubt yourself, your potential will not" explained Adrian actually quite serious and very mentor-like. Looking at the small-framed girl before him, Adrian smiled again, be it was a smile of compassion, "I should know, I've been in your shoes as well" added the Jedi Master, before getting up again.

"Right! Let's enter the tomb, shall we?" suggested Adrian with an almost renewed energy and entered the tomb, following the two soldiers. A distant chilling howl echoed throughout the jungle, followed by more howls.

Upon entering the tomb, they would find themselves by a platform, followed by a single line stair, spiral along the wall, down into the dark deep of the tomb. Igniting his single blade, the room around them received a green glow from Adrian's blade as they descended the stairs. Not much happened in terms of danger, which almost disappointed the Jedi Master, however, the air did cool the deeper they went.

The two soldiers also had their headlights lit and were ready for anything. One thing Adrian did take notice, was how quiet it was and that rather gave him an unnerving feeling.

Upon hitting the last step of the stair, they stood in a squired room, large, very large. Each corner had a pillar, standing 5 feet out from the corner itself was large and round, starting thick at the bottom to the thinning in the closer to the ceiling it came. Around 20 to 25 feet from the ground to ceiling, they had plenty of room to walk around as they went deeper into the room.

Lighting up the room with his lightsaber and with the help of the soldier's headlight, they would get a pretty good view on the size and... how barren the room was. "Well, this is rather depressing" admitted Adrian, looking around the room. "But, no time like the present," said the flamboyant Jedi Master and started to examine the room more closely.

"Look for anything that has some kind of ancient text on it, specifically, try and look for some sort of tablet or wall with ancient text on it" explained Adrian and headed for one of the walls. The two soldiers looked at each other, a bit bemused, but didn't question it as it beat fighting dangerous jungle shadow animals.

Yenna

 

[Yenna]

Adrian's kind words were much appreciated by the little green Jedi. A warm smile formed on her lips as she looked up at the Jedi master. Their moment ended when he turned to face the tomb. Yenna fell in beside him with her sunny grin as they approached the entrance of the tomb. The piercing howls from behind them made her a little anxious, though. Looking up at Adrian, a nervous laugh escaped her. "Get a move on, shall we?" she asked him, stepping up her pace as they descended into the tomb.

Descending the stairs beside them, Yenna ignited her own lightsaber for some extra light as they went deeper into the tomb. A light shiver escaped Yenna when they reached the deeper parts of the tomb. "Down here, a little unpleasant." she commented, her voice echoing faintly in the empty halls. She looked around a bit, holding up her lightsaber to cast a green light into the empty room. Adrian's voice echoed through the room, followed by a snicker from the padawan. They received their instructions and Yenna gave a nod as she moved forward. She scanned the walls and roof as she wandered around, looking for anything that might give them a clue for whatever they were looking for.

As she walked through the middle of the room, she felt something underneath her. Looking down, she noticed some sort of writing along the floor. She backed up little and noticed that it covered pretty much the entire middle of the floor. "Master! Found something, I think." she called out, holding out her lightsaber to cast a light onto the massive slab full of writing. She was getting nervous, though. What if this was some sort of trap that they were looking for? Looking back at Adrian, she walked towards him. "Master? Safe, how do we know, this is?" she asked him as she looked back at the slab.

Adrian Valerius

 

[Adrian Valerius]

The whole room felt creepy, like something just waited to jump out in their faces and bite it off. However, nothing did and the silence was only broken by the sound of their two blades and the soldier's movements. When Yenna, the wonderful girl she was, call for finding something, Adrian beamed with excitement and dashed to her side. "How exciting!" expressed Adrian and kneeled down by the green-skinned Padawan.

Using the light of his and Yenna's blade, he was able to see the writing on the floor. "My my, let me see if I can read it" commented the Jedi Master. He looked up, snapped out of his focused reading, "hm? Oh. Well I'm sure it's completely fine my endearing little friend" reassured Adrian, waving any thinking danger away.

Translating the old, almost alien-looking text, "It goes in dry and comes out wet. it gets stronger and stronger the longer it stays in" translated Adrian, raising his eyebrow. "what a weird sentence" was the last thing the Jedi Master said before the wall on the opposite side of Adrian and Yenna, blew the walls up. Man-sized holes were formed from the explosion and out walked stone-shaped humanoids decorated in glowing runes.

"We got company" called one of the men and both started to lid up the stone men. To the soldier's surprise, the stone men started to stone-shape their body back together, with the help of the runes.

Meanwhile, Adrian was kneeled by the riddle, trying to figure out what the riddle could mean. "It goes in dry and comes out wet. it gets stronger and stronger the longer it stays in?" Thought Adrian out loud to himself.

Yenna

 

[Yenna]

Adrian shrugged off her concerns over dangers that might loom over them and instead turned his attention back onto the ancient slab of rock. He translated the text and read up a riddle for them. A childish snicker escaped Yenna as she looked at him. "A guy, I once knew, that could answer that." she joked as she looked back down at the slab. She was startled rather badly, though, when the walls on either side exploded and a bunch of stone men marched out. Immediately Yenna ignited her lightsaber and hopped on over to go help out the soldiers. She cut them apart and sent a few flying with the force, but it didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever.

One took a swing at her and she narrowly avoided it, hopping back to make room for herself as she glanced at Adrian. She wasn't good at riddles at all, but it appeared that none of them had much of a choice now. Either they got good or died. A rather depressing thought for the little green Jedi. As one stone man got close to Adrian, she attacked it and sliced it up. The stones started to move back together but she sent it flying back into a wall with a solid force push. She exhaled heavily and reached into her pocket to take a sip from her flask. As she sipped the strong liquor, though, her mind wandered away with her. Sifting through the gutter thoughts while she glanced at Adrian, her mind pinballed around until it arrived at an answer. "Tea!" she called out suddenly, accidentally spilling some liquor in the process. She quickly closed her flask and put it away as she hopped over to stand in front of him. "Try tea! That or something dirty, either, the answer must be!" she stated before igniting her lightsaber again to fight off a stone man that was trying to sneak up on one of the soldiers.

She hoped she was right. If it wasn't, she was going to rethink her favourite choice of non-alcoholic beverages...

Adrian Valerius

 

[Adrian Valerius]

Adrian was fully focused on the riddle that he completely tuned everything else out, but was snapped out of it, when the wonderful little girl Yenna, pointed out tea. "Of course!" cheered Adrian, as if they were playing a game. While Yenna saved one of the soldiers temporary, the other one was pulled down on the floor and felt the slamming and slashing from the stone men.

He was luckily saved by the soldier Yenna saved and helped up, "Master Valarius, not to rush you or anything, but could you please finish what you're doing?! We can't keep this on!" called on of the soldiers blasting another stone man to pieces, only for it to merge back together again.

"I got it!" called Adrian cheerfully and rearranged the riddle's sign, so it said Tea. The floor piece started to open up, splitting in two, where the riddle had been. Up from the floor a stone table showed itself. "I could kiss you right now, your beautifully clever girl!" exulted the Jedi Master to Yenna and snapped the table from the floor and turned around.

With a fraction of a second, Adrian managed to dogde out of the way of one of the stone men, cutting the arms off as part of the reaction. "Let's get out of here!" Called the Jedi Master, noticing water started to fill up to an insane speed, while the floor started to slide down, cutting the stairs off. With both Soldiers busy and surrounded, Adrian reached out with the force with both hands. Feeling his grip around the two soldiers, he threw his arms back as hard as he could.

Even though it was enough to pull both soldiers out, it was rather heavy on him, since the armour was so heavy. Grabbing the stone table again, he looked for Yenna, "Yenna let's move!" Called Adrian and waited for the little lady to get to the stairs. He really didn't want to go back... the water would really ruin his clothes.

The moment Yenna was at the stair, dashed Adrian after the soldiers, as the stone men would follow them or at least try as the water started to get dangerously close to the stairs.

Yenna

 

[Yenna]

Yenna beamed with a sunny smile as he praised her, feeling like she made quite a big difference for the group. Adrian wasted no time in solving the riddle and grabbing the stone tablet they were after, but their situation only got worse as the room started to flood with water. As Adrian helped to get his soldiers out of the room, Yenna jumped onto the Jedi's shoulder to avoid the water. In no time at all it was their turn and Yenna jumped through the air towards the staircase. She reached it and used the Force to blow the water back for a few seconds to make sure that Adrian had time to reach her. With the both of them safe and the tablet in hand, she ran alongside him towards the exit.

Right before the room could completely be cut off, she sent a powerful push to the pillars to bring down the temple on top of the stone men. She kept retreating while looking for other means to cut off the dangers from their little group. Finally they were outside and Yenna sat down on a stone to catch her breath. "Exciting, that was." she quipped with a tired chuckle as she glanced at Adrian and the soldiers. Slowly she got up and made her way towards him to get a look at the stone tablet. "What we were looking for, this was?" she asked with a raised eyebrow as she finally got a good look at the tablet. "For your studies, this was, right? Or, a new room decoration, is this?" she continued as she flashed an amused grin at him.

She took a step back to look at the temple behind them. It was totally ruined now. She had to admit that she felt bad over it... but at the same time, they had to make sure somehow that they weren't in danger anymore. "Where to next?" she asked Adrian. "Home?"

Adrian Valerius

 

[Adrian Valerius]

Looking at the temple's entrance, water started to dripple out of the crushed entrance, running down beside them in small streams. With a grin, he looked at the table in his hand, "oh you can be sure it was. Have you any idea what this let me do upon studying it?" Asked the Jedi Master pumped. "This tablet is a ancient description on how to make the perfect cup of tea!" explained Adrian as he started to lead the group back on to the massive arms and back to the ship.

"Oh you can be sure that this will be studied and placed up as room decoration" explained, already fully focused on decipher and read the signs and text on the table. "Hm?" Asked Adrian, looking at Yenna, "oh, yes, we're going back to the temple, I have some things to get there" nodded the posh Jedi Master.

The trip back seemed rather uninterrupted from the temple, as they met no predators or obstacles on the way back. After a bit, one of the soldiers, while walking in a more relax position, looked to Yenna; "you did great kid" complimented the soldier who got wounded on the way to the temple.

With no obstacles in the way, they soon were met with the same monkey creatures, who looked on the group with curiosities, but ultimately kept to themselves. Before they knew it, they were on the way back to the big ship and soon after landing in the large ship, jumped to hyperspace, heading for Kashyyyk and the Jedi Temple.

Yenna

 

[Yenna]

At first she thought he was joking. He had to be. All this effort and danger just for a recipe to make the perfect cup of tea? It sounded too ridiculous to be true... but after a few seconds of shock she made her peace with the fact that he wasn't joking. She started to chuckle as she slowly shook her head. "Damn good, it better be." she quipped as she clipped her lightsaber to her belt and took a sip of her flask.

She fell in beside him as they walked back to the ship. "With you, test that tea, I am going to." she quipped at his explanation. Thankfully the walk back was uneventful, a rather fitting departure after the dangers they faced. After a bit of walking she decided to jump onto Adrian's shoulders to tag along with him. The monkeys came back but they merely watched them go past without a sound. It made Yenna feel like they were seeing them off one last time, but it could also just be her imagination. Either way, they still unnerved her to a degree...

On the way back to the ship, Yenna was complimented by one of the soldiers as he passed them. Her gaze lingered for a bit before a big smile spread on her face. It felt good to help someone. It certainly was her goal in the Jedi order, to be able to just help people. It made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that she helped someone. Back on the ship, she stuck close to Adrian to relax a little... and also to try out that tea of his. Overall, he was a lot easier to get along with than Cas. Something that she wasn't happy about. She could only hope that her relationship with Cas could get better down the line... otherwise she was going to have to think of staying with Adrian on a more permanent basis.

/End Thread

Adrian Valerius